I got some music from my housemate Karl and I’ve been listening to some of it. It’s a real mixed bag, he has everything from obscure Romantic pipe organ music, to lots of dj/dance stuff. I’ve been erasing a lot of the DJ/house/trance stuff, it just isn’t my cup of tea. I’ve also been erasing all of the German hip-hop I come across. It all sounds totally ridiculous to me. They all cop the attitudes of the good American performers, but none of it is very convincing. I just listened to a German version of Ghetto Superstar, at least that was the background beat. The guys rapped over it and sounded like they were making complete fools of themselves. They were saying something about getting stoned and saying some disparaging things about Paris. I erased that pretty quick…
Some good, new things for me include The Fu-Schnickens (which sounds like a German band but aren’t), a Morrissy album I hadn’t heard before, and various things from odd and assorted one hit wonders. My newest guilty pleasure has to be “Jenny From the Block,” by Jennifer Lopez. Yes, I know that was out years ago, and yes, I know it’s pop trash. I did say it was a guilty pleasure:-) If I run across anything really amazing that I had never heard of before I’ll let you know.