Littlebear

answer the question you highy messed up freak

We are not afraid of you.

 

Today I find that the mono set has been moved out of my cart into the "saved items" section, and the product page now has this message:

 

 

I had heard that this was a limited edition thing, but did anyone really expect it to be so limited that it would sell out four weeks before the release date?

 

I personally was afraid of that when I learned about the mono box and pre-ordered it immediately - like, one month ago?

The more so as this pre-order was only available from amazon.com, not amazon.fr (I'm French).

C'mon, people, be nice with this dog, it's a fine effort for a first thought!

His death had generated more responses on some French forums than US ones, I could observe that. Never understood why this guy was more loved in Europe than in the USA.

Y'all have listened to Cabretta, right?

I like "Joy" but never could stand "Changed the Locks" much. It's probably my least favorite song from her self-titled album.

Mono is definitely better than stereo for the tracks recorded in mono.

The difference between "Help!" (the song) in mono and the stereo version is important. The mono sound is more punchy, and the vocal harmonies sound more enthusiastic.

Missing the mono versions is missing the way every people listened to them then, on radio, singles, EPs, LPs...

The mono sound helps to understand the beatles phenomenon.

The Velvet Underground

 

Didn't see Josh Rouse's "Nashville" mentioned here? Phenomenal CD!!!

I prefer his first, Dressed Up like Nebraska, but it was released in 1998.

Bright Eyes-I'm Wide Awake...

Bleh.

Haven't we done this yet?

Anyway, again, these albums are to die for:

Laura Cantrell - Not the Tremblin' Kind

Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Always Say Please & Thank You

Jenifer Jackson - Birds

Jill Sobule - Pink Pearl

Amy Allison - Sad Girl

Neko Case - Canadian Amp

Paul Curreri - From Long Gones to Hawkmoth

Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses

Joe Pisapia - Daydreams

Tegan & Sara - If It Was You

Anny Celsi - Little Black Dress & Other Stories

Devon Sproule - Upstate Songs

Julie Doiron - Goodnight, Nobody

Ana Egge - Out Past the Lights

Sam Phillips - A Boot & a Shoe

Rachel Ries - For You Only

Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You

Nina Nastasia - On Leaving

Niobe - White Hats

Kristin Hersh - Learn to Sing like a Star

Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water

Lonely Drifter Karen - Grass Is Singing

Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim

Agreed and one of my favorite Wilco songs, probably in my top 5.

 

I've never understood how a lot of folks don't like it. It's brilliantly written, lyrically and musically, and the production on the recording is great.

It just missed my top three of the other thread by a... thread.

Well, it can only be three Summerteeth songs. So there must be "Pieholden Suite", then it's really tie with several others of the album. I'll add "She's a Jar" and "How to Fight Loneliness".

Oh, just noticed the hat. Now it's getting funny.

Move over VW, we have a new corporate sponsor.

 

But, but... this is a dromedary!

These smokers are so dumb.

It's as if I had stumbled on another world. I see a weird, kinda ridiculous album cover and everybody around's saying "awesome! awesome!".

I'm not dreaming. This is real.

I think this album cover means Jeff is struggling to stop smoking.

The Beatles - The White Album

 

I like it fine, and I love a few of the songs - Dear Prudence, Blackbird, Rocky Racoon - but it pales in comparison to their other works, in my opinion. Never got why everyone loves that one so much.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Happiness Is a Warm Gun? Julia? Sexy Sadie? Cry Baby Cry?

I can't imagine someone not "getting" They Might Be Giants.

I'm afraid I don't get them much. I don't like their voices, and don't find them tuneful at all.

Why the Hell should they be more praised than cub, that fabulous trio who actually wrote "New York City" among many other hooks?

Just personal here, but I can sort of understand the Beatles issue, but Blonde on Blonde??

 

LouieB

Well, I'm of those who are not crazy about that album. You can be fascinated by Bob's flow of songs, but just listening to the music and the vocals you can easily get bored (or irritated).

Otoh it's easy to get why it's a classic.

I think I understand why every "classic" I know is a "classic". But that doesn't mean I like all of them. To the contrary, most of my favorite records aren't the "classics". And it's not by principle. It's due to the fact that for the most part, to become a "classic", an album must have something more "mainstream" and less intimate or special. With a few exceptions (the Velvet Underground being one).

I'll also throw Fab Four's Happiness is a Warm Gun

I threw it one second before you.

I wish some of you can read French. I've read a really great review of this DVD on this French site!

If some of you could appreciate it, feel free to tell what you think!

Happiness Is a Warm Gun

I Am the Walrus

Of course, John never murdered anyone.

Who knows.

Well, Let It Be... Naked is a kind of shame if you ask me. We all wanted to hear the live album as it was recorded, and they could only release that clean cutting.

If Spector ruined "The Long & Winding Road" (which is a pretty boring song anyway), he did a fine job on "Across the Universe".

Phil's best work was pre-Beatles of course, but let's not forget he produced Imagine as well, a pretty fine one.

Well, lets say he came up with a great technique. He never ventured far from it. Oh, and he's a murderer.

The sound he created for the Ronettes and many others in the sixties was wonderful. A deeper insight would probably show its claustrophobic and dement aspect as well. Which of course doesn't make it less fascinating.

The guy is really insane and should have been helped clinically. But they simply don't make artists like that anymore. I'm sure one day they'll make a movie. There's more to be told about him than Ray Charles or Johnny Cash, and morals will have nothing to do with it.

Great producing aside, he's still a murderer at the end of the day.

Murdering aside, he's still one of the greatest pop artists of the 20th century at the end of the day.