The Swamp

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:45 pmUnder protest, I'll select Bill Evans' Explorations. Unless his playing with Miles Davis disqualifies him.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:54 pm

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:45 pmUnder protest, I'll select Bill Evans' Explorations. Unless his playing with Miles Davis disqualifies him.

It does, so I'm going to give you Muse since they're just Disney-fied Rush.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 2:01 pm Oh, this is still going on?

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:45 pm Mermaid Avenue is a Billy Bragg / Woody Guthrie album, Wilco just is there to add some twang.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:58 pm I don't really have a big problem with Rush picking it, but it is every bit a Wilco album as much as a Billy Bragg album. As noted above, the most memorable song on the disc, California Stars, was sung by Tweedy. This statement is patently incorrect:

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:45 pm Mermaid Avenue is a Billy Bragg / Woody Guthrie album, Wilco just is there to add some twang.

Not only Tweedy, but former Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett's fingerprints are identifiably all over that album.

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:15 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:58 pm I don't really have a big problem with Rush picking it, but it is every bit a Wilco album as much as a Billy Bragg album. As noted above, the most memorable song on the disc, California Stars, was sung by Tweedy. This statement is patently incorrect:

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:45 pm Mermaid Avenue is a Billy Bragg / Woody Guthrie album, Wilco just is there to add some twang.

Not only Tweedy, but former Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett's fingerprints are identifiably all over that album.

Mermaid Avenue was the idea of Billy Bragg's after he was given some writings by Guthrie's daughter. He was the one that invited Wilco to join in the fun and add ideas to Guthrie's words. Tweedy didn't even want to do the album, Bennett was the one that was for it.

The most memorable songs to me are Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key and Ingrid Bergman. California Stars is for the lady drunk on chardonnay after she complained about the music during the second set.

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:15 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:58 pm I don't really have a big problem with Rush picking it, but it is every bit a Wilco album as much as a Billy Bragg album. As noted above, the most memorable song on the disc, California Stars, was sung by Tweedy. This statement is patently incorrect:

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:45 pm Mermaid Avenue is a Billy Bragg / Woody Guthrie album, Wilco just is there to add some twang.

Not only Tweedy, but former Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett's fingerprints are identifiably all over that album.

Mermaid Avenue was the idea of Billy Bragg's after he was given some writings by Guthrie's daughter. He was the one that invited Wilco to join in the fun and add ideas to Guthrie's words. Tweedy didn't even want to do the album, Bennett was the one that was for it.

The most memorable songs to me are Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key and Ingrid Bergman. California Stars is for the lady drunk on chardonnay after she complained about the music during the second set.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:37 pm Really want toss Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs out there, just to eff with rush (plus I love Bell Bottom Blues and there are some other good songs on there) but howard’s writings on Clapton don’t seem like a slam dunk for my case.

Sooooooooo I’ll go with a relatively recent release by a band whose more recent work I don’t like quite as much as their debut album. And I have two of those to choose from (and another band from the college years that I haven’t gotten around to revisiting for this excercise), but the rules say I need to choose one and...

Ok. I’ll go with The Head and the Heart’s self-titled debut album. Another beneficiary of me last syncing my dog walking ipod 5+ years ago.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:53 am Who told you that you could do that?

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:35 pm Keeping with my desire to be as current as possible, here's a great album from 1984.



The last of three fantastic albums by Simple Minds. An album that has to be played loudly.



Also worth noting is that it was produced by Steve Lillywhite who in the 80s also produced great albums by the Pogues, U2, Peter Gabriel and XTC. Amazing.

BSF21 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:57 am Hate the man, love the music.

Lauryn Hill co-wrote my favorite song on the record. So that's neat.



Kanye Wesssss - The College Dropout

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:02 pm Yeah, I'll allow a re-do on that one if he wants it.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:38 pm Isn't he took?

eta: no