my favorite records of 1997
they were at the time:
bjork - homogenic
catherine wheel - adam and eve
david bowie - earthling
depeche mode - ultra
and an album that totally disappointingly sucked:
shudder to think - 50,000 b.c.
i just bought a cd copy of bowie's earthling yesterday, and was listening to it in my car the drive over from work. it's weird how i can hear all of the instrumental parts so clearly and distinctly, whereas back in the day, that album seemed quite dense to me. maybe it's not as good as i remember it being. i bought cd copy of outside about a month ago, and it was exactly as i remembered it, a 2/3rds great album, with a bunch of suck in the second half. i'm pretty sure that if i pull out hours that it'll be exactly as i remember it, piddling crap with flat boring drums. it's weird, i didn't remember the drums on earthling being so stadium rock sounding.
anyway, yesterday i also finally bought the newest bob mould cd, as i was waiting for the special 2cd edition to show up in the record store again. it was way too expensive, but the art in the box is pretty damn over the top. bob is such a big gay muscle bear now too! anyway, yeah, i loved bob for a couple years after i got into him around 2000 or 2001, and i was all totally looking forward to modulate when it came out, cuz i'm all for change and i thought, hey bob doing electronic music, this could be hella cool. or not. that album so ruined him for me, cuz it was just so amateurish with respect to synths, and the songs were a messy sketches, at times totally annoying. anyway, i put on that new record yesterday, and was totally blown away by the first three tunes, that shit sounded hot, and i was like, yay, i like bob again. maybe now i'll finally get around to picking up his all electronic loudbomb cd from his website, though, i am hesistant to it's quality.
i also picked up another moloko cd yesterday, their most recent one, but i might have to take it back cuz it's all scratched up. i can't believe i never got around to investigating them until two weeks ago when i found two of their cds at the thrift store down the street from my work. they are fucking awesome. i'm less than impressed with the roison murphy solo cd of which i've downloaded, it seems to lack the character and distinctness of the moloko records, but maybe i haven't really listened to it loudly enough or with enough attention. not really familiar with the work of herbert, her collaborator, though he be highly praised by the indie hipsters over at pitchfork.
did i talk about how i got a new needle for my record player? paid $80 for the damn thing, so worth it though, the vinyl sounds hot. a real competition scratch needle. too bad i haven't had any time to sit down and listen to records in my attic room, cuz all i do is work, and then be forced to drink by friends and roommates all the time.
ugh, my damn belly has been hurting all day. no more whiskey shots for me, damn burned a whole in my stomach. need to stick to vodka and beer. beer is more agreeable with me, but it makes my damn belly big. red wine, that is the key. though i've tended to get all hella sleepy from that shit lately.
been trying to read that damn on the road book today at work. i'm like 85 pages into it now, and it's still fucking chore. i wanna be reading more burroughs, ugh. i think my main problem with the book is how self-centered the whole fucking thing is. and he just seems like a spoilt kid that eats too much fucking ice cream. all the little boring details he keeps going into, all the hemmingway references, like fuck. i guess i'm missing the point. i'm sure it's great, or changed some shit or something, i'm just not relating to it the way i was feeling the burroughs books i read. guess i'll give it another go now though, not much more bullshit to type about, and i still got a whiles here and my dumb ass job where i be waiting for nothing to happen.
bjork - homogenic
catherine wheel - adam and eve
david bowie - earthling
depeche mode - ultra
and an album that totally disappointingly sucked:
shudder to think - 50,000 b.c.
i just bought a cd copy of bowie's earthling yesterday, and was listening to it in my car the drive over from work. it's weird how i can hear all of the instrumental parts so clearly and distinctly, whereas back in the day, that album seemed quite dense to me. maybe it's not as good as i remember it being. i bought cd copy of outside about a month ago, and it was exactly as i remembered it, a 2/3rds great album, with a bunch of suck in the second half. i'm pretty sure that if i pull out hours that it'll be exactly as i remember it, piddling crap with flat boring drums. it's weird, i didn't remember the drums on earthling being so stadium rock sounding.
anyway, yesterday i also finally bought the newest bob mould cd, as i was waiting for the special 2cd edition to show up in the record store again. it was way too expensive, but the art in the box is pretty damn over the top. bob is such a big gay muscle bear now too! anyway, yeah, i loved bob for a couple years after i got into him around 2000 or 2001, and i was all totally looking forward to modulate when it came out, cuz i'm all for change and i thought, hey bob doing electronic music, this could be hella cool. or not. that album so ruined him for me, cuz it was just so amateurish with respect to synths, and the songs were a messy sketches, at times totally annoying. anyway, i put on that new record yesterday, and was totally blown away by the first three tunes, that shit sounded hot, and i was like, yay, i like bob again. maybe now i'll finally get around to picking up his all electronic loudbomb cd from his website, though, i am hesistant to it's quality.
i also picked up another moloko cd yesterday, their most recent one, but i might have to take it back cuz it's all scratched up. i can't believe i never got around to investigating them until two weeks ago when i found two of their cds at the thrift store down the street from my work. they are fucking awesome. i'm less than impressed with the roison murphy solo cd of which i've downloaded, it seems to lack the character and distinctness of the moloko records, but maybe i haven't really listened to it loudly enough or with enough attention. not really familiar with the work of herbert, her collaborator, though he be highly praised by the indie hipsters over at pitchfork.
did i talk about how i got a new needle for my record player? paid $80 for the damn thing, so worth it though, the vinyl sounds hot. a real competition scratch needle. too bad i haven't had any time to sit down and listen to records in my attic room, cuz all i do is work, and then be forced to drink by friends and roommates all the time.
ugh, my damn belly has been hurting all day. no more whiskey shots for me, damn burned a whole in my stomach. need to stick to vodka and beer. beer is more agreeable with me, but it makes my damn belly big. red wine, that is the key. though i've tended to get all hella sleepy from that shit lately.
been trying to read that damn on the road book today at work. i'm like 85 pages into it now, and it's still fucking chore. i wanna be reading more burroughs, ugh. i think my main problem with the book is how self-centered the whole fucking thing is. and he just seems like a spoilt kid that eats too much fucking ice cream. all the little boring details he keeps going into, all the hemmingway references, like fuck. i guess i'm missing the point. i'm sure it's great, or changed some shit or something, i'm just not relating to it the way i was feeling the burroughs books i read. guess i'll give it another go now though, not much more bullshit to type about, and i still got a whiles here and my dumb ass job where i be waiting for nothing to happen.
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