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    New Music?

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    Posted

    I got another suggestion:

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    Tonio K. - Life In the Foodchain

     

    Imagine a sneering Elvis Costello with more of a Los Angeles punk attitude. Kinda like if Elvis C. were Jello Biafra. Jello's outrage with Elvis' melodic sensibility, but a bit harder-hitting.

     

    Yeah, that's it.

    Who has seen Uncle Tupelo in concert?

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    HEY SUE!!!

    If you're reading this, I'd love if you could ask Jeff if he remembers that Halloween '89 show at the Blue Note, with fIREHOSE.

    Does he remember the gynecologist costume and the Mount Rushmore costume that won the prizes?

     

    Anyway, that concert changed my life, and it would be nice to think that the guys in the band remembered that show, too.

    (Melodramatic, I know, but as a musician, it's the truth. Discovering them changed my whole approach to music.)

     

    Thanks.

    Who has seen Uncle Tupelo in concert?

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    HA!

    Poppy!

    I left Mizzou, just before you got there. And I saw UT at the Blue Note, too. Only I saw them at the original location, before they moved over to 9th St. It was a complete hole-in-the-wall on the outskirts of downtown (not far from the high school); nothing like the beautiful space that they have now.

     

    I could sure use me some Shakespeare's, right about now.

    Who has seen Uncle Tupelo in concert?

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I've mentioned this to a few folks here...UT played within an hour or so from me dozens of times but I never went to see them. I was too caught up in planning to follow another band (which I'm sure you all know who) all over hell's half-acre. Everytime I think about this I want to punch myself in the face.

     

    They toured a lot, and had a tendency to play the same places, multiple times within a relatively short timeframe. While I do think that this helped them to build a following, of sorts, it also turned off quite a few folks who wrote them off as just some local yokels, playing the same gig, again and again. I know that I did. I only saw them that first time by chance.

    New Music?

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I second this recommendation. It also reminded me of Nick Drake in some way. I said about the same thing when I reviewed it a few years ago for a French magazine.

     

    Other artists also enjoyed this album. Josh Rouse said it was his favorite of 2002. And Jenifer Jackson (a fave singer of mine) enjoyed it as well.

     

    The only blame that Joe deserves, it's to not have promoted his album enough, and take too much time for recording another. It's as if he did his best to be forgotten.

     

    Same goes for another singer songwriter, John Cunningham.

     

    PopTodd, go the latter's site, http://www.johncunningham.co.uk and listen to anything you can from his masterpiece called Homeless House. He also has a myspace. It will remind you of Nick Drake as well, as well as Robert Wyatt and the quiet Lennon side. It's intoxicating melancholia, wet, aerial, misty, endlessly graceful.

     

    Thank you so much for the rec. And, please post your review of the Pisapia album; I would love to read it. (Translated into English, if you could. I am an American and, thus, speak only English. ;) )

     

    Also, I am creating a Tom Z

    X Live

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Noice.

    I saw them back in '93 and they were excellent. Both John and Exene still were in full voice.

    Is Billy back with them for this tour? It was Tony when I saw them, who is no slouch himself. But there's just something about seeing a band with their original lineup that makes it extra special.

    Who has seen Uncle Tupelo in concert?

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I saw them twice: once at the beginning, and once at the end.

     

    First time was Halloween, 1989, before No Depression even came out.

    I really didn't care much if I saw them or not, but they were opening for fIREHOSE and, well, I had heard good things, so why not? They hit the stage, and I wanna say opened with either "Whiskey Bottle" or "Graveyard Shift". In either case, my jaw hit the floor. So powerful, so LOUD. And there were just three of them up there. Harmonies were tight and Jay absolutely shredded. Yeah, he stood in one place, but the music did the moving for him.

     

    Second time was at the Vic in 1993, on the Anodyne tour.

    It was probably one of their last shows. They were still awesome. But this time, they had a new drummer (Ken), who was a solid replacement for Mike, but just not the same. They had also augmented the lineup with a second (and completely unnecessary) guitar player, and, maybe a multiinstrumentalist. The split was a lot more apparent, obviously but they still sounded great. But ironically, not as huge as they did the first time. Still a rock-solid band.

    New Music?

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I spent the weekend listening to older music that was new to me. Belle and Sebastian, MC5, The Stooges, stuff I had never really listened to before.

    boredintheusa, have you tried the last.fm software on your computer? Its a neat way of getting recommendations for music you might like, based on what you listen to in your media player.

     

    I generally use Pandora, but I guess that it's a similar concept.

    New Music?

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I've recommended these before, but please allow me to again:

     

    Joe Pisapia - Daydreams

    Simply the best album of the new millennium. The closest comparison I can come up with is Nick Drake, but that's not fair. Pisapia has more of a pop sensibility, but this record is certainly not pop. Every second is heart-wrenchingly beautiful. Some of it painfully so. "Dancing Partner" just kills me, and when I have played it for friends, they just sat there, numb for a fill minute after. This is not an exaggeration.

     

    On the other end...

    Tom Z

    Lou Reed vs. John Cale

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    Posted

    Well, but Cale didn't write "Walk on the Wild Side", "Make Up", "Satellite of Love", "Perfect Day", "Berlin", "Caroline Says", "Street Hassle", etc...

     

    I like John Cale, but I think Lou is a better singer, and his rock'n'roll sensibility is less arty.

     

    Of course, the legend of Lou Reed was essentially written with the VU material to me. John Cale doesn't have stuff like "Sweet jane", "What Goes On" or "Waiting for my Man" in his catalog.

     

    Please note the first post:

    So, whose post-Velvets work do you prefer.
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