Mr. Heartbreak

Pretty good Patti Smith concert just got added to Wolfgang's Vault.

Don't think I've never walked out of a show, but there were a few times (back in the drinking days) when I almost blacked out and "left" in spirit without leaving in body.

We have a winner!

I'm glad to hear that it's a grower for people who didn't like it at first. I don't really subscribe to the "grower" theory (music doesn't work that way for me), but fortunately, I liked what I heard on the first listen.

I listened to most of it, once, but not all of it. I wanted to have a couple surprises left in May. I liked what I heard.

That's what people know her for, so I'd expect her to do it, too. She did a great job of it back in the day: Patti Smith - Because the Night

I think you and I are two of the seven people on this board who have even heard of Missing Persons or the Dream Academy. By the way, I don't think of any of those as guilty pleasures, but then, I'm too old now to be "cool."

Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

Yeah, except that they're great on the iPod at the gym.

I've seen Yes get beat up on the board before, and I'm always stunned. Sure, they got overblown, and I know punk was a reaction to all those kinds of bands and so on, but they were incredible musicians with an outstanding singer. The Yes Album, Fragile, and Going For The One are all classic albums. Later they had commercial success with some crap songs, but that was a totally different incarnation of the band. I hear very few newer bands who have 1/10th the musicianship of the Yes lineups from 1970-1977.

If you enjoy the Billy Joel MSG discs, you really need to get his classic live CD Songs From The Attic. Great stuff ... I wouldn't even rank that in the "guilty pleasures" category, just the "pleasure" category. (Same goes for YES, Robert!) Mine: 10,000 Maniacs B-52s The Cranberries Jay Ferguson

This last paragraph sums up my sentiments exactly, and though I don't like absolutely everything about SBS either, I like it a lot better than AGIB.To me a "bad" Wilco record would have been if they took the YHF>AGIB direction to its logical conclusion: long segments of static-y noise punctuated with barely-whispered vocals.

I've been looking for some 65-66 era Dylan tunes that I haven't heard yet, and while this isn't it, it will do. Freakin' hilarious.

I wish you guys would stop phishing for trouble.

I may be in the minority here - I frequently am - but I'm not big on the whole "grower" theory. Either something has an immediacy that does something for me, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, I don't feel obligated to subject myself to 40 listens or whatnot over a multi-week or even multi-year period. There's so much great music out there that I thoroughly enjoy, and I own a ton of it. I'm not a masochist. I played AGIB a few times after it came out, shelved it, and that's it. I like some of the songs, but mainly in their live incarnations. When I go back to the disc, my feeling is still the same

Happy Birthday BP!

Some Warren Zevon performances: Mohammed's Radio Johnny Strikes Up The Band Gorilla, You're A Desperado Poor, Poor Pitiful Me -> Cadillac Ranch

Not sure he would have approved. Even his son isn't sure he would have approved! http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/articl...released_in_may

The gold lam

Yeah, cool, thanks for posting that!

Wow, I've never heard that. Is it available on any official releases? Yeah, me too. I love "Splendid Isolation," "Searching For a Heart," and "Reconsider Me," too.

I'm a huge Warren Zevon fan, having seen him 4 times in concert between 1987 & 2000, and this is going to be a big year in Zevonland, according to Billboard. First, expanded reissues of Excitable Boy, Stand In The Fire, and The Envoy are due out Mar. 27th. Then there's a new rarities set his son Jordan has put together, called Preludes - Rare and Unreleased Recordings coming out May 1st. And for the true fanatics, the bio "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," which is just a little further down on the priority list. I recently discovered that Warren is pretty well represented on archive.org, and

No vegetarian choice?