PopTodd

One of the staples was already pulled out prior to me opening it and the other is precarious at best. Not taking it back just for that.

 

LouieB

At first, I thought you were talking about your surgery and I cringed.

i so do not get all the love for Loveless musically...

 

it seems like this mythical record these days

 

Only Shallow is amazing, i'll give you that, but on the whole i just find it to be a good but not amazing record.

I was with you on that for many years. Then, one day, it hit me like a ton of bricks and I didn't even realize it until the record had ended, I was so lost in it all. Keep listening. If and when it does hit you, you will know.

Ride/Catherine Wheel>MBV

Maybe for the complete discography, but neither band has done anything close to approaching the brilliance of Loveless.

Velvet Underground - "I'll Be Your Mirror"

Ill be your mirror

Reflect what you are, in case you don

11/8/07:

Richard Davies - There's Never Been a Crowd Like This

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

V/A - O' Brother Where Art Thou? (OST)

Mission Of Burma - Vs.

One that many of you may not have been aware was a cover song:

"Respect" - Aretha Franklin (Otis Redding)

Not true. This Yankee is a long-time Weddoes/Cinerama fan. Been listening to Gedge's stuff since 1991. Saw them in Atlanta on their last tour in 1996, a few months before their 6-year hiatus started. They're slowly working on the follow-up to "Take Fountain." Can't fuckin' wait.

A generalization, of course. I know that they have their Anglophile fans here. I have many friends who have sung their praises for years. I just never listened to them... or, rather, always had another album that I wanted more than theirs when I went to buy records.

Looks like this Kevin Shields fellow is a man of his word' date=' huh? In the January/February 2007 issue of Magnet magazine, as previously reported, Shields promised that some band he's part of called My Bloody Valentine were "100% going to make another...record unless we die or something."

 

Today comes word that Shields wasn't just pulling our whammy bars, as the Vice-associated (UPDATE: Not associated, just good friends) Daily Swarm has revealed bits from a interview with Shields-- set to air on a forthcoming episode of Vice's vbs.tv program "Soft Focus"-- in which the shoegaze godfather and fanclub president* confirms that the new album is being made, and what's more, it's supposed to come out this year.

 

Speaking to "Soft Focus" host and DC scene mainstay Ian Svenonius, here's Kevin: "We were making a record in the 90s, around when the band broke up in 1995...and I continued with Bilinda [butcher, guitarist/vocalist']. We kinda made...most of an album...

 

"[The new album is] going to be this 96/97 half-finished record finished, and then a compilation of stuff we did before that in 1993

Is there any chance that there is streaming audio of that Fats tune, Joss?

I have no access to torrent sites and would love to hear this.

The Wedding Present

I've just really heard a lot of their stuff for the first time, and they are the quintessential BritPop band. Especially since nobody in the US EVER listens to them.

Toots & The Maytalls

Another band I've just discovered and, for my money, Toots has one of the greatest voices in the history of modern music.

So yeah, I did a search and didn't see any threads covering this topic.

Some of my favorite cover tunes:

"Que Sera Sera" - Sly & The Family Stone (Doris Day)

"Somebody's Baby" - Yo La Tengo (Jackson Browne)

"Take Me Home Country Roads" - Toots & The Maytalls (John Denver)

"A Hazy Shade Of Winter" - The Bangles (Simon & Garfunkel)

"Eight Miles High" - H

No - that was joke on rock bio pics in general. I should have made that more clear.

S'okay. I'm kinda slow on the uptake, if you haven't noticed.

Here is a site with a trailer for the film.

You love fucking with the newbies, don't you?

So when is that biopic gonna be coming out?

I thought that it was in production?

I have a copy waiting for me at Laurie's ....can't wait.

 

LouieB

Laurie's is the best.

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...

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 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.

Don Henley must die

Don't let him get together with Glenn Frey

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.

The fact that they share a birthday, too has got to drive Ryan Adams freaking crazy.

 

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

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.

My Top 5 (for now):

King Khan & The Shrines - What Is?!?!

Martin Newell - A Summer Tamarind

Tom Z

Happy Ashtray - Happy Friday mp3 series

Honestly I didn't know the ER was still on.