The Swamp

brian wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:10 am New Lucero album is on NPR First Listen. Looks like another winner.

Whole thing is solid to to bottom. Thanks for the link.

Also in that new music vein, Metric changing the sound up again. This is way more in the style of Live It Out and Fantasies. Super excited to hear the whole record.

Metric is very high on my list of bands I like in theory more than in actuality.

I bet I've typed that before.

A tonne

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:16 pm Metric is very high on my list of bands I like in theory more than in actuality.

They certainly have a lot of different sounds based on the album you're listening to

That might even be part of it. For the most part, I don't like bands changing up from whatever first caught me.

Brian, what do you think is/are the best/most accessible Lucero album(s)? I've listened to them some, but not a whole lot. They fit into the broadly-described genres I like, so I'd like to go deeper.

You didn't ask me, but Women & Work is the one that turned me onto them. "On My Way Downtown" is still one of my most jammed tunes.

Thanks, Giff!

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:46 pm Brian, what do you think is/are the best/most accessible Lucero album(s)? I've listened to them some, but not a whole lot. They fit into the broadly-described genres I like, so I'd like to go deeper.

There's probably not a bad one really but it kind of depends. Their sound has changed and evolved a bit over the years, but hasn't strayed too much from alt-country/Americana. If I were you I'd start with something older (but not their first two albums, though they're also pretty good), so start with Tennessee or That Much Further West. That gives you the punk/country/rock ethos and then from there maybe to Women & Work and/or 1372 Overton Park which are the first two albums that added the Memphis/Stax horns. If you're still on board you can go all over the map from there to their earlier stuff which is a little punkier to their newer stuff which is a little more "produced".

ETA: Personally, my personal two favorite Lucero albums are Tennessee and 1372 Overton Park, but like any parent I love all of them for different reasons.

I'm sure I've posted this before, but it just blows me away how friggin great this is. The songwriting, the singing, the playing. Masterful.

Don't you miss it, don't you miss it.
Some 'a you people just about missed it!

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:44 pm Don't you miss it, don't you miss it.
Some 'a you people just about missed it!

Oh!

I am psyched to listen to this.

(The original is the greatest album of all time - in this man's opinion.)

Both the new Lucero and Amanda Shires out today are very worthy of your time. The new Lucero album is their best since Women & Work or maybe even 1372 Overton Park for my money. Because I'm an asshole who worries about this stuff I was a little nervous about Ben Nichols getting married and having a kid, but it hasn't affected his songwriting.

brian wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 1:15 pm Both the new Lucero and Amanda Shires out today are very worthy of your time. The new Lucero album is their best since Women & Work or maybe even 1372 Overton Park for my money. Because I'm an asshole who worries about this stuff I was a little nervous about Ben Nichols getting married and having a kid, but it hasn't affected his songwriting.

I'm excited to give the Shires album a listen too. She's stupid talented.

She has the worst album covers.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 1:10 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:44 pm Don't you miss it, don't you miss it.
Some 'a you people just about missed it!

Oh!

I am psyched to listen to this.

(The original is the greatest album of all time - in this man's opinion.)

It's not necessarily a bad (or wrong) opinion to have...

BSF21 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:54 am

brian wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:10 am New Lucero album is on NPR First Listen. Looks like another winner.

Whole thing is solid to to bottom. Thanks for the link.

Nice review by No Depression.

It’s nice to see someone go to those depths to describe Lucero. Ben Nichols has self-effacedly described their music as 60 songs about women, 30 songs about drinking and 3 songs about my grandpa but it goes a lot deeper than that. If you want to know the one person on the planet I would most crushed to learn is a Trump supporter it’s Ben Nichols and there’s not a close #2

Just in time to answer SC's question, Ben Nichols ranks Lucero's 8 studio albums prior to Among The Ghosts.

Surprisingly, I pretty much agree with his rankings and his reasoning behind them, which is a little rare for me.

#NeverForget

Yup, an event that lead to me to understand a lot of people I know have really gross sexual fetishes.

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:13 am Yup, an event that lead to me to understand a lot of people I know have really gross sexual fetishes.

I'm not kink-shaming, but...getting lathered in DMB sewage seems awfully niche...

tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 12:57 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:13 am Yup, an event that lead to me to understand a lot of people I know have really gross sexual fetishes.

I'm not kink-shaming, but...getting lathered in DMB sewage seems awfully niche...

Random person who knows I love DMB: Don't you wish you were on that boat that got covered in DMB's shit?
Me: So you're into weird stuff, huh?

Something from the 80s that could be released on BandCamp today

The Weezer version of “Africa” sucks and while alienated from the Lions I share all Lions fans distain of it.

brian wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:14 pm The Weezer version of “Africa” sucks and while alienated from the Lions I share all Lions fans distain of it.

Same

Steeeeeeve Perry!

Sooo ... does The War on Drugs suck? I’m watching their ACL set and I think maybe they suck?

You shut your bitch mouth.

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 8:54 pm Sooo ... does The War on Drugs suck? I’m watching their ACL set and I think maybe they suck?

Get better rest, because you’re not hearing clearly.

I’m pretty flexible with my music opinions because my taste is all over the place but I won’t stand for a take involving The War On Drugs sucking.

This is the best record recorded in prison I have ever heard.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:18 pm You shut your bitch mouth.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:32 pmGet better rest, because you’re not hearing clearly.

brian wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:03 am I’m pretty flexible with my music opinions because my taste is all over the place but I won’t stand for a take involving The War On Drugs sucking.

I forgot I posted this the other night but I haven't really moved off it. There was something really tedious about it, like even the songs I knew and liked I was done with after a minute and wanted to hear what was next. And something reminded me of Bruce Hornsby.

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:28 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:18 pm You shut your bitch mouth.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:32 pmGet better rest, because you’re not hearing clearly.

brian wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:03 am I’m pretty flexible with my music opinions because my taste is all over the place but I won’t stand for a take involving The War On Drugs sucking.

I forgot I posted this the other night but I haven't really moved off it. There was something really tedious about it, like even the songs I knew and liked I was done with after a minute and wanted to hear what was next. And something reminded me of Bruce Hornsby.

I was watching something the other day and Rod Stewart's "Young Hearts" came on and damn if I wouldn't have guessed it was The War on Drugs if I didn't know any better.

These are all compliments.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:54 am These are all compliments.

I didn't mean mine as anything but. I've long heard the influence of that time in their work and they're one of my favorite bands at the moment.

I did a little googling of "war on drugs" "sound like" and there's a lot of Dire Straits comps too, which are right. One I missed but I get now that I've read it is Wilco and its basically the same way I feel about them; nice sound but I'm bored after a couple songs of same-ness. So basically War on Drugs is just 20 years from now when artists don't exist but people can engineer new music by creating an amalgamation of old bands.



(But Mister D, all new music is at some level a sum of its influences! Shut up, guys. Its too early for this and you know what I mean.)