The Listening Project–Week 28

Well another week has passed by and I was able to get through a few more CDs in my listening project.  This week was back to normal at work and I was able to get through 46 more CDs.  My 20 per week goal is almost laughable now with the recent progress I have made (I am 119 CDs ahead of schedule).  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?
634	Jewel	Pieces of You	2/4/2012	Yes
635	The Normals	A Place Where You Belong	2/4/2012	Yes
636	Zilch	Platinum	2/4/2012	Yes
637	Moby	Play	2/4/2012	Yes
638	DeGarmo & Key	The Pledge	2/4/2012	Yes
639	Plumb	Plumb	2/4/2012	Yes
640	Spin Doctors	Pocket Full Of Kryptonite	2/5/2012	Yes
641	Natasha Bedingfield	Pocketful Of Sunshine	2/5/2012	Yes
642	Chevelle	Point #1	2/5/2012	Yes
643	U2	Pop	2/5/2012	Yes
644	Jonezetta	Popularity	2/6/2012	Yes
645	TobyMac	Portable Sounds	2/6/2012	Yes
646	Enigma	A Posteriori	2/6/2012	Yes
647	12 Stones	Potter's Field	2/6/2012	Yes
648	Rebecca St. James	Pray	2/6/2012	Yes
649	PFR	Pray For Rain	2/6/2012	No
650	Precious Death	Precious Death	2/7/2012	Yes
651	Andrew Lloyd Webber	The Premiere Collection	2/6/2012	Yes
652	Imperials	Priority	2/7/2012	Yes
653	Jon And Vangelis	Private Collection	2/7/2012	Yes
654	David Huff	Proclaim	2/7/2012	Yes
655	Michael W. Smith	Project	2/7/2012	Yes
656	Holy Soldier	Promise Man	2/7/2012	Yes
657	Number One Gun	Promises For The Imperfect	2/7/2012	Yes
658	Various Artists	Pure Dance 1998	2/7/2012	Yes
659	Stone Temple Pilots	Purple	2/7/2012	Yes
660	Prince & The Revolution	Purple Rain	2/8/2012	Yes
661	VeggieTales	A Queen, A King, and A Very Blue Berry	2/8/2012	Yes
662	Emery	Question	2/8/2012	Yes
663	Bryan Duncan	Quiet Prayers (My Utmost For His Highest)	2/8/2012	Yes
664	White Heart	Quiet Storms- The Ballads	2/8/2012	Yes
665	Various Artists	R.E.X. Sampler 3	2/9/2012	Yes
666	The Alarm	Raw	2/9/2012	Yes
667	TobyMac	Re: Mix Momentum	2/9/2012	Yes
668	Reba McEntire	Read My Mind	2/9/2012	Yes
669	Michael Sweet	Real	2/10/2012	Yes
670	Cindy Morgan	Real Life	2/9/2012	Yes
671	Steven Curtis Chapman	Real Life Conversations	2/10/2012	No
672	Trisha Yearwood	Real Live Woman	2/10/2012	Yes
673	Bo Bice	The Real Thing	2/10/2012	Yes
674	Reba McEntire	Reba	2/10/2012	Yes
675	Rebecca St. James	Rebecca St. James	2/10/2012	Yes
676	The Wallflowers	Rebel, Sweetheart	2/10/2012	Yes
677	Stryper	Reborn	2/11/2012	Yes
678	Dave Matthews Band	Recently	2/11/2012	Yes
679	Margaret Becker	The Reckoning	2/11/2012	Yes

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

• Zilch “Platinum”: This is (was) the back up band for DC Talk. Not a great CD but good enough to garner a YES.
• Moby “Play”: I need more Moby CDs.  I only have this one and a CD maxi single that I picked up somewhere along the way.
• Plumb “Plumb”: Strangely for this CD Plumb was a band.  Recently Plumb is the stage name for the lead singer who is now a solo act.  Either way, good stuff.
• Spin Doctors “Pocket Full Of Kryptonite”: Hey if you are going to go after Lois Lane then the title of this CD makes perfect sense.
• Chevelle “Point #1”: I have seen this CD (their first and before they hit it big) so many places for $1 that it is not funny.  If you like Chevelle then it is worth the $1.  I think I mentioned before they they started on Steve Taylor’s Squint label (like Sixpence None The Richer).
• Jonezetta “Popularity”: Awesome CD by a band I discovered only after they had broken up.  Too bad as Get Ready (Hot Machete) is a great song.
• TobyMac “Portable Sounds”: This CD is technically called “(Portable Sounds)” so it should have made it on to the week 1 list of this project I suppose.  For whatever reason it was listed without the parentheses and I get to it this week.  The operatic version of title track (the last minute of the song) is too funny.
• Precious Death “Precious Death”: This CD is a good reason for this project.  I liked their first 2 CDs (Southpaw and If You Must) but I remember being disappointed with this one the few times I listened to it.  At this listen I appreciated it more.
• Imperials “Priority”: The epic release featuring Russ Taff on lead on several of the songs.  I cannot believe someone gave this to a thrift store.  Their loss is my gain.
• Jon And Vangelis “Private Collection”: Only 6 songs here but when the last track is 22 minutes I guess you can get away with this.  The Jon here is Jon Anderson (of Yes fame).
• David Huff “Proclaim”: David (of David and the Giants fame) is still around I guess.  He covers a David and the Giants era song on this recent release.
• Stone Temple Pilots “Purple”: What an awesome CD.
• Prince & The Revolution “Purple Rain”: I used to have the 45 of When Doves Cry and played it to death.  I would not say I am a huge Prince fan but this one I like.
• Veggie Tales “A Queen, A King, and A Very Blue Berry”: Sometimes during this project I have to laugh at myself and my wide array of CDs that I own.  The fact that I went from Stone Temple Pilots to Prince to this CD of songs from the kid’s show “Veggie Tales” is a perfect example.  We pop this CD in on long trips and we all sing along (loudly).
• Various Artists “R.E.X. Sampler 3”: This CD contains the only song I own by Jerusalem.  Also it has a song but a group called Villanelle that later turned into Smalltown Poets.
• TobyMac “Re: Mix Momentum”: This one somehow dropped the colon and fell out of order in my list but I caught it in time (phew).
• Bo Bice “The Real Thing”: I thought he should have won the year he was on American Idol.
• The Wallflowers “Rebel, Sweetheart”: Somehow this only sold about 100,000 copies (compared to their multiplatinum CD Bringing Down the Horse.  Still good stuff though.
• Margaret Becker “The Reckoning”: Listening to this one right now as I type of this blog.

I am 67.7% through my list now.  If I keep up the 40 per week pace then I could be done by the end of April (Week 36).

Jon