My Top 5 CD's for this week.
Week one January 6, 2006

1. Green Day – American Idiot
Someone burned me a copy when this first came out and i'm just now getting around to listening to it. I didn't really think that I would like it as much as I do. Sometimes 'dumb rock' is good! This reminds me of the days when it was cool to listen to a band like The Descendents (I don't want to grow up). They were great!

The first and only time i've ever seen Green Day was at the Virgin Megastore when they did an in store for one of their first cd's. I was working there at the time and didn't care to much about them but wanted to take photos anyhow. This was when they all had like only 1 or 2 tattoo's each and pre eye liner days.

2. Hi Fidelity Soundtrack
I've also been listening to this over and over again. I know that if most of these songs weren't already packaged up onto this really cool soundtrack for this brilliant movie then I probably would not have liked them so much. John Cusack had a lot to do with putting together the music to follow along with the book. After reading the book by Nick Hornby first a long time ago, my first thought was wow, this would be so great on the big screen. Sure enough a few years later there it was and I was so excited to see it. I loved the music that was referenced in the book much more then in the movie, though the soundtrack does rock. A friend of mine actually made me an extended soundtrack to the movie and I think he covered 98 percent of it (thanks again Dave!) I believe it came out to be like 3 discs altogether. After listening to the original soundtrack I always seem to get John Wesley Harding's "I'm wrong about everything" stuck in my head, either that or Smog's "cold blooded old times". Sucha great GREAT soundtrack. And and excellent movie.