OK, it's Friday night. Hopefully, the diary police are off-duty. I've just spend the last several hours ripping a bunch of songs that we want to keep off of a bunch of CDs that my wife and I are going to sell for day 2 of our semi-annual garage sale. We've done a major purge of our CD collection so I've been listening to some stuff that I've not listened to for years (we're talking early 90's in some cases).
OK, it's Friday night. Hopefully, the diary police are off-duty. I've just spend the last several hours ripping a bunch of songs that we want to keep off of a bunch of CDs that my wife and I are going to sell for day 2 of our semi-annual garage sale. We've done a major purge of our CD collection so I've been listening to some stuff that I've not listened to for years (we're talking early 90's in some cases).
Here's some examples:
Animal Logic: Animal Logic II ca. 1990-91. This was a project that Stuart Copeland was involved in post-The Police. I ended up keeping this one. I'm a sucker for a real good female lead singer (Deborah Holland in this case).
Concrete Blond: Bloodletting also 1990. OK, this does not hold up well at all for me. A couple of good songs, (Caroline, Joey) but that's it.
Rhett Miller: The Instigator a slightly more recent release at 2002. I've never listened to this before now. My wife picked this one up, but I have to say I like pretty much every song. It's a keeper.
Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend ca. 1991 I can't believe my wife was going to sell this one. I like almost every song on it. It's a keeper.
Lindsey Buckingham: Out of the Cradle ca.1992 I think this was his 1st solo effort out of Fleetwood Mac. He's a bit of an acquired taste. I ripped about half the songs and into the "For Sale" bin it goes!
Counting Crows: Films About Ghosts, The Best of... I've always kind of liked Counting Crows, but never enough to buy their CDs. Another of my wife's purchases. But I ripped about half the songs and then... it's gone.
Well, there's a bit more I could list, but I'm getting a bit lazy now. As an addendum, some other artists that I'm listening to on a more or less regular basis are:
Rose Elinor Dougall: she's British, a former member of The Pipettes, also is doing some work with Mark Ronson. Just released her 1st solo effort, Without Why. I highly recommend it.
Lucky Soul: also British (my wife and I both have a real attraction to British stuff). Very retro. Female lead singer's voice is a bit "Dusty Springfieldish". Worth checking out if you like that kind of thing.
Two Hours Traffic: Canadian. Good guitar-based pop.
The Bird and the Bee: LA-based (I think) duo. Female singer, Inara George (daughter of Lowell George of Little Feat fame) and multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin. Alternative, quirky, lounge lizard pop. I love it. My wife definitely does not.
I guess that's it for now.
Anybody else?