Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted March 27, 2005 I'm seriously considering using my tax return to buy a banjo. I figure even if worse comes to worst it will help with my (minimal) guitar skills. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted March 27, 2005 Kick Out the Jams fucking blows. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted March 27, 2005 Death of a Ladies' Man is nowhere near as bad as its reputation would suggest. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
B. Brian Brunzell 0 Report post Posted March 27, 2005 Well, the cd player at work broke, so before I could go buy a new one, I had to listen to the radion. And I was stuck with the top 40 station, which wasn't bad, as it seemed to be 90s alternarock day yesterday morning with counting Crows, Blues Traveler and Gin Blossoms featured. Anyway, I had to suffer through that Jesse McCartney single as well as Ryan cabrera, and I got me thinking that there hasn't been a goog pop love song written in years, with the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" being the last good one. Every pop love song these days uses the same old similes and metaphors, and I think that the idea of a pop love song has become cliche nowadays. At least Rzeznick used great metaphor and actually was inspired rather than write a song just for radio play. Plus, "Iris" features one of my favourite lines of the last 10 or so years with When everything feels like the movies/You bleed just to know you're alive. Cheesy? Yes, but I still enjoy it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLAGIARISM! 0 Report post Posted March 27, 2005 Getting glastonbury tickets is the least fun experience of the calendar. Roll on next sunday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted March 28, 2005 I'm seriously considering using my tax return to buy a banjo. I figure even if worse comes to worst it will help with my (minimal) guitar skills. Completely different animals. The only similarity is overall shape and vibrating strings. Well, unless you're a country picker on a really twangy acoustic, maybe. It's fun and challenging, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 Well, the cd player at work broke, so before I could go buy a new one, I had to listen to the radion. And I was stuck with the top 40 station, which wasn't bad, as it seemed to be 90s alternarock day yesterday morning with counting Crows, Blues Traveler and Gin Blossoms featured. Anyway, I had to suffer through that Jesse McCartney single as well as Ryan cabrera, and I got me thinking that there hasn't been a goog pop love song written in years, with the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" being the last good one. Every pop love song these days uses the same old similes and metaphors, and I think that the idea of a pop love song has become cliche nowadays. At least Rzeznick used great metaphor and actually was inspired rather than write a song just for radio play. Plus, "Iris" features one of my favourite lines of the last 10 or so years with When everything feels like the movies/You bleed just to know you're alive. Cheesy? Yes, but I still enjoy it. While I do believe that there have been some decent-good pop love songs since then, I agree that few did it better than Rzeznik and the Goo Goo Dolls. I love "Iris", "Black Balloon", and really all of Dizzy Up The Girl. Back between 1998-2001, I wrote a lot of acoustic, ballad-esque songs about love and heartbreak. Quite a efw turned out sounding like a GGD song, and I wasn't even going for that. The songs just flowed out of me. That shows how much Rzeznik's writing influenced me back then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
B. Brian Brunzell 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 That's because he's a great songwriter, most likely. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted March 29, 2005 Oh, he is not. Come on. Anyway, I'm listening to Low's The Great Destroyer right now. Way underrated, this; it's my favorite release of the year so far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted March 29, 2005 Further comments on my foray into hillbilly music: I'm absolutely floored by some of the skill I'm seeing. I'm listening to these guys called Eric Weissberg (did "Dueling Banjos" for Deliverance) and Marshall Brickman and I'm saying "How in the hell can they play that fast?" There's not a note out of place. There's so much energy in their playing it feels like it's going to break, and they maintain absolute clarity. It's crazy. These guys aren't actual backwoods hillbillies, so it's not raw and genuine like the blues comparisons I made earlier, but their proficiency at their instruments is amazing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted March 29, 2005 Surely you've heard some Earl Scruggs then? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted March 29, 2005 I've only heard "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted March 29, 2005 Surely you've heard some Earl Scruggs then? Yeah. So far I've listened to Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Ralph Stanley by himself, and Dock Boggs (who is fucking evil). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted March 30, 2005 I ignored it upon its release last year, but Sonic Youth's Sonic Nurse is really good. Kim Gordon manages to not be annoying! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted March 30, 2005 Agent of Oblivion, I am listening to Neurosis' Through Silver In Blood (finally!). I'm midway through it; I'm enjoying it a lot more than The Eye of Every Storm. The title track to TSIB is kind of insane. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted March 30, 2005 I think they usually take a couple spins before I find the hook that drags me into the rest of the album. The Eye of Every Storm was really atypical of their style, I thought. If you're interested in a more raw sound from them, try Souls at Zero. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godthedog 0 Report post Posted March 30, 2005 I ignored it upon its release last year, but Sonic Youth's Sonic Nurse is really good. Kim Gordon manages to not be annoying! that's amazing. i picked up 'murray street' recently, supposedly their best album in years, and kim gordon's most obvious contribution, "plastic sun," is atrocious, with lyrics like Get your hands on my tomato Cherry juice on a rotten potato Subway slasher is on my ass Steals my money and smokes my grass i don't even know what that's supposed to mean. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobobrazil1984 0 Report post Posted March 30, 2005 the new Alkaline Trio album, of which i d/led the advance, is inferior to their previous two albums imo. sadly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted March 30, 2005 If everything the Doves had done was as good as "There Goes The Fear," they'd be nearly as good as Pulp in terms of fairly straight-ahead rock. As it stands, I think they're just pretty good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
B. Brian Brunzell 0 Report post Posted March 30, 2005 So using my Pepsi bottle caps and iTunes, I've finally heard some Sigur Ros, and I must say, I was pretty impressed. Anybody got any redcommendations by them? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted March 31, 2005 I ignored it upon its release last year, but Sonic Youth's Sonic Nurse is really good. Kim Gordon manages to not be annoying! that's amazing. i picked up 'murray street' recently, supposedly their best album in years, and kim gordon's most obvious contribution, "plastic sun," is atrocious, with lyrics like Get your hands on my tomato Cherry juice on a rotten potato Subway slasher is on my ass Steals my money and smokes my grass i don't even know what that's supposed to mean. Kim Gordon is usually the worst thing about any Sonic Youth album, including their best one, Daydream Nation. However, her contributions to Sonic Nurse are easy to take because her vocals are buried just low enough in the mix to where you can hear her, but not make out what she's saying. The worst lyric of hers, by the way, comes from NYC Ghosts & Flowers: boys go to Jupiter get more stupider! girls go to Mars become rock stars! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted March 31, 2005 Plus, her "spray it, don't say it" spiel during the false intro of "Teenage Riot" mars an otherwise great song. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted March 31, 2005 So using my Pepsi bottle caps and iTunes, I've finally heard some Sigur Ros, and I must say, I was pretty impressed. Anybody got any redcommendations by them? Whatever album that track you got came from. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted March 31, 2005 Joanna Newsom is awful enough to make me think that rape might be OK. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted March 31, 2005 "Blue." Such a good song. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLAGIARISM! 0 Report post Posted March 31, 2005 If everything the Doves had done was as good as "There Goes The Fear," they'd be nearly as good as Pulp in terms of fairly straight-ahead rock. As it stands, I think they're just pretty good. Aha, but Pulp were so much more, the best, wittiest expression of the UK 90s underclass, to be precise. And they were from SHEFFIELD! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 Doves are pretty bad. Like very pretty bad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Art Sandusky 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 I should have seen it coming, but "Dr. Detroit" is quickly becoming one of my favorite Devo songs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Art Sandusky 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 I somehow got that "I Need A Hero" song on my computer and have no idea how. It's something of a pleasant surprise though, especially the last thirty seconds. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5_moves_of_doom 0 Report post Posted April 1, 2005 Joanna Newsom is awful enough to make me think that rape might be OK. I enjoy her quite a bit. Though I'm getting properly sick about this whole "freak-folk" scene. Sure, Devendra is nice to listen to, but he's not doing anything new. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
