The Listening Project–Supplemental Blog 4

It has been 2 months or so since my last blog about my CDs.  I bought 5 CDs about a month ago and dutifully listened to them.  It was not until I bought one last week that I remembered again this project.

#	Artist	Album	Date Listened	Again?
1096	FM Static	Critically Ashamed	7/25/2012	Yes
1097	The Cars	Greatest Hits	7/25/2012	Yes
1098	Harry Connick, Jr	Only You	7/25/2012	Yes
1099	Paul Baloche	Open The Eyes Of My Heart	7/24/2012	Yes
1100	Connie Francis	Side By Side Disc 1	7/24/2012	Yes
1101	Brenda Lee	Side By Side Disc 2	7/24/2012	No
1102	Mychildren Mybride	Unbreakable	8/24/2012	Yes

• FM Static “Critically Ashamed”: I recalled that this group is a side project of the lead singer from Thousand Foot Krutch.  Other than the obvious similarities in vocals, this band it quite different but still listenable.
• The Cars “Greatest Hits”: Just fun to listen to, all of the time.
• Harry Connick Jr. “Only You”: This is Harry’s take on some popular songs from the 20’s to the 60’s.  Nice and relaxing.
• Paul Baloche “Open The Eyes Of My Heart”: If you have not heard of this artist before just visit any modern worship service at a church.  Paul will have likely written or co-written half of the songs that you hear.
• Connie Francis / Brenda Lee “Side by Side”: If I were honest with myself I would have to admit that I still have a crush on Connie Francis.  I used to listen to a Connie Francis LP that my dad had when I was growing up.  I never got tired of it.  Of course my crush is on the young Miss Francis on the album cover of that LP but that is what I immediately reverted back to when I popped this CD into my player.  This CD does not contain all of her hits (it is missing Stupid Cupid and Lipstick on Your Collar for starters) but for $1 I cannot be picky.  The other CD of Brenda Lee music is mostly live recordings of sounds that I do not recognize so it gets a rare NO in the Again? column.
• Mychildren Mybride “Unbreakable”: There is no way the drummer on this CD makes it through more than 2 or 3 songs in a concert without taking a break.  The drumming and guitars are so fast and so in synch that I can forgive the grovel vocals that almost always goes with this style of music.  I popped this into the car’s CD player after buying it and the wife complained about the vocals.  I asked her what other type of “singing” could possibly go with the overall sound and we both couldn’t think of any.

I have slowed way down in building my collection (6 CDs in 2 months).  Amazingly I do not even have the desire to head to the clearance rack or garage sales to look for more music.  Maybe I have enough CDs now (I don’t believe so either).

Jon