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[CC]

talking heads - true stories

check out the movie too,
john goodman is brilliant in it.

elvis - live in vegas box

uh huh oh yeah

[MMJ_fanatic]

talking heads - true stories

check out the movie too,
john goodman is brilliant in it.

oh yea!  great disc--so many good songs, hard to pick my fav and the movies was fun too, lots of quirky stuff going on :)

[Chills]

hi lfish, How were Mercury Rev's new songs? And did they still play some golden oldies? I think they'll be openining for Nick Cave in Brussels. Looks like a fine evening coming up!

[MMJ_fanatic]

Just saw Mercury rev live this weekend: Awesome live band!
And very funny frontman.

Check them out if you can!

I saw those guys on the Lollapalooza '92 Festival.  They were on the second stage but they were louder than the main stage--wicked funny!

[wordawg]

This week I am mostly listening to Less Than Jake.
Excellent live band.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

VHS or Beta, Night on Fire...great record!  must have!

[dwight]

John -
Did you read the pitchfork media review of their album?
Here's a taste:

So it's come to this. After spending their debut kicking out lengthy Daft Punk-style house jams, Louisville's VHS or BETA have moved on, like so many bands this year, to pillaging the dance-friendly template of late-80s Cure-- Night on Fire, their second outing, finds them window-dressing themselves in shades of black and purple. While the band's past is well-researched, but it smacks of microfiched headlines and yellowed Newsweeks. Their very name is a calculated allusion to the Reagan era, in the way it whimsically cites trends that those alive at the time understand as useless fads or outmoded technology that we're grateful to be rid of. Sadly, their music is everything the name implies-- a fuzzy fourth-generation bootleg of a bygone decade's pop culture trash.

The title track opens with a summary of what's to come. Limp guitar lines bounce against a studio-stiffened dance beat that'll become painfully familiar by album's end (hint: there's only one.) Jerky, lock-kneed basslines bottom out beneath faux-Anglo vocals, and merge with production-added noise-squalls. As the song builds toward a unifying chorus that pleads, "Put your hands together/ And we'll light this night/ Light this night on fire," the image conveyed is more of trash-can weenie roasts than the inter-city conflagration the album attempts to incite. These faceless angst-jams constitute the album's entire runtime, from the flame-out angularity of "The Melting Moon" to the watery dance-punk of "No Cabaret".

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

OUCH!

well, you gotta consider the source here.  pitchfork rarely says anything nice about ANYONE (except MMJ).  the cynicism over there is retarded.  they can't find anything good in anything.  it almost sounds like they're like fifteen years old, writing trashy journal entries instead of "journalism".

all of the posters here could out-write those folks by a country mile.  i sincerely mean that.

[antoniostrohs]

In the recent Rolling Stone mag,they did have a few nice things to say about the band.They were listed as one of the bands to watch.They are a great band whether Pitchfork thinks so or not.The new album is way cool.Very fun stuff.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

right on, my brother!  8)

[Chills]

Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump
Still one of my favorites

[Coltrane]

Acrade Fire-- "The Funeral"    One of the best records of the year. Highly recommended!!!

[EC]

Public Enemy 2000.  

BASS, how low can you go?

[CC]

VHS or Beta, Night on Fire...great record!  must have!

goin out to find this right now,
sounds like a great party record.

http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/v/vhsorbeta-night.shtml

[lfish]

hi lfish, How were Mercury Rev's new songs? And did they still play some golden oldies? I think they'll be openining for Nick Cave in Brussels. Looks like a fine evening coming up!

New songs were fine! Excellent sound, but old & familiar songs were much fun to listen to.  Are you going to Nick cave?

I saw him once live on Pukkelpop and the seeds just blew me away.  They have this huge wall of sound, you know... But I guess, he will be playing more songs of his latest album and those are more quiet.

[goosemeister]

i'm just looking for recommendations for music i've not heard yet.  obviously, i'm into mmj.  the type of music that piques my interest, especially lately, is alt-country with thick orchestration.  the heavy reverb that mmj employs creates the deep sound that i also enjoy in "blacklisted" by neko case and "the trinity session" by the cowboy junkies.  anything by nina nastasia is extraordinary, too.  "sea change" by beck has found itself in my rotation, along with the ubiquitous "automatic for the people" by rem.  others include nick drake, elbow, rufus wainwright, fiona apple, pink floyd, and the flaming lips.  thanks.

[goosemeister]

the comment before about pitchfork's mediocre writing is dead-on.  i've actually emailed the publication regarding a horrible review of the latest release by these arms are snakes.  you can read the review on metacritic.com.  the writer with last name of moore confuses convoluted writing with high-falutin writing.  i have found fewer run-ons in freshman english classes and more parsimony in fourth grade creative writing classes.  also, hardly a single noun, adjective, or verb is not modified by an adjective or adverb.  reading pitchfork's reviews is work.

[otter]

Wave of Mutilation, Hey, & Blown Away....The Pixies

Sorry to interrupt the current topic, and I usually don't, but today I thought it worthy to share.

Good show if their coming to your town on the remaining dates...so fnnn loud...good loud...like MMJ good loud....most louds just plain suck..that might not even be worth the two cents but hey...I drank a little today...it took me much longer than usual to even type..rambling sorry

[Oz]

I'm currently listening to a shitload of Jandek records. I ordered 10 of 'em. :)

[biggestfan33]

The Usual,An Angle,Steel Train,Quitter, gary jules