The playlist i've been listening to lately on my iPod is a mix of various Tool, A Perfect Circle and Deftones tracks, along with a few selections from Vast and a handful of tracks from Emiliàna Torrini.
I think the Cure have created some pretty catchy stuff...every once in a while I relearn that one song ..oh what was the title!!?? "..monday just falls apart, tuesday-wednesday break my heart, thursday never hesitates, it's friday, I'm in love..." something like that...goin' by memory.
Let's see, I've been listenin' to several, depending on where I am :
Rush - Caress of Steel ...in the Car, Billy Sheehan - Cosmic Troubador ...at the desk Eiffel 65 ...in the home stereo..."I'm blue"...so f&*kin' catchy
Yeah, Brian, that's the problem, it's TOO damned catchy for me, lol.
I ended up grabing Disintegration, embarrassingly enough, from that HP (I think) ad where they used a line from "Pictures of You." "I've been looking so long at these pictures of you, that I almost believe that they're real... I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that these pictures are all I can feel." Any way you look at it that's a GREAT lyric, and it kept getting stuck in my head. Eventually I asked around a guitar forum (www.guitarwar.com) I was posting to at the time just to find out who it was by so i could grab the CD, and was told it was the Cure, a band I'd hated everything else I'd heard by. With consididerable trepidation, I grabbed it after work that night.
Good lord... Dark, swirling washes of sound coupled with phenominal lyrics. "Love Song" kinda sucks, and there's one other song I don't like, but man, what an album. The thing you don't get from the HP ad is that while that lyric from "Pictures" would be a perfectly executed pop song chorus, it's not even really the chorus and while it's the opening line, it's a line tha doesn't come in for more than two minutes into the song. It's a pop album that doesn't feel the need to go anywhere. Amazing.
Man, I haven't played anything by Devin In a LONG while. I still love his work on the VAI - Sex & Religion.... I need to go and order his newest album "Accelerated Evolution" I loved Strapping Young lad!