CortezTheKiller Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 waxing the shaft.Nothing wrong with that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gobias Industries Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 Why do you hate William Carlos Williams? Williams' most anthologized poem is "The Red Wheelbarrow", considered an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles (see also "This Is Just To Say"). However, Williams, like his associate Ezra Pound, had long ago rejected the imagist movement by the time this poem was published as part of Spring and All in 1923. Williams is more strongly associated with the American Modernist movement in literature, and saw his poetic project as a distinctly American one; he sought to renew language through the fresh, raw idiom that grew out of America's cultural and social heterogeneity, at the same time freeing it from what he saw as the worn-out language of British and European culture.Williams tried to invent an entirely fresh form, an American form of poetry whose subject matter was centered on everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. He then came up with the concept of the variable foot evolved from years of visual and auditory sampling of his world from the first person perspective as a part of the day in the life as a physician. The variable foot is rooted within the multi-faceted American Idiom. This discovery was a part of his keen observation of how radio and newspaper influenced how people communicated and represents the "machine made out of words" (as he described a poem in the introduction to his book, The Wedge) just as the mechanistic motions of a city can become a consciousness. Williams didn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Littlebear Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 There are punk elements in Uncle Tupelo and Slim Cessna's Auto Club, among others. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orkie Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 Just like Uncle Tupelo's No Depression, right?They just named a magazine about the subject and the whole damn movement after that raucous motha of a record. So Uncle Tupelo is "most alt.country"? By the way, "Blue Earth" was released before "No Depression", contains no punk elements and is the better record. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orkie Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 I have Sky Blue Sky tagged alt country just to piss people off. Johnny Cash too. SBS would be tagged under "Dad Rock". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spawn's dad Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 So Uncle Tupelo is "most alt.country"? By the way, "Blue Earth" was released before "No Depression", contains no punk elements and is the better record. Oh, so this is your new user name? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CortezTheKiller Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 SBS would be tagged under "Dad Rock".Typical. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 What's your damage, dude? That's like saying reggae didn't grow out of ska.Ignore the trolls.... LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orkie Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 It's rather unfortunate that you gather your knowledge from the internet. You can come up with countless links to prove your point. Townes = country, folk, and blues. The categorization of "alt.country" doesn't fit here. Nice try, but your way off. Throw a 'D' on the beginning of the name too please. Don't overheat your Honda, Cortez. You might miss that Urban Outfitters sale tomorrow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
markosis Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 And here's an alt. banana: My thoughts exactly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CortezTheKiller Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Don't overheat your Honda, Cortez. You might miss that Urban Outfitters sale tomorrow.We appreciate your prompt and thoughtful responses. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Luna Moona Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Can't go to sleep. Someone is wrong on the internet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CortezTheKiller Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Can't go to sleep. Someone is wrong on the internet.Drink a bottle of Jack and you'll be fine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 So Uncle Tupelo is "most alt.country"? By the way, "Blue Earth" was released before "No Depression", contains no punk elements and is the better record. Not saying that Blue Earth didn't come first, but that does not change the fact that the second half of my assertion is true.Also, I disagree with you regarding Blue Earth being better. I like it, but it's not a better record than No Depression. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 As much as I like the Jayhawks I have always found Blue Earth irritating. I sure doesn't beat out No Depression in my book and is NOT essential. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Rare Earth is actually an album of demos, with overdubbed guitars and whatnot, if I recall correctly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Littlebear Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 As for me, I find No Depression totally boring. Not a fan of Uncle Tupelo at all, save a few tunes from Mr Tweedy ("Black Eye" and stuff like that). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Don't overheat your Honda, Cortez. You might miss that Urban Outfitters sale tomorrow. I liked this bit better when it was about Pink Floyd. --Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mastershake Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 being there is so much better than anything whiskeytown or steve earle recorded... but i still like their stuff. but being there is peerless in it's quality. and no uncle tupelo on that list? shame shame! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 You are all wrong, guys. I'm pretty sure Pink Floyd invented Alt.Country. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
myboyblue Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Not sure if you guys have heard this one. This is an absolutely essential album. Fall somewhere between alt-country and alt-Rock with a capital "R". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sly like a Foxwell Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Not sure if you guys have heard this one. This is an absolutely essential album. Fall somewhere between alt-country and alt-Rock with a capital "R". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orkie Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 As much as I like the Jayhawks I have always found Blue Earth irritating. I sure doesn't beat out No Depression in my book and is NOT essential. LouieB Everyone is allowed to be a moron at least once. "Two Angels", "Five Cups of Coffee" and "Martin's Song" are better than anything Tupelo ever recorded. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Everyone is allowed to be a moron at least once. "Two Angels", "Five Cups of Coffee" and "Martin's Song" are better than anything Tupelo ever recorded. "Two Angels" and "Martin's Song" have better versions on Hollywood Town Hall.And as much as I do love those songs, the veracity of your statement, Orkie, is beyond questionable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sly like a Foxwell Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Everyone is allowed to be a moron at least once. "Two Angels", "Five Cups of Coffee" and "Martin's Song" are better than anything Tupelo ever recorded. this begs the question. have you ever listened to Uncle Tupelo? i mean really, teh fuck? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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