lost highway

The trick is to stagger people's jumps back up. As they step downward through the scale they run out of fret board, if people jump back up an octave at different times, it still sounds like its going collectively lower.

Most violent noise outbreaks I've ever heard on this song.

I think on a philosophical level (in other words not to quibble with the other humans on here) I feel that there's something really good about rash exuberance towards new creations. I think a lot of people are very cognizant about what a heavy word 'masterpiece' is, so they don't want to look silly by throwing it around. I get that. But I feel that it is refreshing to respond to new things with this level of enthusiasm. To find things that we can hastily delight in for their genius. I think it can allow a person to become engaged, and more celebratory. I don't mean to advocate being shal

Me too, I'm liking "Message from Mid-Bar".

I feel it. There have been few albums in the past five years that hit me as immediately, that seemed so clearly to be a staggering achievement. TWL is one of them.

It's cool. Not in sound, but feel it reminds me of a lot of Sonic Youth stuff; it sounds really cool, it's pretty exciting, on a thematic level it doesn't engage the heart. It's just cool, no more, no less. The interplay between various band member's skronks after the first loud part is one of a handful of brilliant moments on that record.

Definitely some similarities. Definitely not even an homage. If I had a ton of time to waste I could post five pop rock songs that have similar chord progressions or melodies. If you know how to chop these chords out on a guitar or piano you will realize how much they are like so many songs. Meanwhile, 'Dawned on Me' is good. So is Supergrass.

On my computer it just plays the commercial over and over for 9 minutes

More fetishizing of pain.

And still we're misusing epic, even when trying to note the correct usage: "Opening track “Art of Almost,” and the closer “One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)” are truly epic in the pre-internet sense of the word." Everyone needs to let that word rest a while.

I can't find the B-Sides any where that doesn't look like a way to get a computer virus. I suppose I'll have to wait for my legit copy to arrive.

Capitol City > Walken

I think TWL is just as challenging, and shines a light in just as many dark corners of the psyche as YHF. I'm not going to say whether it is better or worse. So far I like the reviews where the listener was able to take it in as an experience without being overburdened by some back story. For example, the fact that this album is being released on their own label has almost no artistic relevance whatsoever. Every journalist is forced to notice this, and many are tempted to interpret what they hear through the lens of that nearly irrelevant fact.

Yes.

If you listen carefully to 'Hey Jude' you can hear Paul cursing after a mistake, "Aww Fuck Me!".

There is something to the psychology of the Illiad here. It has to do with the captain's foresight into the temptation of the sirens. He knew that no one could resist, so he made a preventative measure of having his crew tie him up. It's the part of us that understands ourselves, and makes safeguards against our weaknesses. I think perhaps a degree of this kind of control is necessary for preserving love (?).

All three awesome. I think people who make cracks about creative people drying up as they get older, or more adjusted, are clearly not creative themselves. On a similar note, Tom Waits is still making cool stuff.

I was at a random douchey club once that my sister dragged me to in LA, and I was totally hating life when I recognized Dave Grohl standing next to me. I struck up a conversation and we talked about metal, and Sunny Day Real Estate. He seemed content and amused to sip his drink and chat with me all night. Super approachable. I asked him what a guy like him was doing in a club like that, he said "Acting as stupid as possible." He said he'd loved the terrible club ever since he was there the same night as Ozzy came. "They had to carry him out that night. That man is like a god." I was s

On occasion, usually as a product of limited space on a vinyl side, or to create a vinyl buying incentive.

Wait, I didn't think the tour started for a few days. Where are they playing?

Part of it I think is that little drum booth they have. A dead little drum room with little natural reverb. Couple that with Glenn's dry taste in drum tuning, using moon gels, tape, towels and extra heads, and you get some really tight drums. Only a drummer as good as Glenn can sound so good on such "small" sounding drums. I'm actually not wild about the overabundance of hi hat swish on the rock out ending, but why complain about a single wart on something otherwise so perfect?

Totally.

The first 5 tracks are perfect.

Yeah, totally. I don't know all the lyrics yet, but from what I've absorbed there is definitely a pretty deep look into the human experience. There are some sublime, poetic dealings with the idea of suffering. "Born Alone" has a pretty: I been through a shit storm and here's what I've figured out so far.... thing. I think "One Sunday Morning" digs deeper than anyone of us has figured out yet. Something about death and consolation (or lack thereof) in spite of religious skepticism. "Rising Red Lung" is just as big of a bitter-sweet existential sigh as many of my favorite tracks on AGIB.

I just caught how much this song's arrangement is like a Jim O'Rourke thing. In a good way I mean.