Decyfer Down End of GreyMerry weekend everyone. I've been relaxing a bit.

I've also been looking for some new music. On the way home from my family reunion, i got to drive my mom's car which has a free trial to XM, so I decided to look for some new music on XM. I found a few bands. More on that later though. I know I talk a lot about video games so I'm dedicating this post to Music, because I also love music. It's just been pretty slow for music for me.

First off Relient K released a new EP entitled The Bird and the Bee Sides. It's weird because it also has another title called The Tennis EP. Get it? From what I can tell is that The Tennis EP is the first half of the CD, and The Bird and the Bee Sides is the second half. The CD has 26 tracks. You may ask, "Why the heck is it an EP then?" Most of the songs are really short. If you have A.D.D., you would love the CD.

Anyways, the first half of the CD has all new songs, while the second half has mostly acoustic versions of old songs, or demo versions of old songs, but there are a few new ones like a tribute to Five Iron Frenzy. Which is about 30 seconds long, but there is a "regular" versions and a Skaa version. It's just a fun CD. I like it.

To be honest, I loved the CD MmmHmm but Five Score and Seven Years Ago was a little dissapointing to me. But I totally love The Bird and the Bee Sides and anticipate their new CD, whenever it comes out. The CD was normally 13 bucks at Best Buy, but it was on sale this week for 8 bucks. I think the sales ends on today (Saturday). It's worth 13 bucks too though. My favorite song on it is "The Scene and Herd" which can be heard on their myspace page. "They Vinyl Countdown" is also pretty funny. Like I said, it's a fun CD and sounds great. I'm gonna move on because I'm rambling at this point.

So as I said earlier, I was listening to Squizz on XM radio, and stumbled accross an awesome sounding band. Decyfer Down is their name. I can't remember what song it was, but I think it was off thier upcoming CD which gets released September 16. Anyways, I got their old album, End of Grey. I've listened to it a few times, but I was preoccupied doing stuff on my computer, so I wasn't "listening" to it. You know what I mean?

Anyways a few songs that I picked up on were "Burn out the Sun" which is awesome and "Fight like This". I have a car trip tomorrow so I'll listen to Relient K one more time, and then listen to Decyfer Down. So yeah. My the way, Squizz plays harder music, so they are a harder band, but they are not screamo. I like it.

I think I'll do Puddle of Mudd next. I heard "Psycho" on Squizz and I liked that song. But then I got their CD Famous and was a little let down. But then again I was in one of those "doing something on the computer while listening to music" states. So I'll listen to it on my car ride also. My friend, Jeremy loves them and says they put on a good live show.

Another band is Breaking Benjamin. I'm listening to Phobia right now as I type. So again I'm in one of those states of kinda listening. So far it's pretty good. I'll probably listen to this CD before Puddle of Mudd on my car ride, just because. Hmm. Another short paragraph. I bet the next one will be shorter though.

So I heard Three Days Grace on the radio, and liked them. My friend Jeremy likes them. I haven't listened to their CD One X yet, but will at some point. I got it. That's pretty much all.

Ha! Told you. Anyways I've also been playing around with my music. I reripped Juliana Theory's CD Love because I noticed that the CD sounded really good quality, but the one on my IPod sounded pretty bad. I thought it was just like that all these years. Turns out, I was wrong. So I had to update my IPod and Itunes library with that.

Speaking of Itunes, anyone else annoyed by the fact that Apple decided to add a Safari install in the Itunes install? I almost didn't notice and clicked next on that screen without unchecking the check box. I don't need that crap. I gots Firefox :) So there!

I'm still mad that you have to install Quicktime with Itunes. That program is total crap. I dont like the interface. But then again it's been like Quicktime 5 since I used it last. So maybe the changed the user interface. I almost don't like the ITunes interface, but I'm used to it so yeah. If they changed it to something better, I wouldn't mind though. It takes forever for me to scroll through my library to find the CD I want to listen to. I have 1370 songs, and I use Album view because the regular view makes my sick.

Let's see. I decided to put some video game music on my IPod. I put Starcraft's soundtrack on it. I also added Hellgate London's and Twisted Metal's soundtrack. I would add Crysis's, but it kinda sucks.

I finally updated my album artwork for my music too. About a fourth of my music didn't have artwork. I had to add them manually. There are still a few, like the local bands that I have CDs of. Midnight Sun Express (no longer around, but the lead singer is in Electric City now, I think. I should really know. I know the guy.) and Stainless (also no longer around, but the lead singer and bass player are brothers and are in a new band called The Future. They just got signed in Tennesee. I also knew those guys.) are the two bands that come to mind. Anyways I ramble again.

I'm really tempted to get an Ipod Touch. Those things are pretty sweet. I have an 8GB nano, and have 6 GB worth of music on it (yeah I have more music on my IPod then I do on my computer). But the Touch is sweet. I work with a guy that has one and he's cracked it and has all these apps on it. But they cost monies, and I'm saving mine. Plus I'm kina looking towards the next generation ones. Well another long post comes to an end.

Have a great weekend peeps.