New CD's

Jacob has re-awakened a love of albums in me. Not like, the concept of them...like, the actual physical CD. (If we were legit music critics, we'd talk about the physical vinyl records. But we played "Stairway to Heaven" on our turntable a year ago or so, and it hasn't worked since.)

Anyway, we've gotten a handful of albums lately that we're pretty excited about.

We recently got a DVD of Nirvana's "Unplugged in New York" concert, and realized we should really own this album. In the world of grunge, Nirvana's actually kind of low on our list of favorites, but this album grows on you.

When we got this album, we laid down in the middle of the living room floor, turned out all the lights, and listened to this album from start to finish. Which is a freaking awesome way to listen to an album for the first time. And this is a good album for that. The scope of "Metals" is huge and theatrical, and much less acoustic than Feist's other albums. We listened, we loved it, and then we bought tickets to see Feist in concert in Portland in three weeks.

We haven't listened to this one yet, but the more exposure I get to Tom Waits, the more I love him. (I've decided I want to sing this song in a jazz combo someday. Now I just gotta find me a jazz combo.) When trying to decide which album to get, Jacob said we had to get this one. Sometime in the next week or so, the Chapmans have got a date with the Waits.