Having a crap load music, sometimes you forget what you have. This can be a blessing a lot of the time (or an embarrassment, when you have a one of *NSynch’s albums on disk because your little sister wanted it on a slide show). So I was perusing through the lo-fi section of Amazon’s mp3 downloads looking for some new music (I’ll review that purchase later) when an album came up that was at one point held a permanent position in my cd player.

Going back in time, when I owned my trusty Jeep Scrambler and ruled the roads (a local band even wrote a song about me and my jeep). At any rate, it was ‘95 and I was totally into Weezer (guess what my middle child’s middle name is - Jonas). In fact I had to purchase the venerable Blue album 3 times due to loss and destruction. Then I got wind of a band that comprised of a few Weezer members and some people from another band. I knew I needed to give it a whirl.

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So here I am eating a turkey and bacon sammich, and tooling around on the laptop - bored, oh yeah you could say so. The dialog of a Barbie Princess (and yes, it IS Martin Short playing the villian) movie playing the background along with merry musings of both my boys building something out Imaginext.

But, as I was cruising through Amazon’s mp3 downloads (no DRM, decent prices - did I mention NO DRM?), I found myself looking in the International section, listening to some pretty fun Buena Vista Social Club (mental list, # 5) and then I found something that caught my eyes. It was a lullaby version of Bob Marley tunes. It wasn’t as good as I thought it might be (granted I only listened to a few songs), but something way better caught my eye lower on the screen.

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