Frusciante's New Music Challenge (3 of 3)

Well there's some space to fill and I may's well get this last music post out of the way as it has been a while coming. I had to trawl for a bit to find this post and remind myself what I was doing and why I'd gone and spent money on CDs instead of listening to songs on YouTube. For those of you who've forgotten I have been buying albums based on criteria mentioned by John Frusciante as a way to widen your knowledge of this wonderful thing called music.

The last category mentioned is to buy an album because you like the cover and so I decided to give it a whirl. I struggled with this one as I generally like to know what I'm buying before spending money on it. There were a few albums that were a intriguing but none really cried out to me, not many albums seem to have that epic, stand out "Dark Side of the moon" cover. I was also trying to find albums that fitted into the 2 for £10 deal going, on, but eventually I found something that was part of the deal, something I'd heard of, though I didn't know the music and something that had a good cover, something a bit like this...













And again it was a very good album. There was more than a hint of REM in the first song, but that is no bad thing, and the band do quickly move into their own sound. I had no idea what would be coming out of my CD player, I'd heard Editors were good, but it was one of those names mentioned by cool people as one of those bands they think are cool, but don't want anyone else to know about because it would make them slightly less cool.

Despite this I found the band very accessible and some very distinctive songs on the album that I really enjoy listening to. "Blood" is a particular favourite of mine, with the chorus line "Blood runs through your veins, that's where our similarity ends" a particularly striking one. "Munich" and "Camera" are also good ones I think. They are much more downbeat than bands I would normally listen to and so I find I don't listen to them very often, but I do catch myself humming the chorus lines and there is a power to the vocals and music that makes me want to keep digging the album out.

Well to say more would be to pretend to know anything about music. I will briefly comment on the excersize and say that on the whole it has been positive, I had no idea what to expect when buying this album and would probably not even have thought about it other than for this challenge so I'm pleased with that. I have also felt freer to buy into music than I normally would feel, I got Pendulum's first album after being reintroduced to their hit "Slam" and I've thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the CD.

so yeah...s'been good.

Word of the post: Verbatim –adjective

2.	corresponding word for word to the original source or text