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The Youtube videos aren't bad quality, but the bass gets wayyyyyyyyy distorted. So maybe a nice bootleg will pop out. Certainly a nice change of pace from Radiohead.

Arrested Development movie script being written. I'm gonna have to get myself a mayonegg to celebrate.

"And that is why you don't teach your father lessons."

 

"And that is why you don't use a one-armed man to teach people lessons."

Why does it have to be an indictment of anything? I see it as a celebration of Rio de Janeiro. Doesn't have to be anything negative about it - it wasn't America's turn.

 

Indictment is probably the wrong word, but to the conservatives Chicago not getting it is evidence about how much Obama sucks, which is definitely what it isn't. That's really what I meant.

Joe Scarborough, once again proving that there is still a place for a sane voice or two on the right wing. Boggles my mind that pundits like Limbaugh are cheering that a US city didn't get the olympics. All because they dislike the president?

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-scarborough/thank-you-mr-president_b_308022.html

 

It's dumb. As I said at the "other place," Chicago not getting the bid is not an indictment of Obama personally, it's an indictment of America in general. The nerve of those guys...

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was like 19th in their Top 50 albums of the first five years of this decade, so I guess some how in the five it got a lot better. Anyway, not too displeased with this list. Pretty solid, top Ten, and sorry Jesusetc, Funeral's fucking great, and it's aged as well as any album this decade, in my opinion. I wasn't as keen on Neon Bible, but Funeral is still pretty magical for me.

--Mike

 

Considering Funeral was #45 on that 50 in 2005 list P4k had, #2 is quite the improvement. I don't like Neon Bible that much at all, if it makes a difference.

Funeral over Yankee Hotel Foxtrot makes me want to strangle a kitten. I can't believe people are still making a fuss about that album.

 

Putting YHF in front of Funeral would have been terrible in my opinion. In the past half-year, I've listened to Funeral probably about 100-150 times, while I've maybe put on YHF twice. Funeral has a lot more staying power than YHF, at least for me. Funeral grips you and doesn't let go while YHF sort of lazily drifts in the background. Mind you, I would put Funeral as the best and YHF as second best, but I would put Funeral higher than YHF.

 

I'm ok with the top 20 or so, but after that it's all hogwash anyways. The real travesties are Loretta Lynn and Brian Wilson not even cracking it, let alone the top 20, let alone something like the top 10. But they're too old school for consideration, I guess.

1. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

3. Girls - Album

4. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

 

for sure.

 

The Volcano Choir record is pretty good, but Mbira in the Morass sticks out like a sore thumb and is super weak in and of itself. If that track wasn't there it would be a lot better. But considering what the record is trying to do it's pretty impressive that they even got close to accomplishing it.

The worst year for music was obviously 1264AD. The Gregorian chants coming out of that year were just ludicrously bad.

Hands down, the funniest scene in the entire series.

 

That or this:

 

Wow! I was just flipping through the last issue, & I thought of how cool a Nels cover would be!

 

March 2005's cover of Guitar Player has Nels on the cover. I have a copy of it, and I have it signed by Nels. Most personally valuable thing I own.

Finally, a thread where I can crack Arrested Development jokes. Now I can share my pop secret with someone.

YHF would be great, but I'd love to hear them take on Double Nickels on the Dime.

 

I'd vote for Double Nickels on the Dime. Imagine them stretching out all the jams on like "Corona." That would be epic. Also anytime they tackle something huge that leaves a lot of room for awesomeness.

 

Some of them wouldn't work well, like Arcade Fire's Funeral. I also don't see them doing Tom Wait's Rain Dogs turning out well either.

 

I think Thriller would be funny, and most of the Dylan works would be fine. Plastic Ono Band seems like a really interesting option, come to think of it.

22 years ago, I thought Sgt. Peppers hadn't aged well.

 

It still hasn't.

 

If by "aged well" you mean "still awesome," then you're right.

I'm ok with that list, though AGIB that high is strange. My list is quite different, but I accept that list, for what it's worth.

Interestingly, Revolution #9 becomes way more listenable in mono. I listened all the way through when at the office -- it became white noise as opposed to stick knitting needles in your ears bad.

 

Who could have thought that such a Yoko Ono-influenced work could be listenable

I imagine some of the pricier ($400+) Asian-made electrics have a greater playability, but I cannot believe that guitar-playing has the retention rate it does for people whose first experience was with a intro Asian-made.

 

I have a $700 (list could be more, given I got it on eBay for that much) Korean-made custom Epiphone Casino that I love playing, so I suppose I support this statement.

That's not how the Emerick book painted it. It was more like they already knew Lady Madonna was their next single and needed a promo so they just filmed them recording a new song which happened to be Hey Bulldog.

 

Well, I'm not sure of the real details, but the basics that the "Lady Madonna" visuals of the promo is actually them recording "Hey Bulldog" are the gist of it. I sorta just made part of what I said earlier up.

 

OK, so the White Album in mono is just.... wow.

 

Is it me or is "Don't Pass Me By" at some higher octave? My music knowledge is pretty lame; all I know is that it seems "higher" in mono.

 

Mono "Don't Pass Me By" is a half-step higher. I'm guessing this had to do with some shenanigans with speeding/slowing tape playback (which was messed with based on stereo vs. mono) which results in the different pitches you hear.

Tim Couch part two

 

...something like that.