New News About Old News
Dec. 12th, 2006 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Call me an 80's geek, but I honestly enjoyed Michael Hutchens' voice (of INXS). And he was very pretty. But I'm currently listening to the new INXS, with J.D. Fortune(?) doing the vocals... Yeah, it's cheesy how they picked their new vocalist, and some say he's a Michael-Hutchens wannabe. I can hear the bedroom huskiness of M.H. in 'Devil's Party' and a little bit in 'Pretty Vegas', but Fortune's voice is bigger. I mean, it's just big. It kind of overwhelms the guitar & drum. An auditorium-filling, from-the-diaphragm kind of voice.
Switch has some slick production, which is usually not a boon to music. I still like old cassette tapes & vinyl. You could hear background noises sometimes - barking dogs, airplanes, the wind. Gruffness of a whiskey binge, a sore throat, a missed chord or dropped beat. Good musical ear candy. Switch kind of leaves me empty as far as soulfulness. But I have to admit, I like the new vocalist. If I was listening to him w/out knowing who I was hearing or knowing how the guy got the job, I would like it. To be fair, I like Justin Timberlake's compilation with Timbaland, 'SexyBack'. I was sitting here grooving to it pretty thoroughly one morning & listening to Rob bitch about the guy singing it being from N'Sync or some shit, and I didn't believe him til I turned around & saw it most definitely was Justin Timberlake. I immediately tried to be dismissive of it, but after hearing it again later & getting into the grrooooves again... well, I downloaded it. Good music is good music.
So I love 'Pretty Vegas', bought the CD on that song's merit alone. Now that I'm listening to the ballad 'Afterglow' I have to admit it's a good album overall. Over-produced, slicker than shit through a goose, but good tunes.
Last night I took a bunch of Rage Against the Machine to work with me. Good angry politically conscious rock-rap was just what I needed. Bouncing around at the copier hollering, "Fuck you I won't do what you told me!" over and over again can be cathartic, if somewhat knee-cracking. I think (even though I say this over & over again & never do it - haven't done it for months) after I go & fail my math final on Wednesday afternoon, I'm going to sit down with some Jose Cuervo Black & get to know ol' Joe Crow a little more intimately. Rob asked if he was going to need to make sure I slept on my side and I said, "Yes. Yes you will. And you'll need to put a trashcan under my face, but I'll wear a ponytail so you don't have to hold my hair back."
Switch has some slick production, which is usually not a boon to music. I still like old cassette tapes & vinyl. You could hear background noises sometimes - barking dogs, airplanes, the wind. Gruffness of a whiskey binge, a sore throat, a missed chord or dropped beat. Good musical ear candy. Switch kind of leaves me empty as far as soulfulness. But I have to admit, I like the new vocalist. If I was listening to him w/out knowing who I was hearing or knowing how the guy got the job, I would like it. To be fair, I like Justin Timberlake's compilation with Timbaland, 'SexyBack'. I was sitting here grooving to it pretty thoroughly one morning & listening to Rob bitch about the guy singing it being from N'Sync or some shit, and I didn't believe him til I turned around & saw it most definitely was Justin Timberlake. I immediately tried to be dismissive of it, but after hearing it again later & getting into the grrooooves again... well, I downloaded it. Good music is good music.
So I love 'Pretty Vegas', bought the CD on that song's merit alone. Now that I'm listening to the ballad 'Afterglow' I have to admit it's a good album overall. Over-produced, slicker than shit through a goose, but good tunes.
Last night I took a bunch of Rage Against the Machine to work with me. Good angry politically conscious rock-rap was just what I needed. Bouncing around at the copier hollering, "Fuck you I won't do what you told me!" over and over again can be cathartic, if somewhat knee-cracking. I think (even though I say this over & over again & never do it - haven't done it for months) after I go & fail my math final on Wednesday afternoon, I'm going to sit down with some Jose Cuervo Black & get to know ol' Joe Crow a little more intimately. Rob asked if he was going to need to make sure I slept on my side and I said, "Yes. Yes you will. And you'll need to put a trashcan under my face, but I'll wear a ponytail so you don't have to hold my hair back."
