Ghost of Electricity

No, it's because it's his favorite version.  Taste can't be quantified.

I want a grilled Cheesus machine--the custom model with Jeff's face. They can still keep the sunburst rays.

your own, personal cheesus?

Hey wait is it going to get fun here again?

i use piece of plywood with a couple of drawer handles attached all fit into a little second-hand suitcase i picked up at a flea market. it was less expensive and does the ob fine.  it's just a little messy as i can't hide all the power cables anywhere.

i think being there era wilco is the stonesiest.

Why wouldn't they want to open for the Stones?  It's the next best thing to actually being in the Stones.  Just too bad they can't do it in a 40-year time warp

I would assume you know Ali Farka Toure, but I'll mention him just in case.  And though it's less stylistically similar, Mansour Seck (Baaba Maa's guitarist) has two solo records on a label called Stern's Africa which are both fantastic.

they were streaming this in its entirety on the NPR website a few days ago. Don't know if it's still up or not.  I listened, I liked.

I used to listen to Billy Joel a lot as a kid- still have a soft spot for everything up until about the Nylon Curtain era.  Much of that was Phil Ramone.  Also, he produced (and/or engineered?) the NY sessions for Blood On The Tracks, which is an all-time favorite of mine.  Quite a career.  Rest in Peace.

I never realized that he was the one who hit the record button when Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to Kennedy.

That Sir Duke is indeed fantastic- a great feel-good anecdote for the uber-depressing shite weather here.  i'm going to listen to it again.

 

Yesterday, I picked up all of these for a total of $6:

• The Replacements - Don't Sell or Buy, It's Crap

• Los Lobos - The Neighborhood

• Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Ave., Vol. 2

• The Amps - Pacer

• Del Amitri - Twisted

• Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars

 

Great day.

Most excited about that Amps record. I loved it back in the day, but lost it in a flood a few years back. So happy to have it again.

 

Oh, and that Replacements thing is an EP that came out around the time of All Shook Down. It has "When It Began" and then a bunch of sloppy-ass outtakes and a cover of "Like a Rolling Stone" called "Like a Rolling Pin". Typical. Not brilliant, but still somehow awesome.

 

when I was a dj at the college radio station i spun that replacements ep a couple once or twice.  good times.

Hothouse Flowers is the poor man's Waterboys

Thanks Moss!

this thread is the poor man's "post perfect pop songs here" thread (or whatever it was called) which the search engine is being unhelpful in locating.  Anyone want to help?

So i guess the Violent Femmes have gotten over their differences regarding the use of their music to sell hamburgers.

The Beatles are the poor man's Kinks.

Donovan is the poor man's Dylan.

Gear Daddies are a poor man's Uncle Tupelo.  

(I like 'em anyway)

personally i don't have one.

I can hear it from the opening bars but i won't ruin it for you with specifics. 

You're welcome.

I cannot believe that I am still the only one to mention Quine.

Damn.

only because i hadn't checked out this thread et.  I'm with you on Quine.  The way my brain works, technical proficiency isn't a criteria, nor is the body of work. if someone has only one record that moves me, if it moves me enough, he's on.   Quine gets on the list by virtue of "Waves of Fear" alone. 

of the top of my head,

Others not mentioned that do it for me are:

Louris (Hollywood Town Hall)

Mercer/Million  (can't untangle these two)

Maybelle Carter

Brian Setzer

i'd vote cut your credit card up into little pieces before continuing this discussion otherwise you might end up with both. And debt.

The loudness issue of ST is due to it's shortcomings in the mastering stage, i believe.  It was compressed too much, which creates the illusion of loudness, but also robs it of dynamic range.  In other words, the soft parts are made louder and the loud parts made quieter.  this is done to make something "stand out" from everything else around it, and is commonly done to commercials, which is why you have to rush for the remote to turn them down when they come on.  The problem is that as everyone is doing it, it becomes harder and harder to stand out, and so you have to do it more and more, everything becomes more squashed and the life is squeezed out of the music.

It's a huge negative of St for me.

there are are many many aprroaches that can be taken to good effect.  One recording done with one of my bands broke just about all the rules you could:  we plugged guitars direct in to the computer, played to a click track, did all the amps on software sims, added some keys and even pedal steel from high-quality samples. the drums were done last, and live.  I was sceptical about doing things this way, but the results were surprisingly good.  the key was having a good engineer (who also happened to be the guitarist)  

I'm not saying that it would be my first choice of how to do it again, but just raising the point that different approaches can be taken to good effect.