Un-Grateful Thread - What Are You Listening to Instead of the Dead?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Tom H, Sep 24, 2014.

  1. footlooseman

    footlooseman Forum Resident

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    How did you get this? Its not released till friday?
     
  2. Dahabenzapple

    Dahabenzapple Forum Resident

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    Livingston NJ
    Sonic Youth: NYC Ghosts & Flowers

    Still not sure about this one. I’m a recent owner of this. I normally far prefer post Daydream Nation era (or post Goo/Dirty) to earlier Youth recordings. But I sure like Thurston’s mid tempo dreamy tunes and the opening “Free City Rhymes” fits that bill.

    The whole record almost seems like an EP or an in-between/transitional release. But all later Sonic Youth is worth hearing and having if just to hear the guitars!!
     
  3. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Do you have Grotesque?

    Listening to Kinks:

    Lola etc.

    Percy

    Muswell Hillbillies
     
  4. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

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    Yes.
     
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  5. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Good man. I wasn't sure what your level was/is.
     
  6. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    Ask my local record store!
     
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  7. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    I finally received my awaited gem. I've just listened to the first two tracks (two solo takes of "If You See Her, Say Hello") and I stood in awe of the intensity of the performances. I was no expecting less that that, of course.
     
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  8. Archtop

    Archtop Soft Dead Crimson Cow

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  9. footlooseman

    footlooseman Forum Resident

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  10. rockinlazys

    rockinlazys Forum Resident

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    Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks- Where's The Money: Blue Thumb, 1971
    John Hartford- housing project: RCA, 1968
    Good Rats- Ratcity in Blue: Platinum, 1976
    Burl Ives- My Gal Sal And Other Favorites: Decca, 1965
    Legendary Pink Dots- All the King's Men: ROIR, 2oo2 (1st Lp)
    Terry Adams- Talk Thelonious: Euclid, 2015 (both Lps)
     
  11. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    Is that fellow playing a guitar with the strings upside down??? :yikes:
     
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  12. Archtop

    Archtop Soft Dead Crimson Cow

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    Actually, they are right-side up for how the guitar is configured. :nyah:
     
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  13. DrLunchbox

    DrLunchbox Forum Deadhead #1604

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    Leonard Cohen. I know nothing about the man aside from the song Hallelujah, which is done to death. So, folks, where do you recommend starting with Mr. Cohen?
     
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  14. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

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    I started with Recent Songs and went backward and forward from there. I haven't hit a bad one. I find him remarkably consistent.

    I recently listened to Old Ideas, one of his more recent ones, and it hit the spot. A good old one is Songs From A Room. But, again, I haven't hit a bad one.

    Recently,

    WTF
     
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  15. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

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  16. ducksdeluxe

    ducksdeluxe A voice in the wilderness.

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    If you do not own this, get it. Volume 1 is required, volumes 2 and 3 are not, although there's a jam at the end of volume 2 with Eric Clapton and Joe Walsh, then of the James Gang. But vol. 1 is one of THE great live rock albums. February 5-7, 1970 were all recorded. Peter Green is truly off the hook on Rattlesnake Shake.
     
  17. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

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    Years ago, I got so excited when I saw this album, but then I realized it wasn't the Buckingham-Nicks era.

    I know, I know, sacrilege, etc.
     
  18. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

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    There is no political solution
    To our troubled evolution
    Have no faith in constitution
    There is no bloody revolution

    We are spirits in the material world
    ...

    Our so-called leaders speak
    With words they try to jail you
    They subjugate the meek
    But it's the rhetoric of failure

    We are spirits in the material world
    ...

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    At one point, I had the disc depicted above, which I think is a picture of the original U.S. issue of this album on CD. It was mastered very low, too low--the absolute opposite of brick-walled.

    I was inspired by the "Do you consider the Police prog rock?" thread, which is an offshoot of the "Do you consider water fire?" thread in the off-topic forum.

    Funny that "Too Much Information" was written even before the 24-hour "news" cycle and rampant infotainment.

    Darkness makes me stumble, for a key, to a door, that's wide open.
     
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  19. Crispy Rob

    Crispy Rob Cat Juggler

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    I think those original Police CD issues are way better than the brick walled digipack versions, but there is a middle ground that still has not been reached. Original vinyl is really the best way to go by a long mile, for the time being at least.
     
  20. Crispy Rob

    Crispy Rob Cat Juggler

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    I need this, clearly. Thanks to a generous forum member, I have the Shrine ‘69 release, which is also very good.
     
  21. budwhite

    budwhite Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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    This forum has made me listen less and less to The Beatles.
    Yes, I get really really annoyed by the threads. Chapmanesque if you ask me.

    But I'm back to the listening part and enjoying it again.
    Please Please Me right now. Ringo singing Boys :D
    Looking forward to the White Album remix. A song like Long Long Long should be a nice upgrade. I don't particular think that the '68 mix sounds very good.
     
  22. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    Draw The Line. In my opinion, the most pedestrian Aerosmith album from the 1973-1983 era, but since it includes "Kings and Queens", one of their best songs, I listen to it every once in a while. It's not a bad album, but it's several steps below what they had recorded before it (but much better than what came after 1983 ;) ).
     
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  23. DrLunchbox

    DrLunchbox Forum Deadhead #1604

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    I'd say Night in the Ruts and DEFINITELY Rock and a Hard Place are worse. The latter.... ugh.... But yes, Kings and Queens is a killer track. Draw the Line is half decent-to-good and half throw-aways. I always liked the title track too. But the band's high water mark was clearly 73-76/77 for studio output. From there it's an occasional track or two but nowhere nearly as consistent.
     
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  24. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    I like Night In The Ruts a lot, and I enjoy Rock in a Hard Place more than Draw The Line.
    At least, I'm sure our views on their first four albums must be similar.
     
  25. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    Can anyone here share an opinion about Dylan's Trouble No More (the 2-cd version)? I'm thinking about the possibility of getting it.
     

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