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<description><![CDATA[Music Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter: Yusef Greiss: Egypt (1932) Levon Minassian: “Hovern’ engan” (2006) Ellen Williams: “Time to Say Goodbye” (2023) James P. Johnson: Yamekraw (1928) Michel Camilio: Piano Concerto (1998), Suite for Piano, Strings & Harp mvts 1 & 4 (2001) Harry Reser: Suite for Banjo and Orchestra (1930) Hans Zimmer: The […]]]></description>
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Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:
<ul>
<li>Yusef Greiss: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ramz-sabry-samy/egypt-symphonic-poem-youssef-greiss">Egypt</a> (1932)</li>
<li>Levon Minassian: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3yQ4dy23XekcMsdeaBXZR6?si=d46dc9e858d845b4">Hovern’ engan</a>” (2006)</li>
<li>Ellen Williams: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1G2QQTEhao5J6ExihBngbq?si=b02d5db065444b3c">Time to Say Goodbye</a>” (2023)</li>
<li>James P. Johnson: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6UGpZuXdqq3HBsIWhXFA97?si=5a6e6adf7f534ceb">Yamekraw</a> (1928)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7uQi5P5ykq2HneMYviNJiH?si=71a2b0e8a43d433e">Michel Camilio</a>: Piano Concerto (1998), Suite for Piano, Strings & Harp mvts 1 & 4 (2001)</li>
<li>Harry Reser: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIhWWmQSF9w0Lczq8KI5p?si=9073a0d7101b4819">Suite for Banjo and Orchestra</a> (1930)</li>
<li>Hans Zimmer: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0ks96s96ygipkQxpIcWPHw?si=NiBBvPLlQROt86oxxgrTVg">The World of Hans Zimmer Part II: A New Dimension</a> (2025)</li>
<li>Signe Bisgaard: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/153DOIOplQBooy44nZif4a?si=b8212a1c27164565">Begyndelse</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6h9uuHspnma347tvu4zxQ7?si=1afcf474b297454d">Doden og Jomfruen</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/28Pp7ncddqYNQcK2v1SfZA?si=b037b334b8424a3c">Triumf</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3HqWR4yTTFiY83kIV7b7Uo?si=25eb7255f74948db">De dodes O</a>” (2020)</li>
<li>Francesco Tristano: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4AQXNYQ7q0C1jzPddLn4tu?si=65af9f875ff84736">Strings of Life</a>” (2005)</li>
<li>Cengiz Ozdemir: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7u5HM1BPV8Ubnd4kCyB5EB?si=5a68db7ec15942af">Concerto for Baglama mvt. 3</a> (1998)</li>
<li>Juventino Rosas: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4bL4pLU6ikTXdDBb7q8ZGe?si=02a8b5c9fd6243f6">Sobre las olas</a>” (1888)</li>
<li>Charles Ancliffe: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4hnpWHVK64KWl7PEPtF2cR?si=ec6b87c7b6214efe">Nights of Gladness</a>” (1912)</li>
<li>Abram Chasins: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3MLOTa1YgZn6V4c52KT42I?si=3a13de8549b5461e">Rush Hour in Hong Kong</a>” (1926)</li>
<li>Adolf Jensen: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6RnGQHjtuGE4EEcWcGuOUm?si=f1f46cd3305d41af">Murmuring Zephyrs</a>” (1864)</li>
<li>Friedrich Burgmüller: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3kCyeOJ7L7B5KrAgXxP0DY?si=5e1450032e774f72">Arabesque</a>” (1852)</li>
<li>Carl Bohm: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2VGA6Uup1KndkCCKkAULE6?si=7a6c9f9cc0304ce0">Moto Perpetuo</a>” (1898)</li>
<li>Shirish Korde: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/national-polish-radio-symphony-orchestra-ruben-silva-joanna-kurkowicz/svara-yantra/">Svara Yantra</a> mvts. 2 & 3 (2005)</li>
<li>Wayne Horvitz: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6B9EeAwhpThzaUXRF82S96?si=wGOd6MvkQSiEDUq61oSvsg">Halfrack</a> (1993), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3WK6Vt48BPDSPf6el2ZEBs?si=w3MAGfSlSRiq94AfT0tL1w">Daylight</a> (1997)
<ul>
<li>With these new listens, Horvitz has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45ACg6gY5Vv8lg5TgcaVgC?si=a9b64bf7a6784ed9">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Thomas Tallis: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/26nEbd5S5IG0nvcAPXFoOn?si=9326da20d35f4830">Spem in alium</a>” (c. 1570)</li>
<li>Michael Nyman: “Shaping the Curve” (1990), The Upside-Down Violin mvts 2, 3 (1992), “De Granada A La Luna” (1998), “Yellow Beach” & “House on Fire” & “Rope Trick” & Wheelchair Chase” & “Mrs. O’Growney Appears” & “Final Act” (2002)
<ul>
<li>With these new listens, Nyman has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45ACg6gY5Vv8lg5TgcaVgC?si=a9b64bf7a6784ed9">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Simon Franglen: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7iFw1GrPSKTP7V8wr2HL7O?si=dbf0c2593e064c3b">Happiness is Simple</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/72gl2bKcfUvmDRsjyTmXg7?si=0af54755587a45d9">The Tulkun Return</a>” (2022)</li>
<li>Thomas Bergersen / Two Steps from Hell: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5yNNIkI2g4OWQzjwBvJ7PP?si=8fee25bba60442f0">Sun</a> (2014), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3Ut0jxKtsG9LwKqngHWX20?si=6a3edb64ad42422c">Classics Vol. 2</a> (2015), and many individual tracks [see <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fCCXkdB8RYWbKREuBfvY2?si=26f5c3f9a4064515">playlist</a>]</li>
<li>Heiner Goebbels: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZjjG7jPmZSWANw806Oazy?si=ae89032c4df24ab3">Ballade von zerrissenen Rock</a>” (1998)</li>
<li>Emma Robinson: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/507f5mCyUQwWsrVN5coiqW?si=5f4492626d4d45a6">Stay</a>”<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q3-2025/#footnote_0_9243" id="identifier_0_9243" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="See also the original YouTube version here.">1</a> & “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlYvKmd8VLo">Hallelujah</a>” & “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbJqSnP4k8o">Treasure</a>” & “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n34HtrtLB4I">Young & Beautiful</a>” & “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYzcRygndNM">Titanium</a>” (2013), “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTTi0OR55w">Stronger Than Me</a>” (2014) “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvaEaSR6Rcw">Paper Hearts</a>” (2015), “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UABZ3II_YXk">Rise Up</a>” (2016)</li>
<li>Hermann Necke: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0P4h3mWGBqIOldzAficg51?si=55e5529327ab47fc">Csikos Post</a>” (1895)</li>
<li>Karl Jenkins: Palladio Reimagined mvts 1, 3 (2024)</li>
<li>Akusmi: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/33yYg5rJepJZ2IMXJoRs5d?si=lC4WgYB0R-6FhkjDoN4TVg">Fleeting Future</a> (2022), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/41DP38zlDShdJX7VZengLr?si=_ZgHNwTFREaYyTGW5roWMA">Lines</a> (2023)</li>
<li>Serj Tankian: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/21Xb16Ola8TqIiFLtbjirG?si=lMojP0WeQrGc7Vpk3cvFgg">Symphony No. 1 “Orca”</a> (2012)</li>
<li>Petar Lyondev: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4SBHVm3lqcb3gtL9PvqyfK?si=1a547c6e42c74357">Kaval Sviri</a>” (1984)</li>
<li>Artie Shaw: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0kVb19MqMumiPoiFRoB2EC?si=d1e1a6a592654c24">Concerto for Clarinet</a>” (1940)</li>
<li>Zhivko Vasilev: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/08jcRAgbJ0VBjS2s0xmjvO?si=bbeff498f8cc41a2">It’s Raining in 7</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5YO7CwcvXvRCDdiVOOIoRT?si=d5e15fd08dfd4f12">Triple Tension</a>” (2021)</li>
<li>Li Huanzhi: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3oNBNZOkn4lRDnGVYyNGnh?si=654025ff45e04e45">Spring Festival Suite Overture</a>” (1955)</li>
<li>Various Artists: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0ORTX4uL7HBjMjqIYk7IdI?si=2bo0N8URR0qLQxAITMGNTQ">Swordsmen of China</a> (1994)</li>
<li>Steve Coleman: “Spontaneous Pi” & “Mdw Ntr” & “Pad Thai / Of Many Turns” & “Spontaneous Drum” (2024)
<ul>
<li>With these new listens, Coleman has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6DHG6lYeFHRCMeEr6u0Be9?si=cc73378bc07b41a0">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>No Joy: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0FjxmPbY1wNex6PaMzjbsk?si=52mNlSZqQ22p72EuedOyXg">Bugland</a> (2025)</li>
<li>John Hollenbeck: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4YhnrXc7gMATgUi68n4k43?si=k3FePz6WSn6D1mLRKDe2Bg">Shut Up and Dance</a> (2010)</li>
<li>The VSOP Quintet: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3S0Z1IwvyVEAOSsbU6iEgk?si=DHxfg3mtSBWRvJ4aVy51tQ">Five Stars</a> (1979)</li>
<li>Redman / Mehldau / McBride / Blde: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6glNa1tv5xDIevYwSvxNkm?si=kUg-APFvTwy4B087XyvaJQ">RoundAgain</a> (2020)</li>
<li>Chris Potter: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1NcTTZqU6GGgyez1avoqwl?si=ZUtuI6Q9R4WlxiSEZjEMcQ">Circuits</a> (2019)</li>
<li>Isfar Sarabski: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6m7NaFcbwtWwMghDnVDotL?si=VeZLzWdgSIqGBT_9uekrCw">Planet</a> (2021)</li>
<li>Okay Temiz: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/oriental-wind-okay-temiz/oriental-wind/">Oriental Wind</a> (1977), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6aumHTdpSXFEZXqDs8ylXI?si=c74e1d342b504985">Moon</a>” (1982)</li>
<li>Oriental Wind: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/oriental-wind/chila-chila/">Chila-Chila</a> (1979)</li>
<li>Cardiacs: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1wiu4ATgyN3uXW5OXypbdM?si=bc5jD6urQnSBMZfzUDv40A">LSD</a> (2025)
<ul>
<li>With this new listen, Cardiacs have now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0EPdL82EGX70c968vKYWWU?si=43dbf93c5e3b4591">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Christian Wallumrød: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2DT1OOx7ajKrlYUNDn55m1?si=fa51f8e29ba54119">Bunadsbangla</a>” (2013)</li>
<li>Alexander Alyabyev: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rohfM1xKKJU">Cherubic Hymn</a>” (1820s?)
<ul>
<li>lol that final bass note, geez</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Igorrr: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3Z3jBKhGEBX8axYEDfqhTX?si=b26a3685adcd46ed">Amen</a> (2025)</li>
<li>Ado: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khplMpm4ctc">Unravel</a>” (2023)</li>
</ul>
I also listened to a significant portion of the recorded works by each of the (new-to-me) composers listed below.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q3-2025/#footnote_1_9243" id="identifier_1_9243" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="The pieces I listened to for each composer were: Henryson, Bjarnason, Balter, McAllister, Gosfield, Leshnoff, Fibich, Taneyev, Beach, Chausson, Danielpour, Omiccioli, Schoenberg, Anassian, Moszkowski, Humperdinck, Alfven, Sinding, Zemlinsky, Rott, Suk, Arensky, Liebermann, Stanford, Beal (plus many of his film scores and several of his jazz albums), Respighi, Rebikov, Glière, Ortiz, Saygun, Jandali, Miyagi, Gulda, Schmidt, Reznicek, Magnard, Yusupov, Pejačević, Abdelfattah, Tiết, Chesky, Kalinnikov, Nguyen, Smith, Bacewicz, Herbert, Medtner, Gretchaninov, Ropartz, Khairat, Lavallée, Suesse, Márquez, Águila, Daoud, Kernis, Andres, Hailstork, Bazzini, Ndodana-Breen, Brady, Richards, Taylor, Gunning (plus a few of his film/TV scores), Satyan, Rostomyan, Arakelian, Sharafyan, Dorman, Budashkin, Kuan, Peng, Busoni, Reinecke, Guo, Huang, Greenstein, Lindberg, Price, Ince, Perry, Paderewski, Connesson, Lyapunov, Delibes, Baker, Russo, Fox, Schulhoff, Lambert, Mascagni, Little, Randall-Myers, Sparr, Marianelli (plus many of his film scores), Davis, Carpenter, Grofe, Dukelsky, Hawes, Mealor, Esenvalds, Gregson, Davies, Cherubini, Enescu, Berwald, Schmidt-Kowalski, Chabrier, Wolf, Bloch, Rubinstein, Korsrud, Arutiunian, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Bax, Tabakova, Dean, Sucharitkul, Fairouz, Bennett (plus several of his film/TV scores and a few of his jazz tunes), Boyer, Sierra, Ticheli, Meij, Haan, Schwarz, Sparke, Stephenson, Zhou, Chen, TODO.">2</a> My favorites pieces from them (names linked to playlists) were:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3qpFoMz0VVFFVynGppmzDx?si=19e798e0f7484a32">Svante Henryson</a> (b. 1963): Electric Bass Concerto No. 1 (2007), Concerto for Jazz Cello and Orchestra (2022)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2faCCg0Xp6crIYAElCCCDe?si=13e9962321a14a02">Daniel Bjarnason</a> (b. 1979): “Red-handed” (2010)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/68qeHSouIQ0Ng0ZtcbRGq1?si=452fdddc535149d8">Marcos Balter</a> (b. 1974): “Cherubim” (2013)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1XvvRWiYF5CvqR6e6xu4Mm?si=918bf3c9e8d248ff">Scott McAllister</a> (b. 1969): Freebirds (2007), “More Cowbell” (2007), “Zing!” (2008), Death and Disfigurations (2024)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eWYBx6KnMJxEih2aCTaI9?si=ba599e8c5c5a4a08">Annie Gosfield</a> (b. 1960): Ewa7 (1999)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1rHcuAEuzVYPd7vNy5xFXo?si=bf8dc3d225e24c74">Jonathan Leshnoff</a> (b. 1973): Double Concerto for Violin and Viola (2007), “Starburst” (2010), Violin Concerto No. 2 mvt. 4 (2018), Piano Concerto (2019), Of Thee I Sing (2020), Symphony for Winds mvt. 1 (2023)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4HRf5FtDImR7lyg2byX6IE?si=f5bea5476e684f6d">Sergei Taneyev</a> (b. 1856): Piano Quintet in G minor mvt. 2 (1911)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5O8i5V3eQRF9S2KFbSSYPW?si=92939267d0ae4f5e">Nick Omiccioli</a> (b. 1982): “Fuse” (2014)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/05fWUYKMAPSm0bO7vERVpO?si=e24d41c2de4345d3">Adam Schoenberg</a> (b. 1980): American Symphony mvts. 1, 3, 5 (2011), Picture Studies mvts. 2, 3, 10 (2012), Scatter (2015)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2OaXzwMd4X930mnTy24EF2?si=cdae0dff067b4aa1">Henrik Anassian</a> (b. 1937): Concert for Duduk and Orchestra (2010)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zHDHifi1IvFzpIYn7lVBw?si=5dd1cb8e91804e4d">Moritz Moszkowski</a> (b. 1854): Piano Concerto in B Minor (1875), Spanish Dances (1876), Johanna d’Arc mvts. 1 & 4 (1876), Violin Concerto in C Major mvt 3 (1881), From Foreign Lands mvt. 6 (1884), Orchestral Suite No. 1 mvts. 2 & 5 (1886), Piano Concerto in E Major mvts. 1, 3, & 4 (1898), Suite for Two Violins and Piano mvt 1 (1900), 15 Virtuosic Etudes No. 1 (1903)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6PbImGv52CVIvJCci7z4qX?si=798c673bae7b4923">Engelbert Humperdinck</a> (b. 1854): String Quartet in C Major mvt 3 (1920)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2OzmZArQtP86yNwsY5oQ6T?si=dff68c00bdff492c">Hugo Alfven</a> (b. 1872): Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (1903), Swedish Rhapsody No. 2 (1907), The Prodigal Son Suite (1957)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2I2xo2LZctCBrCgy7c8gA9?si=0fe70d4b6c5141ea">Christian Sinding</a> (b. 1856): Suite in A Minor mvt. 1 (1891), “Rustle of Spring” (1896), Violin Concerto No. 1 mvt. 1 (1898)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45ZVM3GjfkpDdloTuJyvc3?si=13c93ec3b61b45dc">Lowell Liebermann</a> (b. 1961): Piano Concerto No. 2 mvt. 4 (1992)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/57HvwyniT8DNwd7C6RHwU8?si=1a89bf5643624b37">Charles Stanford</a> (b. 1852): Symphony No. 2 mvt. 3 (1880)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3V5sbCNLKZy0UfHAKoe4Oy?si=413ee50334c54ba3">Jeff Beal</a> (b. 1963): “House of Cards Title Theme” (2013), “Youthful Rebellion” (2015), House of Cards Symphony mvt. 9 (2018)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0I03vJWQrvChyOY9BnZKZi?si=4dc40c69199941ad">Reinhold Glière</a> (b. 1876): Symphony No. 2 (1907), The Red Poppy (1927), Bronze Horseman Suite (1949), “Whirlwind” (1952)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RSmJmKdyEgCUIzAXwkHQA?si=86b9c7085a9c40f2">Malek Jandali</a> (b. 1972): “Piano Dream” & “Yafa” & “Arabesque” (2009), Emessa (2012)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1IOu6F94vbYJ78CwKhOOni?si=cea5275883714f9a">Friedrich Gulda</a> (b. 1930): Piano Concerto No. 2, mvt 1 (1963), Music for 4 Soloists and Band mvts 1 & 3 (1964), Fantasy for 4 Soloists and Band (1964), Variations for Two Pianos and Band (1966), Eurosuite (1966), Symphony in G (1970), Wings mvts 2 & 4 (1973), Concerto for Cello, Wind Orchestra, and Band mvt 1 (1980), Concerto for Myself mvts 1-2 & 4 (1988)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dybYVSEyKeozZVwKXJNwb?si=9ce1ee93a184414d">Emil von Reznicek</a> (b. 1860): “Donna Diana Overture” (1894)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5UhsB1pNT8JN1OyaFbsDCe?si=826dcb7867a4482c">Benjamin Yusupov</a> (b. 1962): “Viola Tango Rock Concerto” (2005)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gyNQzjXOVp0KnY7wWVwVA?si=30c587d07322407e">Dora Pejačević</a> (b. 1885): Piano Concerto mvts 1, 3 (1913), Symphony in F-sharp minor mvts 3, 4 (1917), Piano Quintet in B minor mvts 1, 3, 4 (1918), Phantasie concertante (1919)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mkEpeK792DpCE1O6lnbNI?si=1383b5c0d9324991">Gabriella Smith</a> (b. 1991): “Bard of a Wasteland” & “Tarn” (2021)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/40H2OpRjddVjpc9T38xW4m?si=1a7b20cc874f4a09">Nikolai Medtner</a> (b. 1880): Piano Quintet in C (1949)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0s22puJ7mJIDQQQIftT7nZ?si=496dc6f5d5fb419d">Alexander Gretchaninov</a> (b. 1864): Symphony No. 1 mvts 1, 3 (1894), Symphony No. 2 mvts 2, 3 (1908)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ryUMw0deH5muJn1Ph7MCI?si=dcc8e19a34684ad6">Dana Suesse</a> (b. 1909): “Jazz Nocturne” (1931), Concerto in 3 Rhythms mvts 1 & 3 (1932)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26l0BDIU4x46FKy0AniyOF?si=f0e5ac737c534456">Arturo Márquez</a> (b. 1950): “Paisajes Bajo el Signo de Cosmos” (1993), “Danzon No. 1” & “Danzon No. 2” & “Danzon No. 3” (1994), “Zarabandeo” (1995), “Danzon No. 4” & “Octeto Malandro” & “Danza de Mediodía” (1996), “Danzon No. 5” (1997), Máscaras (1998), Espejos en la arena (2000), “Danzon No. 6” & “Danzon No. 7” (2001), “Danzon No. 8” (2004), “Conga del Fuego Nuevo” (2005), “De Juarez a Maximiliano” (2006), “Leyenda de Miliano” (2010), “Danzon No. 9” (2017), Concierto de Otoño (2018), “Lejania Interior” (2019), Fandango (2020), La Sinfonia Imposible (2022)
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<li>With these new listens, Márquez has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26l0BDIU4x46FKy0AniyOF?si=f0e5ac737c534456">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6xe5y3kkdUFnw2ggavPOin?si=80e8131cfada4736">Miguel del Águila</a> (b. 1957): “Conga-Line in Hell” (1994), Wind Quintet No. 2 mvts 2, 4 (1994), Salon Buenos Aires mvt 3 (2005), “Milonga” (2017)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7JsXDPdRBet1H7eNWfzAzK?si=d9799cde9be240e0">Antonio Bazzini</a> (b. 1818): “Dance of the Goblins” (1852), “Calabrese” (1859)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wK6S1eSbEgsEZ1HPPtZIv?si=3d7de8a386634814">Paul Richards</a> (b. 1969): “A Butterfly Coughs in Africa” (2003), “Witch Doctor” (2008), “If You Could Only See the Frog” (2010)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1vYSPnUYgfuSqMmsdabqny?si=12be0328d7424151">Christopher Gunning</a> (b. 1944): Poirot theme (1989)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1FAZJhawMr4LPKc7fFGzKk?si=72e483fb74ae4669">Grigor Arakelian</a> (b. 1963): “Melody and Dance of Sun” (2010)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6yEdnTH0Qhl1JJ0RB8Pyd1?si=a58383360418430f">Nikolai Budashkin</a> (b. 1910): “Concert Variations on a Folk Song” (1946), “Balalaika Concerto” (1946), “First Rhapsody” (1947), “Second Rhapsody” (1949), “Russian Overture for Orchestra” (1950), “The Legend of Lake Baikal” (1950), Domra Concerto (1953), “Lyric Suite in Four Parts” (1955)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uoVrsyl2dVOGSgs3HyhZI?si=fb2b7c48a50f4cc8">Kuan Nai-chung</a> (b. 1939): Scenes from Yunnan (1982), “Bumper Harvest Worship [Harvest Festival]” (1983), Butterfly Dream (1988), “Prayer for Rain” (1989), Memory of Mountain mvt 1 (1991), The Peacock (1998), The Age of the Dragon (1999), “Millennium Overture” (2001), The Charming Braid (2009), Erhu Concerto No. 5 “Centennial of the Xinhai Revolution” (2011)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wQupIeD7VGwy8Qs2RAsq8?si=5a40744a31cc4fb0">Peng Xiuwen</a> (b. 1931): “Axi Moon Dance” (1956), Four Seasons Suite mvt. 1 (1971), 12 Months Suite mvts 1, 10 (1989)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21YIAIHCAUBVxcoWhaZhHi?si=ae0a184527244e5b">Judd Greenstein</a> (b. 1979): “Change” (2009), “City Boy” (2010), “Clearing, Dawn, Dance” (2010), “Acadia” (2012)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0biP7yG5wseLOIS2qBBucC?si=7f6b3224407242b0">Florence Price</a> (b. 1887): Symphony No. 1 mvts 1, 3, 4 (1933), Piano Concerto in One Movement sec. 3 (1934), Suite of Negro Dances (1951), Violin Concerto No. 2 (1952), Piano Quintet in A minor mvt 4 (1952)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6lq3RbTx2KA6TG21xMzXJx?si=ee82b4ff2b114f0c">Kamran Ince</a> (b. 1960): Music for a Lost Earth mvts 5, 9, 10, 12 (2007)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pPl9q6UvkXr9Q9ZsvH3O0?si=597c61db9cbb48ed">William Perry</a> (b. 1930): Trumpet Concerto mvts 1, 3 (1986), Six Title Themes in Search of a Movie mvt 1 (2008)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bLALLeEvFmBNj8eD5lcfo?si=42573890dbc2430e">Ignacy Jan Paderewski</a> (b. 1860): Piano Concerto mvt 3 (1888)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/13S18bN8rmDPs48VViapRl?si=08993ca507144f55">Leo Delibes</a> (b. 1836): La Source Suite “Scene dansee” & “Introduction et Mazurka” (1866), Coppélia Suite “Prelude” & “Theme slave, variation 5” & “Galop final” (1870), Sylvia Suite “Les Chasseresses, Fanfare” & “Strette, Galop” (1876), Lakmé “Flower Duet” (1883)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/03cOrCMe5FYHZuDYibS8w5?si=cdf15a75cc6c431b">David Baker</a> (b. 1931): “Screamin’ Meemies” (~1959), “IU Swing Machine” (1968), Concerto for Violin and Jazz Band (1969), “5M Calypso” (1989), Three Ethnic Dances (1993), “Dance of the Jitterbugs” (1993), “Walt’s Barbershop” (2016)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1BISEbg8oVSF1ugxnBlKYE?si=fae91ed64c314ffd">William Russo</a> (b. 1928): “Frankly Speaking” (1953), “Blues Before and After” & “Bacante” (1954), “Rituals” (1964), 3 Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra (1968), Street Music mvts 3, 4 (1977)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Y2NLEIAuiUqVEJWUSkZ2S?si=e0b5bdf3f66e4cab">Donal Fox</a> (b. 1952): “Variations & Improvisations on Prokofiev’s Toccata” (2001), Scarlatti Jazz Suite (2007), “Variations on Piazzolla’s Oblivion” (2007), “Le Coucou and the Funky Chicken” (2010), “Partita Jazz Suite in G Major” (2010), “Variations on Ludovico Einaudi’s I Giorni” (2022)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0AAAaRDWZ8bqlqWGok9Xhx?si=3d2f400d23e0473f">Brendon Randall-Myers</a> (b. 1986): “The World as a Nail” (2017)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ucs5u7kwA1PwfNGQ8rond?si=02bfd51f824145e7">D. J. Sparr</a> (b. 1975): The World Within mvts 1-3 (2022)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6xtEpNEVwvxtbWpVSY6Ee6?si=95eec50271d3444b">Dario Marianelli</a> (b. 1963): “Briony” (2007), “21 Years” (2013), “The War Rooms” & “We Shall Fight” (2017)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1zjrly96jwKSEAFVAamAHz?si=d73eb642a7834fb8">Ferde Grofe</a> (b. 1892): Mississippi Suite mvt 4 (1926), Grand Canyon Suite mvt 1 (1931)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6K2X8ien245edFNLh4wyhu?si=25de19b278ce40ee">Patrick Hawes</a> (b. 1958): “Quanta Qualia” (2004)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0N3HostzGMXfS9kvXQd664?si=7eac3a304da44c7b">Peter Gregson</a> (b. 1987): Quartets: One mvt 3 & Quartets: Two mvt 1 (2022)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BpgTyPMH7haur5PWcBVsG?si=70e1ce60cd14406c">John Korsrud</a> (b. 1963): “Cruel Yet Fair” & “Scratching the Surface” (1995), “Crush” (2003), “Lowest Tide” (2005), “Slice” & “Chorale in Two Chords” & “Wise Up” (2014?)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5dgJy6qDdoVjvBfZ8ERK4W?si=27305dff69d04867">Somtow Sucharitkul</a> (b. 1952): Requiem for the Mother of Songs mvt 1 (2011)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6IddXpBncg5HLS5mfc6nbE?si=277b2b724e444b5c">Mohammed Fairouz</a> (b. 1985): Symphony No. 4 mvts 3 & 4 (2012)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Z0Dqmiwe0hh6WWn35dcZa?si=72bfc0e618f84a38">Peter Boyer</a> (b. 1970): “Celebration Overture” (1997), Three Olympians mvt 3 (2000), “Silver Fanfare” (2004), American Rhapsody (2008), Symphony No. 1 (2013), “Rolling River” (2014), Balance of Power (2019), “Fanfare for Tomorrow” (2021)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54CrYKzh5s2HOztEL2GrTF?si=e754f6c8df7e4ff0">Roberto Sierra</a> (b. 1953): Fandangos (2000)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6GLINWxDbL9yLHofR0xvhq?si=f25679ea58d142c9">Johan de Meij</a> (b. 1953): T-Bone Concerto mvts 1 & 3 (1996), Wind in the Willows mvts 1 & 2 (2002), “Klezmer Classics” (2002), At Kitty O’Shea’s (2010), “Spring” (2010), “Songs from the Catskills” (2011), Sinfonietta No. 1 (2011), Extreme Beethoven (2012), African Harmony (2017), Pennsylvania Faux Songs (2018), Symphony No. 5 mvt 2 (2019), “Rotterdam 1945” (2019), “Los Cuatro Vientos” (2021), Los Libros Olvidados (2023), “Elegy & Scherzo” (2023)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1rtCinG20aeC6Ncodv9lL0?si=11d0a8f48b7548a7">Zhou Tian</a> (b. 1981): Grand Canal Symphonic Suite “The Grand Canal” & “Life” & “Tomorrow” (2008)</li>
<li>Plus the following composers for which I didn’t “strongly like” any of their pieces I listened to: Vladimir Dukelsky [Vernon Duke] (b. 1903), Orbert Davis (b. 1960), John Alden Carpenter (b. 1876), Erwin Schulhoff (b. 1894), Constant Lambert (b. 1905), Pietro Mascagni (b. 1863), David T. Little (b. 1978), Guillaume Connesson (b. 1970), Sergei Lyapunov (b. 1859), Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958), Ferruccio Busoni (b. 1866), Carl Reinecke (b. 1824), Guo Zurong (b. 1928), Huang An-Lun (b. 1949), Vache Sharafyan (b. 1966), Avner Dorman (b. 1975), Aram Satyan (b. 1947), Stepan Rostomyan (b. 1956), Benjamin Dean Taylor (b. 1983), Bongani Ndodana-Breen (b. 1975), Tim Brady (b. 1956), Rageh Daoud (b. 1954), Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960), Timo Andres (b. 1985), Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941), Guy Ropartz (b. 1864), Abu-Bakr Khairat (b. 1910), Calixa Lavallée (b. 1842), Grażyna Bacewicz (b. 1909), Victor Herbert (b. 1859), Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (b. 1962), Tôn-Thất Tiết (b. 1933), David Chesky (b. 1956), Vasily Kalinnikov (b. 1866), Nguyen Van Quy (b. 1925), Alberic Magnard (b. 1865), Franz Schmidt (b. 1874), Michio Miyagi (b. 1894), Gabriela Ortiz (b. 1964), Ahmet Adnan Saygun (b. 1907), Ottorino Respighi (b. 1879), Vladimir Rebikov (b. 1866), Alexander von Zemlinsky (b. 1871), Hans Rott (b. 1858), Josef Suk (b. 1874), Anton Arensky (b. 1861), Amy Beach (b. 1867), Zdenek Fibich (b. 1850), Ernest Chausson (b. 1855), Richard Danielpour (b. 1956), Paul Mealor (b. 1975), Eriks Esenvalds (b. 1977), Tansy Davies (b. 1973), Luigi Cherubini (b. 1760), George Enescu (b. 1881), Franz Berwald (b. 1796), Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (b. 1949), Emmanuel Chabrier (b. 1841), Hugo Wolf (b. 1860), Ernest Bloch (b. 1880), Anton Rubinstein (b. 1829), Alexander Arutiunian (b. 1920), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (b. 1895), Arnold Bax (b. 1883), Dobrinka Tabakova (b. 1980), Brett Dean (b. 1961), Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936), Frank Ticheli (b. 1958), Qigang Chen (b. 1951).</li>
</ul>

Rediscovered or revisited, and really liked:
<ul>
<li>Hans Zimmer [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7FKzCfo3ysN0WixkCuzGaW?si=322066bbb5c4436e">playlist</a>]: The Power of One (1992), “You’re So Cool” (1993), The Lion King (1994), The Gladiator (2000), “Leave No Man Behind” (2001), “Woad to Ruin” & “Hold the Ice” (2004), “Molossus” (2005), “The Dark Knight” (2008), “It’s So Over It’s Covert” & “Romanian Wind” & “Two Mules for Sister Sara” & “The End?” & “End Credits” (2011), “What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World?” (2013), “Tick-Tock” (2014), Blue Planet II (2017), The World of Hans Zimmer: A Symphonic Celebration (2019), “Rust” & “Themyscira” & “Games” & “1984” & “The Beauty in What Is” (2020), “Dragon Age: The Veilguard Main Theme” (2024)
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<li>With these new and old listens, Zimmer has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Son Lux / Ryan Lott: [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/22YbLie7nLzfjvLCjn1F6Z?si=3f275d933a7a48fd">playlist</a>]: At War With Walls and Mazes (2008), We Are Rising (2011), Lanterns (2013), “You Don’t Know Me” (2015), “Part of This” & “Remedy” (2017), “Dream State” & “The Fool You Need” (2018), “Possibility Bells” (2019), “Thunderbolts” (2025)</li>
<li>Timbre Timbre: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2cYhGJbhvVareN1kFQiODe?si=f7a15ffee5cf4c09">Black Water</a>” (2011)</li>
<li>Jeremiah Clarke: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4N7VFXypm88Skyc3Mk36cA?si=6770985f32fd4a53">Trumpet Voluntary</a>” (c. 1700)</li>
<li>Luigi Denza: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6PBS7qGoNzTsQ8BXbJiu92?si=057b101e7d234d3e">Funiculì, Funiculà</a>” (1890)</li>
<li>James Last: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7nxWzxIaXdYGeLRNvnueyZ?si=7899cbc33a2d42d8">The Lonely Shepherd</a>” (1977)</li>
<li>John Metcalfe: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/759aSBjo9N6PXyXVpDIfj7?si=57d29c828e0041c6">The Appearance of Colour</a>” (2015), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6y2sAI8lNaPYewyTsUEVUB?si=d412fdc169ba4684">Tree</a> (2023)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/56vlG6fv5YqNzpFxpneIOf?si=7c189d1ba4fe47bb">Duke Ellington</a>: New World A’Coming (1943), Harlem (1950), “The Handsome Traffic Policeman” (1960), The Golden Broom and the Green Apple (1965)</li>
<li>Remo Giazotto: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/49Vbfns82PcDBxcNf0i4iI?si=8264295847ca461a">Adagio in G minor</a>” (1949)</li>
<li>Robert Wyatt: “The Duchess” & “September the Ninth” & “Alien” & “Out of Season” (1997)
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<li>With these re-listens, Wyatt has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/34VczR8qd8mJTJMSoIe1My?si=3668ebf7223d467a">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Dave Holland: “Metamorphos” (1998), “The Sum of All Parts” & “Double Vision” (2008)
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<li>With these re-listens, Holland has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7J6KK4qiYjb3Wx5xhueDgG?si=e86e9bd287cd4b62">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Vijay Iyer: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7bwZ8HcaAEezY88B2LuDyp?si=gySA45NuTHa-ALD6a5B3VQ">Tirtha</a> (2011), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1dhbqRSCO88PQFIvBv5Rg8?si=23ftRHR4RWeFCpy7i9eI_g">Accelerando</a> (2012)</li>
<li>Hania Rani: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3Fio4sMvtxs5auSm9PhDz0?si=01a8b2c7ccd24e2c">Hawaii Oslo</a>” (2019)</li>
<li>Grandbrothers: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/00XoyOnSy2QjEr4p9kis1I?si=f8480b772785409d">Naive Rider</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1fDBnScQv1rODdS2TF14Lx?si=87e4d21287494223">Arctica</a>” (2015), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1tLg4ZwpX9RYhgMlAXpe9R?si=f236ebc558934bfd">Bloodflow</a>” (2017)</li>
<li>Zack Hemsey: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2dCVCXtqyOTj7FoJinCV1w?si=ca7f43f132dd4306">Mind Heist</a>” (2010)</li>
</ul>
I also listened to a significant portion of the recorded works by each of the (not new-to-me) composers listed below.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q3-2025/#footnote_2_9243" id="identifier_2_9243" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="The pieces I listened to for each composer were: Martland, Scriabin, Barber, Gorecki, Anderson, MacMillan, Dukas, Ziporyn, Rautavaara, Puts, Reger, Rouse, Greenwood (plus many of his film scores), Horner (plus many of his film scores), Kilar (plus several of his film scores), Armstrong (plus many of his film scores), Nielsen, Khachaturian, Kapustin, Coleridge-Taylor, Hanson, Smith, Daugherty, Purcell, de Falla, Fauré, Pachelbel, Schumann, Villa-Lobos, Say, Rozsa (plus many of his film scores), Tredici, Strauss II, Tower, Schnittke, Davis (plus several of his film scores), Gjeilo, Liebermann, Preisner (plus several of his film scores), Schuller, Loussier (plus a few of his film/TV scores), Schifrin (plus several of his film/TV scores), Newman (plus many of his film scores), Nancarrow, Rota (plus many of his film scores), Marsalis, Brubeck (plus several of his jazz albums), Lang, Higdon, Kamen (plus several of his film/TV scores), Hisaishi (plus many of his film and videogame scores), Golijov, Orff, Zhao (plus several of his film scores), Paganini, Bolling (plus a few of his film scores), Rodrigo, Adams, Bates, Mayer, Sowande, Bizet, Mellits, Reich, Turnage, Schutz, Poulenc, Milhaud, Corigliano (plus a few of his film scores), Hindemith, Riley, Walton, Torke, Lauridsen, Sullivan, Glass, Mackey, Tan (plus a few of his film scores), TODO.">3</a> My favorites pieces from them (names linked to playlists) were:
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<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4OblteJ49RnKpmyhzDK6ox?si=b06172a7d93c4952">Steve Martland</a> (b. 1954): Dance Works (1993), Beat the Retreat (1995), “Kick” (1996)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5P6FCZhtu5lXOfHCgzwIN9?si=5e56c058c9e343b2">Samuel Barber</a> (b. 1910): String Quartet mvt. 2 / “Adagio for Strings” / “Agnus Dei” (1936 / 1967)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2cbR36uotjpxXXmYgH5MR4?si=6d865fc275064f2e">Henryk Górecki</a> (b. 1933): Three Pieces in Olden Style No. 2 (1963), Symphony No. 3 (1976)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Ozy2drvCgQrANDg8x7C3H?si=cf1d3eacdaae4547">Leroy Anderson</a> (b. 1908): “Jazz Legato” (1938), “Chicken Reel” (1946), “The Irish Washerwoman” (1947), “Sleigh Ride” (1948), “The Typewriter” (1950), “Melody on 2 Notes” (1965)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/36pmxxiHtlAACWluwQu9JA?si=d3dbf1f3a1354731">Paul Dukas</a> (b. 1865): The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1897)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0E2SLCpXsv2iVEfV4OeN5z?si=4a9be58d5d5443e5">Evan Ziporyn</a> (b. 1959): “Angkat” (2001), Frog’s Eye (2002), Big Grenadilla (2006), Mumbai (2011)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0AvJq6wGp7ib7NqJvXkLgi?si=f9fc6052f4e748c4">Kevin Puts</a> (b. 1972): Network (1997), Marimba Concerto mvt. 3 (1997), Millennium Canons (2001), Symphony No. 2 (2002), Inspiring Beethoven (2002), Flute Concerto (2013), Contact (2022)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/457Rj0acWTQIubmuAQLpcd?si=ebd554d5986b49a4">Christopher Rouse</a> (b. 1949): “The Nevill Feast” (2003)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Tyiw2PMN1OZIo73uQKyVt?si=63fdbdc6ccda4366">Johnny Greenwood</a> (b. 1971): “Moon Trills” & “Splitter” & “24 Hour Charleston” & “Milky Drops from Heaven” & “Tehellet” (2003), “Future Markets” (2007), “Arrival” (2021)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ND0rHW8BDJhX1zfuAGhsf?si=a31fae420b294998">James Horner</a> (b. 1953): “Following Kirwill” & “Krull Main Theme” & “Ride of the Firemanes” & “Epilogue and End Title” (1983), “Returning to the Sea” (1985), The Land Before Time (1988), “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Main Title” (1989), “All Systems Go / The Launch” & “End Titles” (1995), “A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics” (2001), “Becoming one of The People…” & “Climbing up Iknimaya…” (2009), “Avatar Suite” (2013), Pas de Deux mvt 3 (2014)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4touDYsI4RpsRr3kAhkfUv?si=a59301e2f63441d7">Wojciech Kilar</a> (b. 1932): Exodus (1981), Angelus (1984), Requiem Father Kolbe (1994), Piano Concerto No. 1 mvt. 3 (1996) Missa Pro Pace mvts. 2 & 3 (2000)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11SbpD2Ihej2FqhKuGx6Bk?si=cc7a52f0371a4f56">Craig Armstrong</a> (b. 1959): “Hanging” & “Escape” (1999), “Opening” & “End Credits” (2015)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YPTrufOwP8OXOioxT9YF8?si=654bbe6015ca4274">Carl Nielsen</a> (b. 1865): Symphony No. 1 mvt. 1 (1894), Aladdin Suite mvts. 1 & 7 (1940)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hHyBiF2xzSUCa2SJ6iSEB?si=81957139d6a64774">Aram Khachaturian</a> (b. 1903): Masquerade Suite mvts. 1 & 3 (1941), “Sabre Dance” (1941), “Dance of the Pirates” & “The Market” & “Dance of a Greek Slave” (1955)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/61IdoeZkz3BzpPc0WrCzMZ?si=e295cbae8cd64bc4">Nikolai Kapustin</a> (b. 1937): Piano Concerto No. 1 (1961), “Variations for Piano and Big Band” (1962), “Rose-Marie” (1963), “Toccata for piano and orchestra” (1964), Piano Concerto No. 2 (1974), “March for orchestra” (1975), Concert Rhapsody for piano and orchestra (1976), “Variations for Piano” (1984), Piano Concerto No. 3 (1985), Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra (1987), Piano Concerto No. 4 (1989), Chamber Symphony mvts. 1 & 3 (1990), Piano Concerto No. 5 (1993), Piano Concerto No. 6 mvts. 1 & 3 (1993), “Piece for sextet” (1995), Duet for alto saxophone and cello (1999), Concerto for 2 Pianos and Percussion (2002), Divertissement in Four Movements mvt. 4 (2005)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6bRrt1lNypBosQAHiNDkXv?si=d2cc464d7ccc40c5">Samuel Coleridge-Taylor</a> (b. 1875): “Bohemian Waltz” (1899)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wRxWdzRfOcvuUp5zrPG29?si=c7c050ab6e9941a3">Howard Hanson</a> (b. 1896): “Prelude to Act II & Maypole Dances” (1938)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4hXLTSLKn5gCI3Fvac5Dx8?si=f9c3444e57624a58">Robert W. Smith</a> (b. 1958): “The Tempest” (1995), Inchon (2001), Symphony No. 3 “Don Quixote” (2008)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qNGqkSPPXbORVDSTIRFlU?si=a142be362ce24452">Michael Daugherty</a> (b. 1954): “Flamingo” (1991), “Route 66” (1998), Sunset Strip mvt 3 (1999), Ghost Ranch (2005), Brooklyn Bridge mvt 1 (2005), Troyjam mvt 3 (2008), Gee’s Bend mvts 1, 3, 4 (2009), Mount Rushmore mvt 3 (2010), Radio City mvt 1 (2011), Lost Vegas (2012), Vulcan mvts 1, 3 (2014), Rio Grande (2015), Night Owl mvt 3 (2018), To the New World mvt 3 (2019), Blue Electra (2022), Valley of the Moon (2022), Passacaglia in Primary Colors (2023)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/78bFkdamB2VJYOweRpsDID?si=d8ebd82d4c654f60">Henry Purcell</a> (b. 1659): “Fantazia Upon a Ground [Z. 731] (1678), “When I am Laid in Earth” (“Dido’s Lament”) (1689), Abdelazer mvts 2, 6 (1695), “Funeral March 1” (1695)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/39zQuBN7RysnXtpn1Pj8jl?si=a6054eb93313481e">Manuel de Falla</a> (b. 1876): “Danza del fuego fatuo” (1915), “Danza de la molinera” (1917)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5S3Z41QgE1rjz04v1syWyo?si=9961a6ac40dd47e2">Gabriel Fauré</a> (b. 1845): Cantique de Jean Racine (1865), Piano Quartet No. 1 mvts 1, 2, 4 (1879), Ballade for piano and orchestra in F♯ major (1881), Piano Quartet No. 2 mvts 1, 2, 4 (1887), “Pavane” (1887), Dolly Suite (1897), “Sicilienne” (1898), “Fileuse” (1900)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3yEdTzKcvr2VokR2BmclVy?si=a3b671cab2bc4f01">Johann Pachelbel</a> (b. 1653): “Canon & Gigue in D” (c. 1690)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7vb4dYxsAVeN622QtxkOJ0?si=d1336fede20f44ab">Heitor Villa-Lobos</a> (b. 1887): “Etude No. 1” (1929), Fantasia for saxophone, three horns, and strings mvts 1, 3 (1948)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/00KFILsrtAJJyD2yzqcD6d?si=0a07da1be53b434c">Fazil Say</a> (1970): “Alla Turca Jazz” (1993), “Nazim” & “Kumru” (2002), “Religious Order” (2009), “Fur Elise Jazz” (2009), “Tigris River” & “About the Culture of Death” (2011), İlk Şarkılar (2013)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qRuH0vJCyWBmqbzuCQl4Z?si=45b001420249413c">Miklós Rózsa</a> (b. 1907): Theme, Variations, and Finale mvts 2, 3 (1933)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TWUwUMC3FvXXTAdRJDJQ8?si=4383f88db14a4a86">Johann Strauss II</a> (b. 1825): “Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka” (1858), “The Blue Danube” (1867), “Voices of Spring” (1882)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1k4Tmcz5DFGoNZIslbieuo?si=3357d2f0652047d2">Ola Gjeilo</a> (b. 1978): “Dark Night of the Soul” (2010), “Luminous Night of the Soul” (2011), Dreamweaver mvt 3 (2017)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5IHnBuSzMyCDIOyoDGXcyW?si=7e16f0295a414681">Zbigniew Preisner</a> (b. 1955): “Lacrimosa” & “Meeting” & “Lacrimosa, Day of Tears” (1998)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ytPEB1z80OCgkODEpzDS0?si=5bea6b4533f4421d">Gunther Schuller</a> (b. 1925): Concertino for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra (1959)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QRVf1yaoPeHUSFZVnRilu?si=596d19f0901e4f09">Jacques Loussier</a> (b. 1934): Concerto for Violin and Percussion (1988), Lumières mvts 3, 5, 6 (1990), “Tableaux Vénitiens” (1992), Piano Concerto “Playades” (1993), Violin Concerto No. 2 mvts 1, 3 (2001)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4erY4wRasf6DG43fljbcWE?si=5b483cf161184eeb">Lalo Schifrin</a> (b. 1932): Gillespiana (1960), Mission Impossible theme (1966)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4FUI1VTQcFLeVQTtLvYRXD?si=952a82186e5144d0">Thomas Newman</a> (b. 1955): “Shawshank Prison / Stoic Theme” (1994), “Orchard House” (1995), “Still Dead” (1999), “Angels in America” & “Acolyte of the Flux” (2003), “Flying Fish” (2009)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6KU9OqoUjUlaouXIYdgN87?si=e30a2eeb77cb419b">Nino Rota</a> (b. 1911): Concerto Soirée mvt 5 (1961), 8½ Suite mvts 4, 5 (1963), La Strada Suite mvts 1, 2 (1966), “Romeo and Juliet Love Theme (1968), “The Godfather Love Theme” (1972), Amarcord Suite (1974)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1RKRZjX0UPaG1d9UzUdHXe?si=25d73cc02801422f">Wynton Marsalis</a> (b. 1961): “Bullet Train” (1999), Swing Symphony mvts 3, 4 (2019)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1zm8lSmFOUlRlLIHsmOIdm?si=8b5ca38443df4ea9">Dave Brubeck</a> (b. 1920): Time Out (1959), “Points on Jazz Waltz” (1961), “Elementals” (1963), “Tritonis” (1978)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ToBkxZsdMBwM6Vp5X6kjb?si=f8c30302897b42a9">David Lang</a> (b. 1957): Cheating, Lying, Stealing (1993), The Passing Measures (1998), The Carbon Copy Building scenes 6-8, 12 (1999), “Sweet Air” (1999), “Involuntary” (2011)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6OmaeXC0bt1qirALi0vCZI?si=a95e67b7a43845f7">Michael Kamen</a> (b. 1948): Saxophone Concerto (1989), “Mr. Holland Begins” & “An American Symphony” (1995), Guitar Concerto (1998), The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms mvts 2-4 (2001)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0GgmXz6jx6cx5tqeVB1Uoy?si=1de3ca3cd0d5488b">Joe Hisaishi</a> (b. 1950): “Kiki’s Delivery Service” (1989), “Madness” & “The Wind of Ages” & “Mamma Aiuto” & “A Picture in Sepia” (1992), “DA MA SHI E” (1996), “Cinema Nostalgia” (1998), “Summer” (1999), “One Summer Day” & “The Dragon Boy” & “Procession of the Spirits” & “Reprise” (2001), “Merry-Go-Round of Life” (2004), “Links” (2007), “Orbis” (2007), “794BDH” & “TIRA-RIN” (2000), Sinfonia for Chamber Orchestra (2009), MKWAJU 1981-2009 (2009), Symphonic Poem Nausicaa (2015), “Dream More” (2015), TRI-AD (2016), Symphonic Suite “Castle in the Sky” (2017), Asian Symphony (2017), Spirited Away Suite (2018), World Dreams (2019), Woman (2019), Symphonic Suite “Kiki’s Delivery Service” (2019), The Border Concerto mvt 1 (2020), 2 Pieces for Strange Ensemble (2020), “Variation 14 for MFB” (2020), Asian Works (2020), “How do you dance?” (2021), Viola Saga (2023)
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<li>With these new and old listens, Hisaishi has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0GgmXz6jx6cx5tqeVB1Uoy?si=1de3ca3cd0d5488b">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bDIox9qiAqK1zgU34GdGA?si=9b32597f0db544e9">Osvaldo Golijov</a> (b. 1960): “Gallop” (1992), The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind mvt 1 (1994), Air to Air mvt 4 (2006), Azul mvt 4 (2006), “Sidereus” (2010)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3JkfXLtlps20z5hmgzSJFW?si=9c667459c70f4c08">Carl Orff</a> (b. 1895): Carmina Burana mvts 1, 2, 25 (1937)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3K5QRTUxiI3IFdSe1Gh5jK?si=411f3611321444e6">Zhao Jiping</a> (b. 1945): Violin Concerto No. 1 (2017), “Plateau Dance” (2019)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1QAcJEJLRGKDxHZpzLQwev?si=4758556e315e49fd">Niccolo Paganini</a> (b. 1782): Sonata for Violin & Guitar Op. 2 No. 6 mvt 2 (1809), Violin Concerto No. 1 (1816), Violin Concerto No. 2 mvt 3 (1826), Violin Concerto No. 4 mvt 3 (1830)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3juilPmlgDiMlx3EPNo0S2?si=6bdfe8cf0ec54b24">Claude Bolling</a> (b. 1930): “March Turque (Rondo Alla Turca)” (1965), Picnic Suite mvt 5 (1980), Toot Suite mvt 4 (1981)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7iOR1TGJiLsQ7mO5wJNjxk?si=2ad72ef7e5494f14">Joaquín Rodrigo</a> (b. 1901): Concierto de Aranjuez (1939), Concierto heroico (1943), Concierto de estío mvt 3 (1944), Fantasía para un gentilhombre mvts 2, 3 (1954), Pavana Real “Escene de Cetreria” & “Danza Final” (1955), Concierto madrigal mvts 2, 5, 7, 10 (1966), Concierto Andaluz (1967), Concierto como un divertimento mvt 1 (1981)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LCCzSjz6FRYeVNRNBO3rK?si=e00cec1b243d431b">John Adams</a> (b. 1947): “Christian Zeal and Activity” (1973), Shaker Loops mvt 1 (1978), Common Tones in Simple Time (1979), Harmonium mvts 1, 3 (1980), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1985), “The Chairman Dances” (1985), “Tromba Lontana” (1986), “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” (1986), Nixon in China “Landing of the Spirit of ’76” & “Oh What a Day I Thought I’d Die!” & “Act III Beginning” (1987), Fearful Symmetries (1988), El Dorado mvt 2 (1991), Naive and Sentimental Music mvts 1, 3 (1998), The Dharma at Big Sur mvt 2 (2003), Absolute Jest (2012), Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? mvt 3 (2018), “I Still Dance” (2019)
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<li>With these new and old listens, Adams has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LCCzSjz6FRYeVNRNBO3rK?si=f6173a7c1b944511">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5yZrvqa7IgHMZxWugoAq54?si=e527416d12e14902">Mason Bates</a> (b. 1977): Omnivorous Furniture (2004), Rusty Air in Carolina (2006), Liquid Interface (2007), The B-Sides (2009), Desert Transport (2010), Sea-Blue Circuitry (2010), “Mothership” (2011), “Attack Decay Sustain Release” (2013), Cello Concerto mvt 3 (2014), “Devil’s Radio” (2014), Anthology of Fantastic Zoology mvt 11 (2015), “Soundcheck in C Major” (2021), “Bootlegger’s Break” (2022), Piano Concerto (2022), Philharmonia Fantastique (2022)
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<li>For Philharmonia Fantastique, be sure to <a href="https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/virtual-performances/philharmonia-fantastique-the-making-of-the-orchestra/">watch the music video</a>, which is probably the new best musical (wordless) introduction to the orchestra!</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4q4QYImuCxIcDkB5yoje7r?si=5c66a3011e204abd">John Mayer</a> (b. 1930): “Nine for Bacon” (1965), Indo-Jazz Suite (1965), Indo-Jazz Fusions I & II (1967), Etudes (1969), “Raga Malika” (1970), Dhammapada (1976), Violin Concerto No. 2 mvt 5 (1978), Asian Airs (1996), Ragatal (1998), Inja (2000), Shiva Nataraj, King of Dance (2001)
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<li>With these new and old listens, Mayer has now crossed <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">the 5-hour mark</a> as one of my favorite musical artists! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4q4QYImuCxIcDkB5yoje7r?si=443e07c090494d7a">playlist</a>]</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Q3w7AMgliOh2AokRFhGOQ?si=09ee6eeaaf214656">Georges Bizet</a> (b. 1838): Carmen Suite No. 1 (1882), Carmen Suite No. 2 (1887)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/13bQNMbMee69vUIIecn194?si=6b92185e8a5f426e">Steve Reich</a> (b. 1936): Music for 18 Musicians (1976), Music for a Large Ensemble (1978), Octet (1979), Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards (1979), The Desert Music mvts 1, 5 (1983), Electric Counterpoint mvt 3 (1987), The Four Sections mvt 4 (1987), “Duet” (1993), Proverb (1995), You Are mvts 1, 2, 4 (2004), Music for Ensemble and Orchestra mvts 1, 5 (2018)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ti5ZduVtSKBSwiYprzEfZ?si=6dc5d048e4864e73">Darius Milhaud</a> (b. 1892): The Ox on the Roof (1920), Scaramouche (1937)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/016px3VDyBDMOWXGP0oDOP?si=c36c1e38cae54b59">Terry Riley</a> (b. 1935): In C (1964)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ow45aq9uuRaEh19OmBp2R?si=6f245686f4754c0a">Michael Torke</a> (b. 1961): Iphigenia mvt 4 (2013), Sky mvt 1 (2018)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7AZe0dZqaUPyakvKIwXr3h?si=aab5332029d2442b">Arthur Sullivan</a> (b. 1842): “I am the very model of a modern Major-General” (1879)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hDE6TgYoJISeRIAu335k8?si=1d9e34bcb7d842e3">Philip Glass</a> (b. 1937): some parts of Einstein on the Beach (1976), some parts of Dressed Like an Egg (1977), some parts of Another Look at Harmony Part 4 (1977), “Modern Love Waltz” (1978), some parts of Satyagraha (1979), Mad Rush (1979), Glassworks (1981), some parts of Koyaanisqatsi (1982), The Photographer “A Gentleman’s Honor” (1982), some parts of Akhnaten (1983), The Juniper Tree “Act Two Interlude” (1984), The Civil Wars, Rome Section “Prologue” & “Scene A” (1984), String Quartet No. 2 (1984), “The Olympian” (1984), String Quartet No. 3 (1985), Songs from Liquid Days (1985), some parts of A Descent into the Maelstrom (1985), Mishima (1985), In the Upper Room (1986), The Fall of the House of Usher “Act I Interlude” (1987), The Light (1987), Violin Concerto No. 1 (1987), 1000 Airplanes on the Roof “The Encounter” (1988), The Canyon (1988), Powaqqatsi (1988), Music from the Thin Blue Line (1988), “Wichita Vortex Sutra” (1988), Metamorphosis (1988), String Quartet No. 4 (1988), Itaipu mvts 1 & 3 (1989), The Voyage “Act I: Scene 2 Interlude” (1990), “Howl Part II” (1990), Passages “Meetings Along the Edge” (1990), White Raven Act 2, Scene 2 “Exploring Black Holes in the Sky (1991), Symphony No. 1 mvt 2 (1992), Anima Mundi “Living Waters” & “Perpetual Motion” (1992), Candyman “It Was Always You Helen” (1992), Aguas da Amazonia (1993), Symphony No. 2 mvt 3 (1994), “Now, So Long After That Time” (1994), Piano Etudes 1-3 & 6 (1994), Persephone mvts 3 & 4 (1994), Symphony No. 3 mvts 3 & 4 (1995), “Echorus” (1995), some parts of The Secret Agent (1996), Symphony No. 4 mvt 1 & 6 (1996), The Witches of Venice “A Happy Ending” (1997), Days and Nights in Rocinha (1997), Kundun “Escape to India” (1997), The Truman Show “Dreaming of Fiji” & “Truman Sleeps” & “Raising the Sail” (1998), Symphony No. 5 mvt 1 (1999), Piano Concerto No. 1 (2000), Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra mvts 1 & 3 (2000), Cello Concerto No. 1 (2001), some parts of Cello Concerto No. 2 (2002), some parts of Naqoyqatsi (2002), Harpsichord Concerto (2002), The Hours (2002), The Fog of War “100,000 People” & “Target Destruction” (2003), Orion “Australia” (2004), Piano Concerto No. 2 mvts 1 & 3 (2004), Night Stalker theme (2005), Life “Into the Air” & “Planet of Life” (2006), Four Movements for Two Pianos mvts 1 & 4 (2008), Sonata for Violin and Piano mvts 1 & 3 (2008), some parts of Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra (2010), Symphony No. 10 mvts 1 & 5 (2012), “Concert Overture 2012” (2012), Piano Etudes 11-12 & 17 (2004-2012), Jane “Perfect Life” (2017), Symphony No. 12 (2019)
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<li>With these new and old listens, Glass has <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/">surpassed</a> Miles Davis as my favorite musical artist! Indeed, there are apparently 25.5 hours of music I “strongly like” from Philip Glass, and all my other favorite artists are at ≤14 hours each, so in that sense I like Philip Glass more than “twice as much” as any other musical artist!</li>
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<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Y0ZWv64YfCqAqe4hwOjEE?si=ae71fbc7338249a5">Tan Dun</a> (b. 1957): “2000 Today: A World Symphony for the Millennium” (1999), “Internet Symphony: Eroica” (2009)</li>
<li>Plus the following composers for which I didn’t “strongly like” any of their pieces I listened to: Alexander Scriabin (b. 1872), James MacMillan (b. 1959), Einojuhani Rautavaara (b. 1928), Max Reger (b. 1873), Clara Schumann (b. 1819), David del Tredici (b. 1937), Joan Tower (b. 1938), Alfred Schnittke (b. 1934), Don Davis (b. 1957), Rolf Liebermann (b. 1910), Conlon Nancarrow (b. 1912), Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962), Fela Sowande (b. 1905), Marc Mellits (b. 1966), Mark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960), Heinrich Schutz (b. 1585), Francis Poulenc (b. 1899), John Corigliano (b. 1938), Paul Hindemith (b. 1895), William Walton (b. 1902), Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943), John Mackey (b. 1973).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Movies/TV</h3>
Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):
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<li>Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza: Warfare (2025)</li>
<li>Shawn Levy: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)</li>
<li>Various: Flight of the Conchords, season 1 (2007) ★</li>
<li>Various: Flight of the Conchords, season 2 (2009) ★</li>
<li>Lenny Abrahamson & Hettie Macdonald: Normal People (2020)</li>
<li>Jessie Eisenberg: A Real Pain (2024)</li>
<li>Various: The Boys, season 4 (2024) ★</li>
<li>Paul Thomas Anderson: One Battle After Another (2025) ★</li>
</ul>
<h3>Games</h3>
All games I finished or decided to stop playing:
<ul>
<li>Balatro: Like Slay the Spire before it, an impeccably well-designed and addictive rougelike deck-builder.</li>
<li>★ Donkey Kong Bananza: Is this my new favorite game of all time? I have played more ambitious games, more awe-inspiring games, and games with higher peaks, but I can’t remember another game that gave me such high average joy per minute played, across >10hrs. It’s basically the Mario Odyssey formula, but improved in several ways, and with the crucial addition of smashing. I agree with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E2T-Ne9N5Q">Skill Up</a> that the crux for this game is that (1) smashing is very fun, and (2) DKB has the best smashing of all time.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Standup comedy</h3>
For some reason I wasn’t previously tracking the standup comedy I watched or listened to. Now I am.
<ul>
<li>Patton Oswalt: Feelin’ Kinda Patton (2004), Werewolves and Lollipops (2007) ★, Finest Hour (2011), Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time (2014)</li>
<li>Louis C.K.: Shameless (2007), Chewed Up (2008), Live at the Beacon Theater (2011), Hilarious (2020)</li>
<li>Anthony Jeselnik: Caligula (2013)</li>
<li>Jimmy Carr: Stand Up (2006), Live (2006), Telling Jokes (2009), In Concert (2010), Making People Laugh (2010), Being Funny (2011), Laughing and Joking (2015), Funny Business (2025), His Dark Material (2025)</li>
<li>Jimmy O. Yang: Good Deal (2020) ★</li>
<li>Kelsey Cook: The Hustler (2023)</li>
<li>Nate Bergatze: The Tennessee Kid (2015)</li>
<li>Brian Regan: Live (1997)</li>
<li>Tom Segura: Mostly Stories (2017)</li>
<li>Mike Birbiglia: Sleepwalk with Me (2011)</li>
<li>Myq Kaplan: Vegan Mind Meld (2010)</li>
<li>Neal Brennan: 3 Mics (2018)</li>
<li>Doug Stanhope: Beer Hall Putsch (2013), No Place Like Home (2016), No Refunds (2019)</li>
<li>Sam Morill: I Got This (2020)</li>
<li>Chad Daniels: Footprints on the Moon (2017)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Books</h3>
I post book ratings and reviews to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/43134201-luke-muehlhauser?order=d&ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read&sort=date_read">my Goodreads account</a> instead of here.
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_9243" class="footnote">See also the original YouTube version <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXypB4tOlOc">here</a>.</li><li id="footnote_1_9243" class="footnote">The pieces I listened to for each composer were: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3yRzUXaRfRiv7Lqb3yPPqO?si=3ca060bcc0324325">Henryson</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Cc3Wmv1agKIgLKYLBZ3eG?si=a3b3c3cc61b9420e">Bjarnason</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7D3YKjqoycxzXYG2ANITrZ?si=42357c8382e4425e">Balter</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Fy1WPtYeVBupkafg6U8eW?si=5283ca080ead4f4a">McAllister</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1qsejYy4VvOa8HhWkAO564?si=d8cbcac864644c21">Gosfield</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3NwyuAU2VZELtbqeP0rwCO?si=967b67b4b04841d6">Leshnoff</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KcI11QYDaWOTK2AvYaOlm?si=263a8a1ef2394176">Fibich</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BGxSO7VaN6OP81cyPQvcL?si=d520e2cad69d41ab">Taneyev</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1lkl8smyZ1DP62eTW4odQg?si=e4312ffc546e430a">Beach</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1L56wdtFp0QkW4BFBWdUon?si=adec94d871334ba4">Chausson</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0z62POvNPYxhWEMmoCMKNN?si=f5e6524949c44925">Danielpour</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/74d9IdPTr0xHjxx2ZRJHWm?si=571ca7627cfb4157">Omiccioli</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BbEdeAq7xFL7Ys22d4t0i?si=86e1d2c698194eea">Schoenberg</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6qt1WzeQkpHBQsSZq2vcr5?si=dfa0a76f96654f79">Anassian</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63KjbmkbVd3lqBT0vOHPxc?si=b59674df032843a7">Moszkowski</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3yI1rdFO5420Ryn0C6BWBZ?si=2554f0f765da404d">Humperdinck</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2INcWiYpAXHZw1U3yHreDj?si=6c95b2f095474c7d">Alfven</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6xtebe8yB8G0Ap2KIslkin?si=8ea265dcd76b4c31">Sinding</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7eSN0Hd6AZ2h7XvvEHqXv7?si=4c502cfe2ed04261">Zemlinsky</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Hkeho0lSYuu0aD7D2nugC?si=5775e39df55a456f">Rott</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6gJBHWETxIGr5NHytS0kKi?si=db05a4e0b1e24559">Suk</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48ejP8X4H10gUYNHhIbmxV?si=dfeb41ab7a474cbb">Arensky</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2D42amMCGaQRTjfsH4273h?si=19f90cc52b49423d">Liebermann</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5R3ahxVBa3dL5e3xcd4Bee?si=d4e7005bcab84a3f">Stanford</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2LIbYUQ65oBhYmzM0N0cNI?si=ea10b8b1383c48b6">Beal</a> (plus many of his film scores and several of his jazz albums), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7udIcVpui6Noag9IgtPn9G?si=d2728df70a3149c4">Respighi</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cyzEcfh4VfqwRODOz3WvF?si=e89f268d17974272">Rebikov</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5VMZVwE5QbPFXzxkL46fbL?si=5b0e2b6b69734b4d">Glière</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27wbD5auNoBbdvKvx80fED?si=f7ddf3c6f9e94640">Ortiz</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Tm3VZYvfk03HpPdrWCcd2?si=90a545c3700f4908">Saygun</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4UoEnUu9eRBXk7TgwnUJNa?si=b0041372ca9247c3">Jandali</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/35yh6GjlLS3gBeRhz3lznM?si=46207e98d7a04029">Miyagi</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4jQpDzb9uKyPmVT3NcgOXl?si=b653cc8b3da349a6">Gulda</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jpK17toyshLBL7QvKtaO3?si=6911516d930e411f">Schmidt</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fjgB3sFIomV554d1d94Un?si=b67d90f008d54b55">Reznicek</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/103yIsPzjgiOt9HUe6U2mp?si=7bfe8f9fcfb747b3">Magnard</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1VN99YEmeonx8nLGnWR969?si=b74feb71c1684687">Yusupov</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/01lV1zwXc8kOPG5ZnOw5S5?si=b1ff8b6e69184c05">Pejačević</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5bFScVpSZV976Tl4BSNL8L?si=72424ecb492d46a5">Abdelfattah</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aBu0XcWpYmhdCeRjRBf1p?si=55920bbbf2b246bc">Tiết</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JIH7Nd686i2aah81zCpbh?si=f4b88c81e2ba4128">Chesky</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ueyWewkbP0iquSiizxuUt?si=a3e475a157344ff6">Kalinnikov</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/07KpSQJtgkMftSA2RzqAf2?si=2c82edf01e784878">Nguyen</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1tFLqyIqZcsnoNlGftjhg6?si=8c311c9be4064889">Smith</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3kUFIqMOwKKSZGTMBxarwA?si=e224820e4277468b">Bacewicz</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4vEqn3BWr8g6MSqNqzTjf2?si=908b7ccff105485f">Herbert</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3KTjwgu2WdztFbWEtvgC24?si=a41da4e735de4450">Medtner</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6wDp1pJlFGyKSzQnhZZdE1?si=f342e10f441c4082">Gretchaninov</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/59NSzolCeXHCFucgHs1p60?si=98644bbc29f145cb">Ropartz</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6AH3I3LK7vrw06TRLWIv02?si=ab9008e114594e54">Khairat</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1HvdIM4EL6xhePO3Wc73S3?si=3b6b67f7202d4a6a">Lavallée</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7a8uQZtqAM6pcH76zczrZ5?si=d4d7db0b2d0c4e95">Suesse</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55MME3QRObrox7WTsg6nMp?si=7b785082ab6b4d02">Márquez</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20QB4PcnQrodUvWLOeo8k5?si=ff8910759511415b">Águila</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6YALDMlMABwEKZconHpvbQ?si=3c880d5f55dc4665">Daoud</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/328r4KJQiNmUv0I8BBcORg?si=e7be6139fa324dfe">Kernis</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6cSEuhBoVzGLuishsSi72b?si=6511722fda114962">Andres</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3oyuZkab1HLQ9RYd3fo5cj?si=1116fe3edc4741f0">Hailstork</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ed5krrwtRsjYhiiRg0wZk?si=dc6704d3fed44c7b">Bazzini</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mToyHcjFdF7ER0fvOOJcC?si=5de6a486f63f4c1b">Ndodana-Breen</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HGFoCEQil1cHZrug4BCPf?si=a121d939ab8b4839">Brady</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45qWuZJ5rAKgVAw8JipZw2?si=fcdf621dfe5c454f">Richards</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5852mIJUUknO9MCUuFTpMv?si=28ea1d2ab27a4680">Taylor</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GPFTienLxEaRNWwzJbq20?si=4c2e218196d0473a">Gunning</a> (plus a few of his film/TV scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RpwnQcMWJxL8rQDDWtHnx?si=3a08fd28869247ab">Satyan</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20jebd9tRHIMmQay3N1ZwQ?si=49b4857447ab4d9d">Rostomyan</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6g78dAFo9pjF23BfBWAjWd?si=262ebb89b55d4f01">Arakelian</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2mAwiqkp7GGfbx8pwlFPZT?si=e2a97fcea5a04b38">Sharafyan</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1h02HZ1uZAqjrAEOUjgdCL?si=d9df5f4ead2240fc">Dorman</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fgi0GLdlGAVVZlfhBb3uy?si=56cf079e2105435e">Budashkin</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ngqyk8Pdx3FKdFCzTUq9W?si=26165ff15a844ea4">Kuan</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/00InuH8T40jibkW6BEV4OF?si=7d86bbf932754e1c">Peng</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YcOhwHKLHAh8eMctjv7qW?si=5ae0c5e4094b45d0">Busoni</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/39xL4Mp61RMCjHkraXHlSL?si=952b2dc1b7734ba9">Reinecke</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2bregVutCt4Y3Gviw6lp6n?si=8c7443b72715458a">Guo</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fKRqh6rSlNM3qwpyrGVoD?si=984a93fe9cdd43e9">Huang</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2aVnc5dNc5KWUEa6HHawRb?si=8ab715639eb14a93">Greenstein</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fPCCyXIiSvp6d8WCVAMb6?si=230d57cbbf5348e9">Lindberg</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bxnQdAsMQXYYKiMMUgBMN?si=ddf51ff0bbe94b38">Price</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3J93pVkrn2xjXhBKgZpfPM?si=1d5e3df40c894d96">Ince</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0v8ulgf9X1TwzbiTDvMZkm?si=18ea949ed0994c83">Perry</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ATJbq3H070eUxmTYzA5Je?si=dab4dbf76ad541ef">Paderewski</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gsciZHbeo5KUe7MqniP9r?si=82656d825dbf4902">Connesson</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4IYPDuxWA51OpTwIQuoaJL?si=fb026d0952a74a3f">Lyapunov</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3pCVSbu055hfVbVTKGpJX7?si=30a40689305e4e18">Delibes</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6beSkIBAT1HZr6WuVKFUZX?si=544af9be652b4056">Baker</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7u7NZMprEwHZc6OnOfpvSv?si=2a158dbfae60425f">Russo</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3XI2bQDHjiSl70GptEmNdh?si=b4d0cdc1e2714726">Fox</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4PBywxHdYKzkB219RyxV1T?si=c322e21c0f8d45bd">Schulhoff</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1YASDsUUuUM42piVBxb3hy?si=ebe01bfa63a549ee">Lambert</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4typCtOhKNzZyBQCTsAMRd?si=c2ba06120d1c4103">Mascagni</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4M8kSSwHmAXtdZczkHOaXf?si=fe83f63b2a704e3a">Little</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NcB4L3s4jeDgshA5uscnA?si=85192708fbcb44ff">Randall-Myers</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ef0CeqsPObXq4VTJsLtwm?si=ca978a48202f4d58">Sparr</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hZrLldNMJbcz0scTxiECf?si=efdfe21ae41a4b16">Marianelli</a> (plus many of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3uw0XzDGz5yaKDcHXVxOoW?si=d22ddcee2093483f">Davis</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1EFZ6uk5x9ibGlKNwXZAaY?si=6b00254a06b04dab">Carpenter</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Za9CSeXCyiPiYBm0T7udP?si=db3028519b0e4bc2">Grofe</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4oBcb25834yb8smvgLHsED?si=0f47104d401747a8">Dukelsky</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2yXNFlAa3QlgrdXpMggOez?si=4abd122cbbcb40fe">Hawes</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZMYst9ZMgLQK3aQhJlu7g?si=d33986260ed64f94">Mealor</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ntHFYPzz8RZTKzi0WuowM?si=10c72ce54b0549e8">Esenvalds</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xeqZp4F9lraAvdkVBKIwR?si=dc33671554fe4dbc">Gregson</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2pE1K5Wlt2y8xN3aWc0RTE?si=76b25cb22d2b45de">Davies</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7DerHl8Irdt3sVAbYG5Kwu?si=4f6847c66bdc45f1">Cherubini</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7zTv0AxqLiK9HJhaAtDzlQ?si=c0840ba88e044247">Enescu</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/65XIWTgRBkZcSvWjqtWyk5?si=4d6b862822944036">Berwald</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/03ACU5rgG39o6TXzxqwG7L?si=543dfa3f87b8404b">Schmidt-Kowalski</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1RqseaygwaClRl0ptbTfAD?si=1214ac569aeb4f15">Chabrier</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ChxswC6SDpFeiBbKMWvws?si=ff33392a202a47df">Wolf</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XhWiROLVNTnXC7KRKpVqT?si=49f50360ced141c9">Bloch</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26svYSouV8ZJobV99Zul0j?si=a0bd4f00591244eb">Rubinstein</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2o63lTcpwfkmsTZIONePTJ?si=7ae73eb5f0a04bb5">Korsrud</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QA38F2kxDDfOI8xCaM7Ae?si=47d39b73d96d44a6">Arutiunian</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2gGqiBHteIfgjiUVg3Lo5b?si=dc28050333194c41">Castelnuovo-Tedesco</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3FzK4IGiVn4Ihhvl2pZadk?si=f74474e34a794921">Bax</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hXO5tpUGJ57518I0N6W50?si=1c15566e99af4e8b">Tabakova</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2yGcKle0Hi7Bx1ajE21VkM?si=1655193d5f5e464c">Dean</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zSMzkw6NSpKpNI7vxeyfM?si=57ad2ae22ec64501">Sucharitkul</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5uNNrLUsnCnRAMRzNJZoBZ?si=b506cff70cee41c0">Fairouz</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4DEGPrp2XR4IN9mTSuhAVk?si=5b1aa13a65d4467f">Bennett</a> (plus several of his film/TV scores and a few of his jazz tunes), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5aWznCGo70UyvyuYLpb7Kt?si=dbd9110e2b54466b">Boyer</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11TUXohA80qhU0mJhQeSz2?si=0b23798f629940d1">Sierra</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bLDPHxOvXZjJyx9PmvRCW?si=5ecc0e3216a04cfe">Ticheli</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5HmxWdAfurY4g254tVIPTU?si=abfad831cfa1486a">Meij</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/73BQnAg0ThuaW6bFKBzCBm?si=fb173319609f49f8">Haan</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4i4s2NL5mXr2OpS0VR9sUJ?si=165ae2b9dda6498f">Schwarz</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ktFECeBalA2oF3vJeh9Ed?si=72e242d0fb704b3d">Sparke</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QM0okzXfO0riDUbnf4mro?si=e1072f1d831844b0">Stephenson</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0BmtAgHYkHF9n6D5nmrBHZ?si=c7a7c04353ac48a1">Zhou</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6CExYy4n2UjRxk4f8Ha8Qs?si=fefe58ac266f41aa">Chen</a>, TODO.</li><li id="footnote_2_9243" class="footnote">The pieces I listened to for each composer were: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3f7kk38CtktheSM8iOLCZN?si=bf97dd33788743d1">Martland</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1iD0kiymivyej3FLGVFSal?si=14dcebe6ff344126">Scriabin</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1BSZ3lQskIfMNTPXzY2pcn?si=8448ad7f993c4233">Barber</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ltrBNsa1fC5OplxAxWt6O?si=47fba5dcedf24457">Gorecki</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6iwC49ghGa9K1CuqYnIO8O?si=0057397b0d6f4990">Anderson</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6xYrIk7lUmz59whsslcgVe?si=db1900efa93e4e14">MacMillan</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6xlr0SZ0SEwDAGHyD3CAg4?si=0b69d8cbbd3b45e9">Dukas</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1lPzitHCf4cclpeuhEokvj?si=91781bb649b6409d">Ziporyn</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0if1HBsCYPlCjh9fladwcQ?si=085eaff1eafc4568">Rautavaara</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7lkiE2fQvXTKtq1Td4gcYy?si=023c738f40804f41">Puts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Ax0nhd9WotSgIJkUVO363?si=3702489c49964246">Reger</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0DzqG7y7oXbbNZ291RIoag?si=b879000d141f49ed">Rouse</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VPSjt4qwPD69pEFNIVZcQ?si=a6d77a73f57c40fa">Greenwood</a> (plus many of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1dEvX8qCA6oOv87FpIbJai?si=06abc0e3243c4a65">Horner</a> (plus many of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4I2dEHlqMLvxvO2cAC1afg?si=8b85c49dec65400b">Kilar</a> (plus several of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55AQAegUxGfWULM8eyL5Hl?si=3beb4d5485704b02">Armstrong</a> (plus many of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3RpzvX1SF5Ts8MGCHAvlUG?si=fc735e6690194b40">Nielsen</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7q1EvbSOT8t1aWG2lkMrWR?si=d7e10d22eef24fbe">Khachaturian</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2m9LB8poHvdukD4CZDq2Qd?si=9ccc62e4cd7e417a">Kapustin</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6IC6qa2hVmEfrcaT6dJXUe?si=319a93103ed94c91">Coleridge-Taylor</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ze591KYL89v7nhbxHXoIn?si=0f96aea9fe6344c0">Hanson</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ZDY37Le3yG46bQG1Pc0qu?si=3000d89f167a4b9a">Smith</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1My6bQhAtnBsOBMW539ZkG?si=cb790536305941d2">Daugherty</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zfQpzjLNw1aYixmDuEz4N?si=69f3e129f78e4446">Purcell</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5E5n7cDrU47Ok2iLskG5yh?si=9753e55b007344d6">de Falla</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Kksfu42TPQ5IV4uy3gnTM?si=5513f8e8a56e45d8">Fauré</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11LBIKZtEK2JJqQg7pJbPS?si=76cf500f96544bbd">Pachelbel</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Sq9uCV0yCStoo5wwMHaFZ?si=1f46b72094c7407b">Schumann</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3c7cVcoanr2r7EEmHwxytZ?si=c87f9485009e4635">Villa-Lobos</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Ft55HMS9tDeeQMgRIWmCY?si=391ddc79fa4d4666">Say</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6qzbVlUYYn28TkI9uRdS95?si=fc0a6fd179694ace">Rozsa</a> (plus many of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XUcp7ayoVjcuIuH3QPw9H?si=f364089386764402">Tredici</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ThfxbvF3eQF7YHBmHXKrU?si=bf4011b5fa384d18">Strauss II</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/52isd3OZudFUvR3SnCtEYQ?si=5a6c68b67bed4a0d">Tower</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6YtlcnGPdZmgbl5OYGcqlH?si=9643700655b24b54">Schnittke</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0r8DK3QFIHpeTNGfm0qpiZ?si=eef404d34ff74de8">Davis</a> (plus several of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2LGTdHbs6oepUZ2tRsTMzX?si=26445f68b9864e21">Gjeilo</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2RaGO6Iszl5KtmshKX8WH5?si=3fcc0ee83c4641a1">Liebermann</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7rlhN6wdIk7RaeOSOtT3R7?si=4475a4e30d9f4789">Preisner</a> (plus several of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6LI354xDY3kSprkzE7BDFP?si=68fe64af5740477a">Schuller</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2puQfHRYg0Ww9cMnkpnZGS?si=b6da3fc8dbaa4e0b">Loussier</a> (plus a few of his film/TV scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5XZWTUbx6h0S1TUbG7CFrc?si=2d1aabe6f9324b79">Schifrin</a> (plus several of his film/TV scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5odVenunpBNDavbwaSelAQ?si=9a3df2fab83d4a0b">Newman</a> (plus many of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7upp0Rz0uCuXUgOGEaVa9O?si=d5adec821542411d">Nancarrow</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0M5zrj46ldvj4LmMHnqzst?si=31cf6098a6864f7f">Rota</a> (plus many of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7B6ksBtnDjz1DoMVQknTwm?si=849d07c72e70497c">Marsalis</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2vG2Slp5ZY8My633VaRatw?si=17e370e4b108499f">Brubeck</a> (plus several of his jazz albums), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0hZVoOTfYZQWo4aEx16kWR?si=b0e4d18d7f3a479b">Lang</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/51hHKgT66K35G7v5Go56CJ?si=186dcc984d734059">Higdon</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7uhAg2LUE2CjdYEOlFw6ia?si=e8a9a2177f5a4d4b">Kamen</a> (plus several of his film/TV scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/57ccVjjmlD33lV68STsLwM?si=e252ab5c0e944aac">Hisaishi</a> (plus many of his film and videogame scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1a8xgfGtOIxdNqb4tSclsl?si=25f9a7c6ed8c40f3">Golijov</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5iUCy9Do64nqmxJRvRZRjJ?si=5e9e676f55fe4adb">Orff</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/22ZdP4DMmRkOdHf77TvQ9c?si=31bbcae248634054">Zhao</a> (plus several of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dv8Q6tvrG1A5GSdApOPp5?si=52765c01dad149ee">Paganini</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4K7uI2D8C7DDfG8T664AoX?si=43759ceeb7904a21">Bolling</a> (plus a few of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4z4POh5IdbdOFFbULwTwBK?si=b2d409ec62f04c06">Rodrigo</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2GorqNMsN1loMUc0fYpnfd?si=d57b996dda2a44ef">Adams</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5kqrk5R581BorhsQtyv2wQ?si=f7c0b0ccbeed4edd">Bates</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aNol1W9666zvZ5J6qBdbJ?si=05b12bf1252b40db">Mayer</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fAt1DtTRRhFpTJpbSlYKT?si=d2a988372a2748df">Sowande</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60mclU9rqcZ9G6i3vujvJS?si=3757b2d86b4f427d">Bizet</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6yXe0y9aFHENnKGXT3a6mA?si=14216bbe8d234e37">Mellits</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3GzHapVnwrh9ih9oc2VLNu?si=488d77fc50724911">Reich</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FRHa6nQFtMH7fB9bcI4Kc?si=ec7b3a02f8684a63">Turnage</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0huCm3FpWvRcIAWAnavJne?si=be1d71d2ce8c4e0e">Schutz</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7akmr7kjNQ6eT4GmjIfHwh?si=d52b0a947e3b4f27">Poulenc</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0BGW5Qk9ntiITK84MvjeQ0?si=3d93a5cad4274b21">Milhaud</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7dQQgTmGaf26EF5qh9Q5Mx?si=1ecd724dfc494bf2">Corigliano</a> (plus a few of his film scores), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5XSefvedOJwToVcbYl1tN2?si=0280f21c1b254bf7">Hindemith</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3n1WgEHuHngVnPXXsbjSlq?si=b8deba0c201a439a">Riley</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cX7HWmg6f4DoOdLZSjVXA?si=54e251fcb85043e0">Walton</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19NRswpfwFnowo4yva34iq?si=0c3fe7ae53154471">Torke</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4mxvOvJXN27T4QUamXRb9H?si=7645e4fc77684fe3">Lauridsen</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2BmZzpTapRtDcZAKAtySvc?si=9eb56da566e848df">Sullivan</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7o2vlmUs4Ivyy9OB12HsUB?si=4e4f879c2f784ace">Glass</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4M11x5nNsRI5OfFrPQTXEC?si=184994b585504405">Mackey</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6JTv7CroLjRgnNBgLjBcfS?si=f2e95c7e777f4a3c">Tan</a> (plus a few of his film scores), TODO.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>The classical music world is actively hostile to listeners</title>
<link>https://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-classical-music-world-is-actively-hostile-to-listeners/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Luke]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Why is classical music (including new classical music) so unpopular? Part of it is because lots of classical music is dissonant, overly complex, long-winded, etc.,1 but it’s also because the classical music world is actively hostile to listeners. (I say this as someone who enjoys a ton of classical music!) In particular, classical music is […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why is classical music (including new classical music) so <a href="https://medium.com/%40AmericanPublicU/popular-classical-music-how-popular-is-classical-music-part-ii-4040456752db">unpopular</a>? Part of it is because lots of classical music is dissonant, overly complex, long-winded, etc.,<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-classical-music-world-is-actively-hostile-to-listeners/#footnote_0_9543" id="identifier_0_9543" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Lots of classical music has features most listeners don’t like, e.g. dissonance, wild complexity, sudden volume changes, bombastic/pretentious vocals (think of opera), and lots of time on what sounds like “aimless wandering” (music nerds call it “musical development”). (For example, even the famously delightful “galloping” section of the William Tell Overture doesn’t start until over 8 minutes into the piece. Or to take a more obscure example: I think many listeners will enjoy the bombastic first 1.5 minutes of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 mvt 4, but then be bored by most of the rest of the 24-minute movement. I suspect very few people can identify and appreciate most musical development, e.g. the parts of a sonata.) Composers defend all this by writing essays like “Who Cares if You Listen?“">1</a> but it’s also because the classical music world is actively hostile to listeners. (I say this as someone who enjoys a ton of classical music!)
In particular, classical music is often:
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<li>Unavailable:
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<li>Outside the most popular ~350 classical composers, most works by most composers have never been commercially recorded (even if they’ve been performed repeatedly),<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-classical-music-world-is-actively-hostile-to-listeners/#footnote_1_9543" id="identifier_1_9543" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="For example: (1) The most prominent classical composer in all of Africa (19% of world population) is Fela Sowande, who wrote hundreds of pieces for organ, chorus, orchestra, and more — only a handful of which have been recorded. (2) Xian Xinghai was the leading “founder” of Western classical music in China (17% of world population), and one of its most prominent composers. He wrote over 300 works for chorus, orchestra, chamber ensemble, and more, but again only a handful have been recorded. (3) This is not just a feature of classical composers outside Europe and North America. For example, Simon Sechter was one of the most prolific classical composers in history, he taught Bruckner and was praised by Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann, and yet only a handful of his pieces have been recorded. Or consider Ferdinand Hiller, who was close friends with Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt, Rossini, and Mendelssohn, and wrote hundreds of pieces across all genres, perhaps roughly 7% of which have been recorded. Similarly few surviving classical works have been recorded for many other significant Western composers, e.g. Ludwig Minkus (~15%), Don Davis (~25%), Nicola Piovani (~15%), Nikolai Kapustin (~25%), or Dario Marianelli (~3%). Or consider perhaps the most popular modern classical composer, Ennio Morricone (>70 million records sold). He is best known for his film scores, but also composed numerous “classical” compositions, only a fraction of which have been recorded (~20%).">2</a> making it almost impossible to hear them.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-classical-music-world-is-actively-hostile-to-listeners/#footnote_2_9543" id="identifier_2_9543" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Since performances near your home will happen rarely or never. Note that I’m not counting software-generated realizations for scores that were meant to be performed by musicians, since they are typically a poor substitute for a recording of human performers, at least using the technology available today — AI advances in the next few years might enable much more realistic automated “performances” of well-notated musical scores.">3</a> For comparison, the 350th most popular/acclaimed rock music artist according to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240525052058/https://acclaimedmusic.net/top_artists/t0.htm">this aggregated list</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Leon">Kings of Leon</a>; imagine if most of their songs were available as notated scores and occasional live performances in specific cities but never actually recorded! That is the state of classical music listening.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-classical-music-world-is-actively-hostile-to-listeners/#footnote_3_9543" id="identifier_3_9543" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Of course, this isn’t a “fair” comparison: there have been far more rock/pop artists in history than classical composers. Gemini 2.5 Deep Research estimated for me that “For Western classical composers, encompassing the tradition from its early roots through contemporary classical music, a plausible estimate is in the range of 50,000 to 75,000 individuals throughout history. For rock musical artists, including bands and solo performers from the genre’s inception to the present day, the number is likely in the low to mid-millions, potentially ranging from 2 million to 8 million or more distinct artist entities.”">4</a></li>
<li>When a new piece of classical music is premiered, it’s often not commercially recorded and released for several years, or even decades. Imagine hearing that your favorite musical artist played an entire new-album set in a city far away from you, but there’s no information on when the album will be released, and it might not come out for several years. Amazingly, this is standard practice in classical music, even for the most popular composers: e.g. Philip Glass’ Appomattox (2007), John Williams’ La Jolla (2011), and John Adams’ Second Quartet (2014) still haven’t been recorded and released, despite each being performed several times around the world.</li>
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</li>
<li>Hard to navigate / poorly promoted:
<ol>
<li>Classical music critics typically recommend pieces based on their historical importance, innovativeness, or abstract music theory ideas rather than on how fun they are to listen to for most people. Many “classical music for beginners” lists include some honest selections like Pachelbel’s “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1c3GkbZBnyrQ1cm4TGHFrK?si=4f7f4c04d5604be8">Canon in D</a>,” but also obvious lies such as Stravinsky’s wild, wandering, and dissonant <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7aYwwpov0qAQuNRSqLFQD8?si=2a9d5d844eb3462f">Rite of Spring</a>.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-classical-music-world-is-actively-hostile-to-listeners/#footnote_4_9543" id="identifier_4_9543" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="A great piece, but not accessible to beginners!">5</a></li>
<li>Classical music review books and websites are poorly organized, e.g. compositions and recordings often aren’t given any kind of rating or ranking, and they aren’t categorized into hundreds of precise stylistic subgenres as is common in e.g. rock music, where even a single subgenre like punk rock has many sub-subgenres like pop-punk, hardcore punk, art punk, crust punk, garage punk, riot grrrl, melodic punk, ska punk, synthpunk, grindcore, emocore, and so on.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-classical-music-world-is-actively-hostile-to-listeners/#footnote_5_9543" id="identifier_5_9543" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Classical music is often organized by chronological period (e.g. baroque vs. classical vs. romantic), by instrument ensemble (e.g. solo piano vs. string quartet vs. piano trio vs. chamber orchestra vs. symphony orchestra), or by structure/form (e.g. canon vs. fugue vs. sonata vs. rondo vs. theme and variations), but those categorizations (especially the last two) are typically mostly unrelated to style in the sense of most rock / pop / hip-hop subgenres. There are some recognized style genres for classical music (e.g. arguably Mannheim School, Sturm und Drang, galant, Empfindsamkeit, impressionism, neoclassicism, or minimalism), but there are many fewer of these in common use than for rock music, and most classical music books and websites don’t reliably use them to categorize compositions or recordings.">6</a> So if you find a piece of classical music you like (say, Pachelbel’s “Canon in D”), it’s difficult to find other similar pieces you might like.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-classical-music-world-is-actively-hostile-to-listeners/#footnote_6_9543" id="identifier_6_9543" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="See also here.">7</a></li>
<li>On review sites for pop, rock, or hip-hop music, almost all reviewed releases are of new (not previously released) music, but on classical music review sites, almost all reviewed releases are cover albums (of compositions that have been recorded and released before), making it difficult for fans to track what’s actually new. This could be easily solved if classical music review sites used a special tag or section for premiere recordings, but they’ve chosen not to!</li>
<li>Many of the most-recommended compositions are available in (a) multiple different arrangements (e.g. for solo piano vs. string quartet vs. orchestra), in (b) multiple different revisions (e.g. Beethoven’s Fidelio has three versions, Stravinsky’s The Firebird has four, and Bruckner’s 3rd symphony has six), and in (c) dozens or hundreds of different recordings, which vary in pacing and dynamics and other choices, in performance quality, and in recording quality. If someone recommends a rock album to you, just search the album name and click Play. But if you search the name of a classical piece that was recommended to you, often hundreds of versions will appear, and there’s rarely clear guidance on which version you should try first.</li>
<li>Many compositions are listed using different titles depending on which source you check. For example, Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” is also frequently listed as “Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor,” “Piano Sonata Op. 27, No. 2,” “Sonata quasi una fantasia,” “Mondscheinsonate,” or “Sonate für Klavier cis-Moll.” Obviously, it’s hard to know at a glance that these six different phrases all refer to the same piece!</li>
<li>Music streaming services will often <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/find-classical-music-on-spotify-with-ai/">fail to show you</a> the piece you searched for, even if it’s in their catalog, because they were designed around the cataloguing conventions of pop music.</li>
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Even the ~least popular (and ~lowest-budget) rock, jazz, or hip-hop music is much more navigable and available than this.
Opera has its own special additional anti-consumer habits, some of them covered <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMFD_VkbFE8">here</a>.
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_9543" class="footnote">Lots of classical music has features <a href="https://current.org/2007/12/casual-serious-listeners-agree-on-sounds-of-music-some-you-love-to-hear/">most listeners don’t like</a>, e.g. dissonance, wild complexity, sudden volume changes, bombastic/pretentious vocals (think of opera), and lots of time on what sounds like “aimless wandering” (music nerds call it “musical development”). (For example, even the famously delightful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awFoZIO0g1Q&t=505s">“galloping” section</a> of the William Tell Overture doesn’t start until over 8 minutes into the piece. Or to take a more obscure example: I think many listeners will enjoy the bombastic first 1.5 minutes of <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/19RFB7AZP9zKsMBBZXIaJJ?si=9342424ca4cf4d80">Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 mvt 4</a>, but then be bored by most of the rest of the 24-minute movement. I suspect very few people can identify and appreciate most musical development, e.g. the parts of a sonata.) Composers defend all this by writing essays like “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Cares_if_You_Listen%3F">Who Cares if You Listen?</a>“</li><li id="footnote_1_9543" class="footnote">For example: (1) The most prominent classical composer in all of Africa (19% of world population) is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Sowande">Fela Sowande,</a> who wrote hundreds of pieces for organ, chorus, orchestra, and more — only a handful of which have been recorded. (2) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian_Xinghai">Xian Xinghai</a> was the leading “founder” of Western classical music in China (17% of world population), and one of its most prominent composers. He wrote over 300 works for chorus, orchestra, chamber ensemble, and more, but again only a handful have been recorded. (3) This is not just a feature of classical composers outside Europe and North America. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Sechter">Simon Sechter</a> was one of the most prolific classical composers in history, he taught Bruckner and was praised by Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann, and yet only a handful of his pieces have been recorded. Or consider <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Hiller">Ferdinand Hiller</a>, who was close friends with Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt, Rossini, and Mendelssohn, and wrote hundreds of pieces across all genres, perhaps roughly 7% of which have been recorded. Similarly few surviving classical works have been recorded for many other significant Western composers, e.g. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Minkus">Ludwig Minkus</a> (~15%), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Davis_(composer)">Don Davis</a> (~25%), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Piovani">Nicola Piovani</a> (~15%), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kapustin">Nikolai Kapustin</a> (~25%), or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Marianelli">Dario Marianelli</a> (~3%). Or consider perhaps the most popular modern classical composer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone">Ennio Morricone</a> (>70 million records sold). He is best known for his film scores, but also composed numerous “classical” compositions, only a fraction of which have been recorded (~20%).</li><li id="footnote_2_9543" class="footnote">Since performances near your home will happen rarely or never. Note that I’m not counting software-generated realizations for scores that were meant to be performed by musicians, since they are typically a poor substitute for a recording of human performers, at least using the technology available today — AI advances in the next few years might enable much more realistic automated “performances” of well-notated musical scores.</li><li id="footnote_3_9543" class="footnote">Of course, this isn’t a “fair” comparison: there have been far more rock/pop artists in history than classical composers. Gemini 2.5 Deep Research <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/18ROFoaXg8psl4XyR8VosxYUWRzmCoksVlr6apmo4nMw/edit">estimated</a> for me that “For Western classical composers, encompassing the tradition from its early roots through contemporary classical music, a plausible estimate is in the range of 50,000 to 75,000 individuals throughout history. For rock musical artists, including bands and solo performers from the genre’s inception to the present day, the number is likely in the low to mid-millions, potentially ranging from 2 million to 8 million or more distinct artist entities.”</li><li id="footnote_4_9543" class="footnote">A great piece, but not accessible to beginners!</li><li id="footnote_5_9543" class="footnote">Classical music is often organized by chronological period (e.g. baroque vs. classical vs. romantic), by instrument ensemble (e.g. solo piano vs. string quartet vs. piano trio vs. chamber orchestra vs. symphony orchestra), or by structure/form (e.g. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_(music)">canon</a> vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue">fugue</a> vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonata_form">sonata</a> vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo">rondo</a> vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_(music)">theme and variations</a>), but those categorizations (especially the last two) are typically mostly unrelated to style in the sense of most rock / pop / hip-hop subgenres. There are some recognized style genres for classical music (e.g. arguably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim_school">Mannheim School</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm_und_Drang#In_music">Sturm und Drang</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galant_music">galant</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empfindsamkeit_(music)">Empfindsamkeit</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism_in_music">impressionism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism#Music">neoclassicism</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_music">minimalism</a>), but there are many fewer of these in common use than for rock music, and most classical music books and websites don’t reliably use them to categorize compositions or recordings.</li><li id="footnote_6_9543" class="footnote">See also <a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/different-challenges-faced-by-consumers-of-rock-jazz-or-classical-music-recordings/">here</a>.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Media diet for Q2 2025</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Music Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:1 DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (2025) Wayne Horvitz: Those Who Remain mvt 1 (2018), “A Walk in the Rain” & “Barber Shop” (2014) George Russell: “Time Spiral” and “Ezz-thetic” (1983) Aaron Parks: Invisible Cinema (2008) Spiro Dussias: “Negative” (2024) Vijay Iyer: Far from Over (2017) Christian […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Music</h3>
Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q2-2025/#footnote_0_9013" id="identifier_0_9013" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Here are ~all the works I listened to for some of the composers below: Yamada, Subramaniam, Einaudi.">1</a>
<ul>
<li>DJ Koze: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6Jq7lj2FjFmUuTjQllSTL0?si=m4Cef4zkT-mL6L85nVtEKA">Music Can Hear Us</a> (2025)</li>
<li>Wayne Horvitz: <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1470616-Wayne-Horvitz-Those-Who-Remain">Those Who Remain</a> mvt 1 (2018), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6jjmBneRQvQCkwRREu0B8y?si=4a55d8d9b903408b">A Walk in the Rain</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5iDBl8nu3fovL90xxFEk2F?si=2cbdb6170295435e">Barber Shop</a>” (2014)</li>
<li>George Russell: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7aA1QryvnLc1kMXIHFTOAB?si=4b1afd137caa4ade">Time Spiral</a>” and “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5qBIjzJ8kTrCyoqwHRXaxR?si=900c573c99a34d87">Ezz-thetic</a>” (1983)</li>
<li>Aaron Parks: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3xfueIrMUw57owAiYVKt8S?si=cqs9xsytRTi8VOUojyZMJA">Invisible Cinema</a> (2008)</li>
<li>Spiro Dussias: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mzDPF5230M">Negative</a>” (2024)</li>
<li>Vijay Iyer: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1m3KyOooTz89Dt6U30Ad7c?si=8d57118638e141f8">Far from Over</a> (2017)</li>
<li>Christian McBride: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/christian_mcbride/live_at_tonic/">Live at Tonic</a> (2006)</li>
<li>McCoy Tyner: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/mccoy-tyner-big-band/the-turning-point/">The Turning Point</a> (1992)</li>
<li>Chris Potter: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/chris-potter-underground/follow-the-red-line-live-at-the-village-vanguard-1/">Follow the Red Line</a> (2007)</li>
<li>Eskaton: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/eskaton/musique-post-atomique/">Musique post-atomique</a> (1979)</li>
<li>Bob Brookmeyer: “<a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/mel-lewis-and-the-jazz-orchestra/make-me-smile-and-other-new-works-by-bob-brookmeyer.p/">Make Me Smile</a>” (1982)</li>
<li>Levi McClain: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2PhlUz6nU5RmIXbH8UJysh?si=e9809e8adcda4c62">Etch a Sketch</a> (2018)</li>
<li>Graeme Shields & others: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2XkyeaSLHYHwnl8Lnv25sv?si=lm7atWW_STu1TsYC2U_KXQ">Pocket Grooves</a> (2019)</li>
<li>Adrián Berenguer: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5nU4u6hTdtpsp3NLDsgeG1?si=081f8009ac864219">Overture</a>” (2025)</li>
<li>Matyáš Novák: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf0uHnJB4sQ">Vltava</a>” (2021)</li>
<li>Carla Bley: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/47KY3K6kfZya22Dtr8dUPb?si=KNEfixWWRyuFbw2-NYAH1w">Fleur Carnivore</a> (1989)</li>
<li>Too Many Zooz: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1QAf99iaIM">Lose Control</a>” (2024), “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE5w4WmYpWQ">Severance Theme</a>” (2025)</li>
<li>Aaron Hibell & Dan Heath: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1luDTOkUqKMQ8gQvB3U3gO?si=018721af2c1142af">Odyssey</a>” (2025)</li>
<li>Natural Information Society & Bitchin’ Bajas: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1VZmZOYJqaFBeLP7LDQavG?si=94ac859ebb8e4edc">Clock no Clock</a>” (2025)</li>
<li>Josef Gung’l: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6Q3MSlZ8VAzNx0NTwwjjIl?si=df33c9916ad643fe">Narren Galopp</a>” (c. 1855)</li>
<li>Eduard Strauss: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3G8EmbAsj0">Bahn Frei!</a>” (1869)</li>
<li>Trombone Shorty: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/10yqXWUbVgZy0XzonDOIgs?si=ebf53f2d7e9943d3">Hurricane Season</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3KywmaqyvQtM4fwrRWgbBf?si=8ca67ca32fce4c51">Neph</a>” (2010)</li>
<li>Andrew Wrangell: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qskm9MTz2V4">Rush E</a>” (2018)</li>
<li>Darcy James Argue: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4TdS4sPPd6sbowfZyy9QaG?si=b2c9163320ca4f0f">Best Friends Forever</a>” (2016)</li>
<li>Woody Shaw: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/woody-shaw/the-moontrane/">The Moontrane</a> (1975)</li>
<li>Gustavo Santaolalla: “Babel”</li>
<li>Saagara: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3bYJhlYenYM6qavKCBkle8?si=Cyb0hKDOTMOXLTqZJVbecQ">3</a> (2024)</li>
<li>New Age Doom / Tuvaband: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5Jq0GkE0QwgCVtoz021PE1?si=_1Iwk1eJRByHeTB9EdmQcQ">There Is No End</a> (2023)</li>
<li>KALI Trio: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1wLeQeyfAIaRtTWBBqrB6n?si=834fb1052aaf4ce8">Transitoriness</a>” (2021)</li>
<li>Avishai Cohen: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7sCU0pZZix0KirptfjERbL?si=JfM86hUkQaCqSKkMIUabvw">Continuo</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Jacques Loussier: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5vqYEfaZR3GfXDSTcOIdlq?si=0PrPc7rDQXOQNDVOdBqqWQ">Plays Bach, the 50th Anniversary Recording</a> (2009)</li>
<li>Bent Knee: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2vuKWHbzBSVPSUSUPsWAFY?si=x7Z2GzjvSWWCrEwisywUqQ">Twenty Pills Without Water</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Soap&Skin: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/79sDO0rbc6RvPsuqIotmeE?si=p852GdteQ3a5LkBi2TZNSQ">Untitled</a> (2008), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7eex3pfG9WHkV9GQFDss8w?si=4b3fbd9d3e8447e1">Sugarbread</a>” (2013)</li>
<li>Danny Elfman: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Zygqehrio0AFB2QEmSr3X?si=f42737612143461a">Back to School</a> (1986), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3SmBQlLkMxasykapCZ7b8V?si=31f05e348a774aca">Darkman</a> (1990), <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/danny-elfman/serenada-schizophrana/">Serenada Schizophrana</a> (2006), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5J52JE3ZoXlngxu5EyvQKY?si=9xNHQQI-SXKeZZXxXsY_GQ">Rabbit & Rogue</a> (2008), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/10XfqrimjbFVGU16XVR9wH?si=PVUvRoN4TIClYvPnVYllvw">Iris</a> (2011), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0yVh1OOqCE8Up2Qcaqa0p8?si=8183cb58e2334d02">Eleven Eleven</a> (2017), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1gFl3GqZO5oWA82VP7SsIL?si=f0935c72988c4056">Percussion Quartet</a> (2019), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1lnujidTyFHeFmwwnJBQ1x?si=f7996c8c1ab24ff7">Percussion Concerto</a> (2022), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zycm5QzcdGrH9BHWa4HtY?si=ab74ac61f1374981">Wunderkammer</a> (2022), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMSIOD5JJI0&list=RDQMSIOD5JJI0">Cello Concerto</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Christopher Tin: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0s1sXci3Ok4t6fy2y1Xzh5?si=30ZxNF0pQEuSBC3HGwDb6A">Calling All Dawns</a> (2009), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6p1bmI6atX9j44uz0LDEsc?si=5O8t9Hm1Roila0l_xc-vvQ">The Drop That Contained the Sea</a> (2014), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4FaBKEQ5pbxJSuOG8pkZNF?si=01ugLUYtT0y56OUXjAqizw">To Shiver the Sky</a> (2020)</li>
<li>Kosaku Yamada [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3P5RRO5fu8VvzYZS68W70O?si=18f60c7c27884de5">playlist</a>]: Symphony in F Major mvt 4 (1912), “Sunayama” (1923)</li>
<li>L. Subramaniam [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2JuiXnktvr0qoc6JywI6qQ?si=e0e83b6f74114177">playlist</a>]: “Rainbow Serenade” & “Kali Dance” (1981), “Garland” (1982), Double Concerto for Violin and Flute in E Major (1983), “Flight of the Humble Bee” (1984), Fantasy on Vedic Chants (1985), Spring Rhapsody (1986), Turbulence Concerto mvts 1 & 3 (1987), Shanti Priya mvts 1 & 3 (1988), Freedom Symphony (2007), “Tribute to Bach” (2015), Isabella Violin Concerto (2016), Bharat Symphony (2017), Mahatma Symphony (2022)</li>
<li>Ludovico Einaudi [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1e51xWVnVlTh6IWDk8IulA?si=d9781af40fa44a90">playlist</a>]: “The Apple Tree” (1995), Doctor Zhivago (2002), “Nuvole Bianche” & “Dietro Casa” (2004), “Primavera” & “Divenire” (2006), “Lady Labyrinth” & “Nightbook” (2009), Intouchables (2011), “Wetlands” (2012), “Experience” & “Life” & “Run” (2013), “Night” (2015), Nomadland (2021)</li>
<li>MONACA Inc. [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1dxqkFHDxmUffYrJ85IjxC?si=524d87a3870143ee">playlist</a>]: several tracks from NieR Gestalt & RepliCant (2010)</li>
<li>Miles Davis: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1oIZBAdJ2QojYwnNCzGDNW?si=QyAnPd1ZQh-WoN8L_WtVjA">‘Four’ & More</a> (1966)</li>
<li>Terence Blanchard [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1csj22HGyeTcSP81PIkV92?si=ba71d0a0bcae41cb">playlist</a>]: “Hannibal” & “Kaos” & “Unchanged” & “Soldiers” (2018)</li>
<li>Kurt Rosenwinkel [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6uocOTmWhf6QK2ZgWB7fL5?si=39807b9eee4b4ceb">playlist</a>]: “Chords” & “Flute” (2008)</li>
<li>Sonny Rollins: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6AtWpHLGXr4eCYbqW34Enr?si=4wiBulr6RhOeQGqvKPQ7Cw">G-Man</a> (1987)</li>
<li>Heiner Goebbels: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZjjG7jPmZSWANw806Oazy?si=808644256b604065">Ballade vom zerrissenen Rock</a>” (1998)</li>
<li>Annie Gosfield: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5O6o3m1MPcspmOUxYPiv5P?si=59b0550fadd54968">Impulse Turbine: Inlet, Exhaust-cumbustion Chamber</a>” (1999)</li>
<li>Daniel Bernard Roumain: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NXOhSBzXHBD34LBwBJmeC?si=ac248c780eee45b3">Voodoo Violin Concerto</a> (2002)</li>
<li>Matthew Hindson: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3jFKTdYxsrItCvPTT4ZNqa?si=cd6e7e6a408f469c">Speed</a> (1997)</li>
<li>Mike Mills: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ldKr8RT1A1RdQJd49Nwsx?si=c3d0d52c0dbc4758">Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and String Orchestra</a> (2016)</li>
<li>Cannonball Adderley: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6Utj0CAgAWsPLFCVfaqDnB?si=abb607f3145247f5">Mercy, Mercy, Mercy</a> (1967)</li>
<li>Dexter Gordon: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5PRo0pvRdcrJzoMleTTflV?si=773b83e3eb944a43">Homecoming</a> (1977)</li>
<li>VSOP the Quintet: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5APEZLkpF5pck0nzqUY9SR?si=AjFsFTVCQhmn_CtEPArsjA">Live Under the Sky</a> (1979)</li>
<li>Lubomyr Melnyk: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4pKxRPrLlbXKW06HIPBgLh?si=_ckhAz9qSkCpLDns1Zz0rA">Corollaries</a> (2013)</li>
</ul>

Rediscovered or revisited, and really liked:<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q2-2025/#footnote_1_9013" id="identifier_1_9013" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="I think I hadn’t heard some of the classical pieces before, but I’m not sure which ones.">2</a>
<ul>
<li>Arcangelo Corelli: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2J0ZyJGNH7y9jRMLbqtXNS?si=8409110bbb784b54">La folia</a>” (1700)</li>
<li>Wayne Horvitz: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4KUpSjcyhpIi0tDFE3CVWZ?si=4fa569b30d1d4a5f">Prodigal Sun Revisited</a>” (1990)</li>
<li>Claudio Monteverdi: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/53BD93PorygaI2VJrLWC2s?si=504d10128ab54bf2">Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti</a>” (1632)</li>
<li>George Frederic Handel: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0oRNd4BnlWkpQOojcFG2Rm?si=9af2148236c44926">Suite in D Minor</a> [HWV 437] (1706)</li>
<li>Saint-Saens: “Havanaise” (1887), Piano Concerto No. 5 mvt 3 (1896)</li>
<li>Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 “Appassionata” mvts. 1 & 3 (1806), Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor” (1809)</li>
<li>Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 mvt. 3 (1785), Piano Concerto No. 21 mvt. 2 (1785), Piano Sonata No. 16 mvt. 1 (1788)</li>
<li>Karl Jenkins: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1SeuDxCewZcCdxLUFACb8G?si=3317df27d5bf4904">Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary</a> (1995), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/59CePotGR37Bhf0a2xVDOp?si=3334d53cd68e4462">Adiemus II: Cantata Mundi</a> (1996), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3OT5afyfJ2dJfDmdzFB8sH?si=5416493e5ad8408e">Adiemus III: Dances of Time</a> (1998), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1VsVrkxUBJuLlqTiiApYLx?si=9e724488058b4d54">Adiemus IV: The Eternal Knot</a> (2001), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6ZAbyTNBjgIepIVJEOMKTk?si=b53a743822a04c89">Adiemus V: Vocalise</a> (2004), “<a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/769270-Karl-Jenkins-Adiemus-Colores">Canción Amarilla</a>” (2013), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3ROSZyD97Qw2M1ZCsrsDgg?si=d88a10aa85fe4e0b">Symphonic Adiemus</a> (2017)</li>
<li>Sons of Kemet: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6KPAS8bKufxqev7XFgg8ss?si=1db3ebf90b934d59">Burn</a> (2013), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6qn50nE6B11WZJpmu3yEHH?si=It6ZJczYSZS_wQqA8Wfeqw">Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do</a> (2015)</li>
<li>Metallica: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3kVRcb2fuCcKcqltzczxRP?si=L1lwpIgVRNm-QAnograZLQ">S&M</a> (1999)</li>
<li>Frank Zappa: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/25E0fQywCDnJq3UPzye4tM?si=18c9c94d509b470a">King Kong</a> (1969), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1SRLAz6J32NjkSWbfxpGL0?si=2b85c70424f947fa">Strictly Genteel</a>” (1971)</li>
<li>Soap&Skin: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6culXQMuw6H6XF8KwNkH7Q?si=fAxXM3jVTmK52er7FlHIQw">Lovetune for Vacuum</a> (2009), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0xdIchzm2D9N7cAWKye1cQ?si=bce94d1309d74670">Narrow</a> (2012)</li>
<li>Robert Rodriguez: “<a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/rodriguez-debney-revell/sin-city/">Sin City</a>” & “<a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/rodriguez-debney-revell/sin-city/">Sin City End Titles</a>” (2005)</li>
<li>Philip Glass: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2GRIEd8GXjQA15iDtA8U4e?si=7fb0383f26b64161">Powaqqatsi</a> (1988), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4xA8HPOZdWsEQOjjbJ4Fmt?si=e261471242f947cf">It Was Always You, Helen</a>” (1992), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3afkfBT34YQCQZJXOVl3er?si=f908136f1e7b4445">Escape to India</a>” (2003) “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4SUWxTjobw2cZaHkbPYNpu?si=351a085f0029476e">Intensive Time</a>” (2002), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6QT1MtC8Pl0z6TMoOV2Ynv?si=23eabd9e35f3493e">100,000 People</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0oUQdOhEejFc3TOrNpGTGR?si=99d59472dd664c11">Target Destruction</a>” (2003), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0GFe3J9EJSYri4reBjdk7A?si=ff9a5800294f4fe8">Miller’s Theme</a>” (2003)</li>
<li>Kamasi Washington [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3HXkth1ExSIEPjl1iSNzRi?si=fa786ce2447f4f8e">playlist</a>]: “The Conception” & “The Bombshell’s Waltz” & “Bobby Boom Bap” (2007), “Change of the Guard” & “Askim” & “Miss Understanding” & “Leroy and Lanisha” & “The Magnificent 7” & “Malcolm’s Theme” & “The Message” (2015), Harmony of Difference (2017), “The Secret of Jinison” & “Fists of Fury” & “Hub-Tones” & “One of One” & “Vi Lua Vi Sol” & “Show Us the Way” & “Will You Sing” (2018), “Lesanu” & “The Garden Path” & “Prologue” (2024), Lazarus (2025)</li>
<li>Wim Mertens [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5isCah0biewdNeCZpRBbaI?si=ce943f4130a4433a">playlist</a>]: “Birds for the Mind” & “Struggle for Pleasure” & “4 Mains” (1987), “No Testament” & “The Whole” (1989), “Iris” & “Far” (1991), “Their Duet” & “His Own Thing” & “Watch Over Me” & “Shot One” (1993), Jardin Clos (1996), Skopos (2003), Partes Extra Partes (2006), Receptacle (2007), Zee Versus Zed (2010)</li>
<li>Ill Considered: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6WC9rrYDJ7iooLlbX6zWx9?si=1XqoBIAnSkuK_YpMJhjmCw">Ill Considered</a> (2017), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6OQcRcUX6lgfJmxBAJ950D?si=73190bd9c9d94068">Delusion</a>” (2018), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6nGzllqyeFuG976fVESQuF?si=f9555e518320475e">Incandescent Rage</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7etVwCMml2vykhaSkmIZj2?si=18b72a32e5ac4b4a">Single Leaf</a>” (2019), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5d7i7p5mP76Gi4kY2YurSw?si=24ff7176d50d4abe">Liminal Space</a> (2021), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5XJM3GJwgesWDpSW0ZBQzg?si=483b2e9f8dac4052">Precipice</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Rollerball: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3AGiusXVZBPCe492rU7kyB?si=YHo414W4ShK_u5ArKin3iw">Ahura</a> (2008), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5A3HWELC2Ne9QxMFuvXphA?si=x8QU_T4zTrCqK7-tK86cMA">Murwa Mbwa</a> (2011)</li>
<li>Fire! [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6bjS5l4tY2R8VkJn0t2Kai?si=36369b50434f4bf1">playlist</a>]: “Can I Hold You for a Minute?” & “You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago” (2009), “And the Stories Will Flood Your Satisfaction” & “He Wants to Sleep in a Dream” (2012), “Exit! Pt. 1” (2013), “Enter Part Four” (2014), “Ritual, Pts 1-2” (2016), “The Hands” & “Washing Your Heart in Filth” (2018), “Weekends” & “Blue Crystal Fire” (2019), “A lost farewell” (2023)</li>
<li>Anna von Hausswolff [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xPstGTjPDxUP2cA16sNCn?si=07fe51fb1488459a">playlist</a>]: “Lost at Sea” (2010), Ceremony (2014), “Pomperipossa” (2015), “The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra” & “Ugly and Vengeful” (2018)</li>
<li>Howard Shore [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5qHuHA3PH1LBBthxh7gl3O?si=2b33c51791734811">playlist</a>]: “A. Hauser and O’Brien B. Bugpowder” (1991), “The Shire” & “Bag End” & “The Council of Elrond Assembles” & “The Road Goes Ever On…” (2001), “The Three Hunters” (2002), “The Battle of Pelennor Fields” & “The Lighting of the Beacons” & “For Frodo” (2003), “Believe” (2010)</li>
</ul>
I also listened to a significant portion of the works by each of the composers listed below.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q2-2025/#footnote_2_9013" id="identifier_2_9013" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="For Liszt, I listened to this ~complete works playlist through S427 before switching to this highlights playlist. For Berlioz, I listened to this complete works playlist through H81b before switching to this highlights playlist. I listened only to highlights playlists (plus a smattering of other pieces) for Holst, Mussorgsky, Verdi, Smetana, Rossini, Franck (note the repeated pieces), Weber, Rameau, Alkan, Torelli, Telemann, Spohr, Albeniz, Gounod, Bruch, Duparc, Smyth, C.P.E. Bach (only through 6 Prussian Sonatas), Bruckner, Borodin, Glazunov, MacDowell, d’Indy, Gade, Raff, Goldmark, Vieuxtemps, Martucci, Elgar, Glinka, and Dohnányi. I listened to complete works playlists for Lalo and Wieniawski.">3</a> My favorites pieces from them were (names linked to playlists):
<ul>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54zKH0ygbYZlNVI31IyKZ5?si=b397863568fc4de6">Franz Liszt</a> (b. 1811): Schubert Marches Nos. 3 & 4 (1846), Totentanz (1849), “Un sospiro” (1849), Liebesträume No. 3 (1850), Paganini Studies Nos. 3 & 4 (1851), Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (1851), Transcendental Études No. 4 (1852), Piano Concerto No. 2 mvt 2 (1861)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4HzXDEFvTA0XD0vfTg3n3s?si=cb93cdafca6c4207">Hector Berlioz</a> (b. 1803): “Marche hongroise” (1845)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0F1DCjDTTeZJXh0pPxrORJ?si=c07bc5e0a4964e13">Gustav Holst</a> (b. 1874): The Planets (1917)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58nAR4r5JG1K30eTsZ2a9Y?si=5e65b214c1b148e1">Modest Mussorgsky</a> (b. 1839): Night on Bald Mountain (1867), “Varlaam’s Drinking Song” (1873), Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4IcQxnlT0YJnQ50bhM4vAV?si=3d52447a0c16440f">Giuseppe Verdi</a> (b. 1813): “La donna è mobile” (1851), “Libiamo ne’ lieti calici” (1853), Messa da Requiem mvts. 3 & 19 (1874)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4NfKrpgVVSzlc1PNhIOMrL?si=5a51e6df9ab54216">Bedrich Smetana</a> (b. 1824): Triumphal Symphony (1853), The Bartered Bride (1866), Ma vlast (1879)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0n3zhNiFYVb8BeFO7cYMG2?si=9446eea6fbc3478b">Gioachino Rossini</a> (b. 1792): The Italian Girl in Algiers “Overture” (1813), The Barber of Seville “Overture” and “Largo al factotum” (1816), William Tell “Overture (Finale)” (1829)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/72rBlmAOxsBcweNfuRDA3I?si=e7f7a374ece34b5e">Jean-Philippe Rameau</a> (b. 1683): “Les cyclopes” (1724), “Les Sauvages” (1725), Platée act 1 scene 6’s air & orage (1745), Zais overture (1748)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6xJ176pVw32FZzq1oNBWXL?si=8e8aed9d2bee4435">Charles-Valentin Alkan</a> (b. 1813): Etude [from Encyclopédie Du Pianiste Compositeur] (1840), Piano Trio No. 1 mvt 4 (1841), Symphony for Solo Piano mvt 1 (1857)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FLxSGwRNsh4GuA1KSuCyN?si=df53ec83dac1424a">Edouard Lalo</a> (b. 1823): Fantasie Originale mvt 1 (1848), Divertissement mvt 4 (1872), Norwegian Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra mvts 1 & 3 (1878), Norwegian Fantasy (1878), Romance-Sérénade (1879), Fantasy-Ballet for Violin and Orchestra (1885), Symphony in G Minor mvts 1 & 4 (1886), Piano Concerto in F Minor (1889)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2RKcYVJ4M1FBVCu0LQKY5C?si=e3e4e37e7bb448ec">Louis Spohr</a> (b. 1784): String Quartet No. 3 mvt 1 (1806)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/15j4Mo2ntHXoQw5IPCbhxF?si=1365a151ef2f4f91">Isaac Albeniz</a> (b. 1860): Iberia mvts 1 & 2 (arr. for orch.) (1908), Suite española (arr. for orch.) (1889), “Asturias (Leyenda)” (arr. for guitar) (1889), “Tango” (arr. for orch.) (1890)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/01GMppuwevXOLKVkmwW2o3?si=acc7b5cba1874025">Charles Gounod</a> (b. 1818): “Funeral March of a Marionette” (1872)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5c5ok1rJd2QLuzKVYJbmbE?si=65588be719ed493e">Henryk Wieniawski</a> (b. 1835): Adagio elegiaque (1852), Capriccio-Valse (1852), Violin Concerto No. 1 mvt 3 (1853), Variations on an Original Theme (1854), 8 Etudes-Caprices No. 4 (1862), “Scherzo Tarantelle” (1885)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2aXhtxuOgjFGdyAmJ2S0pR?si=4bc7be6c917445a1">Max Bruch</a> (b. 1838): Violin Conerto No. 1 mvt 3 (1867), Symphony No. 1 mvt 3 (1868), Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra (1880), Violin Concerto No. 3 mvt 3 (1891), 8 Pieces Nos. 2 & 7 (1910)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tSwWIUd4U2xpLZP4RcMM7?si=e7afb21225ca47c6">C.P.E. Bach</a> (b. 1714): Symphony in E Minor [Wq 178] mvt 1 (1756), Symphony in E-Flat Major [Wq 179] mvt 1 (c. 1757), “Solfeggio” [H 220] (c. 1766)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ySu8FFKMfgC1tkpWfbPdB?si=465ce0c0ffec4083">Alexander Borodin</a> (b. 1833): String Sextet in D Minor mvt 1 (1861), Piano Quintet in C Minor (1862), Symphony No. 2 mvt 4 (1876), “Requiem” (1878), Petite Suite (1885), Prince Igor “Overture” (1887)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0nVy864WbHOF5JIXFGYWAS?si=2960bcda6571441c">Alexander Glazunov</a> (b. 1865): Symphony No. 1 (1884), “Slavonic Feast” (1888), Oriental Rhapsody mvts 2 & 5 (1889), Chopiniana mvts 1 & 4 (1892), Symphony No. 4 (1893), Symphony No. 5 (1895), The Seasons (1900), “Grand Waltz” and “Little Peasant Dance” (1900)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0cRuWuMdcZ1CLQ5N6Nmk9F?si=3b0f5aae58c54339">Edward MacDowell</a> (b. 1860): Piano Concerto No. 1 mvts 1 & 3 (1885), Piano Concerto No. 2 (1890), Woodland Sketches (1896)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YJcbt51vuaBK4NR4nxdJQ?si=73dcb59b2082425f">Vincent d’Indy</a> (b. 1851): Symphony No. 1 mvt 1 (1872)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/32DDZ8nE9UVToVbk489ilS?si=138fa3bfcfcb4b2e">Niels Gade</a> (b. 1817): Symphony No. 5 (1852)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3fkTBQTarFi5LuaWcz1CvO?si=f05eb8a6e1af4b6d">Joachim Raff</a> (b. 1822): String Sextet in G Minor mvt 2 (1872), Orchestral Suite No. 2 (1874), Symphony No. 9 mvt 4 (1878)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Qx4AXLHSuN0bF8w0Mxm9P?si=8353648b2fdf487a">Henri Vieuxtemps</a> (b. 1820): Violin Concerto No. 3 mvt 3 (1844), Violin Concerto No. 4 mvts 2-4 (1850)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MJ1qNeFtSVc8PanSkefX3?si=37b7130d7e014961">Edward Elgar</a> (b. 1857): Enigma Variations (1899), Pomp and Circumstance Marches (1901-1907 & 1930), Cello Concerto (1919)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2c5HbhSxfGyDyym6B6V7hk?si=c3298f862b9d4aff">Mikhail Glinka</a> (b. 1804): Spanish Overture No. 1 (1845), Spanish Overture No. 2 (1851)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2q9RtwKuoA2pEMTrk9bCSW?si=4aa11bcefc734ca9">Ernst von Dohnányi</a> (b. 1877): Ruralia Hungarica [orch.] mvts 2 & 5 (1924)</li>
<li>Plus the following composers for which I didn’t “strongly like” any of their pieces I listened to: Karl Goldmark (b. 1830), Anton Bruckner (b. 1824), Henri Duparc (b. 1848), Ethel Smyth (b. 1858), Giuseppe Torelli (b. 1658), Georg Philipp Telemann (b. 1681), Cesar Franck (b. 1822), Carl Maria von Weber (b. 1786), Giuseppe Martucci (b. 1856).</li>
</ul>
As a reminder, when I don’t list any works by a given composer, that just means I didn’t “love” or “strongly like” any of their works that I listened to, even if I “liked” a lot of them. And liking or disliking a piece is different from thinking it’s good/bad aesthetically.
<h3>Movies/TV</h3>
Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):
<ul>
<li>Soderbergh, Black Bag (2025)</li>
<li>Ho, Mickey 17 (2025)</li>
<li>Linklater, Hit Man (2023)</li>
<li>Baker, Anora (2024) ★</li>
<li>Various, Black Mirror, season 7 (2025)</li>
<li>Various, The Righteous Gemstones, season 4 (2025) ★</li>
<li>Hobkinson, Lover Stalker Killer (2024)</li>
<li>Saulnier, Rebel Ridge (2024)</li>
<li>Borgli, Dream Scenario (2023)</li>
<li>Rogen & Goldberg, The Studio, season 1 (2025) ★</li>
<li>Various, What We Do in the Shadows, season 1 (2019) ★</li>
<li>Various, What We Do in the Shadows, season 2 (2020) ★</li>
</ul>
<h3>Games</h3>
All games I finished or decided to stop playing:
<ul>
<li>★ Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty: A unique and highly ambitious game that, years after its release (with the 2.0 update and Phantom Liberty expansion), has finally come close to achieving its original ambitions. Great world-building, massive scope, open-ended exciting gameplay, frequently good storytelling, thought-provoking themes, and just lots of fun.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Books</h3>
I post book ratings and reviews to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/43134201-luke-muehlhauser?order=d&ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read&sort=date_read">my Goodreads account</a> instead of here.
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_9013" class="footnote">Here are ~all the works I listened to for some of the composers below: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Dk8IZrcwk0M1dRzWFgiVi?si=36b9ec9d7b224e8f">Yamada</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/66Fi9gKbQHelK9RKe02qe7?si=995b81e184ec499d">Subramaniam</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1E2wfyD7qnhLxJy77VaTyA?si=c7c01dfa236a4add">Einaudi</a>.</li><li id="footnote_1_9013" class="footnote">I think I hadn’t heard some of the classical pieces before, but I’m not sure which ones.</li><li id="footnote_2_9013" class="footnote">For Liszt, I listened to <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3JtjMF4xHtd9bK0KHkB874?si=c9287f7a887640a8">this ~complete works playlist</a> through S427 before switching to <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX93wmY669mVj?si=00e1e2b534e64504">this highlights playlist</a>. For Berlioz, I listened to <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Jg8Kb9ADYrP1QiPjMuiNf?si=e5f826cf753e4f01">this complete works playlist</a> through H81b before switching to <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWWq1x4amZ5Ls?si=6e777f0a8d934b86">this highlights playlist</a>. I listened only to highlights playlists (plus a smattering of other pieces) for <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6YERU0u9noHSIAvrnFUNjb?si=9d5712f128044d18">Holst</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX7NmqJ8kaoJN?si=0d47e29ad6e24106">Mussorgsky</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX0FIO61wizta?si=fede92bf01014ae9">Verdi</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX2hpSN9Q4Hfd?si=4494552a7b4b4de2">Smetana</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX0VplLa7NC0a?si=14910bc8974a4dc8">Rossini</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1td9dRrGIZoqAFAlGlwDl8?si=0f3174e8c22d45b0">Franck</a> (note the repeated pieces), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4WaNK4gmb5Z8VCDSNuQ9H8?si=d0cb655c817c4b3f">Weber</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qtwZLxvx8c8eWHrVWssAn?si=25699876da754204">Rameau</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2DGQ4Qn31gHI2lGL8WJeOS?si=a24d95cf4f0c402d">Alkan</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2n0JFR2qWz2eXhIgVbtwx7?si=04b3d1dfd23a4b3c">Torelli</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5HnwFJftPsc9aioNsJfcai?si=e056c57856214491">Telemann</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/51Yro3adT1cem184VkdV9C?si=dcb183b7331e4398">Spohr</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/776xPZdB5NoU82kG0KHS0m?si=8633587b159f4d42">Albeniz</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3FcCji0JKQ0tSBaDElHHIO?si=72c32684f9bf4e7c">Gounod</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7jKHZFwyswyku1hdTfRSRH?si=8a404dd537fa4b24">Bruch</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7i7lAHCpIXDYyQE6yW3Uzy?si=5d70867c6d144f4a">Duparc</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7fpPlL2kebiL1dEu4DVJrS?si=860c993fa7524655">Smyth</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/024BVqhSk3DmILxyevgusm?si=55ee1fe6692044e0">C.P.E. Bach</a> (only through 6 Prussian Sonatas), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fxpoxVzHFXogVRKndOcBb?si=cfe479a2aac34260">Bruckner</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HB2TDR6HLRc493dFBA7Ag?si=b784a5a30664431e">Borodin</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6WU1rm8MdAAMIHvvitRwZx?si=1d9380ce4508469c">Glazunov</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7HQpvXxchogps5umd7pMnI?si=917b600a23d444be">MacDowell</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1D45ECelfKamRm7Y48AGbj?si=ab890da7ebb948e0">d’Indy</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4kYsHUeAc4dtTfijTbQQez?si=e0d9528b06104ca3">Gade</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2oyritffBV3r1SrCrQuGzg?si=38d99d1103444fd3">Raff</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kJCXxqMTanJFIGPu9qxew?si=92cc49c343784de5">Goldmark</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jNkJPDnXvVsgfqBny1TNP?si=c65639393de7405e">Vieuxtemps</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7nVapIeOdEdtlcPSi619mG?si=2415403c2a944032">Martucci</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6IKHULQ9qeNrklSvZ4HJQD?si=d0351256fd7d4841">Elgar</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aY0v74yHaa6sxRK2Smg9L?si=c7daa915453344ab">Glinka</a>, and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2QcnFVZEoETiA9HRONbwPA?si=ad9952771303413f">Dohnányi</a>. I listened to complete works playlists for <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0yNJyY25tfxoCQENeoyKc7?si=3cc1ad06dc644048">Lalo</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6l1bxNGt0aJfno5ToWUqMx?si=ca855a4564534397">Wieniawski</a>.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Favorite musical artists, ranked by playtime of my favorite works of theirs</title>
<link>https://lukemuehlhauser.com/favorite-musical-artists-ranked-by-playtime-of-my-favorite-works-of-theirs/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I recently made Spotify playlists for all the music I “strongly like” (or better) by each of my favorite musical artists. That makes it easy to tell how many minutes of music I strongly like by each of them, so now I can rank them by that metric. This metric’s biggest downside is that it […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently made Spotify playlists for all the music I “strongly like” (or better) by each of my favorite musical artists. That makes it easy to tell how many minutes of music I strongly like by each of them, so now I can rank them by that metric.
This metric’s biggest downside is that it can’t track enjoyment differences within “strongly liked.” E.g. if I had to choose between the 3.5 hours I strongly like from <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7iSMp2IpEoDC6uKdDhajFQ?si=83dc65b794b74d15">Foals</a> and the 0.5 hours I strongly like from <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2JDmPfgewn0mz64XCZ4MoT?si=20f24ac2f9e2464e">Erik Satie</a>, I’d choose the Satie.
But still, I like this as a measure of my “favorite” artists, because:
<ul>
<li>I didn’t know in advance how the ranking would turn out.</li>
<li>It tracks something central: how much music did they make that I strongly like?</li>
</ul>
Before I present the ranking, a few clarifications:
<ul>
<li>I’ve rounded to the nearest 0.5 hours.</li>
<li>I typically only include one recording per track/composition (typically from a studio album), but in some cases I include additional performances by the original artist if they’re significantly changed from the original and I strongly like them, e.g.: some Phish live tracks, orchestral re-imaginings of Metallica tracks in the S&M albums, or live jazz performances that differ substantially from the originals while still involving the original composer (e.g. the high-speed versions of Miles Davis classics on Four & More).</li>
<li>For classical composers, I sometimes include later re-arrangements of their compositions either (a) instead of the original composition, if I like it better, or (b) in addition to the original composition, if they are now sufficiently “canon” (e.g. Ravel’s re-arrangements of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition).</li>
<li>Because of how jazz works, I often attribute an entire jazz album to the bandleader even if it includes a couple pieces written by others. (But if most tracks were originally composed by someone other than the bandleader, then I attribute them to the composer instead.)</li>
<li>The numbers below might not match what you see if you click through to a particular playlist, because I plan to continue updating the playlists as I listen and re-listen to music by these artists.</li>
</ul>
Now, the ranking (I’ll update the spreadsheet occasionally):
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A few observations:
<ul>
<li>This list is very different from what I would’ve said in response to “Who are your favorite musical artists?” before constructing this list. But when I look at each one, I think “Oh yeah, I do strongly like all the music on this playlist!” So this exercise was eye-opening to me.</li>
<li>This ranking privileges musical artists who are highly prolific and write long pieces, e.g. classical and jazz over rock/pop. But this is a feature not a bug: the classical and jazz artists really do compose more minutes of music I strongly like as a result of being more prolific.</li>
<li>I’m surprised by how diverse the genres represented at the top are. I would’ve expected my tastes to be more concentrated at the very top, rather than including not just jazz and contemporary classical but also e.g. psychedelic pop, post-rock, prog rock, industrial, electronica, a singer-songwriter, tribal ambient, art pop, jungle, etc.</li>
<li>Many of these artists are probably unusual choices for “favorite” artists, but only a few of them are truly “obscure” — on this “>5hrs” list it’s mainly Vampire Rodents / Ether Bunny, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Spring Heel Jack, and Ghost Rhythms (each have <1000 monthly listeners on Spotify).</li>
<li>After >20 years of listening to a huge variety of music fairly comprehensively, I am still discovering new favorite artists! For example, I more-or-less discovered L. Subramaniam in 2025, and David Maslanka in late 2024.</li>
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<title>Useful prompts for getting music recommendations from AI models</title>
<link>https://lukemuehlhauser.com/useful-prompts-for-getting-music-recommendations-from-ai-models/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Luke]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Today’s best AI “large language models” are especially good at tasks where hallucinations and other failures are low-stakes, such as making music recommendations. Here is continuously-updated doc of music search prompts I’ve found helpful, a few examples below: Which compositions by [composer] are most popular and/or highly regarded today? Please list 20 of their compositions […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today’s best AI “large language models” are especially good at tasks where hallucinations and other failures are low-stakes, such as making music recommendations.
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11iONknq4M_w4QMD9AV-_JerW0SJvPQhPT94LfMJwg0w/edit?tab=t.0">Here</a> is continuously-updated doc of music search prompts I’ve found helpful, a few examples below:
Which compositions by [composer] are most popular and/or highly regarded today? Please list 20 of their compositions in a table, along with the evidence that they are popular and/or highly regarded, and direct Spotify links to complete recordings where available (but it’s fine to list many compositions which aren’t available on Spotify).
**
What are 20 of the most celebrated covers or re-interpretation of compositions by [musical artist]? Please list each one in a table along with the performer(s), the release year of the cover/re-interpretation, a few notes about what is changed from the original, and a direct link to the piece on Spotify (where available).
**
Who are the top 20 most highly respected composers of [genre]? Please list them in a table, and for each composer please list 4 of their most celebrated works/albums.
**
Who are the top 20 contemporary classical composers who (a) mainly write notated music for performance by classically trained musicians, but who (b) frequently draw inspiration from popular electronic music genres in their compositions (e.g. breakbeat, drum and bass, dubstep, electro, EDM, grime, IDM, techno, or trance)? Please list them in a table with four columns: Composer, Example 1, Example 2, Example 3. Each of the three examples should be a composition by that composer which draws inspiration from popular electronic music genres, along with a short description of how, exactly, it draws inspiration from popular electronic music genres. Where possible, please link each listed composition title to a recording of the piece on Spotify (but it’s fine to list many compositions which aren’t available on Spotify).
Please don’t include any of the following composers, because I’m already familiar with them: [list of composers]
**
What are 20 of the most creatively unique and ambitious [genre] albums/compositions after 2000 that are also relatively “tonal” and “accessible” to the general listener? Please list each album/composition in a table along with its composer, release year, a paragraph describing what is so creatively ambitious about it, and a direct link to a complete recording of the piece on Spotify (where available). Please also limit yourself to one album/composition per musical artist.
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<title>Find classical music on Spotify with AI</title>
<link>https://lukemuehlhauser.com/find-classical-music-on-spotify-with-ai/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 11:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Spotify is very bad at searching for classical music recordings. For example: if I search Spotify for “telemann oboe concerto in a major”, my top results are Telemann’s Oboe Concerto in E Minor, Telemann’s Concerto for Flute… [TWV 54], Vivaldi’s Oboe Concerto in C Major, and many other other pieces I wasn’t looking for. If […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Spotify is very bad at searching for classical music recordings.
For example: if I search Spotify for “telemann oboe concerto in a major”, my top results are Telemann’s Oboe Concerto in E Minor, Telemann’s Concerto for Flute… [TWV 54], Vivaldi’s Oboe Concerto in C Major, and many other other pieces I wasn’t looking for. If I search the TWV catalogue number (“telemann 51:A2”), my top results are TWV 55:B1, TWV 51:G9, TWV 51:G2, and so on, without a TWV 51:A2 in sight.
Does this mean Spotify doesn’t have the piece I’m looking for? No, it has at least three recordings of it! <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6OLgSJRygT9K0a28jccIFl?si=tHZzqB6iTqiqdc27rcPvtw">One</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3GNEVyhChUyzUkASjIyW3y?si=bYbSB1T3S-uxEtXHvFeX8g">two</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3De6j8ZpHUEHVbsEqLbp0l?si=bJpPCTtgQkKl-FbiVEOplQ">three</a>.
So how did I find those? I asked <a href="https://www.perplexity.ai/">Perplexity</a> “Are there recordings of Telemann’s TWV 51:A2 available on Spotify? Please provide links.” This requires more typing and more clicks to find a recording than Spotify search would if Spotify wasn’t broken, but I’ve found Perplexity to be much better at finding classical music recordings on Spotify than Spotify is. (Other web-search-enabled AI systems may be similarly capable.)
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<title>Media diet for Q1 2025</title>
<link>https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q1-2025/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Luke]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Music Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter: Pinkshinyultrablast: Everything Else Matters (2015) Third Coast Percussion: Perspectives (2022) Chuquimamani-Condori [Elysia Crampton]: “Breathing” (2023) Bryce Dessner: Quilting (2014), “Haven” (2019), Trombone Concerto (2020), Violin Concerto (2021) Edward Ratliff: Wong Fei-Hong Meets Little Strudel (2000) Goat: Joy in Fear (2023) Eric Christian: Trois Valses Sentimentales (2022) Richard Harvey: […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Music</h3>
Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:
<ul>
<li>Pinkshinyultrablast: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5i4chaWK0h50pbc3WJNXhL?si=62f1725366d54035">Everything Else Matters</a> (2015)</li>
<li>Third Coast Percussion: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2AUnmw07MFTeszEU3myFhO?si=d94d6121c7cf48da">Perspectives</a> (2022)</li>
<li>Chuquimamani-Condori [Elysia Crampton]: “<a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/chuquimamani-condori/dj-e/">Breathing</a>” (2023)</li>
<li>Bryce Dessner: <a href="https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/52916/Quilting--Bryce-Dessner/">Quilting</a> (2014), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5PzH6fvZEf1N0PzXOMWbB5?si=5e5df086caef4adb">Haven</a>” (2019), <a href="https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/61080/Trombone-Concerto--Bryce-Dessner/">Trombone Concerto</a> (2020), <a href="https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/61079/Violin-Concerto--Bryce-Dessner/">Violin Concerto</a> (2021)</li>
<li>Edward Ratliff: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2iP4JfxIFqDc65hpo5peha?si=BVw0ELLTSByJqKlCIvlqQg">Wong Fei-Hong Meets Little Strudel</a> (2000)</li>
<li>Goat: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/goat/joy-in-fear/">Joy in Fear</a> (2023)</li>
<li>Eric Christian: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3IqingAnd6dDQUCSksY99U?si=xFvIcHBMRzCKHoconcAlBA">Trois Valses Sentimentales</a> (2022)</li>
<li>Richard Harvey: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5HOpPUHy2sSOAAOpNKm0YU?si=dcb32dac736942a4">Concerto Antico</a> (1995)</li>
<li>Los Angeles Guitar Quartet: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2aZQ3Kb8kYJOny3yUe7S3R?si=257c9258ed914e53">Jumpin’ at the Woodside</a>” (1995), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0I5t5uzRPaDKjYdj2dowcO?si=LtD3pG_NSlaD4pkYymUNNw">LAGQ</a> (1998)</li>
<li>Ian Krouse: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2HhwXvhSQEY7Md6JeRkZTe?si=0088760c81314c1b">Symphonies of Strings No. 1 “La Follia”</a> (1993), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ofWso9azNrDUV61fv3fp3?si=7de68659db7d4a21">Guitar Quartet No. 5 “Labyrinth”</a> (1995)</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q3-2023/">Previously</a>, I listened to hundreds of orchestral arrangements of non-orchestral compositions and listed my favorites. This quarter, I decided to explore acoustic guitar arrangements of classical compositions (by a different composer). Ones I especially liked, listed by performer, are [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aDwSn3CrG9HSRWTy0HD74?si=63763c699e344448">playlist</a>]:
<ul>
<li>Kazuhito Yamashita: Bach’s <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/12119114-Kazuhito-Yamashita-Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Kazuhito-Yamashita-Plays-J-S-Bach">BWV 1006 mvt 1</a> & <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/12119114-Kazuhito-Yamashita-Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Kazuhito-Yamashita-Plays-J-S-Bach">BWV 1007 mvt 1</a>; Debussy’s <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/13570983-Kazuhito-Yamashita-Naoko-Yamashita-2-Rimsky-Korsakov-Debussy-Fran%C3%A7aix-Rimsky-Korsakoff-Scheherazade">Petite Suite</a> & “<a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/13570983-Kazuhito-Yamashita-Naoko-Yamashita-2-Rimsky-Korsakov-Debussy-Fran%C3%A7aix-Rimsky-Korsakoff-Scheherazade">Passepied</a>“; Vivaldi’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Concerto-Guitar-Strings-Horns-Op/dp/B09QX9D4G2">RV 425 mvts 1 & 3</a></li>
<li>John C. Williams: Bach’s “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0CpGBtsDjKEM33mlR3Yt19?si=2ec851d4c01242fd">Air on a G String</a>“; Vivaldi’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2eevlWhpsfUNdrN6hlE0NJ?si=6d5ba813bacf4c5a">RV 93 mvt 2</a>; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4fp5coGXlWNbFQpMWoze26?si=87df3a41982c4b2e">The Baroque Album</a></li>
<li>Dublin Guitar Quartet: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2JSDiHyjo42UEL07mKVzg2?si=009993013f894465">Performs Philip Glass</a></li>
<li>Johan Smith: Schubert’s “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5cBhnG4cQq19QyzWBNZUIr?si=b0e3eb293ddf471a">Erlkönig</a>“</li>
<li>Los Angeles Guitar Quartet: Rimsky-Korasakov’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3csI5I1YQur29tzZQF8iL8?si=6f17465620124958">Capriccio espagnol</a>; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2ax63dKLsY1mJzF09An9TN?si=PGXSQt5IRwatip8pOHKJJA">For Thy Pleasure</a>; Bizet’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3D3lAVcaBoCjFQkT6IY1aq?si=89bf849dfe4a4f8b">Carmen Suite</a>; Tchaikovsky’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1C4NmpaLBDHsJtR7wCo8RK?si=8d499aaa75474eee">The Nutcracker Suite</a>; Warlock’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/71nCxocmpN9RqEdV5ogIxe?si=3315c1ecb67f4d0a">Capriol Suite</a>; Copland’s “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6Mc2Y4LQ8PFq5RXINLYexy?si=d9ed919b6a8f4df8">Simple Gifts</a>“</li>
<li>Amsterdam Guitar Trio: Vivaldi’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0Ho6hGH2g9kS4EprAJKIHt?si=9b0b672512644b62">The Four Seasons</a></li>
<li>Los Romeros: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0gAYmLP8jf2qhn3SNVMvy1?si=d0db44adf58145b9">Vivaldi Guitar Concertos</a></li>
<li>Vincent Airault: Debussy’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boxQZICU72U">Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun</a> (w/ flute);</li>
<li>Philip Hii: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4aldyoibuVaxK4VsuI9zWt?si=a2da8a7b0483465b">J.S. Bach: New Transcriptions for Guitar</a>;</li>
<li>Tariq Harb: Bach’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/458j0SwnI4VV5EuycU9meO?si=c8acb97b650842c9">Toccata and Fugue in D Minor</a>; Debussy’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3hoLr2WX5E5ZJVN9G5isqv?si=658287d9d98b463c">Clair de lune</a>; Beethoven’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3Nfz2XlNVkcuI0t4WMpOd5?si=fd3f8d08c8604de6">Fur Elise</a>;</li>
<li>Moran Wasser: Bach’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4cAzEvMsHE">Toccata and Fugue in D Minor</a>;</li>
<li>Vancouver Guitar Orchestra: Bach’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP1KkpWMZjg">Brandenburg Concerto No 3 mvt 1</a>;</li>
<li>Edson Lopes: Mozart’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f70UL6CZ8Lw">Eine kleine Nachtmusik mvt 1</a>;</li>
<li>Vera Danilina: Mozart’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqjP3mj1pA">Turkish March</a>;</li>
<li>Rolf van Meurs: Beethoven’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1OLLeDGhIXII4wRGEjwioH?si=d490d3fcaa1b473f">Symphony No. 7 mvt 2</a>; Shostakovich’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5TfRVTWKREgP0kn4asQTQZ?si=d079453eb7a9440b">Jazz Suite No. 1, Waltz No. 2</a>;</li>
<li>Bridget Mermikides: Mozart’s “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0vEnTGjd9o">Lacrimosa</a>“;</li>
<li>Emre Sabuncuoglu: Dvorak’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzpEKPhdGIM">Serenade for Strings mvt 2</a>;</li>
<li>Tim Sparks: Tchaikovsky’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bDCt9vMnPhU649CFXYXJZ?si=42118cd127e14af5">Nutcracker Suite</a>;</li>
<li>Julian Bream: Bach’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/72Z9yKG5CmkAA7BadiFkUx?si=40b9d71191704d2f">BWV 1006 mvt 1,</a> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3G0fj7kWVJZyfdxrfKz2cf?si=19cb73fa441f4aca">BWV 999</a>;</li>
<li>Eliot Fisk: Bach’s <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3AK7wXERcfNTA4aavChOWO?si=87571730b4704cce">BWV 1006 mvt 1</a>;</li>
</ul>

Rediscovered or revisited, and really liked:<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q1-2025/#footnote_0_8895" id="identifier_0_8895" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="I think I hadn’t heard some of the classical pieces before, but I’m not sure which ones.">1</a>
<ul>
<li>Seirom: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5MMDUk87rppjo8y1rp2XLb?si=332c906ce9664ab4">1973</a> (2012)</li>
<li>Kings of Leon: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/28rNyM2CKtOb4PYmsulQhF?si=88c593b5f187418f">Knocked Up</a>” (2007), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5VGlqQANWDKJFl0MBG3sg2?si=31b0a6c0fbe64316">Use Somebody</a>” (2008)</li>
<li>Fucked Up: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7zkEsxNt7y1KVlWJk1T0MK?si=a308650a11764719">Solomon’s Song</a>” (2010), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0B1vcLXP5Ffl3CVEp1ACin?si=1c50eef3ba6a4255">Onno</a>” (2012), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4t5vUCQhvP5BOwjMm6PYKI?si=a877b98cd8914d70">Act Four</a>” (2021)</li>
<li>Health: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7uL9Q8h4hzzCuGTZ3Yttmv?si=9d8487b20a0545c8">Stonefist</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7KnisSDxCCNAjl3ZH2t68M?si=d0314fee5cec4326">Men Today</a>” (2015)</li>
<li>Deerhunter: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7BbHXG8AmJNQ0w3hE6dU4q?si=PR45GjVyQlK5DC-_D2QumA">Cryptograms</a> (2007)</li>
<li>M83: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/44Sy39wQjQFX0jJOufXTvv?si=xlu9Sg3yRGytTYIOzzIkYg">Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts</a> (2003), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3l2yrGYoorWgamklnDhnQ1?si=bk1xv7R8RJC9NB9s26QyVg">Before the Dawn Heals Us</a> (2005), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6R0ynY7RF20ofs9GJR5TXR?si=3XIZI60wTCy5KRyhYYwCpA">Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming</a> (2011)</li>
<li>Serena-Maneesh: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5Op3sgXfa2wPGDzySdXKyH?si=yCOfNaMYT-2OV_UoVdFD5g">Serena-Maneesh</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Flotation Toy Warning: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7dtI4gOyh3dD8jW6mSLMg7?si=a9w8bXY1QsqFULKqCqQvNw">Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck</a> (2004), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6QUlM3W4m7WawXsi14VcJn?si=IzHntsrVRRS57dKLdoPgaA">The Machine That Made Us</a> (2017)</li>
<li>Plants: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/plants/double_infinity/">Double Infinity</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Brightblack Morning Light: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5K7nW8ddZbvFUNPjyNKPd8?si=2-MhpV1aTzWB6k2qHu_cSg">Brightblack Morning Light</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Gang Gang Dance: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1xmLomJ9aykHvxz3M2xiYQ?si=XPXxzp00RUuCvj0XuqHrtw">Saint Dymphna</a> (2008), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4bq7GESFNztOvUBKpWeh6N?si=e_Bh2Q78QQWX6wX_0NU_tw">Eye Contact</a> (2011)</li>
<li>Cave: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2pdUvvlEizh2PVjfuZxYmf?si=oNR030quQ3mB3Uew3EilVQ">Psychic Psummer</a> (2009), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3AT7qbnze2ihfjeVcfNb5a?si=z3vw194tQ-mhQUslE6CxxA">Pure Moods</a> (2010), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0a4GYQnTdJV4GFxDMmkOBN?si=73d305b0eb53468c">Neverendless</a> (2011)</li>
<li>Shit and Shine: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4u7CKzsqd64BuWl3Xx6evJ?si=135e6c13bb3248be">Ladybird</a> (2005), “<a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/shit-and-shine/jealous-of-shit-and-shine/">Practicing to Be a Doctor</a>” (2006)</li>
</ul>
And with that, I finally finished my third listen-through of every album and track listed in <a href="https://scaruffi.com/history/long.html">Scaruffi’s history of rock music</a>. (A couple years ago I finished my 2nd listen-through of his <a href="https://scaruffi.com/history/jazz.html">jazz history</a>, and last year I listened through <a href="https://scaruffi.com/history/film.html">his history of film music</a>.) The Spotify playlists I made for each chapter in the rock history book are <a href="https://scaruffi.com/history/playlist.html">here</a>.
More albums I rediscovered and really liked:
<ul>
<li>Eddie Henderson: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/eddie-henderson/realization/">Realization</a> (1973), <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/eddie-henderson/inside-out/">Inside Out</a> (1974)</li>
<li>Joe Jackson: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2CoIFjkzcU36UfCDaHPmUq?si=JKLeUgF1SnCTLjVA2Iwlaw">Heaven & Hell </a>(1997)</li>
<li>Slow Loris: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/slow_loris/the_ten_commandments_and_two_territories_according_to___/">The Ten Commandments and Two Territories According to…</a> (1996)</li>
</ul>
I also resumed listening through complete works playlists for classical composers, picking up with <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0EE1R6xLQwvjTpKsJVjWVy?si=7964ed4ef1304f0b">Rimsky-Korsakov </a>and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0P6jnRxZaE3yoH6K8i9sHn?si=8644577d80d442c1">Mendelssohn</a>. My favorites were:
<ul>
<li>Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7nR1NIV5kzjPZ7tlYy4qp3?si=ca20ab4ea8cf4684">playlist</a>]: Quintet in B Flat mvt 1 (1876), Capriccio espagnol (1887), Scheherazade (1888), Russian Easter Festival Overture (1888), Mlada Suite (1890), The Snow Maiden Suite (1895), “Flight of the Bumblebee” (1900), Christmas Eve Suite (1903)</li>
<li>Felix Mendelssohn [<a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7tDIyGf6R79wRQEFPA5Ikb?si=df3726ce21d8402b">playlist</a>]: String Octet in E-Flat Major (1825), String Quartet No. 1 mvt 4 (1829), The Hebrides (1830), “Ich will hier bei Dir stehen” (1830), Capriccio Brillant in B Minor (1832), Rondo Brillante in E Flat Major (1834), Symphony No. 3 mvt 2 (1842), “Wedding March” (1842), Violin Concerto (1844), Piano Trio No. 2 (1845)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Movies/TV</h3>
Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):
<ul>
<li>Various, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 14 (2019)</li>
<li>Schaffer, Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 12 (2024) ★</li>
<li>Various, Severance, season 2 (2025) ★</li>
<li>Randall, Slow Horses, season 4 (2024) ★</li>
<li>Barantini, Adolescence (2025) ★</li>
<li>Guadagnino, Challengers (2024)</li>
<li>Mann, Inside Out 2 (2024)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Games</h3>
All games I finished or decided to stop playing:
<ul>
<li>Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom: The new “echoes” mechanic brings in some of the creative freedom of Breath of the Wild and especially Tears of the Kingdom, but this 2D Zelda is still much smaller and less open-world than those games, and it has too high a portion of its time spent in unskippable dialogue or miniature cutscenes, and the Zelda series has never been well-written. Still fun overall.</li>
<li>Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: A very on-point nostalgia trip for fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and consistently fun, with diverse locations and great pacing.</li>
<li>Horizon: Forbidden West: A very good game that had the misfortune of being released one week before what turned out to be the best video game of all time (Elden Ring). Forbidden West improves on Zero Dawn in every way: the already-great combat is even deeper and richer while still being accessible; the world is more varied and well-populated; the gear and enemies are more varied; the side quests are more varied, dynamic, and interesting; and the story is better-told and with fewer annoying exposition dumps. There are still some weaknesses, and I still prefer open-world games with less hand-holding / checkboxes, but this is probably one of the best open-world action/adventure/RPG games this side of Zelda and Elden Ring.</li>
<li>★ Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree: A fantastic expansion pack, basically as good as the base game except of course less innovative. Very plausibly the best game of its year despite being a DLC. I haven’t beaten the final boss yet but otherwise I made it through most of the content. The build variety and balance in this game is crazy good, and FromSoft’s level/world design remains unmatched (afaik) in the Soulslike genre.</li>
<li>★ Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: Less technically polished than many big-budget open world games, but the gameplay systems are especially immersive and addicting, the quest design is very good, the world is rich and alive, the writing and voice acting are next-level, and the commitment to realism pays off in numerous ways. Overall, it reminded me most of RDR2. The hype is real; this has to be one of the best open-world RPGs ever made. The review I resonate with most is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wFHtqKYMaM">this one by Skill Up</a>.</li>
<li>Ghost of Tsushima: Its gorgeous visuals are typically unobstructed by any HUD. A surprisingly good story, and I really liked the final chapter. The gameplay was good but not great, e.g. the enemy targeting was kinda janky, the loot was minimal (most of it just generic “supplies”!), a lot of the game was too on-rails for my tastes (“return to the quest area in 15 seconds!”), and more.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Books</h3>
I post book ratings and reviews to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/43134201-luke-muehlhauser?order=d&ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read&sort=date_read">my Goodreads account</a> instead of here. Last year I averaged ~5000 pages per month, but this year I’m reading much less so far.
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 05:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Since I began reading fiction again in late 2023 (in my late 30s, after a >15yr hiatus from fiction), I’ve been tracking my reading on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/43134201-luke-muehlhauser?order=d&ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read&sort=date_read">Goodreads</a>, and rating works I finish 1-5 stars based on pure enjoyment rather than e.g. artistic merit. I’ve now finished reading 151 “books” (including e.g. short stories), all but 8 of those in 2024, with an average work length of 425 pages. (Counting “books read this year” with no mention of pages is strange to me, since books vary enormously in length. E.g. Goodreads says the shortest “book” I read in 2024 was <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17563539-the-egg">3 pages</a>, and the longest was <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality">2184 pages</a>.) My reading rate was surprisingly steady in 2024: I read between 4500 and 5800 pages each month, without exception.
Of works I’ve finished (151) or <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/43134201-luke-muehlhauser?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=did-not-finish">DNF’d</a> (quit; 80), I rated only 5% (13 total) of those 5 stars. But I expect the “favorite” and “best” lists below to change significantly from year to year, as I’ve read very few books so far.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/best-and-favorite-books-as-of-the-end-of-2024/#footnote_0_8578" id="identifier_0_8578" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="My TBR (to be read) list is >3800 items long, and that’s only counting one work per series for books in a series. To give you a sense of how little I’ve read, some famous authors I haven’t yet tried at all (as an adult) include the Brontës, Shakespeare, Mann, and Dumas. Even within my favorite genres (fantasy, sci-fi, historical fiction), I haven’t yet tried (as an adult): JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Roald Dahl, GRR Martin, Steven Erikson, Anne Rice, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Jules Verne, William Gibson, Michael Crichton, Liu Cixin, Hilary Mantel, Colleen McCullough, Bernard Cornwell, James Clavell, Edward Rutherfurd, or Patrick O’Brian.">1</a>
<h3>Favorite works</h3>
Below are the 5-star works I most enjoyed so far. When multiple works are from the same author and I enjoyed them similarly, I combine them into one item.
<ol>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary">Project Hail Mary</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove">Lonesome Dove</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth">The Pillars of the Earth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944076.Last_Argument_of_Kings">Last Argument of Kings</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/902715.Before_They_Are_Hanged">Before They Are Hanged</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2315892.Best_Served_Cold">Best Served Cold</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13521459-red-country">Red Country</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6844956773">The Heroes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60931.Kindred">Kindred</a></li>
</ol>
Other 5-star books: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/890.Of_Mice_and_Men">Of Mice and Men</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39803561-the-paper-menagerie">The Paper Menagerie</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166997.Stoner">Stoner</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5064.World_Without_End">World Without End</a>.
<h3>Best 5-star works</h3>
Here are the works I enjoyed at a 5-star level that I’d rate highest for “aesthetic value” or “artistic merit” or something like that:
<ol>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove">Lonesome Dove</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166997.Stoner">Stoner</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/890.Of_Mice_and_Men">Of Mice and Men</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6844956773">The Heroes</a></li>
</ol>
There are some novels I’ve read or DNF’d that might be as good (on “artistic merit”) as some of those listed above, but I didn’t also enjoy them at the 5-star level — e.g. possibly The Sound and the Fury, The Master and Margarita, The Grapes of Wrath, Lolita, or A Confederacy of Dunces.
<h3>Favorite authors</h3>
To calculate my favorite authors, I’ll award each author 1 point for each page in a 4.5-star work,<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/best-and-favorite-books-as-of-the-end-of-2024/#footnote_1_8578" id="identifier_1_8578" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Annoyingly, Goodreads doesn’t allow scoring with half-points, but I have written “4.5 stars” in the Goodreads review of each book I’m rating 4.5 stars.">2</a> and 2 points for each page in a 5-star work.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/best-and-favorite-books-as-of-the-end-of-2024/#footnote_2_8578" id="identifier_2_8578" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="For page counts, I use figures from Goodreads.">3</a> By that metric (calculations <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cXJ_A_APOjDbuDQe_txKSh2F7tFyRNlKWjI-wyV1i6Y/edit?gid=183635718#gid=183635718">here</a>), my favorite authors to date are:
<ol>
<li>Joe Abercrombie (5637 points across 6 works)</li>
<li>Ken Follett (4426 points across 2 works)</li>
<li>Larry McMurtry (2467 points across 2 works)</li>
<li>Brandon Sanderson (2095 points across 2 works)</li>
</ol>
<h3>Commentary</h3>
<ul>
<li>Some works are hard to classify by genre, but I’ll say 6 of my five-star reads are primarily historical fiction, 5 are primarily fantasy, 1 is primarily science fiction, and 1 I’ll call “<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39803561-the-paper-menagerie">other</a>.”</li>
<li>I generally prefer genre/commercial fiction to literary fiction. Only one of my 5-star reads has the “literary fiction” tag on Goodreads (Stoner).</li>
<li>The oldest 5-star fiction work I’ve read is Of Mice and Men (1937), the shortest is The Paper Menagerie (32 pages), and the longest is World Without End (1237 pages).</li>
<li>It’s interesting that Project Hail Mary is my favorite novel, and it was only the 5th novel I read as an adult. When will I find something I like even more? Or, is this an artifact of my being easier to thrill and impress back when I had read almost nothing?</li>
</ul>
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_8578" class="footnote">My <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/43134201-luke-muehlhauser?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=to-read&sort=date_added">TBR</a> (to be read) list is >3800 items long, and that’s only counting one work per series for books in a series. To give you a sense of how little I’ve read, some famous authors I haven’t yet tried at all (as an adult) include the Brontës, Shakespeare, Mann, and Dumas. Even within my favorite genres (fantasy, sci-fi, historical fiction), I haven’t yet tried (as an adult): JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Roald Dahl, GRR Martin, Steven Erikson, Anne Rice, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Jules Verne, William Gibson, Michael Crichton, Liu Cixin, Hilary Mantel, Colleen McCullough, Bernard Cornwell, James Clavell, Edward Rutherfurd, or Patrick O’Brian.</li><li id="footnote_1_8578" class="footnote">Annoyingly, Goodreads doesn’t allow scoring with half-points, but I have written “4.5 stars” in the Goodreads review of each book I’m rating 4.5 stars.</li><li id="footnote_2_8578" class="footnote">For page counts, I use figures from Goodreads.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Media diet for Q4 2024</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Music Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter: Lusaint: “Wicked Game” (2021) The Smile: “Zero Sum” (2024) Foxing: Foxing (2024) Jhariah: Trust Ceremony (2024) Godspeed You! Black Emperor: No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead (2024) Xiu Xiu: 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips (2024) Colin Stetson: The Love It […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Music</h3>
Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:
<ul>
<li>Lusaint: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDUptOux5v4">Wicked Game</a>” (2021)</li>
<li>The Smile: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7tJ2ZPwHRrPTy1OW7jais0?si=521add9ce19f454e">Zero Sum</a>” (2024)</li>
<li>Foxing: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7wtRnGjfT3JMeseYGVzDy3?si=8af61e97936b4376">Foxing</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Jhariah: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0qlhHGeAVsdJNiKJbHFuEY?si=655f59b20cc04977">Trust Ceremony</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Godspeed You! Black Emperor: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1qG30zCAZ30hsmA5wAlaQ3?si=8582bdcfdf2340c5">No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Xiu Xiu: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/26lGRXjjQ6nET30Z5CAaGt?si=7408e30810de4cf2">13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Colin Stetson: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2Mlw1kA7MvXc7rtlBba4KN?si=8d5a566180174519">The Love It Took to Leave You</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Ekaterina Shelehova: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3XN3MLpVCSgyeei69MY7r2?si=333ba2101fc94509">Earth Melodies</a>” (2021), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1LAhMTnNHtlr8uLNlt6MxB?si=eafb8e4e0216471d">Awakening</a>” (2023), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0jZq0zDujagh2kLVYVGsN8?si=57d32e5e468442c8">Savage Daughter</a>” (2023), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3Zz0jQHMZ3VcJFMRUSwjqk?si=0494e4105fad47b7">My Mother Told Me</a>” (2024)</li>
<li>Time is a Mountain: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2kYF89jBfpjskNXjT79VxL?si=2d611d1cc9124b7e">III</a> (2021)</li>
<li>Crystal Antlers: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3Qj8hJfFLutW1bbzMwcaEC?si=b433a2af13554a59">EP</a> (2008), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0TGWePpU15uLj6QbZgGMgF?si=e289e000d52e42cc">Tentacles</a> (2009)</li>
<li>Patricia Brennan: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7AFqBcQrNtRtVEl5HYZKo0?si=ec8e715ff0fb4a50">Breaking Stretch</a> (2024)</li>
<li>SML: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3DpHrOJuKw6QSfcvLNanRO?si=343a207da2bd4b29">Small Medium Large</a> (2024)</li>
<li>ØKSE: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4T9BgaUV5i2G4juZaC20aI?si=820db35dae7c48af">ØKSE</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Ches Smith: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4MGsvqmq3B3vG4xK33dGva?si=5bf8913c97c34ed3">Laugh Ash</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Joey Duran: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0aXndHmnpUHmmDgCztGcPs?si=538dd749356d4bc6">The Meteorologist</a>” (2024)</li>
</ul>

Rediscovered or revisited, and really liked:<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q4-2024/#footnote_0_8762" id="identifier_0_8762" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="I think I hadn’t heard some of the classical pieces before, but I’m not sure which ones.">1</a>
<ul>
<li>Arcade Fire: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6ZB8qaR9JNuS0Q0bG1nbcH?si=WPxxQOphTrKni0fl1YBcIA">Funeral</a> (2004), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4GT6uZod4p5RiDMOVHOMme?si=gsF-aVq2SAqlc1ZnbZ6XqQ">Neon Bible</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3DrgM5X3yX1JP1liNLAOHI?si=9d5505527f4e454b">The Suburbs</a> (2010), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4E0m7AIVc2d2QZMrMNXdMZ?si=u8xg7oe0SmGk5ogPl_6qFQ">Reflektor</a> (2013)</li>
<li>Islands: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0gnBwwOLS8vAGLm3dbdvVR?si=0f2cb6f0665444db">Return to the Sea</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Electrelane: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0uaMMQAJ1jAsHoi46wviXO?si=nr4FktAwR16qMa9FeQXAPw">Rock It to the Moon</a> (2001)</li>
<li>65daysofstatic: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/39TrTBzr6CRFRnh8AqxSub?si=maonhF4uQkyk9xARA5nQ5A">The Fall of Math</a> (2004)</li>
<li>Fuck Buttons: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/fuck-buttons/street-horrrsing/">Street Horrrsing</a> (2008), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7tilRUU7WANATJdxhMO3p8?si=Kyj4KL0RQRWc9ZNyW2aXdA">Tarot Sport</a> (2009), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2GpgIyzxzxCNmkWL1EZW2C?si=cQI02VMKSfuZU5-Dl2N3tQ">Slow Focus</a> (2013)</li>
<li>Blanck Mass: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2hJlRNULbdNrEhkB4lUvpP?si=7b5e108b58db450b">Cruel Sport</a>” (2015), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6WElx5zuqd2CYiyea4oEc8?si=4SLP9R1LQt6-kwXWGfvBBw">World Eater</a> (2017), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7JNpKXO7XTO5iQhaXy9rrm?si=b33c0ec4b1a94d1c">Death Drop</a>” (2019)</li>
<li>Vessels: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4kB1vlgei2DvIweeBoiNVu?si=--0FiSEzTtakYxJrCn6Gxg">White Fields & Open Devices</a> (2008)</li>
<li>Magyar Posse: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/magyar-posse/kings-of-time/">Kings of Time</a> (2004), “<a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/magyar-posse/random-avenger/">European Lover / Random Avenger</a>” & “<a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/magyar-posse/random-avenger/">Intercontinental Hustle</a>” (2006)</li>
<li>Jacaszek: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6sqxpIFCLiOHsOyfNt2RiH?si=024950aba18b4e0b">Dare-Gale</a>” and “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1hsJcvovLvqj4yLryTToHk?si=9c09c8116d344183">As Each Tucked String Tells</a>” (2011)</li>
<li>Menomena: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0Ef9G8Qm9RMZYwgDJvDRHF?si=_H5PqH5RTXOTILTh3gFFig">I Am the Fun Blame Monster!</a> (2003), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7cda5qusQ6FCGGMXBgrk5c?si=FFOaBmSwTYW2iqJfXPnkkQ">Under an Hour</a> (2006), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6YBF3Qn0qAIjbluTMA82MP?si=kp_3RBbvTYu8U_AeNKWwOA">Friend and Foe</a> (2007)</li>
<li>The Mars Volta: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0hB42ZAD897hziy7Jfe6Si?si=bd5e2ca6dd0b4cf3">Tremulant</a> (2002), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0CA2EVHhRPR5VPV78KZw89?si=R2FaMjytSz-Yt6r9ffPUkQ">Deloused in the Comatorium</a> (2003), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/58NwaSn26UT4s8AGg4GImo?si=84_L2Bl1S3OCDwZ3HJ0Guw">Frances the Mute</a> (2005), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/62t7avflSxMRfEoJEhFikS?si=00f7c987e6e143cb">The Bedlam in Goliath</a> (2008)</li>
<li>Far Corner: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/far_corner/far_corner/">Far Corner</a> (2004), <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/far_corner/endangered/">Endangered</a> (2007)</li>
<li>By the End of Tonight: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1C2uKlxtDv9Z9XccVP7Jpz?si=1114c6f0d01247a0">Fireworks on Ice</a> (2004), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3UwRGlKDtm7qLrQdzwbToO?si=28069d8afb7c424b">Uncontrollable Like a Teenage Daughter</a>” (2006), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3vUoZgv886kUl3zrVPQnEH?si=769kpNvsTs21asnplMJmiw">A Tribute to Tigers</a> (2007)</li>
<li>Mono: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/01ComjJZPNrun2iy8vgwYL?si=807e0380129a485b">Com</a>” (2002)</li>
<li>Mew: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4mGwWfixnHdScB5t7oM5XL?si=yqGnbcYxRlKNeBvWrzVg7A">Frengers</a> (2003)</li>
<li>Apparat: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6uHc9hwGn1hyg0UQpoPHpy?si=fe2e64f299514154">Multifunktionsebene</a> (2001), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0ZeHWTebn6GpBarBlz7t5t?si=7a967155942542ed">Duplex</a> (2003)</li>
<li>Hauschka: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6ThX6T0heoaEDjsvyC9CdB?si=1b8weSyTT5upsaYqDFFaEg">Salon des Amateurs</a> (2011), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3SrqjCCTDqBjW5W6HkbZQb?si=1Xy3GVl7TTaI-xcsoa9FLg">Silfra</a> (2012), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/73WY0lf1gNMes3YIwiNJSX?si=e785175285ee4664">Abandoned City</a> (2014), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6YAluPsAWDZ6rvwwNDyFsV?si=00e2a1df4a2b4305">What If </a>(2017)</li>
<li>Blues Traveler: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/27IRo2rYeizhRMDaNVplNM?si=b4d23229bf494287">Hook</a>” (1994)</li>
<li>White Flight: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5UqucbHyrovzWe2F3nFZ3q?si=5aa51bba7da44d77">White Flight</a> (2006), <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Ratatat/comments/gmf1n4/white_ark_lost_white_flight_ratatat_album/">White Ark</a> (2009)</li>
<li>Tape: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3WcBugDAPzA1QVpLgH0mcL?si=qDY8vz_zSA6S3Ht9i81uxg">Rideau</a> (2005)</li>
<li>Ben Frost: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3cmyHos30q47rAcxM9cZeH?si=669d14f9ee414696">Theory of Machines</a>” (2007), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3d5xek3sC2pUTzVN3rSrjx?si=d12038f3d6b44f39">Peter Venkman Pt. 1</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5XvHgM0mRZFGmCQhUzurAG?si=e5177531f9f84ed5">Peter Venkman Pt. 2</a>” (2022)</li>
<li>Simian Mobile Disco: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2E1ZDtrJtsWdkyIbPDwFTu?si=da43132878674321">Sleep Deprivation</a>” (2007)</li>
<li>Hot Chip: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3RCj5fG55qjtmnEML1gpnA?si=4bba410e5a2e43db">Over and Over</a>” (2006), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/65NKfdLTAnL8ubOho5jCXA?si=01058f96ce364c4a">Flutes</a>” (2012)</li>
<li>The Killers: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4undIeGmofnAYKhnDclN1w?si=FEXWWLE6TRG8ZdO8GR0GeQ">Hot Fuss</a> (2004)</li>
<li>Ratatat: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4JKPD5CoWpBbzf2WwokRSp?si=5aQG6ahCTzuic1JiRQg2dg">Ratatat</a> (2004), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2n5wpk7KaHpp3mgUYqpF4f?si=pp3ePHMlTmGAv13mMZ3uPQ">Classics</a> (2006), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1S5qqMTBnHQhmI2wtrvwr8?si=YVqhBoVOR9ySBS7v8EWsRg">LP3</a> (2008), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/72aBWaiTnk9GHNcuMuZwcJ?si=93e6fJZgRQmvpBbGkrFZqQ">LP4</a> (2010)</li>
<li>LCD Soundsystem: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6aSk2vxoY3xtz7cXKuY9EL?si=4scGdHeuQSmJzmixj-SF6g">LCD Soundsystem</a> (2005), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1R8kkopLT4IAxzMMkjic6X?si=EX-qRQVcQPa3U87W5iu1Cw">Sound of Silver</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0Tw4IEPDfOj7cLefk75Qft?si=jzy500EXTZ-Howe72L3R7g">45:33</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0hdimlCTCms7otJCX9OvqM?si=2L3vWr8uR1O8YRWXXjx09A">American Dream</a> (2017)</li>
<li>MGMT: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6mm1Skz3JE6AXneya9Nyiv?si=9xzAdPXtSduz8lx-gpvAGw">Oracular Spectacular</a> (2007)</li>
<li>Lindstrom: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2UgBnndv2za2f7Ijb2uuar?si=Sdu1cds_Q4C8GMoRJFApPQ">Fast & Delirious</a>” (2006), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6AcCTShJ2PHc4pzX2atLPa?si=63SYA581RdS89hzOqmlWVg">Where I Go You Go Too</a>” (2008)</li>
<li>Vitalic: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3FbISaAK2oqQeLZACLifbo?si=614111aa3688458b">OK Cowboy</a> (2005)</li>
<li>Justice: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/177kWWNUxsW0MT8ZbCi4vt?si=8zzx1cOVR9C1wGFoeWpkqQ">Cross</a> (2007), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6EHqTINRmQ3LLLV1zZRhAt?si=75irnOWkR4qKFZC3y4B8iQ">Civilization</a>” (2011)</li>
<li>!!!: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/_/the-dis-ease-the-funky-branca/">The Dis-Ease / The Funky Branca</a> (1998), “<a href="https://zumaudio.bandcamp.com/album/lab-series-vol-2?from=embed#:~:text=4.-,!!!%20%2D%20Instinct,-11%3A59">Instinct</a>” (1999), <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/____f1/___/">!!!</a> (2000), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6D46fenYr525Ozdrd5k9ua?si=e4e5ddd05f82413d">Louden Up Now</a> (2004), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7HVmUNOZEGHUpdNmY8L8Ue?si=a54159a5853f4e5e">Myth Takes</a> (2007)</li>
<li>Field: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4qhALEWvyUldHFGQyZIkqy?si=0fc21c7cfed945ad">Looping State of Mind</a>” (2011)</li>
<li>James Holden: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1lphmqrrNqhZtIxhG0EwVi?si=e1c853d02f9a40a0">Lump</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2HrcY0PJIBNJPLjqJqTHiU?si=ecc192914ab34511">Idiot</a>” (2006), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1cyyJp2x73H6a5buSo0SvR?si=6e7551b0a02c4694">The Inheritors</a> (2013), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/10QkV4igUtGyn58gFBlaus?si=6b0d4e6e8dc14c0a">The Animal Spirits</a> (2017), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4c04wXoadgnqqrxeDUCnFP?si=cabb6aafcac341f0">Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities</a> (2023)</li>
<li>Andy Stott: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6XpD4GhQq4olgxxgX6BXdv?si=pOAdDCDaSBakJ2cIcOpxRQ">Luxury Problems</a> (2012)</li>
<li>Jon Hopkins: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0Dg1KwgmtUzeMQonDCUFhQ?si=f782c581feca414d">Immunity</a> (2013)</li>
<li>The Fiery Furnaces: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/52LMLDFVwE9QOeCjueXnFD?si=wpu3W2pjSD6NY8cfMqBezw">Blueberry Boat</a> (2004)</li>
<li>Earthless: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/earthless/sonic-prayer/">Sonic Prayer</a> (2005), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1O6L469K4MQGwxRltbDTbp?si=affae08497cb45e1">Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky</a> (2007), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7FZg4pL3i6DZYcrJkJogVV?si=e692961d3bfb495d">From the Ages</a>” (2013)</li>
<li>Between the Buried and Me: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7pQSwujyYbzU35XZeXLpOc?si=527d0c60891c4b93">Ants of the Sky</a>” (2007)</li>
<li>Dale Cooper Quartet: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/49B0x7zpHwrWRjriQaRmGs?si=e91bc97785c54705">Parole de Navarre</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/47FeK8ZQNlu33ZeOsh9LLS?si=63ce28405f664624">Quatorze pièces de menace</a> (2013)</li>
<li>Tank: “<a href="https://dieselcombustiblerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/66-nord">Gunnar</a>” (1997)</li>
<li>Alcest: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1zQQoViMwTIXwmidyqTXdF?si=efb250189694400f">Souvenirs d’un autre monde</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6b9NZDM5QhD2FViyXKwBRT?si=Eu8VLa-3TaGavM0biqur2Q">Écailles de lune</a> (2010), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7cf5MM7qQ6V0Petqr4aeZ2?si=10f392e96a394f72">Kodama</a> (2016), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6o13o3tlmwPYFnlIrVoRhh?si=642a8b01312a458e">Spiritual Instinct</a> (2019), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/24nGcIMJdnThRbgxpovlpy?si=f4153aef6b6b42ad">Les Chants de l’aurore</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Parallel Mind: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/parallel-mind/colossus-adea/">Colossus ADEA</a> (2005)</li>
<li>Torche: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2XIEXoSOhsWIzpUDdNICoy?si=0eeb64291aab47ec">Triumph of Venus</a>” (2008)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Movies/TV</h3>
Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):
<ul>
<li>Various, Shogun (2024)</li>
<li>Various, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 13 (2018)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Games</h3>
All games I finished or decided to stop playing:
<ul>
<li>Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora: I played this ~1yr ago but only recently decided I wouldn’t be going back to it. I enjoyed it quite a lot. Like many people, the main thing I want from an Avatar video game is to wander around in its incredibly lush world, interact with its beautiful plants and animals, fly on ikran, etc. And this game delivered that fantasy. The rest of the game is moderately modified Far Cry, which was fine by me. I think I played about 50% of the way through, which was enough for me given how little of my time budget is devoted to video games these days.</li>
<li>God of War Ragnarok: A generally excellent sequel, though of course not as innovative as its predecessor. I made it to the boss fight with Heimdall, but found that fight too annoying to complete. I suppose if the world and level design here was as good as FromSoft then I would have ground my way through or spent a bunch of time finding a workable cheese, like I do when I hit an annoying boss fight in FromSoft games.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Books</h3>
I post book ratings and reviews to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/43134201-luke-muehlhauser?order=d&ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read&sort=date_read">my Goodreads account</a> instead of here.
My only five-star read this quarter was Red Country. Some books I previously rated 5 stars were downgraded because I decided to change where my thresholds are.
It’s unfortunate that I consume fiction during generally low-attention time, in audiobook, and that I have such particular tastes about writing style. There are many great stories that I’m DNF’ing or only half-liking as a result, and I’d enjoy them more if I had a more flexible reading appetite like I do with music and film/TV. Fortunately, this factor is somewhat compensated for by the fact that there are far more excellent books than there are excellent films / TV shows.
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_8762" class="footnote">I think I hadn’t heard some of the classical pieces before, but I’m not sure which ones.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>Media diet for Q3 2024</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Music Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter: Gregorio Allegri: “Miserere” (c. 1635) Dimash & Chanté Moore: “Lose Control” (2024) Clark: Playground in a Lake (2021) The Last Dinner Party: “Call Me” (2024), Prelude to Ecstasy (2024) Varijashree Venugopal: Vari (2024) Ske: Insolubilia (2021) Ni: Fol Naïs (2023) The Octopus Project: Hexadecagon (2010) Foals: Total Life Forever […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Music</h3>
Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:
<ul>
<li>Gregorio Allegri: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2ED1VZ53iRImo252U2PEsu?si=bb5ff56033f74820">Miserere</a>” (c. 1635)</li>
<li>Dimash & Chanté Moore: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugEBRmsuVaY">Lose Control</a>” (2024)</li>
<li>Clark: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6r3sWdrXNAhqOgGlM5ZKNY?si=f9b6c0e517644f96">Playground in a Lake</a> (2021)</li>
<li>The Last Dinner Party: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCt0n-lqys">Call Me</a>” (2024), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1ycq58KRtWt3wFtbuIkvLn?si=574a77eeac7845bb">Prelude to Ecstasy</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Varijashree Venugopal: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0yP0Y5UeIqn0PaMMczQVtI?si=045fdbb69b644408">Vari</a> (2024)</li>
<li>Ske: <a href="https://skeskeskeskeske.bandcamp.com/album/insolubilia">Insolubilia</a> (2021)</li>
<li>Ni: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6YYRVHcivfeo5tCJKKKSJo?si=a8d4011bfb024acb">Fol Naïs</a> (2023)</li>
<li>The Octopus Project: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3vvtrA4QkyqBmdFWj8BC7X?si=be391d9d2de54e10">Hexadecagon</a> (2010)</li>
<li>Foals: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/670h50t8E3LwP2bGqxGi6E?si=7109194de00a4cba">Total Life Forever</a> (2010), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0RyCpIKlCV0kgEuzrmp73O?si=b68f9cedae8a492f">What Went Down</a> (2015)</li>
</ul>

Rediscovered or revisited, and really liked:<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q3-2024/#footnote_0_8567" id="identifier_0_8567" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="I think I hadn’t heard some of the classical pieces before, but I’m not sure which ones.">1</a>
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<li>Glitch Mob: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4c5fhgLoAaFzwjNTxC57jK?si=b050ccd522c64bb1">Drink the Sea</a> (2010)</li>
<li>Fiona Apple: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5gVBXH8MT6zfdRkjp7qT18?si=Rm-1uXoQTA-Itex02dZY-Q">Tidal</a> (1996), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3o5EnVZNJXtfPV8tCoagjI?si=EncI47SyTLWbfXC3bcrb0w">When the Pawn…</a> (1999), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6B5favhKTShFTjRLsKIUfa?si=c1bbdc668fb54935">The Idler Wheel…</a> (2012), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0fO1KemWL2uCCQmM22iKlj?si=T_U_9SfZRgSteVCOdajOOw">Fetch the Bolt Cutters</a> (2020)</li>
<li>Heather Duby: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6gRHcLsa7RGiQzTSSDpFZe?si=i-tUQEvGRS-uGPImQsR1VA">Post to Wire</a> (1999)</li>
<li>Shannon Wright: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6cq8TYuNfQft1njm64DCLo?si=wvLLjTjlRtGwamQQLN5YjA">Dyed in the Wool</a> (2001)</li>
<li>Creed: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7AMkh36MntX0MkZzBFemFc?si=6tG2g93cShaktphFkVussA">Pity for a Dime</a>” and “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/35GwlKlVXgFCMF5uTp5r7P?si=dfa30211d07e4d91">One</a>” (1997)</li>
<li>Queens of the Stone Age: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4GdcdiOlguA8YArjrUEiaI?si=oeDJS-6-Txq05NNEeGwh6g">Avon</a>” (1998), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1RwDsaft1szD0FO3DVEtaT?si=4b6f792ecac44140">The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret</a>” (2000), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/58HZZpS0wxJKwGjoerg0mk?si=9cc415a61a68424f">Songs for the Deaf</a> (2002)</li>
<li>Meshuggah: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6mnLcQF5GYlFycGu2htkvb?si=a4ef8851ebc14a91">I</a> (2004)</li>
<li>Opeth: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4ghtc1qkwPW5CIjYrac1MJ?si=915239fb54af473c">Blackwater Park</a>” (2001)</li>
<li>Ulver: “<a href="https://ulver.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphosis-ep">Gnosis</a>” (1999), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/34GSeS7UvvKclKHIXohqjP?si=Bj5HMoa1T6qGjJHS3igQLQ">Perdition City</a> (2000), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5oRHCCEBg7EGfaNGd3wQTq?si=2Ps_vFLKRD2ZeEDkFMMoJg">Blood Inside</a> (2005), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3drMQbj9uqaQKAd4mR845N?si=d17a92f3fcda4c4d">Glamour Box</a>” and “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3Ls3yBjiIvVgFpMSxzY6Qy?si=d74d683873084d94">Son of Man</a>” (2013), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5qIvAO77qv1y8VxdRXa7Uv?si=4heMO_zNS7-KgE7sEzq48g">The Assassination of Julius Caesar</a> (2017)</li>
<li>Deftones: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5LEXck3kfixFaA3CqVE7bC?si=yxaB0Xa1TISxceQ_93QQNA">White Pony</a> (2000)</li>
<li>Kid Rock: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7nFlAxnXMrQRpM1R80pKQm?si=f69c4e55ed134bda">Devil Without a Cause</a> (1998)</li>
<li>Rammstein: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6XcoiOYiNbIxzpt8WRxq8Z?si=b01dbf0df7e24928">Du hast</a>” (1997), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7ikuEzL6xeAgu6yT6YVLy7?si=683f86037d554d21">Mutter</a> (2001)</li>
<li>Nightstick: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6nKE9kbCaIGWgNfedd5fGO?si=8lNwEXYpSKSQIWRd9kkN3A">Ultimatum: ‘Cut It Off, Then Kill It’</a>” (1988)</li>
<li>System of a Down: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3sSfjX4fhZonjyZ10x0l0f?si=xNfboz5YSCSBSo22ExlJAA">System of a Down</a> (1998), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6jWde94ln40epKIQCd8XUh?si=_l-ZSqu5REC_sgh_QiJVIw">Toxicity</a> (2001), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6lA1sGw7eCv27bcpd5E0wT?si=6a89f1ed5d484f1f">Steal This Album!</a> (2002), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0cn6MHyx4YuZauaB7Pb66o?si=p1zcFApORpe4jD1sEPZAlw">Mezmerize</a> (2005), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3QxX3NbWyLlLG6lP1xveL3?si=b1QIWZsVQh28KDT5KRVxNg">Hypnotize</a> (2005), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/11ajcVj3qSyyMPUpTJUP3y?si=a1a383feb87246c0">Protect the Land</a>” and “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3Sg3bOiD0kE4D5DcXk48Ds?si=5e4f706ddae64c31">Genocidal Humanoidz</a>” (2020)</li>
<li>Linkin Park: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5Za8bsHPb08SZXm0bvbDXy?si=1c35386eeb054aab">Crawling</a>” and “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3tSmXSxaAnU1EPGKa6NytH?si=70a56e2ff2b54431">In the End</a>” (2000)</li>
<li>Dredg: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2x8FvGO16LXexXgzxvzwZk?si=b3284b417fc546d8">Leitmotif</a> (2001)</li>
<li>Isis: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZQqzuRfHzQ5FuCupRAhHR?si=0b94b6df2dc24fb0">Panopticon</a> (2004)</li>
<li>Live Human: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/live-human/live-human-featuring-dj-quest/">Live Human featuring DJ Quest</a> (1997)</li>
<li>DJ Logic: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0M5svr3JzEsQgOBjmgXCDp?si=yjKsfw5FQWOf4cYunMUz9g">The Anomaly</a> (2001)</li>
<li>Yohimbe Brothers: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1TKyomNb4TjRoPRJrES9I2?si=WoVSpx9zR0ycFY8iN-XQUw">Front End Lifter</a> (2001)</li>
<li>Eminem: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5eGEc27nnhtmcOh6RC890a?si=a4f3b95727604f0c">Kill You</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3UmaczJpikHgJFyBTAJVoz?si=tNewvrq6T02HZNh-oOpefQ">Stan</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/20oenBXlmwIfK0F3fQIjhM?si=5bcfd2827b524e19">Kim</a>” (2000)</li>
<li>Subtle: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/24bsS8qSdJVd6zH3WB9Fmg?si=VrVxeh3eTJiOpZn60dgA7A">A New White</a> (2004), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/60lQHkzN75SCSm5O4GnCj5?si=_ZUdco-fRU6EW8YNN0C1bw">For Hero: For Fool</a> (2006), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4sVIc3jeXIkBhMvoqVn3HZ?si=VfP_ZALyQaqY0fPzDrlnxQ">Exiting Arm</a> (2008)</li>
<li>Alias: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1CFrtokhOgLpUDHgYXSOJK?si=ba62e769bcab4938">Muted</a> (2003)</li>
<li>André 3000: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/22ZrZE5K0NVAPKH3md8jh1?si=40e965da5ffb4a12">The Love Below</a> (2003)</li>
<li>Big Boi: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0GZMsKdDsbNhxvM1VaxB0U?si=c93ac0888ef84c43">Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty</a> (2010)</li>
<li>Dakah Hip-Hop Orchestra: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2nH5uNcmMkEDobeKUPdev9?si=eaa24b73bb884eda">Pisstissimo / Baptissimo / Sacristy</a>” (2004)</li>
<li>Gnarls Barkley: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2N5zMZX7YeL1tico8oQxa9?si=13c97f60e3674258">Crazy</a>” (2006)</li>
<li>Beyoncé: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3ERa3mEeOnrh2Mc47qM6T1?si=0202c5299e0344bd">Halo</a>” (2008)</li>
<li>Edit: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7sJSXP1964vbewXfPZrGA9?si=Bc-MRh_ZQMKdurMO8u3b-w">Crying Over Pros for No Reason</a> (2004), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5BoWYA6JIkWltz6lKLM69n?si=a796ad13bc754f65">Down for This</a>” (2021)</li>
<li>Kanye West: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1kxeWHF9PrCVZHvVskv8lg?si=5ZsC1ruCRfigf-FCQb8TfA">Love Lockdown</a>” (2008), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/20r762YmB5HeofjMCiPMLv?si=bXhgUJHLQ8OTHvkf9wCgRw">My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy</a> (2010), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1jIfaHx4jUl1mqdig9wUra?si=62d5cbb6de4149c5">No Church in the Wild</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1xUGUTWQNqQzYOX1mkAlFw?si=02d8014cc2644a11">Why I Love You</a>” (2011, w/ Jay-Z)</li>
<li>Cadence Weapon: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/43OxpH4ZwEAVtGSXWsMmAB?si=620454f7a09949ff">Oliver Square</a>” (2005)</li>
<li>Astronautalis: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1Qrfp95tP8jTYdX3BljSjI?si=mkCiU95kRlqiA82TNNeGrQ">Down and Out in the Bold New City of the South</a>” (2006)</li>
<li>Georgia Anne Muldrow: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3lstl285JL7D0FololyMKI?si=2C7oNXD4TN-SzHMx05nk5Q">New Orleans</a>” (2006)</li>
<li>RJD2: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7G4U7IDXXPz1PFlKpfDGoZ?si=UoJr1zpcQJqi49gPNGxs3A">The Horror</a>” and “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5Nn2Dj7OQsGL6pgQ9iIzPp?si=r7kBWj6vRCGucU47onSWoA">Ghostwriter</a>” (2002)</li>
<li>Cut Chemist: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/51eBQ2u5LInHRAicVdekxi?si=ca5aa28cd16046b3">The Audience’s Listening</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Flying Lotus: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5c7XChrHxYaqykCZLaGM5f?si=jbiHaGi3REGvSezSz23mhg">Cosmogramma</a> (2010), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7DFT5wc0jn6U7DqooS8y6l?si=5e954892f5ce4c32">You’re Dead</a> (2014)</li>
<li>M.I.A.: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1wgqttlPacpvmX5DKVboOa?si=3hRgjln6TrKSdxpVCc5tDQ">Paper Planes</a>” (2007)</li>
<li>The Streets: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7eHt7rcLWNXREbck9PAsHA?si=emFgEg7BSoSQYPgkKsQXxA">Turn the Page</a>” (2002), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/312A8WfROSLvZbMDHBUPDp?si=c2e7a68424d64b66">Fit But You Know It</a>” (2004)</li>
<li>Burial: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/18f6aWSeCaKMZxg75d0t2g?si=f0da9bce532a4b09">Burial</a> (2006), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6Udcgs8INpjFU80aYcrddg?si=7018aed1b293413e">Shutta</a>” (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1C30LhZB9I48LdpVCRRYvq?si=HMAB2g44SBmJz_C5QiuP7w">Untrue</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2j42kxVAgj2oyIvsNNPWpT?si=HbaOBc1UR2G7U90qRriYaQ">Kindred</a> (2012), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2GCAIlSpOgy4g2GRTsV6n8?si=38c7af012c1749ff">Truant / Rough Sleeper</a> (2012), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5YpNfRJ7dv6dT0m6XSW3Lg?si=8IZ-qk55SPKZP737Jlhvdw">Rival Dealer</a> (2013), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6jjsnzZ2YHWwebf7ilxdnn?si=0a0fd94fb013475b">Temple Sleeper</a>” (2015)</li>
<li>Clark: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5CB6pVh3JNBHQ4I6zQuYXv?si=8fc405483bdf4636">Clarence Park</a> (2001), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3Mf9bcBk3zTxuyokjzaYvs?si=7kr9tPZyRwOhAol4mUtrqA">Empty the Bones of You</a> (2003), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4bH9Kc6e6sRxGoMrX1NUup?si=c776cccefca546d7">Body Riddle</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Regina Spektor: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6GskIhdM6TN6EkPgeSjVfW?si=fbd87f5ea8d8416b">Fidelity</a>” (2006), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2n0U2OG5d6TuW5mKx7YrC0?si=c27570bb07c649cc">Two Birds</a>” (2009)</li>
<li>St. Vincent: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/338T7GIYUEuyeeHeZnSJta?si=FS7A3pSSRqya7E-zlF01ag">Marry Me</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/62O4QjMzIBjilnRYrAI7oX?si=b8a8d5d9ed824e3c">Actor</a> (2009), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5x7cI8aHmaqk03KKl1Auh1?si=nZHw4jDPQMKEQ82ua-NDww">Strange Mercy</a> (2011), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2FtneRtIF1I5HPBsIxSqf0?si=d4ed14fd30a74ca0">St. Vincent</a> (2014), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5iI1svWkerLI9FgQbIzQTu?si=e166da833dc3482c">Reckless</a>” and “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6TryolYM0MBzNTxGrlfcqt?si=6189db6c694f4e23">Flea</a>” (2024)</li>
<li>Joanna Newsom: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/joanna-newsom/ys/">Ys</a> (2006), <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/joanna-newsom/have-one-on-me/">Have One On Me</a> (2010), <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/joanna-newsom/divers/">Divers</a> (2015)</li>
<li>Bon Iver: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0bhBtXHQX3u6dSAPF59qGx?si=9a53373497034d44">Flume</a>” (2008), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/35KiiILklye1JRRctaLUb4?si=6ac79a97627a4def">Holocene</a>” (2011)</li>
<li>Dear Hunter: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7k0iFGkqIWyOBZBaBCAYg7?si=xiwzC3L4SjKnIx5wy5FVOQ">The Lake South, the River North</a> (2006), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3bxQpENBvT3gHgM9Q7Z20K?si=d24579e3dde14088">The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5B5cJTkPpZRzKMWegoKE78?si=8FeIAucmTneuJuVq9oROQQ">Life and Death</a> (2009), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1A4T3cm5mteRN0nz4AiY7P?si=51513d263c144a4e">Whisper</a>” (2013), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/72N545TE36DqJHiyE0YLGE?si=6e36cb4dcb0f45f5">Hymns With the Devil in Confessional</a> (2016), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2Glb19gtGNPkmTqB8WL1t7?si=94a47573825f47f5">Antimai</a> (2022)</li>
<li>Owen Pallett [Final Fantasy]: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3pWe8tdmIR4MfE5C4v5vg9?si=aadb9d7a39d94ecc">Heartland</a> (2010)</li>
<li>Beirut: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6MQXgLKSXLb8SwZ4m7STNc?si=LBKArprvTemRxH2MJiVnjA">Gulag Orkestar</a> (2006), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/71udkw2yxFqNK4SNSYcCce?si=243ea20d23c54876">The Flying Club Cup</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/26G7PfSLTyLiIcITVl7GAK?si=5cf2abcf34d44cfb">Artifacts</a> (2022)</li>
<li>The Week That Was: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7qeTW7Eo4WgFxRjLmNW7Wz?si=7a46f8abbc8f4edc">The Week That Was</a> (2008)</li>
<li>Santigold: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4dmCLAZbWYT0qtcG7GVMdb?si=ewoRtUTbSIefvtWrh0drbg">Les Artistes</a>” (2009)</li>
<li>Julianna Barwick: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4JW1OsBRpDNF23lDFPaFQ7?si=iifHfyxVRg61tQtiPlgiTQ">The Magic Place</a> (2011), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1rMSF8WzsF016bhkREx45l?si=K9FxpNoaTXaYpLXGabbXMA">Nepenthe</a> (2013)</li>
<li>Manitoba/Caribou: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/manitoba/start-breaking-my-heart/">Start Breaking My Heart</a> (2001), <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/manitoba/up-in-flames/">Up in Flames</a> (2003), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4QjK8KNQf7nbe8nhUbvDg9?si=uxEu0sBFTUyobSIkfNcdng">The Milk of Human Kindness</a> (2005), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4b8MCfbobncLPjShT3UVjF?si=9673e37a02054528">Andorra</a> (2007), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3D1P3oPecqAQy2u33gAhsM?si=3610c0f144084e8c">Odessa</a>” (2010)</li>
<li>Ed Harcourt: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3rcXYDOhbQl10uf5rstIaH?si=3chpmeMQReGURSXnw4hRjA">Beneath the Heart of Darkness</a>” (2001), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0veGo7i4BFWaIYFgvlPA46?si=SIcSxFDTRPmsk5b6pY1FWg">Ghostwriter</a>” (2003)</li>
<li>Grizzly Bear: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0iTpQYzJnYgh7kIxyq8A2O?si=_awARsUoRZe-QFKJVQ-2dw">Two Weeks</a>” (2009)</li>
<li>Daniel Rossen: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2R74tj2OOtjri1Fi8C05B5?si=8B7SI_qbQBG-1zotgsg8zg">You Belong There</a> (2022)</li>
<li>Lykke Li: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2gCvWjrHt6PVJjIN1amlje?si=0492a0fe0b99427a">No Rest for the Wicked</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/260P406V4ys84uDOFGfcMA?si=2A57Q8nnSEqhDU7mMIIFpA">Never Gonna Love Again</a>” (2014)</li>
<li>Imogen Heap: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7mMlbJlXXo2mRtQ4R9sIzD?si=f8f87abe613a4dd5">Hide and Seek</a>” (2005)</li>
<li>Emilie Simon: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1atduw0ZmCrT8Ycdm7CaqS?si=3bf21ac871b24296">Graines d’étoiles</a>” (2003), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/21CU2mJIG4fz3NqOgrpnqv?si=95044e915b914be6">Antarctic</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4inXCszpBbTcVjNPIlKBg3?si=380c7ab269cc460f">Attack of the Killer Birds</a>” (2005), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/21vpRyFG0aHh0OC5WdYVbN?si=77d2179ec0134b90">Vegetal</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Royksopp: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7rSn37L6jGaPnOOLBbEwXX?si=glGRDrlkSsyaztQ3pKspmw">Happy Up Here</a>” (2009)</li>
<li>My Chemical Romance: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0FZK97MXMm5mUQ8mtudjuK?si=18fcad8cb2e94504">The Black Parade</a> (2006)</li>
<li>Wolf Parade: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/71C2qNuimejWFgJGi0i72P?si=vOjAb3gLTZm-5k8SoBXdzg">Apologies to the Queen Mary</a> (2005)</li>
<li>The Shins: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1wAqhAF1dynDjMy7m5CSSE?si=e2c5237c7eca40a6">New Slang</a>” (2001), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6WBNQSfB047hAZ7tusGhqB?si=6ab4f13b5c17417f">So Says I</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1M6fHlmySKK4dzETkPLnoJ?si=eea9a6eeeac34920">Fighting in a Sack</a>” (2003)</li>
<li>The Polyphonic Spree: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1fEqefj12ceIrhJ7DlmjQN?si=8e275b9213674c57">The Beginning Stages of…</a> (2002),<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q3-2024/#footnote_1_8567" id="identifier_1_8567" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Not counting the long boring final track.">2</a> “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0eItptMqebRnw5or5XOKkp?si=1441740accbb4c4f">Hold Me Now</a>” (2004), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/17zwFM2pTvBeVLHrTXwB5P?si=afedfc491e8a44c8">Mental Cabaret</a>” (2007)</li>
<li>Beach House: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4sYpTER2iT2Y7Kf4VsfUne?si=j5helGUNRYCxvnMRn96TAw">Teen Dream</a> (2010), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1UYkwtjbjdLlHc4bdnkvdO?si=ZyHTMITQTBmgmMrtBzEWAg">Bloom</a> (2012)</li>
<li>Love Is All: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0jVN856m0WcQ6cB7oqiA6e?si=4c80d123915043a4">Talk Talk Talk Talk</a>” (2006), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2f41HVWAQQ3MYGbgHrbi2d?si=55347b013495470f">A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night</a> (2008)</li>
<li>Elbow: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1JDBaQauVm3X7uIZkMKRID?si=c0557b20345d4fdd">Grace Under Pressure</a>” (2003)</li>
<li>Fleet Foxes: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0GegHVxeozw3rdjte45Bfx?si=5fc45b9a76d4437d">White Winter Hymnal</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4fuVAz1Epsftsv71dkGOZY?si=6506a163d5674940">Your Protector</a>” (2008), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/02VdHwnGhy5fTW2CTZkYsb?si=cc18f89040e646b5">Helplessness Blues</a>” & “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6rN4c80To1rKvYvqpJNqYo?si=5e2b3331ffde4b01">The Shrine / An Argument</a>” (2011)</li>
<li>Okkervil River: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4wTKgCMB1IW73LNXdK6685?si=d5f1ad41d50847a6">The Stage Names</a> (2007)</li>
<li>The Beat Circus: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-beat-circus/dreamland/">Dreamland</a> (2008)</li>
<li>Battles: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0X8vBD8h1Ga9eLT8jx9VCC?si=856d21bd4b024f5d">Mirrored</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4oX4lpSnDyqQ2oadKTlcaR?si=0fe708e0bd7743eb">Gloss Drop</a> (2011)</li>
<li>Parts & Labor: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/parts-and-labor/groundswell/">Groundswell</a> (2003), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5YXkWxwhLCr3nydqLQFWOU?si=ea645a4790b241bd">Mapmaker</a> (2007), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/39QArDbCs2rrYxJhHHkoUw?si=853ced3100e0491e">Receivers</a> (2008)</li>
<li>Toby Dammit: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/toby-dammit/top-dollar/">Top Dollar</a> (2001)</li>
<li>Explosions in the Sky: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2TmYd2YYLJ5dpKiL4pEqkD?si=0d2f09d5364d48ec">Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die…</a> (2001), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/49buCcKCJwxvdl0R2dMoIU?si=5a687e35dd3e415d">The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place</a> (2003), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2BkhGv48TtChjKBwkC67eo?si=b53d2efc4e574c9a">All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone</a> (2007)</li>
<li>Kopernik: <a href="https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/kopernik/kopernik/">Kopernik</a> (2003)</li>
<li>Interpol: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/79deKDaslwLfH3yPR2T3SB?si=ABGCdMiTSCGRZW54IU7kUw">Turn on the Bright Lights</a> (2002), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/58fDEyJ5XSau8FRA3y8Bps?si=soClgnH6QNOeNogEQgp8og">Antics</a> (2004)</li>
<li>TV on the Radio: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5jGpMwXuM6kdnOUum0HKiA?si=7l_WmvVeQFqz6VycekFa5w">Young Liars</a> (2003), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1Yyd14ATTmUP17KCtUYgLg?si=8gB9EvegRLK_u8gbnuroHg">Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes</a> (2004), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7xn8nwwutlJFMb7Zf9NEHi?si=JoGmjWJTR1ibdNfWtd1m5w">Return to Cookie Mountain</a> (2006), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4T4TMKkYAMnmm65vnwbhCS?si=7d6ce3497ab94dfb">Shout Me Out</a>” (2008)</li>
<li>Yeah Yeah Yeahs: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5ypaZzzhcVYoy8BYSkbfih?si=wAChK26oQsONBQnYb4WPRg">Maps</a>” (2003), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4WiIscpBgQFm5qIyjoH7M4?si=2cjA1OFsTn2b7m1TsvkApA">Heads Will Roll</a>” (2009), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7la5q4ctkM189lO3GdzRty?si=2NSrLqtYSeKfrbGsdnuGBA">Zero</a>” (2009)</li>
<li>The Strokes: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2k8KgmDp9oHrmu0MIj4XDE?si=w8tfIy9AQfawTkkkJyj_iQ">Is This It</a> (2001), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3HFbH1loOUbqCyPsLuHLLh?si=ZGi93md8RLGFlx_D987SLg">Room on Fire</a> (2003), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4fPBB44eDH71YohayI4eKV?si=f324527f0e8b4b17">You Only Live Once</a>” (2006)</li>
<li>Yeasayer: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6mVyKlhq3v2IHeksO38syx?si=37cf6ab0b70e441c">All Hour Cymbals</a> (2007)</li>
<li>Vampire Weekend: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7JcfNKXoHSaog85a1hd4lx?si=0xKqcjhBTvi7qCYyk5xIBA">Vampire Weekend</a> (2008), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0H8cHlbp6eieUUOLmv4FzJ?si=60f09c9011194038">Contra</a> (2010), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2Qi2SySN2ePZwMLDSv9Krn?si=jNQFIIzYQlmWW5-3VlKHLA">Modern Vampires of the City</a> (2013), “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/39exKIvycQDgs4T6uXdyu0?si=e668eead781b4db5">Harmony Hall</a>” (2019), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1W04wu2W4OIcuiNc5AMB3y?si=07a4b80fd2494e84">Only God Was Above Us</a> (2024)</li>
<li>The Octopus Project: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4WlZfApnWitOGgJZPZ01Bi?si=4e023a294da64acc">Identification Parade</a> (2002), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5kObWL0SgokKNz5BmRFRDJ?si=85nXvX5mTEGWaJnjRXyS_g">One Ten Hundred Thousand Million</a> (2005), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7tmoPUVPkqOrLkVa3RwZdK?si=QHOn1UscQhCM1zI-SHSHXA">Hello, Avalanche</a> (2007)</li>
<li>Franz Ferdinand: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0mUEGMT2YlzCWGeWOJjBKD?si=2IQHfAuLRUC-Jt37I_FfKA">Franz Ferdinand</a> (2004), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3GNG4NPXfTeIGYjZ2FpS6P?si=f0e5830163e54697">You Could Have It So Much Better</a> (2007)</li>
<li>Foals: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5zUndTRjHpsB5UTsPp5MeM?si=gVy00YuOQAOkGjkoXK5Zsw">Antidotes</a> (2008), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6SBkXTPlJ3oEaFwRm5o2lD?si=171f82920bf54516">Holy Fire</a> (2013)</li>
<li>Holy Fuck: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/72lO7iZgdcYsDSTT0ieBzj?si=kjieWELESVyCeloyJSUN8g">Holy Fuck</a> (2005), <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7tSQEdPdzVWWF9iQmvHeRh?si=ez-IMvKlQReOvXusG-QN9A">LP</a> (2007)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Movies/TV</h3>
Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):
<ul>
<li>Various, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 12 (2017) ★</li>
</ul>
<h3>Games</h3>
All games I finished or decided to stop playing:
<ul>
<li>[none]</li>
</ul>
<h3>Books</h3>
I post book ratings and reviews to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/43134201-luke-muehlhauser?order=d&ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read&sort=date_read">my Goodreads account</a> instead of here.
Five-star reads this quarter were: Words of Radiance, Kindred, World Without End, Best Served Cold, The Heroes
I’ve learned more about my fiction tastes:
<ul>
<li>My favorite tense is third person limited.</li>
<li>I prefer books that show much more than tell, i.e. books that spend almost all their time in specific scenes, described in enough detail to play a movie in my head. So, more like (what I’ve read of) Stephen King or Joe Abercrombie, rather than authors like Ken Liu or Pierce Brown who flip frequently between scene-like writing and summary-like writing.</li>
<li>I typically prefer relatively plain, easy-to-process, “transparent” prose. Though best of all is when someone can write rich, witty, and funny prose that is still very easy to process, like Joe Abercrombie or Terry Pratchett. I do not like elaborate purple prose, which unfortunately describes a lot of literary fiction that I might otherwise love.</li>
<li>A lot of my favorite books are epic in scope, stakes, and themes.</li>
<li>I’m surprised to learn I’m a character-first reader. Before I began reading fiction again in late 2023, I guessed that plot was most important to me, then character, then prose. Instead, it turns out that character is most important to me, then prose (but mostly as a factor that can quickly ruin a book for me, not one that can elevate it much), then plot.</li>
<li>I now think my favorite genres will probably be fantasy and historical fiction.<a href="https://lukemuehlhauser.com/media-diet-for-q3-2024/#footnote_2_8567" id="identifier_2_8567" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="For convenience I’ll lump “alternate history” under “historical fiction”; it’s a small genre anyway.">3</a> First, I like epic stories, which largely narrows the list of contenders to historical fiction, fantasy, or science fiction. Second, I prefer books that are strong on all four of character, plot, world-building, and themes. Of the frequently-epic genres, historical fiction and fantasy often hit all four, or at least try, whereas science fiction often does not even try to have strong characters, and sometimes doesn’t have much plot either, in favor of a focus on the world-building and themes. There are exceptions, of course, and indeed my #1 favorite novel so far is sci-fi: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary">Project Hail Mary</a>. But in the long run I’m guessing my favorite genres will be fantasy and historical fiction.</li>
</ul>
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_8567" class="footnote">I think I hadn’t heard some of the classical pieces before, but I’m not sure which ones.</li><li id="footnote_1_8567" class="footnote">Not counting the long boring final track.</li><li id="footnote_2_8567" class="footnote">For convenience I’ll lump “alternate history” under “historical fiction”; it’s a small genre anyway.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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