Getting the spins

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:45 am

mister d wrote:It does, actually. Vernon or Butler?

Vernon, but no way Will Butler and I wouldn't talk for hours since he's a huge Rockets fan.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 10:43 am

We you wearing your "I {heart} threesomes" t-shirt?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 10:43 am

mister d wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:
mister d wrote:I think a lot of the hate is really for Vernon himself.
Other than his recent (hypocritcal) Pepsi/Beyonce comments, why would he garner hate?
There are artists I like where I'm pretty sure I would like the person behind the art (St. Vincent, Will Sheff) and there are artists I like where I probably don't want to know anything about the person (Father John Misty). For some reason, beyond the series of one-off annoyances, Vernon has always seemed to fall closer to the latter category. There's not a good reason like with FJM, but just something, like the minor comments are a window into major comments that haven't yet been made? I don't know. Same with Win Butler.

I agree with this sentiment 100%, if not your putting Vernon in that category. I have a feeling I would despise FJM and Win Butler, and it has altered my appreciation of Arcade Fire (never really cared for FJM). I commented to a friend recently that it makes no sense but I can only handle so many messianic lead singers. FJM, Win Butler, Sam Beam - hate. Gallagher brothers and Alex from ES&tMZ - love.

Post by **brian** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 10:52 am

I love Sam Beam, but otherwise I'm more or less on board with what you're saying.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 10:54 am

Yeah, you have to flip Beam and Alex Ebert. The latter is a massive fraud (and arguably bounced the infinitely more talented Jade (last name) from the group for being more talented).

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 11:18 am

From interviews I've read about Father John Misty, he's at the top of that list.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:39 pm

mister d wrote:Yeah, you have to flip Beam and Alex Ebert. The latter is a massive fraud (and arguably bounced the infinitely more talented Jade (last name) from the group for being more talented).

Jade Castrinos, and they don't interest me now that she's gone. But, i was fully aware of him being a massive fraud, at the time, and just didn't care. Their live shows when Jade was still there were amazing.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:33 am

All the way from Scotland comes a reggae cover of a Kraftwerk tune.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 1:49 pm

Two things.

First, saw Eric Bachmann, my personal Bob Dylan, former lead singer of Archers of Loaf and Crooked Fingers, last night in a living room show with 40 people. Just EB and an acoustic guitar and banjo. Amazing.

Second, I really like the new Solange album.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 1:56 pm

I know the feeling. I saw my personal fav, Graham Parker, for a living room show. It's wonderful.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 2:20 pm

howard wrote:I know the feeling. I saw my personal fav, Graham Parker, for a living room show. It's wonderful.

It was so great. I've seen him, in many iterations of groups he's lead, probably 20 times over the last 23 years. He's released 14 different albums over the years, and tried to play one song from each. He did play one cover, Prince's "When U Were Mine", that he covered years ago for an EP.

Right after he played the first song he let us know that he wanted to treat this show differently than regular concerts in that he was welcoming song suggestions for the crowd, with the caveat that he wanted to try and play one song from each album. He even asked for a little bit of back up singing from the crowd from a few songs.

Post by **Shirley** » Sat Oct 08, 2016 2:00 pm

As a close, personal friend* of Sam Beam, I can tell you he's a good dude.

* Our kids go to the same school and I sat next to him at some parent event. I see him in carpool every now and then too. Never talked to the man, but I've admired his beard.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Oct 08, 2016 5:40 pm

Related, I thought I was completely past any level of star struck (Messier exempted) and then I found out L-Boogie's youngest is in Q's class at school.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:04 pm

Shirley wrote:As a close, personal friend* of Sam Beam, I can tell you he's a good dude.

* Our kids go to the same school and I sat next to him at some parent event. I see him in carpool every now and then too. Never talked to the man, but I've admired his beard.

He's kind of big among a few friends of mine because he was a professor at FSU when he started Iron and Wine. I'm glad he's a good dude, I just don't dig his songs.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sun Oct 09, 2016 7:50 pm

Maybe he doesn't dig your mediations...ever think of that?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Oct 10, 2016 10:16 am

A_B wrote:Maybe he doesn't dig your mediations...ever think of that?

He probably doesn't. Also, pretty funny as opposing counsel in this morning's case looks a lot like your avatar.

Post by **brian** » Mon Oct 10, 2016 10:45 am

For AB:

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 5:53 pm

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:09 pm

brian wrote:For AB:

That's the sort of thing that makes me feel old. John Prine is still putting out albums and playing shows and is a hero to guys like Jason Isbell and Todd Snider. I've seen him a couple times - once solo in '84 or so, and once before that when I was in college he played a duo show with a great guy named Steve Goodman.

Post by **brian** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 1:18 pm

Not sure how most of you guys feel about female alt-country/Americana but the new Lydia Loveless album (Real) is the balls. I was a fan of her first two, but this is a big step up. Psyched she's going to be opening for DBT in Phoenix on Saturday.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 1:38 pm

brian wrote:Not sure how most of you guys feel about female alt-country/Americana but the new Lydia Loveless album (Real) is the balls. I was a fan of her first two, but this is a big step up. Psyched she's going to be opening for DBT in Phoenix on Saturday.

She's really good.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 5:08 pm

brian wrote:Not sure how most of you guys feel about female alt-country/Americana but the new Lydia Loveless album (Real) is the balls. I was a fan of her first two, but this is a big step up. Psyched she's going to be opening for DBT in Phoenix on Saturday.

I've heard her a couple times on Sirius Outlaw Country. Sounds good.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:44 pm

Posted this in a hockey thread but didn't want it to get lost there, so I'm putting it here, too.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 7:08 pm

Ever hear of Kate Tempest? English woman who does a mix of hip-hop/spoken word stuff. She did a live session on KEXP today from Iceland, and it was super cool, and what I've heard of her new album "Let Them Eat Chaos" is great.

Post by **Shirley** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 3:15 pm

Came across this awesome cover of Because The Night today. Holy hell can this chick play guitar. It's Garbage and Screaming Females playing together.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 3:28 pm

Garbage and Screaming Females is the name of my memoir.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:50 pm

Shirley wrote:Came across this awesome cover of Because The Night today. Holy hell can this chick play guitar. It's Garbage and Screaming Females playing together.

Screaming Females is a great band. And yeah, Marissa Paternoster shreds.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Nov 17, 2016 8:27 am

DaveInSeattle wrote:
Shirley wrote:Came across this awesome cover of Because The Night today. Holy hell can this chick play guitar. It's Garbage and Screaming Females playing together.

Screaming Females is a great band. And yeah, Marissa Paternoster shreds.

And Shirley Manson is the fuckin' best. Garbage was/is so good.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed Dec 07, 2016 12:57 pm

Nice write-up/interview about Sturgill Simpson getting a suprise Grammy nomination for Album of the year

What did you tell your band about all this?

I told them, ‘So much for time off.’ I had completely planned to take the next year, or possibly 18 months, completely off. I was so certain that when the tour wrapped up, we were done. But it might be a good idea to go play some shows again, I don’t know, given how many millions of people are saying, ‘Who the [expletive] is Sturgill Simpson?’ as of this morning.

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Dec 07, 2016 5:32 pm

Well, any cover of this one, like a handful of iconically 'untouchable' tunes cause me to get my back up. This one, which gave us not one but two perfect versions in 1977, between the Bruce bootleg and co-writer Patti's album (legal constraints prevented Bruce from officially recording it for another decade.) It was the damn anthem of that year and period. Approach with caution. (hey, I love Natalie, but please don't bring that up.)

But the kids did a nice job. (Shirley Manson, a kid, I suppose not.) Gonna have to hear some more of that gal's guitar, that was pretty cool.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Dec 07, 2016 6:06 pm

howard wrote:Well, any cover of this one, like a handful of iconically 'untouchable' tunes cause me to get my back up. This one, which gave us not one but two perfect versions in 1977, between the Bruce bootleg and co-writer Patti's album (legal constraints prevented Bruce from officially recording it for another decade.) It was the damn anthem of that year and period. Approach with caution. (hey, I love Natalie, but please don't bring that up.)

But the kids did a nice job. (Shirley Manson, a kid, I suppose not.) Gonna have to hear some more of that gal's guitar, that was pretty cool.

I thought Natalie Merchant's cover was good. But, I always wondered why I never hear Bruce's version.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 2:13 pm

So for some reason (probably because I recently listened to Roger Waters on WTF), I decided to fire up some Pink Floyd on Spotify. I realized I'd never listed to (that I can recall) Obscured by Clouds. So, it's not exactly bad, but there's not much in here that's memorable. You'd never guess listening to this that Pink Floyd was about to rip off the four album stretch of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. Has any band ever had a mid-late run of albums like that? I mean, Dark Side was their eighth album.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 3:38 pm

Well Obscured is a basically a movie soundtrack, composed to fit the film La Vallee, and starting with Meddle is where they finally shook free of Barrett, so Meddle (actually my favorite of their albums) is where I'd start to talk about their greatness.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 3:46 pm

Rush2112 wrote:Well Obscured is a basically a movie soundtrack, composed to fit the film La Vallee, and starting with Meddle is where they finally shook free of Barrett, so Meddle (actually my favorite of their albums) is where I'd start to talk about their greatness.

Meddle is clearly better than Obscured. And really showed their promise.

I still can't think of any other bands who hit their creative peak so late in their careers.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 3:48 pm

Doobies.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 4:49 pm

Shirley wrote:
Rush2112 wrote:Well Obscured is a basically a movie soundtrack, composed to fit the film La Vallee, and starting with Meddle is where they finally shook free of Barrett, so Meddle (actually my favorite of their albums) is where I'd start to talk about their greatness.
Meddle is clearly better than Obscured. And really showed their promise.

I still can't think of any other bands who hit their creative peak so late in their careers.

Sort of different bands though. Early Floyd was Barrett. Wasn't 'til Meddle that the band got out from under his shadow, also as I said Obscured is a soundtrack so I wouldn't really place it in the evolution of the band.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 4:56 pm

rass wrote:Doobies.

Sort of different bands though. Early Doobies was Tom Johnston. When Michael McDonald replaced him as the main singer, they went from rock to yacht rock.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:09 pm

Rush2112 wrote:Well Obscured is a basically a movie soundtrack, composed to fit the film La Vallee, and starting with Meddle is where they finally shook free of Barrett, so Meddle (actually my favorite of their albums) is where I'd start to talk about their greatness.

I think their work on Zabriskie Point is their first foray into what would become. Meddle was over a year after..

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:10 pm

sancarlos wrote:
rass wrote:Doobies.
Sort of different bands though. Early Doobies was Tom Johnston. When Michael McDonald replaced him as the main singer, they went from rock to yacht rock.

Early Doobies is kinda like Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. But damn did they flame out. Yeesh.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Dec 09, 2016 5:20 pm

Shirley wrote:I still can't think of any other bands who hit their creative peak so late in their careers.

Red Hot Chili Peppers would qualify as peaking way later into their career if their next album isn't total garbage.