What's in my iPod - the C's, D's, and F's
Continuing to share what I have in my music collection, today are the bands who begin with the letters C, D, and F. There are actually very few bands in my collection that begin with these letters, and there are no bands in there that begin with E. So I thought I would combine them in this post. Today's list clearly illustrates my penchant for buying greatest hits collections for bands whose music I like but am not familiar enough with to choose individual albums from their entire catalog. I have noticed that I do this mostly with artists who I heard a lot of when I was a kid. Only in rare instances do I actually try to track down an entire catalog as opposed to just getting a collection of the most well known stuff. But it does happen (as I will point out when I get to Peter Gabriel). Any comments I make about a particular album will be in italic next to the album's title.
Cheap Trick
- Greatest Hits - Robin Zander has one of the best voices in rock music, and Rick Nielsen writes really good songs. Plus, when your drummer's name is Carlos E. Bun, well, you just know your band rocks.
Creed
- Human Clay
Def Leppard
- Adrenalize - This is the last Def Leppard album that I ever bought. The ridiculously over-produced sound that began to rear it's ugly head on Hysteria is in full force here. However, the tracks on Hysteria (for the most part) were much better.
- Hysteria - A whopping 9 of the 12 tracks on this album were released as singles, but the best song on the album, Run Riot, got no airplay at all while groaners like Love Bites were played to death.
- Pyromania
The Doors
- Greatest Hits
Fleetwood Mac
- Greatest Hits
Foo Fighters
- The Colour and the Shape - This was the album that got me into Foo Fighters. I always liked the title of the band. My brother and I were UFO buffs when we were younger, and the term "foo-fighter" was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe UFOs and other strange lights they saw in the skies. Only being a so-so fan of Nirvana, I was thinking that this band would be more of the same since it was founded by Dave Grohl, who played drums for Nirvana. Interestingly enough, Grohl is Foo Fighters' lead guitarist, lead vocalist, and primary song writer (though he played all the instruments on the demo tape he sent to record companies). Once I heard the song Monkeywrench, however, I couldn't get it out of my head. My Hero and Everlong are two other awesome tracks here.
- Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace
- Foo Fighters
- In Your Honor (double album) - The first album has electric guitars and a fast beat, whereas the second one is mostly acoustic and much more mellow. I like them both, and each album has one of what I consider to be two of the best Foo Fighter songs in their entire catalog - DOA (on the first album) and Cold Day in the Sun (on the second album).
- One by One
- There Is Nothing Left to Lose - My favorite Foo Fighters album and what I consider to be, song for song, one of my favorite albums of all time. There is a three song stretch in the middle of the track list that is just perfect - Aurora, Live-In Skin, and Next Year (with Live-In Skin being my favorite song in the entire Foo Fighters catalog). The sound of the band really began to mature during this album, and I think Dave Grohl really started to become an awesome songwriter here.
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