Flogging Dead Media
Posted on | March 2, 2007 at 10:59 pm | 6 Comments
Don’t have much to say today, so I thought I’d run down the list of the CD’s that arrived today from my online order. Actually buying CD’s these days is pretty rare for me, but these are all special editions or ones that haven’t shown up on eMusic after a reasonable amount of time. Or ones that I just really wanted to hear.
Blue Öyster Cult – Spectres (Legacy Edition)
Blue Öyster Cult – Some Enchanted Evening (Legacy Edition)
See this entry for why I bought these.
Echoboy – Elektrik Soul Psymphonie
Echoboy’s last album Giraffe was one of my favorites of 2003. So when I heard they (he?) finally had a new one coming out, I ordered it hearing unheard. Echoboy has never been available on eMusic, and I had to hear this one right away.
Rainer Maria – Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
I fell in love with the title song the first time I heard it. I kept expecting this album to show up on eMusic, since there are other Rainer Maria releases there, but it never did. Finally I just bought it.
Starflyer 59 – My Island
Starflyer 59 is another brilliant indie band suprisingly absent from eMusic. I like them so much that I always end up buying their discs. This one came out last year and I didn’t get it until now.
Starlight Mints – Drowaton
My friend Miles put a song from this (Inside Of Me) on a mix CD-R, and I loved it. I have another of their albums (The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of) on CD and remember kind of liking it, so I bought this one. The only Starlight Mints on eMusic is a live album.
The Stranglers – Suite XVI
Import. Highly unlikely to ever appear on eMusic. I really liked their last album, Norfolk Coast, and I wanted to see if the Stranglers comeback was continuing.
Haven’t actually listened to these yet… Maybe I’ll report back after I have, and maybe I won’t.
The new Arcade Fire album, Neon Bible, is due out next week, and I’ll be sure to pick that one up. Tonight I finally got around to watching last week’s Rainn Wilson episode of Saturday Night Live, where Arcade Fire was the musical guest. Wow, actual guitar destruction on stage. Haven’t seen that in awhile. The two new songs they played sounded intense and awesome. And I guess there was some special circumstances surrounding their SNL appearance, as reported by one who was in the audience.
And of course there is new Ted Leo coming out on March 20th. The Year In Music is starting off very well…
Latre.
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6 Responses to “Flogging Dead Media”
March 2nd, 2007 @ 11:50 pm
Didn’t bother watching that Arcade Fire performance – but, uh, I hate to be all un-rock’n'roll, but I kinda hate guitar-smashing. Great idea once upon a time – but now (and maybe it’s my midwestern cheap-bastardness coming through) it just seems like a way of saying “we can afford to destroy perfectly good musical instruments…hey, if any of you fans can’t afford to even buy one? Go fuck yourselves! Ha ha!” More rock’n'roll: toss the instrument out to the crowd. (Of course, the Who – who originated this – stole the gear they wrecked. I’m guessing that isn’t the case with the Arcade Fire…)
March 3rd, 2007 @ 2:43 am
I love that Starflyer59 album. I believe it was a track on a Flasshe end-of-year comp that turned me onto them in the first place, so thanks.
March 3rd, 2007 @ 4:57 am
I’m showing my codgerness, but the French horn is not a rock insturment.
March 3rd, 2007 @ 8:18 am
but I kinda hate guitar-smashing
I know… it seems too calculated and all… but did I mention it was an acoustic guitar?
March 3rd, 2007 @ 8:19 am
but the French horn is not a rock insturment
…and thousands of high school band geeks everywhere cry…
March 3rd, 2007 @ 5:40 pm
I was wondering if the guy from AF smashed the guitar because he was mad that a couple strings broke during his performance. Love them, though — can’t wait for the new album!