Tuesday list mania gets going early today

[ForeverAutumn]

Chain - .Exe

Does Izz have something new out?

How's the new Chain disk? How does it compare to Reconstruct? I'm very interested to hear your opinion. Also, IZZ came out with a new one a couple of month ago now. Ampersand. I was actually going to email you this week to see if you've heard it yet and whether it was worth ordering. But I'll take your post as being a "no".

A few things I've listened to this week....I haven't bought anything new for few weeks so...some older stuff...

Dan Fogelberg - The Innocent Age
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3
I Am Sam Soundtrack
Spock's Beard - Day For Night
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Matchbox Twenty - More Than You Think You Are
Finger Eleven - S/T
The Honeydogs - 10,000 years (Thanks Swishy...I'm addicted to this disk!)
IZZ - I Move
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane

I'm looking forward to picking up the new Green Day disk which came out on Tuesday.

There's also a new Mark Knopfler disk coming out on Sept. 28. But after The Ragpicker's Dream, he fell off my auto-buy list, so I'll have to hear some of the new one before purchasing. None-the-less, I'm still excited at the prospect!

[DarrenH]

How's the new Chain disk? How does it compare to Reconstruct? I'm very interested to hear your opinion. Also, IZZ came out with a new one a couple of month ago now. Ampersand. I was actually going to email you this week to see if you've heard it yet and whether it was worth ordering. But I'll take your post as being a "no".

The new Chain is quite good. Matt Cash sings the majority of the vocals but there are other guest vocalists including some femme vox which may not be to your liking. The femme vocals were used sparingly but tastefully. The opening track, Cities, is a 38 minute piece broken into 7 movements and features a mix of hard and soft passages, femme and male vox. Even a saxophone solo thrown in for good measure. It's really a very good piece.

Mike Keneally displays his virtuoso guitar abilities on the final track Last Chance To See and also contributes vocals.

Track 11, Hot To Cold, is a real turd though. Cheesy rendition of 80's hair metal. I'm disappointed in you Henning for including such a stinker. It's really awful and is completely out of step with the rest of the music on this album.

Despite that I like Exe. I'm not going to say it was better than Reconstruct because I don't believe it was. It was however a pretty good sophmore effort and something I think you'd like. Just fast-forward past track 11 and you'll be happy. Who knows, you might like that track.

That new Izz album appears to be a collection of unreleased tracks from the I Move sessions and some live stuff. So I don't know if I'm gonna go for it. I'll put it on the back-burner for now.