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Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food Never had this on CD until I picked it up yesterday. I forgot how great this is.

Really liked this.

I know I have mentioned it elsewhere on VC but a friend of mine has been making a movie about his quest to get the Kinks to reunite. They have finished it and have just started to show it at some film festivals. Website: Do it Again Review in Variety.

For now they are all up on Youtube: part 1.

Interesting. I have always felt what he does at the end is consistent with what we are told about who he used to be, more than who he has become in Casablanca. Laszlo mentions that Rick had run guns to Ethiopia and fought against the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Rick also gives the OK for his house band to play La Marseillaise when the Germans start singing in the bar. I feel like the end of the movie is Rick acknowledging the importance of Laszlo's work and the role that Ilsa plays in it, while also recognizing that he himself has given up on his ideals.

OK - this will be my last comment about that great Dawes show: I just read in the paper that Kirsten Dunst was at the show I saw (as she is dating Jason Boesel, who is opening). I can't believe I didn't see her because the place was tiny.

As you promised, Dawes was tremendous. Really great time. The drummer is totally cool. And 'When My Time Comes' was certainly a highlight. The entire club sang along the chorus and then he had all of us sing the chorus the last time through. Only quibble - I didn't love the new songs as much as the songs from the album.

Excellent (and thanks). And I suppose I should know this, but Dawes is not headlining?

Solace - how was the Dawes show? I am going to see them tomorrow night - and am still loving the album.

I am actually enjoying this more than I thought. I am one of those people who read it (more than once) in high school and really liked it, but I haven't read it since. I was worried that after all that time, I wouldn't enjoy it but I still do.

I think we are saying the same thing here and it is just semantics. I may not see the word "derivative" as having the negative connotations that you might. Yes, they wear their influences boldly and proudly on their sleeves and they do a nice job at mixing them together and crating their own thing. I remember Wareham once saying that the Velvets 1969 Live album was his favorite album of all time. And it shows ...

It is a memoir, covering mostly his musical life, starting in high school and going through the end of Luna.

I don't quite get your second point. Are you saying you are lucky because that means you get to see those bands in smaller venues? If so, I agree with you to a certain extent but I feel selfish in doing so. And Wareham talks about this in the movie. He discusses being in two cult bands (Galaxie 500 before Luna) and how that is fine when you are getting going and in your 20s, but when you are in your 40s and married and have a kid and you are playing the same clubs you have been playing for 20 years, it gets old. He also talks about the pressure of feeling like he was responsible for the w

Despite how derivative they are, I really like Luna. I always felt like Dean Wareham and I have the exact same record collection. The clip that Dude linked above is certainly one of the highlights of the movie and of Luna's live set. I liked the movie but it was a little depressing. So many bands that I like achieved about that same level of success - enough to keep going as a band but not enough to really make it.

You bet!

Took the wife to see this on the big screen last night for Valentine's Day. We met 20 years ago seeing that same movie in the same theater.

Saw the show last night in Boston and it was really really good. They played stuff from their entire career, closing with a nice version of their first single, 100,000 Fireflies. As hoped, I liked the new stuff more live than I do on CD. Except for Claudia Gonson's plugged in keyboard it was all acoustic. And, as always, there was a lot of funny banter between Merritt and Claudia.

I've got that single; it's a good one. I actually wrote Grubbs (or really Squirrel Bait as a whole) a fan letter in about 1987 and he wrote me a nice letter back, telling me what all of the SB band members were up to. And he also told me to track down the Motorola Cloudburst single. Ah, the Pope. That was a great mag.

Although Grubbs was part of two bands that I really like: Squirrel Bait - 1980s melodic hardcore band from Louisville who put out two great albums Wingdale Community Singers - folky group that he started with the author Rick Moody and vocalist Hannah Marcus

I have seen everything except Season One and I just noticed that it is now playing on HBO on Demand. My only dilemna is whether to have a few marathon sessions or spread it out over a couple of weeks ...

I'll agree and disagree with both of you on this. I'm with Pop Todd on Meat Puppets. I heard Meat Puppets II first and when I went back and got the first one I couldn't believe it was the same band. But I agree with Lammycat on Monsters. I like that one. And while we are talking Meat Puppets, I think Forbidden Places is their great, overlooked album.

Agreed.

It has its own wikipedia entry: "Wagon Wheel" is a song by Bob Dylan and later completed by Old Crow Medicine Show. "Wagon Wheel" is a song composed of two different parts. The chorus for the song comes from a Bob Dylan outtake from the soundtrack for the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Although never officially released, the Dylan song was released on a bootleg and is usually named after the chorus and its refrain of "Rock Me Mama." Although Dylan left the song an unfinished sketch, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show wrote verses for the song around Dylan's original chorus. Secor

That was a good one. For me he epitomizes the very thin margin between success and failure in major league baseball. There were times early in his career where he really was unhittable, and, as we all saw, there were times when he was really really hittable.