So the year is sort of winding down, we’re now into the final third. It will have implications on how I run things through the remainder of 2024.

I have been on a year-long quest to pay tribute to the music of 1984, I’ve discussed an album roughly every other week and also included a song on the weeks when I haven’t been doing albums. But as we are approaching the calendar flipping to ’25 I am going to adjust my approach.

As it stands, I have about enough albums I want to cover for the remaining weeks I would need to fill spots. So it will be 1984 from here until January. There is one exception baked in as I’ll have a Best of 2024 post sometime in December. And I may have one or two free slots where I might also discuss an album from this year. But beyond that I will kick the 1984 celebration up a notch to close it out with a bang.

As for songs I will still have some from ’84 that I want to talk about. But outside of that, my focus running out the year will go to this year. There are a fair few preview tracks from upcoming albums I want to discuss and also some songs already released this year, so ’24 will be my primary focus on the song front.

Now – once 2025 hits, I am closing the book on the 1984 celebration and I won’t be running any themes through the next year. I will simply choose albums I want to discuss, as I did before ’24. I won’t do another year-long theme again until 2031, which would mark the 40^th anniversary of 1991. That was by far the most significant year in music to me so I will commemorate it in a huge way – that is, if I’m still running this in six years. We will see.

On another note – with the 1984 thing and also with me generally choosing albums that I tend to like or love, my reviews are often pretty glowing. I’ve probably given out more A grades than anything and in the past few weeks I’ve even handed out S’s like candy. That’s somewhat unavoidable with the 1984 thing going on – if I’m going to talk about those albums, they are often the ones with super high marks.

But next year I won’t be on any rails as far as album selection. So I will make a point to dig out some stuff that doesn’t quite clear the bar grade-wise. It will be a nice change of pace from what’s been going on lately, though again it’s understandable based on my theme and also that it’s far easier to talk about stuff you like. But I do look forward to going the other way and having at a few albums that maybe shouldn’t have been recorded.

That’s about all for this little update. Enjoy the rest of the year and I’ll see you with some bags of crap on the other side of it.