Paul Westerberg - 49:00
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Well the new Paul Westerberg album came out yesterday and unless you are an avid viewer of his personal website you would have had no idea until today when Billboard.com published an article about it. Its called 49:00 which is the amount of minutes the album runs and is available for the time being as a $.49 download at amazon.com. Thats a penny a minute folks. Even though I dont have a job i can still afford to but new music from Paul Westerberg at this price. Is it worth a penny a minute? Totally. The album comes as one mp3 file, is 1 track, contains no liner notes song titles or lyrics, and when i say that the songs run right into each with out pauses or break i actually mean that most of the time they overlap each other and you lose the end of one song and the beginning of another all in one shot. There are a few occasions where it seems like there are several songs playing at once, however this only for second or two, so it may just be Pauls attempt at a sound-scape. The songs that are audible though are perfectly lo-fi and terrible. Vintage Westerberg and great if you like that sort of thing which i do. I dont know if i ever had a list of my alltime funniest songs but if i did a song I will call ‘Everything’s Stupid’ which comes drunkenly staggering in halfway through the set, would be #2 on my list right behind ‘I like Traffic Lights,’ by The Monty Python. The lyrics of the song are literally ‘Everythings stupid/ everythings stupid/ everythings stupid/ whatever it means.’ I dont know if he is trying to be funny but i find it hilarious. So in short, if you have $.49 and the ability to download music you might as well get yourself 49:00. even if you dont like it, which im sure many people will not, what have you really lost? Thats right only $.49. Im sure in this economy some people might be loathe to waste that kind of dough but those are the same people who will run out and buy the new Miley Cyrus record in their H3 Hummers. Im not sure what that has to do with anything but those people make me mad. Keep on Chooglin’!
