a lighter note
Feb. 26th, 2004 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbIf you haven't had the misfortune of talking to me in person in the last couple of months, you may have missed out on my obsession with Mandy Moore, or more accurately with her recent record Coverage. I'm not gonna go on too long about it here, but here are a few data points:
As it happens, this is not the only Mandy Moore CD I own. Intrigued by some of her press and by the 99-cent price tag, I picked up I Wanna Be With You from the bargain bin at Disc Diggers last fall. (I miss you, Davis Square!) But you know how it is when you're traveling, things get disorganized, and I didn't actually get around to listening to it until last night. I won't be doing that again. She was younger then, her voice was thinner, and more importantly the songs are in some cases so trite they made me physically ill. So much for that.
Anyway, tonight at Tower I bought two CDs: Cyndi Lauper's At Last, the other cover album I listened to four illegal MP3s from on that drive in December--they were neck and neck for a while, but Lauper's record was too tasteful to really set in, I think. And Mindy Smith's One Moment More, because... well... because her name reminded me of Mandy Moore's, okay?
Good news, though--it's pretty good!
- It started when, illegally and skeptically, I downloaded four tracks... and listened to them over and over again on the drive to Minnesota.
- I bought the album in Minneapolis to try to understand why it was so annoying and why I liked it so much.
- By this point I have so much to say about that that I can't fit it into a LiveJournal post, and it just stays locked up in my brain except when I can trap an audience.
- It hasn't left my car CD player for a month.
As it happens, this is not the only Mandy Moore CD I own. Intrigued by some of her press and by the 99-cent price tag, I picked up I Wanna Be With You from the bargain bin at Disc Diggers last fall. (I miss you, Davis Square!) But you know how it is when you're traveling, things get disorganized, and I didn't actually get around to listening to it until last night. I won't be doing that again. She was younger then, her voice was thinner, and more importantly the songs are in some cases so trite they made me physically ill. So much for that.
Anyway, tonight at Tower I bought two CDs: Cyndi Lauper's At Last, the other cover album I listened to four illegal MP3s from on that drive in December--they were neck and neck for a while, but Lauper's record was too tasteful to really set in, I think. And Mindy Smith's One Moment More, because... well... because her name reminded me of Mandy Moore's, okay?
Good news, though--it's pretty good!
