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    Flaming Lips - "American Head"

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I drove people crazy with Summerteeth. I had liked the first two WIlco records plenty but seriously flipped out on Summerteeth. It's been an issue ever since, haha. Both of those records have a timeless quality & still hold up today. 

     

    Agree.

     

    I might have played Soft Bulletin, Summerteeth & Deserter's Songs (Mercury Rev disc out in late '98) every day for all of 1999. Pavement, Built To Spill & Sigur Ros also had really good albums out that year.

    Great album...

     

    :guitar

    Flaming Lips - "American Head"

    in Someone Else's Song

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    "American Head" is out today. Beautiful record.

     

    I got thinking...has there been a better American band the last 25+ years?

     

    Yes, of course it's subjective. And yes, Wilco has a very good argument. I lean that way myself.

     

    There's something about the Flaming Lips quirkiness and resiliency and Wayne Coyne's optimism and hope that feels like the American spirit. I like his new quote in Rolling Stone:

     

    "I think the world is a wonderful, beautiful, insane place. I don’t think of the world as being this great punisher that’s here to teach us horrible things. Surely, there is a lot of injustice and there’s a lot of pain, but the world can really only be as beautiful as you see it. Two people can be standing in front of the sunset, and one of them just sees it as a waste of time: 'What are we standing here for?' And the other one sees it as the greatest experience they’ve ever had."

     

    Anyhoo. Music fans are lucky to have both bands creating good music for so long.

    The Replacements Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

     

    PLEASED TO MEET ME (DELUXE EDITION) will be available as a 3 CD/1LP set and digitally on October 9! More than half of the music (29 of the 55 tracks) on this deluxe edition set is unreleased material, including demos, rough mixes, and outtakes, as well as Bob Stinson’s last recordings with The Replacements from 1986.

     

     

    See, not ALL of 2020 sucks.

    Name A Good Obscure Song by 3 Known Artists

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Paul Westerberg - Everyone's Stupid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XekZmUziETU)

     

     

    Thanks for reminding of this. Of course, it's on Westerberg's "49:00" record, which is SO good.

     

    My favorite is a 4:00 song near the end, "It'll Never Die". The guitar on "Devil Raised A Good Boy". "Goodnight Sweet Prince", so powerful. The disc starts with 2 classic-sounding Westerberg jangly pop songs, and ends with his son singing some sort of non-sensical lyrics on a great, blistering 2:00 track. 

    Wilco — 17 November 2019, Kansas City, MO (Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland)

    in After The Show

    Posted

    I think 175 minutes was about right. Reviewer is correct in saying it seemed a meaner, angrier Wilco. Not in how Jeff & band we’re on personal level, but how they played. Bull Black Nova was pretty ferocious. On ALTWYS and Via Chicago, along with others, Glenn was shredding the kit. In a good way. Nels seemed to be ripping his guitar a new one in half the songs played. I found, with 8 new songs mixed into the set, the overall balance of pop with rock with noise with beauty...etc, was pretty perfect. Perhaps Reservations, if I had to pick the standout, was the biggest highlight. It sounded even more beautiful sandwiched between, overall, a volcano of loud guitars, drums and glorious noise.

    Jeff T. on Rolling Stone Now podcast

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Rolling Stone has an article about the 5 Things Learned about Jeff Tweedy in the RS podcast. Tweedy was asked if he believes in life after death:

     

    "All of the theories of what could happen like reincarnation or heaven, none of them seem as implausible to me as being here - like, actually being alive is just as weird. Like where were you? Now you're here. So that's enough for me to maintain some sort of open mind."

     

    I like Jeff's answer. I'm Catholic and have never really doubted an afterlife. But I have a friend who's hardcore atheist...I think Tweedy's quote might even make my friend give some pause for thought on the subject. Doesn't surprise me that Jeff would have a thoughtful & interesting reply to that question.

    "Ode To Joy" Reactions

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I would never put AM as an essential Wilco album. 

     

    The opening couple beats of the new record makes me think of the opening to "Too Far Apart".

     

    For me, A.M. is essential Wilco. "Ramshackle" might be a good word to describe early Wilco. Jeff, who I've always thought is funny when he wants to be, sprinkled his lyrics with touches of humor on songs like Casino Queen, Passenger Side, Monday, & Dreamer In My Dreams. Even "I Must Be High".

     

    I like that Jeff & the band are STILL excited about what they're creating, even if it takes a little longer to like what they're doing, if I in fact ever get to the point of truly liking whatever new music they make.

     

    I've listened a number of times now to Ode To Joy, and I like it. Not greatly, but I'm glad they made it. 

    "Ode To Joy" Reactions

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Only listened a couple times. It's nice sounding. In a good way.

     

    Nothing gives me goose bumps like the first time I heard At Least That's What You Said or I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, but the subtlety throughout sounds fresh. 

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