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They don't even have the right Sam Cooke album - Live at the Harlem Square Club (1963) captures the spontaneous energy of a live show better than just about every other entry on this list.

If the little photos on the edge are any indication, both John & Mike were there: http://www.beck.com/record_club

like the Super Friends if they didn't have powers but instead could rock

I think getting onto Nashville-controlled country radio is even harder than getting onto rock radio. Even great country records don't get played, and haven't for years. It's what drove a wedge between Johnny Cash and Nashville radio, and inspired him to take this ad out:

Honestly, this outshines the previous Record Club entries. Those felt a bit rushed, and a bit goof-offish. This cover feels faithful to the spirit of the original song without being a note for note remake.

This is a pretty excellent track, yo.

LTYT's drone probably doesn't fit the definition of 'pop' (whatever that is at any given moment). Otherwise, I'm inclined to agree.

I feel bad for them, too, but for entirely different reasons.

How about dusting off Burned? It's still one of my favorite covers that Wilco's done. Isn't At Least That's What You Said a Neil cover?

According to this, they are likely to appear at the Grammys as well. Dave Matthews, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco to Honor Neil Young at MusiCares Concert 11/10/09, 4:55 pm EST http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/11/10/dave-matthews-red-hot-chili-peppers-wilco-to-honor-neil-young-at-musicares-concert/ Dave Matthews, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mellencamp, Wilco and Crosby, Stills & Nash are just a handful of the artists set to pay tribute to legend Neil Young at the 2010 MusiCare’s Person of the Year gala on January 29th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The e

It reminds me of this:

These guys have them beat by a year:

I was inspired by the fact that we've hit the 10th anniversary of the project (well, 11th for MA 1, 9th for MA 2), and there is still no vinyl for MA 2, and it seemed like a good thing to wish for.

Here he is here, hard to hear someone go at such a young age in such a senseless way.

I thought the post was pretty obviously a wish list, sorry if it was misleading. I'm totally sarcastic when I say it would be easy.

Dunno how many kinks they worked out from the Storm to the Storm 2, but the Storm's interface is horrendously difficult to deal with. RIM is about 3 years behind Apple as far as touch screen interfaces are concerned. I'd stick with the iPhone.

Step 1. Take both Volumes. Step 2. Slap them together. Step 3. Issue them both on 180-gram vinyl. Step 4. Add a third disc of outtakes and b-sides: My Thirty Thousand, Bye-Eyed Jim, When the Roses Bloom Again, Ain't Gonna Grieve My Lord No More, Give Me a Nail, etc. Pad it out with alternate takes of several of the songs. Remaster, rinse, repeat. Step 5. Include a sumptuous 80-page booklet with interview excerpts from Jeff, Billy, Nora, lots of stuff on Woody, photos of actual lyrics, etc. Especially be sure to include the hand-written Mountain Bed on fancy-shmancy paper in there, so we can al

Yes.

Yeah, the Paste interview (which the Pitchfork link refers to) is a bit petulant I guess, but there is a kernel of truth to his self-created neuroses. Once you eliminate the physical limitations of a medium, there is no reason an album can't be three minutes long, or 5 hours, or a song can't be five seconds long or five days.

No, but I read this bit in Paste, is it the same thing? http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/11/sufjan-stevens-on-the-road-to-find-out.html

Similar to the CD discussion but different - is the album dead as an art form? After the physical medium dies, are we still going to download collections of songs released by artists? This gets into rumblings from Sufjan Stevens / Thom Yorke / Jim O'Rourke on the impending death of the album. I thought I remember someone asking Jeff about it, and he stuck up for the album being a "emotionally pleasing" medium or somesuch. Personally, I am way more excited over the announcement of a new album versus a new single. Sequencing, cover art, the whole mystique associated with cracking open a new p

The worst thing about CDs (and cassettes) had to be the moment album cover art shrunk to the size of a postage stamp.

Someone needs to tell Mikael his synth has a virus!

Glenn hates his job: Jesus Etc?