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Right now there’s about 4 or 5 albums in the rotation on my mp3 player. Sure, I’ve got room for thousands of songs on there, but I typically only listen to a few bands at a time. It’s still worth it, though, as I like not having to swap shit out all the time.

A few weeks ago, Stephanie gave me the Bayside Acoustic album, and I’m a pretty big fan of that. They’re supposedly a screaming band on all their other albums–something I’m not a fan of–but the Acoustic album is not at all. Winter is a great song, and the rest of the cd is pretty good too.

Next up is Teddy Geiger’s Underage Thinking. Megan hooked me up with the cd a couple weeks ago. I like the whole cd, but there’s a few songs that stick out to me. I really like Night Air, which is by far my favorite song on the cd.

After that comes School House Rock! Rocks. It’s basically a compilation cd of a bunch of bands covering School House Rock! songs. I don’t like every song on the cd, but I like Blind Melon’s version of Three Is A Magic Number. It’s pretty catchy. I’ve got Jordy to thank for that one.

The other day Al was watching the newest episode of Scrubs and I happened to notice I liked one of the songs that was playing. This really didn’t come as a surprise as I really do love the Scrubs soundtracks. I think the show probably has the best soundtrack of any show on tv. The fact that J.D., the main character, loves Journey doesn’t hurt either.

Anyhow, it turned out the song was called How To Save A Life from The Fray’s album of the same name. I’ve listened to it a couple times through and I really like it. The song She Is is also a great song. So that’s certainly on the recommend list, as well.

Yesterday I also picked up Blind Melon’s first album, which is self-titled. I haven’t honestly listened to any songs other than No Rain, which was the reason I downloaded it. I like the song quite a bit, but had forgotten about it until I heard Jordy play it last weekend. Hopefully the rest of the album is on par with that, too.

Lastly, I found out yesterday that Harvey Danger (of Flagpole Sitta fame) released their latest album on the internet for free download. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I’d say everybody should go pick it up. Who can complain about free music? If you like it, they have a system where you can donate a couple bucks to the band, which I’ll probably do. I just appreciate them not treating fans like pieces of shit.

Oh, and before I forget, I love the “Panic! At The Disco” album “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out”. They were discovered by Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy’s bassist), and they’re great. It took me a couple times through the cd to really start liking them, but I definitely do now. They’ve got a nice sound. That’s another one for which the credit should go to Megan.

Lastly on the rotation is The Strokes new album First Impression Of Earth. I’ve had all their albums other albums for a while, but had never really listened to them much. Corinne and Jordy went to one of their shows a couple weeks back, so I figured I should give them a bit more of a listen. It turns out I like them quite a bit, too.

So that’s the general rotation on my mp3 player right now. Chances are it’ll last quite a while since it’s a pretty hefty list. I’d certainly recommend any of those albums to anybody reading this though. Top on the recommendation list would probably be Panic!. It’s just a fun cd.

[Edit:] Yeah so it turns out I get a lot of my music from other people’s recommendations.  I’m perfectly fine with that, though.  It saves me a lot of the work, haha.