I listened to A Ghost is Born by Wilco on my commute today. I love this album. This album is so good it gives me goosebumps and my heart aches just a little at how amazingly beautiful it is - even the 11 minutes of drone and random noises are good. But I listen to it only occasionally and usually just once before shelving it away for awhile again. Why? Precisely because it is so good. I'm afraid that by listening too much, I will dilute it's special properties and I will grow tired of it. So I leave it there, waiting to be listened to again so that I can again marvel at it's excellence and (quietly) ask myself why I don't listen to it more. And it is just one of many albums that I do this with.
That's what happens to me with some records, one being "For Emma forever ago". I'm afraid if I listen to it too much it will lose its' magic.
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