My brother Ryan just sent me the following email and asked me to share it with you all.
During the Christmas Season I met with my two brothers and had Mike burn a disc full of some nice tunes. I have always been a big Music/Sports Fan. But over the last 5 years I have clearly spent the majority of my time on sports and fantasy websites, leaving my music knowledge a distant 3rd among my brothers. After transferring a great majority of this music to my MP3 player I have the following thoughts:
- Arcade Fire is over-rated. I liked a couple of their songs that were released but after listening to most of their stuff I can say that it is not for me.
- The Strokes are phenomenal. I can’t get enough of their sound and I continue to add more Strokes songs to my player as I remove other songs to make room.
- Pearl Jam is Pearl Jam. I love almost every single tune from Life Wasted to World Wide Suicide to Gone.. God Bless Pearl Jam!
- The Beatles. The Beatles. The Beatles. I can honestly say that I am truly discovering them for the first time right now. I knew a lot of their hits and like many people I just figured that music has changed so much that The Beatles would not do it for me in this day and age. I was wrong. We Can Work It Out, Norwegian Wood and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band are among my favorites.
Currently, after leaving Mike’s house with music from about 30 musicians/bands, I have my MP3 Player full of The Beatles, The Strokes and Pearl Jam. And I could not be happier. Thanks Mike!!! Thanks Steve!!
Hey Ry, I agree with your Strokes and Beatles analysis, but we'll have to agree to disagree about Arcade Fire. In fact, as highly regarded as Funeral is, I still think it's under rated.
Neon Bible should be out soon and I can't wait to hear it.
