{"id":890,"date":"2008-06-05T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=890"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:11:47","slug":"march_album_rev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/march_album_rev.html","title":{"rendered":"March Album Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>So turns out I didn&#8217;t buy that much music in March. Not only did I not buy much (some of what&#8217;s below was gifted to me), but I didn&#8217;t listen much either&#8230; Maybe that 9-day trip to Japan had something to do with it? (And, no, before you ask, I still haven&#8217;t listened to much of the music I bought there [mostly rap], I&#8217;ve been too busy reorganizing music while home to listen to new stuff [and didn&#8217;t put those on the Pod\/iTunes yet].)<\/em><br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>Absolutely Love &amp; Adore:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesse Malin &#8220;Glitter in the Gutter&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; One of those (increasingly rare) albums that just WORKS all the way through. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/05\/album_jesse_mal.html\">Really love it<\/a>. I actually like it so much, I couldn&#8217;t even narrow down a favorite song for ya. Today it may have been &#8220;Happy Ever After&#8221; but other days it&#8217;s been &#8220;Black Haired Girl&#8221; and sometimes &#8220;NY Nights&#8221; and other times&#8230; Uh huh. It&#8217;s that good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gnarls Barkley &#8220;The Odd Couple&#8221; <\/strong> &#8211; The more I listen to it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/first_impressio_5.html\">the more I like it<\/a>. It&#8217;s not getting the press or the play their first one did, but I think it&#8217;s just as good. A little darker, but still delish. Cee-Lo just has such a great voice, I think that boy could sing anything and make it beautiful. Favorite song: definitely &#8220;Going On&#8221;.<br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>Favorite Singles (not on any of the above albums):<\/u><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li><strong>&#8220;Rat Within the Grain&#8221; Damien Rice<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Wonderwall&#8221; Noel Gallagher, singing the Ryan Adams&#8217; arrangement of Noel&#8217;s song<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hideaway&#8221; The Weepies<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Buckets of Rain&#8221; (my favorite all-time Dylan song) covered by Redbird (Peter Mulvey)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Silence Between Us&#8221; Bob Mould<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Changing Your Mind&#8221; Bob Schneider<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Don&#8217;t You Worry&#8221; Jim Noir<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Woke Up Today&#8221; Port O&#8217;Brien<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Vision in Red&#8221; Thao Nguyen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Other Albums I Liked:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li><strong>Hot Chip &#8220;Coming on Strong&#8221; <\/strong>(and) <strong>&#8220;Made in the Dark&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211; I kept reading about this band everywhere and wondering if I should be listening and CCB took pity on my lazy ass and sent me both of these. The former (CoS) is not what I was (for some unknown reason) expecting. Instead it&#8217;s melodic, kinda jazzy with some background fuzz, sweet and smooth. The second (MitD) is more what I had in my mind: disco-y electronic, rhythmic. Fun! \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen Malkmus &amp; The Jicks &#8220;Real Emotional Trash&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; I never listened to Pavement back in the day; got turned on to them last summer thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/musicmemoir_lov.html\">Rob Sheffield&#8217;s lovely book<\/a> so I&#8217;m new to the Malkmus fan club. On the rough, edgy side of rock. The first four songs don&#8217;t really pull me in but then we hit &#8220;Baltimore&#8221; and &#8220;Gardenia&#8221; and I&#8217;m a total goner&#8230; I could listen to those two (and the songs that follow) over and over!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Not really for me \/ but maybe for you!:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Robert Plant &amp; Alison Krauss &#8220;Raising Sand&#8221; &#8211; Hmmm. You know, people kept occasionally playing me singles off this album and I thought &#8220;hey, maybe it IS as good as people are saying.&#8221; But apparently I only like it in singles because I almost fell asleep the three times I tried to get through the album as a whole. Pretty. But boring. Maybe I will like them better in person? We&#8217;ll find out in a few weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Foo Fighters &#8220;Echoes, Silence, Patience &amp; Grace&#8221; &#8211; I was a big big Foo fan&#8230;a long time ago. (Their live show was one of my faves of my NY years.) And although it seems odd to say about music, sometimes I just grow out of a certain band or sound. When I put this on, I think &#8220;oh yeah, sounds exactly like some Foo stuff I was listening to 10 years ago.&#8221; (Loved their first two albums. Loved.) So while this album is perfectly fine and good and enjoyable enough (and could easily be in the above category instead of here), I just don&#8217;t find myself listening to it. I&#8217;ve kinda moved on.<br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>Shamefully have either not listened to at all, or not all the way through, or so few times that I can&#8217;t legitimately offer an opinion:<\/u><br \/>\nJust the stuff I bought in Japan. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So turns out I didn&#8217;t buy that much music in March. Not only did I not buy much (some of what&#8217;s below was gifted to me), but I didn&#8217;t listen much either&#8230; Maybe that 9-day trip to Japan had something &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/march_album_rev.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","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\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}