{"id":1810,"date":"2010-05-27T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T01:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2010-05-26T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T01:27:35","slug":"cd-spin-off-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/1810\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Spin Off Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the latest CDs that I\u2019ve been <a href=\"\/tag\/cdspinoff\">spinning<\/a> on my daily commute:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Broken Social Scene &#8211; Forgotten Rock Record<\/b><br \/>\nBeing from Toronto and not of the Tragically Hip generation, I feel it is mandatory to like BSS.  Well their new album isn&#8217;t bad, but I kind of feel every BSS song sounds the same.  I guess that is what happens when you put mix too many things together; kind of like colours, you always get brown.<\/li>\n<li><b>Cut Copy &#8211; Bright Like Neon Love<\/b><br \/>\nI really liked Cut Copy&#8217;s <i>In Ghost Colours<\/i>, and I hoped that their debut album would be just as good.  It&#8217;s not nearly, although it might be because the album was released in 2004 and doesn&#8217;t have the sensibilities of 2010.  There are a couple of catchy tracks, but I don&#8217;t think its worth buying as the overall quality isn&#8217;t that great.<\/li>\n<li><b>Kings of Leon &#8211; Only By The Night<\/b><br \/>\nI head <i>Use Somebody<\/i> a lot on the radio and because of that my impressions of Kings of Leon were that they weren&#8217;t very good.  You can&#8217;t heard what they&#8217;re singing because every line comes up as a slur\/drawl.  After listening to their album a few times, I started thinking that they weren&#8217;t that bad.  It was good music to just pretend to be a hipster too because there is this cool vibe to it (i.e., you must be in to know what the songs about).  Then after a few more listens I realized that the songs are very shallow and am back to my initial impressions that Kings of Leon aren&#8217;t very good.<\/li>\n<li><b>Robyn &#8211; Body Talk Part 1<\/b><br \/>\nRobyn plans on releasing three albums this year, I&#8217;m guessing part 2 and 3 of this one.  This one is more of an EP than an album since it is only about 8 tracks long.  Half are great, half are passable.  Since this album isn&#8217;t out yet, there aren&#8217;t a lot of videos, but here&#8217;s one:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xmFu-hF6iKc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xmFu-hF6iKc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>The National &#8211; Boxer<\/b><br \/>\nI had heard good things about The National so I picked an album to listen to.  Maybe driving isn&#8217;t a good environment to listen to them though because there is a driving baseline and the singer sings very low.  I find it difficult to get into them.<\/li>\n<li><b>The XX &#8211; xx<\/b><br \/>\nI have heard a lot of hype about the XX recently and finally listened to them.  Their debut is not bad actually.  You&#8217;ve probably heard of the XX if you watched the Olympics, because there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OtZbRsf0o3Y\">a commercial featuring Apolo Ono<\/a> using a song by the XX.  That song basically sums up the XX for me, because they seem to be relying on the same haunting instrument in most of their songs.  I like <i>VCR<\/i> though<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gI2eO_mNM88&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gI2eO_mNM88&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Vampire Weekend<\/b><br \/>\nVampire Weekend is another band that has been hyped.  Originally I was a bit perturbed of putting their album on my listening list as they were described as having an African influence.  That&#8217;s not pop music at all.  But it works surprisingly well.  It&#8217;s still not pop though, especially when you have songs named <i>Oxford Comma<\/i>, which is really about a comma and Oxford.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P_i1xk07o4g&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P_i1xk07o4g&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Music from the radio March &#038; May<\/b><br \/>\nThese songs suck! I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not listening to the radio these days.  The only good song is by <a href=\"\/archive\/1805\/\">Spose<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow, I feel like I just spun part 6! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the latest CDs that I\u2019ve been spinning on my daily commute: Broken Social Scene &#8211; Forgotten Rock Record Being from Toronto and not of the Tragically Hip generation, I feel it is mandatory to like BSS. Well their new album isn&#8217;t bad, but I kind of feel every BSS song sounds the same. 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