When did buying CDs become outdated?
by AC - permalink
I went to my (sort of) local Cat's not too long ago to look around and talk to the Record Store Guys. There aren't a lot of places in north Memphis where you can find some Record Store Guys, so you have to take advantage of the situation. These ones were plucking badly at an acoustic guitar and were way, way too into Tool. I love Tool, but at some point you have to realize that you're not actually in the band. Anyway, I ended up buying a couple of eponymous debut albums spanning 25 years: Violent Femmes (1982) and Flyleaf (2007).
The Flyleaf record isn't bad. If you like their singles, I'm So Sick and Fully Alive (tracks one and two, interestingly), you'll probably like the rest of the CD. It's short, though, only a little over 34 minutes. Personal favorite is currently track 4, Cassie. It'll probably be the next single, coming to a college rock station near you.
The Violent Femmes album is, well, Violent Femmes. Almost half the record can be found on the radio now if you count the cookie-cutter Gnarls Barkley cover of Gone Daddy Gone. I never really knew that much about the band and was surprised this record was so old. It's a timeless LP, you should go get it.
What else. Oh, DirecTV is showing the concert footage from the new Nine Inch Nails DVD Beside You in Time on channel 101. It's OK, I guess. Reznor is awesome as always, but these new musicians... I dunno. I don't want to say they suck, but they kinda suck. As far as I'm concerned, the real live NIN is T.R., Danny Lohner, Robin Finck, and Chris Vrenna.
One last vaguely music-related note, you should point your interweb browsing devices to Adult Swim's download page to grab a handful of genuine Dethklok mp3s. Metalocalypse has officially supplanted Aqua Teen as the funniest, most kickass animated show on television, and you get free death metal songs to boot. Beat that, South Park.
by AC - permalink
I went to my (sort of) local Cat's not too long ago to look around and talk to the Record Store Guys. There aren't a lot of places in north Memphis where you can find some Record Store Guys, so you have to take advantage of the situation. These ones were plucking badly at an acoustic guitar and were way, way too into Tool. I love Tool, but at some point you have to realize that you're not actually in the band. Anyway, I ended up buying a couple of eponymous debut albums spanning 25 years: Violent Femmes (1982) and Flyleaf (2007).The Flyleaf record isn't bad. If you like their singles, I'm So Sick and Fully Alive (tracks one and two, interestingly), you'll probably like the rest of the CD. It's short, though, only a little over 34 minutes. Personal favorite is currently track 4, Cassie. It'll probably be the next single, coming to a college rock station near you.
The Violent Femmes album is, well, Violent Femmes. Almost half the record can be found on the radio now if you count the cookie-cutter Gnarls Barkley cover of Gone Daddy Gone. I never really knew that much about the band and was surprised this record was so old. It's a timeless LP, you should go get it.
What else. Oh, DirecTV is showing the concert footage from the new Nine Inch Nails DVD Beside You in Time on channel 101. It's OK, I guess. Reznor is awesome as always, but these new musicians... I dunno. I don't want to say they suck, but they kinda suck. As far as I'm concerned, the real live NIN is T.R., Danny Lohner, Robin Finck, and Chris Vrenna.
One last vaguely music-related note, you should point your interweb browsing devices to Adult Swim's download page to grab a handful of genuine Dethklok mp3s. Metalocalypse has officially supplanted Aqua Teen as the funniest, most kickass animated show on television, and you get free death metal songs to boot. Beat that, South Park.
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