Hope?

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I wanted to say something fairly profound about this band, but I really can't put eloquent words to the mix of emotions that songs like this stir in me. Listen, and maybe you'll feel the same way.

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Weezer - The Blue Album

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Well, its official: I'm old. I'm buying more music that is 10+ years old then I am thats less then 5, and I'm liking the old stuff more, too. Last weekend I went out and picked up "the Blue Album" from Weezer, their first offering. The Blue Album is a far cry from what Weezer is putting out these days, and even though what they are doing now is great, I'm not sure it stacks up to their original album.

I'd give this album a bigger write up, but I know that I'm bias; I love every track. Released in 1994, I probably didn't even hear the blue album until a couple of years after it came out, but it was still one of my favorite albums as a young man. In fact, its one of only five albums I purchased on tape, back in the day, which ranks it along side Metallica's Black Album, and Nevermind, In Utero, and the Unplugged album from Nirvana (more early 90s goodness). I've no hope of ever saying anything, other then "Listen to this album at least once", so I'll leave it at that.

Listen to this album at least once

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The Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet

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I've been a big fan of the Crash Test Dummies since my father got a copy of "The Ghosts that Haunt Me" many years back. Quirk lyrics mix it up with almost humorous lines in tracks that just sound phenomenal, not just because of their front man - Brad Robert - has an astounding voice, also due to fine backups and melodies. For a long time I'd listened to The Ghost that Haunt Me, and never wondered what else they put out, until I stumbled across "God Shuffled His Feet".

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Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain

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When I heard last year that Ozzy Osbourne, one of the old men of rock and roll, was releasing a new album, I could only shrug and wonder what a 59-year-old barely-intelligible burnout hoped to achieve other then a little pocket change. Come 2007 and Black Rain has a pair of high energy tracks making the rounds on the radio, so I decided to give the album a listen; what I found is an aging rocker with a lot on his mind, and an album made all the better for it.

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Comments (0) Add Comment Nov 8, 2007 1:29 PM

Oh Noes! The front page is empty!

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I've been a bad boy, and not kept up with my home page! Really though, I mostly blog about music here on the main page, and nothing has really been that exciting recently. I've been trolling Pandora looking for something new, but... eh oh well.

Here is hoping I have more exciting news soon.

Comments (0) Add Comment Oct 19, 2007 9:08 AM

Young Modern

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Although I said that I was going to pick up the Fictionplane CD the first chance I got, I actually got Silverchair's Young Modern first. I was a big fan of Silverchair's old school stuff from years ago (Frogstomp and Freak Show are exceptional), but I'd fallen away from them over the intervening years. I fell into the trap of thinking that since I'd not heard about them they were dead and gone.

Boy I'm glad I was wrong. Young Modern is an amazing album, completely unlike Frogstomp and Freak Show, shedding the Nirvana-like sound for a very melodic grove thats very experimental but works well. I'm not sure if she's right, but Steph described the album as "our generation's Yellow Submarine."

Check it out.

Comments (0) Add Comment Aug 15, 2007 3:16 PM

Fictionplane

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I've stumbled onto a band that I really enjoy, thanks to net radio stations. Fictionplane's latest CD, Left Side of the Brain has some amazing tracks. Two Sisters is the song that got me hooked, but Cold Water Symmetry is a close second. Even if the rest doesn't appeal (I find it a little weak), these tracks more then make me want to buy the album. They also have a couple of previous CD's, but their sound is more punk, less melodic and deep then what they express in Cold Water Symmetry, and no where as rocking as Two Sisters.

Check it out.

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