Calexico

Fifth song - Freak

 

This one is great: I'm loving it. Makes me very excited to see them next week in Charlotte.

Good track but you know Jimmy would have drummed the shit out of that song.

While the graffiti is cute, I hope that Michael sobers up before he kills himself or some innocent bystander.

He's in the news more for his awful driving and hash habit than he is for music these days. Maybe a spell in jail will wake him up a bit.

Sounds like a pretty damn good night out. Felice Brothers and Field Music are great too. I love Belfast. Been there a few times, on naval ships and by myself, and always had a great time there. Never any hassle and always a good laugh.

Rose's patience snapped after he warned the crowd to stop throwing things on stage.

 

"Here is the deal. One more bottle up here and we go. We don't want to go. Your choice," he told the crowd during an abrupt break to the band's second song, "Welcome to the Jungle."

 

But when introducing his other band members before a following number, up came another bottle - and off Rose went to a chorus of boos. "OK, that's it. Good night. Have a nice evening," he said.

Ha ha, what a fucking tool. This passage reminds me of the "who threw that stone" from the Life Of Brian. No one is to stone anyone, until I blow this whistle!

I find it hard to believe there was thousands there either. A friend of mine had a ticket and I persuaded him to sell it on and use the money to go see local singer Mick Flannery. He was very glad he took my advice.

Anything involving Damien Jurado is a go for me. I really like this too, great choice of covers and just banged down on tape and no fiddle faddling.

Searched this out after reading about it on Aquarium Drunkard. Love it even after only 2 spins. Crazy ass freak folk. Fans of Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, The Dead and general flower power hippy stuff investigate and you won't be disappointed.

Glad to hear it all turned out ok in the end. What a scare!

I have had the album a few days and didn't really hook into it all that much. I enjoyed parts of it no doubt and kind of knew it would eventually hook me in. Then, last night, watching a live broadcast from Reading the whole thing came together. A storming live show from the band and the new songs shone as brightly as anything. Really, really brilliant show even viewed on tv. Consequently, the album reveals itself even more after a show like that. Tremendous.

 

 

The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want to Get Over You ("I could make a career of being blue--I could dress in black and read Camus")

 

A great lyric from a stellar album full of great lyrics.

I have no invites for fucking anything but I will take anything going for free!

Whatever about a tribute band, the Huskers could do with a thorough re-issue programme of their oeuvre. Some of the stuff sounds like it was recorded in Oscar the Grouch's trashcan. Part of the appeal I know but come on...

Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart

Frickin' brilliant!!!

NP:

New eels album out soon too.

Devendra Banhart

Fuck, that would be sweet. Love to see that show.

Good to see Circadian Rhythm on the list somewhere. 20 Jay Farrar songs would be doing a huge list a great injustice. Jay/Son Volt did a great version of The Kinks I'm Not Like Everybody Else as well. Methamphetamine is a recent classic too. I love the heck out of that song.

Seems a tad strange to me too. I would have thought that sort of music loomed large in their collective backgrounds along with the blues. I dunno, I like later period Crowes a whole lot more than I did the bluesy jam stuff.

I love the opening line:

 

The lights went out in New York

Then they went in Goshen

And I got stuck in Goshen

That was sad

 

A friend of mine transferred from my college to Goshen, Indiana, the year that album came out, and I always gave her crap for that. When she finally found out what the song I was quoting was about, she was miffed to say the least.

I take it you didn't "hit that" then?

Totally looking forward to seeing Greg Dulli when he comes to play Ireland in October. An evening with.. sort of a thing with songs from all across his history. Psyched!

And yet, not that far off.

There's no natural law

That can explain what I saw

Spread out on that straw-covered floor.

OK ten tracks randomized...I almost typed sodomized but that's a different message board.

1. Afghan Whigs - Crime Scene Part One

2. Sparklehorse - See The Light

3. Editors - The Big Exit...sheesh.

4. Warren Zevon - Disorder In The House..yay, redeemed after the Editors tripe.

5. Shawn Mullins - Sunday Morning Coming Down...yeah, I know.

6. Silver Jews - The Farmer's Hotel.

7. The Louvin Brothers - Mary Of The Wild Moors

8. Iron & Wine - Bird Stealing Bread

9. Thin Lizzy - Angel From The Coast

10. Whiskeytown - Faithless Street.

Not quite as all over the map as I would have thought.

I am enjoying the new album, the reworkings of old songs. I think the Crowes really hit their forte when they brought out the mandolins and fiddles and hung out in Levon's place.

I am about 3 or 4 listens into this album and I can't quite decide if it's gonna work for me overall. I really like parts of it and other parts of it just seem to drift by unnoticed. It definitely is a departure from Neon Bible and even more from Funeral. At least they keep moving on and not repeating themselves. I shall give it every opportunity to grow on me though because a band such as this deserves the time and attention.

The man is very clearly a bit mental and a bit touched by genius. Mullholland Dr. Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, ...all wonderfully unsettling and strange. Straight Story is a gorgeous movie. Twin Peaks amazing television. Not a big fan of Elephant Man or Dune. INLAND EMPIRE, for me, is the top of the tree. Long as it is it never outstayed it's welcome for me and I felt it zipped by. It's abstract, off the wall, creepy, unsettling, confusing and utterly, ineffably brilliant.

From YouTube - "This

to "clean up new york" was directed by David Lynch and photographed by Frederick Elmes. Perhaps the scariest commercial ever made."

Isn't that just fantastic!?

Not a lot of love for Washington Square which is a shame. I really like that album and play it a lot. The Mountain is another one I love. I wasn't too fond of Revolution and to be honest the Townes album kind of leaves me cold as well. Having said that, when I saw him play solo a few months ago the songs from that album came alive for me in a way the studio versions never did.

Sorry to hear about your friend.