I’ve been accused to be a music nerd, which I always thought was a lit­tle unfair. My wife even used to sing a lit­tle “David’s a music nerd” song. I am very par­tic­u­lar about what I lis­ten to, and what I like, and there’s noth­ing wrong with that. I make my liv­ing with music, so I should be par­tic­u­lar about it. Would any­one accuse a Chef of being a food nerd for refus­ing to go to taco bell?

But I’m also, as a rule, behind the times. I’m not that guy who always hears the coolest bands six months before they’re famous. I’m not the guy hit­ting up SXSW show­cases to catch all of next year’s new artist grammy nom­i­nees. When­ever I find a band I think might become the next big thing, they become the next never a thing (I really thought Spy­mob was going to make it!) If any­thing, I’m the guy who’s thirty years behind the times. And thusly I will embark on pos­si­bly the nerdi­est thing I have ever done:

I’m going to lis­ten to and review all of the new Bea­tle albums for this blog.

I’m going to lis­ten on headphones.

I’m going to lis­ten off the CDs, not Mp3s, which have nowhere near the same sound quality.

I’m going to not do any­thing else but listen.

I’m not going to have any dis­trac­tions, if possible.

I might even turn off the lights. For Sgt. Pep­pers, I’ll have to.

The moti­va­tion for this is that I got the brand new Bea­t­les Box set for Christ­mas, and I didn’t want to just copy them onto my iPod and lis­ten in the car or some­thing stu­pid like that. This is some of the great­est music of all time, and I really want to give it it’s due. I have no idea how long this is going to take me, but I’m going to shoot for one a week. So, that’ll take me 13 weeks. I might try to go a lit­tle faster if I can, but know­ing me it’s going to take me twice as long. I’m going to do Please Please Me tonight, and I’ll post it tomor­row or Fri­day, assum­ing I finish.

As a extra bonus, I’m going to re-design the blog, and I’ll be post­ing the first of the Bea­tle reviews with the new design. Enjoy!