The Sonic Meme Experiment

I've been passed this sonic meme baton from Becky today. Ive never been the best music reviewer in the world but here goes... I'm more of an album than a song person, so here are the 5 albums I've been listening to in my car CD changer this week.

KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope
First heard of this album when the Mercury Award Nominees were announced. Virgin started playing "Other Side of the World" which I liked, so I thought I would give the album a go. KT has a very versatile voice which she uses to good effect on this album. Fave track: Suddenly I See

Athlete - Tourist
Bought this album for my wife on the strength of "Wires" that had been playing on the radio for a few weeks. Pretty standard brit band fare, but done very well. Wires is a great song, a very moving track once you know the back story behind it. It's all about watching his premature baby son in an incubator... which is kinda strange when watch them at festivals and the crowd is happily singing along to it like its a cheery song. (Kinda like those people who have Hotel California as their song at weddings without realising its all about a brothel) Fave track: Wires

Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Always been a fan of Garbage - they should always feature highly on any tranny's music list. This album shows them back on top form. Shirley Manson is always great to listen to. Fave track: Bad Boyfriend

Soundgarden - Superunknown
I've always been a bit of a grunge fan - I loved Pearl Jam, Nirvana etc when I was a student in the early ninetees. Soundgarden didn't get as much press as the other Seattle bands but they were up there with the best of them. Chris Cornell has an amazing voice, and they wrote some killer tracks. I saw them support Guns and Roses at Wembley in 90 (or was it 91) and they were excellent. Fave track: Spoonman

Counting Crows - Live Across a Wire
I've loved Counting Crows ever since I first head Mr Jones back in late 93. I had just started teaching practice and my partner in school was a Mr Jones (It was weird getting into that teacher habit of calling friends Mr This or Ms That in school....) August and Everything After was an amazing debut album and I have loved all their work since. I've seen them in concert twice - once at the Cambridge Corn Exchange and once at the Royal Albert Hall. This live double album has one disc from thier VH1 unplugged acoustic set... the acoustic Mr Jones is amazing.. and also one disk live from New York. The live version of Round Here turns what was already a great song into an amazing epic pulling in a few bits from other songs. My wife takes the piss as this album rarely leaves my CD changer (In the end I had to copy it so she could have access rights to it too) Fave track: Round Here (Live)

So those are my thoughts on the tunes currently being (badly) sung along to in my car this week.

So over to you - Lana, Connie, Emily, Karol and Rachel???