Category: Episodes

36. Genesis

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(September 2014) I have completed phase 36 of my “opus project” in which I listen to an artist’s full discography from beginning to end. This episode: GENESIS. I admit this one was tedious. The early stuff is mostly impenetrable until the last two albums with Peter Gabriel. The middle stuff is mostly banal, the later stuff crap-tacular, and the last bits unlistenable. But there are some decent songs in there.

Favourite song: In the Cage
Favourite album: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Worst album: Calling All Stations (this was after even Phil Collins left the group).

Compared to expectations: ↓

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34. Johann Sebastian Bach

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(August 2014) I have completed phase 34 of my “opus project” in which I listen to the complete works of an artist. This episode: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH. This was the biggest I have done and will do in this project. Some 1150 pieces of music (I did not include items in the catalogue whose authorship is doubtful or falsely attributed to J.S. Bach). It took almost six months. I don’t know how many hours, but I see that the running time of the complete Bach CD box set is 175 hours.

Favorite big work: Mass in B minor

Favorite category of music: orchestral pieces (concertos)

Favorite concerto: Brandenberg #4

Favorite movement: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, II. Air (the most beautiful piece of music ever written)

Favorite chorale prelude: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

Compared to expectations: same

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32. Oasis

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(July 2014) I have completed phase 32 of my “opus project,” in which I listen to a band’s entire discography in chronological order. This episode: OASIS.

Favourite album: Definitely Maybe
Favourite song: Keep the Dream Alive
Started strong with two excellent albums, finished strong with two good albums, with the weaker ones in between

Compared to expectations: same

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31.Olivia Tremor Control (with The Sunshine Fix and Circulatory System)

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(July 2014) I have completed phase 31 of my “opus project,” in which I listen to a band’s entire discography in chronological order. This episode: OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL with spin-off bands THE SUNSHINE FIX and CIRCULATORY SYSTEM.

Favorite album: Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Favorite song: I Have Been Floated

Compared to expectations: same

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