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    The Promise

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I don't know about that. As someone told me a long time ago, what we are really paying for is the box.

     

    my point is that the unreleased tracks are not junk filler to round out extra discs, nor are the videos stuff that collectors have had for years even if in degraded quality. there is also a full playing of Darkness by the current E Street lineup without an audience that will give us dynamic versions of how the songs have evolved over the past 30+ years without the intrusion of audience. Very cool approach if you ask me.

     

    As for it being the best remaster package, I'm willing to hear of others but not sure I can be convinced. And yes, I say this without having the Darkness set in my hands yet. But it looks promising. No pun intended.

    The Promise

    in Someone Else's Song

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    That's nuts. The Born To Run box set was 40 bucks.

     

    while more expensive than the BTR set, its a much fuller offering. you can get the full 6 disc package (which as you saw includes amongst other things, a full new double album of unreleased and "real" songs as well as a full video of a Houston Darkness tour show that did not previously circulate) for about $96 bucks here.

     

    or you can even just buy the new double album, "The Promise" for about $17 bucks here

     

    so you have a couple of options. at the risk of hyperbole, its the best repackage of a remastered album by anyone that I can think of. period.

    Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, 11/7/09 NYC

    in After The Show

    Posted

    It was a great night and while the encores were a little clean up for the casual fans and a bit disappointing, the main set was largely for long time hardcore fans. Bruce was clearly thrilled with how the album came off. So many highlights but none more than a note perfect transcendent rendition of NYC Serenade.

     

    Oh, and by the way, I have saying for year's that Jeff should take a stab at Wild Billy's for his solo shows. Its made for him.

    R.E.M. top 20 songs

    in Someone Else's Song

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    While lists in general are just conversation fodder, count how many (and which) songs this guy thinks are better than "Pilgrimage" (their best song). The nausea starts with Finest Worksong, which blows. By the time I get to the World Leader Pretends of this list, its time to projectile vomit. This could almost be called the top 20 most randomly selected REM songs.

    2006-04-21

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    This was my first Wilco concert -- so it was very special. I saw Chris Cimino -- NBC weather man -- on line.

     

    In the second picture, I'm the woman with the brown hair right in front of Nels and John. I was very happy with Spiders. Kingpin ws great. I even took some great picture of Jeff, but did not save them to my computer. Remember Jeff's line about the horn players , who he said they picked up hitchhiking on 95. "We told them we'd give them a ride if they gave us a blow job."

     

    Are any of the folks who braved the cold and the rain outside the tour bus reading this? I think I had more fun with you than I did meeting the band -- most of whom came out to talk and sign (except for Jeff and Mikel). John was very nice, and talked for awhile. I asked him how many people say, "I've got nothing for you to sign." He said not too many any more, but -- when they did -- he got to see alot of ass. And he giggled dirtily. We even got some pizza from Jason.

     

    I remember that night very fondly -- not my favorite Wilco concert (that'd be Pines Theater June 07) -- but they rocked and the people I met were nice. I was far from the drunks.

     

    Chris Cimino catches the band regularly. I have seen him at several shows making him by far the coolest weatherman since Al Sleet.

    Remind me not to pre-order next time

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Since the rest of the universe appears to have received and digested the DVD, let me just ask for a simple reminder next time not to pre-order. I must have ordered this thing months ago. As much as I appreciate all the extras that came along with the package, I'm still not sure what the benefit is to pre-order anything. Even the Dead, who manage to misplace enough orders and release live shows recorded at the wrong speed on occasion, get the pre-orders out before the stores start selling them. Oh well, I have the audio tracks to keep me occupied for now. That is all.

    REM overrated / underrated from Magnet Magazine

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Everything from Accelerate. Finally. Amen.

     

    Amen, Amen, Amen. I couldn't agree with you or this entry any more. Fraud is the perfect description and so many were duped. Here are my comments from a post last year discussing the brilliant Murmur reissue and other assorted issues.

     

    "While I have enjoyed this thread (and would add Chronic Town right along side Murmur, Reckoning, Fables, to any list of what they did best), we should be clear. Accelerate blows. Its fake rock by a band that has long since lost its way. They need to hang 'em up before they do any further damage to their ever dwindling reputation. I mean seriously, did anyone who managed to listen to Accelerate even once, ever listen to it a second time."

    Emotionally Moving Songs

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    In terms of The Band, I would say 'It Makes No Difference'. The Last Waltz version. The way Rick Danko sings the line 'I love you so much' gets me every time.

     

    Danko=heartbreaking.

     

    How about when he is listening to his song "Sip The Wine" in the studio next to Scorcese and just lowers his head seemingly overcome by his own song? Mesmerizing.

    Van Morrison--2/28/09

    in After The Show

    Posted

    are we talking in Pink Floyd cover terms with Comfortably Numb?

     

    (i'm only a greatest hits Van person)

     

     

    you really need to hear the Van/Roger Waters version on the Departed Soundtrack. Its the way the song should be done and the most interesting thing Van had done in a long long time until this Astral Weeks thing. I have been bitching about Van and his hideously short/indifferent/unsatisfying shows for years but it looks like playing Astral has moved him to a better place (at least momentarily)

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