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Sooo... I recently obtained an indecent amount of CDs. So far I've listened to Placebo "Meds", Placebo "Once More With Feeling", MCR "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge", and I'm halfway through MCR's "The Black Parade".
The Placebo stuff still took a while to get used to, and there's still some songs I'll fast-forward through. Eh, it all kind of blends together, but not enough for me to mind. And I am, of course, quite in love with "Protege Moi".
"Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" and "The Black Parade" are very different albums. "Three Cheers" grates on the ear more than necessary, screeching and not giving me that little thrill some rock music gives when it hits the right chord. The three most popular songs on it, "Ghost of You", "Helena", and "I'm Not Okay", are brilliant (in my horribly uncultured opinion) and a joy to listen to, and stuff like "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison" is just outright fun.
"Black Parade" doesn't hurt my ears, and at first I was thrilled at the good sound of the first couple of songs. Unfortunately, by the fifth song I'd picked up the big problem with the album - it all sounds alike. Now, granted, once you get to track 6, "I Don't Love You", the songs start having differentiation between them and their own qualities, but you're still left with the low quality of the first five, and occasional throwbacks to that crapayness. Meh. There's also the habit in this album of pulling popular or well-known tunes or sound bytes and using them as the main element in songs. I understand the experiment, but it comes off as cheap and copied to me. Sometime I need to pick up their first CD and see if there's a big difference in sound, since they're always being ragged on for "selling out".
For other CDs that I randomly have on hand, there's Matchbox 20's "Yourself or Someone Like You". It's full of now-classics that you recognize easily, and its nice for relaxed listening. I've also been listening to a few tracks on Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism", which is also good for relaxation-type-listeningness. It has its own unique way of doing things that, at the same time, all seems terribly amateurish and fake. I could go into technical terms and explain exactly why, but I'd rather say I don't know quite why. It's still not bad to relax with.
Edit: Bah on me for forgetting Black Parade's hidden track! The whackiness of "Blood" almost makes the whole CD worthwhile. Almost. That and the fact that there really are some good songs on it, you just have to pick through the crappy ones to find them.
The Placebo stuff still took a while to get used to, and there's still some songs I'll fast-forward through. Eh, it all kind of blends together, but not enough for me to mind. And I am, of course, quite in love with "Protege Moi".
"Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" and "The Black Parade" are very different albums. "Three Cheers" grates on the ear more than necessary, screeching and not giving me that little thrill some rock music gives when it hits the right chord. The three most popular songs on it, "Ghost of You", "Helena", and "I'm Not Okay", are brilliant (in my horribly uncultured opinion) and a joy to listen to, and stuff like "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison" is just outright fun.
"Black Parade" doesn't hurt my ears, and at first I was thrilled at the good sound of the first couple of songs. Unfortunately, by the fifth song I'd picked up the big problem with the album - it all sounds alike. Now, granted, once you get to track 6, "I Don't Love You", the songs start having differentiation between them and their own qualities, but you're still left with the low quality of the first five, and occasional throwbacks to that crapayness. Meh. There's also the habit in this album of pulling popular or well-known tunes or sound bytes and using them as the main element in songs. I understand the experiment, but it comes off as cheap and copied to me. Sometime I need to pick up their first CD and see if there's a big difference in sound, since they're always being ragged on for "selling out".
For other CDs that I randomly have on hand, there's Matchbox 20's "Yourself or Someone Like You". It's full of now-classics that you recognize easily, and its nice for relaxed listening. I've also been listening to a few tracks on Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism", which is also good for relaxation-type-listeningness. It has its own unique way of doing things that, at the same time, all seems terribly amateurish and fake. I could go into technical terms and explain exactly why, but I'd rather say I don't know quite why. It's still not bad to relax with.
Edit: Bah on me for forgetting Black Parade's hidden track! The whackiness of "Blood" almost makes the whole CD worthwhile. Almost. That and the fact that there really are some good songs on it, you just have to pick through the crappy ones to find them.
