(null)Created 23 Apr 2002 at 21:18 UTC by dogmanphil, last modified 26 Sep 2005 at 13:45 UTC by dogmanphil.
Notes: This is the music review, suggestion, what’s in the jukebox this week, section of the dinner. Your once a week post of an album just bought or something rediscovered that might be getting a lot of playtime.wilco/yankee hotel foxtrot day one:one listen,too loud;me:too preoccupied=too little saturation.
second listen,perfect volume;me:perfectly prepared to hear all they have to offer=it turns out they have a lot to offer once again.
yankee hotel foxtrot refers to what i understand is a cb radio lingo,and to add to the overall package that wilco is very good at delivering,there are radio interferences throughout the album.
twisty lyric: i know this isn't what you were wanting me to say how can i get closer and be further away from the truth that proves it's beautiful to lie.
give it a whirl; if you've never heard these guys check out a.m., their first album.
sophomore effort of a side project band called Down. the band consists of the vocalist and the bassist from Pantera, the drummer from EYEHATEGOD, the vocalist/guitarist from Corrosion of Conformity, and a guitarist from the band Crowbar. not all superwonderful bands, mind you. but this project is really darn good!!! they started out jamming together as a bunch of guys in the same 'scene' who were all from/living in New Orleans and liked Black Sabbath (note: Sabbath = rules). there is a lot of heavy sabbath riffs, wailing guitar solos, and real singing. also a bit of a bluesy influence there too.anyway, ive been rockin out to it since thursday, when Kerry lent it to me. Lee even played it last night at the 'wood.
good stuff.
No album yet, but go catch the live show. Fronted by Page McCOnnel of Phish and featuring Russel Batiste (Funky Meters) and Oteil Burbridge (Allmans, Aquarium Rescue Unit). Deep funk grooves and some raygun keyboard sounds -- good stuff.
I'm hopeless at describing music, so I'll merely state that Ms. Goldfrapp has a wonderful voice, and point you to two sample tracks from Felt Mountain: Lovely Head and Utopia. I like Utopia a lot; I sing it to myself.
not to say everyone suggesting is bad, but i am afriad that then people might be less opt to check the suggestions. if there is two or three a day as opposed one a week and we can all talk about what we dig or dislike about it. but, if we all don't want to do it that way thats fine too.
i think that sneakums had a great idea in adding links to the music. if at all possible if we could add a web page or direct link to free music, that would rock. i know that amazon.com has alot samples.
so, what do you think? one a week? rotate reviewers?
I know this probably isn't what you initially envisioned, but I think the best thing is that we make unique rooms for unique album reviews -- so like, if you were to review say, Jumbo McClooney's new album Bork, you would make an entree called Jumbo McClooney's Home-Made Bork Chops or something like that, and then write your review as the main info for the entree.Or, and maybe we talked about this before and I didn't like the idea, but having full-on album review as Specials works too -- what's good about that, is that people can respond to the review, but eventually it will sink down to the bottom of the list when it's time has passed. (It would be better as an entree in this way, since entrees with new messages would pop back up, as if when someone rediscovered it.)
I like the idea of there being an entree like the jukebox for people to blurb about what's in the CD player now, and having full-on reviews sort of being their own individual thing.
I'm sorry if I said something otherwise when we were on the phone, I hadn't thought about how it would actually turn out.
What do you think?
much less version of a book club. i know what you meant phil, but i really hate oprah. besides, she pulled the book club recently because she couldn't come up with anything else she thought was good to read????how lame is that? (answer: really lame)
anyways, i don't know how often im going to go and buy an album suggested in here. $$ is tight right now, and i have a lot of albums i have yet to purchase. i think the idea of each album with its own 'Entree' is a good one. that way it will stay archived somewhere near the bottom of the main menu, and we can all look for them on the main page and do with them what we will. also, that way several threads of discussion can go on at once without too much confusion.
good idea's so, we can through in the jukebox what we are listening to these days and more in debth review and chat as full on dinners entree's.
essence- by lucinda williams
it's amazing one of my favorites of the year. very low key, moody, kinda cowboy junkies.
motherland - by natalie merchant
i don't normally like natalie's music but, this album is very differant for her. t bone burnett (oh, brother sdtrk) produced it, so it has a great roots sound.
it's hard to find a friend - by pedro the lion
ake ledt me this cd. we are going to see them and damien jurado next monday at the metro. i never listened to pedro the lion, maybe cause their name was too similar to our first band name or when everyone says you should listen to them it kind of keeps me away. but, the album is great. emo-acoustic-progresive
room for squares - by john mayer
this album is what is going right with the new music scene. with artists like mayer and pete yorn, popular music is moving away from rap/metal and into folk progresive rock. which is just fine with me.
Not heard that one. I have Car wheels... which I like a lot, certainly more than her old stuff. Is there anything like Can't let go (a truly marvellous tune) on Essence?
Car WHeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeels on a gravell roaaaaaaaaaaaaadd!
Maybe the title track isn't particularly stunning but you have to admit that Can't let go is darned good. She sang it with acoustic accompaniment at the 1999 Bridge Concert. 'Twas excellent.
It's just stuck in my head now... It goes like this:Carrrr WHeeeeeeeeeeeels on a gavelll roaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!
man,those fuckers will keep rockin' as long as there is a free world out there somewhere.i know this entree is supposed to be for albums,but i was blown away by their show tonight.
like, live and in person? that's cool.
not too many girls can swear really well. fortunately i know most of the ones that can.
A little info by way of the fat possum records grapevine: their sister label 'Anti-' is releasing the Waits' albums "Alice" and "Blood Money", and they will be streaming both albums before they come out. And I quote, book of possum, verse 12:"The Tom Waits Streaming Event: May 2-7. Both records will play separately in their entirety on www.Anti.com in one continuous sequence for 48 hours each. "Alice" -- April 30 @ 10am PST - May 2, continuing into "Blood Money" May 3 - May 6."
Also -- this years bluesfest in ole Chicago is looking to be good, including 90 year old Honeyboy Edwards, who was in the juke joint with Robert Johnson the night he was poisoned. And as we all know, bluesfest is as free as a newborn baby.
I'm really annoyed with Wilco. Now I won't be able to call my first album "Yankee Hotel Baker Tango".
oh woweee. anodyne is a kick ass album.i purchased nine new albums in two days. and i paid full price for only one: neil young's new one: are you passionate?
but i haven't heard that one yet...
full report to follow after a listen or two...
Tonight, Phil, Ake Larson, myself, and some others (Janelle? Jen?) more? Are going to see Pedro the Lion and Damien Jurado at The Metro. It'sa goona be good!
laura turned us onto damien's music. he is really great. kinda, nick drake-ish. damien jurado.com
damien jurado
Just got back from the Damien/Pedro show. Really great. Basically there were like 6 or 7 guys, who just traded up a lot and formed 3 bands that played for about 3 hours, great show. What I really love about those guys is that they have no pretense. They're just normal dudes up there, playing music, singing, and doing what they love. It was rad too, because the Metro is a big venue for a crowd like that, and they were pretty psyched about that, which was fun to see. It was a great crowd too. Definitely worth the price of admission. And having Whitmer there was extra-especially cool.
Gene Lee burned me copies of Outkast's Stankonia, and The White Stripes album. i don't remember the title. i like it. very laid back feel to it. if i were to play one of my favorite games whereby i try to take bands that people might know and combine their sounds to describe the sound of somebody else. the less groups/artists that you use to describe the band the better your 'score' would be if i played for score. So i thought that TWS sound like Modest Mouse meets The Rolling Stones. anybody else see this connection?
I had a great time at damien jurado and pedro the lion show. it was really cool. pete summed it up but, i picked up damien new cd "i break chiars." its cool. the guys from pedro the lion are his backing band. check out his song paper wings
for more on the new album check out the press kit
The Damien Jurado album I Break Chairs is really good. If you like that aforementioned proprietarily encoded portion of the album, you will probably like the album as a whole (as I don't think that's the best song, and there is a good variety in addition to that song)... it's really good, and artists like Damien can really use your support.
what i mean by that is that I LOVE that song, but I still don't think it's the best. Well... i'm not sure. It's pretty freakin' good.But really. Anyway.
i would recommend Paste Music to everyone. it a great site for good music that you might not know. there is full mp3 of artist for almost every album, not samples like most other sites.
check out some of these artist's:
Bill Mallonee and/or Vigilantes of Love**
Damien Jurado***
Daniel Amos
Elliott Smith**
Harrod & Funck***
Buddy and Julie Miller
Jason Harrod*
Justin Roth
Loudon Wainwright III
Over the Rhine
Pedro the Lion**
Starflyer 59
I been listening to Tapehead on repeat lately when I walk the dog and I can't get enough of Over and Over, Ocean, and Little Bit Of Soul. Those songs just tickle my groove spot.
that album is amazing! i love it. i know ake wasn't nuts about it, but i dig it. i don't think there is a song that i don't like. the only bad thing about it is the art layout. pete and i used to joke that the must have had a contest "design king's x next album!" and some some jr. high kid won ande did all the layout with macPaint. its not really bad but, it is poor.
ok i just spent way to much time trying to a great post with links to the albums and my puter crashed before i posted. GRRRR! so this will be a little rushed.
Chris Whitley - i really like his acoustic stuff best. but, cause his albums very its hard to say what one might like. i suggest "Dirt Floor" or "Living With The Law."
that link doesn't work. my bad. try this:
Chris Whitley
i really like the music of red house painters but, the lead singer is a jackass. pete, jen and i went to see them and well...pete should tell the story. anyways please don't see them live. these are the best ones to get:
Old Ramon is the newest album and i like is allot.
Songs For A Blue Guitar probably one of my favorite albums ever. it's not really red house painters album its a solo album for the lead singer. no other guys are listed as playing. but, it is a must have.
Retrospective is a great collection of the best songs from the rest of the earlier albums.
its hard to say what dylan one should get if the have none. you could get one of the three greatest hits albums. but, these are my favorite few:
Freewheelin' this is a great early acoustic album.
Highway 61 Revisited this is a great electric album.
Blood on the Tracks this is arguably his best album.
Oh Mercy this might be my favorite.
Time out of Mind this won album of the year.
both "oh mercy" and "time out of mind" were produced by Daniel Lanois and are king!
Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley -- Robert Palmer
a friend who is really into her was playing me some covers that she did. i really dug them. something made me mention SLAYER and she's like
"oh, well Tori did a cover of a SLAYER song on her latest album!"
im like
"Yeah right"
"no really, its called Raining Blood or something..."
now i start to believe her
"really?"
"yeah, ill play it for you"
she really did cover the song Reign In Blood. and it is really dang good!!. it doesn't sound anything like the original though. (the original is ALSO really good)
has anyone heard of this guy? richard buckner was a name i came across while sifting through the wilco website. i checked out some of his stuff by way of online clips and then found one of his cds, 'since' cheap on ebay. well, it came today and i'm just listening to it now. it sounds pretty good. kind of similar to the silver jews but more folk/country-ish. i think pedro would like him.
kels! i am a really big richardbuckner fan, he is amazing. someone put him on a mix tape for me a couple of years ago and i liked the song..then i went to see him and i was pretty much in awe...he is one of those people who have such big and sad voices..he looked like he had his heart destroyed and had been hitchhiking and lost in the desert/he looked like some kind of a crazy prophet/and his eyes were just shadows, and his voice..it filled up the whole room.. and it was one of the only shows that i noticed how quiet the crowd was/just silent/all of his cds are good, but i think that the best one is "devotion + doubt." if he ever plays, link, you gotta go...i think whenever he comes to chicago he plays at schuba's. that is cool that you think that pedro would like him, cause i have always sort of thought the same thing when i listen to him/i think i might have taped him some buckner and it gets played in the van from time to time. maybe on lonely moonlit nights, possibly.
it was really cool to see him play with a bunch of people. up-right bass, vibes, cello, sax, and tom being tom. it was cool. i taped it in case pete didn't see it.
Seriously, Phil, you rock. If Tom comes to town touring for this album, I really wanna be there.Also, I really like Richard Buckner, I'm glad you guys brought him up. Nesxt time I'm at Laurie's, I'm getting some.
I got a song calleg Stroker Ace by Lovage. Don't remember where it came from but it's a lovely little trippy pop number. Kind of like garbage draped in crushed velvet.
lovage: a prince paul/dan the automator project. can be got at audiogalaxy.
also from audiogalaxy, and i heard her album reviewed this evening on all things considered, which i'll admit is not always a sterling recommendation. but in this case i think they're right: precious bryant is quite good.
this may be - nay, is - the first ever bloated traveling rock festival who's every act i'm actually excited to see, and only two years past the summer before the apocalypse, the coming of which it would surely have prefigured had it then occured. astounding! bring on the unlimited sunshine!
the beach boys - vegitable (it's got a carrot solo that i think i heard is by that notorious herbivore lord paul mcartney)
living colour - love rears up it's ugly head (living colour rules[ruled]! the song's so nice i almost wish it would.)
stephen stills - treetop flyer (if only being a vietnam vet was really this cool. "...usually work alone...")
versus - eskimo (candy for baby - too catchy too be stopped.)
SHAKE EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT
I love this track from Life on Planet Groove. It's got the funky bassline and the tight horn section and the screaming solo by Maceo. What more could you ask for on a friday?
I bought a copy of Smiley Smile today.
ryan i forgot to tell you that when jen and i were in l.a. vernon reid was staying on our floor in our hotel the night of the grammy's. we went to go out for the night and he and his date were waiting for the elevator. well, i said "howdy!" and he said "howdy!" then his date forgot something in their room so the went back. so, we almost rode together in the elevator too. but, it was preaty bad ass to be standing next to vernon.
man, that's an ake larson moment. you have arrived! remind me to touch you very much next time i come to town. cool with a "k". does he still have those lovely dreadlocks with the coloured cloth all up in 'em? such a fella.
seems like i remember last time i talked to eric(k?) gaderlund(sp) he told me he had recently heard corey glover fronting some hellfire enormous white-noise thrash outfit, trying to vomit-up his lungs onstage through song. the things people do for art, i tell ya.
the beach boys were a bunch of squares (the old promo shots of them are priceless), but squaresville never sounded so sweet.
"seems like i remember last time i talked to eric(k?) gaderlund(sp) he told me he had recently heard corey glover fronting some hellfire enormous white-noise thrash outfit, trying to vomit-up his lungs onstage through song. the things people do for art, i tell ya"sounds like a good time to me. but then, i really dig weird heavy stuff. (there is a fine line, however)
He also put out some smoove R&B album recently.
I have been listening to this album again lately -- it's really good. I like it a lot more now than I used to.
Yoko Kanno - music from cowboy bebop movie and episodes (thankyou zen).
a while back i said that i had bought motherland and it was good, well it really reallllly is! i have a new respect and like for her stuff so i bought he second album ophelia which is good too. not as great but, daniel lanois plays guitar on one of the songs, which rocks. so, i would recommend picking up either of the two.
i also bought:
car wheels on a gravel road-lucinda williams
bushfire fairytales-jack johnson
vanilla sky soundtrack
I bought Sigur Ros, which I sent to Anna in the mail, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco, and a Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys bluegrass CD. All good.
I bought finally we are no one by Múm, and two Cornelius albums, Fantasma and Point. I just love the harmonica and banjo on "Thank You For The Music", which is from Fantasma.
I was able to rock this one out uninterrupted on my trip yesterday. i was never huge into Tool before. but then i heard this album, and it is REALLY GOOD!! it came out last year, and we listened to it a bunch at 4171 Mary Ellen Ave. It makes me pissed that i don't really know their other stuff well at all. If any of you can handle some really well orchestrated Heavy Music, check this album out. but you really have to listen to it kind of loud, to really appreciate it. let it fill the space you are in, and just absorb it. it is so dang good!! its not ALL heavy, some very intricate quieter parts too. Its so precise, yet humanly precise, not Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction-precise, with computer-metronomed drum beats and stuff. this album is just TIGHT. check it out, hopefully you won't be disappointed.
the only thing i can possibly have against this album is that it is longer than my ride between home and the George's/North Park area. I can't fault anyone for that. i just don't always get to hear the whole thing (which is amazing all the way through) when i drive home. and i never want to play the rest of it later (or i never think to do so). the album is also definitely cohesive.
not that we need proof, but lukas is hipper to the jive than the folks at audiogalaxy. he's known about these guys for a couple years.
I'm going to run a geek-0 game just as soon as all the players get their game on.It's going to be broken into thematic chapters, with song titles for each one. I'm starting with a Cannonball Adderly track called Money in the Pocket. It was actually written by Joe Zawinul. Get it if you haven't heard it.
Hey pedro, did you ever type up the White Palace menu back anywhere?
Not yet... I really should make an online version of the menu.
One of my bass idols passed away yesterday. May he rest in peace.
link 1, link 2
I bought a bunch of cds in the last couple weeks. Here's a brief rundown:Dire Straits: Dire Straits -- warner remasters. You know it, you love it, it's never sounded better since the day it was recorded.
the very best of ray charles: exactly what it sounds like, although a bunch of these tracks are total stinkers. there wasn't anything better, Rhino? Luckily they do have "The Night Time (Is The Right Time)", which of course makes me think of The Cosby Show.
Ralph Stanley: Ralph Stanley -- it's his FIRST solo album. Ralph Stanley of O Brother (Oooohohhhhooooooohhoooohhhhhh Deathhhhh) and more importantly, The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys. Produced by T-Bone Burnett (of course). Pretty cool.
Moby: 18 -- interesting. i'm still processing this. Less poppy, and there are a few really cool tracks. Not as groundbreaking as play, but somehow more evocative, which is unexpected, I guess.
Nickel Creek: Nickel Creek -- ok, this is pretty sweet and polished, thank you Alison Krauss Executive Producer -- but it's honestly not really polished in a bad way, and DAGLENDANGZIG these kids can pick, sing, and play like nobody's business. Wow. It sounds a little like jars of clay if it had a drum machine, but still, it's really cool.
Mark Knopfler: Golden Heart -- this was his solo album from 1996 or something like that. I've only listened to this about 1.5 times, but it's gotten better as i listened again, and some tracks are very cool right off the bat. Mark Knopfler is just one of those musicians I'm really glad is out there. Coincidence that I watched the princess bride today? No.
The Choir: Flap Your Wings -- the choir, the best unknown yet seminal, broken up yet still touring band in christian rock released an indie record last year that got nominated for a grammy for best christian rock record, and it's really actually, really great. these guys are awesome. you can order it at their website http://www.thechoir.net/.
i got dire straits and ray charles at a borders from their cheap cd rack. check it out, there are some fantastic albums on that rack, at least at the one in eau claire -- like some tom waits and other stuff too.
don't they have a song called 'Tom Bombadil's House'?
It's called "House of Tom Bombadil" and it's kind of an irish reel or something. Very cool.
Urban Hillbilly Quartet
check these cats out!
and they are really dang good! lots of upbeat folkish stuff, with a rambling (but at a good clip) pace to them. and if i am correct, they are all like 17 or 18 or some ridiculously young age...
These guys are really good!
Yeah, like, their album is a little overproduced, I think, in that slick kind of jars of clay-ey kind of way, but there's no denying that they can all BLAZE on the fret board, and they sing like champs. It's incredible.
Over the past few days I've heard about some new music on NPR. First up is a compilation of 60's and 70's funk entitled The Funky Sixteen Corners. From the samples I heard on the radio, the tracks are that sweet sounding brand of groovin' funk reminiscent of the tracks found on the DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist releases Brain Freeze and Product Placement (see thunder kick). It turns out that the CD release of the compilation has a Cut Chemist track. This looks like a really good funk compilation and not one of those bad disco-funk-party comps that you see all the time. I would have looked for it this weekend when we were at Olson's, but I couldn't recall the title of the album. Although I did listen to most of the new DJ Shadow release as well as a release by Tony Allen with Afrika 70 and the Afro Messengers entitled No Accommodation for Lagos / No Discrimination. I should have purchased it (but didn't) because I could listen those funky afro-grooves all day long. Kind of makes the summer heat feel welcome.
Next on my list of things to check out was a new release by Solomon Burke, the King of Rock and Soul. He wrote a lot of songs that other people made famous, but he's got a new album coming out, Don't Give Up on Me featuring tunes written by Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Tom Waits, and others. The album also features contributions by Daniel Lanois (who phil is in love with) and The Blind Boys of Alabama. They played a few samples on the radio and it sounds like a great album. I didn't see this one at the store either, but that's probably because it doesn't come out until tomorrow.
Living on Earth did a brief segment on a guy who recorded hours and hours of sounds from the New Mexico desert using contact microphones for some of it. The sounds of the ants attacking the microphone were really eerie. The segment is available for download in mp3, but I haven't listened to it so I can't vouch for it's quality. He's also published a book and CD with colelcted recordings from his trips to the desert as well as artsy poetry. And on a closing note I heard a bit on Mahlathini, the Lion of Soweto. He had an absolutely amazing voice so one of his albums has been added to the ever growing list. Ooh, one more thing, The Presidents of the United States of America's self titled album rocks!
The audio for the Living on Earth segment is here.The screaming ants are awesome!
Currently playing on my computer: Vida Blue's new self-titled album and Trey Anastasio's self-titled solo release. More hippie funk than you can shake a stick at!
Neale's diary posting on cell phones and HAM radios reminded me of a crazy show that I saw at the Metro in Chicago. The show was part of the something or other transmissions tour and it featured Scanner and DJ Spooky. It started out with some random DJ spinning downtempo acid jazz stuff. As his set was ending Scanner came out and set his stuff up. He had a bunch of sampler gear and fired up a loop as the other DJ finished his set. So Scanner has this eerie ambient pad going and he fires up his main 'instrument' which is a cell phone scanner, hence the name. It was interesting how he would weave his loops and samples around the live conversations coming from the scanner. After a while DJ Spooky came out and did some crazy turntabling and sampling. Then things got really crazy when Scanner returned to the stage for a veritable hurricane of sound. There were also crazy live film artists at the show with multiple film and slide projectors for crazy visuals to go along with the music. Scanner and DJ Spooky did an album together which I have not heard, but I don't think it would be near as cool since the conversations that intertwined with the music wouldn't be live.
So like, I half-scored out a musical piece for my composition teacher back at Texas Tech. I don't think he ever performed it, though. It goes something like this:Patrons are asked to please check their coats, hats, and cell phone numbers at the door. Before the performance begins, folks are asked to please leave their cell phones on. Then, as either the entire piece, or part of the piece, the performers will start calling numbers left at the door.
The effect would be that of a multitude of cell phones going off in the audience. It'd be like that John Cage piece where he writes a letter to his friend--eventually you'd stop paying so much attention to the stage, and start paying attention to the folks around you.
Anyway, it's neat conceptual art, at least.
do ya think people would get it? or would it go over their heads? it kinda reminds me of some of the filmography of James O. Incandenza in Infinite Jest.
No, not really. I think most people would just be annoyed. But then, maybe that's the point I'm trying to make. So I think it would have the desired effect, I guess, but I don't think many people would "get it".Anyway, they talk about cell phone jammers that block or garble signal. Those are illegal, but really easy to make (hint: spark gap generator. The downside is it might interfere with a pacemaker.) But what I'd really like is something that makes *all* cell phones ring. Turn that baby on right before the show starts, everyone's cell phone goes off at once, and they either leave to take the call or just turn the damned thing off.
In a related note, my one-way pager service is up for renewal, and I think I may just drop the thing, which would leave me with no "wireless" communications devices aside from my ham radio. It turned out, you see, that my experiment proved that not only do you not need a cell phone, people are still so capable of planning things in advance that even my easily-dialed pager went mostly unused for a full year.
but things are SOOO much easier with a cell phone. its a real drag that i had to turn off my most recent service. i will hopefully be getting new service fairly soon.
I got Folklore recently. I haven't given it many full listens yet, but I really love Outlaw Song.
the band that redvinegar shares a bass player with has a show at the Lyon's den tomarrow. that is tuesday the 13th. three fold chord plays around ten. 1934 W. Irving Park. it is 21 and over. i believe that it is free. please, come and hang with me if you've got nottin to do.
well, the new brad album comes out today. man i'm i excited.
if you are wondering "who is brad?" well, brad is a band. they rock! if you would like to hear them, here is a mp3 of one of the new songs
lalala
other info check out at the brad corporation.
Those of you who are internet webcast viewing capable might be interested in checking out Urban Hillbilly Quartet show at Schuba's Tavern that i was at. I wrote about this back in July and just found this video of them. You have to have a real player but it's free to download.
The Urban Hillbilly Quartet at dcn.com
If you look really hard you can see me. i'm the head sitting right infront of the guitarist on the right. DCN, by the way, has lots of great shows cataloged and available on the internet--and is well worth a visit!
lukas and andronicus i think you dig these guys.
Back when I was a music major, at some point I decided that, while I could make music, it wasn't my forté. And anyway, there was music everywhere already. I mean, you can't go into a store anymore without some kind of music. People will spend the entire day listening to music on their headsets. Music has become part of the background noise, and people have learned to filter it out.For a long time, I didn't know how to filter out music, and it drove me batty. I couldn't focus on what I was doing in the grocery store because I was busy figuring out chord changes or what sort of instrumentation choices the composer of whatever was playing had made. As time went on, this made me more and more angry, until finally in college I was at a point where I just wanted everyone to turn the damned radio off for a while and listen to what was going on in the world around them. People say they don't like the background noise, but flooding it out with music you later ignore didn't seem to be an answer. Shouldn't you just fix the problem, and learn to appreciate art not as a covering-up mechanism but as art itself?
Well, it turns out that people aren't inclined to do this. Not everyone is given to understanding the complexities of music composition, and for many, many people, it just represents structure and familiarity, which for any mammal is preferable to a constantly-changing environment. Maybe reptiles, too. Maybe all life. The point is that we seek to structure and control our surroundings in every way--with wall art, music, perfume, and furniture. So music is, for most people, just as much a tool as is a sofa.
I withdrew from the music program and eventually majored in something which also seeks to order and structure, but isn't so snooty about people using the result as nothing more than a tool.
Anyhow, there's the reasoning behind my choice for "Last CD on Earth".
This is a little off-topic, but I can't stand talking to people when the TV is blaring in the background and noone is watching it. I was over at alh's, and the TV was on, and worse, it was some show with political talking heads yammering in the background -- not music -- and the TV was directly in my line of sight -- AND, the tv was as loud as the conversation. I have a really, really difficult time tuning that out, and just having a conversation with someone, because the TV, and those people vie for my attention, and I can't pay attention to the conversation I'm having or my own thoughts, because I'm constantly processing the voices of the people on the TV. I'm realizing nowadays that I've always had that problem.alh doesn't have that problem, and I felt pretty self-conscious because I felt like it was some kind of handicap that I couldn't tune it out. Not that she was saying that, but she was just like, "oh, it doesn't bother me," wheras I was feeling inside, "how can that not bother you, I'm going insane trying to talk normally?" But at the same time, I was sort of aghast at the idea of just leaving the tv running with people yammering and no one watching or listening "just for background noise".
I'm learning all kinds of strange and often unpleasant things about myself these days.
I have the same problem. I just can't tune out the TV. I've gotten a little better about it lately, but I still have to really fight not to zone out in front of the boob tube. This has been a problem for me all my life. I've always suspected it may be related to ADD, which I was diagnosed with as a kid. I've also figured it may go hand in hand with my ability to spend extraordinarily long periods of time in front of a CRT writing code. Although, now that I think of it, my ability to focus on coding has suffered with about the same rate as my ability to get sucked in to the TV.
Yeah, I've actually wondered the same thing about ADD -- I used to go to diners with my friends and if I could see the TV out of the corner of my eye (lots of greasy spoons in chicago have a tv somewhere), I would just stop talking and turn my head and watch the TV... in the middle of sentences... and I pretty much hate watching random television! Anyway. I've been increasingly more uptight and socially awkward within the last year or so, and things like that with the TV, or being overwhelmed by crowds, emotions, feeling really defensive, stuff like that has gotten worse, too. I'm currently playing around with what allergy/asthma medication I'm on to see if that aggravates my natural tendencies, and also really trying to basically eliminate any chronic influence of coffee in my life. (I.e., don't drink coffee all day.) Emotions and the mind are crazy things.
i don't watch television. so maybe that helps me. but, when i did, i found myself doing the same things that you are talking about. when i went to george's, or a bar, or the casino, or something, the TV was always on. and it distracted me. i had to consciously work to NOT pay attention to it. but that helped me. because then i was intent on finding something specific to focus on instead of TV. which was easy enough after a while. now, tv doesn't bother me - except when things like it blaring in the background happen. then i can't stand it. if it is really loud, it is intrusive, and i really can't focus on the topic at hand. same with the radio in a car. unfortunately for me, i either have to turn it OFF to have a conversation, or turn it up and tune people out. i hate having to tune people out, so i usually end up waiting til they are out of the car to listen to music. not always, but sometimes.
Pedro, I've read some stuff that suggests that ADD is caused by certain kinds of foods while you're growing up, and that it's a digestive problem at root. Sure enough, I've noticed certain foods, like hydrogenated oils and especially MSG, which make things a lot worse for me.I don't actually know if what I have is ADD, really, since there's no way to test for it. All I have is the word of some doctors who told me I had it, back during a time when any kid with any problem was diagnosed with it. But staying away from MSG has really helped me out a lot. Avoiding certain ingredients is pretty easy for me since I do this anyway as a vegetarian.
There's a lot of pseudoscience out there, but a google search for add msg excitotoxin yields some interesting reading. Putting aside the issue of whether or not they are responsible for ADD, avoiding aspartame and glutamic acid is probably not a bad idea, as it means you'll be relying on more fresh foods and natural sweeteners.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
'Come on Eileen' is a dope song. just wanted you all to know that.
http://www.pattygriffin.com/
... as in the reply to the Last CD On Earth Special...I still think you all should do Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen). Your voice would do it justice, Peter. Well, it's something I'd like to hear at any rate.
i was just at A.Wassenaar's today, and we were listening to The Cars. their song 'All Mixed Up' was covered by somebody, and i can't for the life of me remember who it was. i'd bet significant money on the fact that someone on here knows, though. i have an inkling that it's the Red House Painters, but i could be way off. anyway, i really like that cover (and the original).
It was RHP. I like that cover... it was used in some sort of Volkswagon commercial, or maybe a Gap commercial or something. The cover's good though, despite the commercialism.
i would have gone crazy if i hadn't figured it out before i thought about it again.
poor ol johnny ray (it's big! like, 50 megs!)
i love that song!! where'd you find that vid?
hey emad!*clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*
hey emad!
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I figured out why I like the Presidents of the United States so much. The instrumentation is as follows: Two-String Bass, Three-String Guit/Bass, No-String Drums.
"hey, earthworm jim!" -- what the little voice on "old man on the back porch" sounds like to me.
chris whitley
pedro check out the photo section. looks like our idea, only better. suck! oh well.
This is mainly for the captain but, other might be intrested too.
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according to one ms. A.Wassenaar, Guns n Roses Tix go on sale at 10am today (thursday) for a November show at the United Center. i so want to go to this show, but i have no credit card, and am very very poor right now. if anybody wants to go, and let me pay them back for a ticket, let me know. i'd give an appendage or minor organ to see the Gunners live (even if it isn't the original incarnation...RIP). i have had this nervous apprehension for years that they would actually tour again, and i would end up missing them. and its haunted me in a very quiet, sad, melancholy way all this time.
baggins, i can hook you up. what do you need me to do?
Try some Grand Buffet - the album is inconsequential [especially since I don't know the names of em], these cats are delightfully deviant. think Wesley Willis without being tone deaf. Actually, they spent all of last summer touring with everyone's favorite schizo-entertainer. I've seen em live about 6 times now [they're from here in Pittsburgh] and just can't get over how their dirty riffs and broken beats come together so damn well. A live show spectacular. they get a 4.5 out of 5 points.
here is a link to the ticketmaster page for the GNR tix. im interested in the cheapo $35 - $45 ones. you want to go too? that would be rad. i don't know who else wants to go. but if you want to order on your credit card. i would be more than happy to pay you back for them.
i missed today's presale (kept my eye on the diner for a few hours but then fell asleep). i'll see about getting tickets tomorrow at noon when they go on sale "for real" or whatever they call it. i don't know if i'll be available to come, a friend of mine is getting married sometime in november but i forget exactly when -- that'll be in michigan. how many tickets should i get?
it's a little after noon now... how many tickets???
Is this with axl and a bunch of impostors, or are slash, duff and izzy involved in any way?
id say no more than 2 that i could be held accountable for. if you can still get them now that im a lazy ass and didnt reply until now.
this is the newest incarnation which is Axl, Dizzy Reed who joined the band in '91 on keyboards, Ronbin Finck on guitar (of NIN fame), Buckethead on guitar (of Buckethead fame), Brian Mantia on drums (of Primus fame), Tommy Stinson on bass (who played bass for The Replacements), some guy named Richard Fortus, and another Keyboardist whose name i can't recall right now.
SECTION 213, ROW S, SEATS 43 TO 44 UPPER LEVEL
Currently playing in our CD player in the bedroom: Miles Davis - Bitches Brew and JS Bach - The Art of the Fugue (as played by the Juilliard String quartet). It's a werid combo but man do I love my public library.
thanks again Nate. i believe oldpossumus is taking the second ticket. here is a seating chart for Allstate Arena.
found this show happening in Milwaukee.
Dude, Neale, somebody made your mobile phone symphony!
so, somebody tipped me off to a really dope band called Refused. they are a pretty cool Swedish anarchist-hardcore orchestra/band, very manifesto-ish and all. if that sounds like it might be at all interesting, check it out at that website, otherwise, download songs from their album 'The Shape of Punk to Come'. they have other albums, but that one is really good, and recommended.
Man. That's beautiful. Did you listen to it? That sounds way better than anything I would have been able to pull off.Thanks Lukas, you just made my week :)
I listened to a few of the samples at work and it's amazing. I may have to order the CD.
it sounds way cool!
Hey, so apparently Sigur Rós has a new album out, called "()". Yes: open parenthesis, close parenthesis. I read a review of their recent shows in Dublin, and I sort of wish I had gone. But that would have involved going to Dublin, and being in Dublin.
Riviera, Nov. 10 $22 7:30pm
i consider them the greatest band i have ever seen perform live, in front of your face, ripping your heart out
Grunge is back!
oh my dear lord!!!!
the time has come.
chris cornell is back with the boys from rage as Audioslave here is their webpage.
go to media and download there song Cochise.
be ready to pick your face up from your keyboard ...
because they are gonna rock it clear off!
here is part of the new video
i love this video!!!
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botu time somebody recognized The D on here. the rest of their album is great too. for a while. then you gotta stay away for a while.
I bought a new CD for the first time in months on Saturday: Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon - clone. It's the music I heard in my head whenever Åke and I used to try to play together. The songs are mostly simple, but there are lots of layers with the bass picking and the guitar picking and the wacky ambient sounds they add in. So now I might have to go see them on tour because the album is great!
go to this site and check out the first song released to the public ears from The Fire Theft. TFT is Jeremy Enigk, William Goldsmith, and their original bassist, Nate Mendel (who is also in The Foo Fighters). so basically, SDRE minus Dan Hoerner (Dooley). the song is really good, and i can't wait for the rest of the album. i have actually been eagerly anticipating the posting of this song, and i was not disappointed. i am quite happy.
thanks baggins. wow.
so i've been listening to The White Stripes like crazy lately. raskol burned me their live album and their second album, Destijl. that's the one that comes before White Blood Cells, which is where all their radio hits are from. man are they a good band. simple tunes, and just a feeling of awesome. its hard to describe, but easy to prescribe, if you get my drift. anyway, check em out. a thought came to my head listening to them. its like if Chris Whitley and R.L. Burnside went to an MC5 concert, with Urge Overkill opening, and then listened to the Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions on the way to the studio to record an album.
i read in RS today (i sometimes buy it at work when im really bored) that TWS are recording a new album, tentatively titled Elephant, which should be released around april.
I'm listening to Boston right now, thanks to chester bringin' it in. Sometime soon (maybe tomorrow!) we'll have a day-long Kansas-fest! Yes!Well, not Yes. I guess I could bring in some Yes... alh has a cd of theirs.
" He also speculated on why he was attacked. "Maybe they don't like skinny bald guys who play cover songs. I'm sure that's it. It's my fault. I should've posted a warning on the entrance to the club: 'Warning: Tonight's show will at times be comprised of cover songs poorly played by Moby, a skinny bald musician.' "
you better start eating a double dose of anders hash every day or growing your hair back if skinny bald musicians are the next target.
pedro could call ahead morning and evening and eat it on his way to and from work
i thought AJ gave up the ganj?
I'd recommend a little Willy Porter.http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php
Yeah, I don't think that's a problem. Besides, the only has I have ever liked is made from corned beef. Or whatever kind of hash my grandma used to make with potatoes.
because they've got the best corned beef hash and eggs. mmmmm. with a side of potatoes and limpa toast. mmmmmm
Not to mention the eggs Benedict and the mighty BREAD PUDDING.
Gin Blossoms: New Miserable Experience
I HATE THAT ALBUM!!!!!!!
....are the other phoenix hometown heroes. (except for alice cooper and megadeth... but no one remembers them playing local shows anymore,) they have re-united every year for the past few years to do a new years eve show at the best lil' rock club in tempe. it has proven to be a wildly succesful event.around my jr. year of high school they had already sunken to the level of obscurity that they played my friend's halloween party 100 miles south of phoenix in north tucson. "hey, are you going to shea's party? its at her dad's big house and the gin blossoms are playing." that was kind of surreal. it was the most my high school years mirrored the "teen movie." well, maybe not the most...
at any rate, gin blossoms are from phoenix, and one of the top ten band in that category. AND... i am convinced that i have, and have had, ONE (count it- ONE) gin blossom on my nose for the last two years.
The best damn CBH in the world, I could eat it 7 days a week, god bless TRe Kronor for that wonderful stuff, and I agree with limpa it's only better, on a warm spring morning eating outside drinking coffee, and just enjoying the world. A little slice of heaven.
mercurymouth turned me on to rb, and today when I bought a CD for my sister for Christmas, I poked around for something myself, and I almost bought a Bill Monroe cd, but since I already have like 8 Stanley Bros. discs, I thought, how about looking for something else.... so I poked my head in the Richard Buckner bin, and found Devotion + Doubt for $6.99... this is a great album, and you should all listen to it at some point in your lives, or maybe buy it.What's funny though, is that mm put it on a tape for me, which I always listened to in my van, which plays tapes a hair too fast (and thus a few steps high) so it's weird to hear his voice in it's real pitch... it sounds so much lower and slower to me, because I've always known it the other way.
Brains are weird things....
I feel like I've been jipped (gyped?) anyway...I have been missing out on the droning guitars of Kyuss, Desert Sessions, Goatsnake, Old Queens of the Stoneage.... Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, so much more, that I would of died for when I was 15. I thought Korn was heavy...thy don't know what heavy is. It's all I've been listening to, and juxtaposing it with Denali and Jeff Buckley, all of the above come highly reccommended.
Ok, so I wasn't confused, mm had made me a buckner mix or something... so this album is not necessarily as consistently fantastic as I had thought... or at least, I need to listen to it more, because a lot of this music is new to me. Perhaps mercurymouth could shed some light on this quandry.
. . .but don't forget the A-Teams of stoner rock, Sleep and Melvins.
i dig what i've heard from Queens of the Stone Age. would like to hear more. clutch rules.
yo instantcofi, denali is soooo good.mercurymouth, i really think you'd dig them if you haven't heard them yet. don't let the JADE TREE imprint scare you away. they're like if... like, if... take portishead... and mix 'em with shellac. thats a bad compasison... but really slow, dark, heavy, haunting haunting female vocals, beautiful synths... from what ive read welcome and sneakums post about, i think youze guys would dig them.
i saw them live and they have this incredible intesity, where you would think of them as a primarily studio band.
i have heard good things abou denali. i want to hear good things from them now. somebody burn for me. bah! i hate being lazy and poor. nobody goes out to buy me stuff, and i can't pay anybody to, either.
i made two MDs for pedro's trip. one was all billy brag stuff, and the second was ideas for RV covers. it went a little something like this:david allen coe- you never even called me by my name
the smiths- ask
big star- thirteen beachwood sparks- by your side (originally by sade)
bruce springsteen- highway patrolman
my morning jacket- x-mas curtain
hope sandoval- on the low
jets to brazil- sweet avenue
the promise ring- all of my everything
sly and the family stone- if you want me to stay
velvet underground- i found a reason
townes van zandt- no place to fall
john coltrane quartet with johnny hartman- they say its wonderful
morrissey- boxers
weakerthans- everything must go
cat stevens- trouble
uncule tupelo- give back the key to my heart (originally by some other guy i cant remember)
i really wanted to have a leanord cohen song on here but seeing as though pedro went ahead and decided to own an archaic MD player that can only play 74 min. discs i was a little confined by time constraints.
my MD player can play 80 minute discs!
I really liked the Garbage cover of Thirteen, and I've heard mention of Big Star a few other times, too. Are they worth checking out? (I think I recall seeing some kind of two-album thingy at the record store.)
yeah that two album disc is a real value and better than any greatest hits because i think those are the only two albums they ever put out.the theme song for that god-awful excuse for a tv show "THAT 70's SHOW" is a re-working of one of my favorite big star songs.
i mean, im not watching it. but if i happen to be in a room that has it on, i will watch and laugh for a couple minutes. which is more than you can say for most television shows.
for christmas i got my brother the jimi hendrix the baggy's rehearsal sessions album. the guy ringing me up at amoeba records in hollywood was pissed that i was buying it. he asked if there was another one where i had found it. i didn't think so. he wanted me to be sure, which i wasn't. but i was pretty sure. he lectured me on how difficult it is to find and how he's been looking for it for weeks and the songs he's heard on the internet have been really kick ass. all of these things made me want to buy it even more. but i should burn a copy when my bro opens it and bring that poor guy one. it won't be the same but it will be free and it will still have all the music he wanted.
fuck that guy. he works there and he didn't buy it?
i recently bought some new cd's for my ears (and i will be burning as well). here's what i got:
- Sigur Ros - ( ) -- its devastatingly beautiful. im kicking myself for being so broke when you guys went to the show.
- Minor Threat - Discography -- basically their catalog on 1 cd. good stuff. the early hardcore from Ian McKaye (of Fugazi fame as well).
- Joni Mitchell - Blue -- pure beauty. the queen of folk. i've been wanting this cd for a while. couldn't wait for a burn any longer.
- Sparta - Wiretap Scars -- the guy from At The Drive- In is in this band. i'd been hearing good things, so i bought it. i dig it so far.
- Black Flag - Damaged -- posthumously referred to as one of Flag's finest recorded moments (with Rollins). more old old old hardcore. these guys are credited with being the first real 'hardcore' band. good stuff.
- Various Artists - Rise Above -- basically this is a compilation of a bunch of different artists teaming together with Henry Rollins to do old Black Flag songs. artists like these.
i like them all so far.
a bunch of stuff by kyuss.they're pretty dope. i never would have known about them if not for the queens of the stone age video that's been getting play lately.this group's been around, first as the dwarves, then kyuss, sons of kyuss, qotsa,and some others, since '83!!!!!!!!!!!! and they're just getting their big break now.crazy.but there are lots of groups that are even older and still aren't hitting big.but i guess that's the way it goes.everybody needs to get dave grohl in their videos.
"computer world" by kraftwerk is super fantastic,but how could it not be when you're the operator on your pocket calculator.this album came out in '81 and sounds fresher than ever.great to drive to.been listening to tom waits' "small change", which made me realize that this cat is the coolest man alive.every track is an auditory film noir vignette.and this may sound contradictory, but i can't listen to 'step right up' without smiling and bouncing all the way through.he's great. GREAT.do you hear me?
the lead vocalist of stereolab was recently hit by a car while riding her bicycle.i just hope she didn't see it coming and felt no pain.what the hell am i saying. i wish it didn't happen and she was alive somewhere and being at least 1/32 as happy as her music makes me.i've been listening to "emperor tomato ketchup" over and over, and from now on that hour of pure joy will be forever bittersweet.
merry xmas and when are we gonna get together to make some music?
Albums worthy of my recommendation (or stuff I am listening to now):Sleater Kinney - One Beat, The Hot Rock
The White Stripes- De Styjl
Deltron 3030
Lovage- Music to make love to your old lady by
Godspeed you Black Emperor- All the stuff I own, really.
Soul Coughing- El Oso
The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi battles..
all of the above are wonderful albums, but don't take my word for it, visit your local music store and check them out!
download every album and enjoy them for free.
happy holidays. about rockin out: i'm down. i'm really not too confident about muy voice lately though, i think i'm recovering from strep or something. i have no plans this weekend though.i don't really have lyrics for entire songs written, just swatches and fragment, a chorus here, a couple lines there.but yeah, i'll call you- i have to find your number.e-mail me your # or post here(if you're comfortable with that).
to the other patrons: sorry about sneezing my personal affairs all over the buffet. just stir up the mac 'n cheese-there, good as new.
happy holidays. about rockin out: i'm down. i'm really not too confident about muy voice lately though, i think i'm recovering from strep or something. i have no plans this weekend though.i don't really have lyrics for entire songs written, just swatches and fragment, a chorus here, a couple lines there.but yeah, i'll call you- i have to find your number.e-mail me your # or post here(if you're comfortable with that).
to the other patrons: sorry about sneezing my personal affairs all over the buffet. just stir up the mac 'n cheese-there, good as new.
those last 2 entries were me, not juice. and i thought i was in the lyric buffet, but then i realized i had swapped bodies and was kicking the jukebox.anyway.yeah.
MERRY XMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i got a bunch of new music for christmas.
pearl jam - riot act
audio slave
U2 - best of 90-2000
wilco - yhft
jeff buckley & gary lucas - songs to no one 1991-92
dylan live 1975
i've got a lot o' listening to do! so, far audio slave has been the standout of this bunch.
aside from the above purchases, i received a couple albums for xmas. burned compliments of my sisters. i got Black Heart Procession's newest, the latest album by a band called Interpol who i had just heard good things about, and Tori Amos' newest. unfortunately, the Tori Amos one is not right. its just the first track over and over and over again. i don't think my sister quite knew what she was doing. thats ok. easily fixable, and blank cd's are pretty cheap.
Im also thinking of getting some stuff from the following bands (some i've been reading about lately and i don't know their stuff that well):
The Replacements
Sonic Youth
The Ramones
The Minutemen
Husker Du
Antiflag
Butthole Surfers
any suggestions would be appreciated.
i also just picked up a copy of the album 'el cielo' by a band called Dredg. good stuff.
Having been short of money lately due to the holidays, I am really debating buying the new PJ album. I know I will eventually because I couldn't be that disloyal, but I need some feedback. I listened to my dad's copy when I was home for the holidays a bit, but even more so than with most bands, I find I have to listen to PJ's albums many times before I really get it, and I was too busy to devote the time it needs. My dad said, "It's a good album, solid, but not one of their best." PJ is his favorite band and he knows more about music than anyone I know, so I put faith in his opinion.Dogmanphil or anyone else who has it, once you've given it a good listen lemme know what you think.
Baggins, looks like you are taking a foray into the early 80s with those bands you listed. Most of them are cool but I think Sonic Youth is overrated, though I like them. No offense to anyone who is into them.
- Hüsker Dü: Metal Circus, Everything Falls Apart, Zen Arcade (particularly the last)
- Minutemen: Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat (this is available with the EP Project Mersh on the collection Post- Mersh Vol. 2), Double Nickels On The Dime. And all of the Post-Mersh collections are supposedly quite good.
- Butthole Surfers: Independent Worm Saloon (start with this one, if you don't like it you probably won't like much of their other work) Locust Abortion Technician, Hairway to Steven
- Sonic Youth: Dirty and Washing Machine are the only albums I'm really familiar with (which range from okay to great), but many people seem partial to Daydream Nation
I'm sure DangerSheep can help you with the Ramones.
I listened to a couple of songs off of this early Soundgarden gem this morning on the way to work. Uncovered and Hands All Over specifically. Does anyone remember the movie Pacific Heights about the young couple who rents out an apartment in a big Seattle house and the renter is psycho? They used a clip of Hands All Over in the movie during one tense part and it's funny b/c they isolated the phrase "gonna kill your mother" for scary effect when the song is about the degredation of mother nature. "Got my arms around baby brother, put your hands away, you're gonna kill your mother, gonna kill your mother, kill your mother, and I love her."
the newest Fire Theft song is up at www.thefiretheft.net. its called 'Sinatra'. pretty awesum doodz.
- Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
- Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward
- Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
- Ian Brown - Music Of The Spheres
currently rocking a band called THE WALKMEN. kind of remind me of death cab for cutie... or if you took a strokes 45 and played it on 33. they have a song in a new SATURN commercial. (lame, but damn its a good song) its the one where theres people driving through a suburband neighborhood and theres like 50 people in each front yard doing the same thing.... weird.other than that, i am just getiing really excited to do my mixtape!
I've been listening to Grandaddy for the passed 3 days. The song about Jed is so sad, it makes me wanna puke. I love it but I can't shut it off.I used a Godspeed song in My final film for production class. I think its ruined it for me.
on today to keep me sane:Crowded House - Together Alone Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy Chris Whitley - Live at Martyrs Rare On Air Vol 2 - live sessions from KCRWs Morning Becomes Eclectic REM - Singles Collected
the music industry is now officially ridiculous.i mean... come on... durst was never even a mousekateer.
...is that they refer to Spears, Durst, and Timberlake as 'Musicians'. come on. are we really supposed to believe that? maybe if they played music, and not commercial jingles. oh, and Durst threatens to drop a sick fucking album in a few months? haven't heard one yet from him. and he's lost his only decent link to the music world: Wes Borland. that guy was stuck in the wrong band in Limp Bizkit. luckily for him he realized it and stepped away. he is actually a good guitarist, and i've been meaning to check out some of his side projects. what a joke...
Wes supposedly recording Big Dumb Face (his project after LB) just to see how far his fans would follow him. I don't know if it's an excuse for a bad bunch of music or not but BDF was awful. Anyhow, I agree with Baggins that Wes is talented. Hey, Zach de la Roche needs a new job, maybe they could put something together. Speaking of talented musicians and ties to Fred Durst, it seems as though Clutch is bypassing Chicago on this most recent tour. Drag.
usually has some good groups going for them, i was on their site last night and was listening to some stuff from "royksopp" and i thought it was pretty good.
has been working on a solo album for a few years now. chuck D and DJ shadow are working on it too. while de la rocha is kind of a joke, its still gonna be a sick fucking album.
Yes..I agree. Astralwerks is/are great...Les Rhythmes Digitales is really funny...check out their video for "Hey You (What's That Sound)"
Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut Failure - Comfort Cave In - Tides of Tommorow EP Amon Tobin - Supermodified
LRD!!! totally gets my party started. i am super-bummed that you didnt sign on to the mixtape/cd circle thing.
has a tendancy to have groups that i really like, or really don't like. I find it kind of humorous. An example, I like Air, Chemical Brothers, basement jaxx, cassius, Royksopp, I don't however like, [the} doves, photek, uberzone. Actually, now that i look at the website, I like most of the bands/groups/artists, fatboy slim, LRD, fluke, FSOL, Turin Brakes. I used to go about it like, I'd see an album with the astralwerks logo, and i'd buy it if I had the cash, but then i bought photek or something and i decided that i'd have to research it more.
Ahh yes ain't that fresh...everybody wants to get down like US
Music makes me lose control
Ill Ive been listening to for the past month is YankeeHF, Yoshimi, Sea Change, One Beat, Phrenology (the roots)...but i think all of those have probably been posted already except the last one. Phrenology kicks buttOld CD's that i still listen to often are
God Street Wine - $1.99 Romances Those Bastard Souls - Debt and Departure
The former, i don't think anyone I know would like it..and it's probably pretty impossible to find and not worth it to anyone. What a recommendation!
The latter is probably still sittin in some cd stores. I think it was a one-shot collaboration with members from Shudder to Think, The Grifters, the guitarist for Jeff Buckley's old band, and some people from The Dambuilders, (who Ive never heard of) The songs sometimes overdo it, but I love the album dearly
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that's probably the worst thing i've heard in a long time.
WTF?????? why is Clutch not coming to CHICAGO? we love them here!!!
let him sing.I'm sure he doesn't need our feedback.
Or derision.
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Hey everyone. This is my first official post, apart from the crazed entree begging someone/anyone to take me to see LOTR: The Two Towers. Anyway, when I moved to Chicago in June I somehow lost ALL of my CDs. They were all in the same case when I packed them, and somehow they never made it. In any case, my question is what the heck should I buy to refurbish my lost collection? I had a love/hate relationship with my last CD collection, and I rarely played my disks, so I'd really like to have the best collection ever this time around.I'm very picky about what is good, but not so much about the type of music. I listen to everything: ska, industrial, electronica, popular, 50's pop, classical, motown, jazz, hip-hop, old school, new school. I have a particular place in my heart for the bands of the early 90's that started the alternative revolution (now known only as pop). The best band I've ever heard is Red Vinegar -- no joke. I'm not trying to kiss butt here but our host Pedro can belt out some lyrics that really stir the soul. That's what I want. I want uplifting music. I guess I'm tired of all the angst ridden and angry music. Sure, I enjoy a decent amount of angst every now and then, but I want my music to feel good. Some of the newer artists like Ben Folds Five, Coldplay, and Michelle Branch have caught on to this vibe, but I don't know what their CDs are like, because I don't own any CDs at all. Help me out here someone, anyone -- What's good?
PS. I also don't have a CD player, and will graciously accept charitable donations.
was OutsideInfluence asking for your music help. He used my computer at my house and it somehow posted under my name. It does suck that he lost all his CDs, but I don't think many of them were worth keeping (no offense, Babe).I have hundreds of CDs and am sad that I was not consulted on this first. Coldplay and Michelle Branch? I need to start working on this immediately. But I love you dearly, O.I.
uplifting eh?
let me think...:
simon and garfunkel, slow learners, sunny day real estate (The Rising Tide is pretty uplifting at times), Jeremy Enigk, Wilco/Billy Bragg Mermaid Avenues I and II, Moulin Rouge Sndtrk., dredg, Jonathan Richman, Jeff Buckley, Greenhouse (you said ska was cool, so there you go), CSNY, Clutch, Overcome (Xian Hardcore band. very uplifting, at least to me), Blind Melon, Sigur Ros, Dusty Springfield, Buffalo Springfield, U2 (Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum are my favorites), blargh. more later...
i have had a major dose of al green craving lately. it is decided i must embark on finding one of his albums to purchase. can anyone reccommend one that i might be satisfied with?
OutsideInfluence, join the cd circle next time around.
barefootjumperAl Green's Greatest Hits has the essential hits. Another Greatest hits collection just came out, but you might as well just get the regular greatest hits. Has him smiling goofily with no shirt on against a brown background. Probably can be found used in any used cd store.
thanks fook, i'll check that one out.
don't ask how i got to this chick's site, but she runs a webradio show, and i am listening to some of it right now. its worth a listen.
the greatest video i've seen in a loooong time!
Johnny Cash, even broken, and ailing, is a better theologian than the supposed centers of learning can boast ...thanks for that link Phil. I needed that today.
johnny is good for the soul. even when its trent reznors lyric not johnny's.
Wags, Thanks for your suggestions. Fortunately I have some of what you mentioned and will program into O.I.' brain (O.I. sounds too much like that stupid A.I. movie, but I don't know what else to call him).Last week I put on some Clutch for Hernando. I don't know how Clutch came up in the conversation, but I explained that it was crazy. He liked it, and started dancing around in this mock spastic manner. Anyone who likes Clutch the first time they hear them has to be cool.
I know this makes me sound like a total loser, but I really like the band No Doubt. Their new album, "Rock Steady," is awesome.
I don't really like no doubt, not for personal reasons, but because I'm just not a fan of their kind of music. But I do have respect for them as a band, because they've been busting their butts for years and seem to enjoy making the music they make, and seem to be pretty genuine about it.
gwen stefani and gavin what's-his-name were in my starbucks the other day. they both had guitars with them and jumped up on the counters and started playing while they waited for their coffee.they might have but i wouldn't know. i wasn't there at the time.
I love old mix tapes. I took my wife's car to work today which means that I listen to old tapes. This morning's tape included the following bands: Seven Seconds, Overwhelming Colourfast, Clutch, Suicidal Tendencies, Quicksand, and Love Battery, all circa '88-'93.
Love Battery!!!!
They used to always play the Lounge Ax when they came to town. Anyhow, the last time I saw them they were playing with the Presidents of the USA. LB's old drummer Jason Finn was playing with PUSA at that point but he used to play with LB. That night he played with both bands. A friend of mine wanted to go and wasn't 21 so we went at about 5:00 so she wouldn't get carded (the show was at 8 or something). Love Battery (minus Jason) walks in the front door about 20 minutes after we got there. I was star struck! One of my favorite bands! Standing with me in an empty bar! I said something stupid like "I love you guys!" and shook their hands. They looked at me and said "you know we're not the Presidents right?" I said "Of course I know who you are! My band played like five of your songs at our last show!" I think they thought that was cool.
That guy is one heck of a drummer..and has the one the coolest drumkits around...consisting of only three drums, a hi-hat, and a splash cymbal. He's one of those musicians you listen to and just smile and wonder how he pulls it off. Amazing.
Boston Rules!... thanks chester! I love the part on "Hitch a Ride" where everybody starts clapping and then the guitar solos come in. Maybe I'll put "Hitch a Ride" on my mix. An excellent idea!
I'm sure my posts will return to normal once my head isn't full of snot.
where Boston came into the thread?
i remember one of the first real shows i went to was Quicksand, Seaweed, and Hum at the Metro. Chester and Matt Tolic took me. and i remember Gorilla Biscuits was the tape playing in the jeep we rode there in. i was like 13. and i thought it was the coolest thing ever. i wish i still had my Seaweed Tshirt from that show. my mom probably threw it out or something. i recall that show quite fondly. i thought Hum sucked though. i really looked up to you guys, and Tim Ramgren as well.
Ramgren had the most diverse collection of obscure Christian alternative music that I'd ever seen. Everything from Dig Hayzoos (I think they spelled it weird like that) to Believer to Fluffy the Cat to LSU, etc etc. I felt bad for him b/c his backpack was stolen with about 40 of said tapes in it. The likelihood of the thief enjoying the music was slim. Total waste. Anyhow, Baggins, I don't think that Hum played at that Seaweed show. I wish I could remember who the 3rd band was though. I'm pretty sure that I only saw Hum once at another venue and they kicked some serious butt. Have you listened to them recently? I think you'd like them.
Hum...One of my top 5 favorite bands...love em...saw them at Saint Andrew's Hall in Detroit in 1997 just before they supposedly broke up. They were their with "Come", a band from Boston that sucked ass.
Boston, the band, rules.
was my camp counselor when i was twelve. in new hampshire. my dad was his camp counselor when he was sixteen. in kansas.he turned me on to fluffy and dig hayzoose as well.
I can't find the show you're talking about on the Metro page. Was it Helmet and Quicksand? 7 Seconds and Quicksand? Are those too early?
Let's try that Metro link again: metro
I could have lived at the Metro with a sleeping bag from 1996-1997. I love all those bands...who agrees?
i can't find it either. i AM positive that it was Quicksand headlining, and Seaweed in the #2 slot. i could be wrong about Hum opening up, but it stands out pretty clearly. and i swear i even remember walking in and hearing them playin 'out back counting stars' or whatever the title was. but i suppose i could be wrong. do you remember when we went to that show? i was SUCH a DORK. i thought i would be cool and wear cutoff shorts over long underwear. and of course my flannel. i was like 14, and very insecure. i thought that's what you wore to those things.
I totally love Boston, I really miss having a boston album available to me.also, the first concert i ever saw...was...Petra, at what is now known as the allstate arena, with some guy from the chicago bears speaking...i made up for it though, the next major concerts i saw were (not necessarily in order) Ozzfest 1997 (with Ozzy, Sabbath, Pantera, Type O Negative, Marilyn Manson, Powerman 5K, Fear Factory, and a billion others), AC/DC, Iron Maiden, and again, Marilyn Manson (a halloween show that I went to in a tuxedo no less). Some people I have trouble really digging until I see them in show, Anyway, i just found out the my roomie has a cd by this "mexican" band called brujería which is kindof funny because they are guys from FF and Faith no more, but they're probably one of the most disturbing bands I've ever listened to, but also really great, check 'em out, unless you speak spanish, then don't, i needent have people thinking that i'm into that.
oldpossumus knows a bit about them. i have only heard a small bit of them from him a long time ago. i didn't realize that it consisted of members of FF and FNM though. i saw Fear Factory and Iron Maiden at the Vic theater once. what a show. i think the only other show i've seen there (besides Brew N View) is Sunny Day Real Estate. which of course ruled.
while SDRE is a band i have seen live three times, i would only classify them as an "OK" band to see live.yet, that show at the vic is without a doubt one of my top THREE most favorite concerts ever. simply because of the company i kept there.
dogmanphil screaming "DOOOOOLEY!" at the bass player.
mercurymouth getting drunk off one cranberry vodka and then sobering up in twenty minutes.
witnessing oldpossumus at one of his first non-metal shows ever.
baggins and i totally falling on top of eachother and embracing eachother in a beautiful moment of rock and roll extacy.
beautiful. you are all so beautiful.
Of course I remember going to that show! I thought it was cool that one of our church group kids was into the same music we were into, as opposed to more traditional fare for the time like Bush. I remember that Seaweed was only playing with one guitar player that night. The other guy was sick or something. Anyhow, for what it's worth, I thought you were cool then and I think you're cool now.
that show was totally rad. i thought it was cool that i had these sanctioned role-models that were into really good music and were allowed to have long hair and rock out and wear leather jackets and stuff. i need to find some Hum and relisten i guess.
ulysses - i do think the company at the show was a huge part of why it was so good (and i think i would put into my top 10 for sure). but i just remember the music being so loud, and knowing all the lyrics for TRT songs and Diary songs, and belting them out at the top of our lungs. that was great. rock and roll wouldn't be the same without SDRE, live or otherwise. when TFT comes around on tour, we will all have to go. they've released 3 demo versions of songs from their forthcoming album, and each is so vstly different, yet so beautiful. it is quite uplifting.
The mystery is (somewhat) solved. I found the ticket stub and this is the date of the Quicksand/Seaweed show. It's not listed on the Metro page so that's why we couldn't find it. We may never know who the other band was...
mysteries are fun.
Nine inch nails sustained my life for many years, when all my friends were rich and had no worries, as to how johnny cash got turned on to him i have no idea.amazing.
Def Leppard - "Bringing on the Heartache"---heard it today. Beautiful.
DL are great every once in a while. when im at work, and waiting for a call, i can almost 100% count on it to come when a good song is on the radio. it is rare when i catch all of 'Get The Led Out' at 8pm. tonight, 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' was on, and i knew i was going to have to answer the phone and not hear the whole thing. sure enough that's what happened. and, later on, 'Patience' was on, and the same scenario uncannily repeated itself. weird.
i think i might have solved the mystery of this show/a memory just resurfaced...in 1994 i went to see helmet at the aragon ballroom. quicksand and seaweed opened for them, i am certain. i still have the t-shirt that my drug-dealing but i didn't know it boyfriend at the time bought me. it was an extra large but still very cool. i wound up just using it as a patch. do you guys remember helmet at that show?
i was supposed to see that show as well. but i had a bad case of pneumonia. the show in question happened at the Metro. for sure. i really wanted to see that Helmet show too.
Doo Doo Doo Doo Dooo DOO Doo DooMy favorite new band of 2002.
OH, and Both. Check them out at www.bothband.com
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are pretty fun.i came really close to putting them on my cd-circle mix tape.
if you're into them, check out the KILLS. same kinda vibe, maybe a bit more artsy.
Today, I am listening to Warren Zevon's new record. It's pretty good, for a guy who is dying. I also have an older song of his, Desperados Under The Eaves, on the shelf as a potential cover. Warren Zevon makes me wish I could play piano. Great lyrics.
Has anyone ever heard of the song "In A Big Country" by the band Big Country? It's a song from the 80's that I guess was pretty popular at the time of it's release.Last year, their lead singer commited suicide in a hotel in Hawaii. I was pretty upset about it because the guy was of enormous talent and had such a great voice. I was also pissed, because the guy had an alcohol problem and really didn't value his life. MTV ( which did such an bang up job covering Lane Staley's passing (sarcasm) ) didn't even cover his death or make a mention about it. They did, in fact, devote a whole weekend to that singer from the band TLC when she died in a car accident. Comparing the talents of Big Country and TLC...it is almost laughable.
Anyways, I heard "In A Big Country" today and got a little teary-eyed--- not only because of the guy's death, but because I think it's quite a righteous track.
I love Helmet..."Betty" - love that album.
Why is Warren Zevon dying?
cancer
They were a great band. I was also sad to hear that the singer/guitar player died (he was also a good guitar player). MTV was only worthwhile when it was an underrated cable station with no money and 5 Tom Petty and Pat Benetar videos.
Chester...My thoughts exactly...I praise you. I am lucky enough to have some of the oldest MTV footage...January of 1982....on VHS. Worthwhile indeed.
Speaking of deaths and MTV's overall cluelessness, I am listening to Stereolab's Microbe Hunters today. Eurofunktastic. Favorite tracks include Outer Bongolio and Retrograde Mirror Form.Mary Hansen's death in December was tragic in that it was not a suicide or a murder. It was just an accident. MTV flubbed it. Elektra records flubbed it. Sure, she didn't have legions of key demographic teens as a fan base, but she did have a wonderful talent for making interesting music. Mary once said, "Instead of singing la-la-la, you can sing Chew-Ba-Ca." Awesome.
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Dave
thanks for a great weekend of fun and music. i bought the trust album on tuesday. would love to get my hands on halley's record too. you da man dave!
Phil and EveryoneTonight, there is a Chairkickers Showcase at the Norshor in Duluth. Al and Mim from Low will be playing, as will Haley Bonar and if thousands. In the Spring, Al Sparhawk will be doing a short solo tour with Haley Bonar opening up. If there be some Low fans up on this message board, you must see this tour. Haley Bonar is amazing.
Anyhoo, I think that I will ask her to be on my radio show when I see her tonight.
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R.I.P. Jam Master Jay
i know this is late. but it should still be said.
also, MAN do i wish John Bonham was still alive!!!
i've got th' planets on right now...mars rocks my jock...yeah, that's right MY JOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MWA HA HA HA!
i know this dude in california named ned who has about 4,000- 5,000 cds in his bedroom. and they're all in alphabetical order. he does some writing for allmusic.com and runs like the biggest un-official oasis fan club or something. he totally strikes me as the kind of guy who would fit in at the diner perfectly.anyway, he undertook a massive project as the last millenium was drawing to a close to come up with a list of the top 100 albums of the 1990's. he ended up with the Top 136 (Or So) Albums Of The 90's.
you should seriously check it out... he devotes a good half dozen parragraphs to explain/ review each album... it turned me onto a lot of music i would never otherwise be exposed to.
make sure you read his introduction before digging into the list... you will notice that no nirvana or pearl jam albums are on the list because as he puts it: "I have heard it and I enjoy it enough, but not to the point of actually ranking it anywhere."
worth checking out.
...and then there's way too much smashing pumpkins. But I'm sure Ned's heard it all and more a zillion times over. (And everyone's entitled to their own opinion.)
you should send ned an e-mail....i think you two would get along beautifully...
that I ventured in here. I am shamefully devoid of exposure to good music. In fact, my music knowledge is inversely proportional to my film knowledge. So.... I need some help. I've been branching out lately, and I really like Marc Cohn's stuff and some of the songs I've heard from Lyle Lovett. And Jack Johnson rocks. But as for the rest of my collection, it's mostly soundtracks (film and Broadway), some folk, some jazz, some old-school CCM, and the occasional "Greatest Hits" album. So any recommendations would be welcome, but please take it slow and let me get used to stuff first.
1. For the Beauty of Wynona -- daniel lanois 2. Dreams of the Colorblind -- Harrod and Funck 3. Mule Variations -- Tom Waits 3a. if you like the "weird" Tom Waits, get "Swordfishtrombones" 3b. if you like the ballady tom waits, get "Small Change" 3c. ...on second thought, get all 3 of those! 4. Us -- Peter Gabriel 5. Yankee HOtel Foxtrot -- Wilco 6. Yield -- Pearl Jam 7. Hell Among The Yearlings -- Gillian Welch...none of those are particularly adventurous (Swordfishtrombones is probably the least accessible -- but it is a classic). Someone else would be better for recommending "obscure" music.
Something else you could do is go to Paste Music and they have a vast collection of FREE MP3's that you can download for all the artists they have on there -- that will help you see if maybe you're interested.
i'm totally backing pedro's tom waits reccomendation. i think "mule variations" by him would totally appeal to your intellect. after all, he has a pretty decent film resume too.wilco's "yankee hotel foxtrot" is a really good way to go as well.
i know you have many bad memories of trying to get work done in burgh lobby and i'm sitting desk playing something really annoying and not conducive to studying... but wont reccomend anything like that to you:
the beach boys: "pet sounds" whole books have been written about this album and yet no one can quite capture its beauty in words. disband any pre-conceived notions of beach boys being campy waterpark music. and never listen to just one song from this album... start to finish is the way to go.
led zeppelin: "led zeppelin IV" others here at the diner can give you way better advice about this band, but any fool knows this album smokes. as it has been said "all of philosophy is but a footnote to plato," all of hard rock is but a footnote to zeppelin.
bebel gilberto: "tanto tempo" bossa nova music updated with some electronic stuff. definatly the cd to reach for when you invite a lady-friend over.
red house painters: "songs for a blue guitar" i've only driven through montana on a bus-ride, but i remember this album was a perfect soundtrack to pulling off I-90 every thirty miles and going to every last small town in montana in search of more greyhound riders. beautiful, mellow, (some would say "folky") poetic music.
gary numan: "pleasure principle" one of the best "electronic" albums ever. this cd plays like a soundtrack to a sci-fi movie you wish really existed but sadly never will.
belle and sebastian: "the boy with the arab strap" off-beat scottish folky-pop. i could listen to this over and over.
the pouges: "if i should fall from grace with god" 80's post-punk pop music fused with irish folk music. i guarantee 100% you will love this cd, chris, or your money back.
jeff buckely: "grace" i this is the one most other diner-customers will back me on. one of the most passionate and unique rock albums ive ever heard. it should be required listening to join the diner, in fact....
pinback: "blue screen life" i dont know if this is axactly something you would dig... but when i asked myself "what album comes to mind when i think of science documentaries?" i kept coming back to this one for some reason... i dont know why. hmmm. anyways, they make all kinds of good sound with a bevvy of electronic devices and the occasional guitar.
marvin gaye: "what's going on" a masterpeice. i'm going to buy another copy of it right now and mail it to george bush.
well, there's ten... just digging into two of those should keep you busy... i'd reccomend trying to find samples of all of it on line before buying them. good luck!
tchad blake did do the toback album. but, i guess it's jerry toback not jeremy. man, they just can't get anything right on him. first best buy's got jeremy getting his start in a pearl jam cover band as opossed to being IN a band with a member of peral jam and now they can't even get his name right.
Sparklehorse, assorted albums and EPs; Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump, and Mull Historical Society's Loss. All stuff I've had for a while.
His name is JERRY Toback?Wow.
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I like "Jeremy" better, I think.
check out these titles:
- Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (another classic zep. it has the rain song)
- Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide (my least favorite SDRE album, but probably the most accessible. i love it very dearly, but i love their other stuff even more)
- John Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange (fun blues-y stuff)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F#A# (any album is good, though. make sure you have time to listen to the entire album, though.)
- Joni Mitchell - Blue (i just like it. and its pretty accessible.)
- Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant -or- If You're Feeling Sinister (just really damn good. for the same reasons ulyssess mentions above.)
- Billy Bragg w/ Wilco - Mermaid Avenues I & II (just great stuff)
- Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends (yeah)
the billy bragg/wilco albums are definatly something you'd like. they should be in any collection.
I can't wait to hike in CA with my brothers in law while hearing California Stars in my head.
that song makes me pine for LA. we listened to that album a lot out there.
If any of you play any games like Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, or even EverQuest, throw on the Conan Soundtracks. You can download 'em off Imesh easy. I'm sure they are circulating through cyberspace.They are also good background music for Dungeons and Dragons, Mage Knight, and Axis and Allies. Even though some of you may think the idea blasphemous, I even listened to it while re-reading The Hobbit.
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Ned has amazing albums as the bookends to his list. My Bloody Valentine's Loveless is sublime. I thought it was funny when I was a music buyer for a Christian bookstore and the sales rep told me that Starflyer 59 sounded like Smashing Pumpkins. Apparently he had never heard Loveless. Gentleman by the Afgan Whigs is a difficult album to digest but it captures the songwriter's mood perfectly I believe.
Gary Numan is awesome - check out my apartment
that's a slick poster.i cant believe norah jones kicked so much ass at the grammys last night. i mean, the grammy's are a joke yeah yeah yeah, and norah jones' music isnt all to exciting, but i still see her beating all the MTV slaves out as a tiny glimmer of hope in a sea of shit.
and i still cant decide wether seeing eminem with the roots was cool or not.
it was pretty cool.
nah, it kind of sucked.
at any rate, the grammys are now at a point where they are ACTUALLY WORTH WATCHING in a so-bad-its-good kind of way.
and as cheesy as the tribute to joe strummer was... it was pretty good. seeing elvis costello and bruce springsteen scream out "LONDON IS SINKING AND I LIVE BY THE RIVER!" was waaaaaay more to the point than fred durst going "uh, i want to take this chance to say i hope this war goes away soon, um, ok thanks."
knowing your love for musicals, i would definatley reccomend you checking out a Queen greatest hits,a Meatloaf greatest hits, and the orignal recording of "Tommy" by The Who (not the broadway version).that Pouges album i enthusiastically reccomended earlier has a few tracks that fall into that musical-theatre-rock kind of vein as well.
well... shit. it looks like we havent honored your request to "take it slow" and let you "get used to stuff first."
there's just a more good music out there than most people know about, i guess.
You gotta be 2000 places at once.Polyphonic Spree. Excellent stuff. Very Flaming Lips, plus, dude sings through hand made microphones. Truly a great band to see live, I caught them at CMJ last fall. Awesome.
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i am insanely jealous, shred.did they have the full choir with robes and stuff?
Yeah, Polyphonic Spree was in full effect. The awesome part was that they hung around afterwards and were just like, "What's up?" Very good people, all 25 of 'em.by the roadside
Dave
I embark on my musical journey
If you ever find a copy of Stew's record called Guest Host, pick it up. In a year of records released by Tom Waits and Radiohead, Guest Host was my record of the year, when was that, 2001 or 2002? Me thinks 2001.Poppy song construction, beautiful vocal melodies and harmonies, great production, and some wonderfully off-beat, genuinely humorous lyrics, like a Captain Beefheart kind of thing. Plus, I think Stew has a great, soulful voice. You can also check out his band Negro Problem. Stew's music is genuine, not Gen U Wine.
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has anybody listened to the loose fur album? thoughts?
Hey, Zagat is doing a music guide now... *shrug* either way, you can cast your votes and get a free copy of the guide in the mail.click here for the music guide. I think anyone can sign up and participate... but I'm not sure.
Wow. Loose Fur is pretty cool.I met Jim in Minneapolis. He was doing some electronic music in the Sculpture Garden and there was famous dance troupe along...but I can't for the life of me remember who they were. Merce Cunningham? I think that was who they were.
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A quick search turned up some mp3's of a couple live shows Loose Fur did in NYC. I have no idea how they sound but plan to download a few when I get home.
Damien Jurado has a new album coming out in March(?) and Salon had an mp3 of a song on the new record entitled Texas to Ohio, it's really good. (you can only get that Jurado mp3 if you subscribe or watch some lame HBO ad, so I can send a link to anyone who doesn't want to deal with the annoying ad). I'm so out of it that I didn't know that Damien Jurado has a blog. One of the guest blogs had a link to scientific, who opened for pedro the lion. I missed most of their set but I remember liking them. Even more so, I liked their t-shirts, which I regret not buying. This in turn reminded me to check the schedule at the Black Cat and I find that RFTC is playing there 3/19/03, Vandermark 5 on 3/23, and the Yeah Yeah Yeah's on 4/6 (of whom I had never heard of until the other day--i love this place). Other upcoming DC shows at 930 club: gybe 3/4, sigur ros 3/18-19, and it looks like i totally spaced on the amon tobin shows. Oh well and sorry for the rambling.
My copy of Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK arrived at last. I like it so far; it is very definitely Múm, although part of one track reminds me a little of Autechre.
i'm gonna go ahead and say that this album totally destroys about 95% of all pop music.anyone backing me on this one?
I got Solomon Burke's new album at Dr. Wax today, which is truly awesome. His voice is still vital. I really didn't know what to expect... I knew that people were talking about how good it was. But it's really amazing. If you like soul music at all, if you enjoy ray charles at all, you really should go buy this new album. It has songs by: van morrison, tom waits (& kathleen brennan), joe henry, brian wilson, elvis costello, bob dylan and others.... produced by henry. Lanois plays on the bob dylan tune... it's amazing. It's funny to hear his voice, and realize how much mick and van, much less bob and tom really owe to him.
If you want to get two superb modern recordings of dr. ralph, check out his solo album produced by t-bone burnett... I think it's just called "Ralph Stanley"... no, maybe it has a name. one sec... yeah, just "ralph stanley". Anyway, it's a great recording, but not like his normal "clinch mountain boys" stuff. If you want a great modern recording of the clinch mountain boys, check out "while the ages roll on," which includes Jack Cooke (who's been a CMB since 1970!) and special appearances by George Shuffler, one of the Stanley Brothers' mainstay musicians in the years before Carter's death (and afterwards).
While channel surfing I caught the end of the showing of Pleasantville on Sunday. I really like Fiona Apple's version of Across the Universe but it is apparently only available on the soundtrack album and on some promotional single/EP things. I'll have to keep my eyes on the bargain bins. I don't think I even have the Beatles' version which is a surprise. Maybe she'll add it to any forthcoming album (assuming the professional music critics actually allow her to release another one [GAR again]).
i totally agree.... my mind says "NO! a fiana apple cover of a beatles song is NATURALLY going to be greatly inferior to the original!!!" but my ears keep disagreeing.... it is quite an internal sruggle.it could be worse, i guess.... i could find myself enjoying cheryl crow covering GNFR or everclear covering the mokkees.
I was thinking...I'm a Kazaa addict...should I start posting MP3's for people to download? I take requests...
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the beatles- here comes the sun
the velvet underground- who loves the sun?
whitney houston- how will i know?
the flaming lips- fight test
townes van zandt- no place to fall
the who- so sad about us
led zeppelin- rock and roll
pulp- lipgloss
the buzzcocks- i believe
james taylor- fool to care
sparklehorse- gold day
schneider tm- there is a light that never goes out (smiths cover)
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morrissey- the operation
the sultans- fool that's down
big star- give me another chance
brian eno- needle in the camel's eye
bright eyes- haligh, haligh, a lie, haligh
leonard cohen- take this longing
steve harvey- make me smile (come up and see me)
elvis costello- i want you
billy bragg- must i paint you a picture
billy bragg- life with the lions
nick drake- which way
after several drafts... i think i've got it....
so i know bright eyes is kind of lame, and responsible for some grief on the behalf of mercurymouth, but they just released a new video. my friend cat animated, edited, and directed the whole thing. i think its beatifully done and is a refreshing break from the same-ol' same-ol' of music videos.
Just what the world needs!The Bright Eyes video reminded me of the early Tool videos, only with felt and color instead of meat pipes and shadows.
The song sounded like Nick Cave without any testicles. Not like if Nick Cave got kicked in the testicles and had to have them removed, but like if Nick Cave was born without 'em.
100% Wuss music. Introspective asshole soundtrack. Good video, though. Except for that ugly ass sweater. Why have any non-animated stuff in there? That's the only thing I don't get.
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its actually all animated... i dont know if it translates well on a computer, but the "live action" parts are animated still photographs.
I appreciate your opinion, but I think music is a very subjective thing. What one person finds good another could find crap, and vice versa.
with Cinnamongirl that is. And I think it is a neat video - I've never been much into videos, so I can't compare it to anything certainly. But it really is a neat piece of work.
I actually just got around to watching that video now. It was really cool. If more videos were like that and didn't suck so much, I might actually like music videos.
shred, its funny that you mention the "ugly sweater." that's the one part of the video that cat, (the girl who made it) isn't happy with. she was looking all over for "the perfect sweater"- a sweater that matched the sweater of the puppet, and had to settle for an ugly one.the people in the "live action" part are a real couple who live in berlin. the puppets were made to be liknesses of them. and they aren't felt, they're that plasticy-crosstitch-grid stuff with yarn, and the moveable joints are all sewn-on buttons.
Very cool video. You have a talented friend ulyssess00. I think the only thing it has in common with old Tool videos though is the animation. I don't think the aesthetic value of the sweater is relevant.
i just talked to her 5 minutes ago and she she told me that she just got word this afternoon from Saddle Creek Records that MTV cleared the video.
The song is still lame."I'm talking Night Court in its 5th season lame." - Cartman
I am on a better connection now, though, so I can appreciate the animated stills. I would have rather seen the whole thing done with the fabric people. I liked them.
Did anyone here see the original video for Nirvana's Come As You Are? I think it was that one. The original video had stop motion animation, I think, but for some reason they did a second one with Kurqhpdt swinging from a chandellier and water down the staircase and the dog. I saw a clip from it once on a tape that my friend Jacob had. It was pretty cool.
Does anyone know what I am talking about? I don't. Not anymore.
Man, I'm tired.
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I'm listening to Penguin Cafe Orchestra, thanks to sneakums. He's ranted about them forever... but for some reason, I just didn't give it a chance... it's incredible though. I'm kind of glad that I didn't look into it right away, because now it's all the sweeter to kind of "stumble" onto how cool it is, inadvertently. If that makes sense.Anyway, walk... don't run... and go get some of this music.
Didn't Kate & Anna McGarrigle do something with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra many moons ago? (haven't listened to K&A in aeons)Don't tell me the Orchestra does Walk, Don't Run! I seem to end up accumulating various versions of that (e.g. try comparing the Ventures original with that by The Pink Fairies).
Yeah, they do "walk, don't run" -- although there could be two songs by the same name. I don't think there are any words in the PCO version. it's got a kind of 70s gypsy feel to it to me.K&A McGarrigle rock -- did you know that one of them is Rufus Wainright's mom?
The PCO's Walk Don't Run is a cover; the writing credit in the liner notes is to a J Smith.The PCO also did the music on a version of a traditional Irish song called Mo Chúisle that was sung by a tenor whose name escapes me. I heard it on the radio one morning at about 7 AM, driving to work. It was really great.
Another interesting PCO factoid is that Simon Jeffes arranged Sid Vicious's version of My Way.
Yes, although I mentioned the Ventures as coming out with the original they are really just the ones that made it famous. IIRC Chet Atkins was the first to commit it to record and the actual author was Johnny Smith but I know nothing about him. I'll have to track down the Chet version.
i actually put a PCO song on my mix cd.
Shred, I think I know what video you're talking about, and it is cool.I think Nirvana is an underrated band (even though they are the "voice of a generation" or whatever all that blather is about). They sort of seemed to fade away once Kurt died and the grunge era went by the wayside. I've been listening to their Unplugged CD this weekend and if you think they're just another stupid "grunge" band, whatever that means, you should hear them acoustic. Incredible talent.
Courtney Love is a strung-out bitch, and I know--I KNOW! that she had him murdered.
ooh you better watch your ass, girl. it's pretty ballsy to talk shit about courtney in a public domain. i know you can take her, you're tough shit, but what about her troops?oldpossumus' visit brought much music. some promos: josh groban, andy stochansky, black crowes live; some gifts: john coltrane's a love supreme deluxe version, solomon burke's new one, badly drawn boy's have you fed the fish; one i bought myself: johnny cash when the man comes around; one borrowed and returned: the freewheelin' bob dylan; and one from the parents: dylan's live at royal albert hall double disc.
i was a solomon burke virgin, but i have discovered the joy. oh have i.
johnny cash is right on the spot.
i am inhaling music.
my life has been harder to live with the recent disappearance of my mermaid avenue volume one. oh, i wish it would come home.
Cinnamongirl - I'm a little confused by your post. Is the whole thing addressed to me, or just the first sentence?The rest of my post is addressed to the issue of Courtney Love. My sister was Francis Bean's cabin counselor at camp two years ago. Hannah, my sister, was given permission by Courtney Love (and her lawyers) to let Francis have a normal camp experience (no preferential treatment) and while Hannah (my sis) thought that was good on one level, she also thought it was kinda wierd.
Like they presented a letter in the counselor meeting the week before Francis got there.
Courtney sucks. Let her sue me all she wants. I have nothing that she could take. Lean on my bank accounts? I got a $48 balance. Garnish wages? I don't have a job. Possess my car? It's an early 90's Taurus (tortoise) with over 125,000 miles and rust.
HAHAHAHAHA!
Fuck Courntney Love.
Fuck her up her stupid ass.
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she can take something from you.
but somehow i find myself attracted to her. not a timeless, unending, unyielding, relentless, no-holds-barred, worship-the-ground-she-walks-on, marry-her-in-a-heartbeat attraction. but there have been moments that are deeply embedded in my memory that i have seen some intrinsic, staggering beauty in her.
but she's crazy, and she hates that i have a penis, probably. i doubt she had kurt killed, though. i wonder what he would have written had he stuck around a while longer. i always think it would have been cool to hear him collaborate with Jeremy Enigk.
I was driving yesterday in the warm Washington Weather (it's snowing again by the way) with my window down, listening to Alien Lanes at the top of the stereo's capacity. It reminded me of college again, speeding up 61 from Winona to Minneapolis for an evening of fun (we used to drive up there on a Saturday morning and come back way early Sunday morning, without sleeping). The song Jane of the Waking Universe is particularily nice.Also, Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" is a damn good driving song.
I remember being at a NIN, Manson and Hole show in the mid-90's. Manson opened, followed by Hole. There was a poster in the back with "Love killed Kobain, Hole Sucks!" Love jumped into the crowd and tried to surf. The crowd (that I wouldn't even go into) ripped off most of her clothing and it looked like she was a little damaged before security got her back on stage. From that point on I knew she was too dumb to be taken seriously.
i bought the new ben harper disc yesterday. i'll let everyone know what i think of it when i get a chance to listen to it.
Shred, when I said "you" I was just addresing it to anyone who had something to say regarding Nirvana, Kurt, or Whoretney Love. Apparently, someone dislikes her even more than I do.I watched "Man on the Moon" yesterday (or part it of, I have already seen it once), and as much as I can't stand her I think she acts fairly well, considering how much she sucks in general. I also don't care for Jim Carrey, but he does a great job in that flick.
In high school, Hole was one of my favorite bands. I went to see them in tenth grade, and it was one of the worst nights of my young life. First of all our one piddly little joint being shared between about five people got confiscated. If we were at a Michael W. Smith concert I'd understand, but 75 % of the people around us were on much worse drugs than a little weed. They were going to kick us out, it was this little amphitheater in Denver, but my fast-talking friend Katie got us out of it. Then, Courtney Love got there two hours after the show was scheduled to start because she had been in New York shooting up heroin and couldn't bother to make it to the show. A few people started yelling when she got there--my friends and I were just a few rows back--because we were tired and bored and it was already past my curfew at this point, and she started screaming at all of us and calling us the worst names imaginable. She's a total bitch, though she's supposedly cleaned up since then. My dad also convinced me since then that any good music of their band's was written by Kurt Cobain. He had a logical argument and evidence about this, but I can't remember it specifically at the moment. Maybe it's true and maybe not, but she really grates on my nerves.
Maybe she is pretty in a rode-hard-and-put-away wet type of way, but I think she's had more plastic surgery than Cher at this point, so I wonder how much of it is real. I've seen pictures of her from years ago and she looks like a different person.
lanois' record comes out in a month. his label's page has a mp'3 of one of the songs. man i can't wait for the album.
it aired on 120 minutes last nite which is pretty exciting for a filmaker is still an undergrad.
She's still an undergrad?Props to her then. I hope she get's course credit for the video, like professional work experience or commercial business credit. Where does she go to school?
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... is done for herself and not for class. she goes to the art institute of chicago. and this will look damn good on her resume and she is already getting some intrest from other indie-labels for making videos.
when are we gonna rock? im thinking of starting a mathrock band called y=mx+b. or a mathcore band called rise over run.
but seriously. we should rock.
shred, are you still thinking of coming down to Minneapolis next monday for The Fire Theft show? phil and i will be there. you'd dig it. and i'd love to hang with you.
that sounds like a good idea, on one condition: you dont use the terms "mathrock" or "mathcore."
when you ganno do your song about being a lady with a ring of power?
fine by me g. those terms were a joke. but im serious about jamming. are you coming to godspeed?
cant afford that right now. and ive never been a HUGE fan.and on the 30th i will have to miss RFTC playing at the metro due to a play for the second time since ive been in chicago.
about jamming... perhaps we can use the RV space sometime? pedro?
Nope. Sorry -- I have to fill out forms to be in there now -- things are pretty different now... although, if you as a full-time student contact Joe Lill, he may be willing to sign the forms for you. I can't speak for him on that one, and I'm not authorized to sign the forms for you, because I'm just mere staff. He has a drum set fixed up for students to use. But Viking Hall is locked down tighter than a nervous whore in church!
i think few places on campus, except for caroline hall/computer lab are locked down THAT much...
Did somebody say drums? I'm dying to jam....it has been too long.Check out the photos of my drum set. I really need to start playing again.
do i know you? where do you live? just wondering.
dogmanphil...I'm living in mid-Michigan, but I'm originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I'm afraid I don't know you. Red Vinegar is a real interest to me though. It would be great to jam with some new people. I want to hear your music but I haven't had the time to download anything. I found this diner through a search engine. "Computer programming" + "Chicago" was the search I think I used. I was thinking about moving to Illinois for employment after I finished college and be close to Chicago because I got sick of Detroit.I was just talking with ulyssess00 the other day on AIM. And it turns out that I know Hemingstein. I played varsity basketball against him in high school. Small world. I think I even posted to him on a message board a long long time ago. I'm the kind of person who contacts random people if they sound familar...and shoot the shit with them if they are cool. I think it's my nature just to be friendly with people I don't know. I'm a very reserved and quiet person most of the time, but I find myself always starting conversations in elevators, food lines, or any other place that attracts random people.
i'd love to meet you sometime, Coney. you play drums, and anything else?
that sucks you have to miss RFTC, g. i saw they were coming, and figured you were going, and i was thinking about going too. but i shouldn't really afford it right now, and im not going alone.
i met a girl tonite, who i work with but we haven't worked together yet.she's getting me on the guest list to see cursive, no knife, small brown bike and the ghost tomorrow nite.
dogmanphil: i think you'd really dig no knife
Who are your favorite drummers? Mine are Stan Lynch (old Heartbreakers drummer), Stewart Copeland, Omar Hakim, Terri Bozio, and Manu Katche (spelling?). I think Jimmy Chamberlin and Matt Cameron are good too (to mention a couple of more recent ones).
Hmm...I really can't play any other instrument. The only other instrument I own is a Moog Prodigy which is pretty much a noise maker. My brother uses it for recording, as it provides seamless bass lines.As for favorite drummers....Steward Copeland (The Police, Oysterhead) is my favorite, the others would be Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Wellwater Conspiracy) and Jason Finn (Presidents of the United States of America, Love Battery).
Marilyn Manson still has a career?
and all of these coincidences--'specially with Coney, Dennis and Aaron--are starting to freak me out.
love battery is great.
i think will goldsmith from sunny day real estate, foo fighters, jeremey eingk solo record, and now the fire theft is one of the best drummers. jack irons from 11, red hot chili peppers and pearl jam. but, i too dig matt cameron.
coney thats really funny you know whitmer. ake who is also in this diner lives in the up now.
are you still thinking of moving to chicago?
The new Queens Of The Stone Age record sounds like a Grohl drum solo half the time. Plus, I heard he doesn't use a double pedal, which means he is doing some of those fills by doubling the bass drum on his floor tom, which means he must have the fastest right hand. The drumming on that record is nuts. I think he is the best rock drummer.I also like Matt Cameron and Manu. Ian Prince from the band Houston is also good. I saw Bob Lee on tour with Mike Watt and was very impressed. Ooh, two others. Mike Bordin, ex of Faith No More and Fish from Fishbone.
Seriously, check out Houston. They are from Minneapolis.
http://www.onesimpleband.com/
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elvin jones.
Double Bass Drum Pedal...man I don't like them, it seems like cheating. I have the most respect for drummers who don't use them...Grohl of course, and guys like Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I know music is music and it shouldn't matter, but if we are comparing a persons talent on the skins I always take in to consideration what they are using. I know that a drummer can easily hide behind studio work and splitting drum tracks. But on stage, you can't hide.That's why I love Jason Finn, I think he only uses 3 drums and he pulls off some fantastic stuff.
I also must give credit to Bryan St. Pere, the drummer for Hum. Oh man.
hands down. have you seen The Song Remains The Same? where he tosses his sticks and plays the solo with his hands? unbelievable...
It's not always fun to talk about great guitar players b/c there are so many of them and most of the true virtuosos are of the classical ilk anyway. But with drums and electic bass, you're pretty much talking about the rock and jazz canon. Much more fun in my opinion. Baggins, you totally remind me of Spinal Tap and the number 11 on the amp knobs! :) I don't mean any disrespect by that, I just like your enthusiasm about Bonham's playing with his hands. Reminds me of a sick high school drummer I knew who played YYZ and little splinters of drum sticks were flying out at me. I talked about that for years. Anycrap, the best electric bass player in history is Tony Levin, hands down.
And his bass line on "Secret World" by Peter Gabriel makes me want to cry.
I don't get all geeked up for bass players like some bassists I know. I'm not out reading the magazines and keeping up on who records on what album so with that disclaimer in mind, my top bass player might have to be Victor Wooten. He does things with an electric bass I never thought possible. Tony Levin would definitely make the short list (he's at Martyr's tommorrow night BTW), as would Bootsy, Flea, Jack Bruce, Mike Watt, Oteil, and Phil Lesh, among others. For the upright bass, Ray Brown will always stand near the top for me. I fell in love with his tone a long time ago and boy did that man know how to swing.
doug pinnick-king's x jeff ament-pearl jam michael manring Jaco Pastorius
yeah, those guys too
once again back is the incredible... oh sorry. yeah, bassists. i don't know THAT many bassists offhand. i've been paying attention to Nate Mendel's playing on SDRE's Diary and LP2 and TFT's demos. i like his style, and that it isn't just a simple line that follows the root of the chord progression. and you can hear it in the mix, partly because Brad Wood is an amazing producer and partly because the bass parts are very distinct.
also, i've gotta give props up to my favorite band again. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Bonham get their fair share of the accolades regarding rock legendarium. and rightly so. but John Paul Jones was the unsung hero of that band in my opinion. the other 3 were phenomenal, but he was the glue that held that band together. i love listening to Zep albums and just following the bass line in my head. that guy was cool as hell. not super-out-of-the-ordinary as far as blues goes. but awesome nonetheless. and solid as a rock. plus his synth, organ work, composition, and arrangements get overlooked as well, and they are also outstanding.
other favorite bassists include: Bootsy, Flea, Geezer Butler, Tim Hawkinson and Peter Carlson.
Baggins, that Bonham solo on "The Song remains the Same" is indeed kick-ass. And I still have that Clutch shirt to give you. I'm sorry I missed the show at the Abbey. I'm not too familiar with the band, but I love the Abbey and would have liked seeing a show along with a few well-loved friends.Today while cleaning (lamentably, I did not have Pedro's ultimate cleaning music mix, which Grady idenitified as such), I had to resort to the radio. I'm such a dumbass. I packed all my CDs away and not only packed them, but have them moved to my new place already. Those should have been the last thing I moved. Anyway, I heard the Counting Crows covering Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi." I love Joni, and I like the CC's a lot. At first I was wary, but it's actually a pretty cool cover. It's interesting to hear the song a bit rocked-out and not so spare and acoustic.
Feel free to ridicule me about this, but I love that Smashmouth "Hey Now, You're an All-star" song. I don't know the real title. Today I was dancing around my kitchen when it came on.
musical notes, and today was the first time I noticed the nifty "Preview" post option. I'm a bit slow on the uptake.
Wow. I haven't heard Jaco's name in forever. He's a seriously good bass player. I remember listening to him around the time I was listening to John Patatucci. John is very good but he doesn't have the fire that Jaco has. I saw the Chick Corea electric band in Northhampton in the late 80s in a tiny joint. John P on bass and Dave Weckel on drums. Amazing stuff.
that would have been a great show! Dave Weckl is a fabulous drummer. And Jaco was an amazing player. I love the solos he does over delay loops.
Are these the same records?Seriously, the production on these records is exactly the same. It is like one is cut out with a ROCK cookie cutter and the other one is cut out with a ROCK ala FUNKY BASS cookie cutter. I hate homogenization, especially coming from people who went such lengths to make records that were not ordinary. Where are my Clutch mp3s?
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long live clutch. drink to the dead!
I was in a punk band that covered Big News I. I have a live recording of it somewhere. Every time I hear that song, I get taken to a wonderful place. If any of y'all like the Riff Rock, you gotta check out Clutch.btr
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I wanted to start a Clutch band with Tolic and Oldpossumus awhile back. Never happened. Drag.
when are they gonna come to chicago again? those live shows are the best.
Summer Sun is due out on April 7th. There are MP3s of a couple of tracks on Matador's site, but I think I'm going to wait for the CD to arrive in the post. Mmmmmmmmmanticipation.
I just bought their new album, Rabbit Songs... it's great! Kind of like Aaron Copland meets Cowboy Junkies... or something.If you think that sounds interesting, you'd probably like this album.
I truly think Elton John and Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) have the best voices ever.
I'm happy to hear that you like Loveless (mentioned in your diary). It's a great album. I also recommend Curve Doppelganger (or however that's spelled) and Catherine Wheel (the one with Crank on it) if you haven't heard those already. Now for something completely different, I like Steve Miller. I never thought he had a particularly great voice though until I heard him recently on a TV show in his house playing acoustic guitar. His tone was so rich. I'd love to have a rich tone to my voice like that. I thought that about the guy from Men at Work too. I heard him on some thing playing acoustic and was just amazed at his great voice. I hope I haven't ruined any credibility I once had in this diner.
Depeche Mode is one of my favorite bands. I listened to them more back in high school, but I still love them. I love all their stuff, old school and newer, but I think "Songs of Faith and Devotion" is my favorite DM album. Dave Gahan, despite his melodramatic mien and frequent suicide attempts, has the sexiest voice. I rode in a trunk with my friend Chad to get tickets for their upcoming show in Denver back in '94. The reason we had to ride in the trunk was due to eight other people being the car (it was a hoopty, but it still couldn't seat ten people). At first I was scared, but riding in a trunk is fun. Then, after going to all that trouble, they cancelled their show (I think Dave was "sick."). Listening to them totally takes me back to high school.
What is your favorite Depeche Mode song?I think my favorites would have to be "Everything Counts", "The Meaning Of Love", "Home", and maybe "People are People".
I heard about Gahan's suicide attempt back in 1997....do you know anything else about it?
Oh, he (Gahan) was down in Australia, I think, and supposedly tried to knock himself off (no offense to anyone--I am certainly not being flippant about suicide, but I think he just did it for media attention). If it's any indication, one of their songs is called "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead." I don't really remember the whys and wherefores now, but I remember my dad would hassle me about it every time I listened to DM thereafter. He can't stand DM or Morrissey, whom he calls "The Flim-Flam Man." But I digress.I saw them in concert, several years delayed and in Chicago with my friend Chad, who I rode in the trunk with to get tickets to see them back in high school. It was an awesome show, and Dave is seriously the sexiest thing ever (besides my boyfriend, of course).
I have too many favorite DM songs to list, really. It's sorta like naming favorite Zep songs. Let me give it a shot:
Shake the Disease, Fly on the Windscreen, Never Let Me Down, A Question of Lust, Somebody (Baggins, you're a romantic, you'd like this song), World in My Eyes, almost anything off "Songs of Faith & Devotion." "Depeche Mode 101" is the definitive CD to have of theirs I think--it is a double live album and a damn awesome one.
That's just a start. I do love "Home" and "The Meaning of Love"--that's a good old school tune. I totally need to burn you a Mode mixed CD, but I don't have a burner. I also still have the Clutch shirt for ya, and I'll bring it to the next redvinegar show. Thank you all for letting me rant about DM.
I have totally been mixing up names lately on the Diner and I don't know why. But Baggins, I do still have the Clutch shirt for you, and Coney I am glad to have found a fellow DM fan.
i never got into DM. but i tapped my foot once or twice to a couple of their songs. i think i have 'Songs of Faith and Devotion' somewhere. or maybe my sister has it. but i remember seeing it in this house, and wanting to listen to it. that was years ago, however. i'd love another Clutch shirt.
also, i think this is the first time the word 'hoopty' has been posted here in the diner. its certainly the first time i've heard the word in a looooong time. i always thought it would have been misslady that would post it here first.
I have suspicions of who she is. Is she someone I know, Baggins? A blond someone? Just curious. Let me know if you think I know her (did that make sense?). I think "hoopty" is on my mind because one of our new neighbors, the one who bumps the rap music upstairs from us, also bumps it in the alley with his friends in a genuine hoopty, bumpin' that damn rap with the bass that shakes the walls. It seriously pisses me off. If you need to disturb the neighborhood, at least make it something cool, like GNR.
yeah, im pretty sure you know who misslady is.
the new white stripes album just came out on the first. anybody heard it?
first off... as far as depeche mode goes... ITS ALL ABOUT SPEAK AND SPELL MOTHERFUCKERS!!! BOYS SAY GO!!!!2nd- i heard about three tracks off the new white stripes in a record store the other day, and (except for the song meg sings on) they were pretty good... the cover art is the best they've done so far, "elephant" is the best title yet... and rolling stone gave it five stars (which means practically nothing.)
thirdly... check out this pretty sweet article that the BIG TIME TUCSON NEWSPAPER (none of that wussy "community newspaper stuff") wrote about my brother's band. it was published today, which also happens to be his 17th birthday.
happy birthday lucas!!!
glad to hear it grady.
^---
I bought it today in Eau Claire. alaric bought Johnny Cash at San Quentin... good day.
it's funny, because when you see amelie, you think about how great the music is... when you listen to the soundtrack, you can't help but realize how much "french accordion" is in the soundtrack. You can't help but think, "this is clearly the soundtrack to a french movie"... er, I mean, freedom movie. Anyway, it's great.
My pick for best DM album would be Music for the Masses, but I haven't listened to much Depeche Mode since high school. We tried to get tickets to go see the Violator tour at Mile High, but alas we failed.
The accordian does indeed run rampant in the movie Amelie. I think you need to be watching it, in all its French glory, to truly appreciate the music.I love "Music for the Masses," but then, what DM album does not rock?
i've had it on cd for a while but scored it on vynil last week.i love how he does "san quentin" twice in a row.
you said Mile High (the stadium)--are you from Denver??? I'm from Lakewood...Have you seen the new monstrosity they have wasted billions of dollars of tax money on to replace Mile High? It's seriously ridiculous, because there was nothing wrong with Mile High. I love the way our government arranges its priorities.
Neil Young is awesome. Last night I was listening to "Decade." Rock on.
I grew up in Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs so Denver was just a hop skip and trip up I-25 away. I haven't seen the new stadium in person, but I love how huge profitable teams like the Broncos get the citizens to pony up for a new stadium so that the team can make more money. Mile High was a great place, I saw U2 play on the first leg of the ZooTV tour. Akthough the bes tplace to see a concert in CO, and perhaps the US, is red rocks.
Heck yeah. I have seen so may kick-ass shows there I can't even remember half of them. Neil Young tons of times, Natalie Merchant lots of times, STP before they sucked, Creedence Clearwater, Alanis Morrisette (okay, a lot of these were in high school). Nothing beats Red Rocks. We used to just hang out there a lot at nights and chill with Dennis, if you know what I mean. I did our high school commencement speech (one of them anyway) and our graduation was held there. That place has awesome acoustics.Ah, me. I miss Red Rocks. Fiddler on the Green sucks, though.
The Walkmen are my life these days...They have that song on the Childhood Saturn commerical, the precursor to the prom, marriage, and old age satrun ads. Well its a great CD, casue I went and bought it, after searching for whom that song was by for weeks....I've been singing the damn song for 2 days straight.
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my bloody valentine- only shallow
pleasure club- shout! you're automatic
pinback- penelope
walkmen- we've been had
jesus and mary chain- head on
2 many djs- no fun/ push it
hank thompson- smoke smoke smoke that cigarette
gang of four- to hell with poverty
add n to (x) - metal fingers in my body
t rex- 20th century boy
phoenix- if i ever feel better
ee cummings- dying is fine) but Death
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solomon burke- goodbye baby, baby goodbye
minibosses- contra medley
led zeppelin- fool in the rain
tones on tail- go!
felix the housecat- madame hollywood
hope sandoval- on the low
apples in stereo- strawberryfire
hot hot heat- touch you touch you
rocket from the crypt- my arrow's aim
lyrics born- i changed my mind (stereo MCs remix)
the jam- a town called malice
instantcofi heard part of it in my car the other nite.....
Natalie Merchant has a new album, "The House Carpenter's Daughter," comprised of traditional folk songs, coming out. I hope it means she'll tour soon. It is hard to claim any group/artist as my ABSOLUTE favorite, but Nat Merch would be it. I have loved her since junior high and they were 10,000 Maniacs, which is sort of an odd band for an 11 year old to be obessessed with, but thefre you are. My love for her music has never wavered since. And most of her songs they play on the radio are not a good indication of her amazing voice and just plain awesome talent, so buy "Motherland" (her most recent album).Hernando, I found out today that LIVE has a new CD coming out in May, "Birds of Pray." I liked them in high school and then they sort of faded into obscurity, but it's the boyfriend's favorite band so I have been brought back into the fold. Their last two albums, which probably few people here have even heard of, are awesome. We went to see them last July at Navy Pier and it was one of the most kick-ass concerts ever. Plus, they tour and write prolifically, which I always respect in a band. I would put them on the level of rocking as hard as Pearl Jam and Neil Young live. Which is maybe why that's their band name.
i would have to disagree about live. i used to be a huge live fan in high school. but, only the first two albums. mental jewlery is amazing. by far their best work. throwing copper is good too but, they lost what was really intresting about them that somewhat acoustic rhythmic rock that they had with mental jewlery and started to just become rock. i really did like throwing copper but, after that they have failed to put out anything that grabbed my attention.
i too am excited about miss mercants new album.
Tigerlily was excellent almost solely because of Jennifer Turner's guitar playing. It has been all downhill since that.
i bought motherland last year or so and was blown away. produced by t-bone burnett, gives it such a blue grass feel. then was open a little more to list to ophelia, which the guitar playing by one daniel lanois on thick as theives is amazing. i really like both albums as well as the live one. but, i used to think that when she went solo it was a poor choice. but i have seen the light.
the work she did on the mermaid ave. albums is great too.
Phil, I have a whole new respect for you (not saying that I didn't respect you before, of course) now that I know you like Nat Merch. I am going to talk your ear off about this because, like I said, she is my favorite and has been since I was pretty young. I have every import, single, whatever that I've ever been able to lay my hands on.I was totally devastated when the Maniacs broke up. They were my favorite band, which is significant in the life of a high schooler...and I only saw the band as a whole once, which I will never get over. My dad is not much into many female vocalists, but he got turned onto N. Mechant 'cause of me, which is awesome (probably the only band I've ever gotten him into and not the reverse). The first time I saw Natalie solo, live, I realized it was a good choice to leave the band. And she's been lucky to have really amazing musicians to work with in the last few years (Nutella, Jennifer Turner is great, but you should check out "Motherland."--phenomenal). I think she was just starting to get her feet under her at that point of "Tigerlily,", but both the "Ophelia" and "Motherland" tours--especially the last--were absolutely mind-blowing. "Motherland" the album is too kick-ass for words, and the bluesy songs are the best part of it. She picked a good producer in T-Bone B.
As for LIVE, I'm sticking by and staying true--I think they've only gotten better, and that show at Navy Pier was truly one of the best shows I've seen in a while--but of course you're entitled to your own opinion. You can fight that one out with Hernando. And anyone who likes Neil Young is cool in my book.
i'm getting into THE WARLOCKS lately.they're a nine-peice band from LA.
the name comes from the moniker that both the velvet underground and the greatful dead used prior to evolving into the bands that hit it big.
think velvet underground, stones, jesus and mary chain... drugs, sex, drugs, rock n' roll, drugs, and rock n' roll.
If any one here likes The Melvins, you should check out The Dames. www.the-dames.comVery cool stuff. Their latest record, Divorce, is the best metal record I have heard in a long time. My friend Dan says it is the best metal record since the first four Sabbath records, but I don't know.
Anyhoo, the Dames are playing Chicago pretty soon. If you like metal, and I mean heavy rocking huge guitar and drum sounds, not wanky solos and lyrics about D+D, check them out.
double door / chicago - thursday may 29th, 2003
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Dave
Who's in The Dames now? Malinkovich left, right? So is it Rusty and Osterlund-the-younger and somebody else now?
thanks for the heads-up shred. i'll check em out.
The Dames areTony Bennet Rusty Johnson and Ian Prince of Houston.
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Dave
Ha! Cinnamon Sister is crazy! How old is she?
and we are twins, though you'd never believe it to see us. We don't even look related.I think Pearl Jam tickets are still available for the Chicago show. I had just assumed it sold out immediately. I'm gonna look into it today. ROCK!!!
THE POLYPHONIC SPREE ARE PLAYING LIVE IN THE STUDIO FOR THE WGN NEWS AT NOON!!!!!!!!!AMAZING!
they played last nite at the elbo room and are playing tonite at the metro. i wish i could go... but alas, i have the play.... hopefully i will be able to catch Fischerspooner later this month who i hear are just as exciting, extravagant, and intense live.
I was pointed to the band deerhoof by salon. From deerhoof's website there's a link to a whole crapload of mp3s for free download. The mp3s are part of a large archive of tunes called the puzzling music archive. I've never listened to any of this except a few deerhoof tracks so this could all suck, but I thought it looked cool.
how did they all fit? even a four piece is tight on that stage.
well, they didn't release it on their webpage. but its being released on this site. this is the link to the actual song for download.
is usually a really good source for info on just about any recorded music. they're a bit lacking in their info on electronic music, but otherwise i find it very useful.however, thier little "Artist Browser" java thing where it suggests artists "more energetic" or "more low key, calmer" (for example,) is a little off sometimes...
i was just reading up on the proclaimers, and when i put the curser over "more sober, arranged," it suggested GG Alin!!!!!! sorry dudes, you've got that one wrong....
soothing the graduation week(s) crazies with a recenly completed mix tape:JAM ON IT (old school electro hits)
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afrika bambaataa- searching for the perfect beat
cybotron- clear
mantronix- bassline
newcleus- jam on it
debbie deb- when i hear music
egyptian lover- computer love
egyptian lover- and my beat goes boom
grandmaster flash- the message
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afrika bambataa- planet rock
hashim- al-naafiysh (the soul)
herbie hancock- rockit
man parrish- hip hop be bop (dont stop)
egyptian lover- egypt egypt
laid back- white horse
kraftwerk- boing boom tchack/ techno pop
nothing too rare or creative, but aside from a compilation or two floating around out there, you cand find all this stuff together.
Tull's Thick as a Brick is so damn good. i can't believe oldpossumus doesn't like it.
Why doesn't oldpossumus like Thick as a Brick? That's crazy. I also like Skating Away a lot too.
Is one of those bands you either thing is good, or you think it's like a cheese grater being scraped across your soul.
you people have no soul. not Soul! but soul.
I think Thick as a Brick is overdue in Lyric's Buffet. . .
i'd rather read rolling stone magaize than tolkien most days....(not all days, but MOST.)
and thats just the way it goes.
people who like jethro tull or don't like jethro tull, do you like fairport convention? cause i like them a lot more, esp. sandy denny makes me sad.
A friend recommended Doves to me. I've not gone out and procured it yet - can anyone recommend them from the Diner? This friend is Renee who I lived with for many many years so I'm pretty sure if she recommends it I'll like it, but I've no idea what it's like. Could be on the GBV end of the spectrum, could be on the Jeff Buckley end. Who knows?
dex-i would reccomend their first album, lost soulds over thier album that came out this time last year, the last broadcast.
but both are pretty good.
i used to have fistfulls of doves stickers soemwhere.....
I love Tenacious D. I love Jack Black.
The D is great. i know Juice is a big fan too.
LOU REED ON THE COVER OF KUNG-FU MAGAZINE!!! TOTALLY WEILDING A SWORD!!! ROCK AND ROLL ANIMAL!!!
salon's audio recommendations are all about thrill jockey these days. This week they recommended the new album by Califone, called Quicksand / Cradlesnakes. I listened to the sample track and I really liked the folky country avant garde rock.
its califone.
sounds somewhat like a Sparklehorse/Sixteen Horsepower half-breed. I approve.On another note, the High Llamas recently released a 2CD compilation of instrumentals, B-sides and whatnot called Retrospective - Rarities and Instrumentals.
Rufus Wainwright. I have heard a lot of the "Poses" CD, but it's time I go out and buy it for my own self.
is really good. His cover of Across the Universe is on my mix cd, which is still not sent.
anonymously, but I really can't help but like 50 Cent. I have him on right now, but if anyone walks into my office I'll have to turn it off. I read an article about him in the Rolling Stone and they said the reason he sings the way he does, kind of with a slur, is because of the bullet that went into his cheek and shattered his jaw. Now that's a hard G yo.I also kind of have a thing for Enrique Iglesias. I should quit while I'm ahead. My friend Andi (who used to share my office, but she was promoted and moved downstairs this week--sniff, sniff, I miss her) likes him too, although she's a hippie-type and usually only listens to classic rock and Phish. She would turn up Enrique really loud when he was on the radio and we would sing along enthusiastically. Then when the song was over we'd turn it back down and go back to our work and pretend it had never happened. Denial, I guess.
why does Bon Jovi suck?Bon Jovi is the absolute idol of one of my exes. Still is, in fact. I should have considered that from the beginning as a warning.
baggins: what album do you have? somebody loaned me American Don once and it was really good. I shoud track that one down.
that's the one i've 'got'. although i just downloaded it through Grokster P2P FSP. i've only listened to a bit on the suggestion of my bassist. they're pretty cool.
1. If you don't have the Complete Live at San Quentin you are missing out. So very good. 2. I was cleaning out some junk on my hard drive and stumbled on Solomon Burke's newish album. Wow. Next time I'm in range of a music store that one's coming home with me. 3. notice the positioning of these two tracks on the Lonesome Organist's new album: 11. No Place for my Kitten 12. The Robot Fugue. Coincidence? I think not.
Just picked up my special edition copy of Hail to the Theif (Radiohead's new album). The inclusion of a poster and some non-traditional packaging seem to be the 'special' in special edition. So far so good. More Kid A than I was expecting (I wouldn't listen to the leaked copies of tracks- spoiler free mind set, I guess). More when I'm through I guess.
sorry. I'm really really sorry.
screw radiohead.
...are a cool Irish band that's been around for several years. Their frontman is Glen Hansard, who was (amongst other things), in the movie The Committments. They have a live album out recorded in November called "Set List," and their newest studio album is called "For The Birds." I'm not sure if Set List is out in America yet.They're very cool, and you should check them out if you have an opportunity. They just seem like the kind of band that's worth supporting.
and thanks to sneakums for helping them cross the pond.
from their webpage:"The Fire Theft has officially signed to Ryko Records! The band is currently in the studio in LA with Brad Wood putting the finishing touches on recording and mixing. September 23rd is the targeted release date of the album in the United States, with October 7th as the targeted release date in UK, Spain, France, Germany, Japan (w/ bonus track), Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Holland, among others.
A tour of Western Europe is being planned for the latter part of 2003!
Album art is on its way and expect this website to kick into high gear in the coming days and weeks."
wonderful.
on 97.1 fm the Drive, they were talking about how today (well, technically yesterday, friday the 20th) is the 55th Anniversary of the Record Album (like the vinyl format LP). and they were commemorating it by playing albums in their entirety. the one i caught was Carole King's Tapestry. such a good album. oddly enough, i own it. i really enjoyed that pocket of time today - driving around and listening to it with the windows down and a breeze flowing through the car.
so, i clicked on a link for What is Emo?
its actually a pretty comprehensive attempt at codifying all the variations on the theme. with some tongue-in-cheek explanations/criticisms and whatever.
but in the How To Name Your Emo Band section, they listed a little known band called _The Lazarus Plot_. anyway, i thought was kinda funny to see it there, so i thought i'd link to it.
form the same page, but not musically related...
does this remind anyone of alaric at all?
It totally does.
Yeah definitely reminiscent, but I think he'd have a scroll saw in his hands instead of an AK-47. :)
if it was a kalasnikov, i wouldn't be surprised. but for the sake of peace and quiet, scrollsaw, yeah, that's the ticket.
Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea
Probbly the best Blues Album I've heard recently.Anyone know of Nick Cave with a DJ? I found a track with NC and DJ Spooky... I need more. Imagine Murder Ballads on acid.
this is really only for Cin, or anyone else interested in CO history. I was digging for info on the song I mentioned in my diary (if i had a wagon...) and came across this old column which talks about the state song of Colorado. I think the song I'm trying to find is called "Colorado" and was recorded by Up With People. After a little more digging, I found a recording of the song! It's a cheesy recording of a cheesy song, but it brings back all kinds of great childhood memories.
alh bought me (us?) two records at the Newberry Library book fair; Bonnie Raitt's Sweet Forgiveness... she's awesome, and so is the record.But the real supriser is this: The Guess Who are actually a good band! I mean, I always liked their hits and stuff, but this is a "best of," and there are songs I totally did not know which really rock. I had always kind of thought of them as a one-hit-wonder, but no longer.
It had been nearly a month since this entree was last written in (july 2)... have we stopped listening to music people? This used to be THE top ENTREE, no questions asked... now, it's 3rd after World News and Movies.I realize it's SUmmer Blockbuster season, but really!
very Simon and Garfunkel lately. And Beatles. And Billy Bragg / Wilco's 'Mermaid Avenue'.I miss home.
Leonard Cohen - Strange remixes
Garcia and Grisman
Pink Floyd- The Wall - remixed by the Orb
Elvis Costello & Lucinda Williams - CMT Crossroads
John Lee Hooker - Can't tell what album...
Black Sabbath - Wasp
David Grisman with Sam Bush - Mandolin workshop
Morphine - Bootleg Detroit
Boz Skaggs - But Beautiful
etc...
I just happened to see your entry about the "Colorado" song. That is awesome (well, chessy-awesome)! I love Colorado history.In 3rd grade, we did this program called "Day on the Prairie." Is that something all elementary school kids do? Anyway, we set up these "teepees" on the "prairie"--this grassland up in the mountains--and ate dried apples and dried venison (sick) and shook milk until it turned into "butter." And went to the bathroom in the special bathroom teepee in a coffee can (sorry, TMI).
I don't believe real Native Americans lived that way, and they certainly don't now. But the plight of the Native Americans is something that makes me so angry that I won't even get into it here. Isn't this entree about music?
Anyway, I love John Denver.
Listened to Living Colour's Time's Up album on the way to work today and Muzz Skillings is awesome!
Edgar Meyer, specifically his work with Strength in Numbers since that's what I was listening to last night. He is a phenomenal double-bassist.
Ha! "I don't get all geeked up for bass players" You're totally geeked up!
i listened to his solo break last night about 5 times in row. wow.
i'm really digging this guy
Beatallica
Who sang the song with the lyrics "I want to get with you, oh girl, and your sister, I think her name is debbie" At least I think that's how it goes. Please help me!
I believe that is the Beck song Debra.
i believe you're speaking of a Beck song from the album 'Midnight Vultures'. i don't know for sure, but that sounds right.
pedro, that is a beautiful beautiful link. hilarious, and well done. spread the word!
Thanks you are very right it just completely went out of my head thanks!
This was taken from here but the site appears to be down at the moment.Dear Friends and fellow Wesleynauts, We are deeply saddened to report that one of our artists, Wesley Willis passed away yesterday, Thursday, August 21st. Wesley will be greatly missed by all that had the privilege to know him, as well as the fans who have been fortunate enough to experience his genius.
Wesley was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) at the end of 2002, and had to undergo emergency surgery on June 2nd to identify the source of, and to suppress internal bleeding. It is not clear if this bleeding was related to his leukemia or not, and the exact cause of death is still unknown. Wesley had been recovering at a Hospice in Illinois, and since the surgery his health had deteriorated rapidly.
His songs were simultaneously disturbing, hilarious, blunt, and intoxicating. Wesley's sheer excitement and unaffected honesty about every cultural phenomenon, defined his music as truly individual, and truly punk rock.
Wesley released well over 50 albums - 3 of which are on Alternative Tentacles, and a 4th, entitled, Wesley Willis Greatest Hits Vol. 3 (CD) had already been scheduled for release in October of this year.
Sad news indeed.
rock on chicago
As I'm sure lots of people are doing these days, pedro and I have been listening to Johnny Cash a lot during the day. I also saw a couple of specials on him this past weekend. I find the period where his record company dropped him after decades of success and where Rick Rubin signed him as an interesting one. I think the first single released with Rubin was Delia's Gone. I remember hearing that for the first time and really feeling as if Johnny Cash was every bit as good then as he had been at any previous point in his career. How many long-time artists is that ever true for?
from the llamafull shows, with source info all in shorten format. haven't listened to any, so i can't vouch for quality
Just got this in the mail: "A whole slew of Lanois equipment is for sale on eBay (www.ebay.com). You can do an advanced search for seller "labellavista" or search for Daniel Lanois." If I had a Million Dollars...
Any of you with Nordland connections need to hear Zac Bentz's Dirty Knobs Vs. Duluth, Minneosota record. Truly amazing music. He remixes Low's "I Am The Lamb" and takes it to a completely different place. A realization becomes a battle cry. He also remixes an Amy Abts song and a Dames song.The main reason I like Zac's music is that he approaches electronic music from a design aspect. His project, Dirty Knobs, is very cool. Usually with electronic music, you either get someone fooling around with presets or looping software. This is not the case with Zac. Dirty Knobs sounds more like Autechre or Richard D. James.
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Dave
are there mp3s online anywhere?
Zac, aka Dirty Knobs, has a ton of mp3s on his page,www.xeromusic.com
He included his remix of Low's I Am The Lamb, which I think was a European B-Side to a Low Single.
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Dave
glad to hear from you.wish you were around more often man.
sometimes video
a page that has archived radio performances of lanois & whitley
they inducted some new members. I can see ZZ Top, Traffic and Prince, but George Harrison. Certainly as Beatle it makes sense, but for his solo career? Did I miss something?
I'm definately old now. I can't believe Prince is eligible to get into the RRHOF. I remember seeing 1999 on mtv when it debuted. "Who the hell is this guy with the surgeon for a keyboard player?"
Has arguably the best solo career. And you can throw Sir Paul at me, but how many Wings jokes have you heard?Harrison gets props for the Concert for Bangladesh, and the double album "All Things Must Pass". Plus, take a look at how many of their good tunes--good, catchy lovable--songs he wrote.
well said, lt. I don't even really care for george that much, but he did probably have the best solo tia careera.Also, there was the Traveling Wilburys.
i can listen to their vol 2 disc all the time. The one that got all the airplay for handle with care and that other one. but for being a great, great, great collective of great, great, great artists, i thought their other stuff was garbage
ok, this question pertains only to those who like U2. i know many here do, so that's why i'm asking. (i like them too)What is your favorite U2 album, and maybe explain why?
personally, I'm a big fan of Rattle and Hum. it was the first U2 album i owned, given as a gift (back when it came in a cardboard longbox) from my uncle who actually saw them way back when they used to play smaller shows and all. The live stuff is really great. that sound and energy and spontaneity of the whole thing relaly does it for me. I love the songs on the album, highlights including: Love Rescue Me, All I Want is You, Angel of Harlem, and Desire. Bono is such an icon these days, and it's not hard to see why. but he still rocks, as far as i'm concerned.
what do you guys think?
(I've been listening to Rattle and Hum a lot these days. revisiting fond memories...)
And say Joshua Tree. I think it's one of the greatest albums of all time, and will be around long after people cease to care about the rest of their work. The songwriting and production are just way, way up there, and it really grabs your ear. My ear, anyway. I dunno. I'm not going to try and make concrete something that is subjective. But I really do think it's one of the best albums of all time. There is a reason it was so popular, and remains so popular.If you took out the obvious choice, I'd probably say October. I can listen to that album any day of the week.
October / When the trees are stripped bare
Of all they wear / Do I care?
October / And kingdoms rise
And kingdoms fall / But you go on
And on...
i had forgotten about CD's in cardboard longboxes
is my favorite. the flow of it is amazing. there is not a half-assed song on that album--it rocks cover to finish. and just objectively speaking, i agree with pedro that it is an amazing album that artistically will be considered a hitsorically important work of art eventually.i love war, personally.
Yes, October. Followed at a close second by the Joshua Tree. I think my least favorite was Zooropa, though it had its good moments.
POP.Zooropa really grew on me. I'd have to say Z is my 2nd least favorite, but I actually really like it. So that's not saying much. (Or it's saying a lot, depending on how you look at it.) I could take or leave Pop. And it's bicycle-horn disco music.
but Joshue tree always reminds me of driving to California because I don't think I've had a road trip out there without it, and there have been many. Good memories with good music.On the other hand though I think the first album I owned of theirs was Auchtung Baby, so that holds some sway (my dad had all the albums so I didn't need them until I moved out of his house).
the joshua tree was the first album i had and i loved it. man, i wish i could listen to that album again like it was the first time. i hadn't ever heard anything like that before. then i got rattle and hum, it was the first album i bought with my own money. i agree with baggins. i love rattle and hum i wore off all the paint on my tape till it was just clear plastic and i didn't know what side was A and which was B. but, my favorite album is the unforgettable fire.
i understand why everone loves JT but, i think the UF is their best album from start to finish. the record has the greatest mood and flow. the songs might be better on the JT but, as a whole i think UF is a better as a whole album. plus they were still young and didn't really know what they were about to do. the whole lanois, eno, u2 thing was just starting and i think it was just amazing. i'm sure i'm not convicing anyone but, i'll take the UF over any of there albums.
... to take a road trip someday and listen to Unforgettable Fire while sitting on top of my car on an abandoned roadwy somewhere in the desert. October, on the other hand, makes me want to drive in the midwest in the late fall, when the rain is turning to slush but very soft, and everything is just grey and black and brown. It makes me miss fall in the homeland, and fires.
U2 were great on each preceding album too, but Unforgettable Fire was noticeably more mature. Bad performed at Live Aid was truly amazing. They grew as a band in new and good ways since UF, but there was a bright eyed idealism and passion on their first 4 albums that I like.
october first. Rattle and hum makes me kind of sad, because that's the schism point where i really started to dislike them. Though i liked achtung, but maybe that's because of that eno influence. everything before r+h is overwhelmingly superior than everything after, to me
I just bought the new Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. It's called _Little Worlds_ and it's a three disc. Very, very good. This is probably their sixth or seventh cd I've bought, and it's the best. Crazy stuff. Many special guests. Some stuff on it is pretty much perfect. www.flecktones.com'll let you listen to the tracks if youve never heard of them. Instrumental Jazz, bluegrass, folk, etc,etc. Most renowned banjoist in the galaxy, Bela Fleck, often-voted/considered-best bassist in the galaxy, Victor Wooten, plus many other +'s. Reminds me of Weather Report stuff of the Jaco Pastorius era at times. I give it 5 stars, reserved only for cd's that are really, really, good.
I bought The Last DJ over the weekend -- it's a great album. I haven't ever really listened through a TP&HB record before, so I have no idea how consistent they are comparatively, but this record is cool. It's somewhat thematic -- not completely, but there are solid threads, and a couple random songs. When Money Became King and Joe especially are two good songs you probably won't ever hear on the radio. Anyway, if you like TP, you shouldn't be disappointed.Best Buy is having a sale on their 20th Century Masters CDs right now, they're only $5 each. So now's your chance to buff up your music collection with a lot of classic tunes for cheap. I've had my eye on the Buddy Holly collection for a while, so I picked that up. He really was great. His songs are so deceptively complex, and the Beatles totally ripped off his piano-solo style for Think It Over. I didn't realize he was so young when he died (22).
NPR ran a story about some final recordings that Buddy Holly made in his apartment prior to his tragic death. Interesting story and a good glimpse into the raw songwriting and playing of BH. He's one of those artists you wonder about how much incredible work they would have turned out over a long career had it not been cut short.
joshua tree > everything elserattle and hum a close second because of the sentimental value to me when i got the cd and listened to it.
acutally either of those would qualify for a ny>la road trip cd as well.
I heard the NPR thing on Buddy Holly as well, good stuff. They mentioned where you could download some of the mp3s... but alas, I was too dumb to write it down. It's probably not much of an understatement to say that I would know nothing about music or current affairs without NPR.
NPR is cool.
I capital-L-Love that CD. Followed closely by The Joshua Tree, then All That You Can't Leave Behind. Unless you count the soundtrack to The Million Dollar Hotel as a U2 CD, in which case bump that baby in there before ATYCLB.
Rolling Stone's new issue is about the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Used a weighted scale of a bunch of music peoples' top 50 lists. On the thread of U2, the highest was October...which is fine...but it's like 25th or something. I like U2 and all, but please. Some of the entries were laughable, and many of the top 100 made me blink. Sure to make many people read in disbelieving shock. But i guess that's the great part of these polls.
anyone care to poke for a link on http://www.rollingstone.com/ ?
500 greatest albums of all timeIt's heavily weighted toward beatle's and alumni with 3 in the top 5 and 11 in the first 100. And the U2 album at #26 is Joshua Tree. Achtung Baby checks in at #62 and All That You Can't Leave Behind is at #139 (two dwon from The Chronic). While I'm at it, War #221, Boy #417.
Artist Counts in the list: Rolling Stones - 10, Beatles (w/ alum) - 11, Tom Waits - 3, Aerosmith - 2, Brian Eno - 2, Radiohead - 3, U2 - 5, The Who - 7, Grateful Dead - 4, Johnny Cash - 2, John Coltrane - 2, Miles Davis - 3, Michael Jackson - 3. (I dumped the list into Excel to play with it)
The fact that m&m beat out waits warrants the list's descruction.
i haven't looked yet. Any Zep? Sabbath? GNFNR? any metal at all? old blues artists? Hendrix? Doors? newer bands (obviously radiohead is newer, but anybody else?)
Zep:
29. Led Zeppelin
66. Led Zeppelin IV
70. Physical Graffiti
75. Led Zeppelin II
149. Houses of the Holy
Sabbath:
130. Paranoid
241. Black Sabbath
298. Master of Reality
GNFNR: 61. Appetite for Destruction
Doors:
42. The Doors
362. L.A. Woman
407. Strange Days
Robert Johnson's box set is on there in 2 volumes. Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James, and John Lee Hooker are all on there.
Ahead of Zeppelin? Ahead of Who's Next? Ahead of Robert Johnson?Fleetwood fucking Mac ahead of Zeppelin?
Cash is way too low, and there's a conspicuos backlash against the roots of rock and roll; country and bluegrass. Hank Williams doesn't even crack the top 100?
Please.
I hate lists like this. All they do is reflect the bias of their owners, and provoke my biases in response.
Zep should be numbers 1 - 100.
now in a new EZ-2-READ format
wow. the man was a force of nature. i wish this disc lasted a lot longer but it's pretty incredible. the raw power of his playing just blows me away.
it is odd that wttw is now playing a two hour long grateful dead concert film. Frank Sinatra was just on previously. Quite the mix. I wonder how the viewer drop-off was
smaxx, you don't have that big collection of EBN videos available anywhere do you? I remember you showed them to me at North Park once and I was totally smitten...
There are a bunch on this site I also have a video tape, shall I make you a copy?
OHMYGOSH -- yes, if you could make me a copy, I would be incredibly excited! Do you have Telecommunication Breakdown? I could rip you a copy if you don't have it.
i tried real hard, but i can't think of what EBN stands for...
EMERGENCY
BROADCAST
NETWORK
ELECTRONIC
BEHAVIOR
CONTROL
SYSTEM
yes!
get that CD out every so often, when I'm cleaning or something. People start to think I'm with it-hey man, this is a kickin' groove . Guys in the barracks in Germany used to come to the door and be like "Man, I didn't know you listened to anything cool."
Old Town Video Page check out the Lanois clip and Huun Huur Tu clip.
I've seen Huun Huur Tu live in a nice small venue. Very cool. I'd reccommend seeing them to anyone if you get a chance. Additional funny thing... I'm pretty sure they were samples on the Charlie's Angel's II soundtrack.
Erin Hill. Pretty good, pretty good. I just got it today "Frost as Desired."
...or is Rufus Wainright like this generation's Billy Joel?
I agree with that sentiment. But Billy Joel wishes he had Wainwright's family tree.
not saying that equating him with Billy Joel is a compliment or a diss. Saying, I'm not sure if you meant that favorably or not (and of course you are welcome to your opinion. That's what makes the world go round). It is easy to say he is where he is because of his family, but I think he has genuine talent...I think his music is more experimental and more fundamentally creative than Joel's, who IS very talented, though not someone I'd really listen to by choice. Rufus Wainwright, to me, is more like a cross between Queen (I don't say that because he's gay, but because he's got the operatic thing going on), and...um...Joni Mitchell? He's got the romantic, story-teller element as well. I just really like him. His music in French is great, too. Someone who can sing equally beautifully in two langauges is laudable.
But I would say, listen to a lot of early Billy Joel, and then imagine what that sounded like in the 70s versus everything else. I think he was exceptionally creative and experimental for the times.I do think that Rufus' talent stands on it's own, just ftr.
That Wainwright got where he was due to his heritage. I'm just pointing out the difference in backgrounds between the hardscrabble New York kid and the kid who grew up with parents who are folk legends, and aunts who are as well.
I'm not really a huge Billy Joel fan. I mean, I like his stuff and whatever. This isn't about likes/dislikes at all -- I just instantly think of Rufus whenever I hear Billy on the radio. (Except for maybe We Didn't Start The Fire.)
and I probably shouldn't have said anything because I know little about early Billy Joel, or anything of his, for that matter. And having famous relatives certainly helps in some cases. Look at Wilson Phillips (if you ask me, they aren't well-known because of some amazing talent).Speaking of which, I bought the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" a few weeks ago. I've wanted it forever. I've never been a huge Beach Boys fan, but that album is amazing.
Pet Sounds is incredible.I've been listening to Alice In Chains' album 'Dirt' for the last couple days in my car. it'd been a while since i had heard that album - man were they good. Layne Staley could wail, man. too bad...
I haven't litened to it in a long tim either, I should pull it back out again.
who cares?
yeah. its almost as if that article was intended to say "we're still a band!" and not "We fired our drummer!".
Bye Bye Screamo losers and Korn Kids!!!!
I think that we're going to see a lot of stations switch to an Early 90's type format because the generation that grew up listening to that music will most likely be the last generation of traditional demographic radio listeners. The station in question didn't make any kind of bold move. Homogenization will most likely reign supreme. Instead of programming the same 3 Korn songs throughout 4 to 6 hour shifts, it will instead be Jeremy, Black, and Even Flo or Alive. As for Soundgarden, expect Black Hole Sun, Burden In My Hand, and maybe Outshined or MAYBE Pretty Noose.From the article,
"The decision to change the format was driven by research and gut instinct, Manning said."
Translation, "Some of our big ad clients didn't renew."
From the article,
"The station had conversations and elicited feedback from "thousands and thousands" of listeners who thought a change was needed, he said."
This is most likely not true. When people who are listening to a radio station want change, they tend to take the path of least resistance, which is hitting the scan button, popping in a CD, or dialing up another preset. They don't call in and say, "Maybe you need to crunch your demo numbers and rethink your format to increase your market penetration and boost ad revenue by 10 to 12.5%"
It just doesn't happen. Hating Korn is easy. Hating format driven radio and the way they justify programming based who spends money where is justified.
If I wanted to make a lot of money, I would figure out a way to send viruses into XM units and sell the viruses to Clear Channel.
btr
Dave
nice to hear from you Shredzilla.perhaps they didn't get a ton of phone calls from listeners giving them advice on how to improve their format, but phone polls, mail polls, surveys and the like are often utilized to get SOME idea of listeners' preferences. it still all boils down to a homogenous format, but there ARE ways to get listener feedback, and i wouldn't be surprised if they utilized some of them. just last week i was contacted randomly on the phone to fill out a survey on local radio stations and my listening habits, and they sent surveys to my house. i haven't filled it out yet, but i will in the next day or two. not that it will matter, of course.
so, Dave - since we (and I mean WE) hate Format Driven Radio, what solutions do you think exist or could exist to make broadcast radio better?
They call themselves Black but we'll see if they'll play this," Chuck D.Unfortunately, most programming directors misunderstand the nature of surveys and how they can be utilized to address the problems connected to slipping listener numbers. Formats like Oldies, Lite, Country, Urban, etc., are derived primarily from demographics, which are easy to survey. Some radio stations in the past have gotten huge returns from abandonning the outdated concept of demographics in favor of the much harder to pin down psychographics.
WFMU in Jersey has no format at all and brings in a group of listeners that have accordingly ecclectic tastes. REV 105 in the Cities during the mid '90's also had an amazingly loose format. I once heard them go from Paul's Boutique Era Beastie Boys into Patsy Cline into Beefheart. The station recogzied that there were groups of people in their market who needed that kind of freshness in a radio station. REV 105 built up such a huge following that Disney bought them out and killed the station, primarily out of fear that their concept might escape Minnesota and lead to a freer thinking consumer base of radio listeners nationwide.
This also corresponded with the WWTA (We Want The Airwaves) movement of 1997 and 1998, but in pointing to a connection between Disney destroying one of my most beloved radio stations and a poltical movement concerned with sincerely scrutinizing the nature of the FCC and their rise to power is merely me indulging my inner conspiracy theorist. I don't like Disney, but I hate the FCC.
Of course, the FCC is so easy for me to hate.
Unfortuantely, there is no saving commercial format driven radio. Digital Radio unis such as XM and Sirius will be the nemesis of commercial radio because they can offer the one thing commercial stations can't: No Commercials. Commerical radio station numbers started to slip a little when CD players started to become standard in cars. They slipped a little more when CDR Burners became standard in most computers. Now that XM and Sirius have units that can interface with car stereos...well, if I was a program director for a mid-level station in a mid-level market in the middle of a format shift and I had the knowledge that the XM unit will be one of the most sought after graduation presents this May...I'd get my resume in order for a long summer of job hunting.
Look for a firesale of commercial radio stations to start within 18 months.
have you personally used the XM station/format? I'd love to check it out. when i read about it, it sounded great.you're right about radio, though, methinks. I mean, I like classic rock, but i wouldn't mind a wider mix of music, like a little Zep, and then maybe some Prince, and then maybe some Roberta Flack, and then maybe some Bolt Thrower, and then perhaps some Joni Mitchell, followed by Sigur Ros and Minor Threat. so yeah, some more variety is certainly called for. but commercially that doesn't look too promising. I would love to A) buy a radio station and run it. and B) get an XM hookup for my car.
my mom had it in her rental car when she visited and so we listened to it a bunch driving around DC and it's not bad. I didn't spend a lot of time on any one station but it seems that there are lot's of genre based stations so you don't end up with the kind of vareity you think you would get unless you keep switching stations. Maybe I was just missing the good channels. I did stumble across a great latin jazz channel but I wasn't all that impressed with the other jazz channels. They were too focused on an era or style of jazz. These are just my impressions from a few hours worth of use in a car.
that was one thing i noticed. everything was based on more of a format where they played a super extensive amount of one very specific style. i think if you got super familiar with everything, you'd be able to flip back and forth with skill, and get something out of it. but i thought i saw some XM station listings that seemed pretty diverse. and some stuff that you'd just never ever hear on the radio.
I had a lot of fun with the XM unit I had access to switching things up. Because you never have to worry about commercials on 90% of the stations, you are free to surf the whole thing.And what they can do with Sports Broadcasting is on par with ppv, if not better in many respects. Not only that, the units are being marketed as smallish gizmos with interfaces for car audio. Kids love that kind of thing, not to mention the gearhead psychographic and technophile psychographic.
XM might as well be the new Napster and The Gameboy all rolled up in one. Oh, wait. That is something else...
btr
Dave
was defintely the best part of it. I would love to get one of the XM units that lets me use it in my car and my house. I still feel weird about paying for radio though, even though I wouldn't have to listen to all those damn commercials.
rules
REALLY confused. I got an e-mail in my hotmail box today, and the sender was "Natalie Merchant." Without thinking of how or why in the world she'd be contacting ME, someone she's never met, I became crazy with excitement. She is my all-time favorite musician. So I open the e-mail and it's from her official website. Which I had no idea I belonged to, but they must have found me because I pre-ordered her last album from her personal label before it was due out in stores (it's called "The House Carpenter's Daughter", is all folk songs--some really old, like author non-existent kind of old, some newer, like a remake of a Fairport Convention song--anyway, check it out. It's a great album).After getting over my disappointment that Nat Merch had not tracked me down and written to me personally, to thank me for all of the support I've given her career over the years, I start looking around her website. Her most recent diary entry ended by her thanking everyone for their support and well wishes towards her "newborn." I assumed she was referring to her new album, because she always says odd things like that, but then I look at the previous journal entry and there's a picture of her NEWBORN, a baby girl. Her first and only child, which she had in August.
I don't keep track of the personal lives of musicians I admire, but I was really shocked. I had been wondering why she is not touring for the new album, as she generally does, and wondering what was up with her. Well, now I know. She is not linked romantically to anyone (she broke up with the Wallflowers' drummer a few years ago), and she didn't comment on the father on her website, she's over 40 (not that that matters much; my mom was 39 when she had my brother,) but it was just really mind-blowing. Sorry--I'm sure this makes no difference to anyone but me, but I needed a place to vent my surprise. Has anyone else heard about this?
that last album is good.
I also like the latest album. I think it's funny that both she and Nickel Creek have a version of Housecarpenter on their latest albums. I think that's the song anyway.
For a second I thought I had read "Nickelback." THAT would be truly alarming. THCD is an awesome album; I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys folk music.
They are a really good contemporary bluegrass band. young, too, from what i remember...
The Crash Test Dummies are in town tonight, as I just heard this afternoon, at Schuba's, but I've already committed to taking a friend out for his birthday. I would love to see that show. The last chance I had to see them was in Denver 5 years ago, and then learned it was a 21+ show. Everyone makes fun of me when I tell them I like them, but I do...from their earliest stuff to their latest. A little known and seldom admitted fact about H.D.
the lead singer of the dummies did a solo album at the studio in duluth that we were at. it might come out as his solo record or they might just call it a CTD record. but, what i heard of it was really cool.
I can understand why you like them, I think. though I have never been a fan in any capacity.In other music news, I got a letter in the mail today from oldpossumus, along with a CD with the first complete song from Slow Learners' Carmel Sessions. absolutely wonderful song. Jackie and I listened to it a few times on the way to the movie tonight. PC and EA just ooze talent and authenticity and all around kick-assedness... I'm so lucky to know them and hear their music and poetry. sometimes i feel the slightest twang of jealousy at how good their music and songwriting is.
I have just recently entered the realm of burning cd, sinc eI just got a new laptop with a cd burner, my first one. So, last night I created a little greatest hits mix tape, with some Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Dixie Chicks, Willie Nelson, Oh Brother Where art Thou stuff, Dave Matthews, Charlie Daniel's Band, and more that I can't remember. I think I like this whole burning cds stuff.
oh nevermind
i tried
did I bring up a sore subject? :)
so don't look at me.
i almost forgot about all that. i haven't had a cd since at least april. it was fun while it lasted. i wonder who has all those cds?
they just dissapeared into the void. In other words no one will fess up to it. Someone has to have about 6 cds though I'm guessing.
though not 6.my guess is *cough*tim*cough*
and she liked it...
you're awsome, jer.
"true...true."
i think those last three posts belong in a different entree? no?
"Tall Cool One" - By Robert Plant.Baggins, can you give me some insight into this song. Why is Plant "sampling" himself here? I find it amazingly catchy...yet somewhat annoying.
I don't get it either. I'm not really a fan of Plant's solo material. I think he was sampling himself in some weird, kitchsy way to harness some of the love that the fans have of Zep and maybe justify himself as still Robert Plant, Singer of Led Zeppelin. if that makes sense.
A real music fan would know who Robert Plant is. The should easily put two and two together. Awhile back, I thought it was some Hi-NRG or Euro-Dance group making a quick buck of his voice. What a shame!Then....I found out it was Plant himself. He might as well say "Lighten Up Baby I'm Robert Plant" HA!
That parts of the mind of Robert Plant, and to a lesser extent, Page, haven't started their own independent continuum due to the effects of mind-altering substances . . . . . .
if you've ever seen them in the last ~10 years or so, you'd know that they're both poster boys for the War on Drugs. them and Keith Richards...
i finally placed my order for what i hope to be a great funk compilation entitled The Funky 16 Corners. It's late 60's / early 70's funk and soul. From what I've heard and the samples online, it's got a lot of james brown influence and sounds a lot like the stuff on brain freeze and product placement. It's definitely not the synthed up disco funk of the mid-to-late 70's.I was just excited and had to tell someone...
don't forget Ozzy.
that sounds hella cool
good reminder, Cinn. I feel kinda sad for Ozzy. he's a puttering old man that people watch on tv and laugh at. he used to be the prince of darkness...
Here I am...it's 1:07am and I'm listening to "Heartbreaker". Oh Zeppelin. It never gets old.
Roger Daltrey seems to be the only one I can think of who's largely escaped that curse...Townsend had to have his vocal cords practically regrown . . .We have yet to see what '80's Hair Band Excess has wrought, but it's on my list to revisit.
Zeppelin never gets old. In fact, to clear "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from my brain (WAY too many times on "Splash Mt" in four days), I may listen to some now.
...tonight I am listening to Grand Funk Railroad's live album from 1970. The jam "Mark Says Alright" is so awesome.
Mark Says Alright, and T.N.U.C. from Side 3... it's basically a 16 minute jam. I realize that GFR isn't like, hugely cool, but music is. that's all I have to say.
some choice homerisms:"Nobody knows the band Grand Funk? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer? Oh, man! For more information on Grand Funk, consult your school library!""Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft."
GnR
"Geffen has paid $13.5 million into the "Chinese Democracy" project, which has been more than seven years in the making, the source said."
I have that Grand Funk albumon vinyl. It's really great! I was listening to it the other day, in fact. Those guys could lay down the groove, for long stretches of time.I picked up some new vinyl last friday. I'll try to recall what I got:
Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits
Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Trilogy
John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band - Shaved Fish (not sure if that's the actual title or what...
Deep Purple - When we Rock, we rock, when we roll, we roll (some greatest hits collection apparently)
Heart - Little Queens and some other album
Jim Croce - don't recall the title right now
ZZ Top - Fandango
Bruce Springsteen - The River
I think that's it. haven't had a chance to listen to them yet.I also found a tape of The Band, and a CD (looks like a burn) of the soundtrack to Bottlerocket.
...at the end of Closing Time is such a great tune... I should make a mix cd of my favorite record-closing songs.Oh yeah -- thanks, chester for the Tom Waits VINYL! It's great!
Glad you like it pedro!
whatever happened to them? Are they still even around?
Reveals nothing since "Feeling Strangely Fine", the album with "Closing Time" . .
and I lost it. 'Tis better to have loved and lost than to...oh, whatever. I've lost so many CDs, and it pisses me off. I can't even blame it on loaning them to people; most of them I've lost myself.The person who got me into Semisonic was one of the "real live Irishmen and women at the Abbey," as Pedro referred to them, who I dated briefly in college. He was a bartender there. The problem is, now I feel wronged when I have to pay for drinks. I got a lot of free Guinesses out of that relationship.
Thanks for the info., Lt.
I've been listening to Jonatha Brooke's album 10 Cent Wings in the car lately. It's really good. She sounds a little like Shawn Colvin maybe crossed with Sarah McClauphlin or something. She's also playing in Chicago sometime soon.
A Ghost Is Born
holy shit. this album is great. jack white produced it, she wrote all of the songs on the album for the first time in her very long career, and they recorded nearly every song on the first take in a house in tennessee. oh boy, what a treat!
now, thanks to you kels, i'll have to check it out.
i haven't listened to it yet, though.
its funny that semisonic and wilco were mentioned one on top of the other. The free show at the taste a few years back was north mississippi allstars, semisonic, and wilco.nma was awesome...incredible. Everyone was in a rockin mood in the crowd. Then semisonic came on and everybody just froze up and sat. I was bored stiff. The best part of their set was, in the middle of some self-indulgent strumming, some dude in the audience yelled, "Play closing time and get the * off the stage", which made a bunch of people laugh. Then wilco came on and blew the roof off
Anyone heard that new country song Redneck Woman? That's a great song.
DULUTH, Minnesota (AP) -- Phil Solem didn't want to be known as a one-hit wonder, but it'll be hard to think otherwise when the final episode of "Friends" airs Thursday and viewers hear him sing the show's theme song.Solem and his band, The Rembrandts, were approached by a "Friends" producer in 1994. They wrote 45 seconds of material with five other writers, intending to stay anonymous.
But fans of "I'll Be There for You" had different ideas.
"A radio guy in Nashville -- I don't know if I love him or hate him -- looped the 45 seconds into a three-minute song, and people were all over it," Solem, a native of Duluth, said from his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
"Our record label said we had to finish the song and record it. There was no way to get out of it," said Solem, who has written reams of music in his 47 years.
Without the song, The Rembrandts may not have sold as many albums, Solem said. But there was a downside: "We lost a lot of hard-core, original fans because they thought we'd decided to take the easy way, but we felt forced to be press monkeys."
After the "Friends" buzz waned for The Rembrandts, the band broke up. When they reunited, the music industry wasn't interested. But the "Friends" finale put them back in the spotlight.
On Tuesday, the band released a compact disc of rerecorded greatest hits, "Choice Picks," on Solem's label, Akee Records.
I didn't know he was from Duluth.
"Van Lear Rose" is quickly proving to be one of my better album buys this year.I gotta get some White Stripes. Any body (he said, opening the can to find worms) have recommendations?
I haven't heard much of their first album proper (although I've heard many of the songs on the BBC sessions the raskol made for me). Destijl, their second album, is pretty awesome. White Blood Cells was the one that first got them MTV and radio play, and it's pretty great as well. Elephant, their last album that came out last year I believe, is great as well. the only way I can think to describe the differences in these albums is to compare them to the Zep catalog. I'd say that WBC is their IV or ZOSO. Destijl is comparable to I and II and Elephant is comparable to, say, Houses of the Holy. I guess. all three come highly recommended by me, though. if you check them all out, let me know if you get what I mean with the Zep comparisons.
A good way to do comparisons with me, but you know that already....I'll give it a hear. Probably not for some weeks, though. I'll keep ya posted.
i found this great new band. i think alot of people in here would like. check out the ollabelle site. they are really good!
Tune in to CBS Sunday Morning June 13 Ollabelle will be included in the Summer Music Preview feature! There will be footage the band performing live so don't miss it!
Phil had them put it in in victorias, it rocked!
her new one, uh huh her, is very good so far. i've only gotten about halfway through and not with a very careful listen, but will give it another round tonight.also purchased today: the ultimate otis redding; the blind boys of alabama, go tell it on the mountain - a very unfitting summer choice, but i might be able to hold off listening to it until christmas; an a replacement ella fitzgerald, pure ella because i wore out my other copy.
a good day, i'd say.
i'm really singing the praises of pj's new album now. it's fantastic. raskol, mercurymouth and anyone else who's a fan, i'd love to hear what you think.
I heard these dudes on NPR yesterday and they were amazing. The tuba player did things with a sousaphone I didn't think were humanly possible. I totally thought of pedro when I heard the tuba player get all funky. It's seriously amazing.go here and then listen to the "All Things Considered Audio"
That clip has the sousaphone demonstration that blew me away. There are also a couple live tracks they played in the studio on that page as well.
that the new pj harvey and sonic youth albums are good. both kinda throw backs to earlier types of their music.
According to her diary, Barefootjumper has discovered Gretchen Wilson! (See post above from May 4th).
BORINGbut still sonic youth so good.
Big and Rich are part of some group that calls themselves the Music Mafia or something and they're a bunch of Nashville musicians who have decided to support and promote each other. Gretchen Wilson is one of them so it'll be interesting to see how she uses her sudden fame to promote the MM.
her video is pretty fucking cool. i mean, tanya tucker cameos!she's a great performer, too. super into it and really good with the crowd.
big and rich have a song called 'save a horse, ride a cowboy.'well, alrighty then.
I wonder if that is a cover of the Haley Bonar song of the same name.
but I DO know that that song is being used in all the promo spots for ESPN's extended coverage of the 2004 World Series of Poker.
video is a lot of fun.has anyone heard of this mindy smith? she covered dolly parton's 'jolene' pretty authentically. but last night i saw the video for her new song, 'come to jesus' and the song is just really beautiful.
Anyone remember Sonic Youth's video for "Dirty Boots"? Ahh.....
but i've gotten back into listening to Korn lately. Not that great in a musical sense, but catchy, and filled with energy. I've also been trying to find Led Zepplin's "BBC Sessions" but to no avail as of yet, and since i made a winning bid on a 150 pound hunk of ancient computer on ebay last week i've banned myself from buying online...damnation i tell you, damnation.
So what i was saying is that I can't find the BBC sessions, you guys know of a good place to look?
BBC Sessions? I'm sort of assuming you're opposed to paying $22 roughly for it on Amazon.com?(Even though it's worth the $22?)
Other than the big online retailers--you could try a Target or a Borders, since they're basically the physical embodiment of Amazon.
Gunch
it should be at one of those places. i would imagine Best Buy would have it.
He's marooned in Midwest prairie, nothing but soy as far as the eye can see...But still, mail-order can find you, boy! The Pony Express lives!!
(Fire up that vacuum-tube excuse for a electric abacus you bought and hie thee to the Internet!)
1. T.V. On The Radio - Young Liars E.P 2. Dirty Knobs - New Stuff yet untitled 3. Blue Stone - ??? 4. Warren Zevon - My Ride's Here 5. They Might Be Giants - Dial A Song Disc II1. TV On The Radio is an awesome group. The first time I heard them, I thought it was new stuff from Peter Gabriel. They use the same kind of production values on vocal tracks that is signiture to Gabriel, doubled with a hint of reverb. That vocal sound meshed with a Do It Yourself electronic underbelly of music makes for a great listening experience.
2. Dirty Knobs is my friend and Both's drummer Zac Bentz. His new sounds are interesting, not in that "This is me being interesting" way but in a "Hey this song is pretty good, but what's with that gross blurby noise and why is it getting louder?" kinda way. He told me that he couldn't imagine someone liking every song on the record so I told him there weren't any songs on the record that I hated.
Also, he sings a Greg Cougar Conley song. Cougar is Both's primary muse person. Haley Bonar, Amy Abts, and Tony Bennet from The Dames make appearances.
3. I haven't really marinated in Blue Stone yet. I appreciate their guitar tone, being reminiscent of the old Mudhoney and Soundgarden tones from the Sub Pop days, but I'm not sure if that is what Blue Stone was going for.
Also, nothing turns me off faster than a Beatles Cover unless it is done in a very interesting way. I have been struggling with whether Blue Stone's version is interesting or rehash.
At times, Blue Stone is indicative of Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club and Radiohead, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt and guess that all of those bands draw from similar influences.
But again, I am still listening, still finding where these guys fit.
4. Warren Zevon...just as Burroughs collaborated with Tom Waits, so should've there been a more conclusive collaboration between Warren and Hunter S. Thompson.
As I listened to this record, it donned on me that Warren really only wrote about 10 or 15 songs and the rest of his catalogue is all off shoots and reworkings of the themes presented in his work, both musical and lyrical. Sarcificial Lambs is really just a progeny of Boom Boom Mancini, musicly. This is not a criticism, just an observation.
Good lyrics, though. Some people have a hard time getting around Warren's sense of humor. Consider this:
After being diagnosed with Terminal Cancer, Warren recorded a version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" which wasn't done PURELY for shock value, but Warren knew that it would blow some people's minds and meet the expectations of his fans. HOWEVER, when Dylan caught whiff of this, he added a Zevon song, The Mutineer, to his touring set as a tip of the hat.
That's cool. You can't fade that.
5. Got a long drive ahead of you? Got nothing to think about? Instead of putting on Modest Mouse's "This Is A Long Drive For Something With Nothing To Think About" try Dial A Song by They Might Be Giants. It isn't so much a greatest hits record as it is an overview of the band over the last forever years. This makes the drive from Milwaukee to Duluth fly by, especially the part from Eau Claire to Superior...man, that part of the drive sucks the butt.
The Modest Mouse record I referred to should read "This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About". My bad.btr
Dave
...thier pixies cover (mr grieves) is one of the best covers ive heard in a long time.dave- i'm bummed that we didn't get to talk music this weekend. maybe some other time.
Yeah,I loves me up Pixies covers so much more than Beatles covers.
I will say this much, the TV On The Radio cover of Mr. Grieves has not only inspired the whole story arc for my current Dungeons and Dragons campaign, it has also provided inspiration of the main bad guy, T'vont Heradio.
My other source material ranges from Steely Dan lyrics to cheap beer.
Do you have another opinion?
btr
Dave
check out Song of Zarathustra's cover of "Tame." Not entirely original, but like you said: sure beats an unoriginal beatles cover any day.Its on thier "A View from High Tides" LP, on Troubleman records.
Side note: SOZ's first recording was released on Blood of the Young records, which released mercurymouth's old band Lazarus Plot's last recording.
..and for the drive between Eau Claire and Superior, i reccomend switching between the Cubs game and Michael Savage on the AM dial.
BecasueGo Brewers!
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Dave
PS: Is Song Of Zarathustra from the Cities? I think they've played Duluth at least once. We had a CD of theirs at KUWS back when I was there.
So the other night I put on headphones and listened to this album for the first time ever. I'd heard snippets and songs hear and there but never the entire thing. I'd borrowed summerteeth when i worked at north park and it didn't make much of an impression. So I figured there was no way possible that YHF could live up to expectations and be the ultimate american rock album. Given the number of reviews written of this album I'll leave mine short and sweet: fantastic! Good enough that I put my book down and just listened. Gold star for wilco.
my roommate was telling me that if you listen to that album on headphones you'll catch a whole lot more than just hearing it on your car stereo or whatever.glad you like it, lukas.
we've been listening to AM lately. we've got a picture of the casino queen in st. louis as our computer wallpaper.
i'm slowly making a mental list of songs that make me want to get up and dance and casino queen is definitely on there.
i am pretty SOZ are from iowa. at least they used to be.
let's get retarded indeed.
has anyone heard number five on ryan adams' cd 'heartbreaker'? it's a duet with emmylou harris and it's the most amazing song i've heard in a long time. i mean, he could have put just that song on the album and the title of the record would still be appropriate and i still would have paid full price. i'd love to get that song on vinyl.
Lately,I've been listening to nothing but Ween. A lot of their album Quebec but also Chocolate and Cheese and The Mollusk.
Ocean Man...sweetest song ever in a Honda commercial.
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Dave
She's a solid in my book.For her to remain loyal to the memory of Gram Parsons like she has when it has become so trendy to dish dirt on the musicians of old (Thanks VH1, you unoriginal uncreative hacks), that in and of itself should tell anyone that she is the genuine article.
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Dave
she's got the most beautiful voice. she's a real southern rock and roll gal. i find that she sounds even better on vinyl. but i sort of prefer vinyl anyway if i can get it.on a side note... if one day i can have silver hair just like hers my heart will soar.
...the tribute record she put together is really fabulous.
I went to Best Buy tonight and purchased the Velvet Revolver album and the newest Patti Griffin. no listen yet. but full reviews soon.
I just picked up the new Flogging Molly CD, Within a Mile of Home, and I'm giving it a listen right now. So far it's pretty good, about on par with their other studio albums. I might post a more detailed review later, but I just thought I'd point out that there's a song featuring Lucinda Williams on it, if you're in to that sort of thing.
Matchbox Twenty has finally finished watering down tracks on its long-awaited new album Beige
I picked up Swagger last night. I like it so far.
Man...I hope Charles makes enough dough of the reunion so he never has to play with them again and can get back making new music rather than pandering to fanboys.
btr
Dave
listened to mermaid avenue vol. 1 throughout my entire first visit to new york city. this cd has accompanied me to so many different places in so many different ways. i've never had an album that was about more than just the music in such a vast way as this one.
makes me think of California so vividly. I love it. it's one of those CDs for me that get's mixed up in all my CDs and then I come across it every once in a while and i fall in love all over again.I think Jackie has it right now. she loves it too. 'specially California Stars.
it's incredible.
I've been meaning to go and get it.perhaps I'll do that today.
the sad songRequires quicktime... it's worth it.
so I was listening to a bunch of the CD's that er1k brought with him and he had thr bright eyes CD with LL on it and I couldn't remember if that song was about the LL that frequents the diner or if it's just a random coincedence. anyone?
apparently. long story.
F them/him right up the A.
Hallelujah.
-new york city- by They Might Be Giants, and most every song on Pj harvey's -songs from the something, stories from the whatever- remind me of new york city and make me want to go back there. California Stars reminds me more about being around the lakefront at night, as ive never really taken in the stars on my half dozen trips to california.all three examples really evoke something from somewhere, though
So, I went to work at WMSE on Wednesday and The Twinemen were set up to do a live set. They are AWESOME. I got to talk to Dana a little bit. By some coincidence, I happened to be wearing my Morphine Bootleg Detroit shirt. Turns out the band never got any of the shirts for that release. I offered to sell Dana mine for $20. He didn't seem that interested.They were cool. More bluesy than Morphine. I've seen a guy play to saxes at the same time before, but it was still way cool. If anyone is interested, the set is archived.
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Dave
As meh as I am about The Pixies reuniting, the new Frank Black Record where he redoes Pixies tunes in the key of Frank Black has me smiling.btr
Dave
there's a download of a track from the new tom waits album up on anti.com.
Take a look around the ftp site on here. Might be some new material kicking around... wink wink, nudge nudge. Something about new live shows and maybe a new Waits album. Sarah also just posted some new video a while back. If you're looking at anti.com for show announcements, look elsewhere (like ebay) the last two US shows they only put up notices AFTER the concerts sold out. I like waits, but not enough to blow $500 to see a show.
easytree.org has bittorrent downloads of quite a few live tom waits shows.
The Duke Boys (Saved the Day)first song ripped from our new demo. will have the other three up this weekend and hopefully a rudimentary website.
Prices from Just in Time for SomethingOn his new five-song EP, "Just in Time for Something," Seattle indie-folker Damien Jurado is clearly taking the atmospheric power of lo-fi sound quite seriously: To record the EP, he bought a '67 tube-powered reel-to-reel, through which he ran tape salvaged from thrift stores. The effect is to render Jurado's already delicate acoustic balladry positively spectral.
thanks for that.
Live Aid! On DVD!The website is a flash monstrosity but the tracklist includes U2's 15 minute rendition of Bad which is what I really want to see. But I could do without We Are the World (even though we used to have that record).
John Barleycorn Must Die - Only 500 vinyl LP copies imported. A clasic album - the first two tracks are great.
new for me, anyway.on the way from school to work today, picked up 2 discs:
Smile Brian Wilson's latest release. it's really awesome!
1000 Kisses by Patti Griffin. I had bought her newest album a while ago, but didn't have this one. some of you know how good she is. the rest of you need to find out. i think this album is a bit better, more versatile, and more accessible than her newest Impossible Dream (though that is really good).
those 2 albums are what is making this weird day at work closing by myself a bearable shift.
a lady that works here in the real estate office brought me some vinyl! we got to talking about old music and stuff when she remarked about the Joni Mitchell album i was playing (Blue) in the cafe. she mentioned she had some old vinyl and we talked about that, and today she shows up with 3 albums:Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline, Thelonius Monk's Criss-Cross, and John Coltrane's Big Steps. and everyone in my house is gone, so I can go home and listen to them into the night. i'm excited!
wednesday night i got home and found a package of stuff i got from ebay.Vinyl: 2 Iron & Wine albums (creek drank the cradle and our endless numbered days) Damien Jurado - 4 songs EP
Velour100 - don't recall the name of the album now...
Overcome - When Beauty Dies
also got Black Sabbath's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath on CD, and a White Stripes DVD that apparently doesn't work.
i think it has to do with the difference between the DVD players here and those in the UK. at least, it doesn't play in my DVD player, and it says 'made in England' on it. anybody know anything about that?
you could try it on your computer if it's got a dvd player. if it's double sided it's possible that one side is PAL and one side is NTSC. That's the case one the AIR dvd that i got recently. Worst case scenario there are places in chicago that will convert videos for people, maybe they will do dvds nowadays too. Good luck
would you be willing to dumb that down a bit? as in, like, what do those acronyms stand for?basically, i popped the DVD in the player and it said that there was a disc error or something. i haven't had a chance to put it in the computer yet (im posting from work. the house laptop is on vacation with my parents in MN. back tomorrow.) the DVD is NOT 2-sided, if that helps.
i will do some more research. perhaps i'll just have to sell it again on ebay. maybe some friendly local hackers/technophiles would be able and willing to help?
i only paid like 3 or 4 dollars for it, and included it with my shipping charges for the other albums and stuff. so no big loss. but i'd like to watch it if possible.
it's either the wrong format or it's broke. If it's broke i can't help you, if it's the wrong format then you might be able to get someone to convert it. NTSC is the video standard that we use in the US. It's based on an obscure electrical wavelength so in the end we have video on the tele that's goes at 29.97 frames per second or something. So PAL is used most other places, and most other places use a different electrical...i dunno, frequency or something, so it's made to display at a different framrate (and i'd like to blame that on the US or the UK wanting to be special, but i can't). So if your dvd came from a place that made it for PAL, then it won't really work except maybe on a computer which happen to be more or less immune to the video standard thing, but, at least on macintosh you maybe only be able to play it a few times because of region enconding (which I'd like to blame on the MPAA which likes to bastardize standards for their own benefit, and i will). So, give 'er a try on a computer, It may or may not work but i hope it does, cause this is pretty long winded if it ends up being no nelp.
NTSC stands for National Television Standards Committee
PAL stand for Phase Alternating Lines
SECAM stands for SEquential Color Avec Memoire...i bet you don't know where they use that one! :-)
your help is appreciated, regardless whether I get the thing to work.
just to check i threw in my air dvd on the PAL side today just to check and see if it works, and it does, so if that's the case you should be okay, if it's just broke, i'm sorry,
it could also be a region 2 DVD and unless you have a region free player, you can't view it.
mac will let you play it (and maybe pcs) and they give you like three or five region changes on the dvd before it locks your player into one region, though there are ways around that too, i've never done it though, and i'd certainly be sure not to lock it into some strange region, or any region other than 1.
i finally busted out my blind boys of alabama christmas album. the main problem with this cd is that there are so many guest artists. there's a song with tom waits that is killer and a track with solomon burke that i like. otherwise i wish they would've just done what they do best.similarly with the ben harper and the blind boys disc called there will be a light. it's hard to tell what they were going for. maybe a ben harper featuring the blind boys album, maybe a blind boys featuring ben harper album? but i tell you, the songs on which it sounds like ben harper is the featured artist are the best on there. if you can get your hands on it, listen to the track, well well well. it's amazing.
i also got my hands on a copy of the mississippi john hurt double disc library of congress recordings. wow. it's so, so good. i think it's the most perfect recording i've ever heard. if i could find it on vinyl i think i'd pass out with joy.
now i'm waiting on four bob dylan cds that i had yet to add to my collection.
i really dig the ben harper BBOA record they just put out.
finally got my copy of Dylan's The Times They Are 'A Changin' vinyl in the mail. it came from the u.k. and the auction closed on oct. 6th or so. the vinyl got here last week. good stuff.
The tragic death of Dimebag Darrell reminded me that I actually own a Pantera CD. One dreary night in Chicago I was walking along the newly built Anderson Chapel and there a lay a CD in the grass. It was Far Beyond Driven and I never really liked Pantera but I kept it because the liner notes were signed (I'd guess by the band or some guy with a shaprie who liked to scribble all over the liner notes). Who knows, maybe someone on the diner knows someone who lost a Pantera CD long ago and I can return it to the rightful owner. ANd maybe I'll give a listen tonight in honor of Dimebag's death.
i thought we figured out that it was erik's? or somebody he knew.
i don't remember that...
As I have thought more about this pantera CD I am beginning to have a little bit of deja vu. It's fuzzy but maybe you and I had a conversation about this some time ago where we conjectured that the CD was Erik's but we never actually determined if that was the case. It's so fuzzy I'll bet it happened at party, like say one of sunny's wild halloween parties and then we forgot about it it faded into the mists of my mind.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!Dude!! I lost that CD signed, in roughly that area of the campus!!!
you're welcome to keep it, of course. but I'd bet my soul that it's the same one I lost so long ago.
that is signed by the band, at the same in-store signing i mentioned in my post above.
you found it in the grassy area near foster by the chapel, no? I think I had it in my bag or out or something when we were playing frisbee on the lawn there ages and ages ago. like '94/'95 or somewhere around there. that's hilarious.
that's so crazy! email your address wags and I'll totally send it back to you: leklund@tastytronic.net
i knew erik said he knew who's that was!
alright. i'll send you my address. that's crazy! I was so pissed when I lost that.
i think that might be up there with the greatest diner moment!!!!!!!
Amazing. This made my day, and I don't even like Pantera. How cool! I love weird coincidences like this.
crazy. made my week, pretty much.
The new Handsome Boy Modeling School CD is out, and it's interspectaculous.note: HBMS has nothing to do with pantera.
I just got his "black album" and I really like it, i've been listening to the "grey album" for awhile now and i figured that i'd give the black album a go, I can't believe how much i like it. It's not as disgusting as some of his former works. I think it's quite mellow as far as "rap" goes, it certainly isn't "gansta" rap. It's almost an RnB kinda album. I remember mr. mckenna's ragings about how much he hated jay-z, so i won't admit to him that i own this album, but i sure like it. My thoughts are that everyone likes a little rap now and then even if they "don't like rap", and this is a good album for that.
That I own no recordings by Bill Monroe.This must be remedied!!! To the Gunch-mobile...
(if my wife doesn't need it, that is)
other than the slow learners cd, which is already at the top of most critics best in 2004+2005 lists, (as it should be!) i have been listening to the acoustic john lennon cd that came out over the holidays - and i like it a lot. he was the first musician i became enamored with, i was in 5th grade and started reading every beatles biography to learn more of his life, the witticisms and the sorrows. i like listening to this cd...especially the song "look at me" is beautiful.
Sad & Lonely by the Secret Machines is my new favorite songs. [thank you sneakums!]
i burned you that disc biznach!
when?
i left it on your jacket in our dinning room sat. morning. ask karna. it's a purple vinyl looking cdr.
I thought that was photos and it's still sitting on my dresser along with CD's from mgl. I had no ideathanks phil!!
Last night I slurped down the Secret Machines album and was listening to bits of it and trying to figure out who was telling me about the band in person. Was that you phil? Or maybe it was JJ, a guy from church. Maybe it was all of the above. Either way, it's a great album and thanks for the burn phil.
while my parents were visiting i found some really cool vinyl in santa barbara. it was probably the one thing i really would have been able to afford, but my mom picked up the bill on them [thanks mom].anyway, this is what i found:
volume2 of duke ellington and his orchestra the uncollected in practically mint condition. so good.
carole king's tapestry in really good shape - i'm not the hugest fan of carole king but it seemed like one to have, particularly for 90c. and it has natural woman on it - not as good as the aretha franklin version, but still a classic.
berlioz symphonie fantastique conducted by mitropoulos performed by the new york philharmonic. haven't had a chance to listen to this one yet, but i am excited to.
and two emmylou harris. luxury liner which was recommended to me by my dad and which i haven't yet heard and pieces of the sky which i almost fainted when i put on because it is so damn good.
unfortunately after listening to two of these we fucked around with the amp shit and something went kaput. so until we fix it i either have to listen through the tv or not at all.
they were playing at the metro the night you guys were in town. thats when we were talking about it.
Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Unclassified -- Okay seriously, why in the world did I leave this unlistened to for so long. this album is amazing! Can't get enough of the funk.Neko Case - Blacklisted -- Sheesh another great album I've been missing out on. I absolutely love the big trem'ed out guitars on this album and her voice is so great.
Tom Waits - live in Stockholm July '99 -- Nice two disc set sounds great but I still need to listen to it all.
Red Hot Chili Peppers 11/24/86 -- YERTLE THE TURTLE! This is a really bad AUD but oh man is it fun.
SRV - Italy July 88 -- Great sounding soundboard. This man is a guitar genius. I listening to him get crazy on Couldn't Stand the Weather and it's just nuts. I do think the band could have done without the keyboard. All you need is SRV, Tommy Shannon, and Chris Layton. Those guys could rock'n'roll.
I just got my stuff hooked up to digitize my LPs so I've been doing that to some records we listen to all the time here. I use Audacity to record, and Audacity also has a fantastic noise removal tool that really makes the records sound great. Then I use gcdmaster (the only way to burn music CDs if you ask me) to put in the track marks. It's awesome. Then I can rip the CD back to the hard disk as ogg. It truly is a sweet victory. Last night, after recording Bonnie Raitt's Sweet Forgiveness to CD, I put the cd in to grip (gnome cd ripper) and somehow grip identified the CD title and all the tracks. I'm still trying to figure out how that happened but I gotta say I was shocked. It's one thing to identify a store-bought CD that is identical with every other copy of Sweet Forgiveness, but this one was basically hand rolled. I think I'm gonna write to the developers and ask if that is really possible by their fingerprinting method, or if something else happened.
pedro and I have been listening to Thomas Dolby recently.
On Dolby.Also, apparently Interpol lives in Milwaukee. Heard them off the bar jukebox last night at Points East before shutting down and then heard them first thing this morning on WMSE. Same song.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd.
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Dave
post away! We can't get enough Thomas Dolby around here!
simthsonian folkways recently put their entire collection online for 99 cents a track. It's totally awesome
His album _i Sold Gold_ owns your world.Hardcore Days, Softcore Nights is my #1 Cruise Jam of the summer.
Don't ever ask me where I'm from.
This is pretty much the sound I always wanted for my solo stuff, but I would have guitars instead of keys.
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Dave
...brought Foreigner into the office today. He's a Jukebox Hero!!
Just to clarify, The Band, or did he just bring some random stranger from another nation into the office? Cuz I can see him doing both....
Although pedro loves both The Band (Robbie Robertson et al) and strangers from other nations, he brought neither to the office. He brought Foreigner and the Hotblooded Headgames commenced.
I will put off my call to John Ashcroft...
Entertain
is streaming the new album at my space: http://www.myspace.com/audioslave
anybody have any opinions on these guys? they've been playing their album at work a lot lately. it's not bad. kinda catchy. i like some of the bass work on it. i'm not sure if i like it all though.any thoughts?
i was reading that they're a bit controversial in the uk becaues a song they wrote about a little girl, but i don't know, other than that i haven't heard of them
Heard the album a few times during a road trip. The whole thing seemed somehow calculated, or over-calculated. I'm not really sure what I'm talking about.
i'm not sure if i completely grasp what you're saying, but i think i know what you mean.
I've been kind of interested in The Killers, not quite interested enough to yet buy their album. I think it's all in the performance--I like them more when I watch them than when I'm just listening. I saw them on SNL recently and I liked it. It hearkens back to that androgynous, made-up, emo-before-emo was a word 80s whiny poor-me Brit-pop (ala Morrissey and The Cure), and you can never have enough of that in the world.
another band i'm almost embarassed to like, i like them enough to buy the album in fact and i think i will. again with the morrissey Brit pop over the top drama extravanganza, more a dreamy/less rock sound of the killers and i'm down with that. don't tell.
...but so was Queane and they seem to have done alright for themselves. Melodramatic isn't necessarily bad; it all depends how you do it.
ha ha. You're a funny one, Pedro. I hope Constantine does his performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody" at the summer American Idol tour. Oh, did I just say that? I'll quit while I'm ahead.
Queen rocks.
new coldplay really good
new audioslave good
new ryan adams good
i also really dig this band bloc party alot!!!!
And you will too! The Ike Reilly Assassination (ikereilly.com) is FABULOUS. You must hear him. You must. He's an amazing lyricist, and the music is so damn fab. I especially adore "I don't want what you got (goin on)" and "Commie drives a nova" and also, something more downbeat, "the ex-americans." If you have not yet had a chance to partake of Ike Reilly, please do yourself a favor and go do so. Now.Also, I'm diggin the bravery lately, too. And doves.
The Killers album is pretty okay, but not fab. If you like the killers, you'll probably like the bravery.
at work, we've been hearing a lot of Infectious Grooves and Queen. as well as some some RATM and Velvet Revolver. good stuff. all of it.
My new office mate is playing the Drive! Phew.
They're playing Don't Fear the Reaper!
MORE COWBELL![also, recently, everytime I see you diner name, I start singing The Weight: "Wait a minute chester, you know I'm a peaceful man...etc]
I haven't needed that laugh so hard in a long time.....
Has anyone heard or love Kaki King as much as I do??? I'm going through an awkward phase were all I have been listening to are female performers. I hate to admit how much I love Rachael Yamagata, but she's awesome. Sleater Kinney reminds me that I need to rock every now and then. Other than girl bands, MF Doom is awesome too, if you like hip hop. And did anyone hear the gray album? I thought it was great.
Yamagata is awesoma!
is super great. I'd say she's tops in the bass world, but that's me. I really like her new album, it's very good, with great guest artists. A good one to chill to, but it doesn't really have "songs" i wouldn't say. She doesn't even play bass on some of the tracks, sometimes she just does the "programming". It's almost electronic jazz. anyway.
She makame cry. i love her voice.
victor wooten is the bass god.coming to madison somewhat soon.
Even has lessons and advice and stuff on his hippie-new-wave-lookin website.
i just read some sad news. the pleasure club is no more!
yeah. he's pretty awesome. there's good bass playing, there's great bass playing, then there's virtuoso bass playing. you see a lot less bass virtuosos than guitar/drum/piano/vocal/violin/cello virtuosos. which makes it all the more cool.
i d/led a track called "classical thumpin" i don'tk now for sure if it was him, but when i got it i thought it was amazing, but that was five years ago.
Feist on KCRW
Seems super dope.
one of my favorite bars just replaced its jukebox with <gasp> a digital one! this is awful and not to be tolerated. i gave up.in other music news: ryan adams new one, re-named jacksonville city nights, is purdy good. it's twangy, a little slow, pretty sad, but solid.
bob dylan's no direction home, musical partner to the scorsese documentary is out of this world.
They all went to cd jukeboxes long ago, so it's been digital for years, unless you are going to a place with a true relic vinyl player, which I would then give mad props to them for having one that long.Speaking of which, welcome do you still have that one in your garage or did your dad sell it?
no, it wasn't a vinyl juke they replaced, so going digital maybe isn't the right way to say this.i mean, now when i go to pick my three songs, i have to know what i want to hear. i walk up to the HUGE atrocity that now stands where the old one used to be and rather than flipping up and down through cds and choosing from what i see, i now have to either press the [digital onscreen] button to bring me down through the seemingly endlesss alphabetical list of artists or enter the name of the band or artist i'd like to hear. it's a computer screen.
it's no good. i'm the kind of person who flipped the cds every single time i went to the jukebox. even at this bar which i frequent. because there's always going to be one or two songs that surprise and delight that you forgot were on there.
the flavor is gone. that's all i'm saying.
i caught bits and pieces of it on PBS monday and tuesday night. i want to know where i can purchase it. it was fascinating.
it's been out for a week on dvd. my roommate has it and there's tons of great extra concert footage. a friend of ours who owns a screening room is screening the whole thing tonight. the only screening room in town giving out free beer, candy and fun things to smoke.
pbs had it for like $25. but amazon had it for $17. so i got that, plus DFW has a new book of essays out that i hadn't heard about. it qualified me for free shipping with the DFW book, so i ordered both. should be here in a couple weeks!
not so good. couldn't finish a song. i kept on skipping till about the 6th track when then i hit eject. three thumbs down says me.
I like her a lot, but I noticed that a lot of my friends really weren't all that into her. I guess it just goes with my reputation in tastes! Oh yeah, I recommend anyone in that KCRW thing that dogman posted for me. Check out the morning eclectic thingy.
We have Cat Power's You Are Free -- pretty cool stuff. It's not the kind of music I can listen to all the time, but then again I listen to things like kraftwerk, bluegrass, and j.s. bach most of the time.
kraftwerk + JS Bach = Switched on Bach, The Well Tempered Synthesizer, and Bachbusterslooks like there's a couple more of the "Switched on Bach" series by Wendy Carlos too.
It's on flynn in my music directory.
Has always been my favorite classical or preclassical composer. He is amazing. Sneakums -- as a kid, seriously, I think my favorite piece of music was that Passacaglia & Fugue that's on that organ disc you have.
I've just always loved how his music flows together. Bach is great, don't get me wrong, and a little Mozart every now and again never hurt anyone, but Beethoven has always resonated with me.
Vivaldi
the only vivaldi work that I have a strong affiliation for are his four seasons, they are beautiful pieces of work, truly representative of the seasons, a true masterpiece. The WTTW scenes from Chicago set to the 4 seasons is one of my favorite things they show on there, a way to enjoy a beautiful bit of music, with scenes of home. I'd love to have that on DVD.
For those of you who haven't gotten your hands on Clutch's Blast Tyrant and Robot Hive/Exodus, what are you waiting for?
waiting for spendable cash. and an apartment where i can set up my stereo and have all my music accessible.
I hear that. I bought Robot Hive with a gift cert and got Tyrant burned for me by a friend. It's become especially difficult to spend money on music these days. And about the accessibility thing: I thought it was a brilliant idea to burn my 400 CDs into MP3s and then get an iPod and a speaker system for the house and a plug-in for the car, but then the whole thing seemed to costly and laborious.
I can attest that the end result is unspeakably delicious.
but is it magically delicious?
He gave it away after he sold all the 45s, no more rocking out to Sussudio all night long.In the jukebox lately for me has been Harry Nilsson's Pandemonium Shadow Show; I don't know why it sounds so good but it does!
how they cut vinyl records
and i became myspace friends with these guys
wax trax, now it all makes sense.
here a link to the new long ride home videohttp://www.cmt.com/artists/az/patty_griffin/artist.jhtml
So I did a little googling and found a page for James Koetting, the person who recorded the postal workers track. It claim that it is the future site for the complete digital library of his field recordings from Ghana in the 1970's. It says it will be available to students and researchers and I hope to the general public as well. Something to keep an eye on.
stream the album
i've been listening to some new albums that i think some diner denizens would really enjoy. clap your hands say yeah is a group i heard several months back and went out and got their album immediately. they're great.and another is solo artist michael mazochi. i've had the opportunity to see this guy live as he just moved to so-cal and he's awesome. he played an amazing cover of this land is your land at the end of his set and then we hung out and smoked cigarettes on sunset blvd. check him out: www.myspace.com/michaelmazochi
enjoy!
If you can find it on the web or catch a show in South Chicago, look for The Cupertino Solid...they're basically Exile on Main Street Stones vs. Fun House Stooges vs. clean Social D vs. garage band.Worth the search
you have to check out Hatebeak. It's some dude's parrot on vocals.
i'm too lazy too find it. but i'd check it out if you had a link. that sounds awesome. i know somebody who would probably enjoy it for real.
hatebeak
I can't say enough how fab Jamirquai is....
I'm listening right now. so far so good
emmylou harris and mark knopfler!!!
Pink Moon
Josh Ritter's new record is the best record i've heard this year!
...is called Witch and they are awesome! For those of you about to give lip service to 70s Metal, check it out.btr
Dave
Tower Records
Here are some possibly useless squibs on what I've been listening to lately.
- Roots & Crowns - Califone
- A most excellent album. Some of the dust and cobwebs has been knocked off their sound: all their gear was stolen just before they started recording and they had to re-equip. But this is Califone, and if you liked where Heron King Blues was going then you'll like this.
- Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain - Sparklehorse
- Despite four of the tracks having appeared previously in other venues, this is another great Sparklehorse album. Not the mind-job I was hoping for, but I am certainly not disappointed.
- Set Your Center Between Your Parts In Order To - Pixel
- A slight change of pace here. Pixel is a German who makes "minimalist techno". How minimal? Think of gentle beats threaded with squalls of bleeps, buzzes, clicks, beeps and the odd daub of static and you've pretty much got it. There's no there there, but I enjoyed the journey.
- Fingerlings 3 - Andrew Bird
- The latest in Bird's series of "official bootlegs", Fingerlings 3 features live recordings of tracks old and new and outtakes from his upcoming album.
- Hello Everything - Squarepusher
- The latest from Mr Jenkinson covers a lot of ground, from acoustic to electronic, beat-ridden to the utterly beatless. Okay, that's a useless description. "Theme From Sprite" is cool.
- Little Miss Sunshine OST - DeVotchKa et. al.
- FIND THIS SOUNDTRACK, I scrawled in my notebook as the opening credits rolled. I did, and I love it. I would have been happy with just the theme music, but the album is mostly great, dropping to merely good at a few points. See the movie first, though!
i'm listening to one mr. michael mazochi a great deal these days. he graciously offered up his entire collection, including ten unreleased tracks, for use in our latest film which we're very excited about.www.myspace.com/michaelmazochi or click here
i really think a lot of you will like his stuff and the fact that he's an artist of the truest sort.
you all should be subscribed to emusic. I've found a ton of great music on there and it's all DRM free. yay!
Dungen -- Ta Det Lungt
Last Transmission from starbase XY003 is on my iTunes share at work -- it's the new hit with our tech department.
Awesome -- are you playing the live version or the original?
Though I should bring the live in from home as well. One of my coworkers said he wants to see a full stage production.
The new Broadway musical based on the hit songs of the Tastytronic Philharmonic!
Raising SandWeirdest mashup ever...but it also happens to be one of the best and most unique records I've heard in a LONG time. Produced by T-Bone Burnett. I've only listened through once so far, but it is really cool and very atmospheric with it's own space. There's also something sad about it to me, but I'm not sure what. It's really cool though. Kind of like if Gillian Welch's Revival album went through a door to the astral plane.
Other weird mashups:
Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs. RS is a bluegrass giant who got his start with Ralph Stanley and then played with Emmylou for a long time. He's incredible. And while most people know Bruce for "Just the Way it is," and think of him as just Adult Contemporary or whatever, he is an incredible songwriter and musician who played keyboards for the dead for a long time and just put out a record (perhaps his Perfect Day, only moreso) with two Jazz Giants (Christian McBride and Jack DeJohnette)... anyway, Hornsby is the man.
The BS & RS bluegrass record is awesome and is everything you'd want it to be (except Just The Way it Is isn't on it). if you like bluegrass and bruce hornsby, you'll love this. I haven't listened to the jazz record yet but I have high hopes.
Been listening to Ray LaMontagne a bit lately. I met him years ago when he was still going by Ray Charles LaMontagne and played at Sugarloaf. He's doing some good music lately. The station that pandora.com made based on him is pretty good. Pandora got me listening to T-Bone Burnett as well. I think he came up on a Morphine station.
The last jazz "album of the year" as in 1964! Yow!
I was impressed with what I saw of the show last night. The fun duet with Morris Day and the Time and Rhiana and especially Tina and Byonce. Those ladies have a lot of energy. And I think it's great that HH won. I might get that album now.