Getting the spins

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:22 pm

Giff wrote:I've only been to one a couple times, but the best time I've ever had with a single song was "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit.

Please tell me why

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:50 pm

Ryan wrote:
Giff wrote:I've only been to one a couple times, but the best time I've ever had with a single song was "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit.
Please tell me why

Well, first off, my car was in the front yard. And that always ends well.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:52 pm

Giff wrote:
Ryan wrote:
Giff wrote:I've only been to one a couple times, but the best time I've ever had with a single song was "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit.
Please tell me why
Well, first off, my car was in the front yard. And that always ends well.

Just put the freakin cigarette out already.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:30 pm

Pruitt wrote:I have never heard a Billy Joel song that I enjoyed, and haven't been able to stand him since "Piano Man" was first released.

It's because almost all of his songs are literal narratives. If Billy Joel is going to sing a line about a kid jacking off, he's going to spell it out.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:19 pm

mister d wrote:
Pruitt wrote:I have never heard a Billy Joel song that I enjoyed, and haven't been able to stand him since "Piano Man" was first released.
It's because almost all of his songs are literal narratives. If Billy Joel is going to sing a line about a kid jacking off, he's going to spell it out.

Nah, it's because the music itself is third-rate Springsteen, or soul stylings that make Hall and Oates sound like Otis Redding.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:31 pm

Put me in the Joel Haters club. I actually like "Piano Man" and "Captain Jack" (haven't heard that one in decades), but all the 80's pop stuff when I was first discovering music as a kid? Hated it. And it just got worse with "Uptown Girl" and hit its nadir (I hope) with "We Didn't Start the Fire," one of the worst songs ever written.

But that article still sucked.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:26 pm

Pretty awesome two weeks of releases:
3/10 - Ha Ha Tonka and The Shins
3/17 - Spoon and Conor Oberst

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 3:45 pm

Looking forward to that Spoon.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 7:36 pm

The daughter of one of my wife's best friends was for years the girlfriend of Spoon frontman, Britt Daniel. But they're busted up, now.

Post by **brian** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 8:03 pm

Saw the new Afghan Whigs video with Har Mar Superstar lip syncing and I have to wonder. Why? You have Greg Dulli who is basically an unironic version of Har Mar Superstar

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:45 pm

I really don't listen to much recently produced music. But I love these guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-i1XZc8ZwA

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 2:46 pm

Giff wrote:Pretty awesome two weeks of releases:
3/10 - Ha Ha Tonka and The Shins
3/17 - Spoon and Conor Oberst

The new Spoon LP, Hot Thoughts, is fantastic.

Post by **brian** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 8:29 pm

I gotta lotta thoughts about Japandroids and Isbell shows lately but no time. But they're coming.

Post by **brian** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:32 am

New Jason Isbell single was released in advance of June album. It'll be interesting to see how musicians and other artists react to Trumpism and this song is the first wave of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-6Au1Gnrs

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:59 am

From Isbell's interview with EW: “I try to document where I am in my life and right now, one of my primary concerns is, ‘What is my role as a white male in a society that really is in dire need of understanding and empathy for people who aren’t white males?'”

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:00 pm

That's fantastic.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:14 pm

brian wrote:New Jason Isbell single was released in advance of June album. It'll be interesting to see how musicians and other artists react to Trumpism and this song is the first wave of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-6Au1Gnrs

No secret that I've recently discovered and enjoyed Isbell's music, but is the 400 unit just his backing band or is his solo stuff and that with the band two distinctly different acts?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:25 pm

I think it's the same band.

Post by **brian** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:36 pm

It's weird and causes confusion but 400 Unit has been his backing band live and on album for every "solo" album he's released. From what I understand he labels studio albums he feels were written with the help of the band as Jason Isbell & 400 Unit. Regardless of what it says on the album cover it's been the same band for some 15-ish years now.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 6:57 pm

Last week, KEXP had their spring pledge drive, and they counted down their 631 most played albums. The Top 20:

20 Arcade Fire Neon Bible
19 PJ Harvey Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
18 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
17 Peter Bjorn and John Writer’s Block
16 TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain
15 Doves The Last Broadcast
14 Nada Surf Let Go
13 The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
12 Pixies Doolittle
11 Mint Royale On the Ropes
10 Helio Sequence Keep Your Eyes Ahead
9 Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Fever to Tell
8 The Shins Oh, Inverted World
7 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6 Radiohead Kid A
5 Band Of Horses Everything All the Time
4 The Postal Service Give Up
3 Interpol Turn On the Bright Lights
2 LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
1 Arcade Fire Funeral

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:41 pm

I love that one song played one time per week is good for 9th all-time.

Post by **brian** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:26 am

Surprisingly interesting long read asking a simple question -- what happened to Bob Seger's back catalog? And why aren't his albums online?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:32 am

Brian doesn't like old guy music, I guess.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:59 am

Looks like Beautiful Loser has a value range of $5-$60 on discogs.com, which is about standard fare for a generic-ish (sorry AB) classic rock album (price range includes less-valuable represses as well as the obviously more valuable original issues) so it doesn't really look like the market for his stuff is affected. (At least for that album. Like anything collectible I'm sure there's rare, sought-after pressings that niche nerds would shell out for.)

Post by **brian** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:03 am

Well, I've got DC blocked so I never bother with that thread.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:10 am

P.D.X. wrote:Looks like Beautiful Loser has a value range of $5-$60 on discogs.com, which is about standard fare for a generic-ish (sorry AB) classic rock album (price range includes less-valuable represses as well as the obviously more valuable original issues) so it doesn't really look like the market for his stuff is affected. (At least for that album. Like anything collectible I'm sure there's rare, sought-after pressings that niche nerds would shell out for.)

I don't follow the apology.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:13 am

Thought you were harping on Brian for knocking classic rock rather than not posting in the old guy thread. Nvrmnd.

duff · Post by **duff** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:15 am

P.D.X. wrote:Thought you were harping on Brian for knocking classic rock rather than not posting in the old guy thread. Nvrmnd.

Pretty solid assumption since it was AB.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:17 am

I feel like a number.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 1:09 pm

His insistence to turn the page on his own catalog suggests he'll just wind up a (beautiful) loser. Because even now, even though it's no longer still the same, at least down on main street, rock and roll never forgets.

Bob, we all knew you were a travelin' man who'd one day wind up in Katmandu. But for fuck's sake, share in that fine memory already.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 1:19 pm

I've got the fire down below for that post.

Post by **brian** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 1:26 pm

rass wrote:I've got the fire down below for that post.

Almost like a rock, you could say.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:04 pm

He's in my cultural blind spots. I've always assumed I would hate his music for some reason.

Post by **brian** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:13 pm

Giff wrote:He's in my cultural blind spots. I've always assumed I would hate his music for some reason.

He's one of those artists where his biggest "hits" aren't really his best songs. Maybe like Billy Joel in that way.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:16 pm

brian wrote:
Giff wrote:He's in my cultural blind spots. I've always assumed I would hate his music for some reason.
He's one of those artists where his biggest "hits" aren't really his best songs. Maybe like Billy Joel in that way.

This maybe should go in confessions thread, but another band I felt that way for a long time was Rolling Stones.

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:58 pm

rass wrote:I feel like a number.

EnochRoot wrote:His insistence to turn the page on his own catalog suggests he'll just wind up a (beautiful) loser. Because even now, even though it's no longer still the same, at least down on main street, rock and roll never forgets.

Bob, we all knew you were a travelin' man who'd one day wind up in Katmandu. But for fuck's sake, share in that fine memory already.

rass wrote:I've got the fire down below for that post.

brian wrote:Almost like a rock, you could say.

Hi.
I just checked in.

Why? To see, well, I think you know what I checked in to see. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

Also, I'm looking out for someone. Name is Rosie. She had a line on something heavy, but we couldn't reach her.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 4:07 pm

howard wrote:
rass wrote:I feel like a number.
EnochRoot wrote:His insistence to turn the page on his own catalog suggests he'll just wind up a (beautiful) loser. Because even now, even though it's no longer still the same, at least down on main street, rock and roll never forgets.

Bob, we all knew you were a travelin' man who'd one day wind up in Katmandu. But for fuck's sake, share in that fine memory already.
rass wrote:I've got the fire down below for that post.
brian wrote:Almost like a rock, you could say.
Hi.
I just checked in.

Why? To see, well, I think you know what I checked in to see. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

Also, I'm looking out for someone. Name is Rosie. She had a line on something heavy, but we couldn't reach her.

I'm glad to see we've taken this to it's Nutbush City Limits.

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:01 pm

Simple, really. All I had to do is put my money down and pick it up. But, then the cops came busting in. So, we lit out, in a pickup truck. Man I love that one.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:05 pm

howard wrote:Simple, really. All I had to do is put my money down and pick it up. But, then the cops came busting in. So, we lit out, in a pickup truck. Man I love that one.

That is a great song. As you might guess, Denver rock radio played the hell out of that song back in the day.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:48 pm

THIS is why I loved the Swamp.

(and you're welcome for whatever small part I helped in that grourection)