Well another week has passed by and I was able to get through a few more CDs in my listening project. I made great progress this week just like last week and was able to get through 47 CDs (tying last week for the record) and managed to stay ahead of the pace for my 20 per week goal despite purchasing (32) more CDs on Saturday night from the same local thrift store that I visited last 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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 555 | Petra | No Doubt | 1/22/2012 | Yes |
| 556 | U2 | No Line On The Horizon | 1/22/2012 | Yes |
| 557 | All Together Separate | All Together Separate | 1/22/2012 | Yes |
| 558 | Van Halen | 5150 | 1/22/2012 | Yes |
| 559 | Loreena McKennitt | The Book Of Secrets | 1/22/2012 | Yes |
| 560 | P.I.D | Born With The Gift | 1/22/2012 | Yes |
| 561 | Don Henley | Building The Perfect Beast | 1/23/2012 | Yes |
| 562 | The Elms | The Chess Hotel | 1/23/2012 | Yes |
| 563 | Harry Connick Jr. | Come By Me | 1/23/2012 | Yes |
| 564 | Enigma | The Cross Of Changes | 1/23/2012 | Yes |
| 565 | Harry Connick Jr. | Eleven | 1/23/2012 | Yes |
| 566 | Queensryche | Empire | 1/23/2012 | Yes |
| 567 | Various Artists | Glee - The Music, Season One, Volume 2 | 1/23/2012 | Yes |
| 568 | ApologetiX | Grace Period | 1/24/2012 | Yes |
| 569 | Crystal Lewis | Greatest Hits | 1/24/2012 | Yes |
| 570 | Barry Manilow | The Greatest Songs Of The Fifties | 1/24/2012 | Yes |
| 571 | Blessid Union Of Souls | Home | 1/24/2012 | Yes |
| 572 | Shakira | Laundry Service | 1/24/2012 | Yes |
| 573 | Amy Grant | Lead me On | 1/24/2012 | Yes |
| 574 | Prince and The New Power Generation | Love Symbol Album | 1/24/2012 | Maybe |
| 575 | The Smashing Pumpkins | Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Disc 1 - Dawn To Dusk | 1/24/2012 | Yes |
| 576 | The Smashing Pumpkins | Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Disc 2 - Twilight To Starlight | 1/25/2012 | Yes |
| 577 | Ozzy Osbourne | No More Tears | 1/25/2012 | Yes |
| 578 | The Cranberries | No Need To Argue | 1/25/2012 | Yes |
| 579 | Dynamic Twins | No Room 2 Breathe | 1/25/2012 | Yes |
| 580 | Out Of Eden | No Turning Back | 1/25/2012 | Yes |
| 581 | Chris Tomlin | The Noise We Make | 1/25/2012 | Yes |
| 582 | Tonio K | Notes From A Lost Civilization | 1/26/2012 | Yes |
| 583 | Switchfoot | Nothing Is Sound | 1/26/2012 | Yes |
| 584 | Sting | Nothing Like the Sun | 1/26/2012 | Yes |
| 585 | Various Artists | Now 5 | 1/26/2012 | Yes |
| 586 | Various Artists | Now That's What I Call Music 3 | 1/26/2012 | Yes |
| 587 | Various Artists | Now That's What I Call Music 5 | 1/26/2012 | Yes |
| 588 | Various Artists | Now That's What I Call Music 9 | 1/26/2012 | Yes |
| 589 | Steve Taylor | Now the Truth Can Be Told (Disc 1) | 1/26/2012 | Yes |
| 590 | Steve Taylor | Now The Truth Can Be Told (Disc 2) | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 591 | dc Talk | Nu Thang | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 592 | KLANK | numb | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 593 | 4 Him | Obvious | 1/27/2012 | No |
| 594 | U2 | October (Remastered) | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 595 | U2 | October (Remastered) Disc 2 | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 596 | James Taylor | October Road | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 597 | David Meece | Odyssey | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 598 | Lanny Cordola | Of Riffs And Symphonies | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 599 | Blaine Larsen | Off To Join The World | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 600 | Third Day | Offerings - A Worship Album | 1/27/2012 | Yes |
| 601 | Switchfoot | Oh! gravity | 1/28/2012 | Yes |
Here are my thoughts on a few of these CDs that I have listened to over the past week…
- Loreena McKennitt ”The Book of Secrets”: I swear I used to own this CD at one time but I picked it up (again) for $0.99 (1 penny under my budget) at the Resale shop (along with 31 other CDs). Very Enya-ish sounding and I think this did generate a minor hit on the radio (The Mummers Dance was a top 20 song here in the US).
- P.I.D. “Born With The Gift”: Not to be confused with P.O.D., these guys (Preachers In Disguise) were one of the earlier Christian rap groups. They have enough funk and horns to sound a bit like Arrested Development (though they might predate them).
- Enigma “The Cross Of Changes”: With the purchases last Saturday night I crossed over the 1,000 mark for quantity of CDs owned. One problem (you might have guessed this) with having this many CDs is remembering which CDs you own. I have most of Enigma’s releases but something told me that I was missing this one and I was right.
- Harry Connick Jr. “Eleven”: A rerelease of an album recorded when Harry was 11 (hence the title). I might not have bought this had I known this at the time of purchase but it is pretty good (and he only sings on one song, thankfully).
- Various Artists “Glee - The Music, Season One, Volume 2”: I have volumes 1 and 3 that I found in a pawn shop in Kokomo so imagine my surprise when volume 2 showed up in the thrift shop’s pile! I feel complete now unless of course there is a volume 4 out there that I do not know about.
- ApologetiX “Grace Period”: Think of this group as a Weird Al knock off only they change the lyrics of songs and write in Bible stories. It is not really that good but I give it a YES solely for the “Baa Baa Baa We’re Lambs” version of “Barbara Ann”.
- Barry Manilow “The Greatest Songs Of The Fifties”: My Barry Manilow CD count has gone from 0 to 2 in only a few weeks. This one has songs that I know from the 50’s and is a pleasant listen.
- Shakira “Laundry Service”: Don’t judge me! It was only 99 cents.
- Prince and The New Power Generation “Love Symbol Album”: I give this a MAYBE (like a NIN album in the past) due to the excessive use of profanity. If he released a formatted for radio version of this then I would give it a YES for sure.
- The Smashing Pumpkins “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness Disc 1 & 2”: Both my manager and a co-worker praised my purchase of this double CD. I think it needs a few more listenings to appreciate it like they do.
- Tonio K “Notes From A Lost Civilization”: I first discovered this artists on his previous (to this one) release (Romeo Unchained, which I own on CD and LP). I was more intrigued by the record label (What? Records) and its approach to take Christian themed music to the mainstream audience. In the end, only 4 albums were released by this label and Tonio K was 2 of them. Mark Heard’s “Ideola” project (which I have on LP) and Dave Perkin’s “The Innocence” (which I used to have on cassette) was the other. Dave went on to join Chagall Guevara (with Steve Taylor).
- Various Artists “Now 5 & Now That's What I Call Music 3, 5, & 9): These releases supposed contain all hit songs and at the average cost of a nickel per song I guess that is a pretty good deal.
- KLANK “numb”: I was to this CD during the day on Friday when I was working from home and the wife heard it from the bathroom while she was fixing her hair. She immediately recognized KLANK’s style (she hates KLANK). I was impressed nonetheless.
- U2 “October (Remastered)”: I allowed myself to break a rule and not listen to the standard release of “October” which I also own on CD. Disc 1 of this remastered version is essentially the same songs only cleaned up a bit.
- David Meece “Odyssey”: This is a best of release and is awesome. David’s voice is really great to listen to and he is a very accomplished pianist. I do have a live LP by him as well.
- Lanny Cordola “Of Riffs And Symphonies”: I have had this CD since before I was married. I would program the milder songs of this mostly instrumental guitar music into my portable CD player and play them over and over as my girlfriend / fiancé / now wife and I sat on the couch. I kept the TV on a cart in the other room and only rolled it out when needed (which was not much). Ah, memories.
- Switchfoot “Oh! gravity”: I guess that “Oh!” comes before “Oh,” alphabetically since “Oh, My Nola” comes after this CD (that I am listening to as I write this blog). This is the 3rd Switchfoot CD in the last 2 weeks to make the list.
Well I am 60% of the way done now and going strong. I have a workshop next week at work that will require me to be in meetings from Monday at noon until Friday at noon so I should make a smaller amount of progress. Assuming that I do not buy any more CDs (a bad assumption) and assuming I keep up the torrid pace of 40+ CDs per week then I could be done in 10 weeks.
Jon
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