Littlebear

The bits of new songs sound awesome. Her voice sounds more sweet, clear and fine with each record. I like it better when she doesn't shout (unless she does it really hard like on "Karoline"). I think she could record anything with that voice. Fortunately, she happens to have fine taste in art and music as well.

Everybody keeps mentionning this album everywhere, but I've listened to some tracks on myspace and don't get what the buzz is about.

I have two answers to this question. First, there's a matter of personal approach that makes you like the music you like. It's the way your sensibility connect to some music. You feel things others don't. The other question that springs on this point is: "is what you feel really from the music you listen to, or more suggested/evocated"? Secondly, there's obviously feelings some musics give to you that you couldn't figure out before. Then these feelings come clearly from the music.

We have something in common.

Let's see, right away... The Velvet Underground & Nico The Gun Club - Fire of Love Television - Marquee Moon Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn The B-52's The Modern Lovers Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left Mink DeVille - Cabretta Amy Rigby - Diary of a Mod Housewife OK, only nine... and not in order

Nobody can even imagine how much I loved this album. To me, this guy had everything. The talent of McCartney with the poetry of Tim Hardin. Unfortunately, after another excellent album two years later (Whereabouts), he never did better. And his latest offering this year may be his weakest.

I think the artwork is superb and tasty, as well. Some people say it's hideous, and I strongly disagree.

Nick Cave is so fascinated by darkness and mythology that it doesn't sound credible at all. He just plays a role, he cheats. He was more interesting back in the early eighties, with stuff like From Her to Eternity. He was a dandy already, but you could feel some danger, and he's been actually close to death. Now he's just a bored survival. Nobody can live a dark hell for twenty years long. It doesn't work that way. Jeffrey Lee Pierce is dead, and Bob Dylan doesn't record stuff like Highway 61 Revisited anymore (fortunately?). Sure, it's easy for every intellectual to state that his ly

I can safely say that the Nick Cave album is simply a bore. I can't even understand how we can take such a poseur seriously. His lyrics? Give me a break. There is more poetry in the lyrics of Richard Julian. And nobody mentions him at all. the stone light of day serves you up on a tray sunday morning in saturday's shoes and your head turns to dust in the dawn's early rust sunday morning in saturday's shoes feels good to be free like the way it should be oh me, oh my then you catch your own eye in the shop of a window glass you're living too fast and you've got only yourself to accuse

It was about time! I always thought Summerteeth was Wilco's true masterpiece, and never changed of mind.

I am in the Highway 61 Revisited camp. That album has fire.

Ram is probably his best album. "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" is splendid (could have been on Abbey Road). The opener "Too Many People" is great too. And of course "Live and Let Die" is a classic.

They're just "some fun" in my book, and relatively speaking, a disappointment. Somehow, his inspiration on the White Album was announcing his solo career. Actually, the White Album is where the Beatles don't sound as much together as before.

None is up to: I Saw Her Standing There Things We Said Today She's a Woman I'm Down We Can Work It Out You Won't See Me I'm Looking Through You Here, There & Everywhere For No One The Fool on the Hill Hey Jude Get Back Let It Be Two of Us

I totally agree with this.

Did you listen to ?

"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is priceless I still don't know what to do of "Helter Skelter"

I thought the same thing right upon the first spin!

Why the hell did people say the EP was better than the LP? That's not the case at all. I'm with the majority of the poll: "White Winter Hymnal" is the best tune of the LP. It's also the only one that's mid/up tempo, if I remember well.

Not in France, unfortunately.

I actually hate twofers, unless it's really nicely done. I prefer faithfull to vinyl reissues, half the price. But the average twofers with two albums covers on the CD cover, no, thanks. I can't see Revolver and Sgt. Pepper on the same CD, to boot. It'd be even weird to see satellite singles as bonus tracks of the original albums. The ideal reissues would be CD imitations of every original vinyl of any format. Singles, EPs, LPs. The Japaneses do that very well. That, or a dream of a boxset. But frankly, there's nothing of that sort to expect from EMI.

So far I wasn't grabbed by the rock numbers, but liked the slow ones, "Sensitive Boys", "Hollywood Hills", "Swallows of San Juan"... Al Escovedo is always affecting when it comes to direct emotion.

I'm basically a fan of Amy Rigby's records (she released 5 ones before in solo), and she always deliver some fine tunes, with her usual humor/wit/irony and deep humanity. Not to speak of her personal charm. Wreckless Eric is an English guy who started to rock back in the late 70's, he was on the Stiff label, along with Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, etc. I have a good compilation of his songs, the most famous number being "Whole Wide World". Amy Rigby is a fan of the man, and they started to tour together a few years ago. This is their first record as a duet. They belong quite