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I live in Cary... I hate it. So many people who live there are self absorbed, always in a hurry and always focusing on their jobs (even when they're spending time with their family).

Not everyone fits the mold obviously, but for the most part... I hate Cary.

I really like SBS. It's a great, relaxing hammock album. Nels is fantastic and really does justice to their sound (especially live). Wilco usually does a good job of making each new album stand apart from all the others. I just hope that they keep growing so that the next album doesn't stop their trend of changing it up. I just hope Glenn gets a little more space in this new album. The SBS songs didn't seem like they gave him enough room to really kick ass.

I'm a member of C.A.S.H. (Church of American Secular Humanism).

Let me guess, the person who made the statement was NPR

The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia

I think it was in between an Austin City Limits show Tweedy said something along the lines of music is proof of a creator, because music on a small level is a creation that WE can create. And if we can create something out of nothing, then there must be something bigger that can create us. Something like that. Either way, the implication that I got was that Tweedy (religious or not, believes in some higher being).

I think with Theologians he's saying "you don't know me!" I think it's more of a jab at fundamentalism where everyone is judged for not obeying the specific life paths in the same way Loose Fur's "Ruling Class" jabs at fundamentalism close-mindedness of Jesus coming back as this glorious person. Where as Tweedy takes a more "realistic" side saying that if Jesus comes back he'll be more of an everyman or a social outcast/someone the fundamentalists wouldn't approve of (aka Jesus wasn't approved of in his time by the religious elite sort of thing so why would he come back as a person approved by the religious elite).

Wow, that made my morning.

Used to be you could count of the radio to hip you to new music (those of you rockin' in the 60's and 70;s know what I mean). Then radio station started being run by bean counters and music guys started selling shoes.

Try to find a college radio station. Usually (unless it's NPR affiliated) they'll have good "indie"/"alternative" music. I'm the program director for my college's radio station and we play THS, MMJ, Wilco, Spoon, Ray Lamontagne, etc.

This is the mindset you have to have when listening to this. I think it is a blast.

Exactly. It's like they want to make an album that is musically trash just to make a point that they don't give a crap about what people think so they're just going to have fun with the music.

Weezer - The Red Album

 

Stop kidding yourself!

I think the album's hilarious. I can't believe all of the hate. It's nothing amazing, but it's still funny and doesn't deserve all of the bashing it gets from weezer "fans" and critics.

Pretty much every Porcupine Tree album (except Fear of a Blank Planet, cause the critics loved it & talked about it)

Mark Lanegan's Field Songs

Soulsaver's It's not how far you fall, it's how you land.

Hell, pretty much anything Mark Lanegan is amazing but lost in the shadows and appreciated by the people who know & care.

Pure Reason Revolution's The Dark Third

Dangermouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life It kind of got lost in the glory of all Dangermouse's other projects ala Gnarls Barkley & Dangerdoom.

I'm just really getting into Waits. I haven't sat down and listened to most of his older stuff, but I absolutely LOVE is early stuff.

My top 3 (so far and in no particular order)

Heart of Saturday Night

Closing Time

Nighthawks at the Diner

Porcupine Tree's Coma Divine is a fantastic live album that really shows a great band really starting to form up. Before Coma Divine, most of the music was made by Steven Wilson alone, but the Signify album was the first full band production. Coma Divine is the beginning of the band really starting to work together and put on a solid show.

You can't forget Zappa In New York, though... Classic! Also, the newer release of stuff he did with the Petite Wazoo live "Imaginary Diseases" is fantastic!!

Just saw these guys at The Red and The Black here in DC... Amazing band out of Raleigh. I had never heard of them before but bought the CDs they had, I love it.

 

They reminded me of Whiskeytown (which makes sense, they have Caitlin and Skillet play on some of their studio stuff). But basically it was a great show, really recommend catching these guys if they come near you.

 

Sorry if there is another thread on this band, but I couldn't discern one amongst all the references to the lyric.

Yeah they do put on a good show. Really nice people too. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill has been releasing some great bands recently.

i think isobell campbell/mark lanegan's album might be on my top of 08 list. back burner is fantastic.

Such a great album. All of those tracks in the middle are fantastic.

Via Chicago (Kicking Television version) was playing on the radio as I was leaving for the grocery store today. Awesome, especially cause I'm the program director of the station (college radio is awesome )

This. When people bring up how they are "liek the same," I get half-angry and explain how they actually differentiate from their roots. Radiohead takes from a more "alternative," post-punk-ish history while Wilco draws from the more "folk," alt-country, Americana roots. They have followed similar arcs, so to speak but their pasts are so different.

 

What would be a more interesting argument is that whether Radiohead and Wilco, despite different roots, have followed parallel paths.

Exactly. They take their pasts and evolve. They don't sound alike because of their roots, but it's how they both draw from their roots and progress off of them. What makes them similar is how they play with these roots and artistically craft the sound to be something of their own. Few bands craft sound in the way that Wilco and Radiohead do.

I can't really explain it, they don't sound similar but they feel similar. Both started out with a more, "raw" rockin' attitude and slowly evolved into their own identities. Take YHF and OK Computer for instance. Two completely different albums, obviously. However, this is when both of them really start to dive into a more intricately produced state. They both take their previous sounds as a base, but they take those roots in a much more progressive direction. Both of have a real "full-album feel." But, they sound absolutely nothing alike. It's just what they did with their past, as you said, followed parallel paths with their musical development.

I don't think the comparison is made in a sound sense, the bands are sonically quite different. I think it's made as an attitude comparison. Both evolve and show musical growth and experimentation. If Radiohead had Americana roots, they would probably sound something like Wilco. It's more of an analogy of Wilco is to America as Radiohead is to England. I guess.

This is so cool. I'm tempted to use this as a method for naming my new/reformed band.

Miss Dominican Republic 1954 - Joke in the World

I loved Tweedy's response to the person who threw the seat cover on stage. "Well it's mine now..."

Great show. I saw them two years ago in Chapel Hill, and I thought this show was much better. I'm glad they played more older stuff.

 

Holy hell this is some great stuff. I know I like a book when it makes me laugh out loud at the sheer ridiculous-ness.

I just started that recently as well. After just finishing David Sedaris' "naked" and "when engulfed in flames"

Great show! Koka Booth impressed me, it being in Cary (not a very music scene oriented town) and all. The only other thing I saw at Koka was the Peking Acrobats...

The guitar reminds me a bit of Fleetwood Mac for some reason. I like it.