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In the past few days I've listened to some great stuff! Of course I have...

I was completely mesmerized by Kraftwerks-"Computer World" from 1981 on my new Bose 5.1 Companion 5 series speakers for my I-Mac. WOW! The sound really is fantastic. I had it cranked up and it was amazing. Also Gary Numans-"Telekon" album remastered sounded fantastic as well. Something tells me everything will sound amazing on it.

Mojo Magazine issued a remake of Pink Floyd's "The Wall". One disc in Dec 2009 and one disc in Jan 2010 issue. I listened to those as well. It's interesting. Some good stuff on it some was like whatever! But I prefer the original. That reminds me that I bought from I-Tunes the new Flaming Lips cover of "Dark Side Of The Moon". YIKES! The reviews are very mixed. They have Peaches and Henry Rollins guesting. Hmm... I'll dig into that soon I'm sure...

The latest Dinosaur Jr - "Farm" was in heavy rotation on my new speakers. Needed to get some good guitars going on there. Wow! This is a terrific album. Better than the comeback album "Beyond" which was good but this is better. I took my sista Jane to see them in West Hollywood at the Troubadour and the bass hum nearly killed us and the vocals were so muddy you couldn't make a thing out. He was not impressed. I saw them in their heyday and they were unbelievable. Still, those boys can play and there is always a time for Dinosaur Jr!!!

This morning I just listened to my first 2010 release that I've gotten which is: Badly Drawn Boy-"Is There Nothing We Could Do? (Music Inspired By The Motion Picture 'The Fattest Man In Britain'). It's a lovely mellow perfectly made affair. Reminded me that I need to finish going through my fav's of each year of this decade. So far I've come up with:

2000: Badly Drawn Boy-The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (Honestly, I played that album so so much when it came out. It was, and still is amazing!!!! He's never come close to it again though. A debut for the history books though.)

2001: Elbow-Asleep In The Back. Another debut for the history books!!! Wow!!! What a stunner this album is. And Jane (James) and I have our memory of that concert at the Casbah that I dragged him to and he left STUNNED to this day!!! What a great show that was!!!

2004: The Shore-The Shore. I must give it up and say this is my favourite album of this first decade of the 2000's. I've played it so many times I could sing it in my sleep (no you don't want to hear that!). It's just soooo good! Timeless songs made to last. It's perfect.

I'll have to dig deep for the other years since it's not coming to me off the top of my head.

Until next time...