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I assumed it would be. I've only heard one song, and it sounded like something that would have been on their last album. People have been saying this is their best album since Signals (which is not all that impressive of a compliment, really, although it is meant as a huge one). Rush's music used to be really fun, despite the dorkiness of it. The rhythms were upbeat and the music had wide stylistic range. When asked what other bands they liked, they used to always name great bands (in the '80s for instance, they cited XTC, Talking Heads and other new wave/post punk bands). Nowadays, th

I have both UK albums. I think I've only listened to them once each. The Bozzio one probably 12 or 13 years ago, and the Bruford one three years ago. I'll have to pull those out for another listen. I haven't listened to very much prog lately, but I did play Rush Caress of Steel last week. I still think that album has some of their best prog moments.

“We’ll be doing these songs and a bunch of songs that we suspect people will know, with a group that includes eight brass players, a keyboardist and a drummer,” says Byrne of the tour. That sounds amazing.

I have that. It's pretty bizarre. There's another Giles, Giles, Fripp release out there that I've been meaning to get, but haven't pulled the trigger on yet. http://www.musicadvisor.biz/giles-giles-and-fripp-the-brondesbury-tapes-1968-review.htm

I got to see him several times when he was a young boy. His range of playing styles was much more limited then, but his playing ability was amazing. I saw him sit in with Buddy Guy in 1994. It was pretty incredible to hear Buddy play a line, then hear a teenage Trucks play it back, note for note, but with a slide. There was always something different about him than all the other young hotshot guitar players.

Yeah, two spooky album covers in a row, then a major shift in album art and music with Lizard. "Cat Food" from Poseidon sort of foreshadows what the mid '70s (Red, Lark's, Starless) lineup would sound like. The '70s band played that one in concert regularly. Maybe the only song from that album that that lineup played in concert. Poseidon is probably a good one for fans of the '70s stuff to get after they have all the '70s albums.

Get Lizard last of those three. I like that album, but it's probably the least King Crimson-y album in their discography. I'd get them in the order you listed (chronological). I'd maybe consider getting Islands before Lizard.

If you like Red, get Lark's Tongues in Aspic and Starless and Bible Black next. All great albums, featuring the same core band that plays on Red, plus David Cross on violin and Jamie Muir on percussion (he only appears only on Lark's). Any live album you can find by this lineup of King Crimson (Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, plus Cross or Muir) is going to be badass.

I guess I haven't heard those, so it's not really fair of me to say her previous solo albums were dull. I'm just basing that on her earliest one, from when she was still in Atlanta ( I thought I had heard more than that, but upon checking her discography, I stand corrected), and from seeing her live so many times. Her songs were always the low point of her shows. She's mostly been interpreter of other peoples songs all along. You're right about that. Even going back to the Jody Grind. Their first album is well worth tracking down. I'm still on the lookout for their second one. I don'

I read the other day that Jeff Tweedy offered her Open Mind for her record, but for whatever reason, it didn't make the cut. I used to see her a lot, as she spent a long time in Atlanta before moving to Chicago. I'm happy to hear that her new record sounds like a winner. It was a great idea for her to get the songs from other writers. Songwriting has always been her weakness, and that made her previous solo albums pretty dull. I definitely want to check this one out.

this thread is essential.

Now, why would they want to come to the southeast when the weather is so wonderful up north in November and December?

I love the Hospitality record. The new Ty Segall/White Fence record is a lot of fun. Can't remember what else, if anything, I've picked up from this year.

More accurately, I know some of their music, but I'm not on afirst name basis with any of the band members, so I don't know who Tim is.

That makes sense. Who is Tim? I'm really not that familiar with Arcade Fire. I thought the Strokes guy fit in pretty well with them.

I thought 19th Nervous Breakdown was a very cool choice, but they played It's Only Rock and Roll for way too long. They easily could have cut 90 seconds from that and brought in a third song to make it a true medley.

What was the bass player from the Strokes doing with Arcade Fire? Is he in that band now?

Interesting. Remember all the right wingers saying that muslims needed to stand up in oposition to terrorists? And if they didn't, then that was an admission that all (or most) mulims are terrorists or terrorist sympathizers. I'm not saying that the Tea Party or rabid evangelicals are terrorists, but they do have some crazy-ass ideas/beliefs which go almost entirely unchallenged by the moderate christians and the moderate right. So, by their own reasoning, are we to believe that all republicans and all christians are in line with the fringe whackos?

Just got the new GP magazine in the mail. It has a nice interview with Nels. I don't know what month this issue is, but it's the one with the cover story on Ernie Ball.

I was shocked to see this headline upon my return from lunch. What a terrible loss, and not just for music fans. Yauch was always my favortite Beastie Boy. Seemed like a realy good guy, too.

They only chose that one because Captain Beefheart gives it cred.

True. 16 Frank Zappa His highly satirical aesthetic was often criticized as being cold, but purely in guitar terms, Zappa was a multi-faceted, highly emotional master capable of spiking his über-complex compositions with downright dirty playing. Upon the occasion of his death in 1993, Alice Cooper reminisced: "I saw [Zappa] play one night at a club with Hendrix. Frank got up and did an imitation of him. I'm looking at Hendrix and his mouth was open." For good reason. Most Heroic Moment: "Debra Kadabra." D.M.

It seemed nit-picky and annoying to me. My point is that Beck meets the criteria Spin seems to be using, but they've dismissed him as a shredder, which he is not, nor has he ever been. I stand by that.

Maybe. I remember reading a Guitar Player interview with him from the early '90s. He said his life's goal as a guitarist was to be able to play a decent version of Jimi Hendrix's Red House. I thought it was Lee Ranaldo who was the deadhead, but I guess both of them could have been.

jesus. obnoxious post. If you really want to get into a pissing contest we can end it right now by citing Les Paul.