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[dwight]

Powderfinger - Vulture Street

check it out

[jblaze11]

Never heard of Richard Thompson, what does he sound like?

[EC]

The Killers.  "Hot Fuss".

This requires explanation.  At Ian Tyson, one of my Dad's friends brought his 16 year old son, and I like to think that I know a thing or two about music, but I knew NOTHING of what this kid was talking about.  He said he was into "emo", which I'd heard about but never understood.  I asked him what his favourite "emo" record was, and he said Hot Fuss.  So I told him I'd get it, if he got one or two of mine:  I gave him two records to get (Conor's I'm Wide Awake, and "At Dawn" - the Universally appealing record).

Isn't Conor supposed to be kind of "emo" ish?  

So that's how I got an emo record.  I can dig it.  It reminds me of a lot of music.  The Cult?  The Cure?  Depeche Mode?  The Strokes?

[MMJ_fanatic]

Never heard of Richard Thompson, what does he sound like?

He was a founding member of Fairport Convention which recorded folk/rock type music.  He is an excellent guitarist and accomplished songwriter.  Check him out fer sure ;)

[jblaze11]

Cool, will do!  Thanks man.

[jblaze11]

I don't understand any of it anymore.  I listen to all types and it comes down to Rock for me.  Southern Rock, Classic Rock, Rock, whatever.  All this other crap is for the birds.  Hot Fuss is a great album though.  However, synthesizers are for dudes named Pogo who where eyeliner.  Therefore, Killers lose street cred a bit.  Gimme the goods, MMJ, now that's rock, BRMC, they rock, Queens of the SA, they are pretty cool.  I don't want my bands wearing makeup unless they are named David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, or Kiss.  As for emo, grind core,  crap core, or anything else, none of it makes sense top me and the more these bands try to define it the more I get disinterested.  Later dudes. MMJ rules!

[EC]

Okay.  I hear you.  I do.

But I think synthesizers are okay.  

[wordawg]

Apocolyptica - 4 Cellos play Metallica

[EC]

(wow greggy - how is that?)

At this moment I am listening to Tim Buckley singing I've Been Out Walking.

Ho. ly. shit.

[Riggsy23]

Richard Buckner - The Hill

[MMJ_fanatic]

Steve Vai "Real Illusions: Reflections" my pre-order copy just came in the mail today :) :) :)

[jblaze11]

Vai's cool.  The end of that movie Cross Roads with the Karate Kid rocked.  His stuff with David Lee Roth was pretty cool to.    Especially skyscraper.

[MMJ_fanatic]

check him out with his O-L-D band Alcatrazz--he plays a smokin' piece of guitar on "God Blessed Video"--old hair metal yaaaaar!

[wordawg]

Stupid White Men read by the author.

Mind expanding, especially if you know nothing about America and its politics.


wordawg

[jblaze11]

Found something very cool in a record store yesterday.  Stevie Ray Vaughn, A Tale Untold.  It has a fifteen minute version of "Life Without You" with no singing just SRV going crazy.  He plays the Hendrix tune (or at least I think its a Hendrix tune) "Come On".  Then it has a bunch of Jam sessions in between.  That guy rocks.  Also snagged a Dylan DVD from the early 70s called the Thunder something Revue.  Was too busy tearing open the package to look at what it was called.  Dylan plays the slide version of Shelter from the Storm.  Its pretty amazing, I'll post the real name of the DVD when I remember it.  Later.

[CC]

m. ward - transistor radio

truly wonderful

andrew bird - sovay

wow, this little EP is brilliant.
(MMJ backs him up on the last track)
gonna have to pick up his new album.

[40206]

m. ward - transistor radio

truly wonderful

andrew bird - sovay

wow, this little EP is brilliant.
(MMJ backs him up on the last track)
gonna have to pick up his new album.

Just got the new M.Ward yesterday and love the entire album.

[jacksoncooper]

m. ward - transistor radio

truly wonderful

andrew bird - sovay

wow, this little EP is brilliant.
(MMJ backs him up on the last track)
gonna have to pick up his new album.

I don't have the EP, but I got the new Andrew Bird ("The Mysterious Production of Eggs") and the new M.Ward album last week.  They are both fantastic, and actually compliment each other very well.

If you haven't already, do yourself a favor and get Andrew Bird's "The Swimming Hour".  I know I've said it here before, but that one is brilliant.  It's still my favorite by him, by far.

I've been preaching that particular gospel for a long time.

[EC]

I still can't stop listening to Transfiguration of Venus. (heh, that's for you, Riny, and anyone who was particularly astute yesterday.) I think I've had it in my possession for less than 24 hours, and I've probably put it on 8 times.  My roommate is crazy about it, too.

And I am seriously holding myself back from buying the new record until Sunday.  If you buy the record at the show, the artist gets a better percentage, is that right?  (I hope so.  Otherwise, this is all very pointless, this saintly rationing that I'm doing.)

And the drumming from Run Thru has been in my head all day, along with the keyboards.  There are some drumming bits in that song (the cymbal parts) that are so fucking great and perfect.  The drumming in that song is masterful.  MASTERFUL.  The whole damn song is sexcellent.

[MMJ_fanatic]

WORD OF THE WEEK!:

sexcellent.