Cleaning out my music library
November 20, 2025
I'm of an age where I'm in danger of getting stuck listening to the same music for the rest of my life. So I've recently decided to change things up and (try to) find new music. I have a few ideas of categories that this might fall into.
- Old music that is new to me
- New music from old bands/artists that I like
- Completely new music from current artists that I haven't heard of
The third option is going to be tough so I'm going to start by focussing on the first two. My idea is to remove everything from my music library and then start with Jazz, which is a genre that I've never really got into, then maybe some artists that I like but don't know well, and finally artists that I like that are still releasing new music.
This is my new music library so far:
- Time Out - Dave Brubeck (1959)
- Kind of Blue - Miles Davis (1959)
- A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1965)
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie (1972)
- Transformer - Lou Reed (1972)
- Camp Songs - Meat Puppets (2023)
- The Night the Zombies Came - Pixies (2024)
- The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
- Is this Real? - Wipers (1980)
I went back and added dates to each one and oh boy, I need to concentrate a bit more on this century, but it's a start, and there's not a one from the 90's, so that's progress.