i do love the ironically named "Emotive", what with that emotionally dead version of "Imagine".

icky.

Dude, Of course I went out and bought the Perfect Circle disc 'cause I'll get anything Tool related. I can't say I disagree with you, although, not quite as strongly felt. I think some of the songs are kinda cool. Not as cool as the Cattle Decapitation "Humanure" cd I'm listening to now, but kinda cool.

PS-Hey Mark, Did ya check out that new Converge yet?

sorry brick...been too busy with my house move.

it's on my list though.

honest.

Wait, so are your highlighted goodies recommendations? Your APC comments don't seem like a ringing endorsement though.

Anyway, a new Thievery Corporation, interesting, must check that one out.

Thanks for the post.

Oh and I have to agree with you, Aimee Mann is definitely overlooked, but it's not that surprising. I mean, she's like a more depressing version of Tori Amos (and I think that's pretty tough to beat), it's understandable that people shy away.

They're only recommendations if I say so - otherwise I'm just talking about them. They're just things that caught my eye and I felt the need to say something, whatever that might be . . .

And yes, Mann might just be a "depressing Amos" to some, but I find her music to be more "bottom of the barrel, looking up" - which means "sad but hopeful," I guess. Tori Amos to me is kind of the opposite - there's a view in her music that says "I'm about to hit bottom and that's all I can see." There is, however, a beauty to be found in both worldviews.

Tom, thanks for your willingness to pick up the slack, but I did in fact post a new releases column last night. It's RIGHT HERE.

There seems to be something weird technically on our site though, because it's not showing up on the home page. As you can see from the link, the article's right there, but I had to go through my author listings to see it.

By the way, you missed one big release, probably because it's not on the AMG listings. The soundtrack for Team America: World Police is out now. That'll be sweet.

Al, you posted it to the Blogcritics Archives, not to Blogcritics proper - that's why it didn't show up on the front page. We are trying separating out the archives periodically within Movable Type to speed things up. It is definitely working.

No one should post anything directly to Archives

Dang, sorry Al, wish that had posted to the regular page. Well, I had fun anyway. No harm done, right?

Hey Tom, at this point probably the best solution is to copy Al's text and paste it into yours as an update with a link to his post, and add in the Team America soundtrack to Amazon. Make sense?

tom, great job. I didn't know the APC record was a covers number. thats a bit mad. two albums in? Ah well, thats rock stars for you...

Al's text is now copied and pasted and this post is officially updated.

Does anybody know when the Cattle Decapitation DVD is due to drop?