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It's back to the 90's!!

Goo Goo Dolls' "Rebel Beat",

and Fallout Boy's "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark".

Simple Minds' "New Gold Dream", one of my favorite 80s albums and in my opinion the band's best album. I like their next two albums more than a lot of fans do, but "New Gold Dream" was lightning in a bottle.

I really liked Empires and Dance, but agree that New Gold Dream was a definite turning point where a number of things seemed to fall into place.

I've been playing the first side of Sparkle in the rain more recently though + All the Things She Said.

This is amazing! Your choice of tracks from Sparkle in the Rain and Once Upon a Time are the same ones I favor!

That's great! Speeding my love to you for that

Yesterday, it was a couple of CDs by jazz great Dexter Gordon, via YouTube.

It was very helpful, too. Because a ton of stupid crap happened that I couldn't get a handle on no matter what I did. Also, my boss was being a royal butt and there was nothing I could do about that, either.

My favorite Gordon CD is Our Man In Paris. It's definitely on YouTube. If I was sending a new fan out for 5-10 jazz cds to get them started collecting, that one would have to be in there.

This week I have mostly been listening to Devo.

This.

only...I have different words in my head than what they sing, and their dirty version has nothing on mine.

And this. my listening tastes have been running very heavy lately. Don't know why.

Shatner can really put a lot of gravitas into stock phrases.

6CycleMind's Sandalan (I don't think any of you can understand the lyrics though...)

A the risk of completely obliterating my street cred here, I'm compelled to admit that I just watched nearly two hours of programming on Great American Country centering around Lady Antebellum tonight. First a concert; then a special on how they got together and hit the big time. I swear I listen to practically NO country music at all--I mean, my three favorite acts are Metallica, System of a Down and the Beatles, and I generally like heavy guitar rock--but I have an inexplicable weakness for Lady A!

I've never admitted this to ANYone! But I'm among friends here...right?

Lardy, the boys of Lady Antebellum grew up here in my community. (The county's new venue is the Lady Antebellum Amphitheatre.) They're friends of friends. So that makes you a friend of a friend of a friend of Lady A.

The presence of Nick Lowe's wonderful song Cruel to Be Kind in He Who's latest Top 40 thread has inspired me to spin the two Lowe albums in my collection, the excellent "Labour of Lust" and the more uneven but often inspired "Jesus of Cool."



Of course you're among friends, Lardy. You don't ever have to worry about that. Especially considering some of the stuff I've admitted to liking.

I guess they just disappointed a bunch here, canceling a concert. I'm pretty sure the concert had been sold out so they must have had some other reason.

Never heard of them myself before they made the news for canceling but I don't tend towards those channels.

Thing is, I could probably only name and sing a bit of maybe five of their songs...if that!

It was definitely "Need You Now" that put them on my radar. Hearing it on the Muzak at work and, oddly enough, on literally the only episode of "Glee" I've ever watched kind of ingrained it into my consciousness.

I will say it's very unusual for a band to have both a male and female lead singer who consistently sing together on every track (as far as I know anyway). I mean, you have bands like Fleetwood Mac with male and female leads, but they mostly switch off songs. Maybe part of what I secretly admire about Lady A is that their perpetual male/female duet singing/songwriting format is actually pretty innovative?

Tonight, it's one of my favorite albums of the 90s, De Republica by Deus ex Machina.

Lardy, I like my rock hard, fast, and loud. But.. with so many "rock" acts just being andro pop, I listen to a lot more country now than I ever did before. So, Lady A ain't bad. It's when you start getting the justin beeber's of country that I lose all hope and leave it on the sports channels for days on end.

But I like country honky tonk and hard blues. Just think "there ain't nuthin' bout you" or "Hillbilly Deluxe" for my country tastes.

One thing about the better country acts is that they can flat-out SING--as opposed to yell or scream or rap or whine, etc. Certainly, Lady A features some very appealing vocals that play off each other well.



See, I don't even know what those songs ARE!

This week I have mostly been listening to Sparks.

Don't feel bad Paladin...I'm sure by now you know how my tastes veer towards extreme metal but...

And I've been listening to my favorite 80's band lately

I have narrowed my favorite song down to my top two contenders:

Savage Garden's "Hold Me",

and

The Calling's "Our Lives"