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A good album, not great. I liked the B-Sides collection much better if that says anything.

As a casual fan who has heard all their studio albums many times, is it weird that I think Patterson's solo record is better then all of them? There are better Truckers songs on each album, but I don't think they've put out an album as consistent as "Murdering Oscar".

oh my goodness, is it me, or did most of the acts shown here completely suck!!??!!!

Guess I'm not jaded enough because I thought it looked and sounded great. OK, Mellencamp should be banned from covering anyone ever again (he royally messed up Springsteen too recently). Then again, those songs are all great so it'd be hard to screw this up.....can't wait to hear Wilco cover those songs.

I can't say I'm upset by this. In fact, this guy was the main reason I could never profess my total love for these guys. He just looked and sounded like he should have been in a Sha Na Na tribute band.

I LOVED Soundgarden but they were known for being horrible live. Their albums are all great though. Glad they are back. Some bands are just bigger then the sum of their parts.

America-A Horse with No Name is always #1 for me in the cool song, bad lyrics catagory.

The price for the vinyl is just insane. Guess I'll stick to my worn out old scratchy versions.

Well thanks to this thread I just bought this sweet Philips GA-212!

http://appleton.craigslist.org/ele/1435749802.html

Thanks to the amazing website Birkajazz.com, I have created a zip file of over 400 classic jazz album covers. I am just in awe of how great some of these are. You can fine the file on my blog if your interested.

As far of these Coltrane Prestige Box Sets go, I just got all three and am loving every second of them. My ONLY complaint is the separation of the original albums on the discs in keeping with the flow of the session dates. I get why it was done, but I'm a album guy for better or worse.

One Fast Move or Iam Gone- Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard

This is the correct answer. Nothing comes close.

If I have a $500 turntable, I am going to put a $500 or so cartridge on it. Otherwise, the initial $500 is wasted.

So the $500.00 turntable will sound better then my $100.00 coming out of the same equipment? That is my question.

Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh-Walk and Don't Look Back.

Does Thurston Moore and Lydia Lunch count for Death Valley 69?

Feist and Tweedy-You and I for a recent one.

The problem I have is having so much music sitting on my IPod and hard drive, is that when I'm listening to anything I keep thinking about all the other stuff I can be listening to. I'm finding the inability to emotionally invest in one certain album.

I made a point last week to listen to nothing but the new Build to Spill for 3 days in a row. I actually fell in love with a specific album for the first time in a long time. I am going to make a point to stop the "shuffling" and block out the fact that I have 1000 albums to play and just focus on one thing. It really is hard but very rewarding. Getting back into vinyl has really helped with this.

Your receiver and speakers are far more important than the turntable

So I'm really getting back into vinyl and wondering if this statement above is true. I have maybe the lowest line Sony turntable and am wondering if records would sound even better with a "nicer" one. I mean, they differ in price so much I have to assume there are sound differences.

I'm frankly stunned how great this is. I'm not a big Death Cab guy but Ben Gibbard is a great songwriter. Of course the source material is aces too. The whole project is cool and really well done.

I think he meant that the "best" bands from the 80's (incl. the awesome Replacements) were much better than the "best" out of the 90's - which I think I would agree with...

Exactly!

Think of the best of the 80's.....

Husker Du

Sonic Youth

The Mats

The Cure

Joy Division

The Smiths

REM

Prince

Bauhaus

The Church

Camper Van Beethoven

Dino Jr.

and on and on......

This thread has made me realize how much great music came out in the 80's.....

Back on track:

REM (even in the 90's)

Smashing Pumpkins

Phish

Wilco

Beck

Los Lobos (THERE)

Yo La Tengo

Nirvana (WAS the 90's for me)

Pearl Jam

Uncle Tupelo

Son Volt

Good enough, but not exactly first rate.

LouieB

Even though this stuff isn't the big grand artisitc statments Coltrane would go on to produce, to dismiss the material here is crazy. I got mine and I'd say the material is all first rate. Somewhere in the book they quote Sonny Rollins as saying "Coltrane was always Coltrane to me. It's the critics who divide carrers up into stages".

In fact, after recieving my copy I want to go on record as saying this is best thread in the history of Via Chicago!! I am so glad I own this I'm now going to get the "Fearless Leader" box. These guys sure know how to put together a box set. Great stuff.

he could have released Together Through Life for charity . . . actually, no - that was shit too.

Um...wrong. Big time wrong. Your post was shit though.

Hmm. That's obviously a great price. But I don't know that I trust ordering it.

 

I've read of cases like this before, and once the store realizes the error, they won't honor the mistaken price. However, I'm not sure how that'd work online via card. Did anyone actually order this one, and confirm that they charged $12, not $60?

Well, all I know is my order confirmation says $14.36 total so they better honer it. Otherwise, it was worth a shot....

I just bought this 5 cd John Coltrane Box Set for 11.99 at Best Buy.com.

 

This set collects his sideman sessions he recorded for Prestige Records during the last half of the '50s.

 

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9367393&type=product&id=2038868

 

I apologize if posting this kind of info is not allowed.

Best thread ever! Thank you so much.

Whoaaa. I love Together Through Life. It's a great record with a bunch of great songs. But it's not really a "heartbreaking" album. And certainly not as emotional as BOTT.

Maybe it's because I'm in the middle of a divorce, but I hear a ton of loss and looking back on this new Dylan disc. Even "It's All Good" is sarcastic as hell.

The last two Bob Mould discs are just amazing break up discs.

Ryan Adams-Love is Hell is also nice.

I also think Dylan's "Together Through Life" is as heartbreaking as anything on Blood on the Tracks.

Of course, The Cure's Disintigration

it may not be worth the voyage as much the residency dates were.

Nothing will ever top those residency shows. I'm actually surprised they did them for that reason. Were those video or multitrack recorded?

Is he playing solo or with his band? That would be the determining factor for me. I don't care for his current band at all but his solo shows are simply amazing.

There is something sort of humorous about this.....out-takes from an group that I am guessing is still out of print. Their first album was a double, which was probably more than they needed and their second was inferior to their first. Will be interested to hear if this really should have been released at all. Find their old stuff on musty and dusty vinyl. (Edit...I guess it is on CD, although easy enough to find on used LP...)

LouieB

I only have the double self titled and think it's one of the most under-appreciated albums of all time. These just released 7 tracks all sounded really great to me.