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.

Wilco TA - The Album

Wilco TBA - The ____ Album

 

* Bachata - originated in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantical; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness.

* Baião - a Northeast Brazilian rhythmic formula that became the basis of a wide range of music.

* Bakersfield sound - gritty, hard-edged reaction against 1950s pop country (Nashville sound)

* Bakshy - Turkmen folk music made by travelling musicians also called bakshy

* Baila - Sri Lankan dance music derived from African slaves held by the Portuguese

* Baile Funk - Brazilian dance music literally means "ball", as in "dance party", and "funk"

* Baisha xiyue - a song and dance suite from the Naxi of Lijiang, China

* Bajourou - Malian (Mali) pop music usually played at weddings and social gatherings.

* Bakou - trilling vocals that accompany Wolof wrestling

* Bal-musette - a style of French music and dance which arose in 1880s Paris especially the 5th, 11th, and 12th districts.

* Balakadri - a traditional quadrille music that was performed for balls on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

* Balinese Gamelan - A form of Gamelan native to Bali

* Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs

* Ballata - an Italian poetic and musical form, which was in use from the late 13th to the 15th century.

* Bamboo band - originally from the Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with sandals

* Bambuco - the "unofficial music of Colombia". Folk music accompanied by a stylized group dance in either a 6/8 or 3/4 meter.

* Banda - Mexican brass norteño pop music invented in the 1960s

* Bangsawan - a type of traditional Malay opera. It was known to have developed from a sort of Indian theatre performance during the 19th century by visiting Indian travellers.

* Bantowbol

* Barbershop music - a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture

* Barndance

* Baroque music - 17th-18th century European classical music

* Bass music (Miami bass, Booty bass) - electro influenced form of hip hop dance music arising in Miami, Florida

* Batá-rumba - a form of Rumba music popular mainly in Cuba

* Batcave (club) - original gothic rock music.

* Batucada - a substyle of samba and refers to an African influenced Brazilian percussive style, usually performed by an ensemble.

* Batuco

* Beach music - a regional genre which developed from various musical styles of the forties, fifties and sixties. These styles ranged from big band swing instrumentals to the more raucous sounds of blues/jump blues, jazz, doo-wop, boogie, rhythm and blues, reggae, rockabilly and old-time rock and roll.

* Beat - a fusion of rock and roll, doo wop, skiffle, R&B and soul. Beat groups characteristically had simple guitar-dominated line-ups, with vocal harmonies and catchy tunes.

* Beatboxing - Music performed by producing percussive and melodic sounds with the mouth alone, often mimicking instruments, recorded samples and other sounds not typically associated with vocalization.

* Bebop - 1940s jazz style with complex improvisation and a fast tempo

* Beiguan - Taiwanese instrumental music

* Bel canto - Italian vocal style which arose in the late 16th century and which ended in the mid-19th century

* Bend-skin - a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music.

* Benga - a genre of Kenyan popular music

* Berlin School of electronic music - a style of electronic music characterized by atmospheric sounds and the use of sequencers.

* Bhajan - a Hindu religious song

* Bhangra/pron. bhang-gruh - a genre from India. A type of popular dance music combining Punjabi folk traditions with Western pop music, fusing traditional drum-based music with elements of reggae, ragga, hip-hop, rock, soul, and dance.

* Bhangra-wine

* Bhangragga

* Bhangramuffin

* Big band music - large orchestras which play a form of swing music

* Big Beat - 1990s electronic music based on breakbeat with other influences

* Biguine - Guadeloupean folk music

* Black ambient - blackened form of dark ambient music

* Blackened death metal - a fusion between death and black metal

* Black metal - highly distorted and swift form of heavy metal

* Bluegrass - American country music mixed with Irish and Scottish influences

* Blue-eyed soul - rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.

* Blues - African-American music from the Mississippi Delta area

* Blues ballad - the sound of the blues using a blues scale and blues style chord progressions with a bridge using a different bluesy chord progression)

* Blues-rock - a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles.

* Biomusic - a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by living things.

* Bitpop - electronic music, where at least part of the music is made using old 8-bit computers, game consoles and little toy instruments. Popular choices are the Commodore 64, Game Boy, Atari 2600 and Nintendo Entertainment System.

* Bihu-a popular folk music of Assam,India

* Bocet

* Boi - Central Amazonian folk music

* Bolero - Spanish and Cuban dance and music

* Bomba

* Bongo - distinctive African drum and style of drumming

* Boogie woogie - style of piano-based blues popular in the 1940s US

* Boogaloo - soul and mambo fusion popular in 1960s United States

* Bossa nova

* Bothy ballad - songs sung by farm labourers, specifically in the northeast region of Scotland.

* Bouncy techno - a rave hardcore dance music style that developed from around 1992, mostly emanating from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

* Boy band

* Brass band - a musical group generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

* Brazilian funk

* Brazilian jazz - bossa nova and samba mixed with American jazz

* Breakbeat - a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). These rhythms may be characterised by their intensive use of syncopation and polyrhythms.

* Breakbeat hardcore - a derivative of acid house that combines 4-to-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats, and is associated with UK Rave scene.

* Breakcore - an electronic music style that brings together elements of industrial, jungle, hardcore techno and IDM into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density. It adheres to a loose set of stylistic rules.

* Breton Music - traditional music of Brittany, France, that is played today yet, with pipes, drums and bombard. It's also known for its original and very ancient songs called "gwerz", or "kan ha diskan".

* Brill Building Pop - named after New York's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway

* Britfunk

* Britpop

* British blues

* British Invasion - rock and roll, beat and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States from 1964 to 1966.

* Broken beat - an electronic music genre which can be characterized by syncopated rhythm typically in 4/4 metre, with staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps.

* Brown-eyed soul - a subgenre of soul music or rhythm and blues created in the United States mainly by Latinos in Southern California during the 1960s, continuing through to the early 1980s.

* Brukdown - rural Belizean Kriol music

* Bubblegum dance

* Bubblegum pop - sometimes synonymous with pop music, especially that performed by teen idols; can also refer to specific styles of South African or Japanese pop

* Bikutsi

* Bulerias

* Bumba-meu-boi

* Bunraku - Japanese style originated from a kind of puppet-theater.

* Burger-highlife

 

Top tips highlighted but it could be

 

Traditional Birth Attendant - a term for an untrained midwife

Trenes de Buenos Aires - an Argentine railway company

Text-Based Adventure - as in the old school gaming genre

Tundra Buggy Adventure - http://www.tundrabuggy.com/

 

Otherwise, I shall know it henceforth as The Bastard Album

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

I just noticed on ANTI's homepage, under upcoming releases, they have Wilco: TBA

 

 

 

Wilco: TBA.

Good album title!

Tom Waits

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 actually really liked Hazards of Love so I was quite surprised by all the negative comments about it. Really looking forward to the new one. So is this new one not a "Concept" album? I did hear Peter Buck played on it but not sure how much.

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.

maybe it is only the last two? i just think in general it falls off halfway through

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.

that is not through any deficiency in the first two, imho, but because the third one is so stunningly good you just wait to get there. But maybe I've chimed in on Dylan enough in this thread...

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

sorry!

beg to differ. the one I most hear maligned on Blood on the Tracks is "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts," (I might as well say it before someone else does) but the album needs both those songs. "Lily.." as a bit of lightness to make the pain on the rest of the record tolerable, and "Meet me.." for, among other things, the blistering pedal steel solo and the story behind it.

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 sell a shed loads of records. Consequently they sound like a mix between Sparklehorse and Coldplay, which is a pretty strange sound. However, I am interested what other people think of this band.

p.s: If I see them live I'g gonna have to wear my Wilco 'Cherry Ghost' t-shirt!!

John looks like he came straight from a job interview.

Jay, God rest his soul, less so.

Really wonderful! Love the sound.

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'

some favorites of mine

 

The Lost String (a doc about Marc Ribot)

 

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (everyone knows about this...the scene w/ 'magazine called sunset' is so damned good)

 

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 rate it like this:

southern is their best

amorica is probably my fave.

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.