Today's CDs (8/21/02)
 

Spoon - "Kill the Moonlight" (I should have listened to this before I bought it - as boring as Yancey said)
Interpol - "Turn on the Bright Lights" (thumbs up)
Neko Case - "Blacklisted" (big thumbs up)

Honestly, what happened to Spoon? I enjoyed both "Series of Sneaks" and "Girls Can Tell," but this new one is just as dull as can be.

Scarface - The Fix

Is what I am listening to, today.

I can't believe the reviews that the Spoon record is getting. I think just because they got dumped from Elektra after Series of Sneaks they get a lifetime critical pass, much like Wilco will from now on. It's a shame. Instead of getting blown by every writer, Britt needs to hear some real criticism to make him angry again. He's boring when he's satisfied.

A Certain Ratio -- Early
Gene Clark -- White Light
Solomon Burke -- Don't Give Up On Me
Karate -- Some Boots

Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up on Me
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
The Baldwin Brothers - Cooking with Lasers

It's great, isn't it?

Oh Byrds fans should seek out the Gene Clarke album. His second solo effort. It's not great, but it's certainly enjoyable. It just got reissued in the UK.

David Axelrod - Earth Rot
Blaze - Natural Blaze
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Eramus Hall - Your Love Is My Desire
Hanna - Contemplating Jazz

Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweethearts
Ars Nova - The Goddess of Darkness
Deep Purple - Stormbringer
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il Tempo Della Gioia
Vertu - Vertu
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation
Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass
Steeleye Span - All Around my Hat
Ain Soph - A Story of Mysterious Forest
Nanci Griffith - Storms

It really is. It's addictive actually. The Tom Waits song is just amazing, and the two Van Morrison songs are pretty great as well. The only disappointment is the one penned by Dylan...one of the weakest tracks of his I've ever heard, but Burke's voice almost makes up for it.

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

V/A - Badlands: Tribute to Springsteen's 'Nebraska'
John Linnell - State Songs
Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
Strokes - Is This It

Black Sabbath - Past Lives

This collection of live performances from the Ozzy era kicks bootie. Rock on!

Spoon - Kill the Moonlight-I like it more than anything they've done

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights- Much better on record than live

Usher- My Way

Bruce Springsteen- Darkness at the edge of town

Me too. Hmmmm, must have been the full moon....

Doves - The Last Broadcast: this is excellent

Modest Mouse - Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks: love it
- Moon and Antarctica: good, too

Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales: I bought this in the spring as a blind buy and I thoroughly enjoy the whole thing

Built to Spill - Keep it like a Secret: I am always listening to this

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Just picked up for the week:

Dream Theater : Once in a livetime
kansas : somewhere to elsewhere
indigenous : circle
human league : dare!
dio : killing the dragon

Michael

Coldplay-Parachutes
Radiohead-The Bends
Dream Theater-Images & Words
Moby-18
Nine Inch Nails-Pretty Hate Machine