Best of Everclear
As a generally honest person, I am making an effort to legitimize my digital music collection over time. I've picked up a few MP3s at various places online (like Napster, back in the day), but was mostly drawn to it for the 'convenience' aspect, not so much for the 'free' side.
Anyway, I'll occasionally go through my collection in iTunes, find some tracks that I like and picked up online, and then see if they're in the iTunes store. If so, I'll buy them, or as I did recently, buy the whole associated albums. This has proven to be an incredibly good way to find new songs I like. Most of my illicit mp3s are "hit singles" from bands I'm otherwise not familiar with, so buying the whole album gives me a little more exposure to their music and this proved especially so with Everclear's "The Best of Everclear" (I'm partial to 'greatest hits' albums these days).
Some great songs on this album: "Wonderful" is the song I had before, but I really like "AM Radio", "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom", and "Sex With a Movie Star". They also do a decent cover of "Brown Eyed Girl" and a handful of other songs that are very listenable. I used to have an impression of Everclear as a band that ran a little heavier than my taste went, but I've been listening to this album for a week or so now and it's the best $12 I've spent recently.
Anyway, I'll occasionally go through my collection in iTunes, find some tracks that I like and picked up online, and then see if they're in the iTunes store. If so, I'll buy them, or as I did recently, buy the whole associated albums. This has proven to be an incredibly good way to find new songs I like. Most of my illicit mp3s are "hit singles" from bands I'm otherwise not familiar with, so buying the whole album gives me a little more exposure to their music and this proved especially so with Everclear's "The Best of Everclear" (I'm partial to 'greatest hits' albums these days).
Some great songs on this album: "Wonderful" is the song I had before, but I really like "AM Radio", "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom", and "Sex With a Movie Star". They also do a decent cover of "Brown Eyed Girl" and a handful of other songs that are very listenable. I used to have an impression of Everclear as a band that ran a little heavier than my taste went, but I've been listening to this album for a week or so now and it's the best $12 I've spent recently.
posted by Brent at 7:56 PM
1 Comments:
Everclear are awesome! They were kind of in Nirvana's shadow and are way more "poppy" than Cobain's band was. Good choice!
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