{"id":967,"date":"2008-08-06T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=967"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:15:18","slug":"may_album_revie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/may_album_revie-2.html","title":{"rendered":"May Album Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Absolutely Love &#038; Adore:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Kills &#8220;Midnight Boom&#8221; <\/strong>  So I just kept reading about this band everywhere (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/ew_986_ellen.html\">here <\/a>or maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/paste_41.html\">here<\/a>) and I kept thinking &#8220;I&#8217;ve GOT to check them out.&#8221;  Yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/albums_sometime.html\">well FINALLY my lazy ass did <\/a>and I&#8217;m pretty damn happy about it.  Love the beats, love the lyrics, love the energy.  They put on a great set at Lollapalooza but I&#8217;d love to see them in some smokey dirty hole in the wall where the sound is so loud I fear for the longevity of my eardrums.  Wait, did I say &#8220;smokey&#8221;?  Get with 2008, girl, there&#8217;s no smoking in bars anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u>Favorite Singles (not on any of the above albums):<\/u><br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI>&#8220;Graveyard Girl&#8221; M83<br \/>\n<LI><strong>&#8220;Be With Me&#8221; Foy Vance<\/strong><br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Late Last Night&#8221; Robby Hecht<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;The Hardest Thing&#8221; Patrick Park<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Measure of the Same&#8221; Birds of Avalon<br \/>\n<LI><strong>&#8220;Circles &#8216;Round the Moon&#8221; Nana Grizol<\/strong><br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Take a Bow&#8221; Rihanna<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;February 5th, 2008&#8221; Telekinesis!<br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;Coast of Carolina&#8221; Telekinesis!<br \/>\n<LI><strong>&#8220;Good Things&#8221; Sounder<\/strong><br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;U and Me&#8221; Trina<br \/>\n<LI><strong>&#8220;The Last Thing on Your Mind&#8221; Lights<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><u>Other Albums I Liked:<\/u><br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI><strong>The Long Blondes &#8220;Couples&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Feels very &#8220;college&#8221; to me as it alternately reminds me of Berlin and Blondie.  Can&#8217;t get enough of &#8220;Guilt&#8221;, &#8220;Too Clever by Half&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m Going to Hell&#8221;.  Lots of fun.  And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/05\/in_concert_the_7.html\">their live show <\/a>is definitely worth it.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Saving Jane &#8220;SuperGirl&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211; Not really sure what impulse made me buy this.  Have to be in the right mood for it.  But when you are, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/angry_girl_musi.html\">perfect angry girl music<\/a>.  And &#8220;Better Day&#8221; has a total Sixpence None the Richer vibe, if that&#8217;s your thing.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Death Cab for Cutie &#8220;Narrow Stairs&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Nothing on this album quite blows me away the way &#8220;Marching Bands of Manhattan&#8221; did on the last one&#8230;but I think it&#8217;s a solid follow-up and the more I listen, the more I seem to like it.  I am not into the long jam sessions, however, so I actually prefer the radio edit of &#8220;I Will Possess Your Heart&#8221;.<br \/>\n<LI><strong>Bob Mould &#8220;District Line&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; There was definitely a period of time when Mould had really fallen off my radar.  But then there was a great single out (&#8220;Circles&#8221;) [doh, in apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2005\/12\/duffs_favorite_albums_2005.html\">2005<\/a>] and then I went <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/02\/did_i_mention_s.html\">to hear him at Old Town<\/a> and I find myself back on the Mould bandwagon.  Maybe not that exciting, but always solidly rockin.<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><u>Not really for me \/ but maybe for you!:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Nelo (self titled) &#8211; No idea where this one came from, did I hear a single from it somewhere?  Who knows.  I like the song &#8220;Walkin&#8217; Around&#8221; but otherwise it&#8217;s all way too Dave Matthews for me.<\/p>\n<p>Duffy &#8220;Rockferry&#8221; &#8211; I can see why people like this non-boozed-out-of-her-gourd Amy Winehouse-type, part of the &#8220;British birds do R&#038;B&#8221; crowd.  She&#8217;s got a very distinctive voice.  But it&#8217;s just not a style of music I often get the urge to listen to.  I don&#8217;t mind when these songs come up on shuffle, but I don&#8217;t go lookin&#8217; for them either.<\/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 \/>\nSeems like a kinda slow month for buying music (did I just not spend money that month? Or did I spend a lot of it just on other things?), doesn&#8217;t seem to be anything I didn&#8217;t at least listen to a few times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely Love &#038; Adore: The Kills &#8220;Midnight Boom&#8221; So I just kept reading about this band everywhere (like here or maybe here) and I kept thinking &#8220;I&#8217;ve GOT to check them out.&#8221; Yeah, well FINALLY my lazy ass did and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/may_album_revie-2.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-967","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\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}