New Additions

I mentioned in the last post that my stranded island scenario had gotten me hooked on something new, but I said I would save that for another day. So here it is: Daft Punk.

My album collection consists mostly of the various genres of rock, with a pop album thrown in here and there (come on, who doesn't love Lady Gaga?). Electronica is probably not represented anywhere in there. But when posed the 5 album question, a friend of mine's first response was Discovery by Daft Punk. We talked a little about his choices, and I started reading up on them on Wikipedia. Then I started doing a little listening on youtube. I don't know how I feel about their first and third albums, but Discovery is great. What I found even more interesting was the Daft Punk created an anime called Interstella 5555. It has no dialogue. It's just the album played front to back. And it fits really well. I think it's an amazing concept. If you're curious, I would check it out. Anyway, I've ordered Discovery from Amazon, so it should be in sometime this week.

I went to McKays today. For those of you who actually stumble into this and don't live in the area, it's a huge warehouse that has used books, CDs, DVDs, and video games. I went CD browing today and came away with 4 albums: The Presidents of the United States of America (self-titled), Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta, Asleep in the Back by Elbow, and For(N)ever by Hoobastank.

Both the Elbow and the Hoobastank album were on my CD wishlist, but the other two were impulse buys. They were cheap and available. Sometimes, that's all you need...

The song I'll leave you with today is one that keeps getting stuck in my head. Can't wait for the album to come in. Also, apparently they played it during the USA-Canada game on the Olympics. Sweet.