Music

I really enjoy listening to music while I work. If I am traveling around the church I turn my iPhone on for a little traveling music. I wanted to listen a few of the CDs that I have really enjoyed over the past few months and ask you what you are listening to.

• Matt Maher, Alive Again, amazing worship album
• Visqueen, Message to Garcia, This one is infectious
• Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago, sensitive-man-music to chill out to
• John Mayer, Battle Studies, Great album and the bossa nova track is a favorite
• Lady Antebellum, Need You Now – Single, I really look forward to the album

So what are you listening to? What do you recommend?

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n high school the first influential album in my life was Ten by Pearl Jam. It was the first CD I bought and I listened to it literally a thousand times. That fact that there was a track on the album named Jeremy was totally a bonus. My friend Rodrick and I bought every Pearl Jam album we could find at the stores and searched far and wide for the hard to find live and European albums. We would sit around listening to Pearl Jam or playing their songs on our guitars. Alive was the first song I could play from beginning to end. Pearl Jam was first live concert experience in the Travel and Transportation building at the OKC Fairgrounds and we were in the mosh pit and just out from the center of the stage. I have front row at Coldplay, but nothing will compare to that first experience. The Seattle bands connected with my friends and these bands continue to be in heavy rotation in my playlist. I remember the night they first played Saturday Night Live and thinking that Eddie Vedder is the freaking man. They had some much passion and angst.   Not for You and State of Love and Trust are two of my favorite songs.

So what has been one the most influential albums in your life?

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heck out the original.

There is some pretty interesting a cappella videos out there. I have wasted about two hours tonight on YouTube

& Kings of Leon, Lincoln Brewster and various Eddie Vedder and Red Hot Chili Peppers tunes. The Kings of Leon CD is really great. Caleb Followill’s vocals are out of the ordinary. I have noticed that I really like vocalists with strange tones like that of Paul Banks from Interpol. I trying to decide what to do with the rest of my credits.

If you could convince me to buy 1 or 2  albums  or 20 different songs what would they be?

& Lollipop by Lil Wayne. Watch an episode and see if you can pick it out. I just checked it out on Google and several other people have picked up on this. You never know where the inspiration for the next million selling album will come from.

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Charlie Hall album The Bright Sadness last week. The album is really good. I especially like Scenes, You Are God and Bloom Again.

     What new music are you guys listening to and what do you think about the new Charlie Hall album?