moxiebean

Small world... I have a xerox flyer for the Minutemen show at The Opera House (I think it lists Billy Bragg and Wreckless Eric as the support acts) that I picked up off the floor at the Tower Theater following an X concert in 1985.

My sources tell me that in preparation for his trip to Spain, Jeff has been honing his cooking skills and plans to serve up free paella in the parking lot prior to the show.

Pixies twice in 1989 (City Gardens, Trenton, NJ & Lancaster, PA) Still have a handwritten setlist & drumstick from the Trenton show stashed away somewhere. The opening band for the Lancaster show was Live (but before they were called live; I think they were called Public Affection) - it must've been a big deal for them 'cos I remember their parents were there. Also, this doesn't really count but I'll mention it anyway. A former colleague I used to work with was in a late 70's-early 80's art rock band called Bunnydrums. On one of their tours, REM opened for them.

You're probably right. My reply to this: "Get a dog."

I'm with you - there's a timelessness to their best (usually earlier) work. The songs could've been written yesterday, or 150 years ago but always with a strong sense of place (the South). But it could be the South of the 1920's or the 1870's. Some of it had political or social underpinnings, but on songs like Flowers of Guatemala it was usually obliquely buried (no pun intended) - more hinted at. It's something they started to drift away from after Pageant and the lyrics became more time-specific and contemporary. That and Michael Stipe stopped actually singing and started doing that annoying

I like Fables for the same reason - great songwriting/stories. I've always though of Fables as their last murky, southern-haunted album (although it was recorded in England) and it's my favorite songwriting-wise. It was also the first of their albums I could sing along to beginning to end, confident I was getting the lyrics right. I also equally love Life's Rich Pageant. Really upfront production (after the murkiness of Fables) and the thing just rocks in places. Also it's their last album before they started writing overtly political stuff. Sorry, but I can't stand their political stuff - I w

Currently 92 in Savannah (forecast is for 99 but I don't think we're going to get there) which is about the average for this time of year - glad I'm not still living in Philadelphia; it's supposed to be 102 there today.

Don't forget about Vol.II

Holy Crap! When did Paul Stanley morph into The Joker?

Just that "home" continued to be a hotel in Washington, not a residence in Kansas like he apparently promised his former constituents.

I'm glad someone said this - I was a grad student at Penn when WXPN made the transition from quirky student-run/programmed college radio station to the entity it's become today. One of their first steps was to pull the student djs off the air & standardize the programming (you know, be more "professional") And while they were one of the first stations to champion world music and the whole mostly-acoustic singersongwriter genre it got to be a predictable and homogenized listening experience real quick. If you tuned in during the day in the early 90's you pretty much knew you were going to h

"Axis of e.v.o.o."

Joan of Irk

Hey Jude

I did a quick internet search and found a blog where you can download it. If you love the ragged glory that is The Days of Wine & Roses, then Medicine Show might take some getting used to - Produced by Sandy Pearlman, it's much, much slicker. I never bought it when it came out (although I have a few songs that were on the Dream Syndicate comp. that came out in the early 90's), but I remember when the cutout bins were flooded with vinyl & cd copies.

"Don't Go Back to Rockville" - REM "Rocket Man" - Elton "Goodbye Girl" - Squeeze

"Dreams Reoccurring" and "Reoccurring Dreams" - Husker Du, from Zen Arcade (another forwards/backwards example)

"Reverence" and "Frequency" - Jesus & Mary Chain, from Honey's Dead

"Waterfall" and "Don't Stop" - Stone Roses s/t (Don't Stop is Waterfall played backwards w/ new lyrics)

David Bowie doesn't have an original creative bone in his body - he's appropriated his entire career from anyone who's crossed his radar, from Marcel Duchamp to Klaus Nomi.

20 miles round trip.

"The Swish" is the only good song in The Hold Steady catalog.

Yuengling is my beer of choice, even though I have to drive to South Carolina to buy it (they don't sell it in Georgia).

There's a double album's worth of material on Sandinista! that is far better than London Calling (you just have to sort it out or yourself). My Morning Jacket's songs are too long. Any music or band, regardless of genre (especially jazz), who's description would include the word "fusion", sucks.