Music I Care About at 2am on a Thursday

JC Chasez made the best album ever.  Seriously, music should have just stopped in 2003.  Schizophrenic is a collection of songs that are jaw-dropping in every possible way.  A mix of dancy electro-pop, mellow electro-pop, electro-funk, and full on boy band, its astounding the absolute groove you get into when spinning this disc.  All Day Long I Dream About Sex (AD[L]IDAS) is like the catchiest song I have ever heard.  Apparently JC is supposed to release a new album this year??? If its anywhere near as good as Schizophrenic, it will be Album of the Year 4shure. And the real jimmy on this sundae is JC being an ex-member of N*Sync. I was not a fan of N*Sync back during the glory days. I called them N*Stink whenever I got the opportunity, including the one time I got on the air on Radio Disney. I was a diehard Backstreet Boys fanboy, I had all their albums, I had posters, I had VHSes, I saw them live for goodness sake. I feel dirty, like I’m betraying the Boys, but Schizophrenic is so amazing. Part parody of Justified, part sincere solo work, part over-the-top, Gunther-level sexual grooving, its too good to let pass by.

Okay just read the JC Chasez article on Wikipedia.  Apparently he worked on Unbreakable with the Backstreet Boys and his new album, Kate, is due out in 2008 after being postponed from last year.  I hope the intervening years havent corrupted him, since Unbreakable totally blew.  Listening to Treat Me Right (the JC/AJ team up track off Unbreakable) and really its unmistakably Chasez influenced.  The claps and the goofy synth that are his trademarks are pretty strongly present here. These Backstreet harmonies are really hurting the track though.  The synth melody sounds a lot like With or Without You P:,’

There is one (1) good track on Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor.  Sailor Song.  But it is such an amazingly bright gem in the otherwise boring gravel pit that is Soviet Kitsch. Yeah, Regina, you’re right.  Maryanne is a bitch. Why doesnt she just take her dress off, I mean she’s kissing til her lips bleed as is. Americana, Tropicana.

I uh Procured like six gigs of Van Morrison the other day, and let me just say I long just to hold you tight so i can feel you, sweet lady of the night.  I shall reveal you.  Turn it up, turn it up, little bit higher, radio.  Turn it up, thats enough, so you know, its got soul. Radio, radio, turn it up, radio.