My New Year’s Eve.

So, it was some 16-17 hours ago, pretty recent, no? To tell you the truth, I didn’t like it. The celebration was really, really awful, even worse than I expected. People were throwing firecrackers and all other kinds of blow-your-hand-up toys around. Plainly put, so many firecrackers went off at once, that the (official, professionally set up, and quite beautiful) firewoks were barely visible from the smoke. Just imagine. I was ready to turn away and go home as my watch was set precisely according to the GMT +1 (and every other one was either late or early), but then the fireworks started, and I just wanted to see if I could see them, so I stood and watched. Well, I could, but it was not so pleasant to close my eyes and cover my ears every single time some piece of shit goes off near me. This was probably the worst new year’s eve I’ve ever expirienced. Or not. Most of the other ones parallel it.

The song with which I entered new 2008 is Mike Oldfield’s “Amarok”. Or Prince’s “1999″. I don’t remember, but I’m pretty sure it’s the first one. So, once again, my album of the day for 1. I 2008. is… (drumroll)

Tracklist:

(Do you really think I’m that much of a  freak to post the ‘tracklist’ to an album which contains only one track that runs for an hour and two seconds and from which its ‘album’ got its name?) (Oh, by the way, the tape and LP releases cut the track in half at some 30 minutes. The LP edition is very rare, I heard. I saw one of those once in Belgrade last summer when I was on an album-shopping spree, but I didn’t buy it ’cause I didn’t have the money to do so.)

I don’t think I even need to explain why this album is so great.  It’s just got this kind of aura, and this fearlessness many works today don’t have. Sure, maybe it didn’t go into unexplored territory, but it’s still a musical adventure. Sadly, I never really find the time to listen to it start-to-end, without any interruption.