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="AG/DC":tz8bkgta]Surely you've heard of Alison Krauss.[/quote:tz8bkgta]
Didn't we have a thread discussing an Alison Kraus album cover in which all the male member of her band were staring at her chest with the exception of one guy who looked like Ron Howard's brother?
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AG/DC
Jan 24 2008 12:49 PM
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Yup. Can't find the thread however.
<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000645UPA.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg">
They all lookin'.
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seawolf17
Feb 16 2008 04:14 AM
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Butch Walker's live album is free for the next week, or you can pay $5.99 to support him and get a bonus track! Me, I'm all about the bonus tracks. Recorded in Atlanta, but the same setlist that I saw at... wherever it was that I saw him in NYC last spring.
The album is available at Butch's new site -- www.therecordbusinessisfucked.com -- which is as good a site name as there ever was.
[url=http://www.myspace.com/butchwalker]Butch[/url] has three albums coming out this year, so I'm pretty fired up.
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seawolf17
Feb 20 2008 12:36 PM
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Dave Grohl and Will Ferrell both kick enormous amounts of ass.
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metirish
Feb 20 2008 12:42 PM
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I'm eager to check out Butch Walker, been hearing this song for the past several weeks on wfuv.org but never did find out the artist until just now.
Nicole Atkins and the song is "The Way It Is", absolutely love it, ever see those old WWII movies with the bombed out town and the lone female singer playing over the megaphone?, that's what this song reminds me off.
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smg58
Feb 20 2008 07:08 PM
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A Swedish singer named Anna Ternheim has a six-song EP out as her first American release, and it's really phenomenal.
[url:1q5o3uw2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dh7MBysmI[/url:1q5o3uw2]
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seawolf17
Feb 20 2008 07:14 PM
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="metirish":1av42trm]I'm eager to check out Butch Walker, been hearing this song for the past several weeks on wfuv.org but never did find out the artist until just now.[/quote:1av42trm]
What Butch song have they been playing? Good to hear he's getting airplay somewhere, even if only online. I'm a big fan -- have been for a long time, ever since I discovered the Marvelous 3 (his old band).
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Fman99
Feb 20 2008 07:40 PM
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I'm listening to stuff recorded in 1975. That's how I roll.
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Rockin' Doc
Feb 20 2008 09:32 PM
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I first saw Robert Randolph and the Family Band when they opened for John Mayer at Grant Park in Chicago on July 4th. Randolph is an amazing steel guitar player that leads his tight family band through a fusion of funk, rock, and gospel. I haven't quite been able to forget the blistering show they put on that sunny afternoon in Chicago, so I finally went out and purchased the most recent release.
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Willets Point
Feb 21 2008 06:30 AM
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<a href="http://www.vampireweekend.com/">Vampire Weekend</a> has a great debut album. A great mix of African music, ska, and punk. One of the best new bands I've heard in years. Check it out!
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
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Mansard Roof
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A-Punk
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Feb 21 2008 07:37 AM
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Vampire Weekend = I heard Graceland and Sufjan Stevens doing ska. It's spare and upbeat, though ska is not my cup of meat. I had to stop playing the first song when the singer went falsetto.
Anna Turnheim = Pretty but you know, morose.
I'd go see the Family Band play live.
Here's what I've been listening to lately. Newly created as a commercial jingle for Dell, but rocks more than a million ad salesmen. How could you not love that guitar?
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seawolf17
Feb 21 2008 07:56 AM
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I could very easily like that guitar. If it were 1982.
I enjoy the Vampire Weekend album. Very different from what I usually listen to.
Also been digging Black Mountain a lot:
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It's kinda Sabbath, kinda not. The whole disc is just heavy, though. Not hard and loud, just heavy, as in thick and plodding. Intense. I dig it.
Excited about picking up the new Mike Doughty disc this week as well. I'll probably stop today at lunch.
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AG/DC
Feb 21 2008 07:59 AM
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Question for guitarists: while Randolph is undeniably a fine guitarist, isn't he kind of missing the point of the steel guitar by playing rhythm patterns instead of counter melodies, and drenching the output in effects rather than depending on the nuances of sustain you get from the slide?
If that's the sound you want from a guitar, why not strap on a solid-body electric?
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Feb 21 2008 08:09 AM
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Wait a minute.
Devo is dated and ska is fresh? Ska?!?
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seawolf17
Feb 21 2008 09:59 AM
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I don't know where this belongs in CPF Post Land, so I'll stick it here. Big thumbs up to Kristin Hersh for a cool idea:
http://www.throwingmusic.com/catalog/pr ... cts_id=105
Instructions:
• Download the PDF menu of almost 200 TM & KH songs. (The menu is here: http://www.throwingmusic.com/downloads/ ... ngMenu.pdf if you missed that sneaky link)
• Choose ten songs and provide your choices (and the running order) in the comments field of the order form.
• Kristin will record your chosen songs, solo, live to tape, including an introduction: "Hi this is Kristin Hersh and this is ten for "Your Name Here"
• When the session is done, we'll burn you a printable CD and on it Kristin will hand-write, "Kristin Hersh, 10-4 'Your Name'" and the date of the recording.
I'm not going to blow fifty bucks on an artist who only has one song I really like -- "Your Ghost" -- but I love the idea. (There was a Throwing Muses song we played a lot on our college radio station too, but I can't remember which one it was.)
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Willets Point
Feb 21 2008 10:30 AM
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I've gotten into Hersh a lot the past couple of years. She's something of indie rock icon in the Boston area.
| ]Vampire Weekend = I heard Graceland and Sufjan Stevens doing ska. It's spare and upbeat, though ska is not my cup of meat. I had to stop playing the first song when the singer went falsetto. |
The studio version of "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" is much better than that live performance.
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cooby
Mar 04 2008 05:22 PM
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OE: whoops
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cooby
Mar 04 2008 05:23 PM
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Always stirring for me, appropriate for Lent.
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cooby
Mar 04 2008 05:23 PM
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OE: whoops wrong thread
WHy the heck do I keep doing that?
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smg58
Mar 04 2008 07:11 PM
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since I last checked in:
Time Stand Still by The Hooters: if you liked them then, you'll like them now
Venus Vina Musica by Corvus Corax: aggressive German Medieval music, definitely not for everybody but I liked it
Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: decent no-frills old school rock
Keren Ann: she has a nice Velvet Underground vibe going on the first few songs, but things taper off from there
Heimlich by 17 Hippies: globally eclectic music from a German band; kind of odd at first listen but there's some really catchy stuff on it
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seawolf17
Mar 18 2008 08:45 AM
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As always, dynamite. Some great covers (Love The One You're With, Radar Love), some reworked classics, their Christmas closer (Santa Claus Is Coming To Town), and best, three of the first four songs are from their second album, which might be my favorite record of all time. Love it.
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seawolf17
Mar 24 2008 09:16 AM
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The Trews are a little band out of Nova Scotia by way of Toronto that caught my ear with this song, "Makin' Sunshine," a few years ago. New album, "No Time For Later," is out now.
I can listen to this song over and over at extraordinarily high volume. Catchy as hell.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Mar 24 2008 09:23 AM
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Not a bad song. But goodness. I waited forever for the chorus, then it disappointed me.
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cooby
Mar 26 2008 07:35 PM
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Here is the CD that Patrick McGoohan sent me when he sent my book back. (thank you again!) It's very nice, lots of acoustic guitar and a sweet young voice.
Kind of reminds me of secretly standing outside of my son's bedroom and listening to him sing and play.
Unfortunately, Nick Drake joins my group of dead guy CDs. :( My car is full of them, but I keep playing them!
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metirish
Mar 27 2008 10:01 AM
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I've been hearing this great song on wfuv.org for the last few weeks, sounded a lot like a great Bowie song, found out today that it's the title track form Ray Davies new solo effort Working Man's Café .
I can't youtube it from work but it's worth checking out, I'm going to buy the album from itunes when I get home.
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RealityChuck
Mar 27 2008 10:24 AM
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Two new faves:
[url=http://www.myspace.com/sheandhim]She and Him[/url]
The singer may be a bit familiar.
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Hayes Carll
Download "She Left Me For Jesus" (currently free) from iTunes or listen to at at his [url=http://www.myspace.com/hayescarll]web page[/url].
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sharpie
Mar 27 2008 11:10 AM
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Irish: the Ray Davies album is really good. As was his last one.
Seeing him at the Beacon on April 8.
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Willets Point
Mar 28 2008 06:08 PM
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I dig chick singers.
Three women. Three albums. A song from each sampled below.
1) Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=BSJQ1St1OnQ">"On the Radio"</a>.
2) Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling: "In the Night".
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3) The Feist - The Reminder: "My Moon My Man"
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AG/DC
Mar 28 2008 10:17 PM
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Regina's wrong. "November Rain" is no good.
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seawolf17
Apr 11 2008 10:55 AM
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New Barenaked Ladies children's album, Snacktime, on May 6. Very excited.
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seawolf17
Apr 16 2008 07:16 AM
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This,
http://www.spinner.com/2008/04/11/motle ... -premiere/
this,
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(not the actual video -- just stills from an NBA promo featuring the song.)
and this.
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bmfc1
Apr 16 2008 10:22 AM
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"New Barenaked Ladies children's album, Snacktime, on May 6. Very excited."
My favorite band. I love that they chose a fan--a poster at barenaked.net--to make this video.
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Number 6
Apr 16 2008 09:22 PM
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="cooby":1hw7bi80]
It's very nice, lots of acoustic guitar and a sweet young voice.
Kind of reminds me of secretly standing outside of my son's bedroom and listening to him sing and play.[/quote:1hw7bi80]
Just saw this comment.... hooray! Glad you like it.
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Triple Dee
Apr 17 2008 04:27 AM
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Like Centerfield, I too have discovered the joys of listening to the Killers after getting talked into going to their concert last November.
"Mr Brightside" is their best song IMO -- If you don't like it, you're a Communist.
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seawolf17
May 06 2008 11:57 AM
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What fun! Only about halfway through on the way back from Best Buy at lunch, but I really, really enjoy this. A couple of neat cameos (Geddy Lee & Weird Al, among others), and the return of Andrew Creeggan to a BNL song, which is a cool touch.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
May 07 2008 10:21 AM
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Found accidentally on the Internet. Blonde autoharp playing silky voiced Basia Bulat (pronounced BASHa BOO-lot). Guys in bear costumes playing drums -- I approve.
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Willets Point
May 07 2008 10:26 AM
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I approve too. See my post dated March 28th.
I like how one of the bear drummers loses his drumstick for a while and just keeps on going.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
May 07 2008 10:47 AM
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| ]I approve too. See my post dated March 28th.
I like how one of the bear drummers loses his drumstick for a while and just keeps on going. |
Holy crap, never saw that post, I promise. I found her while youtubing for Sam Cooke's "Hem of His Garment."
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Willets Point
May 07 2008 11:11 AM
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I wasn't suggesting you were copycatting just figured you'd appreciate what I'd previously written.
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cooby
May 07 2008 05:14 PM
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Not that I would ever listen to it on purpose, but I heard the dumbest song ever written yesterday, while I was at Arby's. Something about
"She thinks my tractor's sexy". A new low in country music.
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Methead
May 08 2008 08:50 AM
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Just listened to the new Man Man album, "Rabbit Habits".
It's slightly more accessible than their previous records, although they haven't strayed far from their style.
It reminds me of Tom Waits performing polka duets with Captain Beefheart at the circus and everyone's on mushrooms.
Other than that, it's tough to categorize.
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OlerudOwned
May 08 2008 08:09 PM
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="Methead":1x4l96ze]Just listened to the new Man Man album, "Rabbit Habits".
It's slightly more accessible than their previous records, although they haven't strayed far from their style.
It reminds me of Tom Waits performing polka duets with Captain Beefheart at the circus and everyone's on mushrooms.
Other than that, it's tough to categorize.[/quote:1x4l96ze]
Man Man is great. I've been listening to a lot of them and Gogol Bordello lately, and likely getting some odd looks.
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Willets Point
May 08 2008 08:51 PM
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Gogol Bordello rocks.
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metirish
May 12 2008 07:12 AM
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Cave and the Seeds back in top form.
Without doubt Flogging Molly's best effort.
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bmfc1
May 12 2008 11:31 AM
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="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]| ]I approve too. See my post dated March 28th.
I like how one of the bear drummers loses his drumstick for a while and just keeps on going. |
Holy crap, never saw that post, I promise. I found her while youtubing for Sam Cooke's "Hem of His Garment." |
If you're looking for another video where the band is wearing bears-heads (and who isn't? am I right people!):
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
May 22 2008 07:27 AM
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="seawolf17":3bdmex26]<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x1cnJ_pOAdQ&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x1cnJ_pOAdQ&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
New Barenaked Ladies children's album, Snacktime, on May 6. Very excited.[/quote:3bdmex26]
Lunchpail Jr. can't get enough of this one.
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bmfc1
May 22 2008 09:09 AM
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JCL: I'm not a kid, my kids aren't in the demographic for "Snacktime", so I listen to it as a BNL fan and it is excellent.
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seawolf17
May 22 2008 09:25 AM
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There's a decent amount of filler on there, but I really enjoy the album as a whole. It just sounds like a BNL album, really.
New song from The Hold Steady on their [url=http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady:gbl20g4a]MySpace[/url:gbl20g4a] if anyone's interested. Album in July. I know they won a lot of fans here a while back.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
May 22 2008 09:33 AM
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Lunchpail is a bit obsessive (where does he get that from?). When the video finishes, he says "More?" then "more!" Attempts to play other songs from the record are shouted down.
Like the Hold Steady song. Springsteen all over the place.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
May 29 2008 07:06 AM
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Jr. digs this one too. Love the video:
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Number 6
May 29 2008 09:13 PM
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="RealityChuck":1x6rdzbc]The singer may be a bit familiar.[/quote:1x6rdzbc]
The singer/guitarist may not be as familiar, but he's awesome.
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Number 6
May 29 2008 09:25 PM
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And Sufjan Stevens got a mention already, but here's the Austin City Limits recording if you have time. I DVR the show, and occasionally watch it when I don't recognize the artist. I was hooked 2 songs in.
Calexico's not bad either, though not really my style.
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Number 6
May 29 2008 09:34 PM
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| ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Jr. digs this one too. Love the video: |
I've pretty much broken down and admitted that TMBG is my favorite band ever. It seals my nerdliness, but I'm choosing to embrace it.
Sorry for ganking this thread.
Doctor Worm
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Bastard Wants to Hit Me
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Willets Point
May 29 2008 10:13 PM
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The They Might Be Giants Friday Night Family Podcast is a hit in our household.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jun 03 2008 07:59 AM
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They steal the guitar right out of "If I Needed Someone." I just love the feel of this one and the louder the better:
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1994 rocked!
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Willets Point
Jun 03 2008 09:22 AM
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Listening to a podcast of a <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90789373">concert by a band called Urban Verbs</a>. This is their reunion concert. I never heard of them before but apparently this band was big in the Washington, DC scene in the 70s & 80s. They have kind of a thrashy punk sound with a psychedelic edge and quirky but intelligent lyrics. I'm liking it a lot. I wonder if they had any influence on Fugazi, another DC band.
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soupcan
Jun 03 2008 11:13 AM
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Finally got this -
Have listened maybe 3 times so far and I like it. Was surprised that 'Blue' was apparently a Jayhawks tune before The Thorns covered it.
Also just downloaded this after hearing the single 'New Shoes' everywhere.
It's good and your wives/girlfriends will love it. I like it now but I'm not sure if it will hold up over many listenings. Looking forward to finding out though.
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AG/DC
Jun 03 2008 11:22 AM
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"Blue" is simply a beloved Jayhawks tune. The Thorns did it almost as an act of charity, as in "There are three songwriters in this act, so we have enough material, but it's an unjust world where a harmony song like this isn't more widely known, and we're a harmony group so let's right a wrong."
That "New Shoes" single wore out on me pretty fast.
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soupcan
Jun 03 2008 11:46 AM
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="AG/DC":287fxlig] "Blue" is simply a beloved Jayhawks tune. The Thorns did it almost as an act of charity, as in "There are three songwriters in this act, so we have enough material, but it's an unjust world where a harmony song like this isn't more widely known, and we're a harmony group so let's right a wrong."[/quote:287fxlig]
The two versions sound almost exactly alike. I think The Thorns version is a bit more 'produced'.
="AG/DC":287fxlig]That "New Shoes" single wore out on me pretty fast.[/quote:287fxlig]
Yeah I can see that, but it is a toe-tapper. There are better songs on that album.
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Willets Point
Jun 06 2008 08:59 AM
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Okkervill River, "Plus Ones." I either like this song because it's clever or I'm annoyed by it because it's gimmicky.
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seawolf17
Jun 06 2008 09:29 AM
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I vote the former. I really like this song.
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cooby
Jun 12 2008 03:49 PM
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This again.
God what a voice, and he looks like Widey, too; no wonder I love him.
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Methead
Jun 20 2008 09:28 AM
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Not a new record, but I'm re-listening to My Morning Jacket "Z", and it's still awesome. I haven't heard their new one yet.
I also eagerly await the new Sigur Ros album.
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Willets Point
Jun 20 2008 11:17 AM
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Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal." Stunningly beautiful-sounding song although I haven't puzzled out the lyrics yet. Critics compare them to The Beach Boys although I don't see it beyond the harmonies. Fleet Foxes have more of a solemn almost sacred sound.
Take a listen:
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AG/DC
Jun 20 2008 11:25 AM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 22 2008 11:29 AM
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The studio effects that make it haunting are Beach Boy-esque (actually Spectre-by-way-of-Beach-Boy-esque) --- the quality that makes that intro sound like a lonely voice and and hi-hat at the end of a school corridor. Or maybe at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2008 08:30 AM
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I don't know who any of these bands are or what the hell you people are talking about. It's 2008 and I'm listening to Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac from when Peter Green was still sane.
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Willets Point
Jun 22 2008 05:37 PM
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="AG/DC":2yfbsdwt] Or maybe at the bottom of an elevator shaft.[/quote:2yfbsdwt]
Bottom of an elevator shaft is a good description.
Now that you mention it the song reminds me of the Righteous Brothers who had that echoey-from-across-the-room sound. IIRC they were Spector-produced.
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cooby
Jun 22 2008 07:01 PM
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="batmagadanleadoff":3h8kv5ke]I don't know who any of these bands are or what the hell you people are talking about. It's 2008 and I'm listening to Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac from when Peter Green was still sane.[/quote:3h8kv5ke]
are they relatted?
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batmagadanleadoff
Jun 22 2008 08:26 PM
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="cooby":3frf8r53]="batmagadanleadoff":3frf8r53]I don't know who any of these bands are or what the hell you people are talking about. It's 2008 and I'm listening to Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac from when Peter Green was still sane.[/quote:3frf8r53]
are they relatted?[/quote:3frf8r53]
Who?
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seawolf17
Jun 25 2008 09:16 AM
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Rawk.
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Rockin' Doc
Jul 06 2008 12:53 PM
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<img src="http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/79/715879.jpg" width="350">
Rocco Deluca and the Burden has been out for a while. They rose out of the southern California music scene and signed as the first act with Keifer Sutherland's Ironworks Records label in 2006. Deluca wails on the dobro guitar and mixes in a lot of bluesy slide work as well. Emotive vocals and backed by a solid band.
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Number 6
Jul 07 2008 10:13 PM
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="Willets Point":1ncev9h5]Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal." [/quote:1ncev9h5]
I really dig this. Thanks.
I'm not a big Lou Reed fan, but I've been listening to this song for months and I haven't gotten one bit sick of it.
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A Boy Named Seo
Jul 13 2008 01:23 AM
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[url=http://www.yeproc.com/artist_info.php?artistId=12539]The Baseball Project.[/url]
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OlerudOwned
Jul 16 2008 12:24 PM
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Andrew Jackson Jihad sounds most immediately like the early recordings of John Darnielle's Mountain Goats, with a bare and abrasive acousitc guitar/drum combo and raw vocals. The lyrical content is less narrative than Darnielle's, but has the same sort of dark humor and personal meaningfulness.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jul 16 2008 12:29 PM
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Gets awfully stupid there at the end wouldn't you say?
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OlerudOwned
Jul 16 2008 12:32 PM
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="John Cougar Lunchbucket":2dolbl8q]Gets awfully stupid there at the end wouldn't you say?[/quote:2dolbl8q]
Well, I like it.
(Doesn't mean it isn't stupid, of course. But hell.)
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jul 16 2008 12:36 PM
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I was kinda liking it too until he started taking a shit on Paul Simon's carpet and throwing it at Art Garfunkel.
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metirish
Jul 16 2008 12:38 PM
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I heard the Crue song on the radio while on vacation , was happily surprised how good it was.
Mick Mars especially rocked.
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AG/DC
Jul 29 2008 05:25 AM
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Bruce Springsteen's "Girls in Their Summer Clothes." It keeps surprising me how much it sounds like britpop. Almost Smithsonian.
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seawolf17
Jul 30 2008 10:53 AM
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A Boy Named Seo
Jul 30 2008 11:00 AM
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 06 2008 10:56 AM
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="Willets Point":1uj4a7fb]Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal." Stunningly beautiful-sounding song although I haven't puzzled out the lyrics yet. Critics compare them to The Beach Boys although I don't see it beyond the harmonies. Fleet Foxes have more of a solemn almost sacred sound.
Take a listen:
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They are becoming a phenomenon -- universal acclaim for their album. Not sure if it's the right sound for today or what. I heard "Mykanos" and was like, wow. Here they are on Letterman performing some other song the other day.
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themetfairy
Aug 15 2008 09:05 PM
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| ="A Boy Named Seo"][url=http://www.yeproc.com/artist_info.php?artistId=12539]The Baseball Project.[/url]
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My friend (the one Kase and GFafif tailgated with last Sunday) gave me this CD today! I am SO excited - I can't wait to listen to it :)
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seawolf17
Aug 19 2008 11:49 AM
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Coming in October! New single's up on [url=http://www.myspace.com/teslatheband]MySpace[/url]. Rawk.
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A Boy Named Seo
Aug 21 2008 11:36 AM
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New self-titled Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) album. Recording the whole thing live in some shanty in Mexico. Sometimes I feel like I'm too old to love this guy so much, but I do. I do. This one's my favorite of his and maybe my fav album of '08 so far.
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metirish
Aug 27 2008 07:02 AM
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I'm going to pick that album up Seo. Meanwhile last night I bought 'Forth' from iTunes , on first listen it is brilliant.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 28 2008 08:06 PM
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Coming in October! New single's up on [url=http://www.myspace.com/teslatheband]MySpace[/url]. Rawk. |
Statuesque chick on the train tonight wearing a very tight Tesla t-shirt and speaking German. Ich Bein Teslafan.
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seawolf17
Sep 04 2008 07:07 PM
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Coming in October! New single's up on [url=http://www.myspace.com/teslatheband]MySpace[/url]. Rawk. |
Free download! [url=http://www.fmqbproductions.com/epks/2008/tesla/download.html]Double rawk[/url].
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themetfairy
Sep 09 2008 03:41 PM
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I'm checking out the preview of [url=http://www.brickmanmedia.com/koz/lifl/forward/default.asp:qwwovicg]Dave Koz's Greatest Hits[/url:qwwovicg].
I know that most of you hold smooth jazz in disdain. But Koz stands out. And with the free preview, you should at least give it a quick listen before rejecting it out of hand.
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seawolf17
Sep 30 2008 02:45 PM
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I am so, so horrendously disappointed with this. The fake "leaked" songs were all so good -- but this just falls kinda flat. Some great stuff (Hiroshima, You Don't Know Me, The Frown Song, the two ballads Cologne and Kylie from Connecticut), but the rest is just Ben cursing for seemingly no reason. Very odd. The fake versions of Brainwashed, Bitch Went Nuts, and Dr. Yang just blow away the real ones. Bad planning, Ben.
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themetfairy
Sep 30 2008 05:26 PM
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Yeah, but You Don't Know Me rocks!
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seawolf17
Sep 30 2008 05:44 PM
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I know! I love that song, and I liked most of the leaked stuff. I guess I was expecting something closer to Suburbs or Silverman, but it's just not.
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themetfairy
Sep 30 2008 06:11 PM
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To be honest I've only listened to it a couple of times and don't have all of the words down yet. Cologne kind of reminds me of Narcolepsy, though. And I know what you mean about it seeming like a step back - in some ways it seems to be revisiting BFF material.
But [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP9csWhlHWM:1thb69a8]You Don't Know Me[/url:1thb69a8] rocks -
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cooby
Oct 06 2008 03:28 PM
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cooby
Oct 06 2008 03:33 PM
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Still listening to this. It makes me happy :)
I have said, for many years now, that Dvorak's "Romance in F Minor" was the most beautiful song I've ever heard, but "Fairie Round" from Charlene's CD is a tie, or maybe even more beautiful.
I just wish it would go on forever.
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seawolf17
Oct 07 2008 01:05 PM
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New Thunder disc comes out next month (already preordered!) and they've released a free download of "Candy Man" and asked us loyal fans to help them promote the hell out of it. So here you go. If you dig it, feel free to buy the album -- although as import only, it's not cheap -- and spread the word. They do have most of their stuff on iTunes also.
http://www.musicglue.com/thunder
(The little ticker says "WMA," but it's available as an MP3 also.)
Oh, and I bought this today.
Excellent.
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AG/DC
Oct 07 2008 01:26 PM
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="cooby":nr7j639r]I have said, for many years now, that Dvorak's "Romance in F Minor" was the most beautiful song I've ever heard, but "Fairie Round" from Charlene's CD is a tie, or maybe even more beautiful.
I just wish it would go on forever.[/quote:nr7j639r]
Wow. Add feedback.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/charlenelockwood
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themetfairy
Oct 07 2008 01:51 PM
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Lousiana-born Marc Broussard is reminiscent of Motown at times - a smooth, soulful sound. He's on the cusp of becoming something big.
FYI, while his CDs are fine, he is way better live than he is in the studio.
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cooby
Oct 07 2008 03:27 PM
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You can hear some of Faerie Round on that link of Edgy's!
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A Boy Named Seo
Oct 13 2008 01:25 AM
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Heard Dylan and bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley on XM's Bluegrass Junction today doing a song called "Lonesome River". It was awesome, man. Didn't know what it was on or when the two played together. Turns out it's this and it's really really good.
Dylan and Stanley:
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cooby
Oct 22 2008 06:50 PM
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Layla. Just Layla, over and over and over again.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 22 2008 06:56 PM
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Greatness!
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soupcan
Oct 22 2008 07:16 PM
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Great song.
Was that their only hit?
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metirish
Oct 22 2008 07:32 PM
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I really liked it too , who is it though. I' m drawing a blank here.
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seawolf17
Oct 22 2008 08:06 PM
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Bought this today:
Sure, it's the same stuff they've been releasing for years, but it's all good.
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AG/DC
Oct 22 2008 08:25 PM
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Great factoid: AC/DC, in worldwide album sales, has outsold U2 by 30 million albums.
Something to be said for slow and steady winning the race. Rather than becoming so huge like U2 and omnipresent that you have to re-invent yourself every time folks get sick of your schtick, AC/DC has had just enough exposure, without over-exposure, that folks demand the same exact old schtick.
"Driver's Seat" seems to borrow it's chord progression from "All Along the Watchtower," but there's something good in there (not sure what) that kinda predicts REM.
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metirish
Oct 22 2008 08:33 PM
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I read something the other day that their back catalog is the biggest seller next the The Beatles , actual CD's that is , AC/DC don't do iTunes
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 22 2008 09:00 PM
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Snifff 'n' the Tears did Driver's Seat -- short-lived British band, their only hit though they had several albums. I read where the songwriter/singer said he stole the idea for the song from the O'Jays or some other disco band... but I can't place it anyway.
Great song, quietly powerful and hypnotic. If they had a better name who knows what they might have accomplished.
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themetfairy
Oct 27 2008 06:52 PM
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Funhouse comes out tomorrow, but I'm previewing it on [url=http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds]AOL[/url]. This is the album Pink released in the wake of her divorce, and it's an angry one. Not quite as good as I'm Not Dead. It's good stuff, but primarily for anger junkies.
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cooby
Nov 12 2008 08:13 PM
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Not much of a video but I love this beautiful song Can't find my CD so I have to resort to Youtube
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A Boy Named Seo
Nov 24 2008 11:08 AM
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OK, this chick made the American TV show rounds this week and her story's basically the same cliched story as every young European girl with a dream. When she was a kid, she moved from Italy to France, became a supermodel who loved all sorts of famous peeps including Jagger and Clapton, Costner and Trump (huh?) and eventually married the President of France. Sometime during all that, she picked up a guitar and recorded three very well received albums. Ho-hum.
This is her first album and it's got the most sparse arrangments and is the least produced of the three, and amounts to 12 songs of beautiful, quiet, full-on sexy time music.
All in French, so I don't know what the hell she's saying, but it sounds so, so right.
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seawolf17
Nov 24 2008 11:15 AM
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I want so badly to like this new Guns N Roses CD, but it's pretty bad. The worst part about it is Axl, actually, which is the sad part. If anyone else was singing, it might be tolerable. He sounds like a dying cat scraping his claws against a chalkboard.
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Vic Sage
Nov 24 2008 11:44 AM
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Hey, wolfie, that's what he sounded like on his best day...
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seawolf17
Nov 24 2008 11:55 AM
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I know, but he sounds... somehow... different. Some of his vocals are a little too... clean? I can't place it. But it's hard to listen to in spots. It feels overproduced and overwrought, like he's trying too hard. There are some good songs (Street of Dreams, Catcher in the Rye, Better), but I have a hard time getting past the wail.
I don't even mind the Buckethead guitar stuff, which sounds fresh and interesting. It's really just... Axl. Maybe if he replaced himself when he replaced the rest of the band...
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Willets Point
Nov 24 2008 12:13 PM
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Ah yes Seo, it's good to be the President of France:
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metirish
Nov 24 2008 12:22 PM
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="seawolf17":2mo5w4c0]I know, but he sounds... somehow... different. Some of his vocals are a little too... clean? I can't place it. But it's hard to listen to in spots. It feels overproduced and overwrought, like he's trying too hard. There are some good songs (Street of Dreams, Catcher in the Rye, Better), but I have a hard time getting past the wail.
I don't even mind the Buckethead guitar stuff, which sounds fresh and interesting. It's really just... Axl. Maybe if he replaced himself when he replaced the rest of the band...[/quote:2mo5w4c0]
I would like to know what you think after a weeks worth of listening( provided you ever listen to it again)
I will probably pick it up but every review I have read mentions that it's overproduced to death , apparently the credits list 14 studios .
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A Boy Named Seo
Nov 24 2008 12:23 PM
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That creepy guy with the candle is freaking me the hell out. Somebody get her some le window blinds NOW!!!!
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seawolf17
Nov 24 2008 12:41 PM
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="metirish":371qfc3p]="seawolf17":371qfc3p]I know, but he sounds... somehow... different. Some of his vocals are a little too... clean? I can't place it. But it's hard to listen to in spots. It feels overproduced and overwrought, like he's trying too hard. There are some good songs (Street of Dreams, Catcher in the Rye, Better), but I have a hard time getting past the wail.
I don't even mind the Buckethead guitar stuff, which sounds fresh and interesting. It's really just... Axl. Maybe if he replaced himself when he replaced the rest of the band...[/quote:371qfc3p]
I would like to know what you think after a weeks worth of listening( provided you ever listen to it again)
I will probably pick it up but every review I have read mentions that it's overproduced to death , apparently the credits list 14 studios .[/quote:371qfc3p]
I've been listening to it all weekend, and it's playing right now in my office. I'm trying, I really am, because I want to like it. But I'm very bleh on it right now.
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metirish
Nov 25 2008 06:41 AM
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I bought it last night at iTunes , been listening to it on the way to work this morning , so far I got to say I like it. I agree with seawolf about the singing , Axl's voice rarely sounds natural but he can still sing a brilliant chorus in songs like Shackler's revenge, Better and Street of Dreams. The problems with some of those songs is that while the chorus is great what surrounds it singing wise is not as good.
Still of first listen I like what I am hearing and again I agree with seawolf that musically it is good.
Some of the stuff sounds like NIN which is funny because I assume when some of these songs were conceived NIN were huge.
I have been listening to the Use Your Illusion CD's quite a bit these past few months and I find some of the songs on Chinese Democracy more that than Appetite .
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Edgy DC
Nov 25 2008 07:04 AM
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(cheapshot)When some of these songs were conceived, <i>Frampton</i> was huge.(/cheapshot)
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A Boy Named Seo
Nov 30 2008 05:50 PM
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Been listening to this one lately. It's actress Zooey Deschanel on piano and vocals and M. Ward on guitar and getting production credit. It's actually really pretty and Zooey's got a weird, quirky, weird voice. I like it.
Ryan Adams' annual release is solid, as always. Lots of people hate this guy 'cause he's a dick, but he writes great country and rock songs.
Definitely one of my favorites from '08. Never read Blender magazine, but "Trouble in Mind" checked in at #33 on their year-end best list. That list also included Mariah Carey, Metallica, and Usher, for what it's worth. Hayes kicks ass anyway.
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A Boy Named Seo
Nov 30 2008 06:30 PM
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Also, this Blitzen Trapper album is schizophrenic and really, really good. Awesome band name, too.
Oh, and Zooey Deschanel is so cute, the word "cute" is ill-equipped to describe her.
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themetfairy
Nov 30 2008 06:41 PM
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Zooey has a very distinctive speaking voice - I'm sure her singing voice must be interesting.
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A Boy Named Seo
Nov 30 2008 07:46 PM
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Here they are doing Smokey's "Really Got a Hold on Me" on MTV Canada!
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themetfairy
Nov 30 2008 08:30 PM
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Nice! Thanks :)
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Willets Point
Dec 01 2008 11:54 PM
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Mmm...Carla Bruni and Zooey Deschanel on the same page. Yowsa!
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Edgy DC
Dec 02 2008 06:22 AM
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She & Him: OK, but there's a similar quality act or two like that in every town that doesn't have the publicity advantage of being fronted by a Hollywood starlet.
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A Boy Named Seo
Dec 02 2008 10:50 AM
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That Hollywood starlet sword is double edged, though, and most of the time doesn't do any favors to the movie star with the music critics. For an actor turned singer, she's made it through real well, I think.
Her voice isn't classically the prettiest or anything, and she doesn't pretend it is or bury it in effects off in the background like Scarlett Johansen did on that Waits cover album. Zooey's pretty good, her voice unique and pretty recognizable, she writes nice songs, is backed by quality musicians, and chose a couple cool covers they delivered on.
Better than OK, I think.
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Edgy DC
Dec 02 2008 11:19 AM
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Well, I'll dig deeper.
It's a double-edged sword when your riding the top of the A-List like Her Scarletness, but for a B-lister like Zoey, this is a brilliant career move. Almost too brilliant.
But I'll dig deeper and re-consider the content over the career move.
And I have to go once more and recommend <i>Mumford</i>, an ignored Lawrence Kasdan film in which Zoey plays a disturbed teenager whose self-image is destroyed by comparing herself to magazine girls. It's only one in a broad series of interweaving plots (typical for Kasdan) but now that she is a magazine girl, it's kinda sad.
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A Boy Named Seo
Dec 02 2008 11:38 AM
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="Edgy DC":p745777k]
And I have to go once more and recommend <i>Mumford</i>, an ignored Lawrence Kasdan film in which Zoey plays a disturbed teenager whose self-image is destroyed by comparing herself to magazine girls. It's only one in a broad series of interweaving plots (typical for Kasdan) but now that she is a magazine girl, it's kinda sad.[/quote:p745777k]
Sad for who?
Mumford in queue NOW!!!
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themetfairy
Dec 15 2008 04:39 PM
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Love the All-American Rejects. The new CD is a worthy follow-up to Move Along.
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seawolf17
Dec 15 2008 06:38 PM
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="themetfairy":bxkuvisg]Love the All-American Rejects. The new CD is a worthy follow-up to Move Along.[/quote:bxkuvisg]
Second that. "Gives You Hell" is as catchy as any song out there right now.
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themetfairy
Dec 15 2008 06:41 PM
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Not only catchy, but AAR hasn't lost its edge the way Maroon 5 did. If anything, they've intensified.
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OlerudOwned
Dec 15 2008 06:58 PM
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She & Him vs. Mates of State vs. Matt and Kim in an indie rock 3-way tag team cage match.
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I'm going with the latter.
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A Boy Named Seo
Dec 15 2008 07:26 PM
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Catchy song. That Kim's cuter than anything. A couple of BSMF's it looks like.
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OlerudOwned
Dec 15 2008 08:20 PM
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They're Brooklynites, but I hadn't noticed they were Mets fans. All the better.
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Edgy DC
Dec 17 2008 10:38 AM
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Seo needs to keep his guard up. He seems over-vulnerable to the skinny and the cutie.
Then again, add the Mets cap and my outer defenses become porous too.
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Number 6
Dec 22 2008 11:54 PM
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I love eels.
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