Intentional Listening

I decided to go with the top 50 albums of all time (according to Rolling Stone) to choose the albums I’d be listening to. I know myself enough to know that if I just throw on the album my brain will convert it to background noise by the second song. So I decided to implement an ‘intentional listening’ plan. I isolate myself in my comfy red chair (seriously, everyone needs a comfy chair in their life), put on the headphones and pull up the lyrics to all the songs so I can read along with them as the songs are played.

This is the way we used to do it – we’d get the record and the lyrics would be on the sleeves and we’d lie down on our bed and listen to the album in total isolation. It’s a personal intimate experience with the music and one I wanted to replicate