{"id":1269,"date":"2009-10-18T10:11:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T10:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2011-10-29T20:48:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:48:20","slug":"may_album_revie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/10\/may_album_revie.html","title":{"rendered":"May Album Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I know &#8211; who cares at this point. I just need to get myself up to date here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><u>Absolutely Love &#038; Adore:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Telekinesis (self-titled)<\/strong> &#8211; Poppy and Fun.  Fave tunes are &#8220;Rust&#8221;, &#8220;Coast of Carolina&#8221; and &#8220;I Saw Lightning&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p><u>Favorite Singles (not on any of the above albums):<\/u><br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI><strong>&#8220;Tear You Apart&#8221; She Wants Revenge<\/strong> (by far my favorite song of the month! and maybe the summer!)<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;How Your Heart Is Wired&#8221; Bell X1<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Hypermode&#8221; A Shoreline Dream<br \/>\n<LI><strong>&#8220;The Last of the Melting Snow&#8221; The Leisure Society<\/strong><br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;We&#8217;ll See the Sun&#8221; Houses<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;More Time&#8221; Needtobreathe<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Crazy Bitch&#8221; Buckcherry<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Magic Show&#8221; Electric Owls<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Percussion Gun&#8221; White Rabbits<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><u>Other Albums I Liked but Frankly Have Barely Listened to AT ALL:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what was up with me in May, over the summer, or really this year, but all the below albums are 1) by artists I like and 2) decent albums and 3) I have barely listened to them at all.  WTF?  I guess it just wasn&#8217;t the right time for me with them.<\/p>\n<p><UL type=\"square\"><LI><strong>Eminem &#8220;Relapse&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211; Especially love &#8220;Bagpipes from Baghdad&#8221; &#8220;Deja Vu&#8221; and &#8220;Careful What You Wish For&#8221;.  &#8220;We Made You&#8221; has a total Dick Tracy feel.  And I&#8217;m pretty sure that is (actor) Dominic West on the &#8220;Dr. West&#8221; skit (I hate the skits on rap albums. My most unfavorite thing about them!).<\/p>\n<p><LI><strong>Green Day &#8220;21st Century Breakdown&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Not the tour de force their last album was but still really good.  Fave songs are &#8220;Last of the American Girls&#8221; and bonus track &#8220;A Quick One While He&#8217;s Away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><LI><strong>Phoenix &#8220;Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; oh so cheeky that title.  I usually listen to this one straight through (the few times I have actually listened to it!); it&#8217;s so (consistently) upbeat and fun.  But I guess &#8220;1901&#8221; and &#8220;Lasso&#8221; do stand out to me.<\/p>\n<p><LI><strong>Red House Painters &#8220;Songs for a Blue Guitar&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; an oldie I bought after my friend Craig tweeted about it a zillion times in one week.<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know &#8211; who cares at this point. I just need to get myself up to date here. Absolutely Love &#038; Adore: Telekinesis (self-titled) &#8211; Poppy and Fun. Fave tunes are &#8220;Rust&#8221;, &#8220;Coast of Carolina&#8221; and &#8220;I Saw Lightning&#8221; . &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/10\/may_album_revie.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album","category-listenin","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}