Music We Like

…even though we didn't make it 😭

As an S.D.I.R. subscriber, you probably like our music, and like to listen to it (not just admire it conceptually), so you may have wondered whether we also like listening to music. It’s a fair question. Many musicians — Thom Yorke, P.J. Harvey, Bruno Mars, Karen O* — famously hate the sound of music that they didn’t make. In Thom Yorke’s case, there are stories where he slings the water from hot kettles onto people whose cell phones have a melodic ringtone.*

That’s not us. We love music; each of us spends a big slice of his free time listening to it, and downloading ringtones. We thought you might like to know some albums from recent years that have really impressed us, and also thought it would be funny/revealing/awkward to recall what we were into when we were kids. So here are two lists for each guy: 5 recent albums we’ve really liked, and 5 albums we really liked when we were 16. (Keep in mind Keith Carne was 16 many years after Keith Murray and Chris were 16 😉.)

(An ∞ symbol means the album appeared on two guys’ initial lists, so one of us removed it to make room for a new entry.)

Keith M.

RECENT

Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa

Crash, Charli XCX ∞

Mercurial World, Magdalena Bay

The Car, Arctic Monkeys

Montero, Li’l Nas X

AGE 16

Fear, Toad The Wet Sprocket

The Lizard, Saigon Kick

La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One, White Zombie

Family Jams, Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids

Dirt, Alice In Chains

Chris

RECENT

Loose Future, Courtney Marie Andrews

Real Life 3, Fred Again ∞

Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part, Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion

Jubilee, Japanese Breakfast

Moveys, Slow Pulp

AGE 16

Vs., Pearl Jam

August and Everything After, Counting Crows

Jar of Flies, Alice In Chains

Dulcinea, Toad the Wet Sprocket

Score to the film “Total Recall”

Keith C.

RECENT

Pang, Caroline Polachek ∞

Wilkes, Sam Wilkes

i,i, Bon Iver

being funny in a foreign language, The 1975

Promises, Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders

AGE 16

How it Feels to be Something On, Sunny Day Real Estate

Amateurs and Professionals, Penfold

Make Up The Breakdown, Hot Hot Heat

A Love Supreme, John Coltrane

S/T, Owen

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Good game. 🤘🏽 Drop your own lists into the comments. We promise not to make fun of 16-yr-old you’s predilections if you don’t make fun of ours.

🎧,

K, C, K

*Just kidding, we don't have any reason to think this is true. We just chose four famous musicians who we’re positive don’t read this newsletter. That said, we don’t know for sure that it isn’t true. 🤷 We just know it felt like we were making it up as we wrote it, but maybe that’s also what it feels like to have a moment of acute clairvoyance and accidentally snatch a buried fact out of the ether. And the kettle story about Thom Yorke is definitely not true, surely. Surely. Unless… 🤔