: Provisional birthday haul, 100% music
The ones I've listened to at least in part so far...
* My Chemical Romance, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. Opening track Helena and the album's best-remembered single I'm Not Okay (I Promise) (the latter was my first exposure to the band) stand out; there's plenty of potential for either to be rearranged. My point of comparison is with Yellowcard, and I do think the comparison edges in the latter's favour, but I'm biased towards their novel approach of having a violinist very much integrated into the band.
* Eurovision 2007 official album. Dancing Lasha Tumbai was better live, Song #1 sounds better on CD. Still love Molitva, the Old Eurovision family still don't. 'And we've been singing the winning song ever since', remarked Quirks-mother snidely. The answer I didn't give but should have done: 'I have, and a melodic fragment I wrote last month was nagging away at me until I realised it was very similar to the instrumental bridge.' Of course, Eurovision weekend and my adventures with woodwind instruments are inseparable, given that Alice was purchased on that Sunday...
* Sarah McLachlan, Touch. Need to give this a proper listen, I used it as background muzak for lunch and it was almost inaudible.
And the ones I haven't even listened to at all yet...
* Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine. If I'd known she was on the Sony-BMG label I may not have asked for this.
* Embrace, Drawn From Memory. From their forgotten period. If Chris Martin did one good thing, it was writing the song that reignited this band. McNamara would go on to write several more songs that are rather better, but unfortunately had his career killed a second time with his commissioned piece for the FA.
* Sigur Rós, (). One of the classical soprani I know from Fitzpatrick-era LJ loves this album, and I need little more incentive.
* Melanie C, This Time. The way the Spices' individual careers went in this country was beyond belief.
* Regina Spektor, Soviet Kitsch. Featuring at least one song with a piano accompaniment so easy I can play it. I know this because I've been taught it...
Separate post coming up soon, of things I didn't think of on Saturday and developments of things I did. This will probably be once I've formalised the Clarkson-Lewis method...
The ones I've listened to at least in part so far...
* My Chemical Romance, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. Opening track Helena and the album's best-remembered single I'm Not Okay (I Promise) (the latter was my first exposure to the band) stand out; there's plenty of potential for either to be rearranged. My point of comparison is with Yellowcard, and I do think the comparison edges in the latter's favour, but I'm biased towards their novel approach of having a violinist very much integrated into the band.
* Eurovision 2007 official album. Dancing Lasha Tumbai was better live, Song #1 sounds better on CD. Still love Molitva, the Old Eurovision family still don't. 'And we've been singing the winning song ever since', remarked Quirks-mother snidely. The answer I didn't give but should have done: 'I have, and a melodic fragment I wrote last month was nagging away at me until I realised it was very similar to the instrumental bridge.' Of course, Eurovision weekend and my adventures with woodwind instruments are inseparable, given that Alice was purchased on that Sunday...
* Sarah McLachlan, Touch. Need to give this a proper listen, I used it as background muzak for lunch and it was almost inaudible.
And the ones I haven't even listened to at all yet...
* Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine. If I'd known she was on the Sony-BMG label I may not have asked for this.
* Embrace, Drawn From Memory. From their forgotten period. If Chris Martin did one good thing, it was writing the song that reignited this band. McNamara would go on to write several more songs that are rather better, but unfortunately had his career killed a second time with his commissioned piece for the FA.
* Sigur Rós, (). One of the classical soprani I know from Fitzpatrick-era LJ loves this album, and I need little more incentive.
* Melanie C, This Time. The way the Spices' individual careers went in this country was beyond belief.
* Regina Spektor, Soviet Kitsch. Featuring at least one song with a piano accompaniment so easy I can play it. I know this because I've been taught it...
Separate post coming up soon, of things I didn't think of on Saturday and developments of things I did. This will probably be once I've formalised the Clarkson-Lewis method...