New Music & 5.1

If anyone reads this and if anyone cares and if anyone checks out my myspace page I've been listening to some cool new bands.

1st. The Sounds. They're from Sweden. pop, retro 80's, new wave, indie stuff.
2nd. The Fratellis. They're from the U.K. pop, indie, iPod commercials.
3rd. Mika. He's from the U.K. pop, freddy wannabe.

Why, is all the music I like, coming from Europe??? I don't understand.Whatever.

I just picked up some cool music in 5.1 That's right. SSUUUURRRRRROOUUNDD SSOOOUUNND!.!.!!..!

The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds. This in one of my favorite albums! And now I can listen to it in 5.1
I was not too impressed with the surround mix. It just makes the album huge, which is great, but I think they could have done more, surround things.

The Beatles
Love
This is basically the soundtrack for the Cirque De Sole/Beatles thing.
This is AMAZING. They took the great Beatle tracks chopped them up, mix them around, overlapped, underlapped, and crosslapped into a truly amazing masterpiece. A big reason it works is because George Martin did it. Starting off with an a capella version of Because into a mix of Get Back over the classic drum solo in Abey Road is just brilliant. They had fun with the 5.1 stuff. I felt like the strings were crawling over my shoulders in I am the Walrus. Throughout the 78 minutes, the surprises just kept coming. I even got teary-eyed a couple of times.

5.1 surround sound is truly the future of music. The problem is that is not gonna happen. I can't remember the last time I sat still for an hour to listen to music. This iPod generation has no time to sit and listen. But if you do have the time, do it.

-Andy