never fear, faithful readers...the philosophical post WILL come...just not tonight ;) since i got my new mp3 in the mail today (and with it, 50 free songs – WOOT!), i’m going to offer for you today a very much overdue music review!
i unfortunately can’t offer you a review on my new mp3 player yet...cuz i haven’t used it yet. like i said earlier, i got it today. and since it’s got one of those integrated batteries, it needed to charge for ten loverly hours (not :P)...so it got plugged into the computer around 11 am and won’t finish until 9pm. can’t you just feel my joy radiating through the internet? :P i CAN debate the technical aspects of it though...and my old one too ;)
the new one is an e-matic 4 GB video/photo/music player. i have no intention of using the video aspect of it (i prefer to watch my movies on a screen that’s a tad bit bigger than 1.8 inches), but i’ll definitely use the music aspect of it (duh...that’s what i bought it for), and very possibly the picture aspect...not sure. i CAN say that the headphones that came with it are phenomenal. as i’ve been listening to my music (off my computer) with them, i’m hearing SO MUCH that i’d missed before...i’m very much enjoying it. :)
OLD mp3...it was a sansa sandisk m250, 2 GB music player. i very much liked it. the menu was easy to understand and access. the recorder could have used some work, but hey – it’s an mp3 player, not a microphone, so it was fairly good for what it was. the only reason i’m even replacing it is becuz it died. over the summer, i accidentally dropped it in a cup of water...oops...i let it dry out and got as much moisture out of it as i could. it worked like normal until december...then the volume control on it fizzled and died...on full blast...thereby making my portable PERSONAL music device rather useless unless i was making everyone around me listen. i caved when the play/pause button started going the same way as the volume. hence me reviewing mp3’s in the first place.
before i go to muzik itself, i shall offer my opinion on emusic.com – the site from whence i got my 50 free songs. the site has a fairly decent navigational setup. it’s easy to cancel after you’ve used up all your free downloads (hehe ;) ), the sound quality is decent...but if you listen to obscure artists (like me), this is definitely NOT the site to go to. i had a very hard time finding a lot of the bands that i listen to. if i did find them, they normally did not have their most recent albums. something else to be careful of is the method of payment – you have credits toward free songs, but some albums ONLY let you get the tracks if you buy the credits – you can’t just use your free ones. which is why i don’t have fireflight’s healing of harms or red’s breathe into me...i was more than slightly annoyed. :P so in other words, unless you get the free song thing, it’s not worth the money. heck, they didn’t even have some of the mainstream artists, like disturbed, evanescence, or nickleback. and THAT, ladies and gents, is emusic.com.
NOW...the muzik...h3h h3h h3h...anyone who’s been reading this blog for any length of time knows i’m a muzik addict and fairly easy-going with what i listen to (basically, anything except country and dirty lyrics). SO...h3h...like i said, i got 50 new songs today, and i also received two albums for Christmas, one just before my birthday, and i bought one (becuz i’d borrowed it and liked it so much that i got my own copy). i’ll put the album title as the beginning of each paragraph so that it’s clear what i’m talking about (which would be rather unusual for me...:P ;) ) i also got several single tracks, but i’m not going to list them here...otherwise we run the risk of the blogger getting bored, and you’ll have two-word reviews. i’ll save those for another time (maybe when i get full albums!).
Awake – Skillet: two thumbs up! this is their latest CD, and it’s amazing...i can’t think of a single song on here i don’t like. most of the tracks on this CD are shorter than what you would normally expect, but i don’t really think that’s bad...it’s just a shortish CD. not a bad thing...although i wouldn’t have complained if they’d included more muzik along these lines ;) this album goes from fairly hard (Monster) to soft ballads (Never Surrender). like i said...two thumbs up!
Welcome to the Masquerade – Thousand Foot Krutch: another AWESOME CD! the latest from TFK...i really enjoyed this one. this one is longer than Awake, but quantity does NOT compromise the quality here. they use a fair bit of strings, but it just makes it even better. ^_^ another two thumbs up!
Confessions – Pillar: great CD. another one i really liked. :) once again...this is the latest CD by the artist. it starts very hard, but softens up...all round, very enjoyable. :) it’s another one that’s shortish, but the quality more than makes up for the lack of quantity. yet again...two thumbs up!
It Is Well – Kutless: this is not a hard rock CD. like the three CD’s previously reviewed, this is the latest CD by Kutless. i enjoyed this one as well. it’s more calming than the others, but still very much enjoyable. i’ll give this one and a half thumbs up!
Losing All – Day of Fire: guess what...it’s the latest CD by Day of Fire! haha...no, seriously. it’s a very good CD...it strikes me as somewhat different from the previous two albums, but it’s still a very good listen! i haven’t listened to this one all the way through yet...but what i’ve heard, i like! two thumbs up!
What Was I Thinking – Disciple: aaaaannnnndddd...it’s DISCIPLE’S latest CD! no joke... another very good listen...leastaways, what i’ve heard of it...i haven’t listened to all of it (since i just got it today...) but i like what i’ve heard! it’s different than their other albums, but still a very good listen! two thumbs up!
Metamorphosis – Pillar: and finally, i stop reviewing the latest from different groups ;) haha...this is a Pillar CD from 2000 i found on emusic.com. it’s very different from their later works, but i’ve enjoyed what i’ve heard. although, when i said it’s very different...i MEANT it. i don’t know the band’s history, but i do know that it sounds like there’s a different lead singer. i’ll venture one and a half thumbs up for this one.
Where Do We Go From Here – Pillar: another really good CD. more recent than Metamorphosis, its sound is closer to Confessions than Metamorphosis. i’ll go ahead and give this one two thumbs up (even if i haven’t listened to the whole thing yet ;) )
and that’s where i’ll leave it tonight...much muzik for you...hehehe...i’ll get that philo up soon, i promises! (actually, with valentine's day on sunday, you'll prolly get two...lucky you!) as well as a lowdown of the Valentine’s Classic on Saturday. valete!
-enna
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