Problem with buying two albums one day….
….you listen to one more then the other.
So I bought the R.E.M. and the new Raconteurs albums today. I figured the best way to get to know both albums was to throw them on my iPod and go mow the lawn. Great way to get a good listen and get something done at the same time. Besides today might be the only day it doesn’t rain this week and the lawn really needed to be mowed, so much that it stalled several times getting through the crap that grows in North Carolina. Anyway, I got a good listen. R.E.M. was first in the list, and well, damn couldn’t stop listening too it.
Accelerate from R.E.M. is just what I’ve been looking for in right now. Something a little loud, lots of guitar, rocking and fun. Makes you get up and move around, maybe the perfect cure for cold weather and getting ready for spring. The Athens, GA band has a hit in the making. I haven’t listened to much from them since Automatic for the People, the slow, beautiful, wonderful album of 1992. This is not that album, but it harks back to Green and Monster that rock and everyone dances their head off too. I have to say I was singing along the 2nd time through, always a great sign.
Lawnmowing Rating….I give it 4 1/2 lawnmowers out of 5….I need to make little icons, what a great idea, stay tuned.
Raconteurs’ Consolers Of The Lonely. Once I finally got to it after listening to Accelerate twice. Damn, sweet Jack White and a full sound backing him, also with others that can sing a melody with him. The White Stripes are one thing. But with 2 people there is only so much you can do. And I damn well love them for it. The Raconteurs take the full sound to a level The White Stripes don’t do, similar blues sound in some of the songs (did I hear banjo and fiddle in some of those songs….sweetness). Jack White’s vocals also are unmistakable and great. Of and damn sweet website. Can’t wait for them at Bonnaroo.
Lawnmowing Rating….I give it 4 lawnmowers out of 5
Seems as though 2008 could turn out to be a good one as well. Though it’s hard to live up the the releases of 2007. But if you go by the Grammy calendar, The new Radiohead is included in 2008.
wow, you need to mow the grass already? not like here in Ohio where we are keeping our snow shovels out in case we have one more ‘fuck you’ from mother Nature.