The Listening Project-Week 19

Well another week has passed by and I was able to get through a few more CDs in my listening project.  I worked a 1/2 day this week on Thursday and lost almost all of Tuesday due to circumstances beyond my control but I was still able to get through 16 CDs and managed to stay ahead of my 20 per week goal.  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?
366	Dave Matthews Band	Before These Crowded Streets	11/28/2011	Yes
367	Amy Grant	Behind the Eyes	11/28/2011	Yes
368	Blondie	The Best Of Blondie	11/28/2011	Yes
369	KC And The Sunshine Band	The Best Of KC And The Sunshine Band	11/28/2011	Yes
370	Third Eye Blind	Blue	11/28/2011	Yes
371	Bon Jovi	Bounce	11/29/2011	Yes
372	The Kinks	Come Dancing- The Best Of The Kinks 1977-1986	11/30/2011	Yes
373	Men At Work	Contraband- The Best Of Men At Work	11/30/2011	Yes
374	Teddy Pendergrass	The Essential Disc 1	11/30/2011	Yes
375	Teddy Pendergrass	The Essential Disc 2	12/1/2011	Yes
376	Sting	Fields Of Gold (The Best Of Sting 1984-1994)	12/1/2011	Yes
377	Various Artists	Girls Night Out Disk 1	12/1/2011	Yes
378	Various Artists	Girls Night Out Disk 2	12/2/2011	Yes
379	Duran Duran	Greatest	12/2/2011	Yes
380	James Taylor	Greatest Hits	12/2/2011	Yes
381	Journey	Greatest Hits	12/2/2011	Yes

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

• Dave Matthews Band “Before These Crowded Streets”: After receiving the 54 CD eBay auction, I suddenly find myself the owner of a lot of Dave Matthews stuff.  I think I like it.
• Blondie “The Best of Blondie”: And so begins a 2 week journey into a lot of Best Of CDs.  10 of the 16 this week were Best Of’s in fact and I will start next week out with 4 in a row.
• KC And The Sunshine Band “The Best Of KC And The Sunshine Band”: The wife and I are shocked at how many KC and the Sunshine Band songs we know.  I cranked up this CD and the wife and I (kind of) danced to it while our kids looked at us and asked questions like “What is a booty and why would you want to shake it?” and “Why is the word ‘boogie’ in almost every song?”
• The Kinks “Come Dancing- The Best Of The Kinks 1977-1986”: I think I want to be a fan of this band more than I actually am.
• Men At Work “Contraband- The Best Of Men At Work”: How does this album contain more than just 2 songs?  OK, maybe they were much bigger in their native land than on American radio in the 80s.  I do recall hearing that they lost a lawsuit that claimed they stole the flute part from the song “Down Under”.
• Teddy Pendergrass “The Essential”: I have never heard of this artist but if your best of takes 2 discs you have to be good, right?  I do not think I would play this just to listen to it but it would be good background music for a party.
• Various Artists “Girls Night Out”: Finally, I own “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” and “It’s Raining Men”!
• Duran Duran “Greatest”: This is the 2nd Best Of CD that I own from this band.  The first one (Decade, that I reviewed in Week 10) focused on their first 10 years and this one has some of their newer stuff.  Still a lot of repeats though.
• James Taylor “Greatest Hits”: I also have Greatest Hits Volume 2 that will be in next week’s list.

I am a scant 1 CD ahead of my 20 / week schedule having had back to back bad weeks.  The good news is that I did not buy any new (to me) CDs to add to this collection.  I stand at 40.1% complete and am still on pace for a June 2012 completion.

Jon