If I had to pick a hand full of CDs to listen on an island while waiting on life to pass me by and death to catch me, I believe I could narrow down my selection to 5 CDs.
First, Second, Third, and Fourth would be, in no particular order:
1 - Led Zeppelin - II
2 - Radiohead - The Bends
3 - Angie Aparo - The American
4 - REM - Monster
The fifth use to always be U2 - Joshua Tree. Well not any more.
My fifth CD is now Muse - Absolution. What an incredible piece of music. It is the best album on 2004, and probably the best CD of the new millennium so far.
Everything about this album is great. Start to finish, it's a journey you don't want to end. You want to keep listening to it. You want to listen to the tracks again. You want to listen to it in your car, on your home stereo, and with head-phones on. Every experience listening to the CD is the same yet different. I get excited listening to this album. It's the reason God created music. It's like my life the past years has lead me to the point where I can listen to this album.
Think about Ours, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, classic music, and just rock in general. If you like any of those, there really is no reason why not to love this music. I haven't been this excited about an album since listening to the American for the first time, and before then the first time I listened to The Bends all the way through.
This is an album to download, buy, steal; just listen to it!
On a side note: Life is crazy. It's been hectic the past few weeks. I'm taking the time I should be using to work to write this because I really wanted to get my thought on Muse out there. I've been listening to it for about a month straight now, and I have to say something about it. Hopefully life will quiet down someday soon and I can start writing regularly again. But no promises. I'm sure no one is really that sad.
Last night I played Mario Bros 3 for about 5 minutes. It was the longest I've played video games in the past month. That's how hectic life is. I don't have time for video games. But I still remember how to get every flute in Mario Bros 3. What a great game.
Live. Love. Later.