It could be dangerous...

Okay, so at this point I should just be calling this blog "Adventures in CD buying (and occasionally watching Survivor)" but, despite this apparent flaw in the entire blog concept, I fully intend to tell you about my recent exploits at my local music emporium.

So, needless to say that "Whisper War" by The Cab was a bit of a flop. I mean, it wasn't a bad album by any means, it was just a little more Maroon 5 and a little less Fall Out Boy than I'd been expecting. But its still better than some other recent Decaydance bands (Are you listening Tyga? No? You're relaxing in your bathtub full of money? Damn.) Back to the point, since that wasn't all that good, and there wasn't anything else coming out this week, I decided to spend a little money on a couple of more unknown (if only slightly in the case of The Cab) artists. Luckily MTVU was there to fill the void in my life. For some convoluted reason, it was more economical for me to get more channels of cable tv, then to go on getting just the ones I had before. So, now we have MTV Jams, MTV Hits, MTV 3, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, CMT 2, BET, Fuse, and, the aforementioned, MTVU (The U stands for University, by the way). Anyway, after a few hours of watching MTVU, two videos stuck out for me: Love Me Dead by Ludo, and The Kelley Affair by Be Your Own Pet.

Okay, so I guess its 'review time' now:

You're Awful, I Love You by Ludo

Let me start this by saying that I fully intended, in fact, even tried to hate Ludo. I first heard of them when I was handed a Ludo sticker outside of a The Academy Is... concert. I make it a point to hate any band who feels obliged to hand out stickers at other bands' concerts, I'm not really sure why, I guess its just a thing I do, that's not the point. I saw the video, I was charmed by it, and it expresses a certain genre of unrequited love that I happen to be a very big fan of (for further examples, see Self-Esteem by the Offspring, or anything by Taking Back Sunday). Basically, it was good, the cd seems pretty good (I haven't listened to it much yet) and it was cheap. I guess that's three for three on Ludo.

Get Awkward by Be Your Own Pet

So, the first thing to notice about Be Your Own Pet, is that they're asking for a Paramore reference to be made. You just can't have a band of guys with a diminutive female lead singer with badly dyed hair without making a Paramore reference. Its a sad thing, but I'm afraid they'd take my blog away if I didn't properly compare them. Basically, BYOP is like Paramore, if Paramore were cool. I mean, really cool, punk rock, I've-tried-all-my-life-to-be-like-that sort of cool. If my secret ambitions of being genuinely punk were ever realized, I would like to be just like that band. The point: They're really cool, and I like them a lot. That is all.

You've got the mark of the beast, you're born of a jackal, you're beautiful!

Now go away.