Vacant Horizon

well, it's gonna be too long, but the shana songs are awesome!! she needs to do a solo album. really wish they made it a double or just held off. patterson just doesn't need to put all his damn songs on the dbt albums. especially ones about murder and meth. i've had enough of those. cooley, well, he's the man. craig

dude, downloaded a few Darkside tunes. sounds great. the piano is awesome, is it a keyboard? doesn't sound like it. also, the sound is really warm. also, y'all really got the floyd feeling. it's like More era Floyd playing Darkside tunes. good stuff. craig

what up? been wanting to bring this up for a while am finally getting around to it. my basic question to y'all is, do you ever get overwhelmed by music; what to listen too, what to buy etc. for me it's coming in basically 3 different directions, my ipod, torrents, and emusic. so i have enrolled and cancelled at emusic like 50 times because i just end up downloading all this stuff that i only having an ancillary insterest in (for example, i thought i was really gonna get into john fahey, but didn't) same with torrents. tom waits discography, springsteen, paul mccartney solo etc. so i get

great article. glad to see jason is really trying to get the sound right etc. too many times these old bands play reunions and they just use what ever technology and studio musicians they can get and it just sounds so hollow. for example, the eagle's replacement dude for don felder. i mean, he just had a crunch to his playing that only he had. so with zep, i am glad they're getting the sound right. page plant was good, but it wasn't zep. not to mention that 'drums' have all but become a nonentity in music since the 80s. just all reverbed etc. at least some of the indy bands are trying

where's neil young and, dare i say it, the eagles!!

Led Zeppelin have been working on new arrangements of classic tunes ahead of their hugely anticipated comeback show next month - because frontman Robert Plant can't hit the high notes anymore. The legendary outfit have been rehearsing songs in a lower key because 59-year old Plant's voice has got lower over the years, The Sun newspaper claims. A source has said that it isn't plain sailing for guitarist Jimmy Page either. "Jimmy is a bit rusty and Robert has been struggling with the high notes. To avoid any embarrassing vocal wobbles with the world watching, they decided it would be best

well, the eagles are one of the few bands that i can hear their tunes over and over and never tire. hotel california and peaceful easy feeling being 2. that being said, i hate desperado and witching. i also pretty much hate glenn frey and don henley solo because they were played ALL THE TIME on mtv and top forty radio in the 80s!! now, i can see folks who grew up listening to radio in the 70s hating the eagles. like hating boston, styx, etc. too much airplay. i was a little kid in the 70s i had one record by blondie. unfortunately, my mom listened to the bee gees:(

it's available as a podcast. caught this just randomly b/c i started listening to the podcast. although i am not a fan, i love to watch artists create and this was very cool! it is funny during the last interview, merritt is packing up and just cant wait to get out of the studio. c

well, i admit i am a fan. i love the old stuff, so i was looking forward to this, not expecting much though. i got what i expected. ridiculous lyrics (how about some metaphors and less preaching) also the prodution is totally compressed!! its so frustrating these days. like the new bruce album, sounds like they took the sound, stuffed it into a little tin can, put the lid on a poked one hole in it for the sound to eeek out! anyway, there are a few good henley tunes on the album. some tracks are just insufferable with keyboards circa 1988. i mean, how can these dudes think that sounds g

man, i post rarely and it never fails that there is some asshole that has to respond with something akin to the above. so a question back at ya littlebear, "got better things to do?" c

i really was just expecting an mor neil record. which this is. nothing as great as The Painter or Flags of Freedom from the LWW set. Ordinary people is just too long. so is hidden path. the other songs are okay, but nothing amazing. it does have warm feeling to it and i'll probably warm up to it at some point. that's the way i was with Prairie wind and LWW. really diggin the new bruce disc and looking forward to new eagles! c

this is just getting worse by the minute. if Beautiful Bluebird is the original recording then that's it! An Old Ways outtake on a new album. God dammit Neil!! should've just thrown in some Landing On Water and Everybody's Rockin outtakes as well. Would've made for a great 'new' album. Neil has all this amazing shit from the 70s and he releases tunes from two of his most unpopular times. I mean, the bluenotes was a joke and neil knew it. That's why we got the comeback with Freedom, Ragged Glory and Harvest Moon. Now some may think these aren't great, but they were better than any 80s

i agree! this is utterly ridiculous for neil to do. it's one thing to release an archive, but a song recorded in the 80s with that terrible sound and release it as new. unacceptable. especially 80 minutes worth. god that synth is aweful. i mean, who sat down and said, hey this sounds great. really. i mean there is just nothing to look forward to anymore. artists are so god damn dissappointing!

good deal. i am a fan of freedom era as well. really was hoping for something new though...oh well.

let us know what you think...

Ordinary People mp3 http://thesongdog.rusties.net/sounds/

heard the first single, the 18 min. 'Ordinary People'...it was obviously recorded in the late 80s. it has such a cheezy synth piano on it along with the 80s drum sound ect along with neil soundling like he is 40 years old, not 62. inexcusable move on neil's part. and again, if the tour is neil and pegi, as with farm aid, it's gonna be painful. pegi is flat as hell.

had a huge 70s fusion stage in the mid 90s. Joe was one of the greats. Birdland actually came up on my ipod yesterday. RIP..

Schreiber's semi-favorable review, which begins in earnest after a six-paragraph preamble comprising a long list of baroquely rendered, seemingly unrelated anecdotes peppered with obscure references, summarizes music as a "solid but uninspired effort." this quote says it all about pitchfork and lots of other so called indie music rags/sites.

well, i was really excited about this tour, but then i heard neil's farm aid set from last sunday night. (it's out there for those interested)...it was basically unlistenable. he sounds like an old man (no pun intended). just really tired and worn out. don't want to see him like that. he was pretty energenic on the CSNY tour last year. maybe an off night? c

agreed on the production end. i am just used to it now or i wouldn't buy any new cds ever. obrien has produced some good records. he did the thorns record which was a bit over produced, but was clean and less 'normalized'. the rising and now magic is just ridiculous. i just imagine bruce and brendon sitting in the studio (which is right down the street from my house, by the way) and saying, wow this sounds great. it's muddy shit! wish he could produce a record like his wife's most recent one. although i can't stand her voice, the production is clean, warm, and has that 'in the room' so

well y'all might be right. my initial post may be an overstatement but, i just randomly heard her cd and i havent really really dug a new album since, maybe AGIB. i don't really know where she fits on the spectrum of female artists ie amy winehouse, avril lavine? c ps-rock does need a bit of saving. for me that is. i have been in a rut!

...saving rock and roll as far as I am concerned. Serioiusly. (just my opinion)

that ocean is better than anythin on song remains the same. damn, it's kick ass!! love it when bonham sings and some roadie holds out a mic for him. to have seen zep in the ealry 70s! amazing!