Set Foobar2000 To Shuffle (Tracks) x5

May 17, 2008 23:04

This idea is shamelessly appropriated from Geemo but I do so very much love my music and sharing it.

"Bad Habit," by The Dresden Dolls, off their self-titled album
I bought this CD in 2005 shortly after not only hearing about them touring with Nine Inch Nails, but reading about them from the Las Vegas weekly publication "City Life". One of a number of CDs I've had to repurchase due to theft/loss. It's still my favorite album by the punk-cabaret duo.

"Spring Faire," by Eniad, off the "Celtic Nights" compilation
This CD was one of two given as a gift to me around 2001 for my birthday by one of my aunts, when I still lived with my folks. She asked what I wanted, I responded that I'd like a few Celtic CDs. Such is one of the curiosities of my eclectic taste of music. Most of what I like is very visceral, raw and noisy. But I have always loved the far-away places I've imagined myself after closing my eyes and putting in one of these discs. Or loading them up into my MP3 player, these days. I'd very much like to get the CD again some day, along with a handful of other Celtic music.

"Slow Hands," by Interpol, off the "Antics" album
I bought this album around when it came out in 2004. I was introduced to Interpol by Stiv for the short stint of time I lived with him. I liked their initial release "Turn On the Bright Lights" a lot more than their sophomore album, but there's a few good tracks on it, like this one.

"Rosegarden Funeral of Sores," by Bauhaus, off the re-released "In the Flat Field" album
There are those who who laugh at me for saying that Nine Inch Nails introduced me to Bauhaus, and they're probably the same ones that think Nine Inch Nails should have opened for them, not the other way around. So, in other words, they can get bent. Bauhaus is unique in that they're the first band I first heard live and then got into because. This is the first CD by them I bought, in early 2007, which I had to hide from the psycho-bitch I was living with at the time. I sort of wish they just kept the re-release to the original album, but gems like this one make the interrupted continuity worth it. It's quintessential classic goth rock.

"Outside the Wall," by Pink Floyd, off the "The Wall" album
What person that has any love of rock what so ever doesn't have this album in their collection? I bought this around 2000, after my father had introduced me to Pink Floyd by the way of "Dark Side of the Moon," so I felt no compunctions downloading a FLAC rip of this album off a BitTorrent website. A simplistic and surprisingly fitting end to the album after the neigh-apocalyptic "The Trail".

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