The Listening Project-Week 15

Well another week has passed by and I was able to get through a few more CDs in my listening project.  Despite taking a 1/2 day vacation on Wednesday and not listening to any CDs on Thursday when I worked from the office, I was still able to get through 19 CDs this week but that still keeps me 5 CDs behind my 20 per week goal.  I managed to avoid buying any more CDs this week.  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?
277	C+C Music Factory	Gonna Make You Sweat	10/31/2011	Yes
278	Various Artists	Grease Soundtrack	10/31/2011	Yes
279	Steven Curtis Chapman	The Great Adventure	10/31/2011	No
280	Rod Stewart	The Great American Songbook Volume II	10/31/2011	Yes
281	Rod Stewart	The Great American Songbook Volume IV	11/1/2011	Yes
282	Blindside	The Great Depression	11/1/2011	Yes
283	Scott Stapp	The Great Divide	11/1/2011	Yes
284	PFR	Great Lengths	11/1/2011	Yes
285	Ministry	Greatest Fits	11/1/2011	Yes
286	Queen	Greatest Hits	11/2/2011	Yes
287	Michael Bolton	Greatest Hits 1985-1995	11/2/2011	Yes
288	The Goo Goo Dolls	Greatest Hits Volume One The Singles	11/4/2011	Yes
289	Mylon LeFevre & Broken Heart	Greatest Hits	11/4/2011	Yes
290	Whitecross	Hammer And Nail	11/4/2011	Yes
291	Spooky Tuesday	Happy Dissonance	11/4/2011	No
292	Dead Artist Syndrome	Happy Hour	11/4/2011	Yes
293	Hawk Nelson	Hawk Nelson Is My Friend	11/4/2011	Yes
294	Michael W. Smith	Healing Rain	11/4/2011	Yes
295	Queensrÿche	Hear In The Now Frontier	11/4/2011	Yes

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

• C+C Music Factory “Gonna Make You Sweat”: Everybody Dance Now!  Nuff said.
• Various Artists “Grease Soundtrack”: My mom and dad had this on 8 track when I was young.  I think we wore it out when driving in our custom van.  I remember thinking it was poor planning to have the title song repeated as the last track as when you switched automatically from program 4 to program 1, the song repeated.  But hey, is there such a thing as too much Frankie Valli?
• Steven Curtis Chapman “The Great Adventure”: Another NO for SCC.
• Rod Stewart “The Great American Songbook Volume II” & “The Great American Songbook Volume IV”: I think I grabbed these off the bargain rack after Rod Stewart was on American Idol one year.  Good stuff really.
• Blindside “The Great Depression”: I hope this band releases a new CD soon.
• Scott Stapp “The Great Divide”: Scott is the (former) lead singer of Creed and this sounds about like other Creed albums.
• PFR “Great Lengths”: I was surprised to give this a YES.  I thought all PFRs would fall in that other category.
• Ministry “Greatest Fits”: The first of (5) “best of” CDs in a row.  Ministry started as a techno / new wave band but somewhere along the line transformed into industrial.  The drum machine used for this 2 piece band is obvious on some tracks.
• Queen “Greatest Hits”: I am not sure if it is even legal to release a Queen best of CD and NOT include Bohemian Rhapsody but they did it anyway.  Fortunately it is on the sound track to Wayne’s World (which I also own).
• Michael Bolton “Greatest Hits 1985-1995”: Don’t judge me!
• Whitecross “Hammer And Nail”: Old school 80’s metal.  Ahhhhhhh.
• Dead Artist Syndrome “Happy Hour”: I saw this group in concert at the Cornerstone 91 festival.  Cornerstone is this 3 or 4 day festival where you camp out and take in tons of artists.  As I recall, the folks camping across the way from us bootlegged the concert and the lead singer ended up coming over to listen to it.

I crossed over the 1/3 mark and am 34.1% of the way through,  At this rate it will be early June of 2012 when this project is completed.

Jon