What was the last CD you bought?

[Georg Prime]

Well, I didn't actually buy this cd. It was a gift from my boyfriend after he got back from SoCal. And, it's not new. I just recently found it, after losing it shortly after I got it. So, I basically listened to it for the second time ever, and after almost a year.

Brights Eyes: Letting Off The Happiness
Everyone knows Conor Oberst as the "Emo King" or some junk, but I wouldn't call it that. This cd is just full of catchy tunes, and some more serious topics. I really don't know how to rate this cd or describe it very well seeing as how I've only listened to it twice, but it is amazing. It was recorded on what I believe to have been a 4 track recorder on some songs, and a 6 track on others. So, it's not professional studio work, but still amazing. Everything is so raw, and he brings in various friends to create ambient noises and what-not. The best songs on the cd, in my opinion, are "Pull My Hair" "Touch" and "Padraic My Prince". It's basically right on par both musically and recording wise with the album he released after this one - "Fevers and Mirrors".

I have all his albums, and this one is my favorite so far. "Pull My Hair" is my all-time favorite.

Yeah Bright Eyes is great, I don't like emo so I consider it a brand of disrespect to call him so. He's definitely one of the most talented individuals around these days, i mean he's been involved in music since he was 13! I think as a lyricist, he's in a class of his own. To believe that he was being compared as the Bob Dylan of our generation is saying a lot. Letting Off the Happiness is one of my favorites of his, along with Fevers and Mirrors and Lifted Or the Story Is in the Soil..

Anyhoo, I just recently got Rogue Galaxy Premium Arrange, an updated soundtrack to the RPG i am currently playing through. I liked the soundtrack as it is, but this takes some of the industries greatest composers and arrangers from Kenji Ito, Shinji Hosoe, Noriyuki Iwadare, Motoi Sakuraba to my favorite game composer, Yasunori Mitsuda (among many others) to add their personal touch to Level 5 composer Tomohito Nishiura's original score and album. All in all, a great listen if you enjoyed the game's soundtrack. I especially like Mitsuda adding his celtic touch to the Rogue Galaxy theme. *two thumbs up*