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So.
Garrison Keillor at Town Hall on Monday the 8th, 7:30
OR
She Wants Revenge, Kenna, and someone else at the Showbox on Monday the 8th, 8:00.
These are the decisions my life is made of.
Before someone, like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spamcola, comes along and threatens to kill me for not automatically picking She Wants Revenge etc, I will point out that a) I already have the ticket for Garrison Keillor, and b) I haven't really liked their new album. It's fine and all, but it would be finer if it wasn't the same as She Wants Revenge, which got a little long on the "my love life is TOTALLY SCREWED UP", or to put it in LOLspeak, "my fucked up love life, let me show you it."
I really liked Garbage's first album because it was zany and crazy and made of cake and awesome and I loved it, but when 2.0 rolled out, it didn't sound different ENOUGH for me to like it. I didn't want them to change their style completely, but I did want them to evolve on their own path, not release an album that totally sounded like the second disc of a two-disc set, composed at the same time. And having heard This Is Forever, I feel like I'm in the same time warp. Same songs, different disc. Also, you have to do something really special for me to like an album that starts with an instrumental track. I don't know why that is, but the only albums I like that start that way (out of, I'm sure, the millions that are released that way *rolls eyes*) are Bob Mould's Workbook and MCR's I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, but I didn't get Bullets as the start of a new obsession*. The track on This Is Forever just sounds like it SHOULD have vocals, given that it lasts forever and doesn't seem complete in itself. I kind of diss on Kill Hannah's Until There's Nothing Left Of Us for the Life In The Arctic instrumental track, even though I like the album overall. It has to sound right, and unusual, not just "we played the same ten-second loop for a minute and a half and forgot to track vocals!"
But...Kenna. Mmm, Kenna.
So it's sort of tempting to give the ticket for Garrison Keillor to my dad, who wasn't sure what shift he was working and couldn't be sure he could go and now doesn't have one because they're sold out and go to the other show, but at the same time, it's sort of not. I know I'll like Garrison Keillor, I don't know that I'll like She Wants Revenge, and all in all, I have some deciding to do, pretty goddamn promptly.
If my dad HAD a ticket, I'd do both and just go late to the Showbox, but...he doesn't.
* I also don't particularly like Romance, the track in question. But I do love typing out the full name of the album.
Garrison Keillor at Town Hall on Monday the 8th, 7:30
OR
She Wants Revenge, Kenna, and someone else at the Showbox on Monday the 8th, 8:00.
These are the decisions my life is made of.
Before someone, like
spamcola, comes along and threatens to kill me for not automatically picking She Wants Revenge etc, I will point out that a) I already have the ticket for Garrison Keillor, and b) I haven't really liked their new album. It's fine and all, but it would be finer if it wasn't the same as She Wants Revenge, which got a little long on the "my love life is TOTALLY SCREWED UP", or to put it in LOLspeak, "my fucked up love life, let me show you it." I really liked Garbage's first album because it was zany and crazy and made of cake and awesome and I loved it, but when 2.0 rolled out, it didn't sound different ENOUGH for me to like it. I didn't want them to change their style completely, but I did want them to evolve on their own path, not release an album that totally sounded like the second disc of a two-disc set, composed at the same time. And having heard This Is Forever, I feel like I'm in the same time warp. Same songs, different disc. Also, you have to do something really special for me to like an album that starts with an instrumental track. I don't know why that is, but the only albums I like that start that way (out of, I'm sure, the millions that are released that way *rolls eyes*) are Bob Mould's Workbook and MCR's I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, but I didn't get Bullets as the start of a new obsession*. The track on This Is Forever just sounds like it SHOULD have vocals, given that it lasts forever and doesn't seem complete in itself. I kind of diss on Kill Hannah's Until There's Nothing Left Of Us for the Life In The Arctic instrumental track, even though I like the album overall. It has to sound right, and unusual, not just "we played the same ten-second loop for a minute and a half and forgot to track vocals!"
But...Kenna. Mmm, Kenna.
So it's sort of tempting to give the ticket for Garrison Keillor to my dad, who wasn't sure what shift he was working and couldn't be sure he could go and now doesn't have one because they're sold out and go to the other show, but at the same time, it's sort of not. I know I'll like Garrison Keillor, I don't know that I'll like She Wants Revenge, and all in all, I have some deciding to do, pretty goddamn promptly.
If my dad HAD a ticket, I'd do both and just go late to the Showbox, but...he doesn't.
* I also don't particularly like Romance, the track in question. But I do love typing out the full name of the album.
