PopTodd

Jeff Buckley,sometimes.

"Lover, You Should've Come Over"

Although I will miss Quine's presence, the fact that he's still using, Menck, Leisz, Lloyd, and Julian has me very excited to hear this bad boy. One of the best backing bands in rock today. Nice.

"Hot Burrito #1 (I'm Your Toy)" - Flying Burrito Brothers

"For No One" - The Beatles

"Teach Your Children" - Crosby, Stills, and Nash

"Dress Blues" - Jason Isbell

"Dancing Partner" - Joe Pisapia

Each of those songs can totally destroy me at any given moment.

Sympathy for the Devil as a guitar song? It's all piano and bongos, no?

The solo is one stinging muthafukkuh. One of the best. Period. That alone, makes it one of the top guitar songs for me.

I don't think that you can argue with #'s 1 through 4. You might not totally agree, but if you're gonna say that they don't belong there, you simply don't know rock n' roll. For #5, I might have gone with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" or "Sympathy For the Devil" over "Brown Sugar", but I still can't really argue with that one, either.

Any of you see this movie?

My wife and I saw it in the theater back in the day and I liked it a lot. Sharon went back and saw it a second time before it left the Music Box the next week.

I just checked it out at Amazon, and the sunnufabitch is just about $70 at the cheapest -- used!

Anyway, just wondering if any of y'all had a copy that you might want to offer up in trade.

Or, if any of you have seen it yourselves?

Not sure if you can call it a rock doc, per se -- or even totally a music doc, but

Theremin: An Electronic Odyessy

definitely touches on rock. And the interview with Brian Wilson is simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. I saw this in the theater and the whole place was in hysterics during that part, and then fell into an uncomfortable silence following.

Still, a very cool film about an interesting topic.

Also, from about the same time and even more heartbreaking:

Nico Icon

Woman was seriously messed up.

Chicago Cubs

 

can't believe i let it languish in the netflix que for so long. fucking stunning...20+ years later and it still looks better than a lot of CGI FX megafilms of today.

Just how many freaking versions of this are there?!?!?!

I was working downtown and living in Evanston when Chicago hosted the World Cup and, honestly that did not snarl much at all. It was actually kinda cool taking the El with all the foreign nationals, who were psyching themselves up for the games.

I remember a huge group, dressed in the German nation uniform, holding an impromptu pep rally in front of 401 N. Michigan avenue and, and being a part of a crowd that gathered around them to enjoy the show. I imagine that the Olympics would be like that, tenfold.

And, with all the different ethnic neighborhoods in Chicago, there is a lot to explore, and many places for all to feel at home.

God, I love this city.

New collection is out, too:

Anyone pick this one up? How is it? Still waiting for his version of "Ju Ju Man" to be released.

Obviously...since the words make NO sense....

 

 

But it is a fun set of covers....

 

LouieB

I must be thinking of another song. Sorry about that.

Still... there's some previously unreleased song that he's freaking about.

So me and a couple of friends at work who are into beer have started up a beer exchange... each of us brings in a couple of beers for the other one, whenever we can find something that we think the others will enjoy: obscure stuff.

Today I just received a couple of bottles of Ommegang Hennepin. It's a Trappist-Style that is from a brewer owened by Duvel.

I've also received some New Glaris Totally Naked and Bell's Oberon. (IL is still having some distribution troubles with Bell's.)

I'm brining in some New Belgium Mothership Wit and Abita Turbodog. This week.

THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT!

A friend of mine who is a Dylanophile is obsessed with the one, newly unearthed Basement Tapes song that appears on there -- "I'm Not There". Apparently, it makes the entire thing entirely worthwhile. (He calls it one of the best songs that Dylan ever wrote, and therefore, one of the best songs of all-time. And he cannot understand why it has gone unreleased for so long.)

A backwards (albeit incomplete) alt-country timeline?

Nice.

Def Leppard - Yeah!

Roky Erickson - Demon Angel: A Day & Night With Roky Erickson

Jim Ford - The Sounds Of Our Time

Bobby Fuller Four - Best Of...

Um....

Woodstock

Sylvain Sylvain & The Criminals - Bowrey Butterflies

Kevn Kinney - MacDougal Blues

Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies To God

Os Mutantes - Mutantes

Saw that Second City doc on PBS and yeah, the man was truly a giant.

RIP

That's good. Let's hope they can find one.....

 

The Chamber Strings have had no luck sadly...

 

LouieB

And right there are two Chicago bands that I am dying to hear new stuff from.

Probably the two most-anxiously anticipated local releases of the decade -- at least for me.

Damn.

I don't know. Green is pretty obscure and their original CDs and such sold as cut outs at various times. I am guessing that the fact that they are pretty local and not that well known means their stuff, though rare, isn't in demand. I could be wrong, but few people outside of Chicago have ever heard them or heard of them. Every few years there is a rumor they are going to make a comeback.

 

LouieB

Fact: They have a new album in the can and they're looking for a label to release it.

There are two places that pretty much set the "value" of a CD or LP and that is gemm.com and ebay.com.

Can't find it at either of those places.

Hey all.

I picked up this EP:

http://www.answers.com/topic/r-e-m-ep?cat=entertainment

Just after it came out in 1990 because I like the band Green. Still do. But R.E.M. issued a cease and desist order to the band, causing all copies on the shelves to be recalled soon after issue. Still have my copy though.

Do any of you have it? Heard of it? Do you know if it's worth anything as a collectable? There's virtually no information available about the thing on the internet. (Obv. a bit, as noted in that link up there.) It's not even listed at AllMusic. Songs aren't the best the band has ever recorded, but as a collectable, I'd like to know what it is worth.

Info please?

i saw them open for somebody ... i think it was scruffy the cat or dumptruck ... circa 1988

 

left zero impression on me

 

that really helped, didn't it?

Didn't leave much of an impression on me either, but then, like I said, I heard an album and dug it quite a bit.

Breaking news from the AP wire:

Died at home of heart failure in Jacksonsville. Age 79.

A god.