An Embarrassment of Riches
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Welcome to Camp Fanboy, boys and girls. Today is a good day.
I don’t know exactly why I woke up with my Good Mood Personality at the helm this morning, but I am pleased today. I am choosing to attribute all or most of this good mood to the tremendous amount of fabulous music added to my iPod this past month. There’s been so much that I haven’t had the chance to hear all of it, let alone properly digest it. It is a nice problem to have. The July release schedule is good, but not as good as June. I’m looking forward to continuing to absorb that which has been added so I can write about it.
Let’s do a quick re-cap of the June releases:
- Pearl Jam - The Gorge ‘05-’06
- Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
- The White Stripes - Icky Thump
- The Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys Collection
- Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
- Matt Schofield Trio Ear to the Ground
- Tuatara - East of the Sun
- Bruce Springsteen - Live in Dublin
- Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Johnny Winter - Breakin’ it Up, Breakin’ it Down
- Paul Simon - The Essential Paul Simon
- Tom Petty - Highway Companion [Deluxe Edition]
- Pinetop Perkins - Born in the Honey [DVD]
- The Rolling Stones - The Biggest Bang [DVD]
I’ve liked all of it and loved some of it. I haven’t listened to all of the Pearl Jam box — halfway through show two of three — and have barely scratched the surface of Stripes and Adams. I got to spend a fair amount of time with McCartney, Tuatara, Springsteen, and The Stones. Everything else is somewhere in between in terms of time spent listening. I really need to go back through all of it. Fortunately, we have a road trip coming up next week and I should have some opportunities to soak it all in.
A few more thoughts cross my line as I skim that list of releases:
*** Thank goodness I didn’t have to pay for all of that. ***
*** I’m frightened when I consider that I did actually pay for most of it. ***
*** You’re an idiot if you’re one of those people complaining that there’s nothing good to listen to these days.***
Filed under: Tags: Barrett Martin, Bruce Springsteen, Muddy Waters, Musical Musings and Random Ramblings, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Tom Petty, Tuatara
You’re an idiot if you’re one of those people complaining that there’s nothing good to listen to these days.***
a-fricking-men!
I’ll pass that on to A–
Now Bicho, I’m sure I wasn’t thinking of anyone in particular when I wrote that.
Who could you possibly be talking about?
Easy Tiger is freakin’ gorgeous. It seems to be a slow-grower for most of the listeners I’ve seen commenting on it, including me, but a half-dozen listens and the thing really clicked and won’t let me go. A year off and getting sober really did the guy some good.