Looooong time no see

It’s been a busy few weeks, and my listening has been pretty pathetically paltry. By my calculation (which is probably wrongish, seeing as I’m mathematically impaired) I should be listening to my 144th album today. I’m currently at 93. So yeah, I have some catching up to do.

I have been giving it the good old college try though, here’s what’s graced my ears for the past few days:

94. The Byrds – “Younger than Yesterday” – I thought this was a good album on the whole, and represented some kind of shift in the Byrds’ songwriting. The songs were a lot trippier and weirder, not bad though, just absent that really great sound the Byrds had in their earlier stuff.

96. Jefferson Airplane – “Surrealistic Pillow”

99. Merle Haggard – “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive” – this album coincided nicely with me seeing the movie “Crazy Heart,” I must have been on a little bit of a country kick.

90. The Who – “The Who Sell Out”

101. The Electric Prunes – “I Had too Much to Dream (Last Night)”

86. Tim Buckley – “Goodbye and Hello” – this was pretty good folk stuff, I think I kind of lost interest in the album and tuned it out a bit but I did really like the first track “No Man Can Find the War,” and I was a little envious of Buckley’s awesome fro.

448. Pink Floyd – “the Wall”

And right now I’m enjoying Clapton’s cover of “Little Wing,” by Jimi Hendrix, on Derek and the Dominos’ “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.” I’m almost done with this album, and it’s got a really great blues-rock sound. Very laid back guitar jamming, just further proof that Clapton is indeed one of the “Guitar Gods” of the history of rock.