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    Neko's Middle Cyclone

    in Someone Else's Song

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    maybe so, but my guess is that it'll just become too expensive to bother with it. i don't know why you are against the digital medium, but I have fully embraced it. it is absolutely wonderful to just go to amazon and download a newly released album at midnight and listen to it on the way to work. in the past you had to wait until stores opened, get in line to check out - it was always a huge hassle. i'm very happy those days are long gone.

     

    the future is going to be digital distribution for movies, video games, and music. it's simply inevitable - it's too convenient not to be the case - and the growth explosion of the digital medium compared to the continuing decline of sales for CDs just proves that people are making the switch - more everyday. Some people will still like the physical medium, but that will become a specialty item sold online on stores like amazon.com. that's exactly what vinyl is - it's a speciality item and its growth is due to more collectors getting involved. i can see it being the same thing for cds - though we are a long way away from that.

     

    That said, I can easily see a day when bestbuy doesn't carry cds or dvds anymore and instead has a website that serves those products to it's customers (and gives the option of the physical medium - sorta like what blockbuster did with HD-DVD when it was obvious blu-ray was winning the format war). netflix on demand - think how amazing this service is (or can be)? you get an idea in your head you want to watch some movie and instead of having to travel to blockbuster you just go to your tv and with a few clicks the movie is playing.

     

    but you do make a good point about vinyls - artists probably will continue to do artwork just to satisfy people who like to collect stuff like that. so maybe we won't see an end to it after all, but honestly i could care less what the album cover looked like for middle cyclone.

     

    and that won't keep artists from being *worryin'* about nice graphics on their website

    Neko's Middle Cyclone

    in Someone Else's Song

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    i am serious - the music is the important part. artists are spending time and money on artwork now - but give it another 10 years and all songs will be purchased digitally. they won't be making cds anymore and artists won't be spending so much time worrying about a cover.

     

    and we will all regret the time when we had cover arts along with the music.

     

    by the way, you may not know, but Neko studied graphic arts before being a musician: that means she's an artist first, and not a singer songwriter only.

    I wonder what people want from this band

    in Just A Fan

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    When I knew Wilco was about to release a new album in June, my heart jumped of joy.

     

    I think that says it all.

     

    I'm of those who don't adore SBS, cause I found it too quiet, or professional, and not crazy enough, or lacking freshness... I think Jeff's voice was too drown in the mix, too. But I know what Wilco is able to do, and I always expect the best. I know this band can do the best tunes out there.

     

    They're my favorite band of the last 15 years, hands down.

     

    But now there aren't many bands around I'm fond of. I'm more into the solo singer songwriters stuff. Not that I think "solo singer songwriter" means something, but it happens that the music I like more often comes from solo artists, or credited so (with a band or not). So, to my view, Wilco is a special band, different from the others.

     

    I don't like every band sounding like Wilco, or from the same wave. Wilco is more than that to me.

    The Rolling Stones

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Let It Bleed and Aftermath are the only Rolling Stones albums that ever really won me over. There are a few songs from Beggard Banquet I like too, not to speak of "Safisfaction", a shot of genius.

     

    The Stones never sounded better with Let It Bleed. With a track like "Gimme Shelter" to set the tone, it's hard to beat.

    Neko's Middle Cyclone

    in Someone Else's Song

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    we are simply products of nature and will return to the earth when we die. she is crying out against the idea that humans are special just because we say we are.

     

    I totally agree with this (I think I said something similar in a thread about God somewhere else on this board). Will buy the CD soon.

    Lucinda Williams, my next ex-wife

    in Someone Else's Song

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    To my ears that sounds beautiful, rough and edgy.

    She has always used a stand for lyrics and she may glance at times to the lyrics.

    No biggie to me, and has become a pretty decent guitar playing and the band can

    flat toss some nasty riffs at ya face.

     

    It's just good ol' ROCK n ROLL.

     

    That band was ace, if you ask me! Can't remember the name of the lead guitar player, but he's one of my favorites. I just know he's from Nashville.

    No Depression and Harp Magazines

    in Someone Else's Song

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    they really just highlight all this crap out there when there only a few bands these days worth really getting into.

     

    That's totally wrong. There are a lot of artists who are worth listening to today. You may put anything that's not Wilco in the "adult MOR pop" bag or whatever, but a lot of them are way more than that. I could mention hundreds of them. And I'm constantly surprised that so much people stay indifferent to their music. I'm not sure it has to do with the fact it's bad or uninteresting, I rather think it has to do with the fact a lot of listeners today just lack of life experience, and spend their time fast-feeding their ears, collecting, MP3ing, reading, eating tops, Pitchforking, etc

     

    As long as anyone is able to love a simple song for what it is, then there are a lot of singer songwriters offering gems around, I can tell you. And I couldn't care less of any "musical revolution".

    The Most Important Band in America

    in Someone Else's Song

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    The Beatles, The Band, Radiohead, U2, The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes, REM, etc... and Wilco... All of these are YESTERDAY's bands. They're Dinosaurs.

     

    Nothing new nor novative nor urgent from them anymore. Forget it.

     

    A *rock band* may have no future at all today.

     

    The most important TODAY, could be The Hold Steady. Because you feel an urgency in their thing. But it's transitional, I don't think this band will be important either.

    Neko's Middle Cyclone

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Had she only released The Virginian, I'd say it's the album to get. Everything by Neko is to get, to me, so far.

     

    I must be a fan. :stunned

     

    My fave being Canadian Amp. I hope you've heard her cover of Neil Young's "Dreaming Man", it's simply an endless addiction. The way her voice sounds in the room, as if it was your room... That album may be not her best personal work, but it's her most magic recording. Not to speak of the poignant "In California"...

    Hype Machine top 50 albums of 2008/2009

    in Someone Else's Song

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    She & Him at 21? That is such a piece of garbage. Literally, if I was walking down the street I'd pay about as much attention to it as an old cigarette butt resting in the crack between two sidewalk blocks.

     

    Other than that, I've heard exactly zero of the albums on that list. I have a lot of music to catch up on.

     

    Well, I won't buy that She & Him album, but I found it more pleasant to listen to than most of the other records mentionned in the list

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