Supertramp-Crime Of The Century

Considering how harshly I rated the last album that I listened to, it seems weird going from a 1 to a 5 between two albums. Crime of the Century... I loved it. I just plain loved it. It sounded like one big orchestral performance, like an ELO album. (Eldorado is a great listen) With "School", "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer", and "Asylum". This album is great all the way through and never slows down. An exceptional album.

Bottom Line: Worthy of a perfect. 5/5 

U2-No Line On The Horizon

If you're a big U2 fan and still haven't purchased this album, do yourself a favor and not buy it. This album was just plain painful to listen to. The only good song was "Magnificent" but everything else was horrible. It is just the same odd sounding tunes going for five minutes or longer, and I learned the hard way how painful that is. The only non-repetitive track was "Get on Your Boots" and still it was bad. U2 is a great band, but they are going to lose me if their next releases sound like this. So if you are planning to buy this album, take it from some one who has listened to it. Don't buy it.

Bottom Line: Terrible 1/5

Pink Floyd-The Wall

Roger Waters' 81:09 of glory, this concept album touches base on isolation from the world, hence the name The Wall. The second part of this album, I found it quite depressing considering the fact it was told by someone completely isolated from the world and is regretting that decision. But the first disc isn't, so that's good. "Comfortably Numb" is quite hypnotic and the musical style "The Trial" sounds... well... different. But The Wall is a pretty neat album and I did enjoy it.

Bottom Line: Depressing, sad, but yet so incredible. 4/5

Arcade Fire-Neon Bible

Arcade Fire's commercial breakthrough, the majority of this album was recorded in a church. (hence, neon bible). My first impression was to the different, more orchestral sounds compared to their other album, Funeral. I must say that did make it more listenable than Funeral. Win Butler didn't sound like he was choking on something, so that helped a little. I loved the very progressive sound that I heard and the buckets of different instruments as well. Overall, this was a great album.

Bottom Line: Great album 4.5/5

Happy Birthday To Me

Wow... 13. Bad luck or good luck? Anyway, that's how old I can say I am now. I can't believe I'm now in teenage years. Does it mean more than not having to use the kid's menu at restaraunts and finally being able to use my student card when I take the subway? I hope. But still, it feels I've gone through some drastic change. I can't believe I'm saying this. I didn't think I'd feel this way until I was 50. On the other hand, I managed to get a bunch of CDs (just what I wanted!) as presents and a few books. So I'm pretty pleased about that. But 13... 3 years until I can drive,       unless it changes of course, 2 years from high school. There is a lot to look forward to.   

John Mayer-Continuum

John Mayer's 2006 release features "Waiting on the World to Change", "Belief" and 10 other molasses slow songs. And when I say slow I mean slow. But slow is not bad. Especially in this case. The songs are very melodic, and some of them are very fun to listen to. "In Repair" is six minutes of the same thing over and over and over and over though. But I really don't care. 11 great songs, 1 clunker. Really not that big a deal. 

Bottom line: Reminds me a lot of Jack Johnson. 3.5/5

Comments always welcome

Maroon 5-Songs About Jane

Maroon 5's debut album features "This Love", "She Will Be Loved", "Harder To Breathe" and a bunch of others. The first thing I noticed was the different sound it had compared to the other albums I have heard recently. But this different was not a bad thing at all, in fact, I thought it was a very good different. It doesn't matter that almost all the songs were breakup songs, it doesn't matter that Adam Levine sounds like he has something stuck in his throat. I thought this was a good album. Period. 

Bottom Line: Very neat sounding. 3.5/5

(every blog about CD's is by Matthew, in case you were wondering)