So, I'msitting here, watching the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant like all normal23 year-old college graduate males are doing on a beautiful Fridaynight and all of a sudden a “hot young musical group” starts attemptingto tear it up during the evening gown competition.

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"Hey there Delilah"..."Hey there Delilah"..."Hey there Delilah"...it seems that wherever I turn that song seems to be playing.  While I love that song, it is being extremely overplayed on radio stations and music television alike.  If you're wondering what else the band has to offer, let me fill you in with a play-by-play of "Every Second Counts"..

While Our Time Now is dedicated to newfound lovers, it definitely reeks of a newer version of the adolescent "we don't care, we're going to have fun tonight" theme song.  It's energetic and just as it promises, makes you feel like you can do anything.

Taking the tempo down just a bit the band provides a romantic perspective of trying to salvage a relationship.  While Come Back to Me could easily sound pathetic and desparate, it does not.  Rather, it keeps the romantic hopeful that all is not lost.  There are still some who believe in working out problems to salvage a relationship.

Hate (I Really Don't Like You) is a great song.  Even though the song immediately starts off with "love love love love love love" the song is not about being in love.  "Hate is a strong word/but I really really really don't like you" is a great way to describe how one can feel about certain relationships (romantic and friendly).  Everyone must have had a similar relationship where the other person does not just disaappoint, but is great at bringing people down.  Just as precise as the words are, the music is brash.  As someone who hates to be negative this song is great because it does not bash the toher person, but rather appropriately surfaces ones trodden emotions.

To reenergize the listener after listening to ones suppressed emotions, comes this catchy upbeat song.  Definitely a summer song You and Me allows single people everywhere to listen to this song in hopes of finding someone who would "make a good you and me."

Anyone involved with someone who's afraid of commitment?  Friends Don't Let Friends Dial Drunk is the song for you.  Filled with the frustrations of someone who's being strung along this song provides the visual of sitting this significant other down and wagging your finger to the beat.  Rather than being obnoxious this song helps to provde the necessary boldness to confront that person in your life.

While the beginning of Making a Memory subtly reminds me of Metallica, this is definitely not a Metallica song.   A slow head bobbing song, there is an image provide of an annoyed girlfriend getting ready to leave her boyfriend for the night.  The the urgency kicks in with the intensity increase of the music as the boyfriend serenades her trying to make her laugh and stay longer.  This is a song with a consistent enticing beat that can warm a heart.

 As angry as the album gets, So Damn Clever deals with the deception and manipulation of one being used for another's benefit.  While a bit more livid the music does not stray from the consistent happy rock of the rest of the album. 

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I'm trying to figure out where this cover fits in the great heiarchy of 'pop star covering hip-hop song'-dom. I would put it slighty above Magic Numbers cover of Crazy in Love but below Alanis' redition of My Humps.

Either way, this one's HAWT!

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Alright, so I wasn't going to say anything about this track because...well, because it has been out for a few months now. But the other day I was out driving with a bud and the record came on and he said he had never heard it. Well, good enough reason for me to post it then:

 I LOVE KANYE WEST + DAFT PUNK = STRONGER!

There. I said it.

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As the solo release of Rancid guitarist and vocalist, Tim Armstrong, A Poet's Life is filled with grooving sounds.  It's the kind of album that you would put on to melt away all the stresses of life.  Armstrong gives listeners the option to groove out with a CD or a DVD of music videos for each album track.  Single "Into Action" and "Take This City" are the most jammin' songs on the album--even Armstrong would admit them to be "songs like this that can pack the dance floor."  Track "Hold On" was the first song to be recorded and it was done live with the help of the Aggrolites.  The album overall is a reminder of how great ska really is--music that makes you want to move withou impregnating someone.

Armstrong's release is such a breathe of fresh air from all the Timbaland produced pop songs, anger-infiltrated songs of rock, and other predictable attempts made by artists.  With this album, one can take a break from all that and more.  If you're into classic bands like the Specials, than you'll probably become good friends with A Poet's Life.

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