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    The Official Star Wars thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I don't know if calling Episode 3 "kick ass" is appropriate. I mean, sure, the story was good but Hayden's acting is terrible, the dialog was terrible, and it was far too based on CGI. Anakin and Padame's dialog was horrendous... "when we were alone on Naboo with nothing but our love!". Has George Lucas ever even been in a relationship???? I know Star Wars movies have never been known for their great dialog but it's like he gave up on Episode 3.

     

     

    Oooh, here's where I read about the TV show.

    The Official Star Wars thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    i thought that the tv show they were going to do was going to be live action, or was that something else? (obviously with cgi too, as the man can't get his dick out of disc drive for long enough to see how shit it all looks, but with some real people in it none the less).

    Yeah, I heard they were going to do a bunch of live action Star Wars shows about minor characters. They were suppose to be darker and not as childish, kind of like Firefly was.

    Magnolia Electric Company??

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I Memphis Moon is not on Sojouners, but the rest of Fading Trails is on there. None of What Comes After the Blues is on there as you said. The DVD that comes with the box set is awesome. Way too short though. As far as Songs Ohia goes, I like the Lioness and Didn't It Rain. The MEC album is great, but has some real bad tunes, like the one with the country guy singing and that woman that sings with Jason. She can be a bit annoying.

     

    Any similar bands to this out there?

     

    Craig

    Memphis Moon is track two of The Sun Session EP ;)!

    I actually really like The Old Black Hen. Peoria Lunch Box Blues is good too, I just don't think whats her face has a flattering voice for that song.

    Magnolia Electric Company??

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Fading Trails is entirely made up of songs from Sojourner (none of the recordings from What Comes After The Blues are on Sojourner though, contrary to what might have previously been implied). If you like the country rock styles then Nashville Moon from that boxset is your best bet, I think it's Molina's strongest 'rock' effort since the first MEC album. Once you get into that I recommend checking out the solo albums and maybe some Songs: Ohia albums like Didn't it Rain, The Lioness, and Ghost Tropic. That style of Molina's work took me a long time to get into but it helped a lot when I found Nashville Moon and became more familiar with his more "listener friendly" albums.

    The Black Ram from Sojourner is also very good (Andrew Bird guests!!) but I imagine that might be some of the songs from Fading Trails that you're having trouble getting into.

    Damn, Molina has got A LOT of albums. Let me count... 16ish! Not including tons of 7" and EPs and that album with Will Oldham.

     

    Fave in a sea of faves:

    ohia-fantasma-cover.jpg

    Songs: Ohia - Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasma from 2001.

    That is SUCH a good album, I really hope it gets re-released. Once I asked my Italian friend what it meant, I think she said "You appeared to me as a ghost".

    Wilco / Uncle Tupelo Vinyl

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I'm not too hip on how the recording process translates to the release, but I seem to recall reading that summerteeth is a digital recording and a vinyl pressing isn't going to sound any better, and that for anything other than collectors value (which we all know is $$$$) doesn't do much good. Can anyone verify if this is true?

    Well that depends...

    Red Book Audio (aka all the audio CD's you've ever bought) has a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and a bit depth of 16bits (if you don't get what that means, 44.1/16 is CD quality, anything higher is higher quality then CD). As far as I know, Summerteeth was recorded digitally (and mixed on ProTools). Now, if I was to record an album today, I would at least go 44.1/24 and then take it back to 44.1/16 before it hits audio CD, that way if there's ever a DVD or vinyl pressing, it'd be at least a bit better then CD quality. I wasn't engineering in 1999 (I was busy being a kid) and frankly, I'm not exactly sure how easy it'd be to store an entire album that was any larger then 44.1/16. So, I would say, that Summerteeth was likely recorded at CD quality. However! Jay Bennett is a pretty smart dude, it's very possible that the album was recorded at 44.1/24 or even 88.2 or 192 (did Digidesign have the 192 out yet? I've seen old 88.2s from back in the day, but no 192). In that case, Summerteeth would be great on vinyl. If that wasn't the case, you'd be getting the worst qualities of CD and the worst of vinyl.

    The sad part is, just from talking to people, I don't think a lot of engineers realize that the CD is going to be out and that in a few years when terrabyte harddrives become the norm that (hopefully!!!) whatever file we're using (the equivalent of an mp3, flac, etc) will be 24 bits and probably 96 kHz or something like that (like a DVD, which, if optical media survives for music, will probably be what it'll be released on). A lot of albums recorded in the past 10 years (and still being recorded now) are probably only at "red book audio" quality, which means that in a few decades, they won't be up too snuff with pre-digital music being re-released and the music of the day. However we will get some totally awesome re-releases of albums recorded at a high quality. ....I am dreaming of the day when 192/32 will be the norm.

    THAT'S MY RANT FOR TODAY, hope you enjoyed it folks.

    If anyone ever meets Jay, they should ask what Summerteeth was recorded at.

    Finally!

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I really liked some of those songs on Rabbit Fur Coat but every time I think of Jenny Lewis I can't help but recall standing in line at the Wilco concert listening to the teenage girls behind me going "Oh my gawd that Jenny Lewis album was sooooooo good" "I sooooo know!!!!11 Her song Handle With Care was soooo good! The guy from Death Cab sings on it!!!!! Oh my gawd!!!". Not pleasant memories but I guess that's not Jenny's fault.

    Weezer: Album Six

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    There are a bunch of gems on the later Weezer records. I guess I don't see how songs like "O Girlfriend" and "Slave" are somehow worse than "Holiday", "The World Has Turned..." etc. The problem is that people want an immature, college-age spill-your-guts album from a guy pushing 40 who's into meditation. Pinkerton is such a great album partly because it's such an embarrassing listen.

    Okay, first off, for the record, I was like... 14 when I bought The Green Album, before that I listened to whatever was popular of the day, Blink-182 and Linkin Park. I remember listening to The Green Album that summer and hearing O Girlfriend for the first time, a song that today I'd say has a pretty (but ultimately only mediocre) melody and being blown away ... it was like something clicked with me, that completely changed my musical direction. However, saying O Girlfriend is as good as Holiday or The World Has Turned is ludicrous. O Girlfriend seems as if Rivers found some notes that go well together and that "taking pills and mellowing out" bit and then stopped writing the song. It sits there, boring and lifeless. Fuck, even the lead guitar plays those same notes. Holiday though, hits you like a punch in the face... it's more then just one idea like O Girlfriend is. It's got that brilliant break down with the "we will write a postcard to our friends and family" with just the bass and the harmonies and then the drums build up... it's a great moment. The World Has Turned is the similar with the "do you believe" bit. O Girlfriend has nothing like that. However, compared to what I was listening to at the time, it was incredible. Different enough to make me notice but not too different to scare me off. I bet there's quiet a few people who first got exposed to good music from The Green Album. As for Slave, well, I listened to Maladroit a lot, and I can't even recall how it sounds.

    Pinkerton is a great record cause it's honest. The Green Album/Maladroit/Make Believe are just records of a guy trying lazily to recapture his former glory.

    your top 10 favorite records

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I couldn't pick just 10

    1) The Beatles - Revolver

    2) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

    3) Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

    4) Elliott Smith - XO

    5) Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle

    6) Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs

    7) Neil Young - Harvest

    8) The Beatles - The White Album

    9) Beck - Sea Change

    10) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

    11) Sloan - One Chord To Another

    12) M. Ward - Post War

    13) Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co

    14) Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne

    15) Traveling Wilburys - Volume I

    16) Radiohead - Kid A

    17) Wilco - Being There

    18) Nick Drake - Pink Moon

    19) Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain

    20) George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

    The Quasi-Official NHL Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    It's a deep and complicated beef. I think part of it might have to do with the fact that everyone gives the Canucks, who've been in the league since 1970, shit for not winning the cup yet (however the Vancouver Millionaires and the Victoria Cougars both won the cup) yet the Leafs haven't won a cup since 67 and have never won their conference. But it's most likely due to the feelings most people from Vancouver have for Toronto. :angry I've heard a lot of Toronto fans call the Leafs "Canada's team" which is crazy talk.

    But don't worry, I have nothing but love for my eastern brothers.

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