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That Main Event will be a doozey.

Oh, and I almost forgot:

Very nice choices. Double Nickels is the king of kings, one my favorites. What do you think of Ege Bamyasi? I have Tago Mago and I love that album, but haven't heard any other Can. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ege Bamyasi is absolutely fantastic. I'm not sure which album I like better yet... but if you enjoyed Tago Mago, then there's really no way that you won't enjoy the two albums that followed it just as much. And yes, the Minutemen album has always been a favorite on vinyl, and now I finally own it on CD (for the car, of course.) Aside from that though, I've only heard their last album... what's the best of their other material?

I'm seeing Sun O))) and Earth live in about a week... I wonder how that will be. EDIT: Merzbow and Growing as well. Woo.

Incandenza, I've never listened to Drive Like Jehu before, and I know virtually nothing about them aside from their name being mentioned in a few articles I've read about hardcore/emo music, often mentioned with Fugazi. How do they compare to the other bands in that scene around the same time?

"Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's makes me cry.

Television. Plain and simple. I'd say about a good 80% of punk bands really went the route of having one or two really great/landmark albums and then just became uninspired. There's X, the Ramones, The Sex Pistols (I don't like the first album even but it's a general census,) Black Flag, Pere Ubu (I think... I haven't actually heard anything after the first three albums but I hear it's not good,) the Dead Kennedys, the Dead Boys, the Germs, The Damned, Patti Smith, Stiff Little Fingers, Fear, and Generation X all fall under this category. Some big fans of some of those bands could argue against it (Dead Kennedys, Patti Smith, Black Flag, and a few others specifically,) but for the most part a lot of punk and hardcore bands are one-classic-album-wonders. I guess it's just harder to keep those genres interesting than others, and that's why I have even more respect for the Clash, Husker Du, the Minutemen, etc. And Van Morrison has had a lot of good/decent albums over the years, but those first two (especially Astral Weeks were just at a level that he had no chance of ever attaining again.

We can't let this discussion turn into a comedy competition where everyone sees if they can come up with the wackiest genre-combination. Please. We all know that ambient big-band surf music backing layers upon layers of Tuvan throat singing is going to be the next big thing, anyway. But on a serious note, Inc -- are you going to propose a solution to the problem that you've shed light on, or did you just bring it up to depress us all? I've thought it over many-a-time, and I've never truly come up with something that meets every single standard of a possible "giant innovation"... PLAGIARISM! is probably right. Musical heroin is the only way out of this mess.

Nice Buckley trifecta. I too bought his first three albums in the span of one week, and I adore them all, but for some reason the TOWER Records nearby carries none of his other albums, and so my chronilogical ventures into the depths of his discography have been put to a screeching halt. And I hear pretty much everything he did up until the last two white-funk albums is great, too. Anyway, how do you think he compares to Jeff? I enjoy Grace on a personal level more than any Tim Buckley album, but Tim is just so prolific, it makes you wonder if Jeff could have done the same thing. I still haven't heard the "Sketches of somethingoranother" Tom Verlaine-produced second-album... thing. So I don't know.

I sadly would have to agree with this statement, which is very unfortunate. I don't even think there's been a new GENRE invented, combination-induced or not, since Post-Rock. Though depending on people's standards two or three others could probably be named off as well.

I'd have to agree with Jeff Buckley. Eric Dolphy, as well.

Err... sorry, that was a typo. I meant REVERSE-chronilogically. M&A is an easy step from the most recent album, and that will prepare him for the earlier stuff. If he loves the most recent album, then it might be too much of a shock to go straight from that to the more jammy and much less poppy This is a Long Drive... Out of most bands out there, I am most interested in seeing what Modest Mouse's next album will be like. If they just remake Good News... (which I enjoyed, but still) then I will be thoroughly dissappointed. I really can't tell where they're going to go from here. Something nice to pick up, by the way, is Ugly Casanova's Sharpen Your Teeth, which is Isaac Brock and some guys from Califone/Red Red Meat, I believe. It's got a few weak points, but damn the production is AWESOME, and there are some very, very good tracks on it.

I guess no one really likes This is a Long Drive...? Eh... well, that one's good too. Really, while Modest Mouse has many, many compilations and EP's and the like for a band who's only been around since the 90's, they only have four proper studio albums, and in my opinion they're all worth getting. If I were you I would just go rever-chronilogically. That would be the best way to digest everything if you've only heard Good News... They are very energetic live, but Isaac's voice is horribly inconsistant. Nonetheless, I too am interested -- what was the set list like? I saw them at a festival and they just played new tracks, aside from "Cowboy Dan" and "Interstate 8," so that was slightly dissappointing.

I'm thankful that I'm not the only man in the universe that finds Crocodiles underwhelming. I actually find many of their full-albums to not be GODLY like some would have you think, though the singles compilation I have is a necessity in my everyday life.

I like Phil Ochs more than I like Bob Dylan. *prepares to have rocks thrown at him*

Any specifics on why this is so?

Where can I find a copy of Deceit by This Heat for less than $150.00? You would think that something so highly-regarded amongst critics and that was released by Rough Trade wouldn't be so desperately rare.

I always sort of enjoyed the "Alec Eiffel" music video, as well as the promo video for "Debaser."

I approve of both the new Malkmus and the new Sleater-Kinney whole-heartedly, as it turns out.

THANK YOU AMAZON! If anyone has any commentary on any of these albums, then please. The albums are shipping right now and I've heard very little off of any of them, so I'd like to know what to expect, especially with the later-days Beefheart and the Univers Zero. Actually, I'm yet to hear a Fela Kuti song. I suppose I should be shot. Oh, and does anyone know if the new Malkmus is any good? I want it very badly.

Has anyone here heard any Univers Zero?

When was yours recorded? I have one from nineteen-seventy-something, but recently heard a performance from 1998 that blew it away, for reasons I can't quite pin down. What I've heard of Philip Glass has struck me as little more than Steve Reich lite. Maybe I've just heard the wrong stuff. Mine was released in 1978, yeah. I might be interested in that other version, though. In the last few days I've picked up: and Both are good yet somewhat dissapointing. I also picked up Super Ae and Vision Creation Newsun when I saw the Boredoms live last week. They're both utterly fantastic, though I prefer the crazier Boredoms style (Pop Tatari) slightly more. The band live is a revelation, though, even though I think I saw them in V00rdoms form, or something, aka just "Eye" and three accompanying drummers. Nonetheless, it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before.