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If his buzz is diminished, it is by his own doing imo. He was high around Illinoise and then was part of the soundtrack for the hugely popular film, Little Miss Sunshine. I believe when he finally came back around circa Age of Adz, he said he was sick or something though. I was just not that crazy about the Age of Adz. I was glad he was back, but his choice of more 'cheesy' electronic sounds as opposed to analog electronic sounds was not really my cup of tea. I will definitely get the album when it comes out.

Hmm, I think Lazaretto is alright, but there are too many 'simple' songs like the opener and Just One Drink. Then the last song says 'who' too much. Hehe. Good to see that so many like Real Estate - Atlas It seems to be barely making a mark in the Year End lists overall that MetaCritic has compiled. I think Atlas is much better than Days. It was hard for me to make it through that album. I really like Atlas, but I have made an alternate tracklisting that I like better. The instrumental is a song too early for me. I'm not seeing Swans on anybody's list. I've had it for months, but still hav

Also interesting that Bono bike accident got no TMZ coverage. Imagine if Kim Kardashian or Kayne had same accident? Hard to believe no one caught a video or photo of accident or helping Bono. Someone of his level would normally be caught on film and shared on news. Not even a Ambulance chaser photo? I hope Bono heals quickly and the tour goes well but for me U2 sold out with this album and tour making it unavailable to the working class. I feel they have enough cash in the safe and could actually help music business by keeping prices lower. Taylor Swift is coming after your fans!!!! =======

If anyone comes across a good deal on the Complete Basement Tapes set, please, let me know! To me, I think it would be more reasonable in the $50-$60 range - that is sight unseen. I don't think were any super great deals on it during Black Friday.

Yeah - a really cool guy opened a vinyl shop a few years ago. He buys big lots and storage, collections, etc. You take him a huge stack of records and he may ask $25. When it first opened, I would see just about any Neil Young or Dylan album. As more and more people found out about it, stuff thinned out. People bought the Young/Dylan so much that he had to increase the price on them. He also started selling the ones that are probably worth more on eBay and Discogs. Just went for the first time the other week and I think the only Young I saw was the one I have seen the most in my crate digging

So if you order both that would be another $8.50? That is a rip imo. The ad leads you to believe it is all in the quoted price, just like every other bonus any Best Buy-esque store has ever done. I hope this is not a new trend. Instead of shipping store bonuses to store, making the customer shell out more just to get it.

Has anyone bought the new McCartney/Wings at Best Buy this week? Their ad talks about 'vinyl singles.' Called up the local store and they had no idea. Tried to tell me it was a download. Nope. E-mailed BB through their website. The response leads me to believe that it was outsourced to a foreign country - response didn't really make sense. Briefly saw on Hoffman forum that you might have to pay to have the singles shipped to you? I've never heard of that - paying more somewhere just to get the opportunity to pay to get something shipped to you. Anyone know?

I just started listening to it the other day. There are some great songs on there. There are about 3 songs in the first half where the bass falls in that familiar eighth note playing the root of the chord thing. This probably contributes to people saying some of it is 'same-y.' Coldplay's first 3 or 4 albums had that same thing in the bass. It just bugs me. The second half has more active basslines, and with a quick look at the Wikipedia credits, those were solely produced by Danger Mouse. He may have played bass on those. Track 10 is a lot like what I associate with Danger Mouse. To me, if

I have wanted The PIxies discography for a long time, but I put it off thinking they would re-release their albums with bonus tracks, etc. Finally the time has come.

That is my favorite album of theirs. So they didn't announce that they would do it, just showed up and did it? I wonder how they pull off those weird/experimental tracks live. They used to have at least one on about 3 or 4 albums in a row.

The one with the group of people/characters in a basement.

Didn't Jay Z's last album come with phones or something? Did it have the same reaction? I haven't heard the U2 album. I haven't bought anything from iTunes in over 5 years and never downloaded it to my latest laptop. I was able to sign in on my phone and the U2 album was there along with the few songs I downloaded all those years ago. My main listen is via CD, so I will probably just wait until the physical release comes out and see the options then. I wonder if the plain CD without bonus tracks will be sold super cheap since most people got it free anyway. On the other hand, I guess t

I really like the new album. The flow works better for me by switching tracks 3 & 8. Shadows sounds like 80's U2 to me. His vocals sound like Bono. The Jacksonville 7" has 3 songs unrelated to the self-titled. 2 are basically what most people would categorize his music to be. The 3rd sounds like a joke studio improv. It makes me laugh though.

I finally bought The Basement Tapes earlier this year, so it's fitting. Wow, so $20 per CD and lets say the book is $30. Seems too much, but the little cover picture doesn't show any detail. Very boring cover in contrast to the 1975 album cover. Weird how they don't capitalize the 'do' in "All You Have to do is Dream". I would think it was a cover of The Everly Bros, but it must have been bootlegged since there seem to be lyrics online and it is an original song.

So how does that even work? Before you can leave with your camera, they get to make copies of the photo files? If shooting film, you have to mail them prints?

After my last post I came across a recent Steve Hoffman board track by track discussion on Self Portrait that was a good read imo. In all that reading I still don't think I ever found out why All the Tired Horses only features a group of women singers and one repeated phrase. I guess I will have to read through my Another SP booklet. Most Dylan albums have thorough track by track entries on Wikipedia, but I guess no one cares enough about Self Portrait to do that there. If I have Biograph, all 60's/most 70's studio albums, Witmark and ASP, is Bootleg 1-3 still worth getting?

I finally decided to bite on Self Portrait when I saw it for $3.99 at Hasting's. It rung up for $2.99. I can't believe people call this one of the worst albums of all time. It is kinda weird how it shuffles around with his various vocals of the period, but it basically sounds like a mix of Skyline/Harding/Morning/Pat G soundtrack. The first song that is weird for me is the Sadie where he keeps modulating keys. That is just strange. He has the super annoying vocals (to me) going on the live Quinn. I've never heard the original artist's version of Days of 49, but Dylan's is great. The Boxe

I don't understand why the single's streams are being taken down. I don't see any official YouTube videos. Oddly enough, I did see 2 videos for the b-side. I think Ryan Adams Archive bit the dust. There was also a really detailed gigography site, and I think it's gone, too. Did the site like that for Wilco also disappear?

I don't think I was ever able to listen to The Terror all the way through, and I am very patient about listening to full albums in one sitting. I think it was the track order, something about the way the album starts makes it hard for me to keep going. It may need one of the 'peppier' tracks up front. I liked the long song though. Anywho, I saw the 7 Skies H3 50 min CD version in the store and I was curious about it. There are hardly any reviews of it online. The local Hasting's had probably 7 copies. I don't see how they would ever sell even that many. Has anyone heard it? How much vocals

Unfortunately it's a limited RSD 7", so either I won't be able to get it, or it will be overpriced. A 7" shouldn't cost over $5 imo. I wanted the Iron & Wine one last year, and St Vincent Krokodil, but by the time I would get these shipped to me, it's probably $10 or more and that's if someone has jacked up the price. $5 per track is a cruddy deal. I don't know if they release these digitally as well or not.

First listen, I hated it. The first song-y song (trk 2) starts with the same chord as The Golden Age. Sounds like it was recorded in exactly the same way. The song is even arranged almost exactly like that song. If he didn't call Nigel Godrich up to ask what equipment was used, he paid a lot of attention and remembered. The 4th trk even reminds me a lot of Already Dead - others have similar strumming patterns, etc. But then, after listening through it more, I am really liking it. The craft of a great album from beginning to end, is something to behold. It's still early, but I am longing to l

He's actually done quite a bit of music - it just shows how valuable the LP is opposed to one off singles, soundtracks, etc. Like with the Lips - they put out a ton after Embryonic, but I have only gotten The Terror. If it's not easy to get, I usually don't. Beck put out 3 12" last year. I actually think the tracks sounded pretty good, I just don't want to buy all the songs separate. He also had some released with a video game, too, pretty recently. He contributed tracks to the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack. He did some orchestral stuff, remixes, and more. If they made a compilation and put it al

If I didn't enjoy the recent Fallon performance, does that mean I probably wouldn't dig the rest of the album?

Finally picked up The Basement Tapes. It would be fun to make a single album from just the Dylan fronted tunes. Interesting to hear Bob use voices from different eras/albums over the different tracks. It got me to thinking - the slurred voice that will have trouble singing in time, think "Million Dollar Bash," and is what he uses pretty much on all of Blonde on Blonde and kept me at arm's length on that one for a while. I wonder if that is the influence of drink or drug while recording.

Adventures in Hi-Fi - I know it was recorded part in studio / part in sound checks, etc., but I can barely listen to half of the songs. Any rather recent recordings that put minor (supposed to be hidden) Auto-Tune all over vocals. I'm not talking about T-Pain sound, but when people try to use it in a way closer to the original intent - unnoticeable and to correct minor pitch problems - but use it on the entire vocal. Being There dates itself some with the odd vocal effects choices that are most associated with the 90's. Other than that, I don't remember it sounding bad, and especially not