Well another week has passed by and I was able to get through a few more CDs in my listening project. I was in a workshop most of the week so from Monday noon to Friday at 10 AM my pace greatly slowed I was still able to plow through 32 more and stay well 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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 602 | Harry Connick Jr | Oh, My Nola | 1/28/2012 | Yes |
| 603 | Various Artists | Oldies But Goodies | 1/28/2012 | Yes |
| 604 | Bryan Adams | On a Day Like Today | 1/28/2012 | Yes |
| 605 | Petra | On FIRE! | 1/28/2012 | Yes |
| 606 | Michael Been | On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough | 1/28/2012 | Yes |
| 607 | Scott Blackwell | Once Upon A Time | 1/28/2012 | Yes |
| 608 | Bee Gees | One | 1/28/2012 | Yes |
| 609 | Various Artists | One A.D | 1/29/2012 | Yes |
| 610 | Alter Bridge | One Day Remains | 1/29/2012 | Yes |
| 611 | Jonathan Pierce | One Love | 1/29/2012 | No |
| 612 | Various Artists | One Point Oh | 1/29/2012 | Yes |
| 613 | Various Artists | One Way- The Songs of Larry Norman | 1/30/2012 | Yes |
| 614 | Big Tent Revival | Open All Nite | 1/30/2012 | Yes |
| 615 | Poison | Open Up And Say... Ahh! | 1/30/2012 | Yes |
| 616 | Van Halen | OU812 | 1/30/2012 | Yes |
| 617 | Randy Stonehill | Our ReCollections | 1/30/2012 | Yes |
| 618 | 10,000 Maniacs | Our Time In Eden | 1/30/2012 | Yes |
| 619 | Out Of The Grey | Out of The Grey | 1/30/2012 | Yes |
| 620 | R.E.M | Out Of Time | 1/30/2012 | Yes |
| 621 | Tree 63 | Overflow | 1/31/2012 | Yes |
| 622 | Ozzy Osbourne | Ozzmosis | 1/31/2012 | Yes |
| 623 | Richard Marx | Paid Vacation | 2/1/2012 | Yes |
| 624 | Paige | Paige | 2/2/2012 | Yes |
| 625 | Tru-Serva | Paperboy | 2/3/2012 | Yes |
| 626 | Coldplay | Parachutes | 2/2/2012 | Yes |
| 627 | Passafist | Passafist | 2/2/2012 | No |
| 628 | P.O.D | Payable On Death | 2/3/2012 | Yes |
| 629 | D-Boy | Peace to the Poet | 2/3/2012 | Yes |
| 630 | Pete Stewart | Pete Stewart | 2/3/2012 | Yes |
| 631 | Petra | Petra Means Rock | 2/3/2012 | Yes |
| 632 | Petra | Petraphonics | 2/3/2012 | Yes |
| 633 | Thousand Foot Krutch | Phenomenon | 2/4/2012 | Yes |
Here are my thoughts on a few of these CDs that I have listened to over the past week…
- Various Artists “Oldies But Goodies”: A great $1 find of 60’s (and for some reason a few 70’s) songs. Having “Rockin’ Robin” and “The Hustle” on the same CD seems wrong to me.
- Michael Been “On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough”: I might have paid full price for this one (as I have done for many of The Call’s CDs). I love Michael’s song writing, voice and bass playing.
- Various Artists “One A.D”: A collection of trance music. I also have the next in the series (“Two A.D.”) but it will come much later in the project. Nice to listen to as background music but not something to sing along with (if that were even possible).
- Alter Bridge “One Day Remains”: Basically Creed with a different lead singer. I remember hearing this a while back and not being impresses but at 2nd or 3rd listen this seems to be an OK disc. I credit this project for making me give this one a 2nd chance.
- Various Artists “One Point Oh”: About 7% of my CD collection is by “Various Artists” and this week has a few of course. This is a sampler CD when Charlie Peacock was starting up his own label (Re:Think Records). This CD has a few misses but did introduce me to Sarah Mason. The drummer for The 77’s had a spoken word single here as well (the only spoken word track in my 1,000 CD collection I think). Re:Think was where Switchfoot got its start (though not on this CD).
- Various Artists “One Way- The Songs of Larry Norman”: I wish I knew more of these songs as originals first but I only have a few releases by Larry Norman so most of these songs are new to me. DC Talk’s cover of “I Wish We’d All Been Ready” is certainly the highlight of the disk.
- Tree 63 “Overflow”: This is the first CD by Tree (or Tree 63). Long story short they were known as Tree until the released their first CD in the US (their 3rd overall) and had to change their name as there was already a band with the name “Tree”. Their 2nd CD was called simply “63” (from Psalm 63) so they just added 63 to their name and the rest is history. I could not find this release stateside so I got it from a bookstore in the UK (from the UK eBay site) as a double re-release bundled with the aforementioned “63” release (which was in the list for Week 1 of this project).
- Passafist “Passafist”: I am giving this a NO but an E for Effort. This is a mid 90’s attempt to sound like NiN or Ministry but on a Christian label. Maybe the world was not ready for that mix just yet.
- Pete Stewart “Pete Stewart”: Pete is the former lead singer of Grammatrain and this solo release has a cover of a Larry Norman song that did not make it onto the tribute CD mentioned above. There are tons of Christian artists that cover Larry’s songs but this one is really good (“Little Country Church”). I like Pete’s voice and this does not sound like Grammatrain at all.
- Petra “Petra Means Rock & Petraphonics”: Back to back best of Petra CDs. The first focused on the heavier songs and the latter on the slower songs. I bought them since I did not have some of their early releases on CD.
- Thousand Foot Krutch “Phenomenon”: An awesome, breakthrough release by this band. I have most of their stuff (with the exception of their live releases). I listened to this as I penned this blog entry.
I am now at 63.1% complete with the project and am pushing being almost 100 CDs ahead of my pace. Even if I only get through 20 per week I am still going to finish at 45 weeks.
Jon
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