Wild Frank

I have the same lyric, or rhyme, by two different bands. One works, one doesn't. Mercury Rev: Holes "Holes, dug by little moles, angry jealous Spies, got telephones for eyes, come to you as....." This works, just, in the context of a great song by a band that frequently explore surreal landscapes in their wordplay. U2: Elevation "A mole Digging in a hole Digging up my soul now Going down, excavation" Whilst this is just rubbish.

Good work my friend. Thats that sorted out. The Bastard Album it is!!

Wilco: TBA. Good album title!

I'll second that. Every Wait's record is class. Also...how about Nick Cave? Certainly he has been putting out constantly great albums for as long as I can remember. Lambchop also spring to mind. Sparklehorse also fall into this category and will unfortunatly always be so. Still miss Mark Linkous. Very sad.

Both Vivadixie and Good Morning Spider are to be re-issued on vinyl later this month. The are coming out on the Plain Record label in 180g versions. Vivadixie comes with a bonus 7" featuring a couple of tracks off the Distorted Ghost EP. Can't wait to get these as the vinyl copies on e-bay currently cost a fortune.

How about Flight of the Conchords? Also, what was Homer, Mo, Apu and Barney's band called in the Simpsons? They were pretty good.

That cover is a bit of a departure from the previous records. Reading comments from Mr. Meloy this album is far more 'American' that their recent output which has been heavily influenced by British/European folk. It has now emerged that Peter Buck plays on three tracks whilst Gilian Welsh sings on seven. I am looking forward to this album. As stated earlier I did feel they had exhausted one particular avenue so it is nice to see them treading new pastures.

Was any one else aware of this? Seems to have sliped under the radar. I was looking on Grant Lee Phillips website this evening and saw some January 2011 dates for 'Grant Lee Buffalo'. It is the original line up. Hopefully this will lead to other things. Weird, we could have new Jayhawks and Grant Lee Buffalo albums next year (maybe). Anyway, I'm excited. A criminally underated band and Grant Lee is a supurb songwriter. http://www.grantleephillips.com/site/index.html

I liked 'Hazards of Love' too. Ignoring all the concept stuff there are some great songs on there. I just feel they have gone as far as they can in that direction and perhaps a more pared back approach would be good. In reference to the new album I am not sure of the style and content. I quite like the song I downloaded yesterday.

There are some nice Vinyl re-issues on pre-order over on Tom's official website. 'Closing Time', 'Heart of Saturday Night', 'small Change' and 'Nighthawks' are all to be released next month on limited edition (1000 copies) red vinyl. Nice.

New album announced by the Decemberists. The album is 'The King Is Dead' and there is a free download of one track over on the bands website. I am really looking forward to this album. I think it will be a more song based effort this time. I think they pushed the prog concept stuff to the limits on Hazards of Love.

Do 'Walnut Surprise' count?. I am reading the new Johnathan Franzen book and one of the characters has a band that support Wilco. There is a couple of mentions of Mr. Tweedy in the book too.

Yeah, I thought that too. The quality of the first six songs is so high but it does seem to fall off a bit at the end. Still a great album though. I am trying to find similar artists in Hip-Hop that I might like. I love guys like Mos Def, Kweli, Common etc but haven't found any new artists in a while. Anyone got any recommendations (a new thread perhaps). I can't be doing with the aforementioned bragging hip-hop. I like the socially conscious stuff.

Hey...feel free to chime. They're chimes of freedom! sorry!

fair point. As with many songs they work in the album context even if they aren't that great. What is the story behind 'meet me in the morning'?

...and 'Meet me in the morning' off 'Blood on the Tracks'. ...and four of five tracks on 'Exile on Main Street'

Genesis: 'The battle of epping forest' I love 'Selling England by the Pound' but that song is too much.

YO GABBA GABBA!!!

City Slang have announced a little Lambchop re-issue series for the end of November. Nixon is being re-released with a bonus DVD of the Royal Festical Hall Performance) Is A Woman is being re-released with 16 bonus tracks. There is also a 'tour box' containing the 8 tour cd's and 2 live dvd's (ltd to 1,000 copies). Both of these albums are near perfection for me so this is great news. There are vinyl copies being released too!. It looks like Kurt Wagner also has a record coming out in colaboration with Cortney Tidwell.

Has anyone picked up on the latest 'Cherry Ghost' record? I listened to it the other day and was actually quite impressed. However both records (their debut album came out a couple of years back) could have been so much better without the slight commercial leanings. The singer/songwriter obviously has impecable taste (apart from the obvious) and you wish that would be more to the front. There is a heavy debt to Mark Linkous, who is mentioned in the 'credits'. They also covered 'Junebug' as a b-side recently. It seems like they are stuck between paying homage to their heroes and trying to se

Jay, God rest his soul, less so.

Great stuff. Each song I hear gets progressivly better. I assume all these video clips will be compiled on a CD/DVD package similar to previous Neil albums.

Got to be.... 'All The tired Horses'. Probably better with.... 'Buckets of Rain' 'Po Boy' 'Most of the Time'

I've not heard of that Marc Ribot documentary. I'll have to check that out. I only really know his work with Waits. It there any solo records that I should hear? I completely agree about the 'Magazine' scene. As a father of two young boys seeing Jeff and his kids playing brings a tear to my eye. Its perfect. I'm sure this has been mentioned earlier but the scene with Rick Danko in The Last Waltz when he is in the control room chatting with Scorsese is also heartbreaking.

I agree that 'Southern' is amazing but I really feel that 'Before the Frost....Until the Freeze' is the most complete album they have made. I really love that record. 'Amorica' I've never warmed to as much for some reason. Its very good but doesn't hit the same spots as the other two.