hardwood floor

Kate Bush

Aimee Mann

Annie Haslam

can't stand the rest

Would this be the guy that's on the Keene Brotheres album with Robert Pollard I assume? I have been wanting that but they only had the vinyl at the local record store and $25 was too steep for me.

yep, that's the guy ... member of every post-gbv pollard live lineup as well

Keene Brothers record is brilliant ... $25 is ridiculous ... just go to the factory of raw essentials & buy directly from pollard: http://www.rockathonrecords.com/keene_brothers.html

death of the party & beauty of the draft are as good as anything pollard as ever done

keene's solo stuff is phenomenal, too

tommy is fucking great

it's all about 'peephole'

yeah but the 30 songs version!!

I have it on my ipod still but it just isn't gelling for me. Is there one specific track that I must hear? Maybe I will spin it again tomorrow.

one cut --> smothered in hugs

but these are all flat-out brilliant:

tractor rape chain

echos myron

gold star for robot boy

hardcore ufo's

i am a scientist

gold heart mountaintop queen directory

and maybe a tobin cut ... you're not an airplane or ester's day

Do you mean Murmur?

 

Hopefully you are talking about some other band I don't know of?

 

I honestly couldn't make it through Bee Thousand. I sold it on ebay after a half a listen.

Murmur, thanks for the correction!

REM record

i love it to death, but Bee Thousand is better

maybe you should have listened to the second half!

Bee Thousand > Murmer

 

Styx, on the other hand, has to be one of the worst bands ever.

you clearly have no clue what you're talking about

Styx ROOOOOOOOOOOOLS

Styx is better than Pearl Jam

This thread is much better when it sticks to the blasphemy and eschews commentary on the blasphemy or tediously wanders into the territory of what people like.

yes! thank you

just straight blasphemy

like ...

rick springfield has written more good songs than lou reed

As much as I have tried to like him (and believe me, I have tried) I don't really like Elliott Smith's music.

ya know, oil can ... i feel exactly the same way

i know i'm supposed to dig his stuff and i too have tried like hell, but it's just not happening for me

(p.s. - i was at fenway for oil can's only win in 1987)

Wilco (The Album) is a 10th-rate watered-down Little River Brand ripoff

i guess this is the cool internet position to take now. sourpuss

haha

yeah, that's me -- Mr. Pitchfork himself

i don't give a flying fuck what the "cool internet position" is or what that even means

all i know is after listening to the new record twice through i concluded it's a steaming pile of shit

hey maybe if you have such a thin skin, don't open up this thread

seriously, who cares if somebody else out on some anonymous music forum hates what you dig? just laugh about it, dude

the philly show a couple months ago was pretty full, mid-size theater type venue

walbourne is a beast. the current band is very very good

my only complaint about son volt live shows is that the set list NEVER varies

so if you saw him a few months ago, some might feel there's no compelling reason to see them the next time they swing around because you're going to get the exact same set

i'll go see 'em anywhere anytime, but i can see where some people wouldn't because you're not going to get anything old (except windfall and tear-stained eye -- no uncle tupelo) and you're not going to get anything different

avett brothers is just about the biggest pile of shit i've ever heard

Tom Waits: I just don't get the love for him.

i think this belongs in the "everybody i know agrees that ...." thread!

i love the coastline

My Morning Jacket tries so hard to be great that they have no clue how to be good.

Drive By Truckers has never written a good song.

Guided By Voices > Beatles. Really.

Grant Hart wrote more good songs in Husker Du than Bob Mould.

Hair Metal > Grunge.

All Reggae is boring as shit.

You can go into any bar in New Jersey on a Saturday night and hear some cover band guitar player who is 10 times better than Eric Clapton.

World Music blows.

and Coldplay is total shit

REM edges out Husker Du by a nose. If I had to pick an "other" it'd be Game Theory.

ya know, game theory (and the loud family) is up there for me too and i'll tell you what ... at least for me, their stuff has held up better over the years than REM and as well as the 'Mats

unbelievably great band

and donnette was the hottest rock babe in history

I don't get Guided by Voices...I even seen them twice in concert (both festivals) and bought Bee Thousand and I think they are very overrated.

how dare you! on my thread!!

bee thousand might be the best record ever made!

-Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge are incredible albums

truer words have never been spoken

REM edges out the 'Mats

has been down three or four days

jay's promotional machine keeps a rollin'

i'll never check a set list before i see a band

but i am all for getting out of a venue before 3 a.m.

i don't miss the days of standing in some dinky smoky smelly club with a mixture of urine, vomit and spilled beer coating the floor watching 4 shitty opening bands play 40-minute sets just so i can finally see the band i came for

but then again, i'm not 22 anymore

i'm old as shit now, have kids, work starts early, etc.

picture taking & videos ... i don't notice that. the one thing that bugs me the most is people who talk during a show, but that will never change. i don't understand why the fuck you would pay good money to go see a band and just talk through the entire thing, but you can't go to a show without it happening. dickheads

Hey Hardwood, speaking of, did you ever see any Genesis shows when Bruford was with the band? He is without a doubt my favorite drummer in Rock music ever. I've caught him many times, but not with Genesis.

i was lucky enough to see genesis with bruford in 1976 either twice or three times. yeah, the guy is phenomenal. also saw him with king crimson once and with UK two or three times. and saw him in a club with pat moraz. never with yes though -- i think alan white was with them the first time i saw yes in february of 1972 at madison square garden

and the first track i played on my first college radio show 1,000 years ago was Beelzebub, from Feels Good to Me!

and by the way your user name is my favorite mermaid avenue song

Well, after the epic-ness of stuff like "Supper's Ready"...I mean, where do you go after something like that? All of those great Prog bands started to get more concise and 'radio-friendly' as the '70s became the '80s. Much to my chagrin.

yeah, it's amazing, ain't it? every single arena-level prog band fell into that trap - yes, elp, genesis, even gentle giant, renaissance, camel, the mighty starcastle ... i guess king crimson didn't

i do like some of the poppy prog stuff, but love beach? we can't dance? giant for a day? really sad what some of these bands cranked out!

Banks Was a God. Watching the 'Rome' DVD it is amazing how disinterested Banks seems by the whole proceedings. I have a theory that the whole shift in Genesis was more down to Banks than Collins. Phil always had an interest in the soul/pop side of things. For whatever reason Banks seemed to lie down and let Phil take the reigns. Watching the interviews on the box sets it is apparent that Banks is one stubborn monkey so why this shift occurs we'll never know.

ahhh, ya know, banks always looked disinterested

he could be playing the insane 9/8 solo in supper's ready and look bored out of his mind

but yeah, banks has said in many interviews that he believed strongly in the pop direction genesis took. i think they saw how much success phil's solo stuff was having, and phil and tony both wanted to do poppier stuff, and it was just a natural way to go

i remember a banks interview in which he said he thought the bridge in invisible touch was one of the best musical things he had ever done

i mean, this is the guy that wrote firth of fifth and the cinema show solo and in the cage and one for the fucking vine, etc.

very strange