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Post by mrlennie on Mar 3, 2013 7:31:27 GMT -5
Eels/Wonderful, Glorious and Johnny Marr/The Messenger
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Post by mrlennie on Mar 3, 2013 7:39:58 GMT -5
Tom Tom Club/Downtown Rockers
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Post by Wakeup on Mar 6, 2013 9:19:32 GMT -5
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Post by Wakeup on Mar 12, 2013 7:48:06 GMT -5
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Post by luis on Mar 13, 2013 14:19:54 GMT -5
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love (My vinil copy is in terrible shape unfortunately)
Ry Cooder- Election Special. Great, as usual.
Bob Dylan - TEMPEST. Beautiful songs
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator. Tremendous. Derek is the guitarist of the moment for some time now. Midnight in Harlem is the best song in the past two years. It's an instant classic.
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Post by Wakeup on Mar 17, 2013 14:41:09 GMT -5
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Post by HollyH on Mar 17, 2013 21:55:35 GMT -5
For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson
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Post by luis on Apr 10, 2013 9:34:27 GMT -5
You're right HH, and that's because Harry Nilson was unique. L
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Post by gary on May 31, 2013 23:41:22 GMT -5
Back in January/February, I bought the new Chris Stamey, Jim James, and Ron Sexsmith CDs. How have they worn over time, you ask? The Stamey, which I loved at first, has not worn well. It sounds forced and sterile and I'll have to put it away for a while and try again later. The Jim James took a while to get used to. I like most of it very much, but not yet the mystical mush of the last few songs. The jewel in the group turns out to be the Sexsmith. It sounds better with each listen. I hadn't appreciated at first how simple and perfect these songs are, nothing misplaced or extraneous, like late Nick Lowe. Every line, every arrangement is stripped down, hard won, and beautiful. Some of it sounds as casual and off-the-cuff as a Jonathan Richman record. Great tunes, subtle word play, great performances. Ron rules!
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Post by martin53 on Jun 1, 2013 2:19:06 GMT -5
Back in January/February, I bought the new Chris Stamey, Jim James, and Ron Sexsmith CDs. How have they worn over time, you ask? The Stamey, which I loved at first, has not worn well. It sounds forced and sterile and I'll have to put it away for a while and try again later. The Jim James took a while to get used to. I like most of it very much, but not yet the mystical mush of the last few songs. The jewel in the group turns out to be the Sexsmith. It sounds better with each listen. I hadn't appreciated at first how simple and perfect these songs are, nothing misplaced or extraneous, like late Nick Lowe. Every line, every arrangement is stripped down, hard won, and beautiful. Some of it sounds as casual and off-the-cuff as a Jonathan Richman record. Great tunes, subtle word play, great performances. Ron rules! Bought Ron's "Forever Endeavour" weeks ago. It's a brilliant record with no misses. The dream team Ron Sexsmith and Mitchell Froom delivered another late bloomer.
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Post by HollyH on Jun 29, 2013 0:47:53 GMT -5
Hunh...I had the opposite reaction to the Sexsmith CD; I thought it was a little thin. Still his gorgeous melodies, but the songs seemed more self-indulgent than usual, and I missed his old story-telling gift, which I've always felt he got from RDD. (He is a HUGE Ray fan.) Maybe I'd better listen to it again.
Having lots of fun with Vampire Weekend's newest CD, though!
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Post by gary on Jun 30, 2013 21:35:34 GMT -5
Hunh...I had the opposite reaction to the Sexsmith CD; I thought it was a little thin. Still his gorgeous melodies, but the songs seemed more self-indulgent than usual, and I missed his old story-telling gift, which I've always felt he got from RDD. (He is a HUGE Ray fan.) Maybe I'd better listen to it again. Having lots of fun with Vampire Weekend's newest CD, though! Maybe the lyrics don't tell stories, but they're very clever: I love "If Only Avenue"; "know where / nowhere"; "God must have gone fishing now / with all that hell's dishing out." Not a word wasted. But what am I telling you for? You zero in on lyrics much more than I do. Maybe it'll grow on you. It's my favorite since "Retriever," which is when I started listening to Ron. And maybe the new Stamey will grow on me -- I hope so.
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Post by gary on Jun 30, 2013 21:39:59 GMT -5
Songs of Bobby Charles. I became a fan years ago when I heard Geoff Muldaur sing "Small Town Talk" on a Paul Butterfield album. McNally is backed up on this album by Dr. John and his band.
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Post by HollyH on Jul 1, 2013 0:16:53 GMT -5
Hunh...I had the opposite reaction to the Sexsmith CD; I thought it was a little thin. Still his gorgeous melodies, but the songs seemed more self-indulgent than usual, and I missed his old story-telling gift, which I've always felt he got from RDD. (He is a HUGE Ray fan.) Maybe I'd better listen to it again. Having lots of fun with Vampire Weekend's newest CD, though! Maybe the lyrics don't tell stories, but they're very clever: I love "If Only Avenue"; "know where / nowhere"; "God must have gone fishing now / with all that hell's dishing out." Not a word wasted. But what am I telling you for? You zero in on lyrics much more than I do. Maybe it'll grow on you. It's my favorite since "Retriever," which is when I started listening to Ron. And maybe the new Stamey will grow on me -- I hope so. One cannot deny RS's lyrical gifts. "If Only Avenue" is clearly one of the winners. I also dig "Nowhere To go," "Sneak Out The Back Door," and "Me Myself and Wine." I have to confess I'm a little biased by a friend who's also from the Toronto scene who thinks Sexsmith is too besotted with his new wife, for whom he left the mother of his children (juicy gossip, what?) and believes there's a bit too much of the "ah la-la-la, la la, lovely Linda" school of songwriting here. Did you notice that Ron thanked "his good friend" Ray Davies in the liner notes? Also John C. Reilly and Graham Gouldman? I'm a serious Sexsmith fan so I mean no harm here. I especially adored Time Being (2006) and Exit Strategy of the Soul (2008), two very spiritual albums. I'll still buy anything this guy puts out, so it's all good. As for the Stamey -- that one really knocked my socks off, because I'd just also heard the new DBs album, and I couldn't believe how different his solo stuff was. Also, I am impressed by the literary quality of his lyrics. Funny how these things work: I had the Stamey CD on my car CD changer, and I thought I was listening to Michael Penn; I was suddenly astonished by the lyrical beauty of Penn's writing, then realized it wasn't Penn at all but Stamey. (Not that Penn isn't brilliant, but it's a subtly different gift.) I had a real epiphany, listening to that album. All these ephemeral factors, how they influence how we hear music. And yet we can't discount them entirely....they are part and parcel of our music experience, and I for one wouldn't live without them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2013 14:57:07 GMT -5
The two new Bob Pollard albums.
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