New Hanson CD finally arrived!

Ok, I'm fully obsessed with Hanson now. I'm not really sure what happened. Just a few weeks ago, I was obsessed with Dave Grohl. How I started out with Foo Fighters and ended up at Hanson, I frankly have no idea. I'm sure I'll circle back around to Foo Fighters at some point after making a brief pitstop in some sort of 80's music (Journey maybe?).
And Dave Grohl is definitely still my ROCK GOD!

This Hanson is very different from the Hanson of three years ago. The youngest one does lead vocals on two songs (Misery and Broken Angel), and his voice sounds so mature! Not as great a singer as the middle one (who is really the lead singer), but still very promising. He's only 18, so I would say he's doing damn good so far. Overall, I'd say they are leaning more towards rock than pop. Their last album This Time Around was about half great songs that I LOVE and then half songs that I didn't really care for. With this album, Underneath, I love only a few songs, but I like all the rest. I'm sure in the end, they will all grow on me. But each song sort of reminds me of some other band: Misery reminds me of Coldplay, Hey reminds me of Aerosmith, Deeper reminds me of Michelle Branch (she actually sings on this track though which might have something to do with it- unfortunately I'm not a big Michelle Branch fan),Lost Without Each Other reminds me of some band but I can't figure it out which. This Time Around was really upbeat and poppy, but this album is more mellow and chill.

So for your listening pleasure, I am filesharing these files on IM. If you right-click on my IM name (VespaP) and "Get File.." you should be able to download stuff off of me. My recommendations for Underneath as absolute must-haves are:

1) Penny and Me
2) Get Up and Go
3) Lost Without Each Other
4) Underneath
5) Misery

but seriously I would recommend everything but Dancing in the Wind and When Youre Gone. Broken Angel is a little sappy but I dig it anyway. And Deeper because it sounds too Michelle Branch-y.


Since we're at it, my recommendations for This Time Around are

1) You Never Know
2) If Only
3) This Time Around
4) Runaway Run
5) A Song to Sing
6) Sure About It (lyrically weird, but the beat is catchy)

You can also get this album off my IM name :)

My God, I've written about Hanson in 3 entries. I really am obsessed.