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although you can't really hear Bob, "daughters of the soho riots" is really good.

they were a quintet at this point, yeah? no keys if i recall.

Question: I kind of stopped listening to the GD a few years back, but remember that someone found a bunch of keith godchaux's (i think) tapes from the late '71 tour that no one had ever heard. did those ever get released at any level?

i felt this way about Wincing the Night Away too. Haven't heard the new one, but I did enjoy the two tracks they played on SNL.

i think maybe because all of his stuff sounds very similar. he never changes up much from his formula. or maybe not. i know for me, i can only listen to so much of his stuff due to it all having the same general tone/feel.

Bloodflow is one of the best things i've ever heard.

The cover of "Six O'Clock News" off of the John Prine tribute record was awesomely creepy. Only heard "How I Quit Smoking", but I enjoyed it a bit.

although i've been off the jamband train for quite a while, to say that Phish doesn't have a background/influence in traditional american music is just ignorance. They have moonlighted as a jazz band mulitple times, and have played plenty of straight bluegrass. They're a jack of all trades band that could really do just about anything they want (minus sing really well).

Bll Callahan or Lambchop, please.

ya know, as a kid, "The King of Wishful Thinking" by Go West was, for some reason, super sad. When I hear it now I still kinda feel the same way.

i feel like i should do The Robot to this whole record.

"sycamore gotta grow down to grow up" --Bill Callahan, "Sycamore"

hey that's good. very nice.

Apocalypse by Bill Callahan is the best thing I've heard. Bon Iver, Bon Iver is also very good.

the basis of the comparison is that i'm comparing Bon Iver, Bon Iver to Helplessness Blues and I like the former better than the latter. that's about where it begins and ends. I like one more than the other. I happen to feel like the Fleet Foxes are really really really boring.

it is inevitable. the record is miles better than the Fleet Foxes record, though. the derogatis review doesn't really provide any kind of reason why he doesn't like it. it's just him bitching. whatever. the record is a major grower, but it gets there (for me, anyway...i've been listening to it non-stop for about two weeks now).

at first i was kind of disappointed with the record, but i'm really liking it a lot now. it's a grower.

The Band - A Musical History Forgot I had this. found it at my parents' house. Like I got a big present. amazing.

i don't think you would hate to not get it because you wouldn't like it.

Trying not to compare it to For Emma. I think even as a standalone record it's a good record, but it's just lacking something...I don't know exactly what. I really honestly think that it's that the lyrics are unintelligible and pretty unrelatable as a whole. I'm sure I'll be spinning it off and on, but I don't know that it'll get the kind of rotation that For Emma got back in 2008. I think the lack of "negative" space in the music is also hurting it a bit. Everything is *so* layered and busy sounding on every track. Nothing seems to breathe much.

album of my year.

i dunno. i think he can turn a good phrase or two when he really puts his mind to it. I thought For Emma, while some of the lyrics are a bit WTF, made sense in its own context. I literally have NO idea what any of these songs are about. ps- DYE had some solid lyrics on Silent Signs, too.

as good as this record is, the lyrics make it hard to relate to.

the words are almost unintelligible anyway. i guess he was going for sound more than word meaning.