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    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I like the show by show releases. The projects seem to take for ever to down load (my connection isn't the best). Plus I like picking and choosing what shows I want to download.

     

    hey, when you download the projects you can actually pick and choose what shows/tracks you want - if you have azureus at least, don't know about other software

     

    and all the projects currently have 400 - 500 seeders, so they're pretty fast!

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    not sure I'd put any song from it in my top 5 Genesis tunes.

     

    ok, you got me thinking ...

     

    here's my top 20 genesis tracks

     

    1) musical box

    2) supper's ready

    3) cinema show

    4) carpet crawlers

    5) stagnation

    6) firth of fifth

    7) watcher of the skies

    8) return of the giant hogweed

    9) afterglow

    10) in the cage

    11) entangled

    12) you might recall

    13) dancing with the moonlit knight

    14) the knife

    15) one for the vine

    16) dance on a volcano

    17) ripples

    18) battle of epping forest

    19) get 'em out by friday

    20) burning rope

     

    612) congo

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Fair comment. 'All in a mouses night' is still a dreadful song though and almost manages to ruin (almost) an otherwise supurb record. When I skip back a couple of tracks and listen to 'One for the vine' I soon forgive Mr. Banks. What a song. I also love the 'Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers...In That Quiet Earth...Afterglow' passage which is also genius.

     

    yeah, i skip over mouse, too

     

    one for the vine is brilliant

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Jesus Christ. Reading this makes me want to slit my wrists for being such an idiot/Luddite-type person. I have NO CLUE about how to do stuff like that - I have 2500 hours of GD and every bit of it was obtained through trades/snail mail. Hell, it's only taken me 25 years! :lol

     

    haha ... yeah, you need to explore bit torrent - it's actually really easy, the software is simple and free download, and it will forever alter the way you listen to music

     

    each dead project was so heavily seeded that each entire year probably took maybe two or three days to download. the only issue is where to keep this stuff, but the massive external drives are so cheap now it's pretty easy

     

    i just checked & the projects are all still very heavily seeded (between 400 and 500 seeders), which basically means all those people are immediately available to share those torrents with you -- and the more seeders, the faster you download the shows.

     

    give it a shot -- you'll be listening to every dead, wilco and genesis show you ever dreamed of within a week!!

     

    (and there's plenty of people on this forum who could talk you through all the tech stuff, which is all very simple)

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    dime rules

     

    you'll love this show

     

    steurmer's playing is insanely great and i'm not sure i ever heard phil sing better

     

    life-affirming stuff

     

    (as for dead downloads, i downloaded the entire 1971 through 1979 projects on bt.etree.org ... mind-blowing ... i now have every dead show from 1971 through 1979 [some in multiple formats - aud, sb, matrix] on a giant external hard drive that i nicknamed hard drive to handle)

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Just listening to Banks say that 'Watcher of the Sky' wasn't great and is a bit wordy or Gabriel saying he didn't really like 'I know what I like' was amazing.

     

    i don't like "I know what I like" either ... sooo dull

     

    I will, any Matrix or SBD you can point me to?

     

    the versions i have are all soundboards. there are like 15 different versions of this show circulating.

     

    it's on the genesis tracker at http://torrent.genesis-movement.org/torrents-details.php?id=3880

     

    if you're on dime, the 30th anniversary remastered edition is posted and well seeded @ http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=291029

     

    also seeded at The Trader's Den @ http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=60461&highlight=genesis

     

    if you're not on any of the trackers let me know & i'll up it here when i have the chance

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Really? And Then There Were Three is my least favorite record from that era and have reisited downloading torrents of '78 shows because of all of the ATTWT material. Maybe I'll have to check it out. I love the Duke tour, great mix of old and new.

     

    And Then Were three is my least favorite Genesis record as well (before they started sucking), but the 1978 live shows are just mindblowing

     

    check out Oct. 13, 1978, in Chicago ... my favorite genesis live show ever ... it's available on every tracker in many forms ... an absolute A+++ performance

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Disc 1 is pretty f'in solid, love Back in NYC and Counting Out Time. Hard for me to listen to In The Cage without the Cinema Show/Slipperman/Afterglow medley to follow though.

     

    yeah, no doubt there are some great great tracks on Lamb ... Carpet Crawlers one of the best songs ever written. I've never been a huge fan of the medleys, but the In the Cage / Cinema Show / brief snippet of Slipperman / Afterglow medley was just mindblowing. Afterglow was just massive live, and Phil sang the hell out of it during the late 1970s. damn, i gotta listen to some 1978 genesis tonight

     

    I'm kind of the weird Genesis fan in that my favorite period is 76-80. For me, the songwriting got stronger and more focused. At Abacab they kind of lose me although there are some good songs from it (and the sessions) but with Lucky Charms and Invisible Touch I'm gone, except for Home By The Sea and Domino.

    i kind of lost interest around Abacab as well, although I think You Might Recall is a really strong long-period track, one of the few I like

     

    I saw Genesis with Gabriel once and without him about 20 times, and the band was never better live than in 1978, although 1973 was close.

     

    i don't even know what lucky charms is

    The Genesis Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Currently listening to Foxtrot. It's my introduction to Genesis, minus the cheesy shit from the early or mid 90s.

     

    It's taking a while to get into, but I dig Horizons and Supper's Ready. Supper's Ready is really just bad ass. The album is growing on me. I hope to check out The Lamb Lies on Broadway next.

     

    i'd go with selling england by the pound next

     

    lamb is ok, a bit over-rated, lots of filler

     

    selling england rules

     

    then go to nursery cryme and trespass

     

    the last few minutes of supper's ready - starting with apocolypse in 9-8 - is some of the greatest music ever written

     

    tony banks is the greatest musician who ever lived

    Marah

    in Someone Else's Song

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    it's cool, nodep & solace ... i lost interest in wilco in kind of the same way you guys lost interest in son volt

     

    when jeff lost his ability to write good songs, i lost interest in wilco

     

    but for me, tracks like highways & cigarettes, methamphetamine, underground dream, the picture, jukebox of steel, cocaine and ashes, 6 string belief, afterglow 61 -- all from the last few son volt records - are as magical as anything on trace. and i love trace and was a huge uncle tupelo guy back in the day as well

     

    but jay is as good as ever. and the band is better than ever. walbourne is worth the price of admission alone. (just wish they'd do still be around or looking for a way out once in a while!)

    Marah

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I disagree with that. I think when Mike Heidorn, DaveJim Boquis, and Eric Heywood were with Jay, it was a band. Not just some dudes he hired to play on a record and do a tour. They had feel - which I don't sense on the new Son Volt records.

     

    the bryson/duplantis/spencer/walbourne lineup is incredible

     

    the best live son volt ever

     

    i don't particularly care for the last record, but i think The Search sure sounded like a band that had come together as a cogent unit ... IMHO

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