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    New Shins Album

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Yeah, but MMJ more than makes up for any lyrical or structural shortcomings in their songs with their face-melting live show. The Shins...not so much.

     

    (And I liked the Shins live; always enjoyed Marty's banter, that big jerk).

     

    I know I'm in the minority on this, but I prefer the Shins' live show to My Morning Jacket's.

     

    First time I saw either one of them I saw them on the same bill. My Morning Jacket had explosive energy and little else. Their show rang hollow after a while because the songs just weren't there. It was just a bunch of guys jumping around and howling. Got old quickly. I understand a lot of people dig them. I don't.

     

    Shins just kind of stood there and played, but they had songs. Great ones. For me, that's the ultimate measuring stick.

    Greatest Guitarists of All Time

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I'm surprised that Fripp and Belew have only been mentioned once or twice, and the same with Zappa and Thurston Moore. And of course, Nels is amazing. It

     

    was just listening to fripp's solo on peter gabriel's white shadow ... just mind-blowing ... one of my favorite solos ever

     

     

    Glenn Mercer and Bill Million of the Feelies

     

    agree

    New Shins Album

    in Someone Else's Song

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    The Shins are soo 03 ... I will listen to the new record and they had there relevence at one point but there as relevent as Death Cab these days

     

    what does relevant mean? relevant to who? and who is deciding that?

     

    i dig the shins, have always dug the shins, and i'm not going to decide what i want to listen to based on what is "in" or out or based on what some smirking hipster pitchfork asshole tells me is cool right now or isn't cool

     

    relevant? either it's good or it ain't good ... who cares beyond that?

    Greatest Guitarists of All Time

    in Someone Else's Song

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    marc ribot [tom waits, elvis costello, robert plant, john zorn, solo] - master of all styles, incredibly skilled wrt to melody and emotion.

     

    i saw ribot playing in marianne faithful's band a few weeks ago at a free at noon show at world cafe in philly (although she never indentified him)

     

    the guy is absolutely insane and should have been on my list

    Wilco ex-member sues frontman Tweedy

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    The timing is peculiar, though. If he was getting screwed all these years, why wait until now? He's fishing for some kind of settlement. Sad, yes, but desperate.

     

    maybe he felt like he exhausted all other means of getting what he thought was fair ... negotiating, talking, lawyers meeting, etc.

     

    and finally just felt he had no choice

     

    i have no idea who's right here, but don't think it's fair to judge jay just because he waited to file the suit. maybe he was hoping to resolve this without litigation but just no longer felt that was possible

    Son Volt

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    It pretty good. There's some previously released material mixed with some Farrar originals. The music is not exclusively Jay's. Ryan Adams, Vic Chestnutt, Freakwater, Neko Case, Blood Oranges, and other contribute to it.

     

    i guess blood oranges are mark spencer's old band?

     

    worth looking into them?

    Boston

    in Someone Else's Song

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    You made $4.35 in 1977? That's huge money. I was making $4.25 in 1988 at Wendy's, and the only perk to that job was that it was easy to steal french fries.

     

    ahhh, dunno ... maybe it was $3.35?

     

    it's all kind of a blur

     

    everything before tuesday of this week is a blur

     

    whatever minimum wage was i was probably earning

    Boston

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I was disappointed about them in concert, even at 16. I remember the songs being pretty much note for note performances. The build up to Long Time was pretty cool, but I wasn't wowed.

     

    yeah, that's true ... there wasn't any improv or anything ... but they just sounded great and had awesome dynamics and precision ... all the crap i craved as a teenager ...

     

    EDIT: Sounds like you had a pretty sweet gig.

     

    yeah, other than earning $4.35 an hour or whatever it was!

     

    saw probably 50 shows that year

    Boston

    in Someone Else's Song

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    The first Boston album is better than most of the flavor-of-the-month hipster indie drivel championed in this forum.

     

    god bless you

     

    it's an absolutely remarkable record

     

    when i was 18 i was working at a record store, and the guy from epic records would always give us backstage passes

     

    so i was backstage at a boston show at nassau coliseum when boston was at the height of its powers, probably 1977? they were all really nice guys. one of them -- i think the guy with the big hair (sib hashinian?) was hitting on my girlfriend. which was cool. i went to school the next day bragging to everybody how the dude from boston was hitting on my girlfriend

     

    fucking awesome

     

    they were really great live too. just killed it

    Mother and Child Reunion

    in Someone Else's Song

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    simon had a string of very cool, very quirky hits in the seventies

     

    mother & child reunion ... me and julio ... kodachrome ... loves me like a rock ... et al

     

    i was never a huge fan, but i always thought it was cool just how different those tracks sounded on AM radio once upon a time

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