Josh...Franz Ferdinand
 

Josh,

Just letting you know I got the Franz Ferdinand album today, along with Sara Groves "Add To The Beauty", Linda Eder "By Myself: The Songs of Judy Garland", and Liz Phair "Somebody's Miracle"...I spent a crap load today! :laugh:

I do enjoy "You Could Have It So Much Better", it is actually pretty good stuff...thanks for recommending! I do have to say though that my absolute favorite out of all that I got today is Sara Groves "Add To The Beauty"...I can't even begin to describe the unique ways that woman can pen a song, love to get her music out there to others!

But again, thanks for the rec.

I got Liz Phair at Target this morning after my class for, I think, $7. Couldn't believe it.

The DualDisc for the Franz record came in the mail yesterday, and I can't stop listening to Outsiders in 5.1. It's marvelous. I think that's my favorite tune.

Yea I like that one. It probably is my fav. on the album as well.

I got Liz's for cheap too...Capitol Records usually is REALLY great about cheap new releases.

thought this was interesting...

Liz Phair can crow over latest album
October 4, 2005

It's been Liz Phair's misfortune that, since her recent for-profit sonic makeover, she has been lumped in with the likes of Sheryl Crow.
Other than being female singer-songwriters who made their proper debuts in 1993, the two would seem to have little in common: Miss Phair the provocative feminist vulgarian who flipped the bird at classic rock's male titans, Miss Crow the conciliatory flatterer to same.
However, after 2003's "Liz Phair," the gap between Miss Phair and Miss Crow tightened a tad. Suddenly, it wasn't so hard to imagine the Top-40 Phair ditty "Why Can't I?" on a Crow album such as "C'mon, C'mon."
Miss Phair's latest, "Somebody's Miracle," out today, won't do much to disassociate her from Miss Crow (the raw indie-rocker of "Exile in Guyville" days is gone forever), but it still makes for a neat study in contrasts. Put simply, Miss Phair is a better songwriter than Miss Crow, who released "Wildflower," her fifth LP, last week.
She has more to say -- and says it more distinctively -- than the increasingly uninspired Miss Crow.

http://washingtontimes.com/entertain...4223-7066r.htm

Damn it all. All these people releasing great albums I want is not doing any favors to my wallet.

Sometimes Target has some REALLY good deals on cd's. I remember my friend got the Coldplay album when it came out earlier this year for $9.99

Ouch. I don't like much Sheryl Crow's music these days, but this critic was tough. Is she getting a lot of bad reviews for Wildflower?

Romy

Yes. There was a review in Entertainment Weekly that said the music sounds homogenized (I said that last week! Ha!) and compared "Wildflower" to a General Electric oven.

"Dependable, reliable, and not very exciting."

Oh well, I can only hope the marriage would bring out of her some anger and the need to talk about it again.

Romy