I Want You

What would Bob Dylan's "I Want You" sound like, performed in the style of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You"?

I may work on this.

Listening to:
Live Prince bootlegs

Relient K

This trend of auto-tuned whisper-whining front-mixed white men must cease. I turn on MTV2 and it's all over. Am I supposed to relate to these guys as a somewhat emotional white man? I can't relate to it in any other way... too bad this way doesn't work either. The mix on these songs spotlights the vocalist, but with nothing impressive/grabbing about the voice, melody, or technique (if anything was impressive about the vocal technique, auto-tune has rendered it unnoticeable by way of helping the 'artist' blatantly cheat his way out of actually needing skill or talent), these songs are boring by way of spotlighting something boring. Not just boring, but irritating, in fact. Nasaly voices that don't scream awesomely? Get on gone with that shit. If you're a nasal fuck, use it for something! Look at the history of rock, and what people have managed to do with their terrible voices! You too can be an excellent vocalist by way of putting your vocal failure to good use.

Heart & Soul

This Joy Division box set is so much. I think I can sell Substance now. (Heart and Soul sounds so much better, and has all the tracks that are on Substance.)

The structure, briefly, is a disk for each of their two albums, with the non-album singles and unreleased cuts from the time of those albums also on each disk. the third disk is miscellaneous non-album/unreleased material, and the fourth disk is all live stuff.

What's odd is that the two album-focused disks don't start with those albums, but first have misc. tracks, then the album, then more tracks. This is, of course, highly nonstandard in terms of bonus-tracks-on-albums placement... and nonstandard for box sets that keep full albums together. So i'm not sure what they're thinking; it makes for more skipping when you want to hear an album as just an album. as an album-oriented man, of course i'm somewhat disappointed.

but this is a minor gripe; the music here is glorious. (the philosophy-pointing liner notes about how Joy Division represent the infinite cosmos and the depths of the soul are... something else.)

Listening to:

Joy Division - Heart & Soul