I decided a couple of weeks ago to take another music club plunge. The seven "free" CDs at the start of the deal should have been a lot easier to select than they were, but contemporary music is in such a sorry state that I couldn't even find seven that I wanted in their catalog (and yes, I checked what was available online). So I fleshed it out with four CDs that my wife wanted - some Trace Adkins, some Big and Rich, that Celtic Women album with the four hot Celtic chicks on the front and the one kinda ugly one, and a Josh Groban disc (I don't know who that is, but she had it circled).
My selections - because historically, I have been about 5-7 years behind as far as being on the cutting edge of cool music goes - were Morcheeba's Charango, Belle & Sebastian's Dear Catastrophe Waitress - because I'm a fan of both bands - and I took a flyer on Norah Jones' Come Away With Me. Right now, I'm most impressed with the latter - the B&S is, after 1/4 of a listen, just weird, and I had a little more than half of Charango through (legal, officer!) downloading, so there aren't really any surprises on it. (I do like that song they do with Kurt Wagner from Lambchop.)
But the Norah Jones is probably a bit of a curveball to those of you who know me. Really, it's more of a nice change of pace from the constant diet of GbV/Bad Religion/Pollard/Sloan/etc. (The Captain can attest to my reluctance to take chances on bands or singers I haven't heard before.) Regardless, I dig it.
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