Sometimes blogging can be as much of a curse as it is a blessing. Let me start with the blesssings. I get a load of free music, usually more than I have time to listen to. I also, on the rare occaision, receive some free tickets to see certain artists play live. The curse comes into play when you see the sheer volume of music I receive. Even when I love a band I usually only have them in rotation for a few months before they’re drowned out by the latest album from the next twenty great bands everyone simply must listen to. Sometimes old favorites get lost in this mish mash of new music.
Fortunately for the music world this past weekend my brother got married. I did my duties as the best man and gave a wonderful toast {or so I thought}. The reason this affects this blog is simple. During part of the weekend I had the pleasure of riding along in my mom’s minivan. She listens, almost exclusively, to contemporary christian radio and occaisionally there’s an oldies station or two that gets in on the rotation. Most of the time I cringe simply at the mention of the modern mainstream christian music scence, but on this fateful day they played a song to which I have listened countless times and I sing along with regardless as to who’s listening.
mp3 : The Fray - How To Save A Life
Hearing this song again brought back a flood of memories, mostly associated with my final year of university and a trip I took to Mt. Everest, but it also made me curious. The Fray have been working on their new album for a ridiculous amount of time. Their last album, 2005’s How To Save A Life (amazon) (itunes), was insanely popular and yet here we are, three years later, and no followup. Their website claims they’re working on it now, Metacritic claims it’s supposed to be released this summer {exactly when is still up for grabs}, and their myspace doesn’t even show up on a quick google search {wake up PR folks}. So their next album allegedly will drop soon. Until then you can put this song on continual repeat and hope for the best.
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Completely agree with the blogging thing. I often get asked what my favorite song is, and when I was younger, I’d just throw out my favorite song. Now, I ramble off obscure band names with some sort of disclaimer about what I do. On the flipside, why have one when you can have twenty every month?
people ask all the time what i’m listening to right now… and i hate to be the snob, but a lot of times i have to say “oh, you’ve never heard of them.” and that’s not because they’re ignorant or i’m some sort of super hipster {gasp, i would rather die}, but it’s because some random PR guy emailed me an album months before it ever hits shelves… it’s just not possible for them to ever have heard the album.
there is something about hearing a song that reminds you of a particular time in your life. this song makes me feel melancholy-happy. i really like that feeling.
if nothing else, i appreciate you sifting through all the music, so that i can be a hipster, with none of the work. [right, like anyone would ever let me be a hipster haha]
i believe the fray will hit it big again. i guess their record label is getting them prepared for this huge comeback. i read that they are debuting their new sing “You Found Me” on the American Music Awards November 23, to me, that sounds pretty big.
I love the Fray. They always come with the right words at the right time. It’s almost like they know exactly what I may be going through. You know I have it bad when I’m searching the radio stations looking for at least one of their songs. lol!!! But it’s so worth it.