I came across Sounds Of The Radio from their post on Buckethead's song Soothsayer (a masterpiece dedicated to his Aunt Suzie). The blog post included some interesting details on the song, like how Soothsayer was written for Buckethead's sick Aunt Suzie, and it wasn't the first song Buckethead had dedicated to someone, Colma which had also resonated with the author was dedicated to another person in Buckethead's life, his sick mother, with the feeling in these songs elevated above and beyond his other pieces.
Soothsayer was listed as blog post #409 in Sounds Of The Radio which caught my attention, 409th what exactly? It turns out Soothsayer was the 409th favorite song of the author, who created the Sounds Of The Radio blog as a project to post his favorite 1,000 songs as a foray into music journalism. An audacious project, he did exactly that, starting on April 6, 2017 and finishing on December 31, 2019, to share a story for a thousand songs over one thousand days. The author details why he went about this project on his About page:
After many years of listening to music, I happened upon an intriguing blog in my senior year of high school in which music writer Sam Walton counted down his top 100 songs of the decade. After being inspired to create my own list (which has sadly been lost to history), I set out towards making my own music website, and entering the world of music writing.
In 2012, a close friend requested that I make a list of my 500 favourite songs as a way for him to make sense of the vast amounts of music I would talk about. After a solid two days of list-making, I produced a list of my favourite songs which I now consider to be hardly representative of the music I was fond of at the time.
Since then, I combined my desire of making an accurate list of my favourite songs, my desire to break into the world of music journalism and broadcasting, and presented an idea of counting down my favourite 1000 songs to a a number of community radio stations. Sadly, this idea was rejected. After landing a job with a respectable music publication, I decided to resurrect my original bog idea, and chose to count down my 1000 favourite songs in the same manner as the blog that inspired it.
