My day-job has been making some drastic changes lately, the main one being that employees are no longer allowed to listen to personal music devices. Instead, we must listen to one communal boombox. It’s been agonizing. To prevent myself from offing myself any time Lady Gaga plays on the radio, I’ve been burning CD’s from home and bringing them to work to play on the boombox. And it’s had this cool side effect of making me think more like a DJ with my music selection than the douchebag music critic that I usually portray. I’m actually trying think about what normal people might actually want to listen to to get through the workday. I know, what a novel idea, right?
I’ve generally stayed pretty safe so far, bringing in classics like Tribe’s Midnight Marauders and Low End Theory and Kanye’s College Dropout. I brought in Wu-Tang and Tupac too but I guess I need to find work-appropriate, clean versions before I try that again (if anyone’s actually got this, throw me a link!). Unsurprisingly, the biggest hit around the office has been this Michael Jackson mix that I nabbed from Metal Lungies. It’s tight in that it focuses on great songs from MJ’s catalog that aren’t as immediately recognizable or canonical as say, “Thriller” or “Smooth Criminal.”
“Butterflies” is one such song and it also closes the mix. Read the rest of this entry »
