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Thought this would suck, it's actually pretty great.

New album is a grower.

Clapton better than Page? hahahhahah. Maybe at doing heroin.......

When you start getting into your upper 20's, you realize a lot of indie rock is just hollow posturing, and the straightforward rock becomes absolutely refreshing. Bands like AC/DC become like some triumphant razor that slices through the bloated indie pretentiousness.

PF sucks, but they are right about Cardinology. It's a stinky pile of wombat dung.

Great news. Thx for posting.

It's a terrible cliche, but those songs are much better live. I find AWWTM to be poor by Lips standards and a significant blow to their great run.

Well Pink Floyd is second only behind the Beattles in terms of albums sold by a rock band, so they fit the bill. They also had three vocalists which gave better balance to the music.

They aren't. The "one tone" has been Amnesiac to IR. They are awful records. Hopefully you aren't implying that Radiohead are even on that level. U2 is still the biggest band in the world and has been for quite some time.

Radiohead was actually a good band at one time. Then they faded badly after Kid A, stuck on the same ideas and gloom. One of the problems with Radiohead is the same problem that currently plagues Wilco and Son Volt - mumbly lead singers with little vocal balance unlike the true great acts like the Beatles and Pink Floyd. You can only take those mumbly, depressed vocals for so long before you get sick of it. Nowadays, Radiohead is largely propped up by "Listonistas", a cadre of aging white males who own blogs and forums and who "pimp" year end lists( see the recent In Rainbows Rate Your Music

Really, *really* bad band.

Actually I'm pretty good looking and fit. You would hide your girlfriend if you had one.

Strange opinon considering Hollywood Town Hall is widely considered the finest alt.country record.

I own their discography. Not quite Blue Earth/Hollywood Town Hall/Tomorrow The Green Grass territory but pretty good, if a bit amateur sounding.

Everyone is allowed to be a moron at least once. "Two Angels", "Five Cups of Coffee" and "Martin's Song" are better than anything Tupelo ever recorded.

Don't overheat your Honda, Cortez. You might miss that Urban Outfitters sale tomorrow.

SBS would be tagged under "Dad Rock".

So Uncle Tupelo is "most alt.country"? By the way, "Blue Earth" was released before "No Depression", contains no punk elements and is the better record.

Yup.

That's laughable. Most alt.coutnry has no punk element whatsoever.

The Jayhawks were doing this before Tupelo, and Townes before the Jayhawks. Alt.country is basically "intelligent" country for the most part.

You'd be wrong of course. http://folkmusic.about.com/od/artistsaz/p/Townes_profile.htm Anyone who thinks alt.country is soley defined as a mixutre of punk/country is barking up the wrong tree. That's just one aspect.

Nope. Townes is widely considered the grandfather of alt.country because of his purposely non-commercial sound and unorthodox vocals. http://www.mahalo.com/Townes_Van_Zandt

The wiki article is completely wrong. No Depression the first alt.country record? lol. No mention of the Jayhawks, who released Bunkhouse and Blue Earth well before then? Alt.country is only a mixture of punk and country? lol. Ryan Adams ushered in alt.country?

This is incorrect.