Looking ahead...

Yeah, because I have all the spare time in the world, I decided to flip through Amazon.com's upcoming releases in the music department. Here are the ones I'm gonna need to at least check out at some point (with some annotated comments):

The Body Acoustic - Cyndi Lauper

Caught her on The Today Show this weekend and heard her do a beautiful version of "True Colors". I'm guessing that was to promote this new album

Greatest Hits - Blink 182

I'm at best a casual fan of Blink, so this might be right up my alley.

Life Aquatic Studio Sessions - Seu Jorge

Beautiful renditions of David Bowie songs by Jorge populated the soundtrack of Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou which was a beautiful film. This might be worth it to hear a little more.

Whispering Pines - Richard Manuel

First member of The Band to leave us, a beautiful voice. No clue what his solo work was like, but his group work was enough to make me curious.

The Original Bootlegs - Tori Amos

Seriously? 12 cds of Tori Amos? I like some of her earlier stuff (up to and including most of Boys for Pele but 12 cd's? I'm curious.

29 - Ryan Adams

His third release of the calendar year sees (apparently) Adams back in solo form. He's one of my favorites, so I'll buy pretty much anything he puts out at this point.

Separate Ways - Teddy Thompson

First album from son of the great British guitarist was really pretty. Teddy's got a voice closer to the beauty of his mom's but with the guitar chops of dad. Nice combo.

Remix Album - Beck

Beck's approaching the "I'll buy anything he puts out" stage of artist love for me. I see two odd albums with very little detail listed as coming out in December for him, and my interest is piqued.

Guerolito - Beck, again

Another album listed but with no more details. I'm intrigued. (An update - thanks to Kyle, I found out that it appears the two Beck cds are one in the same. Details can be found here, though it sounds like it might not come out 'til January.)

The Aristocrats (soundtrack)

With clips from the movie?