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i think pattern girl is the only circus devils song i really love but i have no clue what it's off of! oh, and bull spears? is that circus devils? that slayed live oh, and apparent the red angus is pretty cool too and before it walks ok, that's four ...

the circus devils stuff just flat-out sucks that's bob and todd mocking fans by putting out the shittiest stuff they can possibly come up with and watching all the hard-core apologists rave about how it's better than alien lanes, etc. it's just awful

steve hasn't been in dream syndicate for 19 years, but we get the idea i'm sure if you took the two or three best tracks from each of these five releases you'd get the equivalent of one really good record

seriously, i never get why on this type of thread there's always somebody who complains about the bands people have named so far maybe - just maybe - nobody on the first three pages mentioned Dinosaur Jr because nobody who has posted so far liked Dinosaur Jr as much as other 80s American college rock bands just a guess so that's WTF for me, it was the dBs, Feelies and REM

yeah, no dream it's over or something so strong, no I got you (do they ever play any split enz stuff?) but nobody seemed to mind free show, 75 minutes, everybody dug it and i actually never heard one person bark out for one of the hits, so that was cool

i'm bummed they didn't do chocolate cake yesterday in philly! or anything from the first record but it's cool, i loved everything they did (except elephant, which i can live without) hey, just curious what you mean by self-indulgent. i didn't get that vibe at all

that really, really sucks

he picks his spots, but bob still does a few high kicks per show can't do fair touching without high kicks!

for me, the kinks' catalogue has held up far better than the Beatles' catalogue i don't think i've put on a beatles record in 20 years but i listen to the kinks constantly more enduring for me and schoolboys in disgrace is a really really underrated record. i've always loved it

hey, anybody heard the new crowded house record? i'm going to see them friday, looking forward to it ... i assume it will be mostly new stuff, which is cool, as long as we also get I Got You and Don't Dream it's Over!!

elephant jokes is not a good record

lovin' the new record

i was looking at that maybe before that leg of the tour starts? they don't have any shows from oct. 24 - nov. 3 so maybe they just head east a day early and add a nov. 3 philly show? then go to NY for fallon, then up to boston nov. 5, then back to philly nov. 6 and NY nov. 7? or maybe add a nov. 8 show the day after NY?

that sucks ... maybe they'll add another philly show, since nov. 6 sold out so fast the NY venue looks ... ominous, but it's apparently not that bad. have you been to T5?

just saw delta spirit the other day & liked what they did. i need to check out their stuff going to see crowded house friday & can't wait

sorry, i didn't write down any song titles but i think most of them were from Washington Square Serenade and they weren't "generally recognized" by anybody in the venue as very solid, sorry and i love earle

i saw earle last year and it's really sad how bad his new songs are but for a while there, a long while, the guy was as good as anybody brilliant songwriter and performer

man, roosevelt stadium was a freaking dump but i saw some unbelievably great shows there the place was crumbling to the ground by the mid-1970s. was an ancient minor-league baseball stadium (where Jackie Robinson made his professional baseball debut in 1946) was torn down in the early 1980s but i'll never forget the place and i will listen to this fantastic show tonight

I got Philly & Washington tickets today and will be all over the NY show when it goes on sale. come on polluted eyeballs

i'm shooting for boston / new york / philly / washington fucking GBV

a masterpiece bob's only post-GBV record that's as good as anything GBV ever did here's to the wive's club, the fork and knive club

the title track is bob trying way too hard to be great or epic or something his best songs are the effortless ones

i am stunned to see the love for the Band of Horses record. I've always liked them, but I honestly think this might be the worst record by anybody I've ever heard. But it's cool. Glad ya'all dig it. Just surprising to me. I will echo the Dr. Dog, Broken Bells, Spoon, Frightened Rabbit and Josh Ritter & add Magnetic Fields and Matt Keating don't think it's been a great year so far or else i ain't looking hard enough

i agree with people are leaving ... 0 to 99 is by far bob's best since From a Compound Eye it's baffling to me to read everybody on Disarm the Settlers rave about how great Moses on a Snail is ... then I listen to it and ... wait, it's got a couple OK songs on it, but even largely forgotten solo records like Fiction Man or Motel of Fools are a million times better than Moses on a Snail is there some rule on Disarm the Settlers that you have to say everything is Bob's best record since Alien Lanes or they kick you out?

glad you like it, Matt I'm still in that "I don't get it" zone with this one, but hopefully it grows on me