Tim and Matt return to talk about their favorite songs of the year 2020.
Backstories to things sometimes are essential to the entire story. We attempted this same recording a week ago but I am technologically challenged. Hence, the mythic proportions referenced of that recording in this episode.
Fate is a groove on eternal wax. We set out to talk about our "best" songs. I admire those skilled writers who can describe music. It is a bit of a challenge; which, as I write this, question my ability to describe what goes on inside of me when I listen to music. I believe I come closer to the soul. Jean Gebser said that music comes from the magical structure of consciousness. Statues of this period depict mouthless faces. Perhaps, it is because music transcends what can be put into words. With this in mind, Tim and I free dive into the music of 2020- sharing the love of what songs mean to us.
2020 wasn't a normal year by any means. Pandemics tend to increase abnormalities, as history can attest to. "Love in the time of Covid" anyone? This is not a quintessential "best of" list. Songs can sometimes be bookmarks in our experience of life. Sonic resonations of a time that is-all things considered: the past. Perhaps, they function best as time machines capable of transporting us back in time as craftfully as a 1985 Delorean equipped with the flux capacitator. 2020 will soon be a blur, but with its mountainscape still in the rearview mirror let's reflect on that was...
Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/653krwp2FZPJlaTmMvlerr?si=DuqlHvBAQ8uI9QRMaADiuw
Matt's best of 2020 (106 songs): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ozbOuLCJoSxj6r2BN2F7E?si=r0maS8EqRdq-tPhtsuu1Qw
