Sweet Music Future

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Originally Posted by Zombie

Peter Gabriel's got one coming in February. It's just him & an orchestra, with no drums or guitars or anything, doing cover songs - Bowie, Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Lou Reed, Bon Iver, Neil Young, etc. Should be interesting.

Most of the other albums I am looking forward to this year are metal albums, which may or may not interest anyone here. But Fear Factory has a new one coming out the day before my birthday in February, and Dino's back, so happy birthday to me! They've also got the amazingness that is Gene Hoglan on drums, and the advance tracks I've heard are awesome so far.

CNN recently played a video of Peter Gabriel's orchestral cover of Bowie's "Heroes." Um... not impressed. Considering it's been 8 years since his last proper album (which was fantastic, by the way), I think he could do better than this.

Speaking of Neil Young... I am in utter awe of Jimmy Fallon's imitation of him. It wouldn't be so gosh-darn funny if it wasn't so incredibly spot-on: