26 Nov 2009
thanks, chris carrabba.
i stopped religiously listening to dashboard after he found himself an electric guitar and a full band because, well, i don’t really know why. maybe i was a bit bitter that he put down the acoustic guitar or that he was getting really really popular…but now that i think about it, that was pretty stupid, haha. i’ll have to admit that i’ll always be that guy that will always say “ya, i love dashboard, but you know, only his older stuff,” but in all reality his new stuff is pretty good. his last album, “the shade of poison trees,” i thought was a really good mix of his older stuff and his newer stuff. all the stuff in between wasn’t too bad either, just not the good ol’ dashboard that i was used to.
i’m usually pretty keen on when my favorite artists come out with new material but i do lose track of some bands. i guess i don’t really keep up with dashboard as much only because the “so impossible EP” will be all i ever need from him. that’s 4 tracks that i will never, ever get tired of….almost to the point where i could less if he wrote a million other great songs.
anyway, he came out with a new album not too long ago and i just got it. i haven’t really had a chance to listen to it yet but i got the deluxe version which has 2 cd’s. i loaded that sucker into itunes wondering,”how could he have written 2 cd’s worth of songs? that’s insane.” well, i noticed the 2nd cd has all the same tracks as the 1st one, except they’re all ACOUSTIC.
so on this turkey-less thanksgiving, i would like to give thanks to you, chris, for having the most awesome idea of having 2 versions of the same album. in fact, i’ll probably listen to the acoustic version first, then the full band version…but i know in my heart that i’ll probably only listen to the acoustic version, thinking back to the days when i used to sing your songs at the top of my lungs.
happy thanksgiving ya’ll!
