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There's always been something about this that bothers me -- especially when the early work is obviously far superior than the recent work that said artist claims is "the best work of my career." I find it disingenuous and sometimes hypocritical. REM did this for years, until nobody was buying their lousy records. So then they suddenly began playing all those old songs live and even recorded an album that was designed to sound just like those old songs. I think for a lot of bands it's something they say to try and convince people -- and maybe themselves -- that their new stuff is really g

For me, songs like methamphetamine and highways and cigarettes are every bit as good as windfall and tear-stained eye a little more enduring, actually same guy brilliant songwriter

I saw Tupelo on the last tour and Wilco on the AM tour four or five times and Son Volt on the Trace tour three or four times, so .... a lot Uncle Tupelo at some point will be appreciated as one of the greatest bands ever.

nice to see somebody is still listening to uncle bob i think you have these both ranked about right -- i thought both were a bit better than most of his post-GBV stuff (not counting From a Compound Eye, which i thought was fantastic), but still uneven off to business really did have some good tracks - the blondes, gratification to concrete and wealth and hell being i liked the most the spaceships ... you satisfy me and winston's atomic bird were the tracks that stood out for me i still think pollard has a great record in him -- he puts out like 20 really vintage pollard tracks a year.

bad rap? that song is typical of what they do, just happened to be a fluke hit

Trace is brilliant. I still think The Search is just a tad better, but maybe that's just because it's newer. Farrar and Tweedy are so talented. Imagine if they were ever in a band together? They'd be incredible.

REM was once the greatest band in the world. Now they're the worst band in the world. (except for coldplay) So U2's last three suck less I guess

awesome me ... on a '73 kick lately amazing year

Close to the Edge

i have less respect for somebody who's critical or judgmental of other peoples' musical taste than somebody who digs Nick Cave why not just say you dig Nick Cave and post something about what you like about the guy and write about his current work instead of jumping on people who don't dig him?

i think Fables is greatly underrated i'd probably go Murmer Reckoning Fables Lifes Rich Document

top 20 robert pollard post-gbv tracks Miles Under The Skin, Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (Robert Pollard) There Will Be no Island, The Crawling Distance (Robert Pollard) Death of the Party, Blues and Boogie Shoes (Keene Brothers) The Blondes, Robert Pollard Is off to Business (Robert Pollard) Fresh Threats, Salad Shooters, Zip Guns, From a Compound Eye (Robert Pollard) Circle Saw Boys Club, Silverfish Trivia (Robert Pollard) The Butler Stands for All of Us, The Crawling Distance (Robert Pollard) Serious Bird Woman (You Turn me On), Normal Happiness, (Robert Pollard) U.S. Mustard Company,

I just saw Grant Lee at a small acoustic club in philly He was good.

Most overrated record of 2008. Didn't do a damn thing for me. His voice ... just wow.

The Grateful Dead. Rejected them forever for the wrong reason, because of the culture surrounding the music. Never dreamed that a band whose music I believed to be as pointless as the lives of the lifers who followed them around in VW vans was actually some of the best American music ever created. I still can't stand the endless Dark Stars and some of the Weir tracks and most of Donna's yowling and much of the second-set jamming. But the songs and the melodies and the garcia/hunter lyrics are just mesmerizing. I just didn't realize it until I was about 40.

It's just pop music, who cares how old they are or when they had their last hit Let 'em rock More power to 'em I'll go if it swings through town

Calexico did the Free at Noon show at World Cafe Live in Philly today. I was five blocks away but couldn't go, which killed me. Anybody make it over there?

Valentine's Day Steve Earle

May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, May you always do for others And let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung, May you stay forever young. I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes and just for that one moment i could be you yes, i wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes you'd know what a drag it is to see you Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell An innocent man in a l

tony banks is the greatest musician who ever lived all-time top-5 band for me tremendous up through wind & wuthering and still pretty damn good up through duke always thought lamb was a wee bit overrated, a little thin in areas ... great record but selling england, foxtrot and nursery cryme and even trick of the tail were their peak moments. although the high points on lamb are ridiculously great (carpet crawlers, lilywhite lilith, lamb, riding the scree and of course in the cage) my genesis top 10 1. supper's ready 2. musical box 3. cinema show 4. firth of fifth 5. one for the v

a bargain!

Eddie Jobson! rock some UK

Freedy really did slide downhill in a hurry after those first couple great records. I saw Freedy live once and it was phenomenal. Didn't hurt that his band was Kevin Salem and his band.

start with Isolation Drills if you're into more polished, produced off-kilter guitar-blast pop brilliance or Alien Lanes if you prefer sloppy propulsive lo-fi genius

not including pollard solo EPs like zoom, music from bubble, silverfish trivia ... which are all tremendous ... 1. Fast Japanese Spin Cycle Insanely great. My Impression Now, Indian Fables, Dusted ... Amazing record, belongs right up there with B000, Alien Lanes, Under the Bushes and Universal Truths. 2. Sunfish Holy Breakfast If We Wait and Heavy Metal Country alone vault this to the top. 3. Tigerbomb.Holy fucking shit. Amazing record. My Valuable Hunting Knife Refraze version? better than the original. Pricks' alternate version rules. And you get a superb Tobin song too in Dodging Invisib