Coltrane

I was at the Pearl Jam/Band Of Horses show in DC/Northern VA Thursday night and BOH covered "Can't Hardly Wait" by the Mats. Maybe that's something they do often, but I was happily surprised.

I still enjoy Pearl Jam's records, including the recent ones, and always try to catch them at least once when they are on tour. They have always been such a great live band, but the crowds at their shows have gotten so strange to me. Considering many fans openly compare them to Zeppelin or the Who, it is odd that at a show most folks are sitting on their hands waiting for radio hits from the first few records. Very little knowledge of album material at their shows these days.

hard to compete with songs you've been infatuated with for 3 and 5 years now

I agree with this. I've played those last two records so many times that I really can't rank High Violet right now.

Having said that based on a bunch of listens at loud volume to what is notoriously a "bad rip" and seeing all of the songs played live, I have a hard time not seeing it matching the previous two at some point after I get a real copy. Honestly the last time I listened to a record this many times in a short period of time was probably right after A Ghost Is Born leaked.

Right now I've had to step back from this thing for danger of over-listening.

The shows these guys played here in Richmond the last two nights were simply epic. Over the two nights they played every song from High Violet and holy crap does this stuff sound good live. Opened both shows with "Anyone's Ghost" which just owns.

Countdown! 7-8 hours away from the first show of a two night stand of "The National @ The National". Any other Richmond folks gonna be there?

Also help finding a quality rip once the stream starts tomorrow would be appreciated. Not sure how many trips to atease my brain can cope with in a given week.

I got the exclusive DBT 7 in and the Galaxie 500 "On Fire" reissue. They laughed at me when I asked about the Hold Steady LP.

I think Wilco's version of "Thank You Friends" is very well played. However; Chilton was being VERY sarcastic when he wrote that one. Bookending the show with "Wilco (The Song)" is either terribly ironic or very clever.

 

And by the way, from the recordings I have heard of this leg of the tour, I must say I have never heard Jeff is such fine voice. He is REALLY good these days.

"Thank You Friends" is certainly one of the most sarcastic/meanest songs I've heard. That's what I love about it. Considering Jeff's comments regarding the chatty portion of the crowd, I'd say ending the main set with that made perfect sense. Anyways I was just glad to hear that be the Chilton song they chose to cover.

Just wanted to add that it was so great to hear "Thank You Friends". I had a conversation with a friend about how I thought Wilco might start covering a Chilton song as a tribute, and that is one of my favorites.

Just a great, great show. Come back sooner than 13 years please! It was pretty nice being able to get to and from the show in 5 minutes.

What is the start time listed on tickets for the Richmond show tomorrow night? (I am picking up my tickets at Will Call.)

8pm is the time listed on the tickets.

from Ryan's Facebook:

 

"Congrats Jamie C... After 4 years of production work we finished the infmous never-ending BLACKHOLE Record tonight! What a trip! Big love to the Candyman... WOOP WOOP ( or woot wut or something one of those kind of football noises here!!!"

Well I hope these sessions leak cause I don't think anyone will hear them anytime soon otherwise. Here's hoping, but I ain't holding my breath.

I love most of what he has done, but I can't think of anyone else who announces completing a record and there is good reason to think that you may never hear it. If you do hear it will be sessions/demos that Ryan would of course say weren't actually the record.

I wonder if he even owns the masters to all the unreleased stuff?

Horrible news.

Big Star - Radio City

black beans and rice...awesome.

The lyrics to this are utterly ridiculous. That's why I thought they were funny.

Can you please elaborate on this a bit? Cooley is the man and I'm extremely curious about this.

 

Glad you had a good time at the shows. Can't wait for Chicago on April 9th.

It was a studio track with an r/b feel. The music sounded like what I'd expect some of the lighter moments on the next dbt record, "Go Go Boots", to sound like. Cooley raps Sly Stone style over the track, and as a fanboy it made me laugh. Hard.

Topics included were to "sit back and enjoy yo-self", black beans and rice, and the fact that he doesn't speak spanish. I hope they come out to this track again - it was a fun way to start the show.

Charlottesville got absolutely OWNED on Friday and Saturday night. I've been going to see this band pretty regularly since the Decoration Day tour and they are STILL as good live as ever. I was going to skip the shows in Towson and Norfolk, but I think I might have to go to one of these now. Good times.

David Barbe & The Quick Hooks opened both nights and had a brand new record on sale at the merch stand, which was a nice suprise. I am one of the folks who is a fan of the way he produces DBT's records, not to mention the work he did on the recent Cracker and Bloodkin releases. Neff & Morgan are both in the Quick Hooks.

Both nights DBT came on stage with a new Cooley song playing over the PA. Pretty sure this is part of the Cooley "solo album" coming out on record store day. It's pretty great. I don't know if I've laughed that hard at a show before.

Yall dc peeps should take a trip down to The National in Richmond next time they swing through. They played 2 epic shows here last year.

i really want to hear unreleased tracks from the 70s.

Homegrown. Homegrown. Homegrown.

I think the dudes here have done it: http://www.stewoo.net/beck/forum/index.php?act=idx

Nope. They still have good rips of the Velvets and Leonard Cohen Record Clubs, but I don't think they've posted anything from Oar.

I believe the r/b murder ballad record is currently called "Go Go Boots". Who knows if that title will stick, but I didn't think "The Big To Do" would stick either. I think they're both damn cool titles.

What is this?

The Hold Steady - "Almost Killed Me"

I just went through the setlists and I can confirm that 39 different songs were played during the residency and they all appear on "Live at the Olympia".

I might be the only one who cares but...

Thanks!

Anyone know if the 39 songs being released are all the songs performed during the residency? Having some trouble finding setlists from those shows and I can't find a press release with this info in it.

Thanks!

all i have from Dear Impossible are the demos Ryan recorded at home. he took those demos to the Cardinals and they added their touch to them but those recordings have yet to surface. i remember the tracklist on Foggy as well! i used it to make my Dear Impossible compilation since a few of those songs the Cardinals recorded were just random songs Ryan had posted on Foggy. here's the listing i have on my ipod (foolishly, i didn't save the tracklisting from Foggy )

Dear Impossible comp.

Dear Impossible

Kaleidoscope Eyes

OK, I Surrender

Roll Credits

Sunflowers and Rain

The Lights (I Was Loved)

Yes, I Know That Color

So Quiet It's Loud

Goodbye Sunshine

Please Hold On

Wild and Hopeless

 

nodep5, someone had put the first 7 of those files into a zip file and posted them on the RAA. i will try and track it down for you. in the meantime, a handful of those songs have been posted on the new Foggy. and that Sunflowers and Rain song was released on digi single 1 as Go Ahead and Rain.

 

Coltrane, do you have a tracklisting of that Sad Dracula album? when it gets to Sad Dracula, DJ Reggie, etc., i get confused. i have a folder called Foggy where i put all of these misc. songs but would like to organize them somehow, someday (haha.)

You can see the tracklist he posted for Dear Impossible here...

http://thesteamengine.blogspot.com/2008/12/ryan-adams-dear-impossible-foggy-demos.html

I wish they had the rest of the posts Ryan made about this, because I really don't know if those indicated that these ever got to the Cardinals. I think he may have referenced taking them to the Cardinals at the time, but this was post Cardinology. I'm also pretty skeptical about anything that was on Foggy, which is what is around to listen to, being what was being referenced in the blog I linked. Eveything that is around is off Foggy before these sessions happened as far as I know. I need to see how many of these tracks I have.

Anyone who hasn't heard the track Goodbye Sunshine should really give it a listen. Good stuff.

i'm enjoying all of the Pax-Am releases. here are my thoughts:

 

digi single 1 :

1. Lost and Found- awesome rocker that sounds like it was a b-side from Cardinology. kinda reminds me Asteroid.

2. Go Ahead and Rain (Sunflowers and Rain)- one of my favorite songs from the Dear Impossible album. i still feel that if this album was released instead of Cardinology, the Cardinals would be super-huge now! i love, love, love the lyrics to this song. Classic DRA.

 

digi single 2:

1. Allumette: this song sounds a little rough but its a gem nonetheless. Ryan claims that it was recorded at Sunset Sound in LA, but i kind of speculate that it may be a Garage Band demo. anyways, it would have fit in perfectly with Cardinology (as it was intended.) my only complaint regarding this song is how short it is.

2. What Color is Rain- this song has def. been a grower on me and it hasn't quite finished growing yet.

 

digi single 3:

1. Tomorrowland- great song! its got that UK rock band sound to it. Ryan's vocals are a bit heavier/ darker which contrasts the song's poppier melody. dunno when this song was recorded but i have a hunch that its from '06/ '07 around the Easy Tiger sessions.

2. Disco Queen- another rad song. if you don't find your shoes tapping along with this song, there may be a problem.

First of all love your descriptions. I thought the first two were pretty good and the last one was great.

Second - when you say the Dear Impossible album do you actualy have the whole thing or did you just do a comp or something? I have a lot of that stuff from rips people did off of Foggy and I think he even posted a tracklist somewhere at some point, but I never made a comp or anything. It would be pretty awesome if Dear Impossible showed up for sale on pax am at some point.

Also I think Lost & Found is the exact same version that's on the Sad Dracula record Fasterpiece.

I have avoided reading much of this thread to try and curb my interest in these. I knew I would want the mono box set, Abbey Road, and Let It Be. I told myself that I really shouldn't be spending this kind of dough right now and figured I'd just spin revolver a few times to forget they were coming out.

I also figured from stuff I heard and poking around the last few days that the mono box set was already out of print anyway. Imagine my surprise to walk into best buy this morning where they had the mono set for sale for $229!

I immediately reviewed my portfolio with my stock broker and decided that funds were present for this purchase.

In simpler terms my credit rating just dropped a few points. Just couldn't pass it up.