Geof’s New Music: 26 Feb-4 Mar 2006

I put this off yesterday because I didn’t bring my case full of bootlegs—no, I’m not kidding—in to the office. This morning, I got my BMG order out of the mailbox, so I’m going to put off the bootlegs a while longer and go after the new stuff.

This week, I’m fleshing out my Fountains of Wayne discography:

• Fountains of Wayne’s Fountains of Wayne
• Fountains of Wayne’s Utopia Parkway
• Fountains of Wayne’s Out-of-State Plates

[Mom always said that BMG never would work for me. I have worked for years proving her wrong.]

Last week was:

• Coldplay: Rare and Live Compilation: A bunch of good renditions here. This compilation gets four-and-a-half stars.
• 25 Sep 2001 [Atlanta, GA, USA] concert bootleg of Modest Mouse: This gets a solid four stars from me.
• 16 Nov 2004 [Toronto, ON, CA] concert bootleg of Sufjan Stevens: Oh. My. Gravy. I babbled about this bootleg to anyone who would listen last week. I made MP3s available off of my fileserver for folks on The Rumor Forum. I have Stephen and Misty both a CD of the bootleg and a copy of the processed MP4s [for Misty to dump on her Mac]. Five stars, easily. I get giddy thinking about it.
• 26 Mar 1998 [Chicago, IL, USA] concert bootleg of Jeff Tweedy: This gets four-and-a-half stars from me. Great little bootleg; unfortunately, it got lost in the AWESOMENESS of the Sufjan.
• 15 Aug 1990 [St. Louis, MO, USA] concert bootleg of Uncle Tupelo: A little raucous in the beginning—I think they were a little too drunk at the start; Jay Farrar’s vocals were all over the place—but the end of the show? TIGHT. Four stars.
• Demos from Billy Bragg and Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue project: Mmmmm, Woody Guthrie. The completionist in me needed this. Four stars.

Now to finish processing the FoW so I can listen to it here at the office …