Tuesday in Toonsville

[mad rhetorik]

Jet - Get Born. I'm late to the party on this one being it was released in 2003. It's pretty good. Nothing earth shatteringly, make me play it over and over again good though. I don't recall much talk around here about Jet. Or maybe there was and I just overlooked it.

Wilco - YHF. Well, I'm really late to the party on this one. Anyway, I finally broke down and bought this on the strength of two songs. Jesus, Ect and I'm The Man Who Loves You. Both are very good songs. The rest is a mixed bag of "not bad" and "this sucks" with "this sucks" winning the vote. It may be a couple of years before I pick Wilco's new release.

Hmm. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is something of a grower, similar to Radiohead's OK Computer in that respect (also similar with the electronica aspects). I myself didn't enjoy it very much at first, until I got to "Pot Kettle Black," which is a mindblowingly great song. More listens and I was quickly enjoying the whole record. Awesome songwriting, not to mention some great lyrics and those beautiful acoustic guitars mixed with weird electronic blips and bleeps. Keep at it and you may dig it just as much as I do. Also check out the previous album Summerteeth, which is also quite good, and a bit less experimental. Don't bother with their latest, A Ghost Is Born--word is that it's pretty mediocre, but then again almost any album after YHF was going to be a letdown.

On the other hand, Get Born struck me as one of the most sickeningly derivative things I've ever laid my ears on. That "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" song is a total ripoff of Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life," and "Cold Hard Bitch" is the most blatant AC/DC bite in recent memory. The album fell firmly into my "Use Once Then Destroy" category.

Al DiMeola - Land of the Midnight Sun. Mid 70's guitar rock/jazz fusion.

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

I've been looking to get some DiMeola myself. What I've heard of his axework amazes me. Elegant Gypsy has been on my list for a while now.

Nice taste with Operation: Mindcrime. Great album.

Here's what I've been playing:

Metallica: Master Of Puppets
Iron Maiden: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
In Flames: Colony
Kyuss: Blues For The Red Sun
Operation Ivy: Energy
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Joy Division: Closer