markosis
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Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. I and II
Sure, not a real "album", but I was 9 and I was en route to being a music lover.
Metallica - s/t
Discovered about the same time I started playing guitar, metal consumed my life for the next 9 years.
Morbid Angel - Covenant
My first death metal cd. I consider my ability to appreciate death metal an asset in appreciating just about anything out there.
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
Purchased at the end of my "metal" days, re-opened my eyes to beauty in music.
Ani DiFranco - Evolve
Broke down the doors of musical perception, taught me that just about any music is able to be enjoyed as long as you let yourself enjoy it.
Wilco - A ghost is born
Introduced me to what I thought was "wierd" rock music. In turn, discovered The Band, which led me to Curtis Mayfield and soul/r&b.
John Coltrane - Stardust
The first jazz album I "got." Enough said.
There's some in between those, Music From Big Pink and others, but that's just about my whole musical lineage.
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Yeah, the Starland Ballroom is shite. The place was WAY oversold. Too many bars-if they got rid of, say, 8 of them there would be so much more room for the audience. My friend and I chose to stand on the side of the stage because there was no reasonable place to watch the band from the front. Keep in mind, I didn't really mind since it was a different perspective. However, that little pathway where we were standing happened to be the path to the bathroom AND to the back door to load/unload gear. So between the opener and Wilco, the crew puts up a barrier in front of a line of people all going to the bathroom and people keep coming and I'm just standing waiting for Wilco to come on and I'm basically being crushed by a non-stop wave of people who have absolutely no idea that they cannot get to the bathroom. Being semi-stoned and semi-calustrophobic, I nearly had a freaking breakdown.
And it is rather shady, is it not? lol
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Just started this. God damn, I'm not even done the preface and I'm hooked.
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For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
"and of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz"
ugh
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probably "Something"
also, anyone ever heard this?:
Booker T. & The MG's doing Abbey Road. Its not spectacular, but good for a listen or two.
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Master of Puppets gets the vote. I see each of the three Cliff era albums as a giant step in songwriting and playing, and though we can only speculate where they would have gone next, it would have been superior. Cliff was Metallica's Garth Hudson.
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Winona mentioned playing song #2 off of Summerteeth to woo a girl. Later in the movie as Winona and Fiennes were gettin it on, She's a Jar played in the background.
I stole that from the 'Friday Night Light's" thread, but it sort of mirrors an experience of my own.
I sent a text message to a girl that I liked and I randomly chose these lyrics:
Are there really ones like these?The ones I dream
Float like leaves
And freeze to spread skeleton wings
I passed through before I knew you
and she was quite into it. Thanks Jeff.
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P.S Where is the "They are good, but not better than The Band" option?
I was going to say the same thing!
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Not to mention, that was one of like 3 shows where "Just A Kid" was performed. and "Sunken Treasure" was pretty incredible too, if I recall.
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Yeah, Philly seems to get the shaft alot. Maybe its because bands/artists don't want to get murdered. (Philly's murder rate is way out of control.)
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/\ Indeed it was.
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If it wasn't for the massive amount of corporate logos in the background, I'd swear that pictue was taken in 1973.
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Just finished:
Just began:
What can I say. I've got some catching up to do.
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Lately I've been all over The Sea and Cake. Saw them in Baltimore Friday night and they killed. Great band.
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Well, if you find the sheet music for The Impressions' "We're a Winner," then you have the sheet music for "Waiting on The World To Change."
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I've been to Chicago and Toronto. Nothing too exciting. I'm thinking about moving to Seattle; the prospect of driving across the country seems quite invigorating.
Don't be knocking SJ, we got the Pine barrens, Long Beach Isand, awesome malls, the Pine Barrens.Don't forget the Pine Barrens.
Nettles - where in SJ are you? I'm in Winslow.
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Touche. I stand corrected.
BUT, was Patti Boyd more raw than Dominique Robertson?
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I might like to add the Robbie Robertson's wife is way hotter than Yoko.
So lets see:
1. Cooler beards
2. Hotter wife
The Band wins.
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The Sea and Cake is way better than The Band. and The Beatles.
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that's it? these four brits? the pinnacle, yesterday and forever? i don't believe it.
Agreed. There were 4 Canucks and 1 Arkansas-ian that made equally brilliant music.
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Beards???? R U Kidding me?
It's come down to beards?
Like it or not, nobody can touch The Beatles - Now let's move along, ok?
Don't be hatin' on brother Garth now!
The band had one good song...THERE I SAID IT!
Quiet, or I'll sick Hamlet on your ass.
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I stood in front of Bruce's old house in Long Branch, NJ a couple of months ago.
That's my Bruce story.
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I'm glad I started a sensible debate.
There's NO WAY Paul's beard is cooler than Garth's.
Even Levon's got Paul beat:
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I hate arguing about music. Its as redundant as arguing about religion or politics...it means something totally different to each individual soul.
And it doesn't matter anyway, because The Band was better
Why?
None of The Beatles had such an awesome beard.
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I can only recommend Siddhartha, as that is the only Hesse book I've read. If you are into stories about journeys and soul searching and that stuff, its a masterpiece.