albums i’ve recently acquired
September 7, 2008, 11:22 pm
i’ve been on a music binge and just thought i’d share:
1. robert plant and alison krauss — raising sand (2007)
holy crap what a great bluegrassy-ish album.
2. carla bruni – Quelqu’un m’a dit (2003)
wikipedia tells me that this means “someone told me.” i liked her newer album, and i’ve been told this one’s better. we shall find out.
3. white town — women in technology (1997)
you know that song where a guy sings, “well i guess what they say is true / I could never be the right kind of girl for you.” yeah, i dled that album, and i liked it.
4. meredith brooks — blurring the edges (1997)
yes, she’s the chick who sang that “bitch” song, but she also sang “what would happen,” which was played on this episode of homicide i was watching on friday. then when searching for it, i realized i actually had that song, but it was mislabeled under fiona apple, and i felt dumb. then i found $20. also i need to watch more homicide.
5. d’angelo — brown sugar (1995)
i was looking for the d’angelo/erykah badu cover of the marvin gaye/tammi terrell song “your precious love,” which led me to want the brown sugar album. in the process of dling, i then realized AGAIN that i had this cover in itunes already, just mislabeled as “heaven must have sent you from above.” i’m really scared to know how many songs are wrong in my library. 6,000+ songs, so i’ll probably never find out.
6. solange — sol-angel and the hadley st. dreams (2008)
what? an album from this year? omg! this has got to be one of the worst album titles of all time, but the songs are aight — very ’70s jazz loungey and catchy. but let’s be honest, it’s beyonce’s sister! she’s gonna be as big as ashlee simpson!
7. rihanna — good girl gone bad (2007)
i just wanted to hear “don’t stop the music.” i like rihanna. i’m not ashamed, although i’m not sure why anyone would think i’d be ashamed since i have an entire “mariah carey” tag on this blog. ::shrug::
8. rilo kiley — under the blacklight (2007)
“silver lining” is great b/c she actually sings the word “hooray,” and that’s awesome.
9. hole – celebrity skin (1998)
i was reading a kurt cobain article in wired magazine’s (terrible) fashion insert and remembered that hole existed. why does courtney love keep coming up in my life?
10. various artists — amparo (2008)
this is some classical-style latin music that i got off the free shelf at work. i only mention this b/c i wanted to ensure this list gets into the double digits.
i’ve never said my tastes were “hip” or “up-to-date” or even “good,” but i can report back on some of these albums once i get a couple listens through. and if there are any other good mid-’90s songs that need to be rediscovered, PLEASE send them my way. i live for the 1990s, when i peaked in popularity. 8th grade class president, woot woot.
@7: Mama say mama sa mama cu sa! I thought that line was originated by Michael Jackson, but it turns out he got it from someone else. It was also appropriated by the Bloodhound Gang. I will admit to compulsive Googling.
I actually like Rihanna too. Her songs strike me as kind of a little weird. In a good way. I like her use of sampling — for example, when “Shut Up and Drive” first came out, I was like, “I REMEMBER this song from somewhere…where was it?!?!” Then I Googled it and found out that the guitar riff is from Blue Monday, which I kinda liked when I was in high school.
I may have said this before, but I’ll say it again: for some reason, Rihanna reminds me of a fembot. I don’t know why.
Have you heard the Marie Digby cover of “Umbrella?” I love it almost as much as her cover of Linkin Park’s “What I’ve Done.”
@8: I’ll have to check it out, if only because I occasionally call my daughter “Rilo Kylie” for some reason.
Isn’t “Raising Sand” just a simply cool album? As an old guy, I’m a big Zeppelin fan, and I could listen to Alison Krauss sing the phone book, but I would have never imagined that Plant & Krauss together could’ve produced something like this.
I distinctly remember listening to White Town on the radio while playing with Legos in my living room circa 1997. I would have had no idea who that was until you mentioned their lyrics.
ha! i remember white town; i kind of LOVED that one song. did we listen to it while hanging up campaign posters circa 1996?
An overlooked mid-90s album is the debut album by Cake, Motorcade of Generosity. Their later stuff is much better known (like somewhat played-out “The Distance”) but their first album, released long before they were in alot of commercials and movie trailers is absolutely excellent.
you want a little 90′s nostalgia? not sure if you know but that guitarist from Rilo Keley is from Salute Your Shorts and Boy Meet world… and after Wiki’s help that singer is from Troop Beverly Hills….. but I am sorry, 80′s destroys the 90s….