YES FOR LEGALLY RELEASED ALBUMS!
The deadline is tomorrow. I still have 4 pages and the index to get through, but I also have to find the meaning of some medical terms. And I still have to write the first chapter of the research proposal. GAAAAAH.
Latest news first: it’s the first A1 race of the season. In the sprint race, Ananda started at 12th but experienced accidents twice and got a drive-through penalty. He ended up 19th and so had to start the feature race at that unpromising grid. But he prevailed and finished at 10th! Wonderful. Too bad that Adrian Zaugg, that young South African, 19 years old yet already winning the sprint race, was out in the feature race. SENTUL WILL HOLD THE A1 RACE ON DECEMBER 10TH, SO GET READY PEOPLE! Hey, if I’m not mistaken December 10th is Pertamina’s anniversary. That’ll be interesting…
I bought the latest album by The Rapture, Pieces of the People We Love, a cheap (legal!) version of Tears of Fears: The Collection, and a heavily discounted Kinky album. Oh that horrible shopping spree. I said to myself, "So there go your personal Idul Fitri presents - buy no more!" Oh, but there will be other reasons, right.
tyrant_mouth, meanwhile, bought The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out. When she had finished listening to it, I asked her how it sounded like. She looked doubtful for some seconds. "Erm, poppish?"
And after I have listened to them, I began to think that perhaps Johnny Borrell’s words about them were right after all. I had liked them previously, having listened to some mp3s stereotyped gave me, but the album is… Let’s just say I don’t think they were being honest with themselves most of the time. Being pop is OK. Being rock is OK. But trying hard to be what you are not is not OK. At least Borrell had a right to badmouth them - the latest Razorlight album can teach anyone to make a pop record with grace.
The Kooks are still fun to me (I’ll still sing Eddie’s Gun for at least a year to come), but theirs won’t be my Album of the Year.
While The Rapture’s… oh man, I love it! More than I love Echoes, I think! Well, Echoes has some extraordinarily catchy tunes and a better opening track (Olio), but Pieces… has a more stable mood from the start to the end. I had to struggle with the rollercoastering beat of Echoes, but the repertoire of Pieces… keeps you danceable all the time. (OK, Live in Sunshine is a slow-paced song, but it’s put on the last track as a dessert and nowhere as lame as Open Up Your Heart.) True, Echoes contains some materials that perhaps surpass any achievement in Pieces…, but as an album, Pieces… is more solid. In Pieces… the landmark Rapture sound is still there, and so is Gabe Andruzzi’s signature saxophone play, and so is Luke Jenner’s high-pitched voice, added with some sound not unlike hiphop.
Wait, no, I’ve just listened again to the opening track of Pieces…, Don Gon Do It, and it’s amazing. YAY! So there, go and get yourself a copy of Pieces of the People We Love!!!! (four exclamation marks to underline the importance!)
And, oh, yeah, although way too late, Editors’ The Back Room is finally released here. I’ve bought the US version months ago. Hmmmmh. Go and try them, and decide whether you agree with me or with o_chan *grins*
Finished reading Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire and Hemlock that arisuesei. Hmmm. I cannot say I’m satisfied. I mean, about 4/5 of the book is a fun, exciting reading, with mysteries piled up over mysteries and so on, and I like Tom/Polly pairing, but in the end things just got so muddled. It’s as if the writer suddenly realised that she somehow had to put an end to the story. And the fact that Ann Abraham’s mother is a Leroy, and that every Leroy may bring three people with him/her, told so near to the end, is something that Brad Meltzer would call unfairness to the reader.
And somehow I’m glad Kimi is moving to Ferrari. Eat those McLaren unreliable machines next year, Nando!
Latest news first: it’s the first A1 race of the season. In the sprint race, Ananda started at 12th but experienced accidents twice and got a drive-through penalty. He ended up 19th and so had to start the feature race at that unpromising grid. But he prevailed and finished at 10th! Wonderful. Too bad that Adrian Zaugg, that young South African, 19 years old yet already winning the sprint race, was out in the feature race. SENTUL WILL HOLD THE A1 RACE ON DECEMBER 10TH, SO GET READY PEOPLE! Hey, if I’m not mistaken December 10th is Pertamina’s anniversary. That’ll be interesting…
I bought the latest album by The Rapture, Pieces of the People We Love, a cheap (legal!) version of Tears of Fears: The Collection, and a heavily discounted Kinky album. Oh that horrible shopping spree. I said to myself, "So there go your personal Idul Fitri presents - buy no more!" Oh, but there will be other reasons, right.
tyrant_mouth, meanwhile, bought The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out. When she had finished listening to it, I asked her how it sounded like. She looked doubtful for some seconds. "Erm, poppish?"
And after I have listened to them, I began to think that perhaps Johnny Borrell’s words about them were right after all. I had liked them previously, having listened to some mp3s stereotyped gave me, but the album is… Let’s just say I don’t think they were being honest with themselves most of the time. Being pop is OK. Being rock is OK. But trying hard to be what you are not is not OK. At least Borrell had a right to badmouth them - the latest Razorlight album can teach anyone to make a pop record with grace.
The Kooks are still fun to me (I’ll still sing Eddie’s Gun for at least a year to come), but theirs won’t be my Album of the Year.
While The Rapture’s… oh man, I love it! More than I love Echoes, I think! Well, Echoes has some extraordinarily catchy tunes and a better opening track (Olio), but Pieces… has a more stable mood from the start to the end. I had to struggle with the rollercoastering beat of Echoes, but the repertoire of Pieces… keeps you danceable all the time. (OK, Live in Sunshine is a slow-paced song, but it’s put on the last track as a dessert and nowhere as lame as Open Up Your Heart.) True, Echoes contains some materials that perhaps surpass any achievement in Pieces…, but as an album, Pieces… is more solid. In Pieces… the landmark Rapture sound is still there, and so is Gabe Andruzzi’s signature saxophone play, and so is Luke Jenner’s high-pitched voice, added with some sound not unlike hiphop.
Wait, no, I’ve just listened again to the opening track of Pieces…, Don Gon Do It, and it’s amazing. YAY! So there, go and get yourself a copy of Pieces of the People We Love!!!! (four exclamation marks to underline the importance!)
And, oh, yeah, although way too late, Editors’ The Back Room is finally released here. I’ve bought the US version months ago. Hmmmmh. Go and try them, and decide whether you agree with me or with o_chan *grins*
Finished reading Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire and Hemlock that arisuesei. Hmmm. I cannot say I’m satisfied. I mean, about 4/5 of the book is a fun, exciting reading, with mysteries piled up over mysteries and so on, and I like Tom/Polly pairing, but in the end things just got so muddled. It’s as if the writer suddenly realised that she somehow had to put an end to the story. And the fact that Ann Abraham’s mother is a Leroy, and that every Leroy may bring three people with him/her, told so near to the end, is something that Brad Meltzer would call unfairness to the reader.
And somehow I’m glad Kimi is moving to Ferrari. Eat those McLaren unreliable machines next year, Nando!