Long Attention Span

Say, you bought yourself a CD. Pop it into the player and cranked up the volume. Less then two minutes into the first song, your hand assumed a mind of its own and reached for the remote. With a casual click, the first track unceremoniously cut off and the second filled the room again. This went on until sampling of the last track is done. Then back to first song and this time, you let it spin on. However you got up and went about your homely chores while you let your $40 worth of music acted like background soundtrack to your preoccupied life.

If this ritual sounds familiar to you, welcome to the world of short attention spans where patience is getting shorter by each Beat Per Minute.

So have you actually lie down, close your eyes and absorb in the entire CD's serving? I must admit some CDs are so infectious, I sat through the whole production. That goes to show every song in that album is a gem. Here are some albums that made me pay full attention. In no particular order, they are...

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
The album that did all the screaming for me and my own pend up frustration. What a relieve.

Tears for Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
All the fine details and texture of each songs sound different on every listening

Queen - A Night At The Opera
Creative and dramatic.

Lighthouse Family - Postcards From Heaven
Should have rename the album title to Voice From Heaven.

Led Zeppelin 2
Never close your eyes listening to this album. You will feel as if someone squeezing your lemon.

Jody Watley - The Makeover
This cool classy R&B lady is my favourite girl of all time. I lap up everything she dished out!

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Déja
Vu
Their tight 4 part harmony just makes me replay the whole album over and over again.

Paul McCartney - Chaos & Creation
One of his best solo album to date. Very moody and consistant on each track right up to the end.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
This one plays tricks with your mind. You just want to be led to a place bordering on insanity.

Elvis Costello - Painted From Memory
A Burt Bacharach collaboration that saw to each song drift timelessly.

Duran Duran - Rio
If I have to pick one album to represent the New Romantics 80s period, this has to be it. Dance away!

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
She sounded like she's been around for a long time. She is only in her 20s and I can't get enough of her.

Deep Purple - Fireball
The first rockl music I ever heard. I was so hooked into this, for a good earlier half of my life I went heavy metal.


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Back To Mine

Just recently a friend asked me what songs will I choose if I am going to compile my very own BACK TO MINE Album.

In case you still haven't caught up with the current rhythm, BACK TO MINE are albums compiled by artistes who choose the songs based on what they would play in their own home for friends after a clubbing night out.

Can you smell the stench of another devious music CD marketing ploy specially designed to milk out more bread from non-suspecting music extremists? Fortunately for them, there are still some out there who are dying to know what their favourite artiste would spin.

Say, if you like Pet Shop Boys and you are dying to find out what type of songs they would choose to fill their designer loft with, now you can go out and grab a copy of BACK TO MINE by PET SHOP BOYS.

So when I was asked to list out my own BACK TO MINE album, it didnt take me too long to figure mine out. The simple rule is, just put together a personal collection of after-hour grooving song other than your own songs. Of course minus the devious marketing ploy. Mine compiled and designed just for my own personal kicks!

In case you are dying to know my personal collection, here's my BTM with cool grooves to make one feel sexy even if you are reeked with stale cigi smoke sweat straight from the clubs.

Come in. Chill out.


Care to tell me what's your BACK TO MINE?
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New Sound. Old Marketing Ploy.

'You like Linkin Park? You kidding me?' Gasped a client of mine who is like me, about to blow a 50 candle-lit birthday cake. But today the blowing of candles on the cake is not me or my dated client. The cake in question is for the birth of Linkin Park's new third studio album Minutes to Midnight! Arguably rock's most anticipated album this decade so far. And waited I have after 4 long years. I told one of my music freak pal that I will rush out first thing. But hold it. Not so fast, I told my legs. Eventhough its already selling in store 5 days ago, I have to tell myself to hang-in there for a while. Why? that's because knowing previous music CDs marketing ploy, the single disc album will most likely evolves to a double disc a year later with extra tracked and remixes. So that put a Linkin Park fan like me in a huge dilemma. Should I rush out to get the single disc album release first so that I am not left out of the hype? But yonowat? I am living in Malaysia. I nearly forgot about our local night market where I can sample songs first before I buy the real McCoy. And so I did just that last night.

So how is the new Linkin Park? Will I buy their new album? On sampling there are a few rock gems here and there. Eventhough its not like their previous 2 albums where they hold you by your throat instantly. But I am not here to review their new album. I am here trying to get rid off my Beyonce B-Day because a year later today, I was compelled to dish out extra doe for a double disc CD album Beyonce B-Day just for the irresistable repackaging of new songs bursting to the seams complete with a DVD!!! Its worth it I must admit. I am really not happy with such bloody marketing ploy. Any music CD collecting enthusiast can tell you that. Yes I will most definitely buy Linkin Park's Minute to Midnight CD because I am huge fan. BUT only when their re-mixed re-packaged re-stuffed re-grooved re-DVDed double disc album CD starts to ship out that is. Now the frustrating question is, will they?

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