Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Rolling through the F's

Thanks to two days working from home I'm making some serious progress on the challenge.

Yesterday I finished off Fiona Apple and am about to finish the Flaming Lips.

Quick analysis on Fiona Apple...
Listening to 5+ albums of Fiona in a row is dangerous. I felt depressed and sad but at the same time like an empowered independent young woman. Ranking Fiona's albums:
  1. Tidal- Her first and best album. You can't beat an album with Criminal, Sleep to Dream, Showdowboxer and Never is a Promise.
  2. When the Pawn... - Her second album which matches the ranking as well. Best songs include Fast as You Can (my favorite Fi song), Paper Bag and Limp
  3. Extraordinary Machine- Her third album which I had to listen to about 3 times in a row. We have the internet leaked version, the album version and then the iTunes exclusive live version that has the bulk of this albums songs on it. Best songs include Extraordinary Machine, Not about Love (try to find the video for this, it's hilarious), Better Version of Me and Parting Gift.
After Fiona was The Flaming Lips. They are such a strange band and it amazes me that a guy with such a horrible voice can pull off leading a great band for so many years. I only have 2.5 Flaming Lips albums including War With The Mystics, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and Fight Test (EP from Yoshimi).

Yoshimi is one of the most complete albums of all time. If you don't like The Flaming Lips check out this album anyway. It plays like a movie soundtrack and is really amazing. I'm not sure how to describe it other than it tells a tale of how little Yoshimi saves the country by destroying these giant pink robots. Sounds accessible huh? I would actually say its a mix of electronic and rock with great story teller like lyrics.

At War With The Mystics is OK overall but the major highlight is "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" download this immediately. I guarantee you'll love it regardless of what type of music you like. It's a great up beat pop type song with hilarious lyrics such as "If you could make everybody poor just so that you could be rich, would you do it?...yeah yeah yeah"

Now onto Flight of the Conchords because it's Business Time!
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  1. NeilDecember 31, 2008 at 12:54 PM

    Glad to see a post longer than two paragraphs.

    Have you ever heard the Flaming Lips album that is supposed to be played on four stereos at once? It's four different CDs that could be listened to individually, but they are designed to be listened to simultaneously. I always wanted to get it, but never had four ways to play music at once.

    But now that we all have iPods and SoundDocks...

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