Okay, so I've decided that I will start updating more often because I cannot remember a lot of my inital feelings and thoughts about the albums and waiting until I get to the END of the playlist is a bit of a drag....and it makes for crap reviews like the ones below.
Orbital: The Altogether Discs 1 & 2 (The U.S. version)
a good way to make time zip by and groove in my chair whilst doing data entry. This album specifically was a nice dirty old skool breaks record and I was able to be incredibly focused and productive while listening to it at work. A really good album for anyone who likes breaks.
Green Day: American Idiot
I remember when this album came out a few years ago and being totally smitten with it. It is still very much a great album and I am hoping that it will be listened to twenty years from now with the backdrop of the political climate in which it was released. As we stand on the brink of a shift in powers....and policies it, for me, doesn't reflect the angst that the nation posessed but a few years ago.
Johnny Cash: American III: The Solitary Man; American IV: The Man Comes Around; American Outtakes (which I'm assuming is a bootleg...)
Okay, can I just gush at how great Johnny Cash is? I LOVE these records. I own American V: A Hundred Highways (released posthumously) on CD and I thought I gave it to Chris to rip but it's not in the iTunes library. No matter...these albums are so great....they have very well done covers and his voice, the production and arrangement on each creates a who different quality to the tracks on the album. I remember hearing an interview with Trent Reznor once who, when he heard that Johnny Cash wanted to cover 'Hurt' had the attitude that 'Hurt' was perfect on it's own and how dare Johnny Cash try to cover it and blah blah blah Trent Reznor is a vain asshole. But after hearing the cover he was very impressed with Cash's work. I remember when the track came out and I was floored. Cash's cover is sooooo much better than the original and I would say that with about 94% of all the covers he does on these albums (I replayed won't back down and U2's One....seriously check them out. One of my personal favorites is his rendition of Gordon Lightfoot's If you Could Read My Mind (which is on American V) it makes me cry a little bit everytime I hear it.
Don McClean: American Pie
Another record from my childhood. I often got Don McClean confused with Jim Croce when I was growing up because they were in the same CD magazine when I was a child. This is a really good album and while I know a few reasons behind the songs, the rock of this era seem to have far more political implications that I would love to have a better understanding of. I'm certain someone out there has written something on the correlation between history and this music.
Veruca Salt: American Thighs
When the song Seether came out when I was fourteen I had no idea what the fuck that song was about...now at twenty-eight...I'm still not entirely certain..a lesbian relationship? a friendship? okay...I still have no fucking clue. Seether is easliy one of the most rocking tracks on the record and the rest of it was really, really, really good. A good time for getting high and listening to...because I really love to do that. Just get high and listen to music with no talking...*wigh* good memories. Christyn I miss you grrl.
The Offspring: Americana
Chris was right when he said that this record was good to listen to really loud. It had some fun tracks and for some unknown reason the lead vocalist reminds me of Greg Kelly.
It was a fun record and there are definately tracks of nostaligia on it.
Radiohead: Amnesiac (two tracks)
I just have one question regarding this album: "Chris...where the f*ck are the rest of the tracks for it!?" I'm only butthurt because I really like Radiohead. And these two tracks were freakin' phenomonal...as usual and I wish I could have heard the whole damned thing but...uh...no...
THe Black Crowes: Amorica
This is the first time I've ever sat down and listened to a Black Crowes album and I must say I really really really liked them. The vocals and arrangements sort of reminded me of Iron and Wine...I listened to the album twice to make sure that I really did like it...and yeah I dug it. I don't know if there are more Black Crowes albums in the library but I'm rating this one 4 stars...for future reference.
Rammstein: Amsterdam in Flammen... (bootleg...?)
Okay, when I was like seventeen I think, my brother brought home Rammstein's self titled studio album and I really liked it (I wasn't an angry teenager or anything *rolls eeys*) and listening to their live album I still really like them. I think they'd be a great band to run/workout to. So I added some tracks to my workout muzak playlist. I will say that the live album was VERY well produced and I very much enjoyed listening to them live. It sounds like they would be awesome live. A good record for any Rammstein fan.
List #4 is as follow:
Dj Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince- And In This Corner.... (mp4 so I get to sit at my computer and listen to it)
Metallica- And Justice For All
Faith No More- Angel Dust
Bonobo- Animal Magic
Various Artists- Bob Dylan Anniversary Concert (Anniversary for what I don't know...)
Paul Oakenfold- Anthems
Ego Plum- Anthology of Infection Vol. 1
Primus- Antipop
Richard Cheese- Apertif For Destruction
Aphrodite- Aphrodite
Janis Joplin & the Kozmic Blues Band- April 1, 1969 Amsterdam Netherlands
Master Shake- Aqua Teen HungerForce Colon Movie Film For Theaters Colon The Soundtrack (one track....why Chris!? WHY only one!?)
Aqua- Aquarium (one track)
Daft Punk- Around The World
ABBA- Arrival
A.F.I.- The Art of Drowning (mp4)
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I'll tell you a funny story about those random Radiohead tracks. I was listening to the radio some way back when and I heard the track Rodeohead by Hard n' Phirm. This track is seriously one of my guilty little pleasures, it's rated 5 stars in my library and I listen to it at least once a week.
Well, at some point, I decided to make a playlist that included every Radiohead song referenced... it took quite some time, unfortunately I lost the playlist in a iTunes library transfer, but the tracks still remain.
Here's a better link.. free download from Hard n' Phirm. Rodeohead.
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