Chris Isaak’s music isn’t even all that good. I have no idea why MTV gave him so much play.
This cover is quite a bit better.
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Chris Isaak’s music isn’t even all that good. I have no idea why MTV gave him so much play.
This cover is quite a bit better.
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Apparently you all like your music, if last night’s thread is any indication. Looking through the comments, I notice that almost no one is savaging my picks, which would lead me to think that at worst, they are ok. However, I do want to note that several albums were mentioned (albums that I even own) that could easily make the list:
The Police- Synchronicity. Not sure if there is another album out there that so totally captures the zeitgeist of the era (is that redundant?).
Beastie Boys- Paul’s Boutique. I think in fifty years, music historians will be on whatever the equivalent is then of NPR/PRI explaining how this album changed everything for rap-hip/hop-sampling.
Fleetwood Mac- Rumors.
I’m sure there are others, and I notice my list is lacking a lot of recent music. Over he past twenty years, I would say the pickings are just very slim. Maybe NWA- Straight Outta Compton or, for a different twist, Dangermouse’s The Grey Album. I guess I would have to think about it.
/music critic
BTW- my sister’s cat died today, and I will have an obit up later, but pet your furry friend and think of Sid.
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Right now, I am of the mind that there are very few albums that in and of themselves are completely perfect. If I had to list them, I would say that they are:
Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus, which I simply think is the greatest album of all time. I’m really not going to argue this one, nor will I put up with any discussions of my taste. This is the essential soundtrack in the movie of the life of John Cole. I don’t remember not owning this album. I don’t remember going a couple days without listening to it. When I did POM nonsense while in the Army, I included instructions to be buried with this playing.
Yes: Relayer
Frank Zappa: Fillmore East: June 1971
Pink Floyd: Animals
Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
The Beatles- Abbey Road. Blah blah blah it’s the Beatles, how trite and overplayed. Not really very good musicians, blah blah blah- I love it.
I’m sure there are others I would include as being complete and perfect and when I finish listening to them I am drained and content, but these stand out right now. Your mileage may vary, of course, and this is not a complete list, but these are albums that are a part of who I am.
Let the psychoanalysis begin.
*** Update ***
OMG- no Velvet Underground, I must have no taste! Die, posers.
*** Update #2 ***
Holy shit. I forgot Paul’s Boutique. Shoot me.
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From the artists in our midst open thread, this band:
Long time readers will know that this is right in my wheelhouse as far as music goes. As I said in the comments, I haven’t been this excited about a band since Dag.
By the way, I’m not feeling the politics thing today, so bear with me.
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Yes he did:
He’s still got a little work to do on the economy, but already President Barack Obama has accomplished at least one task that had appeared all but impossible just a year ago: He’s put The Dead back on the road.
As the core surviving members of the Grateful Dead, once the world’s biggest concert draw, barrel across the country for the first time in five years, bass player Phil Lesh says they have Obama, and also Lesh’s youngest son, Brian, to thank.
After Lesh, who had never publicly supported a presidential candidate, threw his lot in with Obama, he was anxious to do a benefit concert for him. But he was all but done with The Dead, so it was going to feature his other band, Phil and Friends.
“My son Brian said, ‘No Daddy, you’ve got to get The Dead together because it will be so much more meaningful and important,'” the musician chuckled during a recent phone interview.
One benefit performance led to another and then an inaugural ball concert. Next thing they knew, Lesh, guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann were back together.
Who says he isn’t the Messiah! As a side note, I honestly don’t understand people who don’t like the Dead.
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Here is a shot of Tunch lying behind me bitching because he wants more food.
He was down to 16 lbs at the last vet visit the other day, and we have lowered his food intake from 1/2-2/3 a cup a day to no more than 1/2 cup, and he is pissy. I have been doing it slowly because I read you can blow out a cat’s liver by putting them on too much of a diet.
In other news, does anyone know of any way to add your own artwork to Itunes? I have several albums with no artwork, and that irritates me. Also, I am wondering if there is any way to find out what Dead show this set came from:
Jack Straw
Stagger Lee
Wang Dang Doodle
It Must Have Been The Roses
Memphis Blues
Tennessee Jed
Let It Grow
Here Comes Sunshine
Playing in the Band
Box of Rain
The name of the disc was “Here Comes Sunshine,” but it was an off label disc and I can not find it anymore. Likewise, I appear to have lost my copy of it (I bought my copy at a now out of business local store), and I know there was a second disc that had an amazing Drums/Space, and I would like to get it. If anyone can figure out what show that was, it would be much appreciated.
*** Update ***
Also, I saw this picture at TPM:
You know you have issues if your first response was “God, I hate the Browns.” Being a Steelers fan is a full time job.
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I’m sitting here reading a book I really, really, do not want to read but have to, and while I am doing it I am cataloging some old cd’s I have not yet put into Itunes, and I just came across a band I used to hear a lot in undergrad but have not listened to in a decade. Whatever happened to the Screaming Trees?
I guess they would be considered protypical grunge, but they sure fit the zeitgeist of the early 90’s and when I turned Nearly Lost You on, I was transported from my desk with a book I don’t want to read to a beer bash in the sun in 1993. I guess like many of the other bands from that time period and that genre, the country changed and they sort of just faded away.
And if anyone cares, I think I liked their 1996 Dust better.