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californication - chili peppers

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Dang... I am a big Journey fan, but I didn't even know about this new dude. They are gonna tour through the midwest within the next couple of months... I gotta go to a show!

Back on subject... Bob Marley - Legend

AB

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On the drive home today: The Final Countdown by Europe. (I have to play it when my girlfriend's not around. She's not a fan. ;))

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Today was a mashup kind of day.

On the drive to work: Gnarls Biggie by Sound Advice. Gnarls Barkley is serious business. The Notorious B.I.G. is serious business. Put them together....and you kinda get serious business.

On the drive home: The Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse. The standard by which I measure all mashup albums. The album works on every level I can find--it's not just picking two songs and sticking them together for the heck of it, but intricate sampling with a bit of forethought as to the songs. ("Mother Nature's Son" being sampled on "December 4th", for example, or "Encore" being backed by "Glass Onion".) Simply a great album.

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Okay, okay, thread revival and double-post. Still, I've been doing a lot of listening this week.

Monday on the drive, I listened to Linkin Park's Reanimation. I probably hadn't listened to it the whole way through in ages. (iTunes seems to indicate February of '07.) It was a frequent resident of my old Civic's CD player back in high school, and you have to hold onto old albums.

Tuesday, I was in a generally lousy mood for reasons beyond the scope of this thread. I wound up settling on William Shatner's 2004 album Has Been. Those unfamiliar may be scratching their heads, but it's really a spectacular album. (For the uninitiated, YouTube provides this and this.) It doesn't work as a ringtone, but nobody said music was supposed to. Buy this album.

I've also found myself liking The Odd Couple more and more. Perhaps it's a case of the week influencing my mood for the more soulful album over St. Elsewhere, which is ridiculously catchy pop. (I'm not saying the former doesn't have it, but it matches me better at the moment.)

This morning, I had a strange craving to listen to Will Smith's Willennium. (It was $2 in the used CD bin.) My thumb didn't stop in time on the iPod, so instead my drive (and search for sub-$4 gas) was backed with the cast recording from Wicked, another album I'd allowed to collect some dust of late. (If you ever get a chance to see it, do. I've been fortunate to see it twice on Broadway--from the very front row and the very back row, no joke--and it was amazing in both cases. But back to albums.)

On the way back, I started Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. A classic, one I'll continue working at on the drive to get my car serviced tomorrow.

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Blackfield II - Blackfield

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-Unstoppable
-Feed the Animals
-Night Ripper

By Girl Talk

Its a good way to listen to all your favorite songs at once :D

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Johnny Cash - American Recordings, American IV (the Man Comes Around), & American V ( A Hundred Highways )

Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of Johnny's passing...
The chat room on Johnny Cash .com was full. :(

RIP John & June

-p:cool:

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Thom Yorke "The Eraser"- Thom Yorke, whom you might know as the singer and rythm guitarist of Radiohead, has recently become one of my favorite musicians. I find myself comparing the sound on this album a lot to In Rainbows from Radiohead with some of the programmed beats and the lighter vocal melodies. Highlights are definitely the songs Black Swan, and my favorite Atoms for Peace.

The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble-. I've been a pretty casual fan of Stevie and the blues genre in general, listening occasionally, but never really getting that into it, but when I found this CD for $10, at 33 tracks, I couldn't pass it up. I can now without a doubt call myself a fan of Stevie's expressive gutiar playing as well as his vocals. It was quite the value, but it is definitely quality over quantity.

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Cake- Comfort Eagle

but now I think I'll break out The Man Comes Around. His cover of Hurt is...powerful.

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I'm currently listening to the album "Decimate the Weak" by Winds of Plague, but I'm changing it to "Awaken the Dreamers" by All Shall Perish.

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Got some Drive By Truckers -- Dirty South on the winamp... Where the Devil Won't Stay my wake up to song.

-p :cool:

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I'm busy ripping from a Motown Classics Gold album but I'm very disappointed in the quality of the album. It sound kind of tinny and you can tell it's cheaply made because the track listing isn't coming up on iTunes.

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Today: Deadringer by RJD2. RJ has gone pop/rock since, but his hip-hop production is second to none. (Any Mad Men fans out there? Yup, the theme music was one of his instrumentals.)

Earlier: One Day It'll All Make Sense by Common. You've heard me gush enough about Common; if you enjoyed Like Water For Chocolate, you'll like this.

Earlier Still: Kill the Moonlight by Spoon. I was turned onto this one by a friend of mine who found it sitting in the WUSC music library. Not a bad cut on the album.