listening FOR vs listening TO

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ok i am currently hoikin all kinds of likely and unlikely LPs off the shelves ftb we need a themetune for "A BITE OF STARS A SLUG OF TIME AND THOU"

here's the thing (it's obvious but it's interesting): you listen to stuff totally differently and hear things ordinarily don't when you're trying something out as a potential soundtrack -- closer i think but also much more impatiently

i: you listen for "anachronism taint" <--- in this case that means, does the future of this music's "feel towards the future" mess with the "feel towards the future" of the stories we will mainly be featuring? (cf eg aweseom use of adam ant in that marie antionette film as an example of "anachronism anti-taint")
ii: you listen for drive and stasis -- some music pushes hard towards the next section of itself, which is no good if you just want to extract THAT bit
iii: vocals are an enormous pain (esp the "singers" for SF-y type music jeez)
iv: tiresomely the best bits are RIGHT INSIDE a song, which i could do more with if i had some kind of young person's sampler i guess :(
v: haha THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS is an unjustly overlooked release tho small cop in this particular context
vi: i used to like doin something like this as a kid incidentally -- pick and choose bits of my parents' classical records as tonepoems for eg the hobbit! (clue: sibelius's "swan of tuonela" goes with EVERYTHING!)

Hey Miss!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This has been stuck in my head pretty much perpetually in the 2 days since I heard it - nerdy post-Kanye pop-hop: