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Wow, this sounds wonderful. I have been in a bit of a musical funk over the past year or so (*nothing* has been connecting with me - I've started to think I no longer like music?)...but this is hitting all the right notes. I like this more than I liked his last album. (Although I *adored* Fistful of Mercy.) Joe rarely lets me down. I see him play live as often as I can...last time was on this past New Year's Day....he almost always blows me away. Thanks for posting this link - it literally made my day!

Yeah, sadly, I agree. I put it on for the first time yesterday and only got halfway through before I got so bored with it that I turned it off. I'm sure I'll return to it and give it another go and make it all the way through. But wow, out of all the possible reactions I could have had to this album, boredom was one I never expected.

How does this new album have the "R.E.M. sound" ? Maybe what I think is the R.E.M. sound (from way back in the 80's) isn't really the R.E.M. sound at all. I dunno....I've listened to it a couple of times now and it's doing absolutely nothing for me. I was a huge R.E.M. fan back in the day....Murmur literally changed my life...but nothing on Collapse Into Now is moving me aside from the last song with Patti Smith, which is the only song standing out for me at all. It's very hard-driving (which is a style I've never thought R.E.M. was particularly good at), and there is nothing nearly as m

I'm not a huge Arcade Fire fan but I do really love some of their songs. I have been known to play Rebellion (Lies), Laika, and Ocean of Noise on constant repeat for an hour. This new one is definitely a grower. Didn't like it at all at first, but repeated listening makes the songs reveal themselves. After several listens, I think The Suburbs is good, but not great. It does not sound as much like Bruce Springsteen (whom I loathe) as I feared it would. But there is nothing that really reaches out and grabs me like the three previously mentioned songs. The song that most jumps at at me

I am one of SeatlleC's friends - I saw Crowded House last Friday in Montclair, NJ - they were amazing! They did in fact play Don't Dream It's Over that night - but it would have been perfectly okay with me if they didn't play it because that is an extremely overplayed song! Although I will definitely admit here that my eyes welled up during that song, and during no other song. I don't think Crowded House are indulgent. I think Neil Finn tries very hard to walk that fine line between what will make a good show for the majority of the audience, and what the hardcore fans want to hear. He p

I am! He is playing at an old Presbyterian tabernacle that is only a couple of miles from my house. The seats are pews. *laughs* Can't wait! I love Nick. He always puts on a great show.

I discovered this band last summer. Love the CD. I've heard lots of tracks on satellite radio over the past year. The current one they're playing is Carried On. Maybe it's all a fake personality on the part of Alexander, but I love the music nonetheless. (I have not heard his former band.)

I had a Facebook account for about 5 minutes. After I registered, using a fake name, and an email address I hardly ever use (I don't want to be "found" by old high school chums etc), I was presented with the names and photos of 3 "people you might know." All three were former students of mine. (WTF??) For sure I don't want to be found by former students. I deleted my account on the spot. Facebook is not for me.

Read through many of these posts but had to stop somewhere in the middle of page 2. Absolutely devastated. I'd been a fan for 25 years. Want to listen to his music now, but just can't. Love you Alex. xo

Yeah, unfortunately Montclair NJ is the epitome of suburban non-hotelsville. There is nowhere within walking distance, or even a 5 minute drive. Good luck with accomodations and enjoy the show. Wish I was going to one of the nights in Montclair (I live about a half hour away) but I was completely shut out during the onsale dates. (And am not willing to pay inflated prices from "alternative" sources.)

I got caught in this trap a few weeks ago. I bought tickets for me and a friend to see Neko Case. And then, wouldn't you know it, comes the day of the concert and I can't make it due to work commitments. But because they were paperless, and I was the one who bought the tickets, my friend couldn't go either. So I had to eat the cost of two tickets. Grrr. I've been going to fewer concerts over the past few years due to a severe lack of time, and this is certainly not helping the situation.

I've been listening to all of Lhasa's albums lately, but this one (her current one) seems to stand out. She has a wonderful sultry voice, and the music is lovely. Music to unwind by.

Somewhere on this board (ages ago, it seems) I said that What Could Have Been is the best song on that 7 Worlds Collide collection. I stand by that opinion. Fabulous, fabulous song.

Susanna Hoffs is a beautiful woman who looks amazingly good for her age. I say that as a woman myself! But that doesn't negate the fact that she and Matthew Sweet add nothing to the songs they cover together. I would much rather hear new material from both of them. Maybe new material conceived together?

*yawn* Matthew Sweet should go back to doing what he's good at - namely, his own material. I have tried several times to get into the stuff he does with Susanna Hoffs. I always think I should really like it, because I really like him, and I really like her. And yet the two of them together tend to bore me out of my mind. I can't understand it, but they've yet to do anything together that seems worth the time to listen to it. (Yes, I did listen to the song at the link you posted, and it seemed just more of the same ol' Matt 'n' Sue yawnfest to me. What do they really add to that son

No need to whisper - I'll agree with you. I hate Kid A. I was a pretty big Radiohead fan until they released Kid A. I tried to listen to it a couple of times, but never managed to make it all the way through. I have never gone out of my way to listen to anything they've released since. The couple of songs I've accidentally heard since then have not changed my opinion that Radiohead hasn't done anything that interests me since before Kid A. Funeral: I adore about half of it. And those few songs tend to get put on constant repeat. I think it belongs on the list. Panda Bear: I had ne

I love this album. I became interested in it because I repeatedly heard Hellhole Ratrace on the radio and it consistently caught my ear. I admit I was inspired to listen to the whole album after reading the Pitchfork review, and I love the whole thing. I've been listening to it nonstop since Saturday. No, I do not blindly follow Pitchfork, and I often hate things they rave about, but after falling in love with Album (dumb name), I read reviews on other sites that I hold in high regard and it seems to have received nearly universal acclaim. What do I love about it? I can't put my finge

I am adoring this box set. It's worth the money for all the extras (mostly the demos and live stuff), and the package/book is great as well. I haven't read the (very fat!) book yet, but the pictures are wonderful. The sound on all the recordings is top notch. Someone above was wondering about a tour - I don't know about a tour, but the band is playing in Brooklyn in November - and I very, very sadly won't be able to go!!

I have been listening to this incessantly for the past 6 days. This is better than I ever could have imagined, and I was imagining some pretty great things about it.

Yeah, I've come across this too. That Neko Case show I mentioned in my post above? Ticketless. It's at the Beacon Theater in NY, and any tickets purchased within the first 10 rows are paperless, which means I have to bring my passport with me to collect the tickets! (!!!!) I'm not happy about that, but I guess I do prefer that to the other, seemingly standard situation at that venue where tickets in the first ten rows are never available except on the secondary market, where they cost 10 times what I paid for mine. The chances I won't be able to go are slim. And on the off chance I can'

My reaction to the Ticketmaster extortion fees has been to severely cut back on the number of shows I attend. I stopped going to arena shows many years ago because I like a more intimate experience, but even the theater and club shows have gotten out of hand. I didn't make a conscious decision about this until about 6 months ago, when I noticed I'd been going to significantly fewer shows, mainly because I couldn't justify the expense. Not that I'm broke, but I don't see the value for the money when an act I'd like to check out, but isn't necessarily one of my favorites, is topping $70 with

My thoughts on 9/11: I did not lose anyone in this tragedy, but live close enough that I used to be able to see the towers from one block from where I live. I went up there on that day 8 years ago and watched the billowing smoke rising from where the towers used to be. I frantically called a friend on that day 8 years ago....a friend who worked in one of the towers and had the good fortune to wake up late that day. I've thought about that day every time I take that particular PATH train into NY and come up into that godawful pit. I have a friend who lives very far away from here, and

Big Star box set arrived today!!!! *bounces up and down*

*bump* I was at his show at Maxwells last summer and it was a revelation. I didn't recognize a lot of the songs at the time, but many eventually turned up on Temporary People. I'd seen Joe only once before (also at Maxwells) and it was awful. *laughs* I think it was in the midst of some hard-rock/noise phase - totally not the Joseph Arthur I'd come to love. So I went last year not expecting a heck of a lot, but left enthralled - particularly with a song I did not know at the time, but turned out to be the song Drive on Temporary People...And I got to keep a memory of my experience!

I saw them around this time too, and agree that it was wonderful. I remember thinking at the time that if I didn't know better, I would have sworn that Chris Bell was up there on that stage during I Am the Cosmos. Spine-chilling indeed! I'm kind of giggling as I see everyone list 'the best' songs from Sister Lovers/Third - I think nearly every song has been mentioned now. *laughs* I was kind of cool towards that album when I first heard it and put it away for many years. When I came back to it, it was a revelation - I loved it, and couldn't understand why it hadn't moved me years befor