Two really great albums

I just can't make time for fancy write up... but I've definitely been able to listen to both of these a great deal while I work.

Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner vs. Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope

Two great albums... thanks for the folks who submitted. I loved listening to these, both being ones that I'd only ever browsed.

Ben Folds: great album. Inventive and creative. Listening to it was interesting and enjoyable. Drawback: I don't think Ben's voice is all that, but the group more than makes up for it in diversity of sound. Additionally, I think that this was a 1999 album, which might punk it out of the competition?

Spektor: Also creative and new. I feel like she is doing a 'best of' album early in her career. Her light airy soprano voice might grate on some folks but it really grew on me. There is an element of risk in this album that I really liked. The kind of emotional commitment that I've heard in beginning albums of other artists that makes me fall in love with them. I look forward to hearing more from her.

Victor: Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope.