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Nina Nastasia's second album

Patty Griffin: Silver Bell that was meant to be her third album in 2000, but was never released. It may be her best album (sadly). The famous lost masterpiece, yeah, no kidding. Some songs will be re-recorded later on the "official" albums: Top of the World, Making Pies, Mother of God, Standing...

Gordon Lightfoot is great. Anyone listen to his first two albums for a start. You find his first four albums on one double CD for the price of one: The United Artists Collection. There you notice that Dylan was probably inspired by stuff like "If You Got It" to get the sound of John Wesley Harding.

Jimmy Page is one of the most boring guitar players I've ever heard. I've heard many blues guitarists who actually play a thousand times more soulfully. What Led Zeppelin did to rock music? The WORST. They made a superpowersounding rock'n'roll circus of what was meaning to sound raw and true. For a start, give me the early Yardbirds anyday. And give me early blues anyday. Give me feelings, actually.

But you don't love things with facts, you love things with feelings. You can't consider something better as long as you don't feel it. There MUST be a connection between what you feel and what you consider the best. There's nothing objective, and all the facts you enumerate above don't argue for greatness. Facts are just used as arguments for people who don't know how to give insights about what they feel. So yeah, every people preferring Wilco than Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin can say Wilco is better. I say it myself for exactly the same reasons, and I'm not ignorant for that matter: I'm just

Believe it or not, I discovered some of Jimi's latest recordings only recently, and found it was the best stuff he ever did. I'm speaking of the First Rays of the New Rising Sun. I can't tell if he's been the best guitarist ever, but the greatest loss, certainly.

Let's say "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton (no, not Whistey Houston, please). By the way: Jolene has just been reissued.

I'm of those who find Led Zeppelin boring, as well as the Doors, if you save some tracks from both. But Jim Morrison had an interesting charisma, whereas Robert Plant does nothing to me. I don't feel Plant ever had something to say. I wonder which sort of influence Led Zeppelin had? Where are their disciples? The Red Hots? The Smashing Pumpkins? Just wondering. There's a pretty great hard rock band I've heard lately: Comets on Fire, the Avatar album. They may revendicate LZ. But that band seems to have many influences from 70's bands.

Right. I didn't even notice that. Is there another Nels Cline topic around here?

I don't have interesting points to put on Nels Cline. That doesn't keep me from needing to read some. I guess my mistake was to take the time to read the whole thread hoping to read something else than basically "oh, I miss Jay Bennett".

A band who had an impact on rock isn't necessarily great. Everyone can consider Wilco better than Pink Floyd with valuable arguments. The fact Pink Floyd had an impact on rock doesn't imply they're better than Wilco. The fact they innovated doesn't mean they're better, either. And let me assure you that Summerteeth did change something in my listener's life. You certainly too much learned your rock lessons, but I wonder if you can actually identify a great rock band of the recent years before the history is written in books. Jay Bennett isn't a great songwriter, his solo albums are pretty

Three bands (there's not necessarily a big difference between bands and solo artists playing with a band, by the way...) who ended to my Top 20 of 2006: The Blow, Young & Sexy, Camera Obscura.

I wish I could read more interesting points about Nels Cline in this topic. Anyway... To the - legitimate - fans : do you know the man plays all over the new Eleni Mandell album, Miracle of Five?

masterpiece

Louise Taylor ~ Written in Red Very, very good... Even a heartbreaker, I'd say. The ballad "Meet You Here" after two stirring bluesy-beat openers, no human on earth can resist to that.

Jill Sobule is one of the most tasty, witty, funny, sincere, sensitive, subtle and affecting pop singer songwriters of the living world.

Amazing. One of the 80's best.