Thought Distillery

Tonight I set about doing some research on a topic that I’ve been thinking about quite a bit recently: how to say “no”. I didn’t make it past the 2nd interesting result from my initial g00gle search before I said “yes” to an über alluring music website I’d never heard of before. If you are at all interested in sifting through a mountainous collection of somewhat obscure artists and are at all interested in spending your CD budget at a store that pays the artists directly 50% or more of the proceeds then walk don’t run to the Portland Oregon based CD Baby web site.

Guilty pleasure confession time: I’ve long coveted the cheap and driving sound of cheesy 60’s surf guitar. Dick Dale, Ventures, Surfaris, and Beach Boys music had tided me over for a while – that is until tonight when I found an entire Surf Rock genre to dig through with hundreds of never-before-heard-by-me albums! (and mind you, it is definitely most proper to call CDs of this genre albums) I can’t wait to try out a super-charged surf rock and expresso powered programming session at work. I’m thinking I might be able to double my productivity. Anyway, so far I’ve the following juicy albums picked out:

• Daikaiju: Daikaiju
• The Moon Rays: Thrills & Chills
• The Moon Rays: The Ghouls Go West

The Moon Rays instantly caught my attention. How could I possibly say “no” to the combination of surf music, monster movies, and other 60’s schwank? Note that CD Baby doesn’t do any of that 30 second long sample crap. You get a full 2 minutes – enough to roll around with in a very intimate way. I am instantly hooked and now diving into my search results for German music. (Wow – crazy coincidence that my playlist just randomly started playing the WFMU stream with some German alternapop being broadcast)

Ok, I’ll stop the blatant plugging now as its time to concentrate on the music anyway.