Random Thoughts

As you can probably tell, I'm a guy with a lot of opinions and thoughts.  Some of those opinions and thoughts are long and detailed and require lots of fleshing out in long and rambling blogs.  Some are passing observations that are barely long enough to be considered a text message.  As such, I have decided to occassionally throw in a Random Thoughts blog, wherein I will string together lots of little thoughts and save myself from having to sit down and really think about things.  It's like a twitter page for a guy who's scared to death of twitter.  So, without further ado, here we go:

• It's taken awhile but I really like that Broken Bells song "The High Road".  It's a cool combination of techno style mash-up melody and folk song.  Kind of makes me want to check out more of their stuff.
• Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" is just a great song.  It's ridiculously catchy and endlessly enjoyable.
• Even though it drives me nuts to hear their songs played over and over and over again until I hear them in my dreams; the Black Eyed Peas are probably the most popular hit-making group of the last 5-10 years.  Ever since "Let's Get it Started" they really haven't missed.  That's an impressive feat when you consider that pop music has become more and more dependent on one hit wonders.
• Snow Patrol is a band that has gotten progressively worse with every single they release.  "Final Straw" was a really good album and "Hands Open" was pretty good but not as good.  Ever since then they have gone down hill rapidly.  "Just say yes" represents a new low.
• I had a moment in the car the other day when there were only 2 songs on the radio and I had to choose between Taylor Swift and Nine Inch Nails.  I chose Taylor Swift (and yes, I know I just announced that to the entire internet).  I'm perfectly willing to give up a man card for that.  It's a good thing 15 year old me didn't live to see this day. 
• Maybe it's just me, but the new U2 album seems to be imitating Coldplay's Viva la Vida.  If so, then this may be the first ever case of the old band imitating the new band who got famous from imitating the old band.
• I know as an indie rock fan, I'm supposed to love Jack White's new band The Dead Weather.  But I'm just not into it.  I get the whole dark-eerie-blues-rock thing, their songs just don't seem that good.
• Only The Avett Brothers could write a song called "Die die die" that you wouldn't mind if your children were listening to.
• If I was in a 1940s blues bar in the Mississippi delta and the Black Keys were playing.  The only thing that would seem out of place is that the band is made up of 2 white dude from Ohio.  Their music is perfect for that specific setting

That's all for now.  Thanks for reading!