New Music
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R.E.M. – Murmur – My attempt to discover the best that the 1980’s has to offer has resulted in my rediscovery of R.E.M. I was enormously into them when my entire music collection was on cassette tapes. As I moved over to CDs, I never re-purchased the albums and I moved on to different (louder) genres of music. Although I’ve managed to acquire a fair amount of their music from my youngest brother (who’s becoming an R.E.M. nut himself) neither he nor I ever had this album, so when I found it on the cheap at the local used record store, I pounced. It’s definitely recognizable as the same band, but it’s still a bit different than the early 90’s R.E.M. that I used to be so enamored with. |
Random Ten Songs
Dredg – The Ornament (Live at the Fillmore)
Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug (Lost Highway Soundtrack)
Foo Fighters – Ain’t It The Life (There Is Nothing Left To Lose)
Nine Inch Nails – Zero Sum (Year Zero)
Tantric – Breakdown (Tantric)
Rage Against the Machine – Take the Power Back (Rage Against the Machine)
Jane’s Addiction – Summertime Rolls (Nothing’s Shocking)
Tool – Eulogy (Ænima)
Nine Inch Nails – That’s What I Get (Pretty Hate Machine)
Nine Inch Nails – Piggy (The Downward Spiral)
The NIN quadruple! If there was a band I expected to show up 4 times in a single list, it would be NIN. They’ve released so many albums that they actually account for almost 10% of the songs on my iPod (alright, I went and actually counted – 156 songs out of 1866, or 8.3%).
Two Videos –
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Bells of Creation
They managed to release a new album without my noticing, perhaps it will make an appearance at the top of one of these posts soon.
Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have
Couldn’t resist…
Black Keys – Thickfreakness – You know what you’re getting with a Black Keys album. More not-quite-clean blues rock from these two as I get closer to completing the collection.
Foo Fighters – Skin and Bones – Apparently this came out is 2006, but I wasn’t aware of it. There are a lot of the Foo Fighter favorites on this one, and the “unplugged” arrangements are interesting in general.
Radiohead – The Best Of – Not an enormous Radiohead fan, but my brother just got this for Christmas, so since it was laying around, I made a copy for myself. Time will tell whether I ever listen to it.
R.E.M. – Out Of Time – Long ago I had this album, along with a bunch of other R.E.M. albums, so I’m glad I’m getting a chance to once again add this back into my collection.
R.E.M. – Accelerate – I was in an R.E.M. kind of mood. Haven’t listened to this one yet.