Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Time: 8:45 AM
Song: Keeping Me Awake
Artist: Tarkio
Mode of Consumption: Listening to the Playlist Pandemonium Artist Spotlight of The Decemberists.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5nFVu9nlqBxOjkzuQZ2F4Z?si=3d49fca888574068
I hit pause on the playlist and wonder where on it I was. It was nearing the time for a weekly meeting at work, and I had spent the first hour or so catching up on emails from missing two and half days of work.
I followed that by preparing the weekly to-do list for the proposal group. It’s a task of erasing tasks completed the week before and then adding new requests.
My focus was such that I hadn’t really listened to the music playing.
Like this song. It’s one of the three that I contributed to the playlist, and I had completely missed it along with my other two selections – “All Arise!” and “The Crane Wife 3.”
You may ask why is a song by the band Tarkio in a playlist for The Decemberists?
Well, Colin Meloy got his start with Tarkio before graduating to The Decemberists. Our group allows any other projects by band members as part of the Pandemonium Playlist.
The funny thing is that I discovered this song sometime on Spotify and enjoyed it. It was probably about the same time I discovered The Decemberists. Both were during my days at the newspaper where I would just let Spotify play about anything and it turned out to be a lot of modern Americana music.
Yet, I know that I didn’t make the connection right away between Tarkio and The Decemberists even though Meloy has a pretty distinctive voice.
Of course, I probably had the song on in the background a dozen times like today, where I might have heard it, but didn’t really listen because I was distracted.
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