Page created 23 Apr 2002 by dogmanphil , last modified 26 Sep 2005 by dogmanphil
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 Ċke 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.