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    Beck covers Velvet Underground & Nico (the whole album)

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Sea Change is a marvelous record. There's definitely a lot of Nick Drake in there. And of course, Paper Tiger is 100% Beck trying to be Serge Gainsbourg. And succeeding, might I add.

     

    I think Round the Bend is the closest he came on that record to a direct Nick Drake homage. Hell, even the title sounds like it would be a Nick Drake song.

     

    But yea, definitely my favorite Beck album...in fact, I would dare say its a top 10 of the decade contender.

    The Metal Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Anyone a fan of or familiar with Sunn O))) ?

     

     

    Sludge, doom noise experimental metal? Even a few minutes after listening to their new album my head and ears are still ringing. Some weird ass shit. Good to experience it every once in a while but I sure wouldn't want to live there.

     

    I love Sunn, just got tickets to see them :)

    Minimalism

    in Someone Else's Song

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    A reminder to any and all persons in the Chicago area tomorrow that GAS will be performing his first ever North American show (and its free for christsakes!). Not to be missed.

     

    Almost a decade after the last of his four landmark albums as Gas, Wolfgang Voigt is rewarding our patience with his presence: this Chicago concert, the first Gas show in North America, is one of only two U.S. dates on his current tour. (Dude is minimalist all the way.) Though he’s best known these days as a producer and as one-third of the Cologne-based label Kompakt—the world’s epicenter for artful techno and poised to break big stateside—and though he’s released compelling, progressive work under a dozen-odd pseudonyms, just like the rest of the label’s roster, Gas remains Voigt’s signal accomplishment. In contemporary ambient electronica, he has no peers. The music reissued in the 2008 box set Nah und Fern (Kompakt)—savage, rolling tones and drones, dark and dreamy in their lushness, pulsing at times with the soft thud of a 70 BPM heartbeat—is perfectly timeless, just as unsettling and mind-blowing now as it ever was.

     

    7 PM, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, 312-744-6630.

     

    -Chicago Reader

     

    Do yourself a favor and attend. This will be epic.

    Steven is mostly right

    in Someone Else's Song

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    i've got a lot of the stuff he's been involved with...White Heaven, Stars, Onna, and Ghost. even the stuff w/ damon and naomi.

     

     

    kurihara = :worship

     

    Cool beans. I just saw Ghost a couple weeks ago and they completely blew me away. It boggles my mind they've been around since '84...

    Steven is mostly right

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Maybe so. Maybe not. Definitely, mainstream pop music is more overtly corporate now than at any time in my lifetime. I'm astounded by stuff like Idol or Disney-manufactured pop not so much that it exists--the industry has "created" stars like this forever, but rarely so transparently. Its the chutzpah of creating TV shows to put a spotlight on that fact that they know the masses will buy whatever they tell them to that is jaw-dropping to me. But, whatever. I'm not sure that's even relevant to what we're talking about here, since I'm assuming we're talking about more underground stuff.

     

    Dude, this has always existed. The Banana Splits, anyone?

     

    I am admittedly only semi plugged-in to whatever is going on these days(lots of dadding, not so much rocking) and I definitely don't get out much. But I'm also pretty savvy to technology and keep at least semi-aware of what is going on. There are lots of great ways of discovering new music these days more efficient than the "old ways" of going to a store and buying a record by a band you've never heard of that has cool cover art and taking it home and hoping to hell it doesn't completely suck. There are a lot more avenues to explore music. Strangely, though, I also see musical communities becoming more and more isolated into narrow little niches. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.

     

    I agree, but if you look around this is happening in all segments of society. Wheras we used to have major cultural touchstones that were pretty much universally shared by everyone, now (largely due to the internet, but also other factors) its very easy to just plug into communities that just share your own beliefs. Good or bad, I dont know. Its definitely segmenting society much much more.

     

    As for the "amazing music coming out every year"....eh, maybe. Personally, I haven't found much new music that I really connect to in, god, forever, but that could just be part of me getting older and music itself slipping down my priority list. The Best Record Ever could drop in my lap right now and it wouldn't rule my world the way it once would have. Enjoy your cutting edge stuff, sureshot. I'll try not to run over you with my Hoveround in 20 years when you're on your way to the arena to see your favorite band, forming arguments in your head as to why their new album is SO not dadrock.

     

    Music is a highly personal thing, so I say listen to what makes you happy.

     

    Most of the stuff I listen to isnt really that underground, at least by underground standard. Take a band like Boris...the quality and scope of these guys' output boggles my mind. And yet they still play a venue like the Empty Bottle when they roll through town. Im not complaining by any stretch, but it gets to my point that there are some incredibly relevant, boundary-pushing/blurring groups out there today which get next to no recognition outside of some fairly niche communities.

    Steven is mostly right

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Complete bullshit. This tired argument gets trotted out all the time.

     

    There is more amazing music coming out every year than most people even have the time to listen to. The major labels are just upset because they no longer hold a monopoly on distribution.

     

    This guy sounds like every other old man sitting in their rockers claiming things were better back in "their day". Meanwhile, the kids are out at the clubs hearing the cutting edge stuff that will probably be in arenas 20 years from now.

     

    this says it all. 99% of music is complete junk. and the fact that anyone can make a cd these days makes for even more junk! seriously, is there anything out there worth listening too besides wilco, son volt, white stripes, black keys, kings of leon?

     

    you need to get out more. that is all.

    I wonder if they teach this in J-shcool

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I just dont understand why anyone in todays age would spend 10's of thousands of dollars to go to J-school.

     

    There was a day when I thought that was what I wanted to do with my life. But the industry is for all intents and purposes, dead. I dont see how going into debt to attend Medill makes a lick of sense when in all likelihood there wont be a job when you get out anyway.

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