BubbaRay's Buyers Guide: Best and Worst CD's of the Year
I bought seven CDs this year, so I feel totally qualified to review what's hot and what's not, and what should be on your Christmas or Hannukah list.
Best Soundtrack: I bought one. The soundtrack to "24." You can drive around in your car and pretend to be Jack Bauer. It's totally sweet.
Best New Rock Album: tie:Coldplay "X&Y" and Death Cab for Cutie "Plans." I bought three, so this catagory had the stiffest competition. The best songs on "Plans" pretty much make me want to kill myself....so why do I skip all the others and just listen to those on the way to work? I pretty much only listen to "Fix You" from the Coldplay disc but the rest sound kind of cool when I accidently play them.
Most Dissapointing New Rock Album: The third one: Foo Fighters "In Your Honor." Critics are doing a major disservice to Led Zep by comparing this one to "Physical Graffiti." The only similarity is that they're both double albums. Whoa. The resemblence is spooky. Talk about lazy reviewing. The electric disc is so limp I don't dare put on the acoustic one. "Best of You" is pretty rockin', though Dave Grohl professed in a recent interview that he almost left it off the album because thought it was a lame War-era U2 ripoff. Yeah. Right. I'm sure.
Best Greatest Hits: This is another one that came down to the wire, but Cinderella wins it with "Rocked, Wired and Bluesed."
Most Dissapointing Greatest Hits: The other one I bought - a double disc of Black Sabbath. It's shocking how wussy those guys were. Seriously. I bet the wallet inspector had a field day with those guys.
posted by MMA Media Advantage @ 7:46 PM
7 Comments:
What about the award for Other Album You Bought?
(I'm not sure I bought any 2005 albums besides the New Pornographers...)
"You know how I know you're gay?
"How"
"You listen to Coldplay!"
I count 6 albums, why you holding out on us?
That seventh album isn't Taco - All the Hits is it?
BubbaRayGracie told me that the seventh album was a tribute album. It was a bunch of bands doing their own interpretations of "Lost Horizons" by the Gin Blossoms.
bmman is correct.
I was really let down by "Found Horizons: a Tribute to the Gin Blossom's 'Lost Horizons."
I snapped the thing up without really looking at the tracklist. The Fallout Boy version was ok, but I really hated Alicea Keyes and Lil' Jon's take on it.
OK I made that up.
The award for "Other Album that I bought goes to .... Ozzy Osborne for the "Randy Rhoades Tribute" live disc. It was pretty good -- really, really hot guitar playing -- but marred seriously by Ozzy shrieking in a very non-rockerish voice the title of each song before it was played. And this came from back when Ozzy should have known better. Those shenanigans caused me to feel pretty ambivilant about it, which is not good for an Ozzy disc.
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