AM - 3 mile wu, mile going 70, 90 every quarter mile, then about 2k feeling out tempo. i'd say it's around 5:40 pace rn. cd for 9, upper body weights after(no sauna). last faux-workout! 2020 let's get it
PM - 6 easy. felt good.
seeing how my running career, running blog, and pursuing of an engineering degree and neurosurgeon title is a mere front for my true dreams of being a music journalist, i'm posting a top ten albums of the decade list tomorrow. i thought about making one for the best songs of the decade too, but that's even bigger of a headache so instead i'll put my favorite song from the albums in the parenthesis after. i'm posting some albums i absolutely love that didn't make the cut today. i won't act like i had good music taste the entire decade, 11-year old eugene wasn't reading the pazz & jop poll in 2010 or anything. anyway in no order here are 5 albums i love but didn't make the list
lingua ignota - caligula(may failure be your noose); an album that sounds like it should be sang on an empty burning stage in the deepest level of hell. largely inspired by what seems to be an abusive relationship, ignota doesn't ask for pity, instead seemingly embracing the monster she must be in order to receive such brutality from her love. harrowing and completely terrifying.
fka twigs - lp1(numbers); it seemed that bjork's transcendental music was so ahead of the curve it took about 15 years after homogenic for her to spawn spiritual successors. i'd argue twigs did it the best, reaching the full potential of the sound after two EPs on her debut. seductive as it is strange, the mix of experimental R&B sounds 5 years ahead of it's time 5 years after it's release.
travis scott - rodeo(apple pie); hip-hop was easily the genre of the decade, trap was easily the most popular sub-genre of it, and rodeo is easily the peak of the sound. taking the ATL sound and evolving it's production to make the album an experience rather than a bag of mostly unrelated songs like his contemporaries, cactus jack delivers banger after banger.
a tribe called quest - we got it from here, thank you for your service(we the people...); 18 years after releasing their supposed last album and mere months after the death of member and legend phife dawg, the world recieved their true final album. it stands in the same tier as low end theory and midnight marauders, and i don't think there's higher praise than that.
radiohead - a moon shaped pool(decks dark); arguably the band's saddest album. as anyone who's heard more than THAT song knows, they aren't exactly the feel-good type. abandoning a lot of the synthetic landscapes they created on previous efforts for something softer, some of thom yorke's best(and most heart-wrenching) songwriting appears on here. if i ranked the albums based on my favorite song on it this would probably top my list
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