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Sometimes, just because you've been listening to the same band for four months straight, the people with you just assume that when you go to four stores to (try to) buy a CD it must be a new release by the same band. Wrong! I mean, it could be. But sometimes it's a CD by an unrelated production team that makes their own albums, each one featuring ( Read more... )

It's May 9th, which means it's the 50th birthday of my new favorite singer ever and person who I wish I'd have known about 20 years ago. So here I am to ramble on and post videos. It's what I do. (In unrelated news, my laptop is something like dead. This is not so bad in that it allows me to work on things that I should be working on that require ( Read more... )

April 15, 2012 (that's today) marks the 15th anniversary of the release of my new favorite album -- not my "new favorite" like "I just decided this was my favorite album ever" or "this is the newest album out that I like" but "this is the latest addition to my list of favorite albums" -- Depeche Mode's Ultra. I can't pick one track (I love them all ( Read more... )

I finally got a new MP3 player, so now I can start the Spring of Bowie in earnest! I'd say "David Bowie Month", but that's never how it works. "Beatles Month" went on for like half a year, "Depeche Mode Month" is on day 51, and kind of morphed into Dave Gahan Solo Record Week (and threatened to expand into I Still Really Need To Listen To Black ( Read more... )

AKA: Bowie Not-Really-A-Month is of to a slow start. Slooooowwwww.

I was going to start at the beginning, but um.... 25 studio albums. Have you met my short attention span? Then I was like, "Okay, I will do like I did with everyone else.I will find some sort of compilation and work my way back. The only problem is that for once, I actually know a ( Read more... )

I've officially broken my Depeche Mode CD-based mp3 player folders into themed playlists that put the songs with the same kind of vibe together. When I'm in the mood for a song that rocks, I don't wanna hear have to hit >> 20 times to get through a bunch of ballads and club tracks to get to the next song that rocks. I just want it to come on then. ( Read more... )

Back again. Perhaps after this I will have gotten it all out of my system. At least until the VCMG (Vince Clark/Martin Gore) album "SSSS" drops next week and the Soulsavers' "The Light the Dead See" (featuring Dave Gahan on vocals) drops on 5/21. So, let's wrap this thing up, shall we.

( We shall... )

1. Talking about music. 2. A Meme. In (Black) Celebration (see what I did there? That's an album title. I am oh so witty.) of the official end to Depeche Mode Month (not the listening, just the actual first 30 days), I did one of those 30 Days Of memes, only I do not have the stick-to-it to post 30 days in a row, and really now, who wants to read ( ( Read more... )

So, I am kind of an obsessive picture-saver. I've always been a sucker for a good photograph. like shots of cool interiors, interesting buildings, the occasional nature shot and people doing things. I love pictures of athletes and good on-stage band photography. I like pictures of dudes in suits, people in interesting poses and ordinary things shot ( Read more... )