hardwood floor

yeah, i was wondering if it would ever happen again easily his best since From a Compound Eye it ain't GBV, but it's way better than the last 20 records

ok, this is fucking great

congrats!

All the hardcore Pollard fanatics are calling this the best thing he's done since Alien Lanes. The thing is, all the hardcore Pollard fanatics call EVERYTHING he puts out the best things he's done since Alien Lanes. (I would say the best thing he's put out since Alien Lanes is Under the Bushes, Half Smiles or From a Compound Eye, but what do i know)

i was thinking the exact same thing!! ive been waiting all my life (in fact yesterday) for a band that so adroitly blends the unique stylings of Throw Me the Statue and Phoenix hey, "slane", what do you think of Gentle Giant?

this is the one genesis record that has totally not held up very well for me ... i think the songs are muddy, in addition to the recording the rutherford stuff just slogs along through the muck, doesn't it ... say it's all right joe goes on for what, 40 minutes? ... snowbound, deep in the motherlode ... really the only tracks that holds up for me are burning rope & down and out

cool

popmatters is wrong masterson left the band after the first leg of the tour and was replaced by walbourne chris got married a few weeks ago (to the extremely talented fiddle player eleanor whitmore) and is back in new york creating his own great music walbourne also plays with the pretenders, by the way he is a beast

after the original Phil story appeared, Phil backed off a little bit saying he doesn't know if he's definitely done drumming forever, but his back condition won't let him do it now but if phil / tony / steve / mike / peter want to tour with chester thompson on the kit and play only stuff up through lamb, i'll accept that as a genuine genesis reunion!

yeah, it was definitely one of the best son volt shows i've seen as well ... i think i've seen 'em nine times and farrar/spencer once (and tupelo once, but that's another level) it was the first time i've left a son volt show not disappointed that he doesn't play any tupelo stuff anymore (although can you imagine how good "whiskey bottle" or "looking for a way out" would sound with this lineup?) i thought walbourne was amazing and really energized jay and injected some new life into the band

philly show was phenomenal

a farrar classic, no doubt looking forward to the philly show tonight

grow up

why would whether the drummer is an asshole or not have anything to do with your enjoyment of son volt's music? i mean, who cares? robert fripp might be the biggest douchebag on earth. doesn't affect my enjoyment of king crimson

masterson finished the last leg of the tour and then was replaced by james walbourne for this leg. very different players but both are fantastic don't know why chris left the band, but he did get married a week or two ago ... maybe he just didn't want to head out on the road again after getting married and he plays with the madison square gardeners and other people in nyc

a lot of gbv fanatics are also heavy-duty dead fans you couldn't find too more different bands, but they do share some qualities ... incredible musicianship, legendary live shows, hardcore cult following, astonishingly varied catalogue, richly detailed lyrics and a legendary obsession with a mind-expanding substance (dead = acid, gbv = miller lite)

Rider ... your guidebook to GBV is www.gbvdb.com, a miraculous site that will answer any questions you have about what was released when, who plays on which records, what songs were played live, etc. the essential releases are all the gbv records from bee thousand on --> b000, alien lanes, under the bushes under the stars (that's the holy trinity - the greatest 3-record stretch in rock music history), mag earwhig, do the collapse, isolation drills, universal truths and cycles, earthquake glue and half smiles, which you have PLUS the best pollard solo releases: waved out, kid marine, not i

why not just order it from Rockathon for $16? http://www.thefactoryofrawessentials.com/keene_brothers.html great record

sorry, i'm a little slow, but ... this might be the greatest song ever

Brandy is a perfect song. Richly detailed with exquisite imagery. Moonlight Feels Right ... the marimba solo is insane. Nobody knows what happened to the guy who played it ... Bo Wagner.

Via Chicago right now @ Starbucks. god-damn it sounds great

well, ya know, Rick Springfield rocks

I can name 200 Guided By Voices songs from the 90s that are better than anything on that list.

holy shit

have tried for many, many years & never got the Big Star genius some ok stuff, occasional great songs, very uneven, honestly, not in the top 100 bands of the 1970s everybody says how great they are, but i don't know anybody who actually listens to Big Star (and don't get me started on the chris bell stuff) the Stones' body of work in the 1970s: 1971 ... Sticky Fingers 1972 ... Exile on Main Street 1973 ... Goats Head Soup 1974 ... It's Only Rock 'n' Roll 1976 ... Black and Blue 1978 ... Some Girls