Re: New Music 2008: Whadja Get?
I buy plenty of single tracks from the iTunes (Plus tracks only) and Amazon.com (DRM free MP3) online digital music stores... too numerous to mention... I track them at my Top 20 webpage and my Last FM webpage. You guys pretty much can see what single tracks I own by checking these pages out.
Albums: I tend to lean more toward the traditional CD when I buy an album... and usually it has to be $10 or less (BestBuy or WalMart) for me to buy a single disc new CD (or even oldie); otherwise I'm satisfied to just get a single digital track at iTunes or Amazon or wait for years for a certain title to be reduced down to the bargain bin. Amazon digital frequently puts entire albums on sale for $3.99 or less. I bought a 22 song Patsy Cline collection from Amazon.com digital for only $1.99 several months ago.
That said, recent albums I bought on CD that came out this year 2008:
Enya - And Winter Came - the cold chilly holiday season is ideally suited to Enya's latest album filled with several originals and a few covers of holiday music. You have to like airy new age music to appreciate Enya. No head banging here.
The Killers - Day & Age - just bought this a few days ago. I haven't listened to it all the way through, but I have liked their 2 previous studio releases. I'll probably like this one, already dig the tracks "Human" and "Spaceman".
Lenka - Lenka - pop goodness in the vein of Colbie Caillet perhaps but more upbeat, brassy and electric. Plenty of tracks on this are already my favorites: "The Show", "Dangerous & Sweet" and "Trouble is a Friend".
The Raveonettes (2 EPS) - I'm bunching these 2 shorties into one. One thing about their music, is that it is next to impossible to find on CD at an affordable price now that they are on an indie label instead of Sony/Columbia. I really love their Christmas single "Come on Santa" which is on their 4-track Christmas EP that I got from iTunes Plus. Different cover of the old Darlene Love song "Christmas Baby Please Come Home".... of course this duo loves the old Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" production as a lot of their music pays homeage to this recording technique with a lot of noise added in.
I also like the EP that came out just before this Christmas release. Beauty Dies is a 4-track release with 2 songs that I really like... "Black /White" and "Here Comes the End". The Raveonettes also released several free tracks from their website and MySpace, remixes of "Aly Walk With Me" and "Dead Sound" from this year's earlier release, Lust Lust Lust.
One album that I should have bought last week was by a "new band" called The Fireman, which is actually the latest "experiment" by Paul McCartney and I don't know who else. Amazon.com had a free downloadable track from this album last week which I did get... however I forgot to check if BestBuy had the CD on sale last week (their first week new release single CDs often sell for $9.99 or less)..... so this is one I'll wait on for a while until I see it for sale again or maybe get a digital copy at a later date. The samples I heard at Amazon.com sounded interesting and different from recent music put out by McCartney.
I buy plenty of single tracks from the iTunes (Plus tracks only) and Amazon.com (DRM free MP3) online digital music stores... too numerous to mention... I track them at my Top 20 webpage and my Last FM webpage. You guys pretty much can see what single tracks I own by checking these pages out.
Albums: I tend to lean more toward the traditional CD when I buy an album... and usually it has to be $10 or less (BestBuy or WalMart) for me to buy a single disc new CD (or even oldie); otherwise I'm satisfied to just get a single digital track at iTunes or Amazon or wait for years for a certain title to be reduced down to the bargain bin. Amazon digital frequently puts entire albums on sale for $3.99 or less. I bought a 22 song Patsy Cline collection from Amazon.com digital for only $1.99 several months ago.
That said, recent albums I bought on CD that came out this year 2008:
Enya - And Winter Came - the cold chilly holiday season is ideally suited to Enya's latest album filled with several originals and a few covers of holiday music. You have to like airy new age music to appreciate Enya. No head banging here.
The Killers - Day & Age - just bought this a few days ago. I haven't listened to it all the way through, but I have liked their 2 previous studio releases. I'll probably like this one, already dig the tracks "Human" and "Spaceman".
Lenka - Lenka - pop goodness in the vein of Colbie Caillet perhaps but more upbeat, brassy and electric. Plenty of tracks on this are already my favorites: "The Show", "Dangerous & Sweet" and "Trouble is a Friend".
The Raveonettes (2 EPS) - I'm bunching these 2 shorties into one. One thing about their music, is that it is next to impossible to find on CD at an affordable price now that they are on an indie label instead of Sony/Columbia. I really love their Christmas single "Come on Santa" which is on their 4-track Christmas EP that I got from iTunes Plus. Different cover of the old Darlene Love song "Christmas Baby Please Come Home".... of course this duo loves the old Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" production as a lot of their music pays homeage to this recording technique with a lot of noise added in.
I also like the EP that came out just before this Christmas release. Beauty Dies is a 4-track release with 2 songs that I really like... "Black /White" and "Here Comes the End". The Raveonettes also released several free tracks from their website and MySpace, remixes of "Aly Walk With Me" and "Dead Sound" from this year's earlier release, Lust Lust Lust.
One album that I should have bought last week was by a "new band" called The Fireman, which is actually the latest "experiment" by Paul McCartney and I don't know who else. Amazon.com had a free downloadable track from this album last week which I did get... however I forgot to check if BestBuy had the CD on sale last week (their first week new release single CDs often sell for $9.99 or less)..... so this is one I'll wait on for a while until I see it for sale again or maybe get a digital copy at a later date. The samples I heard at Amazon.com sounded interesting and different from recent music put out by McCartney.
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