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What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?
Heavy Rotation... that sounds like a good name for a bimonthly music collection....
Anyway, the big surprise that has popped back into my lineup is Paul Simon's Surprise. It's an appropriate title. I've been starting to enjoy a little more of Simon's music - eccentric as he is - and took a gamble on this. It's solid. It's textured and mature, and has a lot of great, deep hooks that stick in my head for days. Plus, lyrics that are just fabulous ("Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?", "You can not walk with the holy if you're just a halfway decent man") The whole thing does indeed have Brian Eno written all over it, but that's good: it's a solid combination of Simon's pop sensibilities (and near-misses, of course) with Eno's layering and diverse instrumentation.
I guess the biggest surprise about it is that it's held up well for me over the past few months. I suspect I'll be able to return to it in a few years and still feel strongly about it. It's speaking more to my Adult-with-a-capital-A side, versus a lot of the pop music I enjoy that just speaks to the here and now.
