The Listening Project–Week 2

I have stuck with my plan of listening to all of my CDs for one more week and made the amount of progress that is needed so that I can complete this in a one year time span (about 20 CDs per week).  I am still in the A’s (that is to say all Albums listened to this week begin with the letter A).  Windows media player evidently ignores the word “The” when alphabetizing.  I did hit my first duplicate with two CDs titled “All Things New”.  I wonder how often this will happen?

You can reference this blog entry for details about this project.  Here are the CDs I knocked off of my list this week.

#	Artist	Album	Date	Again?
25	U2	All That You Can't Leave Behind	8/1/11	Yes
26	Watermark	All Things New	8/1/11	No
27	Steven Curtis Chapman	All Things New	8/1/11	Yes
28	Rick Altizer	All Tie Zur	8/1/11	Yes
29	Various Artists	Alpenländer Wunschkonzert	8/1/11	No
30	Casting Crowns	The Altar and the Door	8/2/11	Yes
31	Sinead O'Connor	Am I Not Your Girl?	8/2/11	Yes
32	Licoln Brewster	Amazed	8/2/11	Yes
33	Parachute Band	Amazing	8/2/11	Yes
34	Five For Fighting	America Town	8/2/11	Yes
35	David Ball	Amigo	8/2/11	Yes
36	Clannad	Anam	8/3/11	Yes
37	Relient K	The Anatomy Of The Tongue In Cheek	8/3/11	Yes
38	Eleventyseven	And The Land Of Fake Believe	8/3/11	Yes
39	Bryan Duncan	Anonymous Confessions of a Lunatic Friend	8/3/11	Yes
40	The Real McCoy	Another Night	8/3/11	Yes
41	Tree 63	The Answer To The Question	8/4/11	Yes
42	12 Stones	Anthem for the Underdog	8/4/11	Yes
43	Burlap to Cashmere	Anybody Out There?	8/4/11	Yes
44	John Reuben	Are We There Yet?	8/5/11	Yes
45	Various Artists	Arista's Perfect 10	8/5/11	Yes
46	Chris Tomlin	Arriving	8/5/11	Yes
47	Thousand Foot Krutch	The Art Of Breaking	8/5/11	Yes
48	Smash Mouth	Astro Lounge	8/5/11	Yes

Here are my thoughts on a few of these CDs that I have listened to over the past week…

• U2 “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”: Any week that starts off with U2 can’t be all bad.  I am trying to find U2’s first 3 or 4 albums in their remastered, deluxe, two disc editions to add to my collection but they are quite pricey.
• Watermark “All Things New”: I initially heard this group on a live CD (that will come up when I get to the N’s) and very much liked the few songs by them.  This CD though did not quite live up to my initial listening experience of them so it gets a rare NO in the last column.
• Rick Altizer “All Tie Zur”: Other than his first CD (that will come up when I get to the B’s), all my other Rick Altizer CDs were purchased directly from Rick via PayPal and his website.  I think I paid $5 each for the 5 CDs I bought.
• Various Artists “Alpenländer Wunschkonzert”: 75 minutes of polka and yodeling!  Nuff said!  This CD was one of 6 that the wife bought (randomly) from the pawn shop for $0.50 when the daughter needed CDs for a project at school.  I am not sure why I kept this CD.  This is the last time I will listen to it (probably).
• Eleventyseven “And The Land of Fake Believe”: If you don’t know this group than I am not surprised.  They are kind of a mix between punk and electronic dance.  I picked this CD and another one by them up at the pawn shop for $1 total.  The son likes them.
• Bryan Duncan “Anonymous Confessions of a Lunatic Friend”: Bryan is the former lead singer of Sweet Comfort Band and I have most of his solo stuff (some only on LP).  I sang a song of this CD for a special in church once (Blessed Are The Tears).  A little out of my range but I think I pulled it off.
• The Real McCoy “Another Night”: I might have liked this one more if the final track wasn’t a boring and long remix of the title track.
• Tree 63 “The Answer To The Question”: 41 CDs into my list and this is already my 3rd Tree 63 CD.  I am not saying that is a bad thing.  I performed their version of “Blessed Be The Name” in church twice.
• Burlap To Cashmere “Anybody Out There?’  These guys released this CD in 1998 and then disappeared.  I saw that they have a new CD out (it was on sale at Target) so I may need to pick it up.  Awesome CD and one that the whole family almost has memorized.
• Various Artists “Arista’s Perfect 10”: Air Supply, Alan Parson’s Project, Thompson Twins, etc, and all for fifty cents.  It was hard to resist.
• Thousand Foot Krutch “The Art Of Breaking”: TFK!  One of my favorite groups.  I think I paid (close to) full price for this one and an actual music store.

Until next week.

Jon