my crack cocaine d'jour

You know those albums that for years stay buried someplace where it's just sort of out of site and therefore out of mind only to come to the surface, find their way to your CD player, and end up being played over and over again because you just can't get enough of it? All the while that this is going on, you can't help but always question why it was you had allowed yourself to forget this masterpiece existed and how much better your life could have been through those long years of it being buried alive had you remembered? Yeah, I've been going through that the last couple days with the Boo Radley's C'Mon Kids. I think I've listened to it, on average, two times a day since Saturday. I'm on the third time today and I've only been awake for 4 hours (I had to throw in some of Travis' 12 Memories in there too..."Beautiful Occupation", "Peace the Fuck Out," "Mid-Life Crisis", and a couple other tracks lure me to that disk to). Ugh.

For those who may not know of them, they are sort of a birt-pop/psychodelic rock hybrid of sorts. I can definitely hear some of the Oasis/Blur sort of sound (though the Boo Radley's predate them) along with some 60's Brit Rock influences like the Beetles and Kinks...but there's also some of that funk and electronic stuff that makes the Flaming Lips kick ass and take names like they do. Heck, there's even some Pixies sort of rocking going on too. I don't know, it's worth checking out if you're into these other bands I mention, but it seems like it's hard to find...neither Columbia House nor BMG carry it in their record clubs (though I believe it was through Columbia House I bought it several years ago) and Amazon only has it in it's import incarnation. In any case, I felt the need to swap out the Bob Woodward book with this disk over there to the left. (Though I'm sure eBay has some good deals on it, maybe not though since it's semi-rare)

The comment box is open for anyone having similar experiences with other albums. I personally get real excited hearing about other people's similar music experiences, you know? I am such a closeted music FREAK.