What Sound
Lamb
What Sound, 2001
Apparently I’ve managed not to mention swapacd.com yet on this blog – a website I’ve been obsessed with for over a year now. It’s pretty straightforward; you set up an account and enter the barcodes or album info for CDs you have and are willing to trade. When someone requests a CD from you, you mail it to them and you get one credit when they receive it. You can then request any CD from the ~190,000 CDs available on the site. You pay the site a reasonable $.50 per trade and that’s how they stay in business. You’re basically turning CDs that are taking up space into CDs you really want for about $1.75 each.
As you might imagine, those bottom three rows in my cd collection that consist of albums that hadn’t made it into my iTunes in the 5+1/2 years that I’ve been digitizing music suddenly took on a new urgency. Of course, I couldn’t just trade them without listening to them so there have been several stints of sitting down with tall stacks of CDs and giving them the most cursory of listens. There have been several pleasant surprises include this Lamb album. I realized that I was so obsessed with this Lamb song that I posted in December that I never gave the album a chance after I realized that song was only on the album as a bonus track on the bonus DVD (and I couldn’t import it to iTunes from the DVD; I subsequently picked up The K&D Sessions).
I like the intro to this song (I’m guessing half of you won’t be particularly moved by it) but don’t stop listening before the unexpected beat drops at 1:39. It’s an great juxtaposition and it actually makes me think of a less quirky version of Matthew Herbert’s production on Róisín Murphy’s debut album (although I’m sure Matthew Herbert fans might disagree).
So back to swapacd – I’ve traded about 135 CDs so far and I still have another 137 posted for trade. I encourage you all to set up an account – the more people on there, the better the selection I have to choose from! Oh, and you’ll like it too, it’s not just about me (ok…it is).
Songs are available for two weeks.
