The Listening Project–Week 29

Well another week has passed by and I was able to get through a few more CDs in my listening project.  I made good progress and got through 37 CDs.  This is a little less than the last few weeks but I only worked a half day on Friday.  However, I did visit a clearance rack and walked away with 23 more CDs last night.  This makes my progress for the week only a net of 14.  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?
680	The Call	Reconciled	2/11/2012	Yes
681	Foreigner	Records	2/11/2012	Yes
682	The Call	Red Moon	2/11/2012	Yes
683	White Heart	Redemption	2/12/2012	Yes
684	Natalie Grant	Relentless	2/12/2012	Yes
685	Relient K	Relient K	2/13/2012	Yes
686	Joan Osborne	Relish	2/12/2012	Yes
687	Plankeye	Relocation	2/13/2012	Yes
688	David Crowder Band	Remedy	2/13/2012	Yes
689	Out Of The Grey	Remember This- The Out Of The Grey Collection	2/13/2012	Yes
690	TobyMac	Renovating--Diverse City	2/13/2012	Yes
691	Richard Marx	Repeat Offender	2/13/2012	Yes
692	SONICFLOOd	Resonate	2/13/2012	Yes
693	Jeremy Camp	Restored	2/14/2012	Yes
694	David Mullen	Revival	2/14/2012	Yes
695	Various Artists	Revival Generation	2/14/2012	Yes
696	Inhabited	The Revolution	2/14/2012	Yes
697	Janet Jackson	Rhythm Nation 1814	2/14/2012	Yes
698	Ricky Martin	Ricky Martin	2/15/2012	Yes
699	4 Him	The Ride	2/15/2012	No
700	Robert Palmer	Ridin' High	2/15/2012	Yes
701	Russ Taff	Right Here, Right Now	2/15/2012	Yes
702	Duran Duran	Rio	2/15/2012	Yes
703	Building 429	Rise	2/15/2012	Yes
704	Allies	The River	2/16/2012	No
705	Greg X. Volz	The River Is Rising	2/16/2012	Yes
706	Billy Joel	River of Dreams	2/16/2012	Yes
707	Little Big Town	The Road To Here	2/16/2012	Yes
708	Various Artists	Roaring Lambs	2/16/2012	Yes
709	Wes King	The Robe	2/16/2012	Yes
710	Joy Electric	Robot Rock	2/16/2012	Yes
711	Petra	Rock Block	2/16/2012	Yes
712	Various Artists	Rocketown- Exodus	2/16/2012	Yes
713	Steve Winwood	Roll With It	2/16/2012	Yes
714	Tonio K	Romeo Unchained	2/17/2012	Yes
715	Various Artists	Room at the Top	2/17/2012	Yes
716	John Mayer	Room For Squares	2/17/2012	Yes
717	ZOEgirl	Room To Breathe	2/17/2012	Yes

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

• The Call “Reconciled”: My first CD by this awesome band.  Not a bad song on the disc.
• The Call “Red Moon”: Sad that the lead singer of this band has passed away and no more music will be coming from them.
• Relient K “Relient K”: I much like their newer stuff.  This (their first CD) is a little rough and punky for my taste.  I hesitated to buy their earlier stuff when I first heard their 4th or 5th CD but I found them in my price range on eBay and took a chance.
• Inhabited “The Revolution”; This female fronted, hard rock band has their moments.  I only bought this as I heard one of their songs on the Guitar Praise game we had (and I found it on the 90% off rack at Mardel’s).
• Janet Jackson “Rhythm Nation 1814”: Don’t judge me, it was only  $1.
• Ricky Martin “Ricky Martin”: See above note for Janet Jackson.
• 4 Him “The Ride”: And 4 Him adds another NO to their growing collection.
• Robert Palmer “Ridin' High”: I was ready for an “Addicted To Love” type CD but this is big band music.  Good, but not what I was in the mood for (or expecting).
• Allies “The River”: These guys should have stopped after 3 CDs.  Unfortunately they released 5.
• Greg X. Volz: “The River Is Rising”: Former Petra front man’s first solo release.  I found this one on clearance a long time ago and was shocked that it was autographed.
• Billy Joel “River of Dreams”: I have a few cassettes by this artist but this is my only CD.  The wife and daughter love the title track.
• Various Artists “Roaring Lambs”: I bought this originally as it had a new song by Steve Taylor on it.  It also has singles that cannot be found elsewhere by Sixpence None The Richer, Burlap To Cashmere and Michael Tait (DC Talk).
• Wes King “The Robe”: I would have never thought I would like anything by Wes King but this is a good CD.
• Joy Electric “Robot Rock”: The wife thinks all of Joy Electric’s stuff sounds like a bad Nintendo game’s background music.  They came to Kokomo once and I saw them in concert.
• Petra “Rock Block”: This is my 3rd best of release by Petra.  Every time they changed labels another best of release seemed to appear.  This has some different songs than their other best of releases.
• Various Artists “Rocketown- Exodus”: This contains the last song released by DC Talk before they broke up.  it also has a Sixpence None The Richer single found no where else.
• Tonio K “Romeo Unchained”: “I saw Shakespeare and Cheetah, Crying in their margaritas” is one of the coolest lines ever (from the song “Romeo Loves Jane” on this CD).
• Various Artists “Room at the Top”: This one only has 1, 50+ minutes song on it.  Interesting but not something I would listen to a lot.

Before I made my purchase yesterday, I was 71.8% of the way done with this project.  Now however I am at 70.2%.  I have 305 more CDs to go assuming that I do not buy any more CDs.

Jon