Two years ago, I started posting one song each Monday. The first year, the series was called This Year, and there was one song for each year of my life (with several asterisks, starting with the fact that I was fifty-three when 2023 started) to fill up the year. Last year the series was Portions for Foxes, which had songs by women or women-fronted bands in alphabetical order. (The only-one-per-year, only-one-per-artist, in-order thing was too much of a pain to do again.)
This year, since I like posting songs and saying random things about them - and it's my blog, so I get to do things I enjoy - I've got a new series. Like last year, it's alphabetical by artist. Like the first year, it's vaguely themed: primarily songs I put on the list for that first year but didn't make it for the aforementioned overdetermined-parameters reasons.
This year, I'm still keeping to just one song per performer - I've still got a lot of people I like and haven't gotten to yet, so that's no problem. I'm hoping it's not a total sausagefest after I cleared out fifty-plus women artists last year, but that's the danger.
But, otherwise, there's no theme. These are songs I really liked, that mean something to me, the way songs can mean something to any of us. They don't mean the same thing, or any consistent thing.
This Year was titled by the number of the year, because that was obvious. Portions for Foxes was titled for the artist, since it was artist-focused. But this time, this year, the titles will be the song titles, since it's their turn, and the point is the particular song.
And the series is called Better Things, because I want to look forward to better things, because I think these songs are themselves better things, and because calling it that allows me to add one extra, foundational, song - first done by one of my favorite bands, but then covered, in a version I like much better, by another of my favorite bands:
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