Big Day Coming (Second Version), by Yo La Tengo.
Why yes, my favorite Yo La Tengo song is a really loud version of a really quiet song of theirs. Yo La Tengo is a band where I will buy anything, listen to anything, leave it on repeat for years, but I might never remember the name of an album or song except this one. I didn’t even realize there was a quiet version for a long time. This song became my anthem for starting/quitting jobs, moving, launching stuff, just generally useful for getting psyched up.
That’s right, this is my walk-up music.
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It’s day 100.
I had planned to write a blog post and start sharing this project more widely, but events have overtaken me in the form of the unplanned home improvement project currently involving having moved everything out of the office and half the kitchen floor missing. Good times, but we’re making the best of it.
I’ll write that blog post soon, honest. 😉
One benefit of getting everything moved out of the office today? The microphone and MIDI keyboard were handy to make this sound a little less like a lo-fi bedroom cover and more like an over-engineered lo-fi bedroom cover.