Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Sunday I was at Borders, using the headphones to listen to a bunch of records from the latest critical favorites I've been reading about. I was ready to buy, and I wanted to hear a record that was so good that I had to run out to the car and blast it all the way home. I tried:
The Thrills,
The Shins,
Jet,
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
The Dandy Warhols,
The Strokes
and some others. On another day I listened to The White Stripes. I couldn't pull the trigger on any of them, although I almost went for Jet (a nice, but a little too clean Ron Wood/Faces-like guitar vibe), and am still thinking about The White Stripes. I'm not saying that any of them sucked; I like guitar bands, they're guitar bands, and I kind of liked them all, and I'm sure that there are some great singles in among the songs on those albums. Rather, I felt that these bands are mostly re-inventing the wheel, and I already have a nice set of wheels. Maybe that's why downloading individual songs has become the way to go.
The Thrills,
The Shins,
Jet,
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
The Dandy Warhols,
The Strokes
and some others. On another day I listened to The White Stripes. I couldn't pull the trigger on any of them, although I almost went for Jet (a nice, but a little too clean Ron Wood/Faces-like guitar vibe), and am still thinking about The White Stripes. I'm not saying that any of them sucked; I like guitar bands, they're guitar bands, and I kind of liked them all, and I'm sure that there are some great singles in among the songs on those albums. Rather, I felt that these bands are mostly re-inventing the wheel, and I already have a nice set of wheels. Maybe that's why downloading individual songs has become the way to go.
