ZooiblogThe Fletcher Memorial Music Marathon
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First of all, season’s greetings to all of you! I’ve been spending my time eating, playing the guitar and drinking special beers, generally. One way to spend Christmas. I hope you’re all having a great time, but now:
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Referred to as one of those crazy plans I keep thinking up, people said I was mad, or to be more precise, we were mad. I guess that yes, indeed, we’re out of our fucking minds. For the sake of listening to great music and to have something to do this Christmas holiday, Geert and I have planned our first (annual?) music marathon. Over thirty albums, a whopping 26 hours of music and all that in one long breath. We’re sacrificing not only two Earth days of our holiday, but also our sleeping pattern for at least a week, I’m afraid.
The Fletcher Memorial Music Marathon, as we christened it (funny—we’ll not be listening to The Final Cut), will be held on the 27th and 28th of December and will, well, yeah, in fact it will span these two days. Damn. We’re out of our minds.
The line-up
To make sure we’ll not be spending our entire holiday listening to brilliant music (hey, what the– why not? ;)), we’ve decided to pick one album per artist. That’s tough, yes. Consider Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Bright Eyes, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Cave, Moby– yup, tough decisions all the time. The general rules also include “No soundtracks” (with the notable exception being Superfly, which we can’t consider a soundtrack because it’s a brilliant album on itself) and “No best-of albums”, so that rules out the two 2-disc Best of The Beatles boxes, and that makes it more the challenge for us.
| # | Album title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unrest | Erlend Øye |
| 2 | Seven and Six | Bellwether |
| 3 | Let Love In | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds |
| 4 | Automatic for the People | R.E.M. |
| 5 | Superfly | Curtis Mayfield |
| 6 | 3 | Blood, Sweat and Tears |
| 7 | Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars | Fatboy Slim |
| 8 | Gods and Monsters | I Am Kloot |
| 9 | Sleeping with Ghosts | Placebo |
| 10 | Carpathia, A Dramatic Poem | The Vision Bleak |
| 11 | Ghost Reveries | Opeth |
| 12 | Mutter | Rammstein |
| 13 | A Certain Trigger | Maxïmo Park |
| 14 | Turn on the Bright Lights | Interpol |
| 15 | Melody A.M. | Röyksopp |
| 16 | Debut | Björk |
| 17 | Play | Moby |
| 18 | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | The Smashing Pumpkins |
| 19 | Funeral | The Arcade Fire |
| 20 | Twin Cinema | The New Pornographers |
| 21 | Picaresque | The Decemberists |
| 22 | The Madcap Laughs | Syd Barrett |
| 23 | Riot on an Empty Street | Kings of Convenience |
| 24 | I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning | Bright Eyes |
| 25 | Left and Leaving | The Weakerthans |
| 26 | Illinois | Sufjan Stevens |
| 27 | Give Up | The Postal Service |
| 28 | Cosmo’s Factory | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 29 | Bad | Michael Jackson |
| 30 | Revolver | The Beatles |
| 31 | The Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd |
(Yes, I started at the bottom. Yes, I got lazy. I still urge you to buy all the music we’re gonna be listening to, as it’s all worth your whiles.)
Next year, we’ll double the amount of music and do something for charity. Insanity for Charity© ;)