tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697219816427349669.post6008215517498963322..comments2023-11-17T00:07:33.896-08:00Comments on March Sadness 2016: Your First Sweet Sixteen Scores & AnalysisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697219816427349669.post-25630373037035787572016-03-21T07:59:15.110-07:002016-03-21T07:59:15.110-07:00This weekend, without Sadness matches to listen to...This weekend, without Sadness matches to listen to, I fell back down the Molina rabbit hole. The trouble with trying to get into his work retrospectively is that every album contains songs that are much less awesome than his best stuff (or at least songs that aren't good introductions to his body of work). The best thing I've seen as an introduction is a spotify playlist called "Best of Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co." that is about 45 songs long and well curated. Because you have so much time to fall down rabbit holes. <br /><br />Still, it's interesting to me that I forgot all about a musician who, in a different universe, made six or seven songs at least that would high seeds here. I mean, (from "Just be Simple"): "you'll never hear me talk about / one day getting out / why put a new address / on the same old loneliness." <br /><br />My point isn't that the omission of Molina is snub. One can't snub something one hasn't heard. It's just evidence that many artists making sad music are largely, as a condition of their own sadness, inherently off the radar, even a radar as sophisticated as the one guiding this tournament. Which is sad (and maybe evidence that the folks voting here ought to crowd source a follow up NIT? while I'm in the business of giving you a ton more work?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697219816427349669.post-89935862516280715772016-03-20T15:09:05.704-07:002016-03-20T15:09:05.704-07:00Though I've heard of them and Molina before, I...Though I've heard of them and Molina before, I can't say I've ever heard any of their songs. The one you directed us to is pretty good, though, and I'll add it to our missed connections list. Good suggestion. (Though you're right that "Farewell..." is outside of our timeframe, I'll check that out too.) Anderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13162102610439637214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-697219816427349669.post-62185860665784295632016-03-19T10:49:16.237-07:002016-03-19T10:49:16.237-07:00So, after I couldn't shut up on Radiohead matc...So, after I couldn't shut up on Radiohead matchup about how hard it is to for a song to be sad if I haven't been listening to a song for years, I thought of an exception for me. Songs: Ohia is a band I missed until I had to review a tribute EP following Jason Molina's death. Perhaps because I was immersing myself in the songs and their covers -- and listening actively -- for a week in order to write something, I now have a relationship with them. It's also true that I just listen to music differently in the post Spotify era where something basically has to get me right away or I will go back listening to the National or whatever. All of that really works against slowly developing music or songs that grow and fester, all of which probably discriminates against sad songs more than it does manic songs or boy it feels good not to be dead songs. In any case, though the saddest Songs: Ohia song is probably "Farewell Transmission" and outside of our time frame, here's "being in love," one of the only songs from the era that I didn't listen to in the era that now moves me greatly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow0iQtoKJUYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com