Reviews will appear magically from thin air
Posting takes a lot longer these days because of the summer sprawl. My job situation is also changing, so things won't be the same, thankfully! The website I was posting upon, www.musicshopper.info, is now crashing into oblivion. The problem is that I have a lot of albums left to review and nowhere to post them, so they will appear on this blog and be routed to the artists from here.
Lately I have been busy with even more music, buying more than I could possibly ever need or listen to regularly. Guster's Keep It Together has been ringing through the house and "Amsterdam" has been my anthem of the summer. Glen Phillip's solo albums Mr. Lemons and Winter Pays for Summer don't match up to my favorite Toad the Wet Sprocket albums Fear and Dulcinea. They have a lot more of the folk sound rather than the arena rock which I enjoyed in the 90's, but Toad did have its soft, sensitive side also. Josh Ritter's Golden Age of Radio confused me greatly. I left the room and when I came back thought I had put in some Dylan album. Carey Ott's Lucid Dream has been the most played as of late. Two free bonus tracks from emusic, another two free tracks from iTunes with purchase of the album, and I already had the four song ep when i re-bought the album. "Am I Just One" is the best song on it, but my sixteen track cd of the album and the bonus tracks is great all around and doesn't really hit a spot of boredom. There's more to this guy than just being a Grey's Anatomy pinup. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadia has some nice material on it, but I can't get their last two albums out of my mind while I am listening to it. Two discs? Just a little too much heat for me all at once. The Stereophonics have been adding some more rock to my day, but haven't got too much attention from me at this point. The Fray has also gotten frequent spins around the house. I have read about them being compared to Coldplay, but what band with piano and guitar isn't getting compared to them these days. I don't think they sound too much like them for the record. Their melodies are enjoyable and the album doesn't get boring until the end. My John Mayer/Sheryl Crow tickets for The Woodlands have arrived and I am just about as excited about that concert as I am about the new Chris Cornell solo album hitting shelves sometime in September. His first post-Soundgarden release, Euphoria Morning, is in the top five of my personal favorites.
So long for now.
Ryan
Lately I have been busy with even more music, buying more than I could possibly ever need or listen to regularly. Guster's Keep It Together has been ringing through the house and "Amsterdam" has been my anthem of the summer. Glen Phillip's solo albums Mr. Lemons and Winter Pays for Summer don't match up to my favorite Toad the Wet Sprocket albums Fear and Dulcinea. They have a lot more of the folk sound rather than the arena rock which I enjoyed in the 90's, but Toad did have its soft, sensitive side also. Josh Ritter's Golden Age of Radio confused me greatly. I left the room and when I came back thought I had put in some Dylan album. Carey Ott's Lucid Dream has been the most played as of late. Two free bonus tracks from emusic, another two free tracks from iTunes with purchase of the album, and I already had the four song ep when i re-bought the album. "Am I Just One" is the best song on it, but my sixteen track cd of the album and the bonus tracks is great all around and doesn't really hit a spot of boredom. There's more to this guy than just being a Grey's Anatomy pinup. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadia has some nice material on it, but I can't get their last two albums out of my mind while I am listening to it. Two discs? Just a little too much heat for me all at once. The Stereophonics have been adding some more rock to my day, but haven't got too much attention from me at this point. The Fray has also gotten frequent spins around the house. I have read about them being compared to Coldplay, but what band with piano and guitar isn't getting compared to them these days. I don't think they sound too much like them for the record. Their melodies are enjoyable and the album doesn't get boring until the end. My John Mayer/Sheryl Crow tickets for The Woodlands have arrived and I am just about as excited about that concert as I am about the new Chris Cornell solo album hitting shelves sometime in September. His first post-Soundgarden release, Euphoria Morning, is in the top five of my personal favorites.
So long for now.
Ryan
posted by Ryan @ 11:07 PM
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