I have an obsessive personality and get really hooked on music that I like. This week's soundtrack:
"Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart. Old song, but a gravel-voiced busker at Pike Place Market in Seattle was singing it as I walked by last weekend, and amazingly I already had the mp3 in my collection.
Hot Fuss, by The Killers. This has been in heavy rotation for me for the past couple months. I love this album and can't get over how much their sound reminds me of The Smiths, only updated. Even the lyrics seem Smith-like to me:
Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looks like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
"Your Woman" by White Town. I've always liked this song, but I never knew the name of it until I heard it at a friend's house recently. I immediately grabbed it from iTunes.
"Such Great Heights" by The Postal Service (not that hippy-dippy version by Iron & Wine, dammit). So catchy. That Benjamin Gibbard (also of Death Cab for Cutie) can have an infectious voice sometimes.
On a slightly related topic, how great is it that Apple has is offering for free -- and promoting -- full audio from the presidential and vice-presidential debates on iTunes? Thanks, Apple!
"Year of the Cat" - great song, and in my collection, but it's one of those that if it pops up on random at a party at your house, you might have to blame on the wife.
Hot Fuss by The Killers...been hearing and liking that on the radio, but never remembered to go find out who it was. Gonna try to get that.
Also looking forward to checking out the new Interpol album. If you haven't tried them on yet, you should do so. They remind me a lot of Joy Division.
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