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[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

It was the viewing of that film earlier this evening that inspired me to listen to it for time in ages.

 

Reed should've mined more of this dirty, gutteral blooze sound back then. Street Hassle is a far more compelling listen than any of the other trips in his decade-long identity crisis.

[Henry Spencer 0]

Street Hassle never fails to produce a lump in my throat.

[DMann2003 0]

Shit I just saw that today 26 years ago John Bonham died.

 

And I've been on such a Zeppelin kick too lately, reading "Hammer of the Gods"

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

I can't stop listening to "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" by Queens of the Stone Age

[Lord of The Curry 0]

This might only apply to myself and banky in terms of people who care but Owen Pallett beating out New Pornographers, BSS and Wolf Parade for the Polaris Music Prize is pretty big.

[Annabelle 0]

i like final fantasy. ive read that he won the award under dubious circumstances. i guess the toronto indie scene thought it would been too mainstream to have bss, wolf parade, or even the pornos win. have i ever mentioned how boring the new pornos are?

 

anyone who enjoyed the mark mothersbaugh royal tenenbaums interludes would love him. i mean love him a lot. long time.

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Guess it's time for me to finally check out that album that MiB sent me.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

have i ever mentioned how boring the new pornos are?

 

Yeah, listening to Twin Cinema straight through tends to get repetitive. I like their songs more when they just come up on shuffle.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Ditto.

 

I heard "The Bleeding Heart Show" on the iPod tonight and realized how much more I like NP's songs when they're not being played through on an album.

 

Pallett is very much a part of the Toronto "indy scene" so I'm not sure what banky means.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

I only really like the songs that Neko Case sings on. The rest are kinda meh.

[Annabelle 0]

Pallett is very much a part of the Toronto "indy scene" so I'm not sure what banky means.

 

i concur. i'm not saying its what i believe, but thats what i've read. i'd have given it to wolf parade anyway. they're ace.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Twin Cinema is pretty good up to and including "Sing Me Spanish Techno." After that, yawn.

 

And while I think Neko got the best songs from the first two albums, the ones she sung on TC were only okay. Bejar—who I really like in Destroyer but not so much in New Pornographers—gets "Jackie, Dressed in Cobras." which is a great song.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Pallett is very much a part of the Toronto "indy scene" so I'm not sure what banky means.

 

i concur. i'm not saying its what i believe, but thats what i've read. i'd have given it to wolf parade anyway. they're ace.

 

I'd have given it to Wolf Parade as well. 2007 should be a decent enough year, new Apostle of Hustle, Feist and Stars. I've heard Wofl Parade might get one out but Spencer is terribly busy with his I think 3 or 4 other bands.

[Annabelle 0]

i don't care for stars too much. i think even less of apostles. feist will be interesting. spencer has a supergroup album coming out with the guy from frog eyes & dan bejer. should be neat. i hope.

[C Dubya 04 0]

I really enjoy Ben Folds' cover of "From Great Heights" by the Postal Service. He uses an assortment of random objects played like percussion instruments to get the background music. Really nice.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I don't even mind that someone started another thread about the new Weird Al. It's just the subtitle "Best Parody Ever?" that makes me want to hurt people.

[snuffbox 0]

Bob Seger is going to tour. That's cool.

[CanadianChick 0]

Who is Blondie's "Rip Her to Shreds" based on? I love the song. So much bitterness and cattiness...

[snuffbox 0]

From wiki(with source)...

 

In a BBC Radio documentary about Blondie, Debbie Harry said the song is about what gossip columns do to people's lives.

[King Kamala 0]

Guns 'N' Roses are coming. Tickets are $65 and $45. Kind of a ripoff to see Tubby McGee and some guys who aren't Slash. I might have bought tickets if they had $30 tickets and I hadn't already bought tickets for Bob Dylan, The New Cars and Second City in a two week span.

[snuffbox 0]

Is Kings of Leon the opening band for Dylan in Maine?

[King Kamala 0]

No, we have The Racounteurs opening up for Dylan.

[snuffbox 0]

Maybe they'll play a song with Bobby Z like they did with Lou Reed and the ZZ Top fellow at the VMAs.

[JangoFett4Hire 0]

Lay Low by My Morning Jacket is a fantastic stoner song.

[King Kamala 0]

Maybe they'll play a song with Bobby Z like they did with Lou Reed and the ZZ Top fellow at the VMAs.

 

 

I doubt it- from what I hear, Dylan's opening acts rarely ever see Bob Dylan backstage, let alone coverse or collaborate with him. Still, it'd be fantastic if by some chance it did happen, Dylan is Jack White's idol.

[JangoFett4Hire 0]

Star Me Kitten might be REM's finest moment.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Go to Adult Swim's website, and download the new "Chocolate Swim" EP available for free. Has some great stuff.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Mastodon's latest, Blood Mountain, is both great and utterly disappointing. The music achieves where it has failed before, and fails where it once flourished. The first half of the album is the usual Mastodon fare: progressive, sludge-sounding swamp metal with enough powerful barking vocals from Troy and Bill to make your head melt, amazing drumming (as always), and instrumental parts that make you eagerly await the next part of the song as well as fuck with your head. But then...it mellows out. A lot. The latter half of the album is practically a Pink Floyd record, and that's why it is both amazing and disappointing: fans of Mastodon's uncompromisingly progressive brutality will be turned off by the amazing musicianship and "trippy" parts, whereas naysayers of the band's talent and fans of the "trippier" elements of Mastodon will look on in amazement as the four men from Georgia rip it up like no other band since Rush has been able to do. This album solidifies Mastodon in the upper-echelon of the progressive metal scene along with Opeth, Dream Theater, and (if Chuck were still alive) Death, while it also lowers their credibility as bone-shattering sludge masters from the depths of the American swampland like Eyehategod, Unsane, and Acid Bath.

 

But for every disappointment this album offers, there is always at least two solid upsides, making my final grade on it a solid A. A must-buy for all Mastodon fans, for all metal fans, and for all fans of actual MUSIC. This album will stick with you for a long time.

[vivalaultra 0]

Has anybody seen or heard those uh...."orchestrated string tributes" to bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance? I find those terribly funny...like there's some 70 year old cellist wearing an engineer's cap and really tight, rolled up jeans with slip-on checkered Converse and dramatically slanty bangs totally rocking out. Yeah...

 

And I really like the new Grizzly Bear CD. They're going on tour with TV on the Radio. I wish they were coming to Houston.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I'm seeing TVOTR/Grizzly Bear on Sunday. Spine-tingling goodness. I've already seen Grizzly Bear, actually, as they opened up for the Books when I saw them in March. And I've already seen TVOTR too, when they opened up for the Pixies a couple years ago. Both were really good, so I have high expectations for this one.