Martin here, blog usurper.   (I am tired of waiting for Erich to craft his latest post.)

I’ve made a discovery about my assimilation/appreciation of music.  Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing all at one and not end up appreciating it.  (I’m sure it applies to stuff other than music, too!)

For example, on Black Friday I went out and braved the traffic to see if I could pick up a wireless network antenna (“needed” it to play some CNC type games with my boy), and ended up at Circuit City, a store that is being closed down.  Consequently, they had everything marked down … including all of their CD’s.

I began greedily picking up CD’s until my wonderful spouse finally began to get impatient.  I ended up with about 15 CD’s.  They were a real bargain (an average of $8 or less).

I find now, that it has been a couple weeks and I haven’t gotten around to listen to many of them (other than a cursory first pass), let alone develop that new music “bond”.  You know the one, when you get a new “album” (as Erich calls them still), and listen to it over and over again.  You get so that you know what order the music is, and are discombobulated when the tracks are played out of order.  At this point in the “relationship” you know all the lyrics by heart.

Well, it’s hard to get there, when you have 15 new CD’s to listen through.   I’ve come to the conclusion that I really shouldn’t buy more than one or two at a time.  I’ve “discovered” CD’s I purchased in lots, that never got a fair shake in the queue, and years later I realized that they were actually pretty good.  In some ways, it was better for my appreciation of the music when I couldn’t afford the occasional splurge, buying multiple new CD’s.

The CD I have started imprinting with is the new Los Lonely Boys: Forgiven.  It is the first CD I have by this band.  I’ve heard snatches of things here and there, including the Salvador cover of Heaven.  Boy is this CD good!  If I didn’t get any other music from my outing, this one was worth the trip.

The band incorporates a lot of things I REALLY like into their music.  Sometimes it’s like listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn, while other tracks almost sound like the Ventures, the Beatles, or John Elefante.   Good stuff.  I have listened to this CD at least 10 times now, but still haven’t got it quite imprinted.  I don’t know all the lyrics to every song, or the track order quite yet.

I’m making a vow not to buy anything else until I spend some time with the others, though.  I am really spoiled.