Synthesizer Patel

You really need to check out his old band - Lift To Experience - they only made one album, though. The Texas Jerusalem Crossroad. It came out in 2001, and then we had to wait nearly 10 years for his new one. It's one of my favourite modern albums.

I'm surprised at all the Wilco The Album slating, in comparison to this new one, because, in my mind, this is Wilco The Album Part 2 That's my 128kbps review. I'll give the apple lossless one in a couple of weeks time.

sign up on this: http://tongal.com/project/smile# then go to "Project Files" and you can download Heroes and Villains and Good Vibrations from the new box set.

Make sure you press rewind on your cd player before the first track - There is a hidden song at the start of the album called The Citizen Band. Believe it or not, I didn't find this out until a couple of years after the album came out, although in some ways that made it more special when I did.

I'd ignore the whole Rock thing - all rock bands that use horns are doing so because they want to sound like soul bands. The key is to use them as the rhythm section, so really they should be working off the bass and drums - once you are solid with that, then you have them do a few lead parts. Check these out for examples - notice they are mainly acting to boost the rhythm section. It's all punchy and simple - it's far more important to get them driving the rhythm than it is to have them showing off, although doing both would be good. Van 1 Van 2 Anything Van Morrison in the early to mid 7

I don't find it so bad when they are American only imports as there always enough people selling them to get them fairly cheap. It's just that the Japanese editions are always hard to come by as very few people seem to ship them outside of Japan. Here's a little heads up about The Left Banke - Sundazed are reissuing both of their albums (Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina & The Left Banke Too) near the end of June. For anyone that likes baroque pop these will be like gold dust if they turn out to be limited runs which I'd think they will be, as Sundazed tend to do that sort of thing. So p

that is such a great bit in that film. his leg kicks are brilliant, and he just stumbles off the stage before the song ends - that's the way to do it, kids!

i think you'll have to wait for van morrison to die. he just seems to veto any remasters - he cancelled the reissues set of his albums from Tupelo Honey onwards (so even then he was not including the first 3 albums) half way through them being released - and there is no sign whatsoever that they'll come out. he doesn't have an official website (i don't think) and his record company closes down any that spring up, and it's only recently that i've seen any of his songs making it onto youtube for more than a few days before they get taken down. so, based on all that, i really can't see them getti

I've always thought the Bee Gees Remasters of the first 4 albums by Rhino have been the best example of how to do it. Mono & Stereo albums on one disc, and bonus/b-sides/alt takes etc... on the second disc. I think it's more the fact that the mono and stereo mixes are often very different, and the second disc bonus tracks are great that makes this good, though. Normally artists outtakes can just be dull, so it doesn't matter how much bonus material there is. I've just forked out for the japanese remasters of Astral Weeks, Moondance and His Band And The Street Choir by Van Morrison and th

I have heard it, but don't have it. Yeah it is pretty good - I had it downloaded on one of my old hard drives that died on me. Rod Stewart did a lot of great covers until he went off to America - my person favourite is Mama You've Been On My Mind. I've never liked Maybe I'm Amazed, not even McCartney's version. The 2nd stage Manfred Mann is great - with Mike D'Arbo - they did some top notch Baroque Pop in that period.

there are loads and loads, not from Mandfred Mann Earth Band, but from their eariler career: So Long Dad - By Randy Newman With God On Our Side - Bob Dylan there are loads of Dylan covers actually, their singles tended to be covers (or at least songs not written by themselves)

the manfred mann earth band? manfred mann should really be exempt based on the huge number of brilliant covers he and his band did in stage 1 and 2 of his career - in this case 3 wasn't the magic number, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

ha ha! looks like another member of the super furry animals gang in the making! have you not heard any of their albums, or you just didn't like the ones you heard? i'd be inclined to say that Hey Venus! is fairly similar to Hotel Shampoo, or (like Shakespeare said) Phantom Power. like has been said already, all of their albums are completely different. My personal favourite is Guerrilla, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend that first. Actually, start from Fuzzy Logic and work forward - that's always the best way. also, you could check out the film Seperado! which is Gruff going to South

I wouldn't worry too much about Matthew's 8 albums on 8 different instruments thingy. I heard the first 2 and thought it was ok, but not worth buying - plus I live in the uk and the post would have been too much. I'd describe them as being a bit like that thing Beck did re-recording famous albums (like I mentioned a few posts above) - there is nothing wrong with it, but there is nothing too right with it either. Really it should be free. Hopefully after Eleanor's album they'll put out a new Fiery Furnaces album later in the year.

eleanor friedberger has got a solo album out on july 12th - should be good. you you can hear a track - "my mistakes" - here

exactly. i'm going to stop now - my head hurts.

and when you don't like things and yet still see value in them, what happens then? or is that not possible? also, so you put someone in front of some speakers and play them a Nels Cline solo once. they don't like it. you play it to them 50 times, and there opinion changes. having heard it 50 times, they love it now. there has been no other outside stimulous, therefore nothing else has changed besides the number of times they have heard the song. there first opinion is that they didn't like it (in your world view of things) - therefore it is acceptable for everyone to agree in some people's w

it is exactly like maths and science, it's not just like it, it is it. if it's possible to play a sound wave at a frequency that can make someone feel sick or give them a headache, which it is, it is therefore mathematically possible to put sound waves together to make people feel certain ways. therefore the ability to do that doesn't rely on the listener (well the listener with normal hearing - yet again you could say as some people have better hearing than other people they are therefore capable of hearing more in a piece of music than someone else) what music do you listen to that break

so where does "well that's just your opinion" come in? i thought that's what you were in favour of that person is incapable of having any more knowledge than you, in your world view. so you wouldn't ask, or you wouldn't be enlightened by the answer

my point is why ask them if it doesn't mean anything? there answer can't mean anything to you, surely? so why ask it? (that's 3 questions - fortunately i don't think that way, so i am interested in the answers)

yeah, i'm going for the deluxe package too - this is the one time where i'm willing to pay anything. the only thing i find a bit annoying is that they say they will be using the 2004 album as a blueprint, and to me i just don't see how that would have happened in 67, it's just way way too long. i was hoping they'd have gone for the tracklisting they sent to capitol back when they made the cover - that to me looked a lot better.

and yet you reguarly ask why? . . . why?

smile box set out on july 12th! look here

nobody has said that. all we are saying is that some people are more capable of telling what is good and bad based on their knowledge. it's simply saying everyone is not equal to judge what is good or bad about a given thing. can i just get this right, what you're saying is that art has no intrinsic value at all? which is the nihilistic view on all that stuff. anyway, this is the future - wilco should take note....