Good Grief!

Since I’ve been nodding off in front of the computer, boss-across-the-hall thought he would be helpful and loan me a CD (we aren’t allowed to stream music from the internet anymore—some annoying policy about conserving bandwidth for business use). So what we have here is a copy of Maroon 5’s Songs About Jane.

This record is a perfect example of the recording industry’s conspiracy to slot an album’s only good songs into tracks one and two, thus tricking listening station suckers into an impulse buy. Hate to say it, but I agree with Ashton Avenue from Lawndale, CA:

I Admit, I much as i dont like this band, “Songs About Jane” does have two Good tracks…too bad there right next to each other and the ten after them suck a fat one.

By the way, don’t forget to check out Mr. Avenue’s other thoughtful, in-depth music reviews.

So back to the listening station impulse buy—who hasn’t been lured by an album’s catchy first track and the accompanying gushy blurb provided by the record store? Worse yet is falling for the “fans of band A will love band B” trick. Note to Philadelphia’s AKA Music: Wobbly does not sound like the Old 97s, and Shearwater doesn’t invoke the sounds of Elliot Smith and Ron Sexsmith.

Back to sleep then, since Maroon 5 isn’t doing the trick.