I'm so happy!
Last night, just before going to sleep, I checked Craig Wedren's website to see if he's added any upcoming shows. I check the little messageboard, and someone reports that the new album is available for pre-order -- and that pre-orders will ship 10/11, a full TWO WEEKS prior to the 10/25 release date. Sweet!
So I hastily order it. Then I say, and I'm not really sure why, Maybe I should check iTunes to see if they say anything about it.
The album is available rightfuckingnow on iTunes and I can listen to it immediately.
So I say to myself, "Self, I don't care if we're buying this album twice, I haven't been so excited for an album to come out in basically forever; we're listening to this shit right now."
Do yourself a big ol' favor: do exactly the same thing. The album is called Lapland. There's a cute girl on the cover who is wearing not many clothes at all.
To be honest, it's not all that I expected it to be. It's not like the last Jump album, where I had a bunch of complaints about things that could have been done better. I think with this it's just that I know the songs a little too well. I already have four of them that I listen to overandoverandover, so it's just not newandexciting. With two of those I had the album versions already, another isn't a ton different, and another I liked better the first time around [that one, "Do You Harm", was on the "Down to You" -- hello Freddie Prinze, Jr.! hello Julia Stiles! -- soundtrack under the title "Didn't Mean to Do You Harm"]. There are four more that I'm not crazy-in-love-with that I already have in some incarnation, so even though I really like the new versions, they're not New To Me.
I guess you could say my point is that the things that don't thrill me about this album are the things that will knock you on your ass and make you have to find somebody to make out with. Sexy, sexy album.
Plus, the rest of the songs I've heard live at least once and I really couldn't wait to be able to hear them again. I LOVE "Stuck" -- he played it at the Knit last month -- and you will too. It's not one of his more arty or brilliant songs, but what it is is pop perfection. Please, trust me, go buy this album. $9.99, iTunes, do it. I'll call you when he's on tour near you.
[and everyone should own his old band's last two albums: Shudder to Think, "Pony Express Record" and "50,000 BC". Life changing, for real. And his other band BABY put out a super one, too. Oh and PS I bought the Shaggs' record too.]
So I hastily order it. Then I say, and I'm not really sure why, Maybe I should check iTunes to see if they say anything about it.
The album is available rightfuckingnow on iTunes and I can listen to it immediately.
So I say to myself, "Self, I don't care if we're buying this album twice, I haven't been so excited for an album to come out in basically forever; we're listening to this shit right now."
Do yourself a big ol' favor: do exactly the same thing. The album is called Lapland. There's a cute girl on the cover who is wearing not many clothes at all.
To be honest, it's not all that I expected it to be. It's not like the last Jump album, where I had a bunch of complaints about things that could have been done better. I think with this it's just that I know the songs a little too well. I already have four of them that I listen to overandoverandover, so it's just not newandexciting. With two of those I had the album versions already, another isn't a ton different, and another I liked better the first time around [that one, "Do You Harm", was on the "Down to You" -- hello Freddie Prinze, Jr.! hello Julia Stiles! -- soundtrack under the title "Didn't Mean to Do You Harm"]. There are four more that I'm not crazy-in-love-with that I already have in some incarnation, so even though I really like the new versions, they're not New To Me.
I guess you could say my point is that the things that don't thrill me about this album are the things that will knock you on your ass and make you have to find somebody to make out with. Sexy, sexy album.
Plus, the rest of the songs I've heard live at least once and I really couldn't wait to be able to hear them again. I LOVE "Stuck" -- he played it at the Knit last month -- and you will too. It's not one of his more arty or brilliant songs, but what it is is pop perfection. Please, trust me, go buy this album. $9.99, iTunes, do it. I'll call you when he's on tour near you.
[and everyone should own his old band's last two albums: Shudder to Think, "Pony Express Record" and "50,000 BC". Life changing, for real. And his other band BABY put out a super one, too. Oh and PS I bought the Shaggs' record too.]