This Year Goes to 11

New Year's Resolutions were made to be broken. The one I am making which I truly want to stick to is to see more live music this year. In '09 I saw more live concerts in one year than I saw in the previous decade combined. I can count the number of live concerts I saw in '10 on two hands and have enough fingers left over to throw the horns. I want '11 to go to 11.

In a bit of music-themed fun this morning, a web-friend was encouraging his Twitter followers to set their MP3 players to shuffle. The first song that plays will describe 2011 for you. Mine was R.E.M.'s "Man-Sized Wreath" from Accelerate. This might be only the second or third time I've heard this song, but the chorus came out quite appropriate for my resolution, especially the last five words: "Throw it on the fire, Throw it in the air, Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don't care, oh give me the sound". Thanks to Sir Hellsing for sharing that music-meme. If you play along, comment and let me know yours!

And if you've never seen the sublimely brilliant film "This is Spinal Tap" or aren't familiar with "goes to 11", please check out this clip.

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  1. UnknownJanuary 2, 2011 at 6:36 PM

    I know it's a late comment, but the first thing on my ipod(phone) when I hit random on all tracks was the Tool song Rosetta Stone from the 10,000 Days album.

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