Ah! My third attempt at a new post! The other 2(well, make it 1) are on the bench.
Right now, I'm on the iTunes store(doing my bit of legal downloading) and have come across a few tracks, which make me want to buy the album, which....have inspired me to put in a new blog entry! ha!
...and here we go...
1. Interpol's Antics-The Special Edition
Self explanitory. I love them. I don't even own a hard copy of Antics OR Turn On The Bright Lights. So, obviously, this is one of the top ones.
2. Gogol Bordello's Gypsy Punks: Underground World Strike (er, any one of their albums)
I read about them in a Spin magazine, and thought they looked funny(which they do). They're a multi-ethnic band (imagine slavs and thais) mixing punk with gypsy music and cabaret. I listened to a sample of it on iTunes ("Baro Foro"). I'm VERY intrigued. I'm attracted to that weird sounding crap. It was on Elijah Wood's playlist on iTunes, and that's how I listened to it.
3. Joy Division's Closer
Okay, this wasn't influenced by today's iTunes picking about. An article in Spin documented the story around Closer, and how Ian Curtis committed suicide, etc. I blame my interest in Interpol for diving into this post-punk stuff. Echo and The Bunnymen are next too, but I don't know which one. Watch out The Cure and New Order! This is a new side to music I haven't looked into.
*thinks* Hmmm...Amazon.com offers Joy Division's first two albums (Unknown Pleasures is the first one) for like, $21...intriguing...
4. Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have It So Much Better...
I'm really jazzed about their new single, "Do You Want To." They're just fun. It's funny, I read an article about them today. They said they were just going to call the new cd "Franz Ferdinand" again. Like what? Haha. I guess they changed their minds. According to the band's website, this one's out October 3rd.
5. The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
I've been wanting this one for a while. It just sounds pretty, and apparently this is the album that inspired The Beatles to do Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Cool. Which is another album I'd like to get, but that'll be another entry.
2 comments:
Ahhh...Pet Sounds. never in my life would I have EVER thought I would want to own a Beach Boys album. But I remember that this was the only Beach Boys album my hippie/beatnik mother owned, and remember hearing it on Saturday afternoons while doing chores and thinking exactly what you pointed out: it just sounds pretty. It just does. Strangely, it sounds better when spinning on pressed wax at 33 1/3 RPM than on a CD, but still: it is perfect.
ironically, it's the ONLY beach boys album that i want. :)
i love vinyl as well. i've decided i'd track me down a record player. sadly, my parents did away with their beatles "let it be" album. le sigh. vinyl just lends a certain quality to the music....
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