New CD's
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Went into HMV last week - Thursday I think - because I wanted some new CD's. Wasn't sure which, but I'd just been paid and felt like some spendage.
Avenged Sevenfold
Is probably the unexpected CD of genius that I found in the metal section. They're a metal band, you see, and I did like the single but do get a little wary about buying potentially loud CD's. I don't want to hear a single that's quite nice and melodic, and then find that the album is one melodic song and ten more tracks of instrument torture.
I'm so glad that I invested. It's a huge, loud, fantastic record that kicks off with a violent, screaming diatribe against people who complain about things but never do anything about it. It's centered around the Iraq war - which has been something of a musical bugbear of mine, Green Day - but the taking of a different viewpoint is intriguing. It's not moaning at political figures: it's defending the rights of the band's friends who, I've been told, are serving in the armed forces at the moment. Complaining about the people who complain. I'm not sure if there's much logic in that, but it's a stunning song.
There's a fair few other tunes and a half on there too. Single 'Almost Easy' is brilliant, but getting quite familiar. Luckily, the self-titled album has plenty else to occupy the mind. Several genres are explored. I'm sure that I detected some country influences in there, and there's the sort of theatrical leanings, especially later in the album, that I might expect from Panic at the Disco. Except slightly more hardcore. Awesome.
Other CD's haven't got much of a look in because of this album. The new Panic record, incidently, sounds quite good but, like the first album, a little lightweight. I haven't yet manage to listen to the new Feeling album, or Killswitch Engage - but that does have their superb cover of Holy Diver, and so will be brilliant. The new Counting Crows CD is good, but I've only sampled the first section of it so far - the rockier first few tracks give way to some country-tinged acoustic, apparently.
Also, tonight is Wrestlemania. I've ordered it from Sky Box Office and am recording it, but it's just a pity I can't stay up to watch it all unfold live. I don't really want to go into work tomorrow morning and stagger around all day like a zombie, and nor do I want to hook myself up to a drip of Relentless either. There's just something about watching the events live that adds a little sparkle. The danger, perhaps, that niggling feeling that this hasn't been recorded, edited and tinkered so that it's suitable for a TV audience. It's happening right now, and the performers have to be on top of their game and get everything right for the biggest show of the year and, for a fair few of them, the biggest show of their careers.
No doubt that I'll enjoy it when I get to watch it, though.
Passed my theory test! Even with a stinking, horrible hangover! Sat down to be confronted with a few tricky questions. I knew most of them, but you can only get seven wrong - so there's that danger of getting one too many incorrect because you hesitate between a couple of answers and click the wrong one. Thank god, then, that I scored 47/50 on the questions and 65/77 on the Hazard Perception, even after voiding one of the clips. How I managed to pass with quite a good score, I don't know.
Oh well, I won't argue now that it's done.
Avenged Sevenfold
Is probably the unexpected CD of genius that I found in the metal section. They're a metal band, you see, and I did like the single but do get a little wary about buying potentially loud CD's. I don't want to hear a single that's quite nice and melodic, and then find that the album is one melodic song and ten more tracks of instrument torture.
I'm so glad that I invested. It's a huge, loud, fantastic record that kicks off with a violent, screaming diatribe against people who complain about things but never do anything about it. It's centered around the Iraq war - which has been something of a musical bugbear of mine, Green Day - but the taking of a different viewpoint is intriguing. It's not moaning at political figures: it's defending the rights of the band's friends who, I've been told, are serving in the armed forces at the moment. Complaining about the people who complain. I'm not sure if there's much logic in that, but it's a stunning song.
There's a fair few other tunes and a half on there too. Single 'Almost Easy' is brilliant, but getting quite familiar. Luckily, the self-titled album has plenty else to occupy the mind. Several genres are explored. I'm sure that I detected some country influences in there, and there's the sort of theatrical leanings, especially later in the album, that I might expect from Panic at the Disco. Except slightly more hardcore. Awesome.
Other CD's haven't got much of a look in because of this album. The new Panic record, incidently, sounds quite good but, like the first album, a little lightweight. I haven't yet manage to listen to the new Feeling album, or Killswitch Engage - but that does have their superb cover of Holy Diver, and so will be brilliant. The new Counting Crows CD is good, but I've only sampled the first section of it so far - the rockier first few tracks give way to some country-tinged acoustic, apparently.
Also, tonight is Wrestlemania. I've ordered it from Sky Box Office and am recording it, but it's just a pity I can't stay up to watch it all unfold live. I don't really want to go into work tomorrow morning and stagger around all day like a zombie, and nor do I want to hook myself up to a drip of Relentless either. There's just something about watching the events live that adds a little sparkle. The danger, perhaps, that niggling feeling that this hasn't been recorded, edited and tinkered so that it's suitable for a TV audience. It's happening right now, and the performers have to be on top of their game and get everything right for the biggest show of the year and, for a fair few of them, the biggest show of their careers.
No doubt that I'll enjoy it when I get to watch it, though.
Passed my theory test! Even with a stinking, horrible hangover! Sat down to be confronted with a few tricky questions. I knew most of them, but you can only get seven wrong - so there's that danger of getting one too many incorrect because you hesitate between a couple of answers and click the wrong one. Thank god, then, that I scored 47/50 on the questions and 65/77 on the Hazard Perception, even after voiding one of the clips. How I managed to pass with quite a good score, I don't know.
Oh well, I won't argue now that it's done.
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