The Swamp

They've set aside 12 hours. There's a 48 second skit that's taking 90 minutes.

Hey, they even included a deep cut Richard Pryor routine. I'm digging this. (Rock rock to the Planet Rock…don't stop)

I really fucking hate that my Friday has been besieged by meetings.

mister d wrote:KEXP is doing one of their full day shows where they do the album plus the full songs of all the samples on it. Today is "3 Feet High & Rising".


(And who brings a door to a concert?)

I just was going to post about this. Its amazing, and reason #29478292 why KEXP is the best radio station in the galaxy.

howard wrote:Hey, they even included a deep cut Richard Pryor routine. I'm digging this. (Rock rock to the Planet Rock…don't stop)

And then they said that was the scariest moment ever on the radio.

Wow, Assembly Line from The Commodores first album. Lots of other stuff I haven't thought about in decades, this is pretty cool.

howard wrote:Wow, Assembly Line from The Commodores first album. Lots of other stuff I haven't thought about in decades, this is pretty cool.

And now Liberace playing "Chopsticks"...

The wiki page for 3 Feet High has a list of samples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Feet_Hi ... ck_listing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2znCWvYiOfI

New Dinosaur Jr album is pretty good. Love the fact that they made a skateboarding video and none of them skate in it except for Mascis at the beginning.

Give it a chance

Love this simple track.

govmentchedda wrote:Love this simple track.

Most underrated song on that album by a mile.

ETA: Also the verse about his friend who killed himself gets me every time. Lost two friends to suicide this year alone.

So many great turns of phrase in those lyrics.

One of my favorite verses of all-time:

Is your brother on a church kick?
Seems like just a different kind of dope sick
Better off to teach a dog a card trick
Than try to have a point and make it clear

Pretty awesome day of releases, FYI:

Wilco
St. Paul and the Broken Bones
The Head and the Heart
Local Natives
Okkervil River
Leagues

Wilco is playing five nights in a row in SF at the Fillmore right now. One of my friends is a super fan who is going to four of them, and offered me a ticket to any of them. But my parents are visiting the entire time so I had to demur.

Won't they be in bed by 7:30? Just sneak out and go. Don't be such an old ass pussy.

Yeah, be young and cool and go to a Wilco show.

duff wrote:Won't they be in bed by 7:30? Just sneak out and go. Don't be such an old ass pussy.

I'm required to stay up and drink copious amounts of liquor with my dad.

So good from the first note to the last.

Giff wrote: St. Paul and the Broken Bones
The Head and the Heart

Seeing both of these bands in the next month or so. Super excited.

DaveInSeattle wrote:

Giff wrote: St. Paul and the Broken Bones
The Head and the Heart

Seeing both of these bands in the next month or so. Super excited.

Brian, am I seeing one of these bands in the next week or so?

Both put on great shows.

sancarlos wrote:Wilco is playing five nights in a row in SF at the Fillmore right now. One of my friends is a super fan who is going to four of them, and offered me a ticket to any of them. But my parents are visiting the entire time so I had to demur.

(Do you need a) Sonic shoulder for you to cry, cry, cry, on
Wilco, Wilco will love you, baby

Giff wrote:

DaveInSeattle wrote:

Giff wrote: St. Paul and the Broken Bones
The Head and the Heart

Seeing both of these bands in the next month or so. Super excited.

Brian, am I seeing one of these bands in the next week or so?

Both put on great shows.

I should know by Tuesday or Wednesday. No news yet.

Ryley Walker has a new album. I dig it.

Ryley Walker is fucking great.

govmentchedda wrote:Love this simple track.

Good tune. Thanks for that.

Wonderful album - very old school Studio One reggae feel.

BSF21 wrote:

govmentchedda wrote:Love this simple track.

Good tune. Thanks for that.

Still kick myself that I walked out on him one night. In my defense, it was beyond time for me to be going.

I was thinking to myself that the chorus of Sting's new song sounds like the chorus of the "Good Luck Charlie" theme song. Then I realized no, and much worse, it sounds like the chorus of the "Austin and Ally" theme song.

I'll let you decide where the high points are, but I'm loving the whole thing.

Radio, Under Luck Stars, and Sunset Motel are leaders in the clubhouse.

Not sure I get the hate for the new Bon Iver album. Who wants a band or artist to make the same album every time? I think it's just as haunting and beautiful as any of Vernon's other albums with Bon Iver or Volcano Choir.

brian wrote:Not sure I get the hate for the new Bon Iver album. Who wants a band or artist to make the same album every time? I think it's just as haunting and beautiful as any of Vernon's other albums with Bon Iver or Volcano Choir.

I don't get the hate, but I do agree that in many ways it is his least accessible.

Skinny Love ain't walking through that door.

govmentchedda wrote:

brian wrote:Not sure I get the hate for the new Bon Iver album. Who wants a band or artist to make the same album every time? I think it's just as haunting and beautiful as any of Vernon's other albums with Bon Iver or Volcano Choir.

I don't get the hate, but I do agree that in many ways it is his least accessible.

Skinny Love ain't walking through that door.

True, though at least it's not being inaccessible for inaccessibility's sake like some bands might occasionally be guilty of. (*cough* Radiohead *cough*). I think the album is meant to be a study of loneliness and separation and some of the production is meant to convey that just as much as the lyrics.

I think a lot of the hate is really for Vernon himself.

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?

brian wrote:

govmentchedda wrote:

brian wrote:Not sure I get the hate for the new Bon Iver album. Who wants a band or artist to make the same album every time? I think it's just as haunting and beautiful as any of Vernon's other albums with Bon Iver or Volcano Choir.

I don't get the hate, but I do agree that in many ways it is his least accessible.

Skinny Love ain't walking through that door.

True, though at least it's not being inaccessible for inaccessibility's sake like some bands might occasionally be guilty of. (*cough* Radiohead *cough*). I think the album is meant to be a study of loneliness and separation and some of the production is meant to convey that just as much as the lyrics.

YES

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.

If it helps, he was very gracious when I met him at a Wilco ACL aftershow a few years ago.

It does, actually. Vernon or Butler?