I have a bit of a strange relationship with those CDs you burned me last time. I pull them out occasionally and play them, with alternating wild cries of enjoyment and annoyance. (Actually, this is beginning to sound a bit like the way I interact with you in person, so no surprises there...) Often the irritation wins out and I don't finish playing the CD. You may wish to shunt more my way on the grounds that my education is obviously incomplete.

I am listening to Muse because Vera has lent me her entire collection, on the assumption that they're enough like Radiohead that I might enjoy them. I am following my usual band-grokking process of playing them through, repeatedly, in strict chronological order. Alternative rock-y. They're texturally quite complex, which I like, but I'm finding them a little formless at times. Still, good listening. The singer sounds uncommonly Radioheaded. Falsetto.