random cd adventure 6-10:
Various – y100 Sonic Session vol.3
reason: tori
1st listen – 6.5/10 || then: 7/10 || now: 7/10
best songs: hole’s “malibu,” tori’s “concertina,” live’s “i alone”
qu: “You have a tattoo of our band? You fool! Oh my god… you know when you get the lord you
can just change the ‘e’ to a ‘y’ … it could just say ‘holy’ – Courtney
Offspring – Smash
reason: modern rock radio
1st listen – 5.5/10 || then: 6.5/10 || now: 5/10
best songs: “self esteem,” “come out and play,” “gotta get away”
qu: “that’s ok ’cause i’ve got no self esteem”
Tori Amos – Cruel / Raspberry Swirl
reason: obsessiveness
1st listen – 6/10 || then: 7/10 || now: 6/10
best songs: “raspberry swirl” – lip gloss version
qu: “i can be cruel and i don’t know why”
hair
reason: doing props for the show
1st listen – 7.5/10 || then: 9/10 || live: 9.5/10 || now: 7/10
best songs: “hair,” “easy to be hard,” “flesh failures (let the sunshine in)”
qu: “the beauty of life, you can no longer hide. our eyes are open, our eyes are open, wide”
dave matthews and tim reynolds – live at luther college
reason: hearing it at the players’ house / spectacular guitar
1st listen – 9/10 || then: 7/10 || now: 8/10
best songs: “one sweet world,” “typical situation,” “seek up”
qu: “she thinks, we look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing; these crimes between us grow deeper”