There were several albums that I knew that we had, but I hadn't yet ripped them so that I could transfer them to my iPod. I found them yesterday and pulled them out:
k.d. lang - Ingenue
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedos
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
I'll probably be listening to these albums again.
Some of the albums that I have purchased recently are:
Kelly Clarkson - My December
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Jethro Tull - The Very Best Of
I've been listening to Kelly Clarkson going back and forth to work recently. There was an article that I had received on my Liz Phair alerts on Yahoo.com that talked about this new album:
Los Angeles Times Mon, 25 Jun 2007 5:38 PM PDT
'My December' faces a kind of prejudice. It's not the actual content of "My December," Kelly Clarkson's just-released third album, that currently makes it unlistenable. I'm not saying that it's a bad album ? it's a solid, heartfelt, occasionally beautiful exercise in mainstream modern rock, and most reviews are confirming that. "My December" is unlistenable in the sense that nobody can really ...
Actually the end of that sentence refers to the spat between Kelly Clarkson and her record label over content of her records and her record label is not promoting it as much as they have previous albums due to the spat.
Here is a pointer to that article:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-clarkson26jun26,1,251010.story?track=rssHere was another quote from the article that I found interesting:
The idea that this music might have a great effect on a smaller audience or that it's a valuable step in the evolution of someone whose talent should make for many fine albums pales next to betting on Clarkson like a prized racehorse.
The Clarkson affair reminds us that even our most popular artists don't have that much freedom once they're ensconced in the game. Mavericks such as Kanye West and the White Stripes are rare. Most big sellers dutifully (or reluctantly) play along, approximating whatever worked last time to claw their way back onto the charts. It's hard to blame artists for this; look at the viciousness that has greeted commercial less-than-successes such as Liz Phair.
This mess also, frankly, reeks of sexism. Casting Clarkson as a deluded ingénue and Davis as a father figure gone ballistic — not to mention the inevitable speculation about her weight — conceals other relevant issues. "My December" is a rock record, but rock radio plays barely any female artists. And there's a history of women trying to evolve and facing resistance: consider Lauryn Hill, Joan Osborne, Macy Gray, Paula Cole, even Sheryl Crow. Men experiment and they're applauded, or at least indulged; women do so and it's assumed that a boyfriend has led them astray.
The underlining is my work on the quote.
Overall, I do like this new album. Tracks like "Never Again" and "Sober" seem natural hits. I also like the tracks "Haunted" and "Maybe". I have listened to the whole thing through, but haven't heard "Irvine" enough to have an opinion yet on it. I plan on listening to it some more.
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