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hardwood floor
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Patti Smith is a total no-talent who has parlayed bad poetry, dirty hair and a fluke song co-written by bruce springsteen into legendary status
Patty Smythe > Patti Smith
Berton Averre's guitar solo in My Sharona is better than anything Jimi Hendrix ever played
I wish Bono would just fucking shut up
I would rather have major dental work than sit through a Dave Matthews Band gig
Clap your Hands Say Yeah blows
The Kinks > The Who
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Highway Star proves that whoever wrote Deep Purple's lyrics has an IQ below 80.
ok ... now you've gone too far
jon lord's organ solo in highway star RULES
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Damn...was excited about Wilmington but then I realized that the R2 doesn't go there on Sundays...
you an hop on an amtrak from philly on a sunday though ...
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Well, it's back up but the DVD Project torrents are gone. Anyone know where I can find these?
people have been gradually re-upping stuff
it looks like two of the Wilco DVD Project (volumes 40 & 41) have been posted, and both have several seeders right now
hopefully, many of the ones that were previously up will slowly reappear.
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OK ...
Big Star is overrated
Led Zeppelin never wrote a good song
Bon Jovi's first single, Runaway, is actually a pretty good song
I find the Monkees' music far more interesting these days than the Beatles'
Grant Hart's Husker Du stuff overall is better than Bob Mould's
REO Speedwagon > Jeff Buckley
The Doors are the worst band in the history of popular music
I liked Wilco more before Nels
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i mean, good for him for admitting his music sucks, but i'm baffled that somebody would record and release music that they have so much contempt for that they admit they wouldn't listen to it
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the name matters ?
ya know, it's a good question
to me, the name of a band has always mattered
if you can't think of anything more clever than, say, limp bizkit, there's no way your stuff is worth listening to
by the same token, when i see a record by a band i've never heard and the name blows me away, i'm buying it.
7 Mary 3 may be awesome, but i'll be damned if i'm ever buying anything they put out
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I might love these guys if I listened to them, but Le Loup might be the worst band name I've ever heard.
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hey, i dig reading what ya'all are listening to
but if the album art (or image properties) doesn't say what it is, could you write it out?
thanks
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Do the Collapse may be underrated, but it's also not that great. Doesn't even come anywhere near their top 5, IMO.
doesn't come close to my top 5 either, but i love it
1. Teenage FBI -- great little pop tune
2. Zoo Pie -- meh
3. Things I Will Keep -- all-time top-20 gbv track with phenomenal gillard solo
4. Hold on Hope -- don't hate it like most gbv fanatics. live version was awesome
5. In Stitches -- meh
6. Dragons Awake! -- again, live version totally better than flat studio version. cool song
7. Surgical Focus -- all-time top-20 gbv track
8. Optical Hopscotch -- meh
9. Mushroom Art -- meh
10. Much Better Mr. Buckles -- fairly cool track
11. Wormhole -- decent track
12. Strumpet Eye -- i dig it
13. Liquid Indian -- love it
14. Wrecking Now -- all-time top-40 gbv track
15. Picture Me Big Time -- tremendous track
16. An Unmarketed Product -- cool closer
now ... earthquake glue ... there's a GBV record that's really underratged!
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anybody ever hear these guys?
apparently from austin.
http://www.myspace.com/thehalfknots
happened into them during random myspace music wandering
check out Do Something. pretty great
and probably right up ya'all's alley
the other tracks ain't bad either
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Do The Collapse
vastly underrated
I've been on such a huge GBV kick lately.me too ... since 1995 or so
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Agreed. Todd's production, instrumentation, etc is getting real old. It's been collecting dust on the shelve along with Coast to Coast and Standard Gargoyle Decisions. I couldn't get into those either.
I'm joining the chorus of fans begging him for something different. I am so burnt out on his stuff that I really haven't bought much in the last year. I didn't get the circus devils album or the psycho and the birds one and who knows what else. I didn't pick up crickets because I have most of that stuff anyways.
god, i couldn't agree more brianjeremy ... nothing since FaCE has blown me away. he really started losing me at normal happiness and it's just gotten progressively worse ... but as much as i'd like to blame todd tobias for the rut bob's in, i think the big thing is he just isn't writing good songs anymore (with occasional exceptions like Supernatural Car Lover or Miles under the Skin)
the psycho and the birds record is awful
sgt. disco is unlistenable
standard gargoyle decisions might be the worst record ever made
coast to coast i thought was OK but just OK
hope he gets it back together but i doubt it. i heard his last solo record sold like 1,500 copies total. nobody's ever had a run like Bob had from Devil between my Toe's to FaCE, but it just seems like it's over
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There is truly only one Kenn Kweder! and we're lucky to have him in philly
kweder is awesome. been around forever. great guy
i'll add frank brown / buzz zeemer / flight of mavis for philly
ridiculously great edge guitar pop
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Robert Pollard :
Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department
From A Compound Eye
Waved Out
Normal Happiness
Turn To Red
oh cool, solo bob, i'll play ...
From a Compound Eye
Fiction Man
Motel of Fools
Tower in the Fountain of Sparks
Not in my Air Force
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Bee Thousand
Alien Lanes..
Neither of which I have ever heard.....
but i know I am supposed to like them...
LouieB
not sure i'd brag about never hearing two of the greatest records ever made
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This thread totally seems Apples and Oranges to me.
Blood Oranges > Apples in Stereo
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Creed > The Doors
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i know there's a bunch of GBV fans on here, so give it up
1) Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
2) Bee Thousand
3) Alien Lanes
4) Half Smiles
5) Mag Earwhig!
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i once saw Hot Tuna at the old Palladium in NYC
they played four hours
and it was the early show
they were great
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don't know that one, but i saw the mekons in 1989 or so and they were freaking great
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BeeGees - love 'em, underrated band ... tough call ... how 'bout ... Love you Inside and Out edging out How Can you Mend a Broken Heart
Kinks - all-time top-5 band for me ... i'll go with Days over Waterloo Sunset and Plastic Man
Beach Boys - never dug 'em, but Good Vibrations is damn great
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I don't download because I don't like to listen to music on computers and I don't know how to get it from my computer to my stereo (I assume that is possible).
it is possible, but it's tricky
copy
open itunes
paste
burn
voila
No Depression and Harp Magazines
in Someone Else's Song
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just a fucking shame
depressing as hell
i don't know what the hell kind of society we've become where there's no room for a magazine as routinely brilliant as No Depression
then i see kids walking around or sitting in restaurants and coffee shops staring like fucking zombies at their cell phones and waiting to be told by corporate america what faceless piece of shit MP3 to download next and i guess i understand
it sickens me what we're becoming
i'll miss No Depression, but more than that, I'll miss a world where a magazine like that can thrive