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Now that my leukocytes have mostly beaten back the Dread Germs Roberts and I’m more or less in the land of the living and semicoherent again, I thought I’d briefly revisit “Rock Against Floyd,” the free CD sent with my order from the Secret Society of Vegans. At the time, I’d been somewhat nonplussed — it seemed to be a leftover from a 2005 tour, which seemed rather odd — but now I’ve had time to absorb the content a bit, and it’s actually become one of my favorite CDs. (To give you an idea, I usually listen to Fenric the iPod on shuffle, but more and more I find myself just switching to this album instead. The people along my usual commute path are probably getting pretty sick of it by now.)

The weirdest thing is that I actually like pretty much every song on the CD. That hardly ever happens; in fact, I don’t recall a single other album that didn’t have at least one song that sent me lunging for the fast-forward/skip button. This might be a small problem, because there are 10 different artists represented, and if I’m going to buy CDs from all of them, that adds up to a considerable expense that I don’t really need right now (what with the upcoming MacBook and other Sweden-trip-related purchases). The songs range from what I’d consider fairly standard but good alt-rock, through metal, and into punk — for what my opinion’s worth, at least, because I’m hardly a music classification expert.

The top contenders right now for early purchase, though, are probably the artists whose songs I find myself craving periodically: Rise Against, the Real McKenzies (Quicktime link to audio), the Soviettes, and the Epoxies (Quicktime link to video). I particularly like the last one, because, you know, you just don’t get enough social commentary set to heavy synthesizer music these days. :D