After my weekend of reading lots of books I decided to have
a weekend of listening to lots of music. It started with Olly Murs’ Never Been
Better album. It’s his 4th album and I've got the first 3. There
were no surprises with this album and he stuck to the same formula as his
albums, a few ballads, few album fillers and very catchy ones that would be
singles. Stand out songs for me were; Did You Miss Me? and Beautiful to Me.
At the X Factor Concert in 2010 where it all began for Olly Murs.
The second album was lent by my sister and was Regina
SpeKtor’s FaR. I've heard the odd song of hers before but never an album in
full. It was a very whimsical sounding album, but there weren't any stand out
songs for me. Potentially there were a few songs that could be growers so maybe
I’ll give it a 2nd listen.
Following this album was The Age of the Understatement by The
Last Shadow Puppets which features Alex Turner, my friend Linsey's favourite.
She lent me the album and I wasn't sure what to expect but I loved it. The
whole album could have been a soundtrack for a very stylish film, or any of the
songs could have been Bond themes. The songs were narrative based and I could
easily imagine music videos for every one of them.
The final album was also recommended by Linsey who until
this challenge I didn’t realise what a variety of music she was into! Led
Zeppelin’s Mothership album is a very lengthy 24 songs, could it count for 2
albums on the challenge?! The whole album felt like a master class in guitar
riffs and their songs have been used for so many things. Whole Lotta Love is a
great song and I got really excited when I heard Kashmir as that is sampled on
one of my favourite songs called Come with Me. So it was great to hear the
original.
So 4 completely random albums, and I enjoyed listening to
them all.
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