Recent Music Acquired

[ewok20t3]

This is bombastic, and not as epic as Emotion Is Dead, but still fun.

I bought their posthumous compilation called A Small Noise before I purchased any of their albums, and I find myself gravitating towards the songs on that compilation and not enjoying the rest of their songs as much. Hopefully I'll get over that. Then again, maybe all of their best songs are on the compilation.

[murlough23]

I bought their posthumous compilation called A Small Noise before I purchased any of their albums, and I find myself gravitating towards the songs on that compilation and not enjoying the rest of their songs as much. Hopefully I'll get over that. Then again, maybe all of their best songs are on the compilation.

That compilation (made against the band's will by Tooth & Nail) was culled from a whopping two albums and one EP, so it's no surprise that nearly half of Emotion Is Dead is on it. The songs they picked are generally the highlights. I'd also pay closer attention to "We're Nothing Without You" and "This Is Your Life", which didn't make the cut. "Liability" from the Music From Another Room EP is also a solid pick, as is "Musicbox Superhero" from their first album (which otherwise, I could never get into).

[Aaron]

Borrowed these from the library for the drives to and from work:

The Young Dubliners - Real World
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Kinks - The Singles Collection
The Beatles - Let It Be...Naked
Pete Yorn w/Scarlett Johansson - Break Up

[murlough23]

Owl City - Ocean Eyes

[ajyouthguy]

Sandra McCracken--In Feast or Fallow

[Wildcatblue7]

Wiz Khalifa--Deal or No Deal

yeaaaaaaaaaahh boi!  haha

[plvarona]

Josh Ritter: So Runs The World Away

[ewok20t3]

Deftones - Diamond Eyes
-I know it won't be as good as White Pony but hopefully it'll be worth the 12 bucks. I had a hard time deciding whether to buy this new or wait and get it used somewhere down the road.

[murlough23]

The New Pornographers - Together

[bloop]

OK, so I borrowed The State by Nickelback based on the rumor that Nickelback did not always suck ("Nickelback sucks" is damn near tautology in critical circles).  Is this true, or am I wasting my time?

[murlough23]

OK, so I borrowed The State by Nickelback based on the rumor that Nickelback did not always suck.  Is this true, or am I wasting my time?

I don't know, but I admire your open-mindedness. I'd be rather skeptical about Nickelback at any phase in their career.

[bloop]

I wasn't sure whether to put that here or in the "respect the classics" thread since the album is, in music years, ancient.

[murlough23]

I wasn't sure whether to put that her or in the "respect the classics" thread since the album is, in music years, ancient.

Age doesn't automatically make something a classic. Otherwise I'd have to respect all of Carman's old albums.

[ewok20t3]

OK, so I borrowed The State by Nickelback based on the rumor that Nickelback did not always suck ("Nickelback sucks" is damn near tautology in critical circles).  Is this true, or am I wasting my time?

They still sucked on that album, but if I remember correctly, they didn't have 5 songs that sound like "How You Remind Me" like they have on all of their other albums. If I remember correctly "Leader of Men" was a somewhat decent song, though. I haven't heard the album in a long time, so I could be wrong.

[bloop]

The rumor is not true - Nickelback has always sucked.  Duly noted.  I need to apologize to my iPod for committing this offensive string of 1's and 0's to its hdd.

[ewok20t3]

The rumor is not true - Nickelback has always sucked.  Duly noted.  I need to apologize to my iPod for committing this offensive string of 1's and 0's to its hdd.

Haha, I had a feeling you would come to that conclusion.

[ajyouthguy]

Jennifer Knapp--Letting Go

i got it for $9 at Walmart...i also saw it for $13.99 at Hastings and $7.99 on Amazon mp3 downloads.

[murlough23]

The rumor is not true - Nickelback has always sucked.  Duly noted.  I need to apologize to my iPod for committing this offensive string of 1's and 0's to its hdd.

I guess we've proven that some things are better taken at face value. Though even 5 cents might be generous in this case.

[plvarona]

Jennifer Knapp--Letting Go

I got that in the mail yesterday.  It was a pre-order from her concert in New Orleans a few months ago.

[ajyouthguy]

got a new youth ministry box today that has the latest from the following in it:

Tenth Avenue North
Sanctus Real
Flatfoot 56
The Letter Black
Superchick
Stellar Kart
Newworldson
Mr. Talkbox
Petidee
Sixteen Cities
The Washington Projects (formerly Souljahz)

Relient K
Project 86
Deas Vail
(those last three are weird additions, given they each are several months old and they are duplicates for me, but oh well, they'll be giveaways in my youth group)

[ewok20t3]

As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise

[ajyouthguy]

Father Revisited--Justin McRoberts (a re-working of 4 songs off his Father project from 10 years or so ago...free at NoiseTrade for a limited time)

also got like 30 songs from the church we went to in Dallas Sunday, The Village Church, mostly originals they have written and recorded with their worship team.  pretty cool.

[murlough23]

Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away

Kind of an impulse buy since I only first heard it yesterday. But it was reasonably priced at Starbucks (of all places!) and my initial response was favorable, so I figured, what the hey?

[NinjaRob17]

Five Iron Frenzy - Quantity Is Job 1
Burlap To Cashmere - Anybody Out There?

[ewok20t3]

Various - Rock Music: A Tribute To Weezer
Keane - Hopes and Fears

[ewok20t3]

Sleeping Giant - Sons of Thunder on gold vinyl.

[ewok20t3]

Just got these in the mail from the amazing Broken Circles Records:

Further Seems Forever - How To Start A Fire on Vinyl
All The Day Holiday - The Sloth Sessions on Cassette.
 
I could never see myself buying into this new cassette movement, but the only way to get most of those All The Day Holiday tracks is by getting this cassette. Plus it's kind of neat because they only made 150 of them, it came with a code to download the mp3's, and it was only 5 bucks.

[olivertsu]

Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
The National - High Violet
Serena-Maneesh - S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor

[ewok20t3]

Over The Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer
Also, I won a Thrice prize pack featuring 5 of their CD's (the only one I don't already own is the live album), Beggars on vinyl, and free tickets and side stage passes to their show. I'm so excited! I never win anything!

[ewok20t3]

Kansas - Point of Know Return on Vinyl.

I got all of the following cheesy 90's R&B albums on Vinyl for 20 cents a piece:
Various - Soul Food Soundtrack
Monica - Miss Thang
Keith Sweat - Keith Sweat
and singles from The Tony Rich Project, 112, Dru Hill, Boyz II Men, Blackstreet, Total, and pretty much every other artist I listened to in middle school. What was wrong with me? Anyways, it's still kind of cool to go back and listen to these on vinyl fifteen years later.

[plvarona]

I got all of the following cheesy 90's R&B albums on Vinyl for 20 cents a piece:
Various - Soul Food Soundtrack
Monica - Miss Thang
Keith Sweat - Keith Sweat
and singles from The Tony Rich Project, 112, Dru Hill, Boyz II Men, Blackstreet, Total, and pretty much every other artist I listened to in middle school. What was wrong with me? Anyways, it's still kind of cool to go back and listen to these on vinyl fifteen years later.

Come to think of it, I listened to some of those artists while I was in high school - mostly when they came on the radio back then.  I do see what you mean, though, about listening to them again after all these years.  I do still find some of that stuff mildly amusing, probably more for nostalgic reasons than anything else.

[ewok20t3]

Come to think of it, I listened to some of those artists while I was in high school - mostly when they came on the radio back then.  I do see what you mean, though, about listening to them again after all these years.  I do still find some of that stuff mildly amusing, probably more for nostalgic reasons than anything else.

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd care much at all about any of that music if it came out today, but it does hold quite a bit of nostalgic value to me.

Random fact: Monica's Miss Thang is the only album I own on cassette, CD, and Vinyl.

[murlough23]

I still had a ton of cassettes up until we moved about three weeks ago. My wife finally succeeded in pointing out that I had no viable way of listening to them and thus no reason for keeping them. (It was all old Christian music from my youth group/college days... I've replaced most of the stuff I actually still want on CD since then.) So they all went in the big pile of stuff we dropped off at Salvation Army.

[ewok20t3]

I still had a ton of cassettes up until we moved about three weeks ago. My wife finally succeeded in pointing out that I had no viable way of listening to them and thus no reason for keeping them. (It was all old Christian music from my youth group/college days... I've replaced most of the stuff I actually still want on CD since then.) So they all went in the big pile of stuff we dropped off at Salvation Army.

I've been considering doing that with most of my cassette's, but I'm such a pack rat when it comes to music. I just have trouble getting rid of any of it.

[ewok20t3]

It Prevails - Findings EP on vinyl. One of my most anticipated releases of the year.

[ewok20t3]

Dependency - Convicted EP
-Another one of my most anticipated of this year.

[ajyouthguy]

The Cross Changes Everything--Michael Bloodgood and Friends
Vertical Expressions--Two Guys from Petra

[ewok20t3]

The Ghost Inside - Fury and The Fallen Ones

Got these from the dollar bin (although now some of them are two dollars):
The Letter Black - Breaking The Silence EP
For Stars - We Are All Beautiful People
Seabird - Rocks Into Rivers
Ginny Owens - Without Condition
Various Artists - My Utmost For His Highest - The Covenant
The Beach Boys - Greatest Hits Volume 1
4Him - The Basics of Life (Is It weird that I still enjoy listening to 4Him occasionally?)

[murlough23]

4Him - The Basics of Life (Is It weird that I still enjoy listening to 4Him occasionally?)

No. I still have a few songs from their old albums on my mix CDs that I still enjoy (The Message and The Ride being my favorite albums of theirs.)

[plvarona]

Seabird - Rocks Into Rivers

That's dropped to the dollar bin already?  I wonder why.  I like that album a lot too - it was my #9 album of last year.

While I'm at it, I got these at the Josh Ritter concert last night:

Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
The Mynabirds: What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood

As for the concert, it was outstanding.  I'm about to write it up on the "Concert Journals" thread.