10.01.05
Contraband
I picked up Velvet Revolver’s “debut” album, Contraband, yesterday. For those of you who don’t know of VR, I put “debut” in quotes because the band is basically Guns ‘n’ Roses with the frontman from Stone Temple Pilots. But anyway, it’s a remarkable album, I downloaded it via a bit torrent about half a year ago when it came out just to hear if it was any good. I only really liked their first single, Fall to Pieces, but there were a couple of other interesting songs, so I pulled all three songs onto my MP3 player and left it at that.
When my harddrive died on me a few months ago, I lost all the songs I didn’t have on my MP3 player. By then I’d actually grown to really like the other two songs as well, Slither (which became their second single) and Sucker Train Blues. So yesterday I figured I liked those three songs enough to justify a purchase of the album, and I dropped by Fona to get it. Today I’m pretty hyped about the whole album. Fall To Pieces sort of unlocked the two other songs for me, and then I could suddenly understand the entire album. I don’t think there’s a single song on it that I don’t like a lot now. Especially Big Machine and Loving The Alien have joined my favourites.
So now I’ve listened to this CD on random/repeat for several hours straight. Now comes the next stage in my consumption of the album: Attempting to rip all the songs to my MP3 player. Finding a copyright protection which puts skips in my songs would kill my good mood with great efficiency, so they better not try any funny stuff. But I have no reason to think they’d be so stupid. Yet.
