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    The Dr. Dog Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I am actually surprised Pitchfork even reviewed it, considering they've always hated them mercilessly. Whatever, they're still one of my 3 favorite rock and roll bands of the current era, whether people love them or hate them.

    The Dr. Dog Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Me three!

     

    So, just listened to Fate, I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed. It feels a little strained, like they forced it at times. Of course that's only my first impression. I felt the same way about We All Belong at first and that has grown on me immensely. I think alot of the stuff will come through in the live setting. I guess nothing will hit me like Easy Beat did.

     

    Its nice to see "From" made it onto the record. That one has been a favorite for a while.

    The Dark Knight

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I thought the whole boat sequence lacked any tension whatsoever. People on both boats were way too calm. I felt for that to be the Joker's final act - was a big letdown. When they finally got to Two Face and Gordon's family, I was muttering "don't care, don't care, don't care..."

     

    My sentiments exactly. The last 30 minutes of the movie were just so underwhelming.

     

    overly convoluted plotting

     

    I believe I used those exact words myself.

    Woody in Wired

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Happy Pappy.

     

    Jesus Christ was a man who traveled through the land

    Hard working man and brave

    He said to the rich, "Give your goods to the poor."

    So they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.

    Jesus was a man, a carpenter by hand

    His followers true and brave

    One dirty little coward called Judas Iscariot

    Has laid Jesus Christ in his grave

    He went to the sick, he went to the poor,

    And he went to the hungry and the lame;

    Said that the poor would one day win this world,

    And so they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.

    He went to the preacher, he went to the sheriff,

    Told them all the same;

    Sell all of your jewelry and give it to the Poor,

    But they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.

    When Jesus came to town, the working folks around,

    Believed what he did say;

    The bankers and the preachers they nailed him on a cross,

    And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.

    Poor working people, they follered him around,

    Sung and shouted gay;

    Cops and the soldiers, they nailed him in the air,

    And they nailed Jesus Christ in his grave.

    Well the people held their breath when they heard about his death,

    And everybody wondered why;

    It was the landlord and the soldiers that he hired.

    That nailed Jesus Christ in the sky.

    When the love of the poor shall one day turn to hate.

    When the patience of the workers gives away

    "Would be better for you rich if you never had been born"

    So they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.

    This song was written in New York City

    Of rich men, preachers and slaves

    Yes, if Jesus was to preach like he preached in Galillee,

    They would lay Jesus Christ in his grave.

    Billy Joel - The Stranger

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Also, Turnstiles is an awful record.

    Any record that has "New York State Of Mind" and " Summer, Highland Falls" on it cannot be awful.

    I gotta give a shout out to my personal favorite Joel tune -- Summer, Highland Falls.

    That one's up there for me as well.

     

    Billy Joel is the reason I am a music fan. I mean, at an age when I was open to music, his music was played in the house and in the car and I was hooked. I remember being 9 and having just heard "Ballad of Billy The Kid", I took the cassette from my parent's car and listened to it on my portable tape player probably 25 times in a row for the next 3 days.

    20-year HS reunion

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I caught wind of my 5-year HS reunion last year or the year before, I don't remember since I didn't go and had no desire to go. I just don't see that fun in having 50 versions of the same 30-second conversation:

     

    Me: Hey, what's going on?

    Person: Nothing much. Working, you know. Same old shit.

    Me: Yeah. Me too.

    Person: Yeah. I hear that.

     

    No thank you.

     

    Mine's in 2 weeks but I decided to go see the Old 97's instead.

     

    Awesome.

    New My Morning Jacket Album!!!

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Well, it helps to ignore "Highly Suspicious." Skip that one and you'll probably enjoy the album alot more. I think its funny: they seem very dead set on progressing, but the best tracks on EU are the ones where they don't sound like they're trying to progress. They seem to have a formula for good songs, they should stick to it for 12 tracks per record instead of 3.

    Peaking on my Dylan obsession

    in Someone Else's Song

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    If you notice that record, that thing after like the second chorus starts building and building like crazy, and everybody's just peaking it up 'cause we thought, Man this is it. this is going to be the last chorus and we've got to put everything into it we can

     

    Yeah, I did kind of notice that, the backing musicians really crank it up before the choruses and it feels like its driving home. That was great to read.

     

    And its a lovely song. I mean, if you can listen to that entire album up until that song, what's another 11 minutes? And a beautiful 11 minutes, I might add.

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