365 project:"whats wrong with kicking it when youre bored and lit?"

54.

artist:unwritten law
album:from music in high places

i finished college at a school in central jersey. (the debate about whether "central jersey" actually exists or if its just north and south is a debate for another day. this is a music blog, not a geographical one...) we lived a few blocks from the Atlantic ocean, and as you can imagine, life was really laid back. (i may or may not have lived with stoners, which may or may not have contributed to the laid back lifestyle.) Senior year we had to move off-campus due to some lousy housing lottery rules and a lot changed that year.

my time at this particular school really helped me mold my musical tastes. it is safe to say that my tastes are firmly rooted in the stuff that i listened to growing up, but the stuff that i listen to now is a direct result of my three years at that particular school. this album is from that time period.

there was a radio station up there that i listened to any time i was too far out to get my own college station (or when there was a DJ on playing a format that i didn't really care for.) on Sunday mornings they did a stripped-down acoustic show that i always happened to catch driving home from work (i was working overnights and was on the schedule for most Saturdays because that was one of the few days i was available.) on this show, they played "up all night" nearly every Sunday, and i really, really liked that song a lot, so i got my hands on the CD. i cant honestly remember if i bought it or if i got it via the radio station, but i think i actually bought it. i vaguely remember going to target for it.

at any rate, i went through a phase where i listened to this CD nonstop, but it didn't last long. what ended up happening was that i ripped "up all night" and "seein' red" to my laptop and put the CD away, to be forgotten about, which is exactly what happened. once my laptop died (RIP lappy...its been a few years and i still miss you) that was pretty much it for this CD. it just sat on the shelf in my bedroom and got ignored.

i decided this morning that it was as good a day as any to pull this CD from my shelf and give it a spin. today is one of those quiet mornings where I'm home alone, drinking coffee and baking cupcakes. (not quite the same baking as was going on around me in college.) i see now why it got old fast. yes, its stripped down and really pretty, but every damn song sounds the same. i was on the last song of the album and didn't realize it because i kept expecting the chorus from "up all night" to start again.

this is not a bad album, but I'm definitely glad i didn't chose to listen to it while i was out driving around like i normally do for this project. it probably would have put me to sleep and made me wreck. this is definitely a "lazy Sunday morning with a cup of coffee" CD.