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[which_chick]

I'm up for music suggestions. Pick an album you like and suggest it to me. (One album per person, please.) The critera here are (1) must not suck (in your opinion) and (2) should be something I don't hear on my redneck classic-rock station. (So no Rush, no Queen, no ZZ Top, no Van Halen, no Pink Floyd, no Jimi Hendrix, no hair bands, no power ballads, no Kiss, no Judas Priest, no Ozzy, no Aerosmith... that sort of thing, I already hear enough of.) Also, I do not need to be exposed to anything that was played on the radio as mainstream Top-40 music from the mid 80's through the early 1990's. I have the, er, lifetime merit badge for that stuff.

Pretty much anything you suggest will be news to me -- I only recently discovered that Kid Rock's album Cocky is somewhat catchy, if laden with hubris and a bit fond of the word motherf***er. (It's amazing how he can say all those asterisks, isn't it? You'd think that the pointy bits would all get stuck...) My cousin (the one with the master's degree, fondness for Louis Vuitton handbags, and BMW [edit: Might be a Mercedes. It's something expensive, anyway. Probably I should be paying more attention, but I really don't give a shit what San drives. It makes her happy, and that's what is important, here.]) pointed this out to me as a worth-listening artist and I asked her where the hell she learned about it. It isn't the sort of thing I'd have expected of her, see. She said Kid Rock came from her sister, the minivan-driving one with three kids under the age of six, the Stay At Home Mom. Apparently in the fine state of Virginia, there is at least one minivan-driving SAHM blasting sanitized (I'm told that there exists a version without the asterisked word, suitable for radio playage and toddler-exposure) Kid Rock while she drives to and from the WalMart.

Anyway. If you can come up with an album that I need to lay down good money to hear, I promise to go buy it legitimately (ie. not downloading) and give it a fair trial run -- at least two or three times through. (I've found that some things grow on me after the first listen. Once through often isn't enough.)

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[insidian.livejournal.com]

Mason Jennings's eponymous first album. Buy it. I mean it! It's only 23 minutes, but it's all stuff that'll stick with you. I, myself, have been singing the first track for five years on a loop.

Make yerself at home
'cause I'm goin' out
across the street
to get us some water

'Cause this water's brown
and I'm so embarassed
to have you here
but I want you around,

Usually I'd sing,
play on my guitar
but I know that won't
get very far with you

'Cause you like music
that makes ya move,
mine's gotta groove
there's nothing I can do.

Please know what I mean
when I say
nothing.

Or another great song...

Dontcha know baby?
I'm a leadin' man.
I dig down deep when
I say "I love you."

OWN IT. I've been singing 1997 for three days straight, and I've owned the album for years.