essox500
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Still, songs like Smile, Broken Harpoon, Tailspin, and Save It For A Rainy Day (just to name a few) are incredible tunes.
Yes they are.
Have you heard any of Olson's major studio solo albums? He's got two great ones in My Own Joe Ellen and December's Child.
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I wouldn't say they sucked after Olson left, but they weren't anywhere near as good without him, particularly in terms of lyrics. Louris has a great voice and is a terrific guitar player, but he can't write lyrics to save his life. Most of Sound of Lies is just downright embarrassing -- which is too bad, because the band's sound on that record is really good.
I'd say The Man Who Loved Life, Bottomless Cup and Sound of Lies are all great songs. The rest is pretty bad. And as much as some people like "Trouble", and "Big Star" they are just rehashes of much better songs already done by the Jayhawks ( Red's Song and Real Light).
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I went to one in Hollywood, it was really good. I hope it means they'll be reuniting for an album, but I don't see it.
Louris just said Mark is flying out in October to begin work on a new Olson/Louris album. He will also be on Mark's new solo record. He also said there will be a tour.
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Just the good ones before Mark left.
Each album since Olson left has had 2-3 really good songs (O'Reagan had a great one on Sound of Lies and Rainy Day Music). But with Olson, they were all good.
Has anyone heard the acoustic shows with Olson and Louris from this spring?
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Generic mid-tempo pop.
What happened to the Ryan Adams who made Cold Roses (which wasn't half bad?).
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The new record is fantastic. A more raw sound than "Wonderful Life", but still great.
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I think it should be said that not only would the Fabs NOT made Pepper,but their legacy as countercultural icons wouldn't have happened if a certain Mr. Zimmerman hadn't turned them on to the joys of cannabis
Scott
Yes, because the Beatles would have never encountered pot again if not For Bob.
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1 The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
Though it sold poorly on its initial release, this has since become arguably the most influential rock album of all time. The first art-rock album, it merges dreamy, druggy balladry ('Sunday Morning') with raw and uncompromising sonic experimentation ('Venus in Furs'), and is famously clothed in that Andy Warhol-designed 'banana' sleeve. Lou Reed's lyrics depicted a Warholian New York demi-monde where hard drugs and sexual experimentation held sway. Shocking then, and still utterly transfixing.
Without this, there'd be no ... Bowie, Roxy Music, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Jesus and Mary Chain, among many others.
SOH
Bowie wasn't influenced by VU, but rather by Syd Barrett, who was doing the free form experimentation long before VU was.
Oh, and the Spice Girls inclusion just makes the entire list worthless. The Brits are really $#%$ in the head these days for some reason.
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Strange comparing a folk singer with a space rock/prog band.
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Bob Dylan the Folk/Pop artist > Bob Dylan the Muddy Waters wannabe
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Wow he's really changed his style up on this one, like Neil going from the Shocking Pinks to Freedom.
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So what has happened to alt-country?
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yeah, or Band of Horses
That record is great.
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There are only a few things you can count on in life:
death, birth, taxes - and a Son Volt record being good.
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zzzzzzz
Right up there with Thom Yorke's Eraser and Gilmour's On an Island as the most boring records of the year.
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AGIB
in Just A Fan
I think half of it's great, and half of it is weak material. But there is no question it is easily the best engineered and produced Wilco record yet. It is aging much better than the others.
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You have to be a madman to continue to write edgey, high quality material past your 40's. That's also when most people stop doing drugs or "get more clean". So when people say " they lost it when they stopped doing drugs", it's more like they lost it because your 20's and early 30's are the peak of your creativity in the artistic field of modern rock and pop.
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Syd was the father of alt.rock. He was a guitar innovator and a live pioneer. He was a true legend.
Watch this entire clip from 1966 to see the birth of avant gard rock and alternative. You will also see John Lennon in the audience and the first real light show mixed with rock.
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she is sort of attractive until she opens her mouth.
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And Heidi from Sugababes
wow. I'm normally a picky dude, but that one you would have a hard time getting bored of.....
EDIT: just saw some other picks. I changed my mind. meh.
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An effervescing elephant
with tiny eyes, and great big trunk
once whispered to the tiny ears
the ears of one inferior
that by next june he'd die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam
and the little one said oh my goodness I must stay at home
and everytime I hear a growl
I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
and I'll be really safe you know
The elephant he told me so
And everyone was nervvy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wollowed in the mud and chewed
his spicy hippoplancton food
and tended to ignore the word
prefering to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
and the jungle took fright
and ran around for all the day and the night
but all in vain because you see
the tiger came and said to me,
"You know I wouldn't hurt not one of you
I much prefer something to chew
you're all too scant, oh yeah!"
He ate the elephant...
Only the memories remain:
in Someone Else's Song
Posted · Edited by essox500
Or lately, Ryan Adams.
Their influence is far and wide.