Things I find

I found three CDs that had fallen behind a stack of books in my room. My guess is that I bought them and promptly lost track of them. So I put them on as I unpacked boxes and listened to them for perhaps the first time.

The Mooney Suzuki - Electric Sweat (US UK)

There was roughly a month that this group was the next big thing. It's sort of sad that simply by virtue of being a decent New York-style bar band, you become the great hope of the music industry. Two things struck me as I listened to this: First, I think that every time I got a lift from a friend's older brother in grade school, this is what was playing in their Camero. Second, just after the fifth track ended, I thought that it had the sort of ending that would make sense as the end of an album side. A bit later, I had a look at the back of the CD case, I saw that they indeed had the tracks split up into album sides, and I had spotted the change correctly. I can't decide if I think this is stupid or not.

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (US UK)

I feel strangely relieved to have enjoyed this, as I have the strange feeling that if I didn't, I would be chased up a windmill by a pitchfork weilding mob. It wasn't the sort of thing that stays in my mind after it ends, but for something to listen to as you're assembling shelving and unpacking boxes of books, it is a fine choice.

Robbie Williams - Sing When You're Winning (US UK)

Friends don't let friends shop for music drunk.

Seriously though, when his debut album came out in America I was impressed. I thought that about six or eight tracks were really good, a pretty good ratio. Turns out that his American debut was, for all intents and purposes, a "greatest hits" compilation. So the hit/miss ratio was really not as high as it seemed. This album reflects the corrected ratio. A couple of good moments, but not enough to let me reccomend it.