Getting the spins

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:49 am

This chick sings a song about the Voyager spacecraft and it's like...really, really good.

Post by **brian** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:05 am

Las Vegas' own. Yeah, she's awesome.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:18 am

I really really like the new Spoon.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:59 am

Brooklyn Bowl is in Vegas? Wait a sec, I've been to Brooklyn Bowl, it's in Williamsburg. Brooklyn.

(There's one in London now too. Bowling and Rock n Roll, poised to take over the world.)

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:01 am

And now I have Camper Van Beethoven stuck in my head.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:05 am

Bro Country is nails on chalkboard, even when it's making fun of Bro Country.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:29 am

Probably their best known tune, and my least favorite (yep, still a deep hipster despite my advance age. So ima gunna link a better song than Take the Skinheads Bowling):

Post by **brian** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:22 pm

I would argue "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (though a cover) is better known.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:40 pm

Jerloma wrote:This chick sings a song about the Voyager spacecraft and it's like...really, really good.

Yeah, this album is getting a ton of rave reviews. As is the new Spoon. I probably wrote it before, but Spoon just hasn't gotten to me yet. I know the hits, and for whatever reason, they don't do much for me. I'll give the new album a listen before I see them during a festival set, and report back afterwards.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:58 pm

I'm on a major Wolf Parade kick these days and I would very much like them to reunite.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:05 pm

brian wrote:
Giff wrote:
brian wrote:Got free tix to Deer Tick at Brooklyn Bowl tonight. Who's in?
So, did you see what's at Brooklyn Bowl on 9/20? I bet you'd pay me not to have to go!
Ha, nice! Sounds a win-win if you want to see the place. I didn't read close enough but I assume it's free cover. If not I can almost definitely guarantee you free tix.

Awesome! (missed this last night)

Anyone check out Spanish Gold? It's got dudes from My Morning Jacket, Grupo Fantasma and Hacienda. They're debut is pretty awesome.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:20 pm

mister d wrote:I'm on a major Wolf Parade kick these days and I would very much like them to reunite.

Ordered an Apologies to Queen Mary LP the other day. Back-order with no expected delivery date. Killing me.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:34 pm

You hear anything by Operators (Boeckner) yet? So far, so good.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:35 pm

brian wrote:I would argue "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (though a cover) is better known.

I blame Michael Moore for the renown of "Take the Skinheads Bowling". I love their version of "Matchstick Men". The violin screeches!

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 12:45 pm

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 12:58 pm

Giff wrote:Looking forward to checking out the new Tom Petty as well as the new Jenny Lewis today. New Spoon next week!!

Ordered a vinyl copy yesterday, which comes with digital downloads (FLAC and mp3). Listening to the hell out of it, like this was 1978 and I just brought home You're Gonna Get It. Over and over. Man this guy is great.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 1:00 pm

howard wrote:
Giff wrote:Looking forward to checking out the new Tom Petty as well as the new Jenny Lewis today. New Spoon next week!!
Ordered a vinyl copy yesterday, which comes with digital downloads (FLAC and mp3). Listening to the hell out of it, like this was 1978 and I just brought home You're Gonna Get It. Over and over. Man this guy is great.

I feel like Petty doesn't get the credit he deserves, but dude has had a hell of a career.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 9:21 pm

Popped in the disc today, driving around the island. I really like Fault Lines so far.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 9:06 am

Didn't know where to put this, but holy fuck is Bob Weir looking old.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:29 am

The Sybian wrote:Didn't know where to put this, but holy fuck is Bob Weir looking old.

Here's to him feeling better soon. I'm hoping it's just exhaustion and not something else that led him to cancel all the forthcoming dates.

Wishing for a big celebratory tour next summer for the 50th anniversary of the greatest dance band to ever play.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:33 am

He looks just like my brother in-law's dad.

howard · Post by **howard** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:37 am

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:38 pm

Really digging the new Jenny Lewis album. At times, she looks a lot like Katie Aselton to me.

Jenny

Katie

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:39 pm

That's who I was thinking of when she was on Fallon. Great album.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:42 pm

Rush2112 wrote:Wishing for a big celebratory tour next summer for the 50th anniversary of the greatest dance band to ever play.

Sha Na Na?

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:58 pm

P.D.X. wrote:
Rush2112 wrote:Wishing for a big celebratory tour next summer for the 50th anniversary of the greatest dance band to ever play.
Sha Na Na?

Ha! They did play Woodstock.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:54 am

So, I drove 3 hours the other day in a vehicle with not AUX input and bad radio coverage, so I listened to the CDS the car's owner had. One of them was Beach Boys Pet Sounds. I've always liked the Beach Boys, but this is the first time I've listened to a whole album at once probably. And I can say without feeling bad about it that the Beach Boys were twice the band that the Beatles were. Their harmonies and melodies were off the charts good and the musicianship is better than the Beatles as well (George Harrison's Guitar playing excepted when he gets to shine on songs like "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun"

The Beach Boys lyrics, while sometimes overly poppy, also were pretty damn good.

So there, I've said it...the BEach Boys are better than the Beatles.

Post by **brian** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:58 am

AB_skin_test wrote:So, I drove 3 hours the other day in a vehicle with not AUX input and bad radio coverage, so I listened to the CDS the car's owner had. One of them was Beach Boys Pet Sounds. I've always liked the Beach Boys, but this is the first time I've listened to a whole album at once probably. And I can say without feeling bad about it that the Beach Boys were twice the band that the Beatles were. Their harmonies and melodies were off the charts good and the musicianship is better than the Beatles as well (George Harrison's Guitar playing excepted when he gets to shine on songs like "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun"

The Beach Boys lyrics, while sometimes overly poppy, also were pretty damn good.

So there, I've said it...the BEach Boys are better than the Beatles.

I think you can make a solid case that "Pet Sounds" is superior to any album the Beatles ever put out. (Some people might even argue the greatest of all-time, again that's a defensible opinion). However, I think you could also make a case that the Beatles total output was better than the Beach Boys.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:03 am

Digging the new Gaslight Anthem album.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:23 am

AB_skin_test wrote:So, I drove 3 hours the other day in a vehicle with not AUX input and bad radio coverage, so I listened to the CDS the car's owner had. One of them was Beach Boys Pet Sounds. I've always liked the Beach Boys, but this is the first time I've listened to a whole album at once probably. And I can say without feeling bad about it that the Beach Boys were twice the band that the Beatles were. Their harmonies and melodies were off the charts good and the musicianship is better than the Beatles as well (George Harrison's Guitar playing excepted when he gets to shine on songs like "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun"

The Beach Boys lyrics, while sometimes overly poppy, also were pretty damn good.

So there, I've said it...the BEach Boys are better than the Beatles.

God Only Knows is a perfect song. Lots of other very good to great songs on Pet Sounds as well.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:47 am

I can't stop listening to They Voyager. It's an album full of 8s, one 10 (The Voyager), and one 5 (You Can't Outrun 'Em).

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:48 am

AB_skin_test wrote:So there, I've said it...the BEach Boys are better than the Beatles.

This is the hottest of hot takes.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:02 am

brian wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:So, I drove 3 hours the other day in a vehicle with not AUX input and bad radio coverage, so I listened to the CDS the car's owner had. One of them was Beach Boys Pet Sounds. I've always liked the Beach Boys, but this is the first time I've listened to a whole album at once probably. And I can say without feeling bad about it that the Beach Boys were twice the band that the Beatles were. Their harmonies and melodies were off the charts good and the musicianship is better than the Beatles as well (George Harrison's Guitar playing excepted when he gets to shine on songs like "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun"

The Beach Boys lyrics, while sometimes overly poppy, also were pretty damn good.

So there, I've said it...the BEach Boys are better than the Beatles.
I think you can make a solid case that "Pet Sounds" is superior to any album the Beatles ever put out. (Some people might even argue the greatest of all-time, again that's a defensible opinion). However, I think you could also make a case that the Beatles total output was better than the Beach Boys.

This. Pet Sounds is leaps and bounds better than any other album that the Beach Boys put out (Smile, the Brian Wilson follow up isn't bad either) but the sum of the Beatles is way better...and I think Sgt. Peppers and Revolver are in the running for best rock album ever (with PS.)

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:37 am

I used to regularly violate an unspoken taboo and play Beach Boys tapes in the two social scenes I was a part of in mid 70s California-- construction workers and hippies. This was equally unpopular with both.

I think it was a case image interfered with hearing. The Beach Boys were thought of as a surfer band due to their early 60s string of hits. But what I was playing wasn't that music. It was Pet Sounds, Holland, and their early 70s concert album. There wasn't much Fun, Fun, Fun in this music. Just as there wasn't much Yeah, Yeah, Yeah in the later Beatles albums. As did Lennon and McCartney, Brian Wilson mastered the simple pop of his time and produced masterpieces in that genre. Then they all grew up musically and produced something equally brilliant but in a different, more sophisticated musical world.

People got this about the Beatles, but few gathered that the Beach Boys were doing the same thing. It could be that this was because only Brian Wilson was making the trip in the Beach Boys, and that they were still playing their surf hits when they toured. Their record label put out incessant "hits" packages that also featured the earlier sound.

Regarding musicianship, I think the Beatles were underrated. They could really play. Lennon was a fine rhythm guitar player, McCartney played some beautiful bass lines, Harrison was a sound lead player if not much of an improviser, and they harmonized like the Everly Brothers younger siblings. Ringo was the obvious weak link, and he wasn't as bad as most believed.

The Beach Boys had the great advantage of having the famed Wrecking Crew play on most of their early albums. Glen Campbell and Leon Russell were the names that became famous, but I suspect many here know of the others who were part of this group of studio musicians who made so many of the pop hits that came out of LA in the 60s sound so damn good. Everything worked when they were in the studio. Not just the basic tracks, but they were terrific at finding little things that made the overall sound much more interesting. When I was a kid I used to listen to Motown albums and focus just on the backing parts. They were often sublime. I didn't know who those guys were, but I liked what they were doing. I didn't realize at the time that they had equally sublime peers on the LA pop music I also liked.

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:59 am

Pet Sounds is one of those classic albums that just never did it for me. It's always ranked as a Top 5 All Time album and I like the Beach Boys OK, but that album just doesn't blow me away.

And of course, that's Eric Clapton, not George Harrison, playing the main guitar solo on While My Guitar Gently Sleeps.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:19 pm

Shirley wrote:Pet Sounds is one of those classic albums that just never did it for me. It's always ranked as a Top 5 All Time album and I like the Beach Boys OK, but that album just doesn't blow me away.

And of course, that's Eric Clapton, not George Harrison, playing the main guitar solo on While My Guitar Gently Sleeps.

Yes, but all the guitar work on that song is excellent. Really good two guitar work.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:27 pm

Shirley wrote:And of course, that's Eric Clapton, not George Harrison, playing the main guitar solo on While My Guitar Gently Sleeps.

The amazing thing is that he played that solo while actually having his dick in Pattie Boyd!

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 7:03 am

Man, I just can't stand the Beach Boys.

Something about them really shredded my nerves as a kid. (They were already an oldies act back then).

Post by **brian** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:30 am

Pruitt wrote:Man, I just can't stand the Beach Boys.

Something about them really shredded my nerves as a kid. (They were already an oldies act back then).

This is a not unusual feeling. I felt the same way. Then I listened (really listened, from beginning to end) to Pet Sounds and my mind was blown.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:50 am

They remind me of going to the beach as a kid because my dad would always play their tapes, so I think I have the same inherent "not real music" bias without the dislike. I remember being stunned freshman year of college when a musician friend listed Pet Sounds among the greatest albums ever. Never had a clue, just thought they were the Monkees on surfboards.