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Album of the Day

Fman99 Sep 22 2009 09:43 AM

Something I've been doing on Twitter, figured it's worth a spin here as well for the CPF'ers. I have a server at home with about 50 GB of music on it, that I can access from work in a streaming fashion. Which is bad-ass. I tend to pick entire albums and listen to the front to back, on headphones if my coworkers are here and on speakers if I'm flying solo. Today, the record is the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1995 release "One Hot Minute." Known best as the single album on which Jane's Addiction axe-man Dave Navarro played on, before he left the group, it has more of a guitar riff/rock feel than the funk sounds of many of their other works. But still rocking.

TransMonk Sep 22 2009 09:57 AM Re: Album of the Day

IMO RHCP are one of the only bands in history to produce better music when sober rather than when on drugs. Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik are the only albums of theirs that I truly enjoy and I liked BSSM a lot. Rick Rubin and the boys lost their touch on One Hot Minute, though. Kiedis's addiction may not have been the primary problem, but this album just doesn't do it for me. And, I'm pretty sure this was the only Navarro album. I saw these guys 3 or 4 times in 1991 and 1992, but I don't think I would go see them for free now.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 22 2009 10:39 AM Re: Album of the Day

No love for "Californication?" Older-and-wiser Frusciante? "Get on Top," "Otherside," and "Scar Tissue?" Same limber guitar lines, less caffeinated, more contemplative? No love at all?

TransMonk Sep 22 2009 10:49 AM Re: Album of the Day

Nope, they all sound like the same songs to me. It seems to me like they are very content being the exact same band they were in 1995, which irks me. Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik sounded very much like RHCPs, but there was also growth there that I haven't seen in all subsequent albums (at least from the singles released, One Hot Minute was the last album I bought).

Edgy DC Sep 22 2009 10:57 AM Re: Album of the Day

I was at SPIN when we did a cover story on first-wave Frusciante-era RHCP. I can't imagine how he couldn't get wiser. Sexual frustration is the single most powerful force in the world. We are the only species where that frustration affects things like the amount of money given to the poor and the length of welfare lines. I hate that the fact that George Bush's wife is an ugly old piece of shit could cause suffering among millions and could cause wars. I don't think it's any coincidence that Kennedy was the last president who had a wife worth fucking and he was the last good president. --- John Frusciante This was the sort of shit that made me think I was maybe working at the wrong place. What a tremendous ass. I was enormously un-shocked that he was out of the band by the time Rolling Stone put them on the cover shortly after, actually cropping him out just before the issue went to press.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 22 2009 11:00 AM Re: Album of the Day

RHCP: The band for straight homos who like white black music.

TransMonk Sep 22 2009 11:02 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":1c7fz7gt]RHCP: The band for straight homos who like white black music.[/quote:1c7fz7gt] Bullet of cool.

Fman99 Sep 23 2009 06:42 AM Re: Album of the Day

Today's choice: "Houses of the Holy," Led Zeppelin, 1973. Not really much to explain here. I do tend to like the follow-up to the big smash albums, like this one, because the band will often throw the "change up."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 23 2009 06:58 AM Re: Album of the Day

I think that's my favorite Zep album, to the extent I have one. Maybe because I'm sick of it, but I tend to find the blues-based stuff plodding and boring at times. I am OK with their switching up here, even the noodly stuff. Where's that confounded bridge?

TransMonk Sep 23 2009 07:12 AM Re: Album of the Day

I like this thread. Led Zepplin is hard for me not to like in any capacity. This album, while not my fav from LZ, is still a pretty great listen.

metirish Sep 23 2009 07:13 AM Re: Album of the Day

I like it...I have always found it funny to read how the music mags hammered this album in particular and then 30 years later some of the same mags or critics were saying it was one of the great albums ever ...I wasn't around then but from what I have read Led Zep were never faves of the critics only getting that acclaim years later.

Edgy DC Sep 23 2009 07:24 AM Re: Album of the Day

I agree that followups to monster albums are often enduring in their delights partially because their immediate disappoinments tend to get them shelved too quickly. Paul's Boutique > Licensed to Ill The Long Run > Hotel California Tusk /> Rumours, but still more interesting than it's place in history consigned it to. This generally only works with followups to mid-career monster albums. Followups to monster debuts (Julian Lennon, Hootie, Gin Blossoms, Black Crowes) or breakthroughs (Cowboy Junkies) are often justifiably disappointing. Followups to monster singer/songwriter albums (Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega) are often fine, but frequently fail because they don't tend to alter their sound/image fast enough to suit the marketplace. Chapman's Crossroads and Vega's Days of Open Hand are both very good.

Fman99 Sep 24 2009 07:00 AM Re: Album of the Day

No argument with that... Paul's Boutique is one of the all-time overlooked hip-hop albums. Having said that, the Album of the Day for Thursday is the 1976 AC/DC release "High Voltage." Yes, AC/DC has been recording the same song and same riff for 35 years now. It's still good stuff for getting the blood pumping in the morning. First track, for those of you not in the know, is "It's a Long Way To the Top (If You Want to Rock and Roll), maybe known to more by its use in the closing moments as the encore played by the kids band in the Jack Black vehicle "School of Rock."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 24 2009 07:05 AM Re: Album of the Day

Hold on a second. The Long Run sucks giant hairy moose cock.

TransMonk Sep 24 2009 07:12 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":cw3auiii]1976 AC/DC release "High Voltage."[/quote:cw3auiii] One of my most listened to albums. Bon Scott is one of my favorite frontmen of all time.

Edgy DC Sep 24 2009 07:27 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Hold on a second. The Long Run sucks giant hairy moose cock.

It's still > Hotel California. As Schmit > Meissner.

Fman99 Sep 25 2009 06:28 AM Re: Album of the Day

Today's choice is "Benefit," Jethro Tull's third full album, released in 1970. More formative than "This Was," more somber than "Stand Up" (which is also tremendous), and less known than the follow up to this which was the big watershed "Aqualung." I suppose that the flip side to the follow up is to dig on the last album prior to the breakthrough, see if they were leading up to it. Hard to say in this case, but I like these songs for the same reason I picked the other albums I did this week -- classic rock songs not beaten to death on FM radio.

Edgy DC Sep 25 2009 07:13 AM Re: Album of the Day

Jethro Tull, the best band in history named for a British agriculturalist. This chart at wikipedia is great. I always wanted to do one of these for the Cure.

Edgy DC Sep 25 2009 07:14 AM Re: Album of the Day

And check out how one super-big image doesn't stretch everybody else's posts off the screen. Nice.

Frayed Knot Sep 25 2009 07:37 AM Re: Album of the Day

Jethro Tull still exists?!?!?!? Which is the one that's now a chick?

sharpie Sep 25 2009 07:43 AM Re: Album of the Day

I saw a notice for an Ian Anderson show recently. I thought "since Jethro Tull is whoever is playing with him why not keep calling it that?" Maybe Martin Barre is equally Jethro Tull though. "Stand Up" is, to my mind, their best album and really the only one I care to listen to anymore. "Benefit" has its moments but the ponderous "Aqualung" was the beginning of the end although it was their commercial breakthrough. Much of "Thick As a Brick" is also pretty good but other than the occasional song here and there that was it for them for me.

Edgy DC Sep 25 2009 07:51 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Frayed Knot"]Jethro Tull still exists?!?!?!? Which is the one that's now a chick?

Keyboardist David Palmer (1976-1980), now Dee, swapped genders at 67 after the deaths of his mother and wife.

metirish Sep 25 2009 08:33 AM Re: Album of the Day

Never will I forget when Jethro Tull won the Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance , Metallica were widely tipped to win of course....priceless

metsguyinmichigan Sep 25 2009 08:49 AM Re: Album of the Day

I'm not a huge Tull fan, but I really liked the live album. I almost got to see them in concert at the Nassau Coliseum when I was in high school. Don't remember whether it was for "Storm Watch" or "A," but the show was cancelled because of a carpenter strike or something. My daughter started learning the flute last year. I put a bunch of Tull on her iPod so she can hear some rockin' flute!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 25 2009 08:56 AM Re: Album of the Day

He has a fife -- and he's come to play.

Fman99 Sep 25 2009 09:07 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="metsguyinmichigan":2frkic4b]I'm not a huge Tull fan, but I really liked the live album. I almost got to see them in concert at the Nassau Coliseum when I was in high school. Don't remember whether it was for "Storm Watch" or "A," but the show was cancelled because of a carpenter strike or something. My daughter started learning the flute last year. I put a bunch of Tull on her iPod so she can hear some rockin' flute![/quote:2frkic4b] Saw them on the "Rock Island" tour in 1989 or so, in Troy, New York at the RPI field house. A good show.... despite Anderson's voice being pretty well shot, the music was impressive. That was the same week I saw the Rolling Stones at Shea -- Monday was Tull, Thursday was the Stones. Good times.

sharpie Sep 25 2009 10:36 AM Re: Album of the Day

Saw them on, I think, the "War Child" tour in the '70's. Liked the show a lot. The whole standing-on-one-leg-while-playing-the-flute thing can't be underestimated.

Frayed Knot Sep 25 2009 12:04 PM Re: Album of the Day

I remember Tull being on Letterman - maybe 6-8 years ago - where they played Aqualung in mid-show. Imus was the next guest and Dave did the whisper into the ear thing as they shook hands. The next day Imus, on his show, claimed Dave's whisper was a sarcastic; 'Gee, isn't it great to hear 'Aqualung' again!'

Fman99 Sep 28 2009 06:55 AM Re: Album of the Day

Back into it on a Monday. Today's album of the day is the eponymous debut album from the House of Pain, 1992. This was the soundtrack to my sophomore year of college, thanks largely to two apartment mates I had who played the hell of out the CD. I haven't listened to it, in its entirety, in many years. A coworker brought it in for me to copy and it's got some nice grooves.

Fman99 Sep 29 2009 06:23 AM Re: Album of the Day

Today's listening is the Genesis compilation "Turn It On Again: The Hits," released in 1999. Not normally a "greatest hits" guy but there are a number of these songs that still sound fresh to me, even after repeated airplay. Those that stand out include "Mama," "Turn It On Again," and "Home By the Sea/Second Home By the Sea," among others.

soupcan Sep 29 2009 07:28 AM Re: Album of the Day

I'm a big 'Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea' fan, but Phil Collins-era just hasn't held up for me the way I thought it would.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 29 2009 07:31 AM Re: Album of the Day

Phil Collins era Genesis reminds me of what other people listened to when I was really into music. I don;t mean that to be mean or anything, it just does and always will.

sharpie Sep 29 2009 07:34 AM Re: Album of the Day

No love at all for the Phil Collins Genesis. The Peter Gabriel Genesis also hasn't worn well for me, though I still have a fondness for "Selling England by the Pound." Saw them during the "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" tour with Phil Collins on drums where he belongs. They did the whole album for their set and came back with that long song on "Nursery Crymes." Had some good special effects.

Fman99 Sep 30 2009 05:51 AM Re: Album of the Day

Today's listening is the first disc from "Time3," the three disc Journey box set. Most people think of the second phase of Journey, the Steve Perry-era stuff starting with Infinity (1978) where they broke big and got themselves an Atari game and everything. What many people don't know is that Journey was spun off from Santana and their early (1974-77) stuff has a totally different feel and sound to it. Much more prog-rock style, longer songs, jams, etc. Gregg Rolie and Neil Schon can play.

The Second Spitter Sep 30 2009 06:01 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":1q1po3i8]Today's listening is the Genesis compilation "Turn It On Again: The Hits," released in 1999. Not normally a "greatest hits" guy but there are a number of these songs that still sound fresh to me, even after repeated airplay. Those that stand out include "Mama," "Turn It On Again," and "Home By the Sea/Second Home By the Sea," among others.[/quote:1q1po3i8] "Land of Confusion" is a great track too. I don't mind "Invisible Touch" either, but maybe is a bit too poppy for some tastes.

soupcan Sep 30 2009 08:29 AM Re: Album of the Day

Genesis and Journey? I mean, okay, fine and what-not, but I was expecting more from you Fman.

metirish Sep 30 2009 08:37 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="soupcan":1lxmjle3]Genesis and Journey? I mean, okay, fine and what-not, but I was expecting more from you Fman.[/quote:1lxmjle3] gotta agree , in fact I would expect this from soupcan......j/k

soupcan Sep 30 2009 08:46 AM Re: Album of the Day

Oh, snap.

Fman99 Sep 30 2009 08:51 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="soupcan":36j4yzyy]Genesis and Journey? I mean, okay, fine and what-not, but I was expecting more from you Fman.[/quote:36j4yzyy] I'm all over the board, classic rock, modern rock, jazz, blues, hip hop. It's complicated by two of my narrow-minded coworkers, one of which only likes top 40 pop and the other only "alternative." Sigh.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 30 2009 09:23 AM Re: Album of the Day

I can only imagine how jarring it must have been for fans of the original, noodly, progressive, guitar-based, jazz-rock Journey to experience the whole shift to the latter-day, overproduced, dramatic, piano/vocal-based, power ballad Journey as it happened. Not that the people counting the money ever cared, but for those fans, what a rude awakening. I never knew old Journey but that it was a progressive band featured now and again in Creem. I used a lot of energy hating on popular Journey when it was new, but in the past few years developed a true appreciation for Perry's pipes, and a kind of slumming respect for them being so good at making overproduced ridiculous ballads.

Fman99 Oct 01 2009 06:15 AM Re: Album of the Day

Today's listening is something you don't have! Or so I'd wager... it's what some might call a "bootleg." The actual album is George Harrison's 1970 masterpiece "All Things Must Pass." For those of you not in the know, much of this double album is made up of material Harrison built up over the 1960's but pushed off of Beatles' albums in favor of Lennon/McCartney compositions. There is a wealth of material on these records and it is largely brilliant, and I think still considered the high point of any solo work done by the Fab Four post-breakup. Having said that, one of the (to me) less fortunate points is that Harrison handed his work to Phil Spector who layered it in his famous "wall of sound" production, which works for some of the numbers but today seems bloated and overdone. The bootleg I am listening to is called "The Art of Dying" and is made up of 18 of the raw tracks, as they were mostly done and in the state they were given to Spector pre-production. I always felt an affinity for Harrison based on this album as well as his Beatles work, being a guitar player myself as well as being born on George's 30th birthday.

Fman99 Oct 02 2009 05:43 AM Re: Album of the Day

Album of the Day today is Mick Jagger's 2001 solo effort "Goddess in the Doorway." Lots of catchy pop tunes, goes down easy like a cold PBR after you mow the lawn.

Fman99 Oct 05 2009 08:51 AM Re: Album of the Day

The Mets' season may end but the Album of the Day rolls on. Today's listening choice is the Black Crowes' 1996 effort "Three Snakes and One Charm." Not much on here that made a big radio dent, aside from the single "Good Friday." But still an enjoyable batch of rock songs.

Fman99 Oct 07 2009 06:51 AM Re: Album of the Day

Today's listening is the 1994 solo release "Whiskey For the Holy Ghost," by the Screaming Trees' frontman Mark Lanegan. Soulful, introspective, mellow and awesome. Very entertaining listening.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 08 2009 10:01 AM Re: Album of the Day

no album today?

Fman99 Oct 08 2009 01:23 PM Re: Album of the Day

Sorry, got caught up with work stuff. The album of the day is the 1995 eponymous release "Alice in Chains." The last studio album to feature vocalist Layne Staley prior to his self-imposed heroin exile and ultimate death, it's got a markedly different feel from their previous work. I'm more familiar with the Unplugged versions of many of their songs but the original electric ones hold up nicely. Also they don't suffer with guitarist Jerry Cantrell carrying his share of vocals. I'll have to give their new album a listen one of these days.

metirish Oct 08 2009 02:16 PM Re: Album of the Day

i've got just about all their stuff on CD's and the iPod , while I like this album plenty I would rate it below Dirt and above Facelift. I remember reading an interview with Staley and the interviewer remarked that even though it was close to 90 degrees out Staley was wearing long sleeves and gloves , hiding track marks he was. I've always liked the vocal overlays between Staley and Cantrell , very cool I never caqred much for the Grunge label anyway and especially for AIC , they were Sabbath heavy at times....fman rides again.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 08 2009 02:28 PM Re: Album of the Day

Anyone here hear/plan to hear the new album? By most reports, it's pretty decent. (The vocal interplay is largely preserved, since the new singer apparently sounds exactly like Layne Staley. Freaky shizz.)

Fman99 Oct 09 2009 07:15 AM Re: Album of the Day

Canadian power trio Friday! Today's selection is the second Rush LP, "Fly By Night," and also the first Rush album to feature drummer (and lyricist) Neal Peart. It's really the first album of theirs to have that distinctive Rush sound. Now if you don't like it, well, then, tough nuts to you. But the album, again, is the real way to discern what the band is trying to get across.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 09 2009 07:47 AM Re: Album of the Day

OK. Good hard-rock energy on this record but Geddy's ridiculous warbling is WAY over the top. Plus it's awfully hard to admit liking a song called BY-TOR AND THE SNOW DOG without also sounding like you've got a pair of 12-sided dice in your hand. I'll say this about Rush: They've changed gears as smoothly as anyone over the years. Geddy became a much better singer, they eased out of hard-rock, into boring progressive rock, into the synthy 80s pop-rock, and back again. I suppose this record is a good document of where it all started.

Fman99 Oct 09 2009 07:57 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":hmwwqcwo]OK. Good hard-rock energy on this record but Geddy's ridiculous warbling is WAY over the top. Plus it's awfully hard to admit liking a song called BY-TOR AND THE SNOW DOG without also sounding like you've got a pair of 12-sided dice in your hand. I'll say this about Rush: They've changed gears as smoothly as anyone over the years. Geddy became a much better singer, they eased out of hard-rock, into boring progressive rock, into the synthy 80s pop-rock, and back again. I suppose this record is a good document of where it all started.[/quote:hmwwqcwo] I shouldn't have to say it but I will now refer to my testes as a "pair of 12-sided dice in my hand." Er, when they are in my hand, that is. (Oh, this is awkward.)

Edgy DC Oct 09 2009 08:19 AM Re: Album of the Day

Sheesh, nobody would roll two 12s at once. Two 20s, sure, but not two 12s.

TransMonk Oct 09 2009 08:40 AM Re: Album of the Day

I had my 3 month Rush binge when I was 15. I've never know a girl to be able to so anything more than tolerate them.

metsguyinmichigan Oct 09 2009 06:39 PM Re: Album of the Day

I love Rush. And I'd pick "Moving Pictures" among the best albums of all time. "Fly By Night," not so much. Part of that might be because I first had it as an 8-track tape, and to this day I can tell you where the songs faded out to go to the next track. But I absolutely love "In The End," and "Anthem," and "Beneath...." are certainly solid cuts. I think they took a step back with "Caress," and righted the ship with "Farewell to Kings." Seriously, eight-track tapes. What the hell were they thinking? Was the idea that they would play continously without having to be taken out and turned over?

Fman99 Oct 12 2009 06:48 AM Re: Album of the Day

"Buckingham/Nicks", pre-Fleetwood Mac, 1973. Acoustic, harmonies, catchy pop tunes and for some reason an album that was never officially released as a CD.

Vic Sage Oct 12 2009 08:41 AM Re: Album of the Day

As a teenager, i wanted to fuck Stevie Nicks really badly. Now, i want to fuck her really goodly.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2009 08:53 AM Re: Album of the Day

I don't know this record. But I guess it was around this time when they worked with Walter Egan, providing those awesome backup vocals (uncredited) on "Magnet & Steel." Never really "got into" Linday Buckingham or especially into Fleetwood Mac, but I like just about everything I've ever heard LB do.

RealityChuck Oct 12 2009 11:32 AM Re: Album of the Day

I remember the album; it came in to the college radio station when I was working there. Wasn't impressed by it at the time. Best known for its cover, which showed the two of them nude.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2009 11:36 AM Re: Album of the Day

Not naked enough for me (or Ralph, I'd wager)

Fman99 Oct 13 2009 06:30 AM Re: Album of the Day

Trying to find stuff to listen to that hasn't been beaten to death on the radio while also not offending three coworkers with disparate tastes that sit in my vicinity. Today's choice is the 2001 Black Crowes' "Lions" album. Catchy, pop tunes in the Crowes' typical Zeppelin-lite sound. Not unpleasant.

Fman99 Oct 14 2009 06:48 AM Re: Album of the Day

Today? New Alice in Chains' "Black Gives Way to Blue." Not too bad, new singer has a very Layne Staley-esque sound.

Fman99 Oct 15 2009 07:27 AM Re: Album of the Day

Led Zeppelin, "Physical Graffiti," 1975, Disc 1 (probably to be followed by disc 2). The height of heights.

metsguyinmichigan Oct 15 2009 07:36 AM Re: Album of the Day

Outstanding! Was in the car last night with the iPod on shuffle. "The Rover" came on, and my son went to change to the next song. He was lectured.

Edgy DC Oct 15 2009 07:51 AM Re: Album of the Day

Side One 1. "Custard Pie" (Page, Plant), 4:13 2. "The Rover" (Page, Plant), 5:37 3. "In My Time of Dying" (Traditional, arr. Page, Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham), 11:05 Side Two 1. "Houses of the Holy" (Page, Plant), 4:02 2. "Trampled Under Foot" (Page, Plant, Jones), 5:37 3. "Kashmir" (Page, Plant, Bonham), 8:32 Side Three 1. "In the Light" (Page, Plant, Jones), 8:46 2. "Bron-Yr-Aur" (Page), 2:06 3. "Down by the Seaside" (Page, Plant), 5:13 4. "Ten Years Gone" (Page, Plant), 6:32 Side Four 1. "Night Flight" (Jones, Page, Plant), 3:36 2. "The Wanton Song" (Page, Plant), 4:07 3. "Boogie with Stu" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant, Ian Stewart, Mrs. Valens), 3:53 4. "Black Country Woman" (Page, Plant), 4:24 5. "Sick Again" (Page, Plant), 4:42

TransMonk Oct 15 2009 08:01 AM Re: Album of the Day

My most anticipated album of 2009 is the debut from Them Crooked Vultures which will be Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. The snippets that I've heard so far sound a fair amount like a modern day Zepplin. No release date has been officially announced, but it's supposed to be out by year's end.

Edgy DC Oct 15 2009 08:13 AM Re: Album of the Day

Who is on drums --- Homme or Grohl or both?

TransMonk Oct 15 2009 08:15 AM Re: Album of the Day

Homme on guitar and vox, Jones on bass, Grohl on drums. I'm pretty excited.

soupcan Oct 15 2009 09:26 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":d3r6zk6p]Led Zeppelin, "Physical Graffiti," 1975, Disc 1 (probably to be followed by disc 2). The height of heights.[/quote:d3r6zk6p] Fucking finally. About time you listened to something decent. [quote="TransMonk":d3r6zk6p]My most anticipated album of 2009 is the debut from Them Crooked Vultures which will be Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. [/quote:d3r6zk6p] Oooh, that sounds intriguing.

Fman99 Oct 16 2009 06:21 AM Re: Album of the Day

Today's listening is the 1971 self-titled debut of the Doobie Brothers. Good album, already indicative of the sound they'd continue to produce until the Michael McDonald era kicked in, and yet completely free of anything that has been overplayed as their hits have been. Toes a tappin.

soupcan Oct 16 2009 07:33 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="soupcan":3ehcsush][quote="TransMonk":3ehcsush]My most anticipated album of 2009 is the debut from Them Crooked Vultures which will be Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. [/quote:3ehcsush] Oooh, that sounds intriguing.[/quote:3ehcsush] So after hearing about 'Them Crooked Vultures- for the very first time yesterday - all that was being spoken about on the radio this morning was this band. This was on WRXP in NYC.

TransMonk Oct 16 2009 07:57 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="soupcan":3n10lijf]So after hearing about 'Them Crooked Vultures- for the very first time yesterday - all that was being spoken about on the radio this morning was this band. This was on WRXP in NYC.[/quote:3n10lijf] They played last night in NYC...the close of about 10 dates in the US before going back to Europe and on to Australia.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 16 2009 08:07 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":1le22iwv]Today's listening is the 1971 self-titled debut of the Doobie Brothers. Good album, already indicative of the sound they'd continue to produce until the Michael McDonald era kicked in, and yet completely free of anything that has been overplayed as their hits have been.[/quote:1le22iwv] Boogie is not my cup of meat necessarily, but this comes off easy and unforced and it's nice to hear something by them I hadn't heard 10 million times.

metirish Oct 26 2009 11:20 AM Re: Album of the Day

May I submit an oldie that I rediscovred this weekend? Operation: Mindcrime from Queensr˙che , their third album.It's a concept album and at the time that meant nothing to me....still doesn't really. A man becomes disillusioned with society and there is talking between songs to help tell the story....but it's the music that matters and I still love it.....love Tate's voice....Chris DeGarmo was a brilliant on lead guitar...I listened to it yesterday for the first time in at least 12 years and I was blown away with the musicality....

Fman99 Oct 28 2009 09:00 PM Re: Album of the Day

What's the polar opposite of the inane ramblings of Buck and McCarver? That's right, it's the Album of the Day, road edition. Tonight, as I sit in my Texas hotel, the listening choice is Andres Segovia's "HMV Recordings, 1927-1939," solo renditions of classics by (among others) Bach, Mendelssohn, Ponce and a number of Spanish composers. Wonderful baseball accompaniment.

Fman99 Oct 30 2009 06:54 AM Re: Album of the Day

Back at the office, today's choice is Rush's 1982 "Signals." Shorter songs, a little synth-heavy but overall some enjoyable tunes.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 30 2009 07:51 AM Re: Album of the Day

Signals: One of the great first-song albums in the JCL Era. Subdivisions comes out and says, "We're Rush, you're welcome to continue jacking off to our heavy progrock of the 70s, but we're doing the 80s synth thing now. Resist... if you can." Many of the "old school" Rush fans I knew at that time turned their noses up at Signals. One called it "the pop album" with disgust in his words. But for many this was an introduction, and the whole Subdivisions themeatic thing really struck a chord with them. I suppose you could be cyncial and say Rush knew where their bread was buttered, but it rings true enough even now.

Edgy DC Oct 30 2009 07:58 AM Re: Album of the Day

Sneer at the synth all you want, Rush fans, but your sneers were blinding you to the fact that "Subdivisions" is one of the great love letters of all time from an arena rock band to greasy suburban dirbag outcast fans like yourselves.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 30 2009 08:04 AM Re: Album of the Day

Sprawling on the fringes of the city In geometric order An insulated border In between the bright lights And the far unlit unknown Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone Subdivisions -- In the high school halls In the shopping malls Conform or be cast out Subdivisions -- In the basement bars In the backs of cars Be cool or be cast out Any escape might help to smooth The unattractive truth But the suburbs have no charms to soothe The restless dreams of youth Drawn like moths we drift into the city The timeless old attraction Cruising for the action Lit up like a firefly Just to feel the living night Some will sell their dreams for small desires Or lose the race to rats Get caught in ticking traps And start to dream of somewhere To relax their restless flight Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 30 2009 08:49 AM Re: Album of the Day

I just lala'ed the whole album. Srsly, that site is great. Some it is noodly and boring as you'd expect, but overall a distinct listening experience that sort of sounds like Rush's take on the Police's "Ghost in the Machine." Go listen to Digital Man and tell me its not.

metsguyinmichigan Oct 30 2009 11:26 AM Re: Album of the Day

I love "Signals," but I love almost everything Rush does. Saw them at the Nassau Coliseum on this tour, and a friend somehow got us seats in the seventh row, dead center. My first time ever getting seats like that. I didn't think this one would age too well, but some of it does. They did "Digital Man" on the "Snakes" tour, and it sounds great on the CD. "Analog Kid" is awesome, and "Chemistry" is built out of a sound check, and still sounds pretty cool. I always was disappointed in "Countdown" because it seemed so forced. "Tension so thick, you could cut it with a knife..." If you're Neil Freaking Peart, you don't resort to cliches, dammit! Was pretty cool in concert, though. Lots of video of the shuttle launch. Gotta love all the baseball references, and the subdivision plot map on the back cover, with Warrren Cromartie Blvd. In all, not my favorite Rush album, but it's in the top 5.

soupcan Oct 30 2009 11:48 AM Re: Album of the Day

Speaking of 'Albums Of The Day' - I was in my car for a coupla hours yesterday and listened to the new U2 'No Line On The Horizon'. I've listened to it all the way through about 4 or 5 times and you know what - it's really not half-bad. Definitely a different, maybe more mature, U2 but if you liked 'Unforgettable Fire' I think you'd like this.

Fman99 Nov 12 2009 10:49 AM Re: Album of the Day

Back from hiatus, today's Album of the Day is the 1976 Scorpions' album, "Virgin Killer." Most of you remember the Scorpions for their mid 80's "Rock You Like a Hurricane," and for allowing Americans to finally feel comfortable singing in a German accent again (no, Nena doesn't count). But the band had actually been around for quite a few years prior to their big mainstream success of the 1980s. Their first few albums are hard to describe, it's kind of pyschedelic German metal prog, like a hybrid of Blue Cheer, King Crimson and Black Sabbath. It actually sucks ass but it's fascinating to listen to, akin to watching an old German man poop into a drinking well. The "Virgin Killer" album is the first one to have that Scorpions sound to it.

Fman99 Nov 24 2009 06:26 AM Re: Album of the Day

Beck's 2002 "Sea Change." Folksy, mellow, acoustic songwriting. Really beautiful songs in fact.

TransMonk Nov 24 2009 07:03 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":2texie5k]Beck's 2002 "Sea Change." Folksy, mellow, acoustic songwriting. Really beautiful songs in fact.[/quote:2texie5k] Love it.

Fman99 Nov 25 2009 06:51 AM Re: Album of the Day

In honor of Thanksgiving, and as I always think of the tremendous "Last Waltz" movie and soundtrack, I am listening to the Band's "The Band," 1969, their 2nd album. No one else was making music like this in 1969. Bands like the Eagles shouldn't be allowed to cash a check without acknowledging first that the Band invented this kind of stuff ("country rock").

Fman99 Mar 30 2010 06:33 AM Re: Album of the Day

I've been trying to listen to a whole album in the morning before things get crazy. It's been a long while since I've had the time or focus to do that. Today's choice is "Layla and Other Assorted Long Songs" by Derek and the Dominoes. I've never been the biggest Clapton fan, but this is probably his best work. Duane Allman helps.

Ashie62 Mar 30 2010 06:48 AM Re: Album of the Day

I've been listening to the Smithereens cover of the "Tommy" album. It is smooth and well produced. Pat Dinizio, Jim Babjak, Dennis Diken and the bassist of the day. Mike Mesaros is not a chef on the left coast. They are playing a series of "rent" parties at the Court tavern in New Brunswick to keep the place open.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 30 2010 07:50 AM Re: Album of the Day

I dig the 'Reens like nobody's bizness but I gotta say their tributes tend to be so faithful to the original you can barely tell the difference. The last time I saw DiNizio he was 300 pounds if an ounce.

Gwreck Mar 30 2010 08:43 AM Re: Album of the Day

Saw them at the "Tribute to the Music of the Who" earlier this month at Carnegie Hall. 300 lbs would be a conservative estimate. I think I remember reading somewhere that he had some sort of medical condition which caused the big weight fluctuations.

Ashie62 Mar 30 2010 09:06 AM Re: Album of the Day

Pat has lupus, treated by corticosteroids, ergo the weight. They came a long way from Kenny's.

Methead Mar 30 2010 08:35 PM Re: Album of the Day

Always knew they existed, but I just heard King Crimson for the first time the other day, when I listened to "Larks' Tongues In Aspic". That led me to play "Starless And Bible Black" today. "Red" tomorrow.

Ashie62 Mar 30 2010 09:10 PM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Methead":a51xxb6b]Always knew they existed, but I just heard King Crimson for the first time the other day, when I listened to "Larks' Tongues In Aspic". That led me to play "Starless And Bible Black" today. "Red" tomorrow.[/quote:a51xxb6b] "Do not eat the windowpane acid!

Fman99 Mar 31 2010 06:05 AM Re: Album of the Day

Harkening back to my college radio days for today's listening, Live's 1994 multi-platinum "Throwing Copper." The real gems are the songs that didn't get beaten to death by popular radio, like "White, Discussion" and "Horse."

seawolf17 Mar 31 2010 06:18 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":20cmn318]Harkening back to my college radio days for today's listening, Live's 1994 multi-platinum "Throwing Copper." The real gems are the songs that didn't get beaten to death by popular radio, like "White, Discussion" and "Horse."[/quote:20cmn318] However, we beat "White, Discussion" to death on WGSU. I'm a big fan of "Waitress" and "Shit Towne," both of which were staples in our set back in my old garage band days.

Fman99 Mar 31 2010 06:35 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="seawolf17":2jw9tpmf][quote="Fman99":2jw9tpmf]Harkening back to my college radio days for today's listening, Live's 1994 multi-platinum "Throwing Copper." The real gems are the songs that didn't get beaten to death by popular radio, like "White, Discussion" and "Horse."[/quote:2jw9tpmf] However, we beat "White, Discussion" to death on WGSU. I'm a big fan of "Waitress" and "Shit Towne," both of which were staples in our set back in my old garage band days.[/quote:2jw9tpmf] 'Tis true. I will admit to playing "White, Discussion" and "Horse" more than the A sides that really sold like "I Alone" and "Lightning Crashes."

metirish Mar 31 2010 06:52 AM Re: Album of the Day

This album is one of the most played I have on the ipod, loved it then and love it now. There's not a bad tune in there. It's also one of the albums I associate with my arrival in NY in 1994 , over the next year and more "Throwing Copper" went big, good times hanging out in Molly Willies in Queens, I saw Live in concert on that tour , they were brilliant live.

Edgy DC Mar 31 2010 07:10 AM Re: Album of the Day

I always associate Live with that time around 1991 where suddenly nobody on MTV was wearing a shirt.

TransMonk Mar 31 2010 07:15 AM Re: Album of the Day

I played the crap out of this album in 1994. This has been said before, but there's not a bad song on it IMO (although, I probably could never hear "Lightening Crashes" again and be no worse for the wear). I saw them live in Milwaukee that year. Weezer opened for them (this was about a week after the "Happy Days" inspired Spike Jonze video had hit MTV). Great show...Jerry Harrison came out and played "White, Discussion" with them to close the show.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 31 2010 07:29 AM Re: Album of the Day

I saw Live when they were a shitty college band called (I think) Public Affection. OK songs but I found them a little too dramatic. And, I suspect they might be guilty of inspiring Nickelback and Chris Daughtry

metirish Mar 31 2010 07:35 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="TransMonk":1uixg717]I played the crap out of this album in 1994. This has been said before, but there's not a bad song on it IMO (although, I probably could never hear "Lightening Crashes" again and be no worse for the wear). .[/quote:1uixg717] I remember after the Oklahoma City bombing one of the local NYC radio stations(Z100) did "Lightning Crashes" with sound effects of the bombing , the song playing over EMT people talking , TV sound bites from the news anchors as the song played.....it was horrible.

seawolf17 Mar 31 2010 07:45 AM Re: Album of the Day

They certainly inspired Daughtry, unfortunately. They've been really hot and cold over the years; good album, bad album, good album. Some of their stuff is catchy as hell, though, and as much as Ed Kowalczyk might be a jerk to his bandmates, when his pants are on, he writes gold records. (Or would, if anyone actually sold records any more.) He can get a little too preachy at times, but it's all really singable stuff. We saw them at RIT on this tour; best part was the NTID translator off to the side of the stage who gave the crowd the finger every time Ed said "fuck." Bonus nugget: the opener that day was the Screaming Cheetah Wheelies, one of the great forgotten hippie bands of their era. I defy you to get "Ride The Tide" out of your head. Speaking of college radio bands from the mid-90s, new BNL record yesterday, by the way.

metsguyinmichigan Mar 31 2010 07:53 AM Re: Album of the Day

I discovered Live only during the last couple years, believe it not. Had some fun blogging about it..... Mystery: Just how bad was Flint radio? We had two interns working with us at the paper this summer, and I think I learned more from them than they learned from us. One day we were discussing my love of Christian rock and Jenna said, “Well, you must really like Live.” I confessed I had heard only a handful of the band’s newer songs, "Heaven," and that was just a couple years ago. Jenna resisted rolling her eyes, and politely wrote me a list of songs I should check out, and I promptly You Tubed “Lightening Crashes,” “Overcome,” “Selling the Drama,” and “I, Alone.” Needless to say, I spent the next couple days rounding up all the band’s CDs from my public library or iTunes and telling anyone who would listen about how great this band is. Then I told my buddy Will about my discovery, and he said something along the lines of “No kidding. Where were you in the 1990s when all this stuff came out?” And there’s the problem. I spent all but a couple months of the 1990s living in Flint, Mich. which I always suspected was a cultural black hole. Now I see that Flint radio was even worse than I thought. Here’s a typical hour of Flint radio circa 1993: A “double shot” of two Bob Seger songs. ZZ Top’s “Legs.” Something from Rod Stewart’s Spandex soccer-ball-kicking era. A “Three play” of three Bob Seger songs. Two ads from any of Flint’s 25 topless bars. An anecdote from the DJ about meeting Flint-natives Grand Funk Railroad when he was 16, but not actually playing a Grand Funk Railroad song. Anything from Hootie and the Blowfish. Anything from the Spin Doctors. A “Blast from the Past,” which was always something from Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” album. I wish I were kidding. This wasn’t a shock to Will, who also lived in Flint for a while, and has spent the last year educating me about another band I just discovered. They’re called Pearl Jam.

HahnSolo Mar 31 2010 07:55 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="metirish":3m0izq2t] I remember after the Oklahoma City bombing one of the local NYC radio stations(Z100) did "Lightning Crashes" with sound effects of the bombing , the song playing over EMT people talking , TV sound bites from the news anchors as the song played.....it was horrible.[/quote:3m0izq2t] You're not the only one. To this day, my wife cannot hear that song without thinking of Oklahoma City. Incidentally, Throwing Copper is the only Live CD I own. Any others worth a listen?

metirish Mar 31 2010 07:56 AM Re: Album of the Day

Jeez MGIM , I feel like setting up a facebook page to help you or something :)

TransMonk Mar 31 2010 08:07 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="HahnSolo"]Incidentally, Throwing Copper is the only Live CD I own. Any others worth a listen?

I have their first one, Mental Jewelry, which I liked before Throwing Copper. Preachier, more acoustic and less shirts.

metsguyinmichigan Mar 31 2010 08:08 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="metirish":3bc1moxn]Jeez MGIM , I feel like setting up a facebook page to help you or something :)[/quote:3bc1moxn] My wife constantly mocks me for "discovering" "new" bands. Last month I found out about Foo Fighters -- my son's swim team was playing "Learning to Fly" on the PA -- and this month I learned about Lifehouse. The Shazam app is a huge help in this. Like when the Foo Fighters song was playing on the PA, I just held the iPhone up and had the name and everything. Then, I was able to order the CD from the library using the phone's Safari. Slowly, I'm catching up. But if you want to know about Christian rockers, I'm all over it. (TobyMac's new CD is fantastic)

metsguyinmichigan Mar 31 2010 08:11 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="TransMonk"][quote="HahnSolo"]Incidentally, Throwing Copper is the only Live CD I own. Any others worth a listen?

I have their first one, Mental Jewelry, which I liked before Throwing Copper. Preachier, more acoustic and less shirts.


There's an in-concert CD that came out last year that's really good. All the hits you'd expect, and some other gems. Of the newer stuff, "Songs from Black Mountain" is really good.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 31 2010 08:16 AM Re: Album of the Day

I also saw Kowalski ham up "Begin the Begin" with REM at show.

A Boy Named Seo Mar 31 2010 08:35 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="HahnSolo":24q776we][quote="metirish":24q776we] I remember after the Oklahoma City bombing one of the local NYC radio stations(Z100) did "Lightning Crashes" with sound effects of the bombing , the song playing over EMT people talking , TV sound bites from the news anchors as the song played.....it was horrible.[/quote:24q776we] You're not the only one. To this day, my wife cannot hear that song without thinking of Oklahoma City. Incidentally, Throwing Copper is the only Live CD I own. Any others worth a listen?[/quote:24q776we] One of the college rock stations played "Waitin' for a Superman" by Flaming Lips on the morning of 9/11 and now I always think of that day when I hear that awesome tune. Can't imagine how much I'd not like the song now, or hate the radio station if they dubbed sounds of horrible shit over it. Also listened to that Live album a good amount back in the day. In the Lala queue for old timey's sake. How in the eff is that thing ranked in their top 1000 sixteen years later? It ain't that good.

seawolf17 Mar 31 2010 10:38 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="HahnSolo":38v1mkf1]Incidentally, Throwing Copper is the only Live CD I own. Any others worth a listen?[/quote:38v1mkf1] Agreed on "Mental Jewelry," which is the same album without the pop sheen. "Black Mountain" and "Birds of Pray" are both outstanding, I think. "Pray" is a little preachy (okay, a lot preachy), but they're both very, very good. "The Distance To Here" has a few gems too. "Secret Samadhi" and "V" are a little less accessible, although there's good stuff there, particularly "Overcome," which a 9/11 song for me.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 31 2010 10:43 AM Re: Album of the Day Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 31 2010 11:37 AM

Live's heyday was during my junior or senior year of high school. Along with The Offspring, they boomed out of every soccer*-and-lacrosse-whitebread-throbbing-prick's Mustang speakers in our parking lot for about a year and a half. Apologies, but I hated, hated, HATED these fuckers-- the superderivative hooks, dumb psuedopoetry AND over-the-top pomposity ("a little preachy" undersells it) drove me to distraction.** Well, except for that one video where he was shirtless, in front of a lightning-bedecked gray sky, shot from below, yowling "Now we won't be RAPED!" That was kind of hilarious... especially the part where Kowalzcyk called it "Selling the Drama." Nice. Otherwise, hearing these guys on the radio made me pray for an Oasis song to come on, or a Mariah Carey song, or sudden deafness. *Soccer in my high school was like football is in Texas high schools. **Yet I loved Nirvana. Go figure. (Although they did have a little bit of a sense of humor.)

Ashie62 Mar 31 2010 11:19 AM Re: Album of the Day

I have never heard of Live til now. I watched some of their videos and I don't get it. It seems like phony goth. But Ashie is a Punk Rocker oh yeah..in other words I know nothing.

Fman99 Apr 06 2010 05:19 AM Re: Album of the Day

A college buddy of mine (and Seawolf's) turned me on to these guys -- he works for a record label and sent me a bunch of promo CDs. Some toe tappin' Southern Blues/Rock... http://lala.com/zERZ

seawolf17 Apr 07 2010 08:06 AM Re: Album of the Day

Slash! http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/2

A Boy Named Seo Apr 07 2010 09:54 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":lwxl627g]A college buddy of mine (and Seawolf's) turned me on to these guys -- he works for a record label and sent me a bunch of promo CDs. Some toe tappin' Southern Blues/Rock... http://lala.com/zERZ[/quote:lwxl627g] That's alright. For my deep, fried southern rock, I feel I get the most bang for my buck w/ the Drive-By Truckers. http://lala.com/z9yWI

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 07 2010 10:38 AM Re: Album of the Day

I'll see you and raise you My Morning Jacket and the Crowes.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 07 2010 10:52 AM Re: Album of the Day

Love MMJ. "Highly Suspicious" off the last album is a gawd-awful song, though. Horrible.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 07 2010 11:08 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="A Boy Named Seo":1idss3cx]Love MMJ. "Highly Suspicious" off the last album is a gawd-awful song, though. Horrible.[/quote:1idss3cx] Haven't heard. (Googles, clicks on LaLa.) Good God. It's like they chugged a case of SoCo, decided to make a Prince pastiche, and ended up with Cameo-with-a-concussion.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 07 2010 11:51 AM Re: Album of the Day

Rest of it's cool, though.

Fman99 Apr 19 2010 06:09 AM Re: Album of the Day

More Mark Lanegan, former Screaming Trees frontman turned introspective solo folk/blues rocker. http://lala.com/zZrOY

Ashie62 Apr 19 2010 07:30 AM Re: Album of the Day

Going into the vault and listening the first Rush live album "All the Worlds a Stage"

Fman99 Apr 20 2010 06:13 AM Re: Album of the Day

Led Zeppelin, "Physical Graffiti." Disc 1. I don't think anything else really needs to be said.

Ashie62 Apr 20 2010 06:19 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":i9d2x90p]Led Zeppelin, "Physical Graffiti." Disc 1. I don't think anything else really needs to be said.[/quote:i9d2x90p] That disc always reminds me of Ratner in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."

Edgy DC Apr 20 2010 07:19 AM Re: Album of the Day

Five. And this is most important. When you get down to making out, whenever possible, put on the first side of Led Zeppelin IV. Why don't you put this tape on? It sounds great in the back of my van... why don't we listen from there?

Fman99 Apr 21 2010 05:59 AM Re: Album of the Day

Continuing the classic rock motif for the week, today's listening is Steely Dan's 1974 release "Pretzel Logic."

Edgy DC Apr 21 2010 07:20 AM Re: Album of the Day

Any major dude will tell you that it's almost an accident of history that the Dan gets classified in the classic rock pantheon. I bet if you asked Donald Fagan, he'd tell you that he doesn't really like rock at all. Nonetheless, they were a white-fronted rock-era act with a rock lineup, and they reached an audience with a collection of rock albums, so nobody really fits them into the jazz pantheon that they aspired to. But they cover Duke Ellington on that album, for goodness sake. A little smooth funk too. "Barrytown" kinda rocks, though, Fagan be damned. And how do you do a song about Charlie Parker with a distorted guitar on lead? "With a Gun" is country western with jazz harmonies. Huh? That's probably the last album where they are a true band with a self-sustaining core. I also associate the album with Julian Lennon, who said it wasn't any Beatles music that made him want to be a professional musician, but listening to Pretzel Logic. Really? OK. Basically uncategorizeable, but still feels out of place on rock radio if not for Skunk Baxter stepping out with the occasional solo. Definitely sounds like the album that made guys like Jason Mraz wake up and say he wants to make puzzling and awkward but tasteful and mature radio-ready music: Side One: 1) "Ricky, Don't Lose That Number": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IocHM0n75DI 2) "Night by Night": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibM1q1YJ5o 3) "Any Major Dude Will Tell You": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0Iq5ebU9U 4) "Barrytown": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuc-YY5-yPs 5) "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-al-Emb9TY Side Two: 1) "Parker's Band": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnwRpIqBLaU 2) "Through with Buzz": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N35rPVJIyQ 3) "Pretzel Logic": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emyXXWgEAWY 4) "With a Gun": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNSolVjtC7U 5) "Charlie Freak": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmMARtE9eR8 6) "Monkey in Your Soul": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q15zMpAR3OI

Rockin' Doc Apr 21 2010 10:47 AM Re: Album of the Day

I really liked Steely Dan growing up. I always considered their music to be jazz influenced pop/rock. Whatever you wish to call it, it was different from most of rock radio, but still good music. I still listen to a lot of their stuff on my mp3 player.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 21 2010 11:16 AM Re: Album of the Day

Definitely sounds like the album that made guys like Jason Mraz wake up and say he wants to make puzzling and awkward but tasteful and mature radio-ready music: If they entered some sort of a "How Many Terrible, Terrible Pop/Rock Acts Have You Inspired" competition with the Mariah Careys and Madonnas of the world, the Dan would be a sneaky-good bet to at least show, if not win outright. (And I kinda like Steely Dan.)

TransMonk Apr 21 2010 11:17 AM Re: Album of the Day

I consider Steely Dan to be one of the most technically astute and great sounding bands that ever was. That being said, they also make some of the most soul-less music ever made. I had a girlfriend in college that adored them, so I've heard all of their stuff. I've seen them live twice, but own none of their albums. If they come on the radio, I wouldn't turn them up, but I wouldn't turn them off.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 21 2010 11:22 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="TransMonk":1cx3yflt]If they come on the radio, I wouldn't turn them up, but I wouldn't turn them off.[/quote:1cx3yflt] A thousand times this.

themetfairy Apr 21 2010 12:14 PM Re: Album of the Day

D-Dad really enjoys Steely Dan.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 21 2010 12:45 PM Re: Album of the Day

I gotta be in the right frame of mind to enjoy the Dans.

Fman99 Apr 23 2010 06:24 AM Re: Album of the Day

Classic rock week concludes with the 1973 Doobie Brothers' "The Captain and Me." Set aside from the radio hits "Long Train Running" and "China Grove" -- the real treats on this record are the tunes that aren't FM-browbeaten, like "Dark Eyed Cajun Woman" and "Without You."

Edgy DC Apr 23 2010 07:07 AM Re: Album of the Day

Funny, you like your Dan with Skunk Baxter and your Doobies without. So, trying to confirm that The Captain and Me was pre-Baxter, I look him up on Wikipedia. Skunk fascinates me because only in the seventies can a guy with that moustache and that nickname become a star, and because, along with Randy California, he's one of two strongest surviving musical connections to Jimi Hendrix. What I didn't know, and maybe I'm the only person in the world not to, was this... More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant and chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense. And later... Baxter fell into his second profession almost by accident. In the mid-1980s, Baxter's interest in music recording technology led him to wonder about hardware and software that was originally developed for military use, i.e. data-compression algorithms and large-capacity storage devices. As it happened, his next-door neighbor was a retired engineer who had worked on the Sidewinder missile program. This neighbor bought Baxter a subscription to an aviation magazine, provoking his interest in additional military-oriented publications and missile defense systems in particular. He became self-taught in this area, and at one point he wrote a five-page paper that proposed converting the ship-based anti-aircraft Aegis missile into a rudimentary missile defense system. He gave the paper to California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and his career as a defense consultant began. Backed by several influential Capitol Hill lawmakers, Baxter received a series of classified security clearances. In 1995, Pennsylvania Republican congressman Curt Weldon, then the chairman of the House Military Research and Development Subcommittee, nominated Baxter to chair the Civilian Advisory Board for Ballistic Missile Defense. Baxter's work with that panel led to consulting contracts with the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He now consults to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. intelligence community, as well as for defense-oriented manufacturers including Science Applications International Corporation ("SAIC"), Northrop Grumman Corp. and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. He has been quoted as saying his unconventional approach to thinking about terrorism, tied to his interest in technology, is a major reason he became sought after by the government. "We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to use them as instruments, and we thought airplanes were for carrying passengers until terrorists realized they could be used as missiles," Baxter has said. "My big thing is to look at existing technologies and try to see other ways they can be used, which happens in music all the time and happens to be what terrorists are incredibly good at." Baxter has also appeared in public debates and as a guest on CNN and Fox News Channel advocating missile defense. He served as a national spokesman for Americans for Missile Defense, a coalition of organizations devoted to the issue. In April 2005, he joined the NASA Exploration Systems Advisory Committee (ESAC). Baxter was a member of an independent study group that produced the "Civil Applications Committee Blue Ribbon Study" recommending an increased domestic role for U.S. spy satellites in September 2005. This study was first reported by the Wall Street Journal on August 15, 2007. Baxter is listed as Senior Thinker and Raconteur at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. I don't know about you, but I'm taking the Doobie Bros. a little bit more seriously from now on.

Edgy DC Apr 23 2010 07:17 AM Re: Album of the Day

I also think Sgt. Floyd of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem is based in part on Skunk Baxter.

Fman99 Apr 26 2010 06:05 AM Re: Album of the Day

Grooving today to War's 1996 Anthology.

Fman99 May 04 2010 06:13 AM Re: Album of the Day

The Outfield's 1985 debut "Play Deep." Snappy.

TransMonk May 04 2010 06:34 AM Re: Album of the Day

Josie's on a vacation far away. Come around and talk it over.

Edgy DC May 04 2010 07:07 AM Re: Album of the Day

The Outfield? The Outfield?

Fman99 May 04 2010 07:30 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Edgy DC":1unbgiak]The Outfield? The Outfield?[/quote:1unbgiak] Yeah, I can't listen to cheesy 80's British synth pop? Didn't you start the "best ABBA song for a desert island" thread at some point? Judge not, lest ye be judged.

smg58 May 04 2010 07:33 AM Re: Album of the Day

If they didn't have a baseball-themed name, I'm sure I would have long since forgotten who sang that song. (On a somewhat related note, I heard the song "Break My Stride" on a commercial last night and realized I have no idea who sang it. I'm assuming that's a good thing.)

Edgy DC May 04 2010 07:36 AM Re: Album of the Day

Matthew Wilder (born Matthew Weiner).

Edgy DC May 04 2010 07:38 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99"][quote="Edgy DC"]The Outfield? The Outfield?

Yeah, I can't listen to cheesy 80's British synth pop? Didn't you start the "best ABBA song for a desert island" thread at some point?

Hell, no.

[quote="Fman99"]Judge not, lest ye be judged.
I'm not judging. I'm just trying to be clear. By "The Outfield," you meant The Outfield, right?

I think we need an Outfield poll.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 04 2010 10:07 AM Re: Album of the Day

Strange band. The Pop-lice?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 04 2010 10:24 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Edgy DC"] [quote="Fman99"]Judge not, lest ye be judged.

I'm not judging. I'm just trying to be clear. By "The Outfield," you meant The Outfield, right?

I think we need an Outfield poll.

Fman99 May 05 2010 06:17 AM Re: Album of the Day

Jane's Addiction's 2003 "Strays," their first album after a 12 year hiatus. I like it... it's maybe not what they were in their late 80s/early 90s heyday, but it is what it is. This is one of the albums that I own that I have never listened to before, I have several hundred of them (or so it seems).

Fman99 May 07 2010 06:25 AM Re: Album of the Day

Prog rock Friday! Today's choice is the slightly more reigned in Yes 1977 effort, "Going for the One." I can't dig on a lot of what's categorized as progressive rock but some of the better Yes songs and albums are very listenable to me.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 07 2010 07:14 AM Re: Album of the Day

You could always tell it was a prog-rock album when it had a naked guy's ass on the cover. And still no chick fans... hmmm... I do dig Wondrous Stories though

Edgy DC May 07 2010 07:36 AM Re: Album of the Day

Ooh, male album cover nudity! A favorite subject! Excuse me, while I hijack.

Fman99 May 20 2010 06:44 AM Re: Album of the Day

Beastie Boys, "Paul's Boutique," 1989. Classic hip hop y'all.

Methead May 20 2010 07:26 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":k86e98nk]Beastie Boys, "Paul's Boutique," 1989. Classic hip hop y'all.[/quote:k86e98nk] YES. No matter how many times I listen to this album, it never, ever gets old.

Edgy DC May 20 2010 07:30 AM Re: Album of the Day

SPIN complete missed that on it's release. Nobody was taking the Beasties seriously at the time. It was a stealth bomb of goodness. Adam Horowitz said they we're going for the musical aesthetic of a road trip with the 1973 Knicks.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 20 2010 07:31 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99":7jugxd77]Beastie Boys, "Paul's Boutique," 1989. Classic hip hop y'all.[/quote:7jugxd77] The Abbey Road of the 80s. Really good. I don't think it ever got any better for the Beasties or the whole genre.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 20 2010 11:32 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Edgy DC"]Adam Horowitz said they we're going for the musical aesthetic of a road trip with the 1973 Knicks.

Really? That's so very Clyde*.

Top ten definitively non-hip-hop people, places and things this album introduced me to:

1) Saduharu Oh
2) Louis Vuitton
3) "Trim"
4) Fuzzy Navels
5) "Maggie's Farm"
6) "Hurdy Gurdy Man"
7) El Diario
8) Hawthorne Wingo
9) The Patty Duke Show
10) Dolemite

*A level of cool beyond the confines of the word "cool," often involving use of animal furs.

metirish May 20 2010 01:44 PM Re: Album of the Day

I had a friend at home in Tipperary who's dad was american and he would summer over here, I remember when he brought this back....really cool stuff......love the album cover too.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 23 2010 10:27 AM Re: Album of the Day

Music to replace a bathroom drain to.

Fman99 May 25 2010 05:37 AM Re: Album of the Day

Today's music choice: "The Best of Earth Wind and Fire, Vol. 1." Classic disco/funk.

Edgy DC May 25 2010 07:21 AM Re: Album of the Day

Classic doesn't do it justice. Seriously, if any band should be hired to play the Super Bowl, it's EW&F. They get hired to do a special appearance, do a ten-minute full-throttle medley of their three biggest hits, bring down the house, and walk off with fifty grand. That's the life.

Fman99 May 25 2010 08:17 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Edgy DC":3wd8ispr]Classic doesn't do it justice. Seriously, if any band should be hired to play the Super Bowl, it's EW&F. They get hired to do a special appearance, do a ten-minute full-throttle medley of their three biggest hits, bring down the house, and walk off with fifty grand. That's the life.[/quote:3wd8ispr] Had me so hopped up I went right on to volume 2. More goodies.

Ashie62 May 25 2010 08:22 AM Re: Album of the Day

The Beastie Boys and Cookie Puss, "she'd get down on her knees if ya only say please."

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 25 2010 10:41 AM Re: Album of the Day

Gonna tell a story, morning glory, all about the serpentine faaaaah! Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah.

Fman99 May 26 2010 05:44 AM Re: Album of the Day

Boston's Third Stage, 1986. The first two Boston albums came out before I was really paying attention to popular music. I remember when this one was released, if only because I have a cousin named Amanda. There's some filler, to be sure, but also a few hummable tunes.

Frayed Knot May 26 2010 06:28 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="Fman99"]Boston's Third Stage, 1986.

See now I would have gone with the phrase 'crime against humanity' to describe it but opinions do vary.

Edgy DC May 26 2010 07:17 AM Re: Album of the Day

What astounded me about that album was IROC-loving goombah mooks from my colllege who never seemed to have a discriminating palate about music of any sort were coming out of the woodwork like the Beatles had re-united --- following the band on tour, creating this hugely steep secondary market, acting like little gangsters and snagging tickets, limos, cocaine, and slutty women to go the show. I remember this minor-league hapless greaseball I knew using every social connection he had (few) trying to score tickets, whining that his girlfriend absolutely had to go, and I'm thinking, "Take her to see ELO for ten bucks."

metsguyinmichigan May 26 2010 07:31 AM Re: Album of the Day

Seemed to me that Third Stage came about four years too late. The first one is brilliant -- probably one of the first albums I had -- and the second one wasn't as strong but has some great cuts. I never bought Third Stage -- but I did grab the greatest hits CD a couple years ago.

batmagadanleadoff May 26 2010 08:17 AM Re: Album of the Day

Boston had a third album?

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 26 2010 08:17 AM Re: Album of the Day

It was the second one with new lyrics, which was the first one with new lyrics.

batmagadanleadoff May 26 2010 08:23 AM Re: Album of the Day

Boston had a second album?

TransMonk May 26 2010 09:16 AM Re: Album of the Day

The last 3 posts are pretty BOCish. I'm laughin' over here!

Fman99 Jun 01 2010 05:50 AM Re: Album of the Day

Soundgarden, "Badmotorfinger," 1991.

TransMonk Jun 01 2010 07:52 AM Re: Album of the Day

I loved that album back in the day. I've listened to it within the past year and found the sound very dated. What is Kim Thayil up to these days?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 01 2010 11:13 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="TransMonk"]I loved that album back in the day. I've listened to it within the past year and found the sound very dated.

Same. The plodding, mid-tempo stuff of that era grew mold the quickest.

What is Kim Thayil up to these days?

He was playing in Dave Grohl's metal band side-project-- Probot, IIRC-- before Them Crooked Vultures, I thought. But that was a couple of years ago-- no idea what he's done since, though.

Gwreck Jun 01 2010 01:41 PM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="TransMonk":2hx9s73j]What is Kim Thayil up to these days?[/quote:2hx9s73j] Soundgarden reunion, they're playing at Lollapalooza in August with rumors of a tour at some point in the future.

Frayed Knot Jun 01 2010 03:23 PM Re: Album of the Day

It's June 1st. On this date the album for the day should always be Sgt Pepper. it was forty-three years ago today ...

Ashie62 Jun 01 2010 03:47 PM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="batmagadanleadoff":2rlt2qzb]Boston had a third album?[/quote:2rlt2qzb] One very good record, the rest garbage

Fman99 Jun 07 2010 05:50 AM Re: Album of the Day

Beck's 1998 release "Mutations." Lots of good tunes on here, this album didn't get the press that it's predecessor "Odelay" did but it's still very listenable.

Methead Jun 07 2010 09:31 AM Re: Album of the Day

I like that one too.

TransMonk Jun 07 2010 09:57 AM Re: Album of the Day

Beck hasn't ever made too much that isn't pretty good.

Fman99 Jun 08 2010 05:14 AM Re: Album of the Day

Beatles, 1964, "A Hard Day's Night" soundtrack. Not quite as musically interesting as the following year's "Help!" soundtrack, but still quite nice.

Fman99 Jun 18 2010 06:07 AM Re: Album of the Day

Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 posthumous "Life After Death," disc 1.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 18 2010 12:15 PM Re: Album of the Day

I do like me some "Ten Crack Commandments." And some "Kick in the Door." And some "F*ck You Tonight." I have to admit that I was much more of a Tupac man, if anything, at the time... but in retrospect, Biggie's in a different class as a rapper, really.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 30 2010 06:33 AM Re: Album of the Day

Fountains of Wayne: Traffic and Weather (2008). Lacks that big punch in the face hit of 'Insterstate Managers', but still tough to find better crafted poprock and/or roll workmanship.. Here's a rocknsoul tune from it: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LByiB6snOl8

seawolf17 Jun 30 2010 07:19 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Fountains of Wayne: Traffic and Weather (2008). Lacks that big punch in the face hit of 'Insterstate Managers', but still tough to find better crafted poprock and/or roll workmanship.. Here's a rocknsoul tune from it: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LByiB6snOl8

I love the title track.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMeYrZoqpE

Actually, the first four songs ("Someone To Love," "92 Subaru," "Yolanda Hayes," and the title track) are all catchy as hell. Adam Schlesinger is brilliant.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 30 2010 08:58 AM Re: Album of the Day

Like the title track, and the album. LOVE Welcome... and-- even moreso-- the self-titled debut, with "Sink to the Bottom," "Sick Day," and this dumb little hooky bastard, here. Ah, stupid bliss.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 30 2010 09:26 AM Re: Album of the Day

Dynamite

seawolf17 Jun 30 2010 10:18 AM Re: Album of the Day

[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]Like the title track, and the album. LOVE Welcome... and-- even moreso-- the self-titled debut, with "Sink to the Bottom," "Sick Day," and this dumb little hooky bastard, here. Ah, stupid bliss.

We played the crap out of "Radiation Vibe" on our college station. Great tune.

Rockin' Doc Jun 30 2010 07:33 PM Re: Album of the Day

Few bands can crank out pop/rock with hooks like the boys from Fountains of Wayne. Each of their albums have numerous gems that once they get into your head you just can't seem to shake them. Schlesinger and Collingwood are absolutely brilliant and have never been sufficiently appreciated by the masses.