Musicology

Music Music Music. I know nothing about it except that I like it. I
was also once a very serious clarinet player and wanted badly to be
Kenny G, but that was never going to happen. I suppose I do listen to
music about 18 out of every 24 hours. In the car, between classes, in
class, at work, while I sleep, in the shower, when I blow-dry my hair,
when I kiss boys. Yep, pretty much always. I am a
must-listen-to-entire-CD kind of person, otherwise I feel like I'm
cheating on the band or the artist or someone. So in order to
entertain my musical attention span your record, album, CD,
soundtrack, etc. MUST be entertaining from start to finish. It needs
an appropriate beginning, middle, and end. The songs must have logical
connections, I must at some point be forced to feel some kind of
emotion. Appropriate ones include lunacy, anger, ambivalence towards
life, rage, sometimes even happiness will work. If you can manage to
make me feel cool in my Volvo, then extra points are awarded.

When I purchase music, I do it in binges. One CD could never be
enough, eight is way more like it. In the last week I have bought a
lot of music and I intend to tell you how I feel about it very briefly
and very un-scholarly. I after all know nothing about harmonies,
guitar solos, melodies, or experimental drum beats. I just know what I
like. By the way, you are going to so laugh at my lame musical taste
and my unwillingness to be adventurous in choosing new things.

(1) Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor
Honestly, I have never liked Madonna. She is too much of a eurotrash
faker for me. However, all of my gay friends insisted that I would
love love LOVE this. They were wrong. I guess if I want to dance I am
going to listen to something with a lot of bass and that is typically
discriminatory towards women, not some weird techno stuff with voice
overs by a 40 year old in a purple leotard.

(2) The Fray - How to Save a Life
This is my kind of music. Kind of whiny, kind of rocker-ish, kind of
Coldplay, kind of Creed, kind of not, probably about love. I don't
know. My sixteen year old sister gave it to me.

(3) Floetry - Flo'ology
Blissful from to start to finish and everywhere in between. It is like
grown up Salt N' Peppa meets voices like Mary J. thrown between a
little TLC. The track I'll Die is a favorite right now.

(4) Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers - self titled album
The Stephen guy has a similar singing voice to my boy. Very
California. Sounds like a dude singing with a guitar but cooler for
some unidentified reason.

(5) Mint Condition - Livin' The Luxury Brown
This is serious R&B by some seriously cool local guys who have been
around for quite some time. They are really sexy dudes and are my Boyz
II Men replacement. I bought this because the review said it was good
background music for sex. Haha, just kidding. Well it did say that but
it isn't why I bought it. Maybe.

(6) The Waifs - Shelter Me
This is the CD the boy gave me. It is kind of folk-like, kind of
country, but all with an Australian accent. Sweet, I know. It is
mostly sad but really quite pretty. My favorite song is about the
girl's dad who lost his wife. It goes something like, "it was a love
you shouldn't have lost" and it talks about girls playing Cricket.

(7) John Mayer Trio - Try! (Live)
Sounds like John Mayer with a frog in his throat trying to be all
badass. He is still really hot and I would definitely do him
regardless of his attempt to defy his pretty boy with a decent voice
image.

(8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
I must say, this is my new favorite. You have to play it loud times
100 until your ear drums almost collapse to truly appreciate it. But
like my favorite super model would say, FIERCE. Actually, that seems
demeaning. This stuff is good. My favorite song is Phenomena, it is my
new theme song in fact. The whole thing is pretty much my life and
that might make sense if only I knew what they were even talking about
half the time, but it sounds pretty cool anyhow.