LouieB

I scanned so I must admit I didn't see everything I guess. Actually both GB albums were quite good. I guess having one of the best singles of the decade and a whole bunch of great supporting songs really doesn't count for much anymore. LouieB

I heard Purple Haze on the radio today....not exactly news I guess... LouieB

Nice. LouieB

Interesting...not a single mention of Gnarls Barkley. LouieB

This is really great news, if it comes into being, particulary pairing Mavis with Kelly and Nora. Great idea. LouieB

I figure I am going to die before I listen to all the stuff I have that I have bought. My kids are going to have to listen to it for me. LouieB

Did anyone catch the NPR story about Ray Davies doing his songs in front of a choir? I thought it was interesting that Ray indicated that folks in the USA pronounce his name incorrectly. I have certainly always pronounced it Day-veez, but apparently it is really pronounced Davis, with a slight z sound at the end, like day-vez. LouieB

So I can understand that I am not supposed to be here because I either don't know anything about rap or like rap, but simply watching TV for a few minutes last night I got to see Rhianna peform (admittedly she isn't totally rap but close enough) and get to admire her fractured fashion sense and also got to see Jay-Z perform as well and view his somewhat dreadful brand new for 2010 video. (Jay Farrar was nowhere in sight so I can't tell what he is up to in 2010.) Somehow I don't think I am totally unqualified to advance a couple wan opinions about the relative merits of the current crop of ra

As usual they bought plenty of American music.... LouieB

I don't know either....it is just a way to get into trouble. I do own a few rap records and I do occasionally listen to it and frankly if you interact with any media you hear rap quite alot. (Unlike hearing Jay Farrar which you don't hear and he did do something sort of new this year...) Rap is the predominant popular music or stand in for popular music. You can't turn on the radio and not hear it and it gets played on TV shows, commercials, rap artists are fashion and culture beacons, etc. Yea, it is totally stupid of me to advance an opinion (or actually advance the opinions of others I

No, my health is not good enough... But I have been to the south and west sides of Chicago quite a bit and it certainly appears fairly third world in some respects. I would in no way really say the US is a third world country, but we are increasingly separating the haves from the have nots. LouieB

Doesn't it now? We don't make hardly anything here anymore. We export raw materials and buy manufactured goods. Isn't that what the third world does? Our taxes are low (compared to most industrialized countries) and we don't regulate inports hardly at all either. There are few tariffs on stuff. LouieB

Someone stop him before he hurts himself.....or pisses off roomates or spouse..... LouieB

There was an article in either the Trib or the Times about white women getting into rap. I guess we need something new. LouieB

I saw them at Blues Fest in the rain several years back. Great experience despite getting wet. Their live album is also very good. Thanks to amazon I also bought your suggested album. Thank you cheap dealer as well. LouieB

I am disappointed too, but that doesn't mean I think there is someone out there who would be better. I think those of us on the left need to get real. If we allow the crazies on the right and the naysayers on the left to torpedo this presidency, we are going to end up with President Palin (it could happen) or some other shill for and from Fox News. I listen to way too much mildly left and further left radio (I really have to start listening to all those CDs I never find time for instead) and all the noise on how disappointed people are and how they don't plan to vote again, etc. etc can't he

Wow.....the public option was going to be that...an option. If you decided not to provide coverage they could get it from the government instead of you and that idea keeps being shot down. The entire bill should have been much shorter, but of course nothing the government does is short. Everyone should have been given options that were realistic and workable. And of course this is all Obama's fault....totally...time to impeach him...since Congress had nothing to do with the contents of this bill. LouieB

Sorry, I don't know how to put the correct inflection on stuff on the internet. Clearly I don't believe this. I don't have another hundred years to wait. There are things in this bill that will in fact benefit us all, but for those who WANT to kill it, have at it. For the rest of us, building on what isn't a perfect bill is better than no bill at all. Meanwhile the left and right wings want the same thing....no-thing. LouieB

What group would that be?? Okay fine. Let's repeal this bill and start over....maybe in another 100 years. This bill is clearly worse than no bill at all. LouieB

Robbie Fulks gave a shout out to Jay Bennett during his "rap of the dead" at Fitzgeralds last night. That was nice. LouieB

I am usually in complete agreement with Mr. Heartbreak on things, but Thirty Seconds is inferior to the far better Bless His Little Pointed Head, which is also live. If you have not checked that out, do so. Whatever happened to Weber. I used to see him occasionally play is groovy stand up electric bass back in the 70s and early 80s. LouieB

Blind loyalty is for suckers, yes. But no one is blindly loyal to their party at all. In fact each party encompases several ideologies all at once. The Republicans include the wildly social conservative and a diminishing number of fiscal conservatives who aren't all that socially conservatives (Arnold Schwartenegger or however you spell it.) The Demoncrats include some fairly conservative folks such as Ben Nelson who held up health care so abortion is not included to the fairly radical Dennis Kucinich. In my life time (and you don't reveal what your life time is so I can't tell if you are 2

I am not sure what this post is about, but it isn't about rap since I listen to several of these artists and none of them rap. Andrew Bird....dude the guy plays violin and actually knows how to sing.... Thanks for having my back on this. Since rap has been around for what is now going on many many years (30 or so) and I heard rappers delight when it was new as well as the other old school groups, I too have heard it plenty over the years and some of it is okay. But the some of the gansta stuff which predominated the genre during the 90s and 00s, mostly sucked. Yea, sure someone is going

Let's see, I think I said it WAS premature....Was it misguided?? Maybe. But the Peace prize went to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, as well as Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin too, both choices were somewhat misguided. Prizes of all sorts are given out in misguided ways all the time, from the Nobels to the Oscars to the Grammy's to anything else you can name. This one was clearly given to Obama simply because he wasn't Bush. Is that at good decision. Probably not, but then again people all over the world were fairly relieved when Bush was gone. Should they have waited. For sure. It was

Is this the post I didn't read? Again, I was mostly just screwing around, but I am not the only one who finds rap less than inspiring. Needless to say it is true when someone older has not dissed new music, it does happen all the time. Also needless to day there is great music being made in all genres. I buy new music all the time, just no rap. I own some rap, but not current, nor do I listen to it with any frequency. I do tune in the occasional rap show on the college stations however. So no, I am not the least bit in touch with it. I just don't even have enough years left to list