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Yes, there is a plain DVD release. It is $10 less than the blu ray set. I bought it as a Christmas present for a friend.

Loved it! I don't think I've ever seen her so natural and unguarded like that. Thanks for posting!

Very Interesting. I never heard of this band, although I'm very familiar with the other work by nearly everyone who was ever a band member. I'm not sure how I missed them. Thanks for posting that link. Sadly, after some further googling I learned that Michael Carlucci died suddenly about 10 days ago.

Idlewild

Just back from Luna. Great show!

At Radio City? I was there! I thought the show was great! That was my first time seeing them.

Why is Carly Fiorina even in the running? She is a failed executive at a company I gave 17 years of my life (Lucent/Bell Labs) from which she departed shortly before it imploded. And she was not very successful at HP either. She presents herself well but there is no true leadership substance behind the public face.

Worst possible situation: I have tickets to see the Decemberists in NYC on the evening the Pope is celebrating mass at Madison Square Garden, and I am coming into the city from NJ. I highly doubt I will be able to pull it off. If I had known about the Pope in advance, I'd never have planned to go to this show, but the Decemberists tix went on sale ages ago.

I am also John. No complaints... I'm happy with that!

I did, but have not yet listened to it. Some of the goodies in the tote bag cracked me up. (A basketball trading card? *laughs*)

My initial opinion is that the songs all sound a bit samey. I guess I was expecting Fakebook II, and this is clearly not that.

I received my CD yesterday. Not crazy about the packaging, but WOW does this sound much better than the free download.

I agree that it doesn't sound like anything else they've done and that it was ballsy to head in that direction, but I still hate it. *laughs* And trust me, I gave it more chances than I've probably given any other album, ever. If I had to pick one band who had the most influence on my life, it is R.E.M. But I just couldn't take Monster. Yes, there are a few decent songs, but to this day I cannot listen to that album in its entirety. R.E.M. lost me for several years after that. I did not even listen to New Adventures in HiFi when it was released. But they totally won me back with Up, a

R.E.M. - Monster

George Harrison is #65. And in response to Blackberry Rust, Strummer/Jones are #57. Frankly, I was more put off by the overwhelming number of ads for Apple Music embeded on that page than I was by the list itself. I also thought the list was decent. They obviously included overall impact of the songwriter when they were making their choices of who to include. Although many of the "notable omissions" you all have cited are among my favorite artists, many of them are not well-known to the mainstream and did not have great impact on the mainstream. Most, if not all, of the artists they c

Having listened to this album many, many times now, I still cannot tell where Cold Slope ends and King of You begins. It sounds like one continuous song to me. I don't hear any musical difference between the two at all that signals me we've moved on to a different song.

English Beat

And I guess I'm somehow a mixture of both. The segue from You Satellite to Taste the Ceiling is one of my most favorite moments on the album. Although overall, the two I keep playing over and over at the moment are You Satellite and Random Name Generator.

Yes, I have it too. It's in both the Dime file and the Dropbox file.

I wasn't disappointed at all, even though I do agree with you that the band was much more energized during the classics, which were sublime. I wasn't disappointed because it was the first time they'd performed those songs! Give them a chance, they'll grow into them! . I wasn't disappointed at all because my head is still spinning over the fact that we all got to hear a ton of great new music all at the same time, so there were no "spoilers" and no built-up expectations based on reading others' opinions and reviews. And then we all got to see the first performance of these new songs, 24

You Satellite is exhausting, in the best possible way.

World Party last night. Always a great show.

And Bruce Springsteen!

Brian Wilson and Rodriguez

I've been struggling with this for a few years now. I say "struggling" because music has been the great passion of my life since I was younger than 10 years old and I find it incredible that I just don't listen to music as much I used to. I still buy new music, but where in the past I would dive into it and immerse myself in it, I now find that I listen a few times and then forget about it. I tire of new music very quickly in comparison to the past. I have made a concerted effort to listen to complete albums on CD in the car now, even if I have to burn them from mp3 albums I bought. That