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    For all of you Eagles haters...

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Grand Funk wasn't intially MOR and the Eagles didn't initially suck either. On the other hand GFR wasn't the MC5 and the Eagles weren't the Flying Burritto Brothers (although some of them did play with them.)

     

    Once again, the Eagles are too easy to hate. They made some great radio hits and some dreck, but they really aren't all that bad.

     

    LouieB

     

    Yes, I did like the Eagles.

    And I don't think that they suck. But after hearing the same damn songs over and over... :yawn

    And that applies to ANYTHING that Don Henley sings on, actually. Just one of those voices and one of those presences whose mere existance has been working on my nerves for the last 25 or 30 years. And I think that is probably how most of the Eagles haters here feel. Nobody denies them their talent, it's just...

    ENOUGH ALREADY.

     

    That said, Joe Walsh has escaped a lot of the ill feelings associated with his former band. Both from me and from many other Eagles haters that I know. I think it's the sense of humor that has saved him.

    I Want Your Chili

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I just make it up as I go along.

    Some beef, some beans, some tomatoes (both canned and fresh), some chili powder, onion powder, garlic powder... Maybe some cinnamon, cocoa, and clove, if I'm feeling the Cincy thing.

     

    Cook it for about 3 or 4 hours.

     

    Just make that up. It's hard to screw up.

    Stephen Merritt (Magnetic Fields) on NPR's "Project Song"

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    In August' date=' I called up Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes and Gothic Archies. He seemed a natural for this idea I had: to document the songwriting process. We gave him two days in a studio filled with drums, guitars, a Moog synthesizer, a sitar, samplers, a grand piano and more.[/quote']

     

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2007/11/...in_merritt.html

     

    Anyone hear this yesterday?

     

    As you could have guessed, Stephen Merritt was a lot of fun to listen to as he struggled (as much as he struggles) through the songwriting challenge.

     

    The best part is that it's going to be an ongoing series with a number of different songwriters as they face the same challenge. I am really looking forward to this. It also just happens to air just at the time I am on the road on my way home. So the timing couldn't be better.

    Now Playing For November 2007

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

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    I am so in love with this album. could easily be a top 10 if there weren't so damn many great ones this year!

     

    What is it?

     

    And I am listening to the following today:

    Willie Nelson - To Lefty, From Willie

    D'Angelo - Voodoo

    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live Seeds

    Brinsley Schwarz - Cruel To Be Kind (Live @ the BBC)

    Pandora.com -- Tom Z

    One Song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Can somebody explain it to me so'ze that I can participate in that other "One Song" thread?

    I tried asking in there, but got no response.

     

    Is it just reciting what you think are good lyrics?

     

    Anyway... thanks.

    Green Day listens to Wilco

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Green Day has changed a lot since they started.

     

    American Idiot does have a lot more substance, both lyrically and musically than most of their past records. The only thing that sounds the same is Billy Joe's voice; I can understand how a lot of people have a hard time getting past that.

    Billy Corgan

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I loved Gish.

    And I think that, musically, a lot of the SP stuff is really good and interesting.

    I just don't like his voice. His singing sounds like a baby with colic at 3 a.m.

    (But the voice works when there's layers of guitars around it.)

    Tex Avery

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Love me some Tex.

    I think that he could be a little too politically INcorrect for these times, though.

    Still, the guy's a genius.

     

    Along with the old Warner Brothers cartoons, those were the best there were.

    Roky Erickson cover - "Roller Coaster"

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Still, I do think that we owned this song.

    I play the second guitar... I took inspiration from Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order bass player) in conceiving it. We had a tough time getting it together, but once I got my part in-line, it all fell in-place. I am very proud of it.

     

    http://spadekitty.com/media/rpb2.mp3

     

    Moderator: please delete this thread if you think it's too promotional.

     

    Yeah, I'm bitter about being forced out, but I just listened to it today and was struck by how good it is.

    Clear Channel will not play the new Bruce

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Well, Austin is good for subversive radio.

     

    When all that Dixie Chicks stuff went down and "country" radio blacklisted them, our stations (particularly KGSR 107.1 ... my favorite) probably tripled their radio play. It's kinda ironic how much Austin hates GWB.

     

    I think that, even if it did alienate half their listening base, the whole Dixie Chicks flap actually earned them a whole new audience. I know that it was in the midst of all that hullabaloo that my wife decided to check them out. Just because if it all.

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