FYE enjoys a smooth victory...
Purchases today at the bizarre but exciting USED CD section at FYE:
♥ Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth
♥ Kylie - Fever (my own copy to replace Emily's before she leaves)
♥ Daft Punk - Discovery (Emily's own copy to replace mine before she leaves)
♥ Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
♥ TVOTR - Return to Cookie Mountain
[EDIT: listening now, and I can hear this conversation in my head after the Young Liars EP is released to OK-to-good-hypish reviews: "BAND MEETING. Look, we almost wrote a buncha great songs on our EP. Let's avoid doing that in the future. Agreed? Good. *whew* Close call guys, hit the showers." How did anyone get duped into liking this bullshit? Why did I, since I already knew they would refuse to write a good new song having their first album as incontrovertible evidence? And why did I pay nearly FIVE DOLLARS for this when I coulda bought a Boston album or the Nashville OST for six???]
♥ Hole - Celebrity Skin
♥ V/A - Best of the 60's (scattershot 2-CD set)
♥ Eminem - Encore [UNEDITED]
Purchases yesterday to finish up my Xmas gift card (was: $12 remaining, now: $0 remaining):
♥ Lindsay Lohan - RAW (A Little More Personal) [wiped off my old hard drive :( ]
♥ Hilary Duff - Most Wanted [ditto]
♥ Ying Yang Twins - Me and My Brother
♥ V/A - Cash Money Platinum Hits
♥ Jewel - 0304 [finally caved and just bought it online after much desperate dollar bin searching]
Er, found on the street somewheres, roughly in order of preference:
♥ Digitalism - Idealism
[EDIT: Thoughts after a few listens -- about the closest to a MSTRKRFT walk around in sunglasses album I've gotten this year, might like it better than that one as its variety lets ya discover a few new things about it as you go along, but not as concise or consistent. More techno wonkery and less dance-fuckerness, which I kinda like about it.]
♥ MIA - Bittersuss
[EDIT: Thoughts after like half a listen -- really like it. Not a techno nap album, more like a techno pretend-you're-an-android album. Burpy blurpy!]
♥ White Stripes - Icky Thump
[EDIT: Enjoyable, totally inconsistent. Think it's finding its bearings at "Conquest" and then it just derails completely w/ bagpipes (not THAT hard to use bagpipes in an interesting way, is it?) and noodling. LOTS of noodling, and high-pitched noodling at that. Notice this shit on almost every track, stupid little squiggles that get old in about three seconds, esp. after "Icky Thump" opening track! Jack White needs to just kinda go with it songwritingwise and stop shooting himself in the foot like people with holes in their feet are somehow more legit than people with fully intact feet.]
♥ Bjork - Volta
[EDIT: REALLY not getting into this, and I like Bjork! Really liked Medulla even, which was seen by plenty of people as a sorta exploratory/conceptual mess. But that more accurately describes this one, I think. Plz to make argument for it. At one point I started thinking of Bjork (US) national anthem rendition wherein she did "home of the brave" line with "home" as that stupid sing-four-notes-up-the-scale-but-pause-at-third-note-for-slight-tension move that she does in almost EVERY SONG on this album and I SWEAR then she starts singing, as I'm thinking this, "HO-O-O-O-O-O-OME! H-O-O-O-O-OME!"
♥ Hannah Montana - OST 2 and Meet Miley Cyrus [BOOOOOOOOOOOOO EDIT: no further edits necessarily, this is a truly godawful monstrosity]
FIGHT OF THE DAY: Blippy bloopy vs. burpy blurpy. Emily calls Pantha du Prince the former, MIA (Bittersuss) the latter, gives the edge to MIA because "it sounds like your tummy." (NOTE: I just recovered from a stomach bug.)
EDIT 2: After a couple listening sessions, I'm actually decently satisfied with a half-yearish top 20 list:
01. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
02. Hilary Duff - Dignity
03. Kelly Clarkson - My December
04. Various - Hyphy Hitz
05. Digitalism - Idealism
06. R. Kelly - Double Up
07. Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
08. The Fratellis - Costello Music
09. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
10. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
11. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
12. MIA - Bittersuss
13. Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men
14. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
15. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
16. White Stripes - Icky Thump
17. Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated
18=. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Trip the Light Fantastic
18=. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
20. !!! - Myth Takes
Would like to knock out w/ better albums: oh, 16-20 or so. Maybe a few others.
Eyeing 20: Ashley Tisdale, Jordan Pruitt, The Horrors
Sorta anticipating: Aly and AJ, Dizzee, Amerie.
What'd I miss? Where'd I go wrong?
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