itunes survivor update
remember last week when i decided to try to start deleting albums from 2006 that i don't listen to? no? well, anyway, before deleting them, i decided to really listen to them. much to my own dismay, i am here to report that i have really bad taste in music, and i am deleting the album through the windowpane by guillemots.
if you check around, you may find that this album is alternately described as brillliant and/or beautiful. i don't think it is bad, i just don't like it. (there's a difference). i like guitars. sue me.
OBVIOUS KEEPERS:
sam roberts / chemical city
lots of chiming, layered guitars and straight ahead rock vocals. no whining. no emo. yay. do not delete.
[mp3] fall before you finish
albert hammond jr. / yours to keep
i like the strokes guitarist and i like this little solo album of his. a beach boys meets john lennon meets elvis costello vibe. albert can't really sing, but that's okay by me.
[mp3] scared
UNEXPECTEDLY REALLY LIKING THIS ONE:
the decemberists / the crane wife
i am not a super-big fan of lead singer colin meloy's whine. but this album can't be deleted because musically it is just jaw-droppingly good. i actually think i might really like it.
[mp3] the perfect crime
STILL GROWING ON ME:
badly drawn boy / born in the u.k.
combine morrissey with a certain unspecified era of springsteen, drain all emotion and you get this. oddly, i am enjoying it.
[mp3] degrees of separation
scissor sisters / ta-dah
this makes the cut. barely. for when the bee gees just won’t do.
[mp3] the other side
FORGIVE ME MUSIC SNOBBERAZIS:
guillemots / through the windowpane
the vocals are comically overwrought. like an off-key tom chaplin. the band uses every instrument ever found in a high school band room. ooh, a xylophone! natch. delete. music to fly around in hot air balloons to. the first few times i heard it, i admit i liked this song:
[mp3] trains to brazil
if you check around, you may find that this album is alternately described as brillliant and/or beautiful. i don't think it is bad, i just don't like it. (there's a difference). i like guitars. sue me.
OBVIOUS KEEPERS:
sam roberts / chemical city
lots of chiming, layered guitars and straight ahead rock vocals. no whining. no emo. yay. do not delete.
[mp3] fall before you finish
albert hammond jr. / yours to keep
i like the strokes guitarist and i like this little solo album of his. a beach boys meets john lennon meets elvis costello vibe. albert can't really sing, but that's okay by me.
[mp3] scared
UNEXPECTEDLY REALLY LIKING THIS ONE:
the decemberists / the crane wife
i am not a super-big fan of lead singer colin meloy's whine. but this album can't be deleted because musically it is just jaw-droppingly good. i actually think i might really like it.
[mp3] the perfect crime
STILL GROWING ON ME:
badly drawn boy / born in the u.k.
combine morrissey with a certain unspecified era of springsteen, drain all emotion and you get this. oddly, i am enjoying it.
[mp3] degrees of separation
scissor sisters / ta-dah
this makes the cut. barely. for when the bee gees just won’t do.
[mp3] the other side
FORGIVE ME MUSIC SNOBBERAZIS:
guillemots / through the windowpane
the vocals are comically overwrought. like an off-key tom chaplin. the band uses every instrument ever found in a high school band room. ooh, a xylophone! natch. delete. music to fly around in hot air balloons to. the first few times i heard it, i admit i liked this song:
[mp3] trains to brazil
posted by c at 10:15 AM
6 Comments:
Aww, it makes me sad that you don't like the guillemots, but yes, they are totally without guitars and sometimes I miss that instrument even though it was never in their music to begin with. And how it is possible that you "have really bad taste in music" when your favorite band is U2? I don't think it's possible!
Keep "Trains To Brazil", ditch the rest of the album.
I think I'm the only music blogger on earth who doesnt' like the Crane Wife...I think it's unlistanable... never have gotten the Decemberists... and I've seen them live, even...
Great choices otherwise..;
Hope you had fun @ Mew tonight...
- Steve
Is the Albert Hammond Jr. song the finished "409"? :)
steve i totally ended up missing mew. woops. and i hear you on the decemberists - i was shocked i liked it.
rosephile - no that one is not the fake u2 beach clip 409 - but 409 is on the album, it's called "in transit."
I love the word "snobberazis". You may or may not have made it up, but I don't know that I'd ever heard it before so in my mind you did and yay.
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