(apologies to Public Enemy for the entry title – and kudos to anyone who recognized it)
Those who know me know that I am little, well, obsessed about music. My CD and now digital-music collection are prized possessions. I have a stack of at least a dozen self-created music mix CDs in my van at all times. I have an iPod Shuffle that I wear for walks of any length. And I listen to music while working, writing, almost anything really.
Typically when I like a song, I'll check out the album. If I like the album, I typically look into other CDs by the band and read up on the band, etc. It's a bit obsessive, like I said.
I much prefer a good album versus a couple of singles. Singles don't have much satisfaction for me; I like the impact of the greater whole versus the individual part.
Good bads produce albums that are like good books. You can get different things out of them based on what you put into them. A careful skimming yields the gist of things, even though there is more under the surface. A devoted reading has deeper rewards. But the really GOOD ones don't give up everything until you really go back and re-read and savor at new levels.
I love those sorts of CDs.
Anyway, what Robert is spinning a lot lately:
(in no particular order)
AFI's DecemberUnderground
Breaking Benjamin's Phobia
Slipknot's Volume 3: The Subliminal Verses
VNV Nation's Empires
Coheed & Cambria's Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness (long album title, fantastic story and sound)
–Robert