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    Sadies New Season

    in Someone Else's Song

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    what do you fine people think of the new record? I passed it up at the record store but i am curious as Gary Louris produced it and contributes on the record.

     

    I think it's quite good, if your into psychedelic folk rock, I'd recommend it, and you can hear some Louris influence on the vocals

    Underrated Records

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Sound of Lies

     

    This wonderful post on the Jayhawks' Sound of Lies on the Aquarium Drunkard blog got me to thinking about underrated records. They can be from artists who are well-known, obscure, and everything in between. I thought it might be interesting to start a thread where people can talk about records that they think are very underrated. Post links, MP3s, and whatever else you want in an attempt to interest people in your choice(s).

     

    I'll start by talking about Public Image LTD's Flowers of Romance. Released after the post-punk classic, Metal Box, it was a major left turn for the band. Jah Wobble had been booted from the band leaving Lydon, Keith Levene, and drummer, Martin Atkins, to record the album. Instead of the searing guitars and throbbing bass of MB, the band chose to build the songs around thunderous drums and Lydon's distinctive wail. The results make for a difficult but very rewarding listen. The record tanked and Levene left the band, essentially closing the book on the first lineup of P.I.L. Listening to the record today, it's apparent that the band was way ahead of their time with the songs on this LP.

     

    Links:

     

    All Music Entry

     

    Amazon Entry

     

    Amazon listing contains samples and copies are available for as little as $6.63 used and new.

     

    I always thought 'sound of lies' was unjustly panned, still listen to that record to this day.

     

    George Harrison- Living in the material world

     

    I've read some negative reviews, for one it followed up all things must pass, so expectations must have been pretty high. Also, it was thought to be a little heavy handed with the spiritualism , and I admit to not liking 'the light that has lighted the world' for that reason, but love every other tune, especially ' don't let me wait to long', 'who can see it', and 'be here now'

    U2 CD/DVD/Vinyl Remasters

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I liked Unforgettable Fire better. Not by much though.

     

     

    yeah, mine too. The Joshua Tree was the first time I was anxious or even knew when a new record was coming out, although I think it's a great record, it was sort of a let down, my expectations must have been thru the roof.

    The Heck with GQ's list!!!

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Beatles- Red Album

    U2- the Unforgettable Fire

    Pixies - Surfer Rosa

    Grateful Dead- Skeletons from the Closet

    Widespread Panic- Everyday

    Pavement- Crooked Rain

    Wilco- Being There and Summerteeth

    Jayhawks- Tomorow the green Grass

    Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers

    Elvis Costello- My Aim is true

    Why Doesn't Anyone Listen to the Kinks?

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    FUG YEAH! love the kinks at all there various stages

     

    Standing in the middle of nowhere

    Wondering how to begin

    Lost between tomorrow and yesterday

    Between now and then

    And now we're back where we started

    Here we go round again

    Day after day I get up and I say

    I better do it again

    Where are all the people going

    Round and round till we reach the end

    One day leading to another

    Get up go out do it again

    Then it's back where you started

    Here we go round again

    Back where you started

    Come on do it again

    And you think today is going to be better

    Change the world and do it again

    Give it all up and start all over

    You say you will but you don't know when

    Then it's back where you started

    Here we go round again

    Day after day I get up and I say

    Come on better do it again

    The days go by and you wish you were a different guy

    Different friends and a new set of clothes

    You make alterations and [a fact in you knows]

    A new house a new car a new job a new nose

    But it's superficial and it's only skin deep

    Cause the voices in your head keep shouting in your sleep

    Get back, get back

    Back where you started, here we go round again

    Back where you started, come on do it again

    Back where you started, here we go round again

    Day after day I get up and I say, do it agaIIIIIIINNNNNN

    Do it again

    Day after day I get up and I say, do it again

    METALLICA

    in Someone Else's Song

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    i didn't even notice that. surely i'm not the only female metallica fan on the board? anyone, girls???

     

    Yo Issadora!

     

    CHicks in to Metallica are hardcore! and though I was a little scared of them in High school, I admired them from afar.

     

    On an unrelated note, I'm a disant realtive of Billie Burke on my Moms side, who graces your avatar as GLinda the good witch, and My Aunt Cathy looks alot like her.

    METALLICA

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Though all four of these records rock so freakin hard and masterfully that the weak scatter in fear and GOD himself bows before there thunderous power! One must be chosen to forever rule above all records, especially the feeble hippie tree hugger records discussed here on VC. Choose wisely my friends or Kirk Hammett will send his hair weave to hunt you down like a demon hound, and eat you alive for eternity!

    Most interesting places you've traveled to!

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I went to South Jersey once, that was pretty moving

     

    Don't be knocking SJ, we got the Pine barrens, Long Beach Isand, awesome malls, the Pine Barrens.

     

    Prague was bitchin! South of France was way cool, cliff diving, hashish, topless beaches, I need a vacation!

     

    I've been out west and some places inbetween, but there is many more places I'd love to see in the States, I hope to be a young retired man with an RV one day.

    The War

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    That's a sad but great story there go-go, and Red Lacey is pretty cool name as well. Recently my uncle unearthed a letter my grandfather wrote to my Dad, whom he had never met because was born after my grandfather was deployed to the South Pacific. My Grandfather survived the war, but you get the sense by reading the letter that he wasn't so confident that he would, also it give some insight into the thinking of the time, the call to duty and the greater good.

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