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never leave a Calexico gig early...they typically invite the opener on stage for a big blowout of a cover song. w/ the Acorn they played 'crosseyed and painless' and it ruled. i do agree that the last couple of records have not been too strong.

buying mp3s is a concept i will never get.

i saw this news the other day...damn. Ronnie still has the most amazing voice, hard to believe he can sing that way at 67. i hope for a full recovery. the last Heaven and Hell show i saw was really good.

funny, i didn't realize that Andy was doing sound for The Feelies. he's a member on a long-time listserv mailing list that i've been on for quite some time as well. it was kinda neat to get a technical insight into this sort of situation. i was wondering about that...i thought the mogwai sound was pretty decent, though i went back from the front of the stage to about ~15' back for the latter third, and the sound improved substantially. louieb, thanks for the info on Neko...i don't own any of the early material, but have a recording of that Peel session she did w/ Calexico.

i had an Ipswich IPA on cask last night.

my comment was tongue-in-cheek, since this *is* a board ostensibly based around Wilco, which at the heart of their music is that same sort of band. and also riffing on that previous thread re: telling people what to like.

there are way too many singer-songwriter types on these lists...

i think the quieter shows sound better there...Will Oldham sounded great, but then again i was about 15' from the stage, center. which is where i ended up at the end of the SY show, for 'what we know' and 'death valley '69' both of which i thought sounded great from there. but at the beginning, i was way over on Lee's side, and it sounded rough; way too much bass and no vocal mix.

for me, the idea of bjork is more compelling than the actual thing.

good point...there's no punk rock representation yet... penelope houston (avengers) joan jett (blackhearts) poly styrene (x ray spex) siouxsie (banshees) exene (x)

i prefer the b000 version, but the 30 songs version of 'echoes myron' is a lot better than the b000 one.

photos + review: http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/ray-davies-berklee-performance-center-boston-pics/

i'm only counting people who either are the clear front person, or have significant creative input into a band (ie, Kim Gordon is not mentioned because of this). PJ Harvey Barbara Manning Thalia Zedek (Uzi, Live Skull, Come, solo) Fontaine Toups (Versus) Wata (Boris) Juliana Hatfield (solo, Blake Babies) Sylvia Juncosa (solo, To Damascus, SWA) Kate Village (Major Stars, Magic Hour, Crystalized Movements) Electrelane (all of them) Meg Baird (Espers) honorable mention: Marcy Mays (Scrawl) Bilinda Butcher (My Bloody Valentine) Marissa Nadler Cosey Fanni Tutti (COUM transmissions, Throbbing

it's all about 'peephole'

fair enough. you've definitely heard enough of Hitchcock to form an opinion. i would recommend listening to _I Often Dream Of Trains_, a spare and sparse outing, mainly him on acoustic guitar, w/ a little bit of piano here and there (and soprano sax on the gorgeous "Flavour of Night") Robyn's put out a 2cd live set consisting of just Dylan songs. it's quite good.

buy this: http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Clean/dp/B00007L7E1 is this board cool w/ doing zipped mp3 uploads? if so, i'll do a ~8 song sampler that will give you a good dose of what i'm talking about re: 80s New Zealand music. two serious questions: 1 - what have you heard from Hitchcock? 2 - do you like Barrett and Dylan?

now this is blasphemy...Flying Nun is the greatest label of all time. The Chills The Clean The Bats Verlaines The Pin Group This Kind of Punishment/Jefferies brothers Gordons Dead C The Rip/Alastair Galbraith Tall Dwarfs Bill Direen/Bilders all those bands put out totally essential records in the 80s.

i suppose it could be, if you don't own any records released by SST, Homestead, Flying Nun, Factory, etc...

replace 'Lay Lady Lay' for 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' for me.

well in defense of IRDB, this thread basically is a breeding ground for flame wars. but i do agree that the Dead are woefully over-rated.

i do love 'Dondante' and think it's their best song by a wide margin.

by 2nd time in a row i meant 2nd time that i've seen him...saw him play in '06 as well and he did the same thing.

i was pretty bummed that for the 2nd time in a row, Ray sang '20th century man' and left out the bridge (the part w/ the 'i was born in a welfare state'). why the hell would he do that? it's the best part of the song!

i won't be able to go w/ a month-by-month rundown...i probably bought 150LPs and 30-40 cds. that's just a wild guess.

Review: Neko Case w/ Calexico and a stealth shot of Neko