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Emmitt Rhodes - Daisy-Fresh From Hawthorne, CA Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Paper Airplane Pilots - The History Of Flying Toots & The Maytalls - Funky Kingston/In the Dark

Favorites ≠ best But yeah, I like Johnny a lot. Just not as much as the other ones that I mentioned.

I listed Alien Lanes instead. I just like it better.

Jimi Hendrix is a given. Others: Robert Quine Richard Lloyd Ira Kaplan Tom Verlaine James Burton Brinsley Schwarz Duane Aslaksen (Roky Erickson & The Aliens) Chris Spedding Steve Cropper Stevie Ray Vaughan George Harrison Neil Young Prince Dave Gregory Glenn Tipton/KK Downing Lindsey Buckingham Brian Setzer Keith Richards

I actually met my old band through an ad in the Chicago Reader and it worked out really well for about 10 years or so. But yeah, the plan is to have mostly folks that I know... or that I'll get to know before heading into the studio.

Brinsley Schwarz - Cruel To Be Kind Cheap Trick - At Budokon Iron Maiden - Live After Death Television - The Blow Up Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live Seeds The Move - Black Country Rock EDIT: And that Iron Maiden one is not a joke; that is one helluva live record.

Awww. Thanks Mike. Imagine a cross between the Violent Femmes and the B-52's and you're in the ballpark. Just fun, new-wave, teenage pop with a bit of a geeky edge.

THE JUDY'S - WASHARAMA (see related thread)

You Texas people know who I'm talking about. http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark...e_washarama.php Let's hope for a tour and maybe a new album. The world could use it.

Don't laugh. I may actually use one of those before all is said and done. And... is that a Jewish joke?!?!?!

Yeah, very broad spectrum. I've always listened to (and written in) a variety of styles. So, it's nothing that's been terribly contrived, but jst kind of an organic extension of what I've always been into, anyway. Just that now, without a band, I'm able to focus on each song, individually and not be constrained by the limitations of what each person in the band can do. Only my own. And the band is Hop On Pop. The record is going to be called, appropriately engough: MIXTAPE.

Listening to it now. Thanks for the info.

Tell me more.

I just held back for as long as I could, until I couldn't anymore and it came exploding out of me. It's actually a lot more satisfying that way, you know...

Guess y'all are sick of the list threads, huh? Me too, but I really like the bedroom/basement recording genre and was curious as to what else was out there that y'all liked/admired. Oh well.

You know what I mean. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes Daniel Johnston - Songs Of Pain Nick Drake - Pink Moon (I think this one was home-recorded, no?) Self - Gizmodgery

Dennis Wilson - Bamboo Jeff Buckley - My Sweetheart, the Drunk Jimi Hendrix - Black Gold

I've been on a really big TL kick recently and... just DAMN! All I have are a couple of compilations, so I'd like to know what y'all think are the best of their proper albums. Because all the best stuff seems to span their entire career... I can't make a decision. So good. And they deserve more love from the music snob population. The man could write a song!

None of these albums are 20 seconds. All are at least 30 minutes.

I'm pretty psyched. This first song is gonna be pretty much all me; and I have another one that will be mostly me, too. But, as it goes, I'll be doing lots of different sessions in lots of different studios all over Chicago and wherever. They're also gonna cover lots of different styles. I'm hoping to get it all done and mixed by the end of the year or early '09 for a mid-'09 release. Whatever. Still, it's been a long time since I've been excited about playing music, so this is nice. Next month I'm heading down to Champaign to recerd one of my old punk songs with a buddy's metal band backing

I'll just list one because most fans of the band dislike it: Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door A really great pop record. Maybe not what Led Zep fans want, but a great album on its own merits.

Oh, crap! I actually meant to post Modern Life. Yeah, Leisure was their first. Sorry about that. Goin' to fix now.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplan Over the Sea Big Star - Radio City Nirvana - Nevermind The Clash - Give 'em Enough Rope Black Sabbath - Paranoid Wilco - Being There Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love Elvis Costello - This year's Model Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory The Band - The Band Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (s/t XXX record being the first) Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere Nick Drake - Bryter Layter Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Gu

Listening now, and it sounds to me like the band is back! Seriously, I was in the exact same place as you about REM (only since OUT OF TIME) and I am just about ready to go out and buy the new album. The new stuff holds its own against all the old classics. Great show.