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    Uncle Tupelo singles box - cheap(er)

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    I have been able to find most RSD things way cheaper after RSD...I just purchased the Iron and Wine Morning Becomes Eclectic LP/CD for $8, brand new...It was $20 for the Black Friday RSD thing...

     

    My record store still has multiple copies of the box set...I would buy it if I could get it for round $20...

    Now Playing: June, 2012

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    The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

    This is pretty awful. How did they ever go from Cherub Rock, Rhinoceros, Drown, and Perfect into....

     

    ... that.

     

    Oh man, I am the exact opposite - I am really liking this one a lot...It was really immediate for me. I really hated his last 2 records (solo and the last pumpkins one), so a slight return to form is okay with me, and I'm pretty sure this is Billy's way of waving the white flag...for Billy Corgan circa 2012, Oceania is not a bad record. He made it with his fans in mind, which kinda humanizes him...The guitars are great, the bass is great, drumming is ok and his voice is ok... Don't really care for Quasar starting off the album(sounds to much like Siva filtered through the Machina-era sound to me). Glissandra and Violet Rays are really the only two songs I am kinda cold on. I am surprised that, so far, it's been very positively viewed upon by critics.

     

    If anything, Oceania's songs are most like the ones you mentioned above. I hear tons of Siamese Dream/Mellon Collie on Oceania. Those two record's influence are all over this one - Panopticon, The Chimera and Inkless sound like they could have musically fit on Siamese Dream to my ears (perhaps not lyrically). To me, it's the record Billy Should have made around 1999...By all means, the album is not perfect, but it's pretty good in comparison to his output since 2000 and his best set of songs since then.

    2012 Year in Music - So far

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    that is my issue with the new Japandroids too... i feel like it's a cleaner/bigger sounding Post Nothing with not as great of hooks/tunes.

     

    I honestly don't know how much longer they can stretch their sound...and I don't see them doing another album. I have enjoyed the singles series and have been anticipating the album for a while. Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot, but I can't help but feel somewhat disappointed by the results. I think it was kind of a cop-out by adding Younger Us to the album, albeit a re-recorded version. It's my favorite Japandroid song and perfectly encapsulates their sound/feel, but I have had that song for almost 2 years now. I guess I set my hopes too high...

     

    On a related note, the single/album were waiting on me this afternoon when I got home from work.

    2012 Year in Music - So far

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    So far the Shins, Beach House and Japandroids are tops for me. The Beach House album is gorgeous. The Japandroids is great but it feels like Post-Nothing pt. 2. The Shins has to be my favorite though: it's one of those records that feels like it's better than it should be. Seriously, it has barely left my cd player in my truck.

    Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks

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    I saw them live sometime before the release of Hissing Fauna (like while they were recording HF I think, so 5-6 years ago) and they played nothing but Satanic Panic/Sunlandic Twins/HIssing Fauna material. It was awesome. One of the best concerts I've seen. I could have seen them last week, but I didn't.

     

    However, I have had very little use for their albums past HF. I picked up the one after HF and thought it sucked and I literally haven't listened to a single album of theirs since. A song or two will come up on a playlist shuffle or something but I have no desire to listen to them on purpose. I guess I kinda outgrew them. I was into their pre-Satanic/E6 stuff but I outgrew that around the same time Kevin Barnes did...but where he went after that started off very interesting, and I was with him for awhile, but things became way too weird for me.

    What does your upcoming concert schedule look like?

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    Curious about opinions on recent Lemonheads concerts...How have other's experiences been?

     

    I went last night to see them and they were awful. Many band mistakes and Dando, not surprisingly, was really, really high. He barely moved, sung off key and in general didn't seem to give a shit. Played way fewer songs than he had been playing. He looked like inches away from death and probably hadn't bathed in a few days/weeks.

    Next Super Bowl Halftime act????

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    Kinda surprised they didn't get the call this year, but the Foo Fighters seem like a lock for the near future. Huge, diverse audience and a boatload of hits seems to be the criteria, and they've got it.

     

     

    This.

     

    I've been saying this for years! I'm surprised they haven't been already. FOO FIGHTERS 2013!

    Your top 10 favorite artist/bands...with a slight twist

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    No real order:

     

    Sebadoh/Lou Barlow - 90% Great Indie rock, still have to skip some of the earlier lo-fi noise.

    Wilco - 90% SBS and W(TA) lower this percentage a lot for me, pretty good with everything else though.

    Guided by Voices - ~66% Seriously, Bob is a great song writer and probably one of the best out there but at least 1/3 isn't my cup of tea (Circus Devils, Acid Ranch, most recent solo stuff).

    Neutral Milk Hotel - 95% Only two albums, so very skewed.

    The Mountain Goats - ~66% Same as Robert Pollard, lots of songs, I'm some what put off by his earlier records. Later period TMG is off the chain though.

    The Smashing Pumpkins - 80% Late-career crap kills the Pumpkins earlier stuff. Zwan is great though.

    The Replacements/Westerberg 90% Most of his stuff is great. Can't really relate to the early 'Mats or Major Label solo stuff

    Ryan Adams - 85% I really find most of his officially recorded work quite enjoyable.

    REM - 85% Most of their stuff is great in my book...

    Pavement 85% Last 3 albums are hit or miss to me.

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