Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect: Super duper good CD... wow. Super DUPER. I haven't downloaded their newest one entirely yet, but it's not as good... lamos.

Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers: Somehow the first two songs I randomly downloaded to sample it were the best, hrmph. Not bad overall, not great either.

It is a good song, but so is Bacardi, so is Mother's Day, so is Amateur... so are most of their songs I have. ;P It's hard for me to say favorites all the tizzime, though.

Blutengel - The Oxidising Angel: German goth/techno stuff, this is hardly their best CD since I've noticed the main singer (for this band and Terminal Choice) tends to have about 5 original songs on his CDs, then 5-7 remixes of songs he's already done! Oh, what people do these days for money. But yeah, the original songs are good, I don't bother with remixes in general 'cause they're basically the same.

Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts Grey Flowers: Umm, gothish/rockish stuff, very melodic singing... when little Ms. Singer wants to sing. Sometimes she likes to scream (but melodically). I had some of the songs from this CD back in my youth (I.E. 2-3 years ago) and thought "gosh, let's go for some nostalgia!" So I did, and mostly it's turned out well.

Nada Surf - High/Low - Friggin' awesome mellowish rockish CD, just friggin' awesome, get it now. Please?

Nada Surf - Let Go - A pretty good CD of the mellowish rockish variety, probably my least favorite overall by them, but still much better than the "industrially produced poop" as Mr. Ervin would say.

Travis - 12 Memories: Well, tracks 1-5 are good/decent, and for me, that's like "Oh my god, don't bother with the rest of the CD." But then 6 was really friggin' awesome, and the rest were... better than 1-5! Excellent deal. Mellowish rockish again, though this time they join up with Scottish.