Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Listening Project–Week 32

Well another week has passed by and I was able to get through a few more CDs in my listening project.  I made record progress and got through 52 CDs.  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?
804 Peter Gabriel So 3/3/2012 Yes
805 Bryan Adams So Far So Good 3/3/2012 Yes
806 Reba McEntire So Good Together 3/3/2012 Yes
807 Downhere So Much For Substitutes 3/3/2012 Yes
808 Everclear So Much For The Afterglow 3/3/2012 Yes
809 Alanis Morissette So-Called Chaos 3/3/2012 Yes
810 The Aaron Pelsue Band Solid. Rock Solid Worship 3/3/2012 No
811 Dave Matthews Some Devil 3/4/2012 Yes
812 Carry Underwood Some Hearts 3/4/2012 Yes
813 Rich Mullins Songs 3/4/2012 Yes
814 Maroon 5 Songs About Jane 3/5/2012 Yes
815 Tears for Fears Songs From The Big Chair 3/5/2012 Yes
816 Depeche Mode Songs Of Faith And Devotion 3/5/2012 Yes
817 SONICFLOOd SONICFLOOd 3/5/2012 Yes
818 SONICFLOOd Sonicpraise 3/5/2012 Yes
819 Margaret Becker Soul 3/5/2012 Yes
820 Kathy Troccoli Sounds Of Heaven 3/5/2012 Yes
821 Precious Death Southpaw 3/5/2012 Yes
822 White Heart Souvenirs 3/6/2012 Yes
823 Bleach Space 3/6/2012 Yes
824 Sarah Jahn Sparkle 3/6/2012 Yes
825 Dogs of Peace (Speak) 3/6/2012 Yes
826 Various Artists Special Brew 3/6/2012 Yes
827 Choir Speckled Bird 3/7/2012 Yes
828 Steven Curtis Chapman Speechless 3/7/2012 Yes
829 Paula Abdul Spellbound 3/7/2012 Yes
830 Jewel Spirit 3/7/2012 Yes
831 The Offspring Splinter 3/7/2012 Yes
832 Steve Taylor Squint 3/7/2012 Yes
833 Belly Star 3/7/2012 Yes
834 Harry Connick Jr Star Turtle 3/7/2012 Yes
835 Various Artists Starbucks World Music Volume 1 3/7/2012 Yes
836 Reba McEntire Starting Over 3/7/2012 Yes
837 Jeremy Camp Stay 3/8/2012 Yes
838 Jet Circus Step On It 3/8/2012 Yes
839 KLANK Still Suffering 3/8/2012 Yes
840 Sometime Sunday Stone 3/8/2012 Yes
841 Randy Stonehill Stories 3/9/2012 Yes
842 Charlie Peacock strangelanguage 3/9/2012 Yes
843 Tori Amos Strange Little Girls 3/9/2012 Yes
844 Jonah 33 The Strangest Day 3/9/2012 Yes
845 Various Artists Streams 3/9/2012 Yes
846 Various Artists Street Beat 3/9/2012 Yes
847 Various Artists Strong Hand of Love- A Tribute to Mark Heard 3/9/2012 Yes
848 Kutless Strong Tower 3/9/2012 Yes
849 Clash of Symbols Sunday is an Altogether Different Proposition 3/9/2012 Yes
850 Tree 63 Sunday! 3/9/2012 Yes
851 dc Talk Supernatural 3/10/2012 Yes
852 Santana Supernatural 3/10/2012 Yes
853 Ian Supersonic Dream Day 3/10/2012 Yes
854 Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie 3/10/2012 Yes
855 The Chemical Brothers Surrender 3/10/2012 Yes

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

  • Peter Gabriel “So”: A great way to start off the week.
  • Bryan Adams “So Far So Good”: I may be mistaken but I think I “borrowed” this CD about 5 years ago and just never returned it.  If I remembered who I borrowed it from then I would return it.  If it is yours then let me know.
  • Dave Matthews “Some Devil”: I am becoming more and more of a Dave Matthews fan every week.
  • Rich Mullins “Songs”: A best of (and my first) CD from Rich.  I have since gathered many of his regular releases.
  • Tears for Fears “Songs From The Big Chair”: Only 8 songs on this CD, pity.
  • Depeche Mode “Songs Of Faith And Devotion”: I discovered this band too late in their career.
  • SONICFLOOd “SONICFLOOd"” & “Sonicpraise”: It had to happen eventually.  This is 2 CDs that are from the artist that appear alphabetically.  Oh there have been others but normally it is a 2 CD set or something like that.  I am less of a fan now than I was originally when I bought these CDs.
  • Kathy Troccoli “Sounds Of Heaven”: Was excited and shocked to hear one of Kathy’s songs on American Idol last week (Go Light Your World).
  • White Heart “Souvenirs”: So many White Heart best of CDs in my collection.  Still good stuff though.
  • Sarah Jahn “Sparkle”: Sadly, this is the only CD that she ever put out.  I first heard her voice on the Petra tribute album.
  • Dogs of Peace “(Speak)”: This is the other CD that I mentioned last week that starts with a parenthesis and yet fell into the pile this week.  This is basically 2 guys that have played on or produced tons of other CDs coming together to do their own.  Sadly, this is their only release.
  • Various Artists “Special Brew”: This starts out with an 8 minute remix of U2’s “Numb” and just gets cooler from there.
  • Harry Connick Jr “Star Turtle”: The music is good but there are 4 tracks mixed in that (I think) are telling a story where Harry is talking to a guy with some kind of computer altered voice.  I don’t get what he is trying to do here.
  • Jet Circus “Step On It”: I bought this since the lead singer from Leviticus (well the lead singer from their 3rd release) was the lead singer on this CD.  Basically a drum machine and these guys playing bass and guitar.  So so music but good vocals.
  • KLANK “Still Suffering”: The best industrial genre CD that I own.  The wife really dislikes this CD (she says he sounds to angry to be on a Christian label) but I love it.
  • Charlie Peacock “strangelanguage”: My favorite CD by Charlie.  Just the right mix of all his other CD’s styles.  The lyrics to “Insult Like The Truth” are spot on.
  • Various Artists “Streams”: I saw this on eBay when it first came out.  Jon Anderson (from Yes) sings a duet with the group 4 Him.  This was much touted on eBay and for some reason (even though this was available at any Christian bookstore) it kept selling for >$20.  Eventually everyone caught on.  Basically an album of songs written by Brent Bourgeois (formerly of Bourgeois Tagg).  Michael McDonald, Sixpence, Delirious and others all have standout songs.
  • Various Artists “Strong Hand of Love- A Tribute to Mark Heard”: This was how I first hear Mark’s music (except his release under the name “Ideloa”).
  • Tree 63 “Sunday!”: Their last release before breaking up as a band.  I miss them.
  • dc Talk “Supernatural”: Their last release before breaking up as a band.  I miss them.

I am 83.7% done and I managed not to buy any more CDs this week.  I have 167 CDs to go according to my master spreadsheet.

.Jon

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