Giuseppe Zangara

"Imagine" has a nice melody, but the song is way overproduced and that cynical/hopeful lyric has been done better by Lennon elsewhere. It feels tossed off.

Get new ears.

"Give Me Some Truth." More political Lennon, a little more blunt than the preceding song, but hey, Lennon's rage is convincing enough. "Oh My Love" is the kind of nighttime soporific that McCartney was better at farting out, so John doesn't leave any impression here. Speaking of Paul, John seems pretty peeved at him on "How Do You Sleep?" Was he irritated by Macca's unabashed desire to be a pop star, without all that I Gotta Change The World nonsense bogging him down? Paul probably slept very well, John. Anyway, I like the song, but it doesn't really go anywhere.

Okay, "It's So Hard" was regrettable, the sorta blues wankery that was cute for a couple of minutes on the White Album but nothing worth revisiting. "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Man" works; the music grooves nicely and the lyrics, while political, aren't bullshit pandering. Thanks, John, for knowing your limits (sometimes).

Discuss this album here. So far it's better than I remembered (it's been roughly five years since I last listened to it). The title track is still , but "Crippled Inside" and "Jealous Guy" are doing me right. Let's see if this holds up.

If I didn't already know, I would've noticed a long time ago, guys.

This album is Kim's best outing yet. I just wish it hadn't taken her this long to not be so fucking annoying.

The more it's blown-up, the worse it looks.

I forgot to add that the cover looks like it was cobbled together in less than ten minutes using mspaint.

Unbearably cheesy photo framed by odds-and-ends that, together, have the color scheme of post-breakfast vomit.

Norah Jones is on Blue Note, isn't she? I guess I can't blame them and Verve for signing such acts. It's not like jazz is tearing up the Billboard charts.

The Velvet Underground were on Verve.

Yeah, let's lay off the Bad Album Cover List staples. Try to keep it recent, too.

Bless the moderator that edited the thread's subtitle.

Vampiric cannibals. The film contains elements of both, from all I've read. I've always been curious about seeing it—though, by most accounts, it's not very good—but it had a very limited theatrical release and has never been distributed on video at all.

It was the score for a French vampire flick. It wasn't meant to be a "proper" album. The full version of the song, on track 14, is broken up earlier across tracks 1 and 12. They were the parts played during the opening and closing credits (hence the titles for these particular tracks), respectively. At leats track 13 offers a piece of incidental music to help break up the repetition between 12 and 14. Not that it bothers me. TED is nice, but, given the nature of the recording, not something I listen to very often. I play the title track a lot, though.

It's a three-way tie between that, "People Keep Comin' Around" and "Trouble Every Day." "A Marriage Made in Heaven." Isabella Rossellini proves she's better suited for acting, but the song contains one of my favorite Stuart vocal performances.

The only song on LDR that explicitly recalls Tindersticks is "Marseilles Sunshine," and then that's just their Gil Evans-ish Trouble Every Day stuff. If I were looking for similarities here, I'd say Stu was listening to a lot of old 4AD bands when writing these songs. But jeez, Leaving Songs. There are even two male/female duets! And they both aren't as good as anything similar Tindersticks did.

I just remembered this one: Tindersticks' "Here" > Pavement's "Here."

Here's a mediocre cover that also serves as a sign of what to expect from the music itself: Comically "moody," portentous, pseudo-spiritual hackwork. Just what you can expect from any Live album.

There's nothing wrong with the Educated Horses cover. It's a cool picture. I like the title, too. (No, I have no interest in hearing the album itself.)

Muse have quite a devoted cult following in this country. I guess they're a substitute for people who wish Radiohead would stop fucking around with laptops. Whatever the reason, they suck. As for this shittiest recent album cover thread:

I feel almost the opposite you do re LDR; it had some similarities to Tindersticks, sure, but the arrangements were a lot more spare, minimal. I like it. Can't say the same for the just released Leaving Songs, sadly, which is basically a Tindersticks album without the Tindersticks. It only proves Stu alone did not make that band as good as they were.

Smog - Dongs of Sevotion Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped Stuart Staples - Lucky Dog Recordings, '03-'04 Stuart Staples - Leaving Songs Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country

Hmm, well I've found a natural foods store called Wild Oats over in Miami Beach, so I think I might do some beer shopping there as well, if you found some things at World Market. I'm going there anyways on Sunday. What lagers do you like? Not the biggest lager fan, unless you want to talk about bocks, like Celebrator and Spaten. Oh, and Oktoberfest/marzen-styles, too, like Paulaner or Avery's the Kaiser. Of your basic lagers, Harp is the only one I drink with any regularity.