Last month I downloaded Davíd Garza's "A Strange Mess of Flowers" on eMusic.  As I sometimes struggle to use up all 90 of the tracks I'm paying for each month (which, as I mentioned, I'm getting a deal on), I actually leapt at the chance to download a 71-track "four-disc box set" or tracks, on the basis of a bunch of 30-second samples.  (I can't remember if I listened to all of them or not.  Because that's over half an hour right there.)

I was not a huge Davíd Garza fan, though I did like his "This Euphoria" album, which was at the top of my Amazon wishlist for some years, mostly because I happened to add it first after listening to it from the library, so it was mostly the convenience of not having to think as much about my eMusic downloads for the month.

But I'm getting tired of the album now, and ready to go on to someone else, even interspersed with bits of my other playlists as it's been.  The songs are okay, but few of them are standing out--well, I just heard one called "My Sister" that seemed interesting, but I can tell that I'm not retaining them in my head, and a week from now I won't get any snippets of remembered music when I look at the titles.

Ah, well, it's not the worst eMusic download I've done.  A few months ago I took a chance on a double album by a band named Science Fiction, which turned out to be basically AOR--occasionally quite bad AOR, with lyrics written by someone whose first language was not English.  (The best songs were thus the ones which they sang in their native language, because I couldn't tell how bad the lyrics were.)  I'd take Garza over that any day.

And, let's be honest, if I actually spent the time to listen to the album and get to know it, it may very well grow on me.  But who has the time to do that any more?