The Listening Project–Week 30

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 40 CDs.  This is not too bad seeing as how I had Monday off of work.  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?
718	Harry Connick Jr	25	2/18/2012	No
719	Neil Diamond	Beautiful Noise	2/18/2012	Yes
720	Michael Kamen	Don Juan DeMarco Soundtrack	2/19/2012	Yes
721	Neil Diamond	Hot August Night - Disc 2	2/19/2012	Yes
722	Bruce Hornsby	Hot House	2/19/2012	Yes
723	Leann Rimes	I Need You	2/20/2012	Yes
724	Leann Rimes	Leann Rimes	2/20/2012	Yes
725	Soul Asylum	Let Your Dim Light Shine	2/20/2012	Yes
726	Michael W. Smith	Live The Life	2/21/2012	Yes
727	Caedmon's Call	Long Line Of Leavers	2/21/2012	Yes
728	Los Lonely Boys	Los Lonely Boys	2/21/2012	Yes
729	Marc Anthony	Marc Anthony	2/21/2012	Yes
730	Hall & Oates	Marigold Sky	2/21/2012	Yes
731	Bruce Hornsby & The Range	A Night On The Town	2/22/2012	Yes
732	Sam Phillips	Omnipop (It's Only A Flesh Wound Lambchop)	2/22/2012	Yes
733	AC/DC	The Razor's Edge	2/22/2012	Yes
734	By The Tree	Root	2/22/2012	Yes
735	route 43	route 43	2/22/2012	Yes
736	Reba McEntire	Rumor Has It	2/22/2012	Yes
737	Chris Rice	Run The Earth, Watch The Sky	2/22/2012	Yes
738	Jackson Browne	Running on Empty	2/22/2012	Yes
739	Weird Al Yankovic	Running With Scissors	2/22/2012	Yes
740	Rush Of Fools	Rush Of Fools	2/22/2012	Yes
741	Richard Marx	Rush Street	2/23/2012	Yes
742	Megadeth	Rust in Peace	2/23/2012	Yes
743	Various Artists	Sabrina The Teenage Witch	2/23/2012	Yes
744	The Killers	Sam's Town	2/23/2012	Yes
745	Sarah Masen	Sarah Masen	2/23/2012	Yes
746	P.O.D	Satellite	2/23/2012	Yes
747	Satellite Soul	Satellite Soul	2/23/2012	Yes
748	Various Artists	Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack	2/23/2012	Yes
749	Savage Garden	Savage Garden	2/24/2012	Yes
750	John Cougar Mellencamp	Scarecrow	2/24/2012	Yes
751	Bruce Hornsby & The Range	Scenes From The Southside	2/24/2012	Yes
752	EMF	Schubert Dip	2/24/2012	Yes
753	Enigma	The Screen Behind The Mirror	2/24/2012	Yes
754	Kutless	Sea Of Faces	2/24/2012	Yes
755	Philadelphia	Search And Destroy	2/24/2012	Yes
756	Mad At The World	Seasons of Love	2/24/2012	Yes
757	Michael W. Smith	The Second Decade (1993-2003)	2/25/2012	Yes

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

• Harry Connick Jr “25”: Not a good way to start the week.  The first 16 CDs on this week’s list are a carry over from my purchase from the previous week.  In general I really like Harry’s stuff.  This CD is mostly him and his piano.  Several are instrumentals.  As my kids have been taught to say when eating a food they do not like, “It’s not my favorite.”
• Neil Diamond “Beautiful Noise” & “Hot August Night - Disc 2”: I will admit to being ignorant of most of Neil’s career save for his hits in the mid 80’s when I was a teenager.  These are both from the 70’s and I think I could be becoming a Diamond fan.  I was disappointed when I realized that the Hot August Night CD that I picked up was only disc 2 of a 2 CD set.
• Michael Kamen “Don Juan DeMarco Soundtrack”: We have this movie and this CD (save for the Bryan Adams “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman”) is all instrumental, Spanish guitar laden music.  Very relaxing though I will admit buying it mainly for the Bryan Adams song.
• Bruce Hornsby “Hot House” & “Scenes From The Southside”: I really am becoming a Hornsby fan.  I picked up 2 CDs by him and his band last week in my 23 CD haul.  This brings my total to 4 CDs by him.
• Leann Rimes “I Need You” & “Leann Rimes”: I bought these on a whim since the daughter has Leann’s first CD and she likes it.  Leann does have an awesome voice so these are pleasant to listen to from time to time.
• Michael W. Smith “Live The Life” & “The Second Decade (1993-2003)”: Live the Life has a great song called “Missing Person”.  This is also on his 2nd best of CD, The Second Decade. So, in short, I got to hear that song twice this week.
• AC/DC “The Razor's Edge”: I do not think I ever gave this band a fair shake.  This is my only CD from them and I think I like it.
• Megadeth “Rust in Peace”: I think I became a Megadeth fan AFTER this CD.  This one though is before they changed their sound to be more commercial (the CDs that I like).  Still a good listen when you want to hear someone sing who is obviously angry about something.
• route 43 “route 43”: When we moved to Texas the first time we set out to find a church down here.  The first church we visited happen to have this trio in concert on Sunday morning.  The were very good and I picked up their EP.  Try as I might, I cannot find these guys anywhere using google.  You will just have to trust me when I say I am not making them up.
• Various Artists “Sabrina The Teenage Witch”: This came in the eBay auction I won a while back.  I had not listened to it until this week.  It has some good tunes on it including a remake of “Abracadabra” and “I Know What Boys Like”.
• P.O.D. “Satellite”: Payable on Death at the top of their game.  These guys are still around but their genre has come and gone.
• Various Artists “Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack”: Did you know that the Bee Gees did not even start on the music for this movie until all the dance scenes were already filmed?  The 10 minute version of “Disco Inferno” is a nice touch at the end of the CD as well.
• Philadelphia “Search And Destroy”: This 80’s Christian metal band I remember from my teen years.  I never had any of their albums but I found this one on the bargain rack and snagged it up.  Pretty good given they probably had zero budget for production.

I am 74.1% done now.  Somebody asked me last week what I would do when I am done with this project.  I froze.  I have no idea what I will do when I get to pick what CD to listen to whenever I want.  This project has relieved me of any decisions of that type.  I am still thinking about the answer to that question.  Currently I have 265 CDs to go.  At 40 / week that is only 7 more weeks until I have to come up with an answer.

Jon