but the only dinosaur album in that batch was really the Tull, most of the band members were in their late 30s which I guess could be dinosaur age but Tull were obviously very lamely grasping at current 1984 synth pop trends. Rush were also in their mid to late 30s when they did Presto but I think they were better at keeping up with trends than Tull.

Really this is more of a problem for me with doing discography runs, like when I listened to every Kansas album and came up with probably one hour of passable music out of the whole discography. I probably shouldn’t have done that and yes it is OCD that made me. “Oooo, I might MISS something!” I peg myself. In the case of my relistens however I genuinely wonder if I might find something good, because I’ve found some really stunning songs and albums that I forgot about–S. F. Sorrow, Buffalo Springfield, Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Sabotage, etc. For all the albums that I no longer care for I am glad to have relistened to the ones that I did. And hell, I’m just relistening to them as background music while at work and seeing what sticks. But some of that is OCD, too.

My OCD will NOT however make me do the entire Guided By Voices discography–though Prindle has some OCD too and keeps listening to all their new albums, of which they’re up to like three to four new albums a year now. How do people keep up with this shit? Has Pollard ever accidentally written the same song twice, like exactly? God knows. I could stand to go back and hear more of the 1992-2004 stuff, at least. But I doubt they’ve got another Bee Thousand or Under The Bushes in their discography.

It is true that I should probably try more of these recent indie albums from the last 20 years that I never got around to hearing. I keep putting modern stuff aside.