Findus Fop wrote:
This is quite a thing.
The NME's singles of the year from 1975 - 2017.A lot of work to put together, and a pleasing thing to have set to random through the work day.
I haven't looked at this thread in a long time. I'll look forward to listening to that playlist, a great idea.
Scrolling through it was a weird sort of feeling - like a music map of my life - at the top of the list was some stuff I generally recognised but was too young to really be 'into'. And then part way through became song I was quite familiar with from the radio in the car, and then it got to music I liked, music I bought, bands I was into. But then, I kept scrolling and began to realise I didn't recognise much anymore, songs I've never heard and artists I've never heard of. It's clear I started to get engaged with music in my teens and through 20s, but by 30 I'd stopped listening to much 'new' stuff and now... I'm old
And after I finished scrolling, my eyes felt that funny 'still moving' thing, like after focussing on a moving image like movie credits or guitar hero.