New Cds.....
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location: Landscape Challenged Illinois
listening to: 16 Horsepower, black music from the 70's & and still going broke from Paste Magazine
registered: 2002.08.26
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I've been listening to the new B52s' Funplex and it is growing. I kept going back to the tracks Eyes Wide Open, Love in the Year 3000 and Deviant Ingredient. Oddly, the last half of the line up sounds stronger to me, than the first. And I don't know why they released Funplex as the first single instead of Eyes Wide Open. Still, it's a good get up and move cd.
Next, I've been listening to the new REM cd Accelerate. It is like everyone has mostly said - fast, to the point and similar to their earlier stuff. Pretty good all and all and not as uneven as their past couple of cds.
Just ordered NIN's Ghosts cd online. I've only listened to a few tracks of this one and so far, so good. The first few tracks are quite beautiful.
Through an acquaintance, I picked up The Dropkick Murphys' Warriors Code. This one is a bit more troubling for me. I do like it and it is growing, but I think being closer to fifty than thirty and the change in my ears, American Irish punk music is just sort of too loud. Iron and Wine's The Shepard's Dog - well, I need to listen to this a bunch more times. Sam Beam has picked up the tempo quite a bit when this is contrasted to his earlier cds. It was a surprise.
LCD's Soundsystem new one has been a surprise, The National's Boxer and Arcade Fire's new one have yet to hit me. All in all though, I still can't recommend CMJ's New Music Monthly enough. Their cds have been excellent the last year or so. Though I am sort of concerned with their seemingly erratic publishing schedule, their compilation cds now contain the overall quality that Paste magazines cds once held in their early publishing days.
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I've been listening to the new B52s' Funplex and it is growing. I kept going back to the tracks Eyes Wide Open, Love in the Year 3000 and Deviant Ingredient. Oddly, the last half of the line up sounds stronger to me, than the first. And I don't know why they released Funplex as the first single instead of Eyes Wide Open. Still, it's a good get up and move cd.
Next, I've been listening to the new REM cd Accelerate. It is like everyone has mostly said - fast, to the point and similar to their earlier stuff. Pretty good all and all and not as uneven as their past couple of cds.
Just ordered NIN's Ghosts cd online. I've only listened to a few tracks of this one and so far, so good. The first few tracks are quite beautiful.
Through an acquaintance, I picked up The Dropkick Murphys' Warriors Code. This one is a bit more troubling for me. I do like it and it is growing, but I think being closer to fifty than thirty and the change in my ears, American Irish punk music is just sort of too loud. Iron and Wine's The Shepard's Dog - well, I need to listen to this a bunch more times. Sam Beam has picked up the tempo quite a bit when this is contrasted to his earlier cds. It was a surprise.
LCD's Soundsystem new one has been a surprise, The National's Boxer and Arcade Fire's new one have yet to hit me. All in all though, I still can't recommend CMJ's New Music Monthly enough. Their cds have been excellent the last year or so. Though I am sort of concerned with their seemingly erratic publishing schedule, their compilation cds now contain the overall quality that Paste magazines cds once held in their early publishing days.
