You Learn To Love Again

New albums bought, new concert visited and a song that blew my mind. All coming up below this cheesy introduction.

I bought the third, and latest, album by a certain Håkan Hellström a few days ago and I was surprised to find that it's just as good as his first album. He has lost the samba, the bateria and al the annoying choirs. Ett Kolikbarns Bekännelser (The Confessions of a Colic Child) is mellow, mostly acoustic and filled with beautiful songs like the gorgeous love song with the strange title "Gårdakvarnar & Skit" (Farmmills & Shit).

I also bought my very first album over iTunes Music Store. I've always been suspicious when it comes to buying music over the internet because so much of the charm with buying music disappears. No strolling through endless amounts of record stores, picking out the CD you want, browse through the booklet and so on. But since the album in question was a internet-only release I had to swallow my pride. The album was Ed Harcourt - Elephant's Graveyard which is a collection of rare songs, unreleased songs and b-sides. Most of the songs are really neat and surprising. I was completely baffled by "Alligator Boy" which is a led-heavy blues rock track. It's overall an awesome album and definetly worth the £7 I gave for it. I had lots of trouble converting the shitty m4p-files to mp3 so I could listen to them in Winamp but apart from that it wasn't as bad as I thought buying records from iTunes.

I still hate iTunes though.

I also have a new obsession: Foo Fighters. I loved In Your Honour. I think it's a fantastic album and it makes so much sense to divide it into two different cds. In Your Honour is one of the best albums of the year, no doubt. But the song I've been completely nuts about the past few days is the acoustic version of "Times Like These". The original is a good song, the acoustic version makes me wet myself in pleasure. I can't begin to describe how awesome it is and how much I love it.

I still love Dave Grohl.