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    Jeff Tweedy -- 1/30/09

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Not sure if Jeff made any mention of it last night when he played "Dog", but a Iggy and a few of the Stooges lived in Ann Arbor for awhile. Actually, they lived in a house that was across the street from where I lived in the late 80's. (they were gone by then of course, but every now and again a couple sightseers would show up.)

    Irving Plaza 4.21.99

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Probably in the wrong forum here but I downloaded this show from Owl and Bear and keep getting an error message decoding Track 5 Nothingsever.

     

    Does any one have either a clean .shn or flac or wav or anything so I can make my copy complete?

     

    thanks

     

    Dave

    REM Murmurs Deluxe Edition!

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    For me my favorites have always been Murmur/Reckoning. They were both exciting and mysterious and so far out of the mainstream at the time that they really stood out. Great great stuff. After that it all varies for me depending on my current mood. Based on my mood right now I would take my order on them to be:

     

    Murmur/Reconking

    New Adventures

    Document

    Lifes Rich Pagent

    Out of Time

    Automatic

    Green

    Fables

    Monster

    Up

    Accelerate

    Reveal

    Around the Sun

     

    Fables is getting a lot of love here, but I never have warmed up to it. I know it has some great songs on it and that lots of people love it, but for me it never made much of an impression. It always seemed more like a collection of songs brought in from different directions rather than a single coherent body of work.

     

     

    Not to pounce on REM too much (especially since I lived for them in college and have listened to Murmur and Reckoning more than any two records that have ever been released by any artist) but look at the above list for a second. Up, Reveal, Around the Sun, Green, Monster. These records are completely uninteresting and completely forgettable. Their shelf life when they were released was minimal. Now its zero. I defy anyone to sit through any of these records start to finish. Add to that that Out of Time, Automatic, and New Adventures while real solid when released have lost much luster and have not aged well to paraphrase another poster. New Adventures though does remain mysterious, if uneven.

     

    They were a monumental, genre shaking, enigmatic band of genius for a while, but they are done I am saddened to say. Just my opinion of course, but great bands should be held to a high standard, and REM hasn't been there for more than a decade at this point. Now that that is off my chest, its on to the 3,000th playing of Harborcoat...............

    REM Murmurs Deluxe Edition!

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    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.

    Freedy Johnson

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    It was. I didn't really like anything else since the first two (Trouble Tree and Can You Fly). I still have to understand why some people keep praising This Perfect World, which is quite boring. But why did you tell he sounded angry on the following albums? He never sounded angry to me.

     

     

    the angry and miserable was when he was on stage. as a few other posts have noted, he just seemed to have contempt for the crowd, which given his ever dwindling audience, you would think he might try to nurture a little better relationship.

     

    anyway, he definitely wrote a few gems and did the best cover of wichita lineman and i've been waiting that you ever heard.

    Freedy Johnson

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    You obviously didn't listen to Right Between the Promises (2001).

     

     

    I definitely did not. If it was good, then it was the exception to his later years rule. I used to love the guy early on and saw him a bunch having lived in Hoboken, NJ for years. He just ran out of gas

     

    and yes, the band with Kevin Salem was best lineup he put together.

    Freedy Johnson

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    that depends....was leroy once an up and coming songwriter who released a couple of decent earlier efforts, then a timeless unforgettable album (can you fly) before turning into a boring, angry miserable songwriter with nothing left in the tank who played terrible live shows?

    Charleston 8-7-08

    in After The Show

    Posted

    sound was stellar for the first half of the show last night then they cranked the bass and it all went to mush. charleston in particular has bad bass heavy mixes at most venues, people now expect it i think, so the guy wasn't liking the mix as it wasn't "loud" enough, ie not boomy and deafening. that crowd last night sucked and i'm gonna think twice about seeing wilco in town again unless i'm third row or similar, as i was the show previously.

     

    impossible germany was incredible.

     

     

    i agree that the crowd blew. that was clear during sunken opening and IATTBYH. But....show improved continually, if not the sound which was fine where I was sitting. Other than the girl literally taking phone calls behind me, I had a grand time and by the end of the night, I think Jeff was having fun too. The t-shirt exchange (and the t shirt) was classic. See you in Wilmington.

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