Week 1

Ben Peirce

Artist: Ween
Album: Chocolate and Cheese

Comments: OK so here's a little Musical experiment: As we've often discussed there are never enough suggestions for the true Musical connoisseur. With Rhapsody, iTunes and various other avenues to instantly access music, we can find ourselves with more time and access to music than we have ideas of what to listen to and yet the thirst for new music continues. So here's my idea, albeit a very informal low-tech version of an idea from Mr. Sadler. Take a small group of people with similar musical tastes and have each person offer a musical suggestion each week (month? day?), thereby giving the whole group a handful of suggested listening items to turn to each week. Think of it as Oprah's Book Club for your ears.

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Greg Giorgio

Artist: Miles Davis
Album: On the Corner

Comments: Even though I made you guys listen to it last night, my first recommendation is Miles Davis On the Corner. A jazz CD but one of the best ever. Listen to it when you have nothing else going on but music. Oh, I think that means that I am in.

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Josh Nason

Artist: Blink 182
Album: Blink 182

Comments: Released just before their 'hiatus,' this album is nothing like any of the previous work, most of which was thought to be immature MTV rock with zero substance. This disc changed all that and shows maturity, musical diversity and a lot of energy. Partially inspired by bands like the Cure, this disc kicks ass.

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Brady Sadler

Artist: Kings of Leon
Album: Youth and Young Manhood

Comments: Contemporary Southern Rock - Three brothers and a cousin. The vocals take some getting used to and can be hard to understand. You'll recognize some tracks as backing from recent TV commercials. Their new album is also very good. I saw them at the Paradise in Boston just before they went on tour with U2. They are great live and will be playing at the Avalon in August with the Secret Machines (I've yet to get into this band but I'm told they are good live). Dig it. B

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Richie Victorino

Album: Spoon
Album: Gimme Fiction

Comments: Man I've been pumping this one for a while, I'm not sure why. These guys are from Austin, TX, which probably adds to how cool they are by default. Sorry, but somehow that's true. I think this album sounds like a modern day Beatles without sounding like a band who wants to be the beatles (Oasis). I'm not sure there's a track I don't like on this.

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Adam Fleishman

Artist: Iron and Wine
Album: The Creek Drank the Cradle

Comments: Good afternoon everyone, I'm very excited to be a part of the Oprah Book club for Ears Organization! I think that people have such cool artists in their collection that many people (friends/family) may or may not have ever heard of so this seems like a good thing to spread round. Moving along I recently re-discovered this artist. His band is featured on the Garden State soundtrack, but beyond that I've never heard of him. His songs are extremely mellow and he plays the banjo. Most of his songs seem to sound alike, and if your in the mood for chilling out, this works pretty well in my opinion. …