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the record is growing on me it doesn't have the edge that i really dug on their earlier stuff but it's a good record

I just don't think the songs are there, other than a handful. Just seems like they really mailed it in, and I guess that was the whole idea, but considering the people involved, the project could have been so much better. Plus, the worst live band I've ever seen, bar done. And that's out of over a thousand bands. Just a pitiful live show

Golden Smog? they had one great song -- V -- and a handful of OK songs and a bunch of dreck can't imagine a band less needy of a greatest hits repackaging

God bless GBV I'm seeing Bob in NYC this fall, but it ain't the same. It ain't GBV. disarm the settlers the new drunk drivers have hoisted the flag we are with you in your anger proud brothers do not fret the bus will get you there yet to carry us to the lake the club is open the club is open come on, come on, the club is open come on, come on, the club is o-ooo-ooo-pen yeah, yeah ... yeah yeah!!

nicely done

way to rock the GBV, Jay i was just listening to Universal Truths & Cycles today

i saw the Mekons at the old Revival club in philly early 1980s freaking incredible show

amazing to me how so many of these 80s bands are bigger now than they were when they were together the first time feelies are great remember seeing them open for REM back in the mid-1980s. great stuff

interesting comment! not sure how you know what i like but i guess maybe there was a "what are your 10 favorite bands" thread or something? actually, i like everything from yes to times new viking to the monkees to gene loves jezebel to the chi-lites to uncle tupelo to gordon lightfoot, so i like to think i'm kinda open to everything!

17 Days, Love Tractor

Times New Viking is very cool.

i just heard a song called Lump Sum, apparently by Bon Iver first time i've heard the guy WTF what am i missing? unlistenable would pretty well descibe it

Keith was such an incredible player there for a few years. God bless him.

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again) right now in starbucks in philly

cued up & ready to play this morning on the way to work: sept. 20, 1970, acoustic set, fillmore east

glad you started this thread i haven't listened to the record in years but do occasionally play Scenes from an Italian Restaurant and Ballad of Billy the Kid on the piano - fun songs to play. It's easy to dismiss Joel because his later stuff sucked so profoundly - i mean, we didn't start the fire? holy shit is that wretched. but he had a nice little run there with the first three records Plus, I once won $50 at a college talent show playing Root Beer Rag on the piano!

yeah, box of rain may be the only song in the GD canon that doesn't have a live version that approaches the studio version. many many years ago, before i had given the dead a moment's notice, somebody i worked with was raving about the dead, and me being a total music snob, said something like, "really, well what the hell is a box of rain then?" and this quiet little girl who i had barely noticed before went into this explanation of how two peoples' perspectives of the same thing can be so different and how much we can learn from that, and how when one person looks out a window and sees r

wow, didn't realize the date ... i shoulda listened to some dead yesterday what was the story with box of rain -- phil suspected it was the last show because of jerry's condition and he didn't want the whole thing to end on a lifeless black muddy river? hard to believe it's been 13 years

great magazine circus + circus raves! i still have a stack of 'em somewhere in the basement

was she capable of any other kind?

ah, yeah ... AiH ... right ... yeah ... ok, i give up what the hell is "AiH" hate fricking abbreviations of impossibly obscure bands (and if "AiH" is not impossible obscure i apologize, but i'm batting like .000 on abbreviations)

every time i try to listen to pearl jam i come to the inescapable conclusion that they're drastically overrated

what he said edit - sorry, didn't realize this was a bumped thread

bill is a hell of a columnist, one of the last remnants of asbury's once-great paper