Wow, doesn't feel like a week since a post. Oops.

I've been trying to figure out, why every time I start listening to a band, their music starts getting worse with every CD they put out from that point on. It's not necessarily a straight progression down, but the quality certainly never reaches the heights of when I hear them first. It's liberating, in a way, knowing that while there may be a few singles I like, album wise, there is no need to bother with a full Dashboard cd since I started listening at Places You Have Come To Fear The Most. I would be out nearly 100 bucks if I had paid for everything MxPx had made since Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo. And Weezer, thanks for filling out the rainbow, but you really could have stopped at the Blue cd.

However, since I am guessing there are bands out there that would like to earn more than one cd worth of my hard earned cash (check my wallet... yep, no new looking bills, someone prolly worked hard for them at one point) I thought I should figure out why this phenomenon is true. And here is what I have come up with: It's all about the experience. The bands I follow after hearing one of their cd's, I like so much that the first cd gets played until there is too much emotion combined with each track for their subsequent efforts to keep up. For instance, The Hold Steady peaked where I was introduced to them, at Boys and Girls in America. Because the only track I associate reading On the Road for the first time with is Stuck Between Stations, not whatever they came out with 3 years ago. The cd they came out with last summer didn't feature a track like Citrus that I instantly remember a first kiss when hearing.

I have a solution, as well, for all you famous bands reading my blog. Just do a little marketing. Include an awesome experience for me as part of buying your cd. Tally Hall, you (finally) have a second cd coming out in a month. Want to avoid disappointing me after our first album experience together was so good? Simple. When I buy your new cd, have a real, live, naked Kaley Cuoco, desperate for me to take her in a manly fashion, show up in my room while I listen the first couple times. I guarantee you, you will have broken the curse, and I'll have a new favorite Tally Hall cd.

Unfortunately, since I like applause, but not the clap, I'm gonna need you to only have her set up this way for me. I'm worth it though. Get Lohan or something for everyone else.




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