Confessions of a Fanboy

Christmas comes just once a year, but the gift from TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried keeps giving all year!

She got me the David Bowie Box, a 10-CD set that re-issued the last five Bowie records. Each album is accompanied by a disc of remixes, b-sides, and other rarities.
I’m listening to Earthling this morning. I remember buying this [...]

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It’s cold and rainy outside and it’s been stressful at home and work. I tried soothing it all with some R.E.M. yesterday. That was pleasant. “Leaving New York” continues to be one of the best five songs that band has ever released and is still Michael Stipe’s best vocal ever.
Today, R.E.M. wasn’t [...]

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It didn’t take long for my #1 Album of 2007 to get dusted off in 2008!
I bought a lot of music at the end of ‘07 and wondered if that combined with a serious Beatles obsession would cause Shadows and Cracks to get sent to the bench. I have my answer.
After spending the morning [...]

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I didn’t make it all the way through the Afterglow Live DVD the other night, but we did watch about 2/3 of it and that was enough to make me want to start my morning listening to more Sarah McLachlan.
FTE was the album where it all came together for McLachlan. She showed promise and [...]

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Updates have been too sparse these last few days and I can say, honestly, the day job is a major culprit.
I’ve not had a day off since we returned to break from the Christmas/New Year’s holiday in 2008 and when I’ve been at work I haven’t had time to dash off even a quick update. [...]

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It started with my quoting a line from “Dam That River” in an e-mail to 11 this morning. “You piss upon my candle” captured my feeling at that moment. 11 likes AiC; he doesn’t love them. He was unfamiliar with the lyric but he liked it. That discussion was enough to [...]

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Victory is mine! Josh 1, TV 0. TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried and I are siting here in the living room with the “kids,” wasting time before we call it a night and I’ve put on some music rather than mindlessly flipping channels.

I popped in my Sarah McLachlan Afterglow Live. I can’t believe I allowed [...]

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Let’s get this out of the way first: No, Mark, I’m not invoking Elliott Smith just to piss you off.
I don’t know why I queued Elliott up other than I re-ripped a few of my favorite albums in Lossless format for my listening pleasure, XO being one of those albums.
There’s a line [...]

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Reading the news about the upcoming Colplay record had the expected effect: I’ve gone back and started listening to those first three records. X&Y must have sucked more than I thought because it killed any desire I had to listen to these records anymore, and that’s a shame. Okay, so it’s not [...]

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I thought when Coldplay first hit the scene they might want to be the next Radiohead. I think I was wrong on that. They want to be U2.
First you had the video to the first single from X&Y, “Speed of Sound.” The visuals in that video had strong similarities to those on [...]

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