My Music Journal 2025: September 23, 2025

 

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Time: 10:AM and 8:18 PM
Song:  Blinded By Rainbows
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Spotify.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2BPuGATHtSHLud79E6tOQm?si=5157bb532d2846e5

I had a Teams meeting at 10 AM, so I push pause on Spotify before clicking on the meeting link. I noted that a Rolling Stones song was playing that I don’t think I had ever heard before. The rest of the day was busy enough that I didn’t push play again until I sat down to write this blog, finishing the song.

This week we are spotlighting the Stones on the Playlist Pandemonium, so I had listened to a few different Stones songs. 

Mostly I was trying to decide which song off of “Bridges Over Babylon” I wanted to pick. That album came out when I was in high school, back in the mid-to-late 1990s. My friend Jake bought the album when it came out, and I remember that I recorded it to a cassette tape. I have fond memories of listening to it on a Walkman on the bus on the way to school. 

I still think of that as “new” Stones. 

It’s amazing to think that it’s been thirty years since that album, which when released, people probably thought it was an old rock band trying to recapture a bit of the glory days. Little did they know that thirty years later and the Stones would still be touring and I think that they are planning to record another album of new material. 

So now we are spotlighting them, and here’s this tune “Blinded By Rainbows” from the Voodoo Lounge album. I kind of like it. Should I use it as one of my three picks to the Pandemonium. Will I get credit for picking such an obscure track? Is there someone else out there that already enjoys this song?

It’s funny because I was trying to pick songs that I’ve discovered more in the last thirty years. Hence, “Bridges Over Babylon.” I was also thinking of adding “Shine a Light,” a tune I didn’t hear until after high school, and “Don’t Stop,’ which is one I have started like over the last couple years. 

So, do I swap this in and one of those out? These are the big questions in life.