#New CD Review

[midnight-star-world]

Chase Rice - Go Down Singin'

#CountryMusic

So today on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I would like to talk about the latest album from Country Music Singer Chase Rice. The new album is titled "Go down Singin'" and was released on Friday September 20th, 2024. But before we talk about the new project with it's 11 tracks. Let's talk about the career of Chase for a bit first.

Chase has scored some big hits from his career including such songs likes "Eyes on you", "Ready set roll", & "Ride". Other songs include like "Drinkin' beer. Talkin' God. Amen." featuring his buddies Florida Georgia Line, "Bench seat", & "Bad day to be a cold beer". Chase has scored 2 number ones on my weekly list MSR (Midnight Star Report). The MSR now combines both Country Countdown USA, The Billboard Country Music Airplay Charts, & even myself. But before we dive too far off track, let's jump back to this new CD.

Some of the highlights of the new album include songs such as the title track "Go down singin'", "Fireside", & "That word don't work no more" featuring Lori McKenna which is the stand out track. Other tracks you should check out include "Numbers", & "If drinkin' helped". Jackson Dean had a hand in co-writting. And Chase co-wrote all 11 tracks from the new CD. Here is the rest of the track list.

Track list.

Go down singin'.

Fireside.

That word don't work no more (Featuring Lori McKenna).

Hey God it's me again.

Oh Tennessee.

Haw river.

Arkansas.

Numbers.

If drinkin' helped.

Little red race car.

You in '85.

And that's a wrap for the track list. And on the MSR (Midnight Star Report), I would give this new project a 3.5 out of 5 stars. If you are a Chase Rice fan. Then you should pick up this new album. But not much different from any other Chase album. Which isn't a bad thing, but should hear some of these songs on the radio as well. Thanks for taking the time to read this review. See ya all next time.

[outshinedskeleton]

My New Year’s resolution I wanted to share:

Expanding my CD’s collection or even going back to burning 💿

I’ve made a deal with my bf that every month we’re going to buy CD record one for each of us.

So here are our picks the left side is mine and right side is his

I’m a fan of New Order and I wish that where I went they had “Low-Life” album instead of “Substance” because I prefer it more and the song “Elegia” is an absolute instrumental masterpiece. Substance is fine, I just was in mood for New Order so I bought it.

Second CD is kinda fun because I love x-files and I found this one on vinted, it was cheap and not in a very good condition but the cover just bought me.

I discovered that the graphic on cover is a part of bigger picture and I LOVE!!! when CDs have that! It always surprises me positively. The same situation I had with the album “Ten” from Pearl Jam, I used this paper cover as a poster in my room when I was teenager 👨🏻‍🦳

My boyfriend’s picks are also good, I never was into Tool but he wanted to show me this album and about Blade Runner soundtrack I don’t need to write a lot because it’s good. d-_-b

I need to check out for some fun places where I can get CDs stationary like small record store or sth because going to shopping mall is literally burning my brain cells (and eyes, why tf the lights are so bright there)

I also ended my Spotify subscription because of switching to mp3, I’m still having Spotify tho because my friends from university have Airbuds and I like checking what they are listening or show them what I listen in the fcking middle of the night

The duality of the person which whole personality is listening to music…

[tilbageidanmark]

"I had one cultural advantage. I owned a 1955 Ford Fairlane, which I had bought for $100. Gas was twenty cents a gallon. Jim and I drove all over Southern California, which is admittedly something teenage boys don’t mind doing, to attend free concerts and performances. It was the age of high print-culture, each Sunday the Los Angeles Times listed every forthcoming concert in Southern California. Any concert within a hundred-mile radius was fair game..."

One of the walls of opera recordings in my brother’s home, from Cruising for Classical Music in LA

[azazel-dreams]

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds - The New Generation

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[theaudiophileman]

[hifi-reviews-audiophileman]

[boomstab-papa]

there are children in the reviews of CD player listings, upset because there is no speaker in the CD player, and they are being forced to wear earphones to listen to the CD

and im

[danielleurbansblog]

Review: The Backtrack

Synopsis: Life, rewound … Nearly twenty years ago, Sam Leto left her small hometown of Tybee Island, Georgia, to pursue her dreams of becoming a pilot. While she’d prefer to keep flying away from her painful childhood memories, her beloved grandmother Pearl decides it’s time to sell the family home. Reluctantly, Sam is summoned back to pack up the house. The 2000s nostalgia from Sam’s old…

[driftlessarearev]

Wednesday Poetry Corner: Mojave Ghost, by Forrest Gander

Mojave Ghost by Forrest Gander is a heroic quest against the inevitable challenges of loss, both personal and environmental.

Mojave Ghost by Forrest Gander is a heroic quest against the inevitable challenges of loss, both personal and environmental.

[sweetdreamsjeff]

CD of the week: Jeff Buckley

Date: May 10, 1998

From: The Observer (London, England)

Publisher: Guardian News & Media

Byline: SAM TAYLOR

Jeff Buckley Sketches (for My Sweetheart, The Drunk) (Columbia 488661) To be or not to be a rock star? As existential dilemmas go, it's perhaps not the most profound, but it tormented Jeff Buckley for the last two years of his brief life. Like Kurt Cobain, he was a sensitive soul who recoiled from the brute materialism and superficiality of the music industry. But, as Cobain found out, sensitivity sells.

When Buckley drowned, aged 30, in the Mississippi nearly a year ago, he was not really famous, but had a passionate cult following, and was constantly compared to his father, the erratically brilliant Sixties singer, Tim Buckley, who also died young. He felt pressured by the expectations surrounding the album he was working on, the follow-up to his 1994 debut Grace, and was drinking way too much.He had already spent several months in New York, recording songs with Tom Verlaine, but he was unhappy with the results. But he had begun work on a new batch of songs in Memphis, and was excited about his progress. Some of his friends and band members now claim Buckley intended burning the Verlaine tapes, and that the release of this double CD is thus a betrayal of his wishes.

Though it's easy to sympathise with that view, once you hear the first of these CDs, comprising 10 songs from the New York sessions, you will realise why Mary Guibert, Buckley's mother, was so keen that the songs be heard. You will also realise why Buckley, so repulsed by MTV and the prospect of fame, hated them. Two songs in particular a heartbreakingly sweet soul ballad called 'Everybody Here Wants You' and a raunchy, funny cover of Audrey Clark's 'Yard of Blonde Girls' sound like surefire hit singles.

The first CD is not uniformly brilliant. Buckley's weakness for bombast and overcomplication surfaces on 'Vancouver' and 'The Sky is a Landfill', and the production is perhaps a little too crystalline, though the quieter songs 'Opened Once', 'You & I' are deliberately sparse in order to showcase Buckley's gorgeous, somersaulting voice. It would have been a deeply impressive and affecting album.

The second CD, mostly comprising four-track demos recorded near the end in Memphis, reflects the turmoil in Buckley's head at this time. It also reflects a self-protective desire to veer away from the polished commercialism of the New York songs. It is murky, disjointed, at times wildly discordant and almost unlistenable. The lyrics scream of paranoia and enslavement. There is a cover of Genesis's sprawling prog epic, 'Back in NYC', and a squall of white noise called 'Murder Suicide Meteor Slave', both of which sound like B-sides at best.

Yet Buckley was very proud of what he was working on, and beneath the boiling fury, you can hear the stirrings of a looser, darker melodicism. And there is always that voice: whether caterwauling with lust or crying out in pain, it remains genuinely breathtaking, unmatched this decade for its range and emotional power.

If you've never heard Jeff Buckley before, you are probably better off listening to Grace as a starting point. But anyone who loved that album and it was the sort of album you either loved or hated should certainly hear Sketches. . . Unfinished and uneven it may be, but it is still light years ahead of almost everything else that will be released this year. As a dead rock icon Buckley will never eclipse Kurt Cobain, but as a musical talent he was, I think, possibly even greater. The tragedy is that we will never know for sure.

[midnight-star-world]

Luke Combs - Fathers & Sons

#CountryMusic

So today on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I will like to talk about the latest album from Country Music Superstar Luke Combs. The new project is titled "Fathers & Sons" and was released on Friday June 14th, 2024. There are 12 tracks on CDs, but before we dive too far off tracks. Let's talk about Luke's career for a bit.

Luke has had major success on all the charts including mine MSR (Midnight Star Report). The MSR combines both CMT (Country Music Television), the Billboard Country Music Airplay Charts, & even myself. Luke has scored 15 number ones on my weekly list. Luke has had huge hits like "Fast car", "Beautiful crazy", & "Where the wild things are". And other hits you may remember are "When it rains it pours", "Ain't no love in Oklahoma", & "One number away". Now before we go too much off, let's jump back into the new album.

Amazon got this album 3 months later. Luke Combs had a hand in co-writting 9 out of 12 tracks. And he also had help from Luke Bryan, & Rhett Akins. No lead single from this project. Songs you should check out are "In case I ain't around", "Huntin' by yourself", & "Remember him that way". And other songs include "The man he sees in me", "All I ever do is leave", & "Ride around Heaven". The stand out songs in my opinion include "Whoever you turn out to be", "My old man was right", & "Take me out to the ballgame". Here is the track list now.

Track list.

Front door famous.

In case I ain't around.

Huntin' by yourself.

Little Country boys.

Whoever you turn out to be.

Remember him that way.

The man he sees in me.

All I ever do is leave.

Plant a seed.

Ride around Heaven.

My old man was right.

Take me out to the ballgame.

And that's a wrap for the track list. And on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I would give this album a 4.5 out of 5 stars. There are standout tracks, but it didn't seem to be as many tracks as usual Luke Combs Albums. But it a good album if you are a Country Music fan or a Luke Combs, you should pick this up. Thanks for taking the time to read this review. See ya all next time.

[dudeshusband]

someone was selling the tape on etsy so i bought it

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Evanescence - Whisper 2003

Fallen is the debut studio album by American rock band Evanescence, released on March 4, 2003. Co-founders singer and pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody began writing and recording songs as Evanescence in 1994, and after releasing two EPs and a demo CD, they signed to Wind-up in January 2001. Several of the songs from their earlier independent releases feature on Fallen. It is Evanescence's only studio album to feature Moody, who left the band in October 2003. Fallen received generally positive reviews from music critics. Evanescence received five nominations at the 46th Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, Best Hard Rock Performance, and Best New Artist, winning the latter two. The album debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200, and was the eighth-bestselling album of 2004 and the nineteenth-bestselling album of the 2000s.

"Whisper" one of the first songs Amy Lee and Ben Moody wrote as Evanescence and has had multiple releases, all entirely different versions. It originally made an appearance on their 1999 EP, Sound Asleep. Its next release was a year later on their demo album, Origin (my personal favourite version). Its studio release was on their 2003 debut studio album, Fallen. Its final release was on their 2004 live album, Anywhere But Home. There also exists three post-Origin demos from the 2001-2002 demo sessions that were leaked.

At the beginning of the Sound Asleep version, there is an introduction which is actually a part of the song itself played backward, culminating a sound clip from the movie My World Dies Screaming/Terror In The Haunted House (1958). A post-Origin demo begins with a sample intro from "Death Scene" and "O Verona" from the film Romeo + Juliet (1996) and includes backup vocals by David Hodges on the chorus. The sample would be forcibly omitted from Fallen, possibly due to copyright infringements. That demo was officially released on a cassette tape as part of Fallen's 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition box set in 2024, however it doesn't include the orchestral intro sampled from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack. There are a few versions of the song floating around the internet and various bootleg discs. All pre-Fallen versions of the song feature Ben Moody providing the eerie whispering vocals in the background. In the Fallen version, the backing vocals are either provided by Amy Lee or by The Millenium Choir.

"Whisper" received a total of 87,6% yes votes! Previous Evanescence polls: #44 "Imaginary".

[neil-gaiman]

one time at an American Gods signing in MN, we asked you if Tori would be the voice of the Tree

you said, and I quote, "If she isn't, I shall grumble."

did you grumble, Neil?

well, did you?

Why would I have grumbled?

Well, why?

There's more information at the BBC website.

But these days you need to get it from an audiobook site or buy it on CD or Vinyl.

[theaudiophileman]