man, I love Paves.

I never really got into Jackson Browne except shit like These Days, where's the best place to start? Wouldn't mind some reccomendations for Gram Parsons either, just read a great book on that 70s LA scene so want to start getting down with some of the records from the period, especially since its downtime on new released right now.

Also, watched The Last Waltz the other day and it totally holds up, brilliant concert and film even if they overdubbed some of it. The last tune when they're all on stage with Ringo, Dylan, Ronnie Wood, Joni and other bizarre/esteemed/eclectic characters singing 'I Can Be Released' is just great. They all look awesome as well, Dylan carries off the checkered shirt and the hat real nice and everyone in general manages to look totally casual yet totally cool as well, which is hard to achieve. Guess the fashions were pretty awesome back then. I love 'Jesus Christ Superstar' for 70s fashions, those purple vests and Judas' red onesie.

^^^^^^^^
this fucking record

I honestly didn't know there was such a thing as a Pretenders fan in the world. I thought they were just template filler for AOR radio DJs. Maybe I need to investigate that, but I probably won't. Their incessant radio play has forever posioned them for me forever.

Waves, GP only released two proper solo albums .... GP and Return of the Grievous Angel. They're available as a single CD. other albums I think are essentiall: Live 1973, The Byrds -- Sweethears of the Rodeo, and Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin.

Here's some recommended tracks ......

Tweed, seriously, I urge you to chuck your prejudices at the door and listen to this s/t again with open ears and mind. It's an incredibly urgent, catchy, rocking, sexually raw, brash yet vulnerable statement of all that is great and dangerous in rock music. And you're probably thinking of the AOR post-James Honeymoon-Scott guitar profile of their later singles. His guitar work on this thing is a revelation, seriously. It's punk and New Wave's connective tissue. Nobody from that era integrated pedal and studio effects so seamlessly into the riffs and the metric texture of the grooves. So much dub and raw edge. FUCK. SOOOOOOO good.

That debut is amazing, yeah.

tweed, take heed
for post one zero five five
well, it ain't no jive...turkey. check that shit.

alright, i'll give it a shot. but if i hate it, i'll see to it that all three of you have your invitations to the Indie Quiche Dinner Party permanently revoked.

Cheers man, just picked up the disc with the two LPs, looking forward to spinning it.

in case anyone was wondering what fred durst is up to these days:

http://fred60.tumblr.com/

i listened to this like six thousand times today. guess it means it's good.

lol

It's pretty bitchin'.

that's a really good album

also, there sure are a lot of mediocre songs on this singles countdown in my opinion

Yeah, can't argue with you there.

That's Honeyman, I believe, although I like your spin on it.

The second album is good too. Well, the first three tracks anyway--"The Adultress," "Bad Boys Get Spanked" and "Message of Love"--that is perfection right there.

I like "Jealous Dogs" and "Day After Day" as much as anything from the debut. "Bad Boys Get Spanked" to me was a lazy, silly rewrite of 'Tattooed Love Boys" though.

THE ANNOTATED DANCING IN THE STREET

Lee Ranaldo to Tour With M. Ward

Am I required to like Cloud Nothings because I like the 90s and I like Steve Albini?

His recent interview with Pitchfork made him seem like an utter dickwad, so I'd say you're off the hook.

I mean...I don't want to like that band. But it seems like they are making a power play for my heart what with the ripping off Slint and recording with Steve.

You're not required, but personally I think the album's killer.

Mind you, this is coming from someone who thought their first album was pretty lame.

http://www.disneystore.com/disney/store/DS...oductId=1295574

$25 , I want one.

how long till Disney gives Mickey Misfits bangs?

New Cloud Nothings is fucking awesome. I hate saying "THIS IS MY ALBUM OF THE YEAR" in January, but it's just an album that's connected with me in a big way other than "this album's really good". It's a kid getting a band together and writing an album full of hooks, guitars and moments at various points that remind me of Slint, Sunny Day, Trail of Dead, etc. Hey, college-age kids making a good rock album in 2012. Fancy that.

it's funny how divided folks are on Cloud Nothings...

i JUST got into their S/T in the last 2 weeks and i fucking love the shit out of it. it would have been in my top 5 had i heard it in 2011. it's just SO in my wheelhouse.

new one is pretty good, don't get me wrong, but i'm a hooks and melodies guy. plus this is one of the RARE times i prefer the more lo-fi garage pop. his vocals are so different on the new one too. i understand why he almost changed the name of the band.

all of the earlier stuff pre 2011 is more like the S/T too, loving it.

at first i honestly thought you guys were talking about a new internet streaming service

Sorry I didn't compliment you for this post richard. Only just saw it tonight. Or Paves. Both of you guys really. Props to you for being in the best place.

Can't see the Big Man with the flat top 'do and not immediately think of Bill & Ted's. Greatest dude.

^ This. All of it.

http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html

Anyone ever reach the point where they are just sick of music? All music, every style. It seems once a year I get to the point where I don't want to listen to music. I stop playing CDs in the car and listen to NPR. I stop putting it on in the background. I stop making music. It just doesn't interest me. Then a week or two passes and I dive back in.

whenever i'm sick of music Wagon Christ / Luke Vibert is a good guy to put on, if you're down with electronic music. amateurish but fun and interesting music.

I'll look into those , after writing his I put in a mix cd and skipped almost all 60 songs but the mountain goats "the mess inside" clicked for me. So today I played nine black poppies and it went okay, still not back but better than the last few days.

EDIT:
Finally saw what the video was,
top notch song from my youth right there, opening drums always make me smile.

Not exactly. But I do need to take breaks from it. I used to absolutely have to have music to listen to while I was driving, and now, most of the time, I just listen to public radio. But I'm listening to music all day, anyhow, so it's probably good to get a breather now and then.

I do go through periods where I don't want to listen to a specific type of music. But given a little space, I'll be back where i started.

https://twitter.com/lollaleaks

I wonder if I'll ever go to this thing.

According to Mike Patton, a new Tomahawk album to be released "soon."

I LOL at Skrillex, Deadmau5, Flux Pavillion, "dubstep" and all the kids today who are into that stuff but then I remember that I was once a kid that was into Prodigy and "electronica" back in 1997 so I'd really like some perspective from anyone who was in their 30s or 40s back then. Some of it's aged pretty well, some of it seems pretty silly today, but how did it look and sound back then to someone who wasn't a kid "discovering music"? You know what I mean?

I was 30 in 1997 and thought that period was a really exciting time for electronica. I was tiring of grunge and along came the likes of the Chemical Brothers, Underworld, the Prodigy, Orbital, the Orb, the Future Sound of London etc. who were putting out these huge sounding records. I can listen to all of those bands today and I think they all hold up very well.

There was plenty of crap in that era too - the Crystal Method, Moby, Fatboy Slim to name a few. But the big guns were putting out great records.

I'm in my late 40s & lol at Dubstep 'cause it all sounds like Larry Levan to me.

Iggy Pop rocks out with his cock out:



NSFW, and NSFAGFGAT (Not Safe For Average Guys Feeling Good About Themselves)

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2...gay_fantasy.php

A I A is getting a 2-CD release next week.
http://boomkat.com/cds/507379-grouper-a-i-...uxe-2cd-edition

I really dig these licks.

I found out one of my Brother-in-Laws (? Brothers-in-Law? Whatever) was bass player for the Old School Punk band The Exit, who have one of the hardest to find singles in Chicago Punk.





On the record sleeve Mike's the guy in the foreground in the lower right, and in the background in the lower left.

Record without sleeve on eBay, starting bid $450