I was very ambitious to spontaneously take on a year long project with no advance planning.

But that’s how I roll sometimes.

I had all these lofty ideas about blogging about each album daily, but to be honest it’s challenging enough to just fulfill the promise I made to myself to listen to 1 complete album daily.

But I’m three weeks complete and content that I’m already seeing some changes to how I experience music.

For the first time in years, I listen to albums on repeat. I think about the sounds of instruments and drum machines. I think about effects and mastering. I really listen to the stories in the songs. And I spend a lot of time feeling the thrill.

There are so many random thoughts that pop into my head as I go through my daily practice. Yesterday while experiencing a Donna Summer album, I thought what a fun musical all her songs would make.

Then I found out one was about to open on Broadway. I also thought about how I never realized how “I Feel Love” was the last song on her concept record about the future and that for most of my life I’ve experienced this song totally out of context – but it’s still worked. But in context – the last song on an album about a woman’s journey in the 70s through a disco world felt absolutely epic.