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Albums Of The Week

-Week 1-




The Smashing Pumpkins (Virgin)

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

Total running time: 121:47 minutes
    Track Listing: Disc 1, Dawn To Dusk, 57:54
  1. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
  2. Tonight, Tonite
  3. Jellybelly
  4. ZERO
  5. Here Is No Why
  6. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  7. To Forgive
  8. Fuck You (An Ode To No One)
  9. Love
  10. Cupid De Locke
  11. Gallapogos
  12. Muzzle
  13. Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
  14. Take Me Down



    Disc 2, Twilight To Starlight
  1. Where Boys Fear To Tread
  2. Bodies
  3. Thirthy-Three
  4. In The Arms Of Sleep
  5. 1979
  6. Tales Of A Scortched Earth
  7. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
  8. Stumbleine
  9. X.Y.U.
  10. We Only Come Out At Night
  11. Beautiful
  12. Lily (My One And Only)
  13. By Starlight
  14. Farewell And Goodnight


I got this album when it came out, in Sept. of 95, and it's been a staple of music in my life...it was always providing the soundtrack, I guess you can say...I am even listening to it now... I admit the album is long, little over two hours long, but I feel it is an album of remarkable beauty, anger, and emotion, as are all Smashing Pumpkins albums. The album was, as Billy Corgan, the lead singer, guitarist said "...the last album as you know the Smashing Pumpkins"... From the first song, the instramental piano "Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness", to the last song, "Farewell And Goodnight", which the whole band sings on, it is hard to deny that alot of work, time, and emotion was put into the album, which is why I chose it.



Radiohead (Capitol)

Okay Computer

Total running time: 53:27
    Track Listing:
  1. Airbag
  2. Paranoid Android
  3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
  4. Exit Music (For A Film)
  5. Let Down
  6. Karma Police
  7. Fitter Happier
  8. Electioneering
  9. Climbing Up The Walls
  10. No Surprises
  11. Lucky
  12. The Tourist


In Radiohead's third album, Okay Computer, we go again into the mind of Thom Yorke, the lead singer and guitarist of the English band. We see his veiw on the way the world is, being ubducted by aliens (he is odcessed with aliens), growning wings, and bringing down the Government. This album is multi-layered, from the strange background sounds to the sometimes soft, sometimes screeching guitars. This album is on my list because it just makes me think, not neccicarily about the lyrics, which are intricate and thought-provoking, but the sound that fills my ears. Two songs that are especialy good are "Exit Music (For A Film)", it has one of the coolest guitar effects on it, I am not sure what it is, like a fuzz-distortion pedal, if I ever find a pedal that makes that sound, I will own it!, and also "Fitter Happier", which is just the voice from a Mac computer talking with weird sounds and voices in the background. This had alot of work done on it, so it gets my vote as great album....it's also a good rocker of an album...so that adds to it...



Joy Electric (Tooth And Nail)

Melody

Total running time: 68:07
    Track listing:
  1. Drum Machine Joy
  2. The Electric Joy Toy Company
  3. Candy Cane Carriage
  4. Analogue Grand Diary
  5. Every Boy And Girl Falls In Love
  6. The Girl From Rosewood Lane
  7. Sweet Sweet Charity
  8. The Melody Book
  9. Life Guardian Twenty
  10. In Love In Midsummer
  11. Never Be A Star
  12. Old At This Young
  13. Of Stories Of Love
  14. Happiness And Life
  15. Lily Pad the Forest Our Home
  16. Bee Hoping
  17. The Dark Ages
  18. Buttercup Fairy Jamboree


Joy Electric, the synth-pop one-man band, can be characterized as this description, "Main Street Electrical Parade Music". It's Poppy, but not sugary sweet, as the names of the songs imply, and his dreamy voice over the beeps and pops of the Moog Synthisizers and Keyboards make it a kind of beautiful dream world where all is made of candy. The reason why I love this album is because of how it makes me feel when I listen to it, it is a good album, but if you're not into synth-pop, it'll be one annoying beeping popping fest for your ear drums. But I love the album, and I always will...



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