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Certified D.J

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RE: What Have You Spun for Me Lately?


CAN NOT WAIT to stroll over to J&R at lunchtime to get the new Roots album. Take a listen to "Dear God 2.0" or "How I Got Over" and you will understand my excitement. smile.gif

Guarantee an album review will come soon.

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I've been listening to Son of Dave quite a bit over the past couple of days. O3 has been getting most of my attention, but I've listened to O2, too. I have to pick up his new one.

And before that... yes, it was still the Grateful Dead. But it's all harmonica now.

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I have been listening to The Roots' How I Got Over for more than a week now, and I'm really impressed. It definitely follows an arc and plays like a concept album, but delivers a ton of hooks and genius interplay. It really feels like what the Roots have been trying to do really hard since Game Theory, but never quite pulled off so successfully until now.

It's also interesting to hear Jim James sing with them on "Dear God 2.0" (originally Monsters of Folk tune). I would shout out the highlights, but I think just about every song here is one, except for the last two songs on the album, which I haven't gotten into, and the interlude somewhere, which is what it is.

Oh, and the chemistry they forged by being Fallon's house band is undeniably reflected on this album. I am looking forward to their next album, due September 21st, which will be all covers of soul classics.

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I bought How I Got Over at lunch today, chiefly because I'm interested to see how they managed to shoehorn Joanna Newsom on there.  Will give it a listen tomorrow.

I saw The Hold Steady last week, which was an amazing gig....I approached with some trepidation because I'm a massive fan of Franz Nicolay's input, but in my extremely drunken state I had to admit they rocked the place just as well without him.  At first the new album didn't do it for me - too clean, not enough crunch - but the songs have grown on me to the point where I'd probably say it's my third favourite THS album (after Separation Sunday and Almost Killed Me).   Each new song they played was great live, and Sweet Part of the City is surely the greatest opener in their catalogue.  Great night.

In the past month or so I've bought albums by: Caribou, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, The Black Keys - clearly a favourite around these parts....got tickets for November too (and Blackroc is a brilliant album) - Fang Island, Gil Scott Heron, The National, Hackensaw Boys, Joanna Newsom, Laura Marling, John Hiatt, Over The Rhine, Jolie Holland, Eileen Jewell, Detektivbyran, Guy Clark, Eli 'Paperboy' Reed, Gorillaz, The Imagined Village, Plan B, Drive-by Truckers, The Builders and the Butchers, Old Crow Medecine Show, Townes Van Zandt and Crystal Castles.

-- Edited by The Mystery Tramp on Friday 2nd of July 2010 10:53:49 AM

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Clearly a lot of time and money on hand. Nice.

I am still spinning the Black Keys rather consistently, and obviously the new Roots album. Might be seeing them (The Roots) Sunday in Prospect Park in Brooklyn as a break from the moving grind.

I heard the Hold Steady album a while back and thought it was pretty good. I waffle on them constantly, thinking they are great one listen and then getting agitated with them the next. I've gone through this phase with bands before (specifically the Black Crowes, whom I have come to really appreciate), so we'll see where that takes me.

I have also decided to give up on the National. You sit there and wait for each song to break, and it never does. It's frustrating...it's the same way I feel about Coldplay, except the National are a much more talented version with some songs I do really like...but they just might not be a "get their album now" band for me.

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I'm going through a dark eighties phase - lots of The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, etc. Have had Morrissey's "Last of the Famous Internationl Playboys" stuck in my head for days. Also took Timmy's advice and had a look into The Decemberists. I have The Crane Wife and The Hazards of Love, both of which are fantastic albums.

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I've got a Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey EP that you'd probably like then.

Leibzz, I'm not ashamed to admit I have both time and money atm.  I can listen to music all day at work, and I tend to spend £50-60 per month on albums (which I try to recoup).  I've worked out a pretty good system for those lacking space for more physical cds, or just lacking in funds - find an album you want as cheap as you can on the net, buy it, rip it, sell it on Ebay.  You'd be surprised how many idiots buy new cds for more than they sell for at HMV.com (especially as I send it for free from the post room at work). 

Today I ordered the new Cherry Ghost album (I'll bet if you're not familiar with them in the states, a few of you still know where they got their name from), and The Archandroid by Janelle Monae.

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No shame in time and money. I wish I had either. Though despite sharing my time making preparations to move, helping the best I can with planning the wedding, working, and getting amped for vacation soon in Maine, I am still making time to watch ESPN at 9:00 tonight in the faint hope that LeBron pulls a 180 and decides on the Knicks.

-- Edited by liebzz on Thursday 8th of July 2010 10:33:09 AM

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Its funny that you mention that Timmy because the only reason I downloaded their other record was because I saw a mention of Cherry Ghost on the wikipedia page for Wilco. Turned out to be good stuff.

Also, hi everyone

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Hey Wes.

FYI, hit up the launch of the OkayAfrica event, which was part of the free Celebrate Brooklyn concert series. Awesome, awesome time.

The Roots openned the festivities with a 20-25 minute set featuring "How I Got Over" then about a 15 minute James Brown style soul freakout which was awesome. Then there were something like 7 bands one after another, all with connections to Africa, though not necessarily what you would expect (and thankfully none of those vuvuzelas, or whatever you call them). Then the Roots came back out for another hour, 20 minutes of the set featuring a collaboration with Talib Kweli (a couple of new songs and "Get By"). The second Roots set featured only 3 standard songs ("The Next Movement", "The Seed 2.0", and a half hour version of "You Got Me" which included tagged covers of "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Bad to the Bone" along with an incredible jam/guitar solo from Kirk Douglas), plus a bunch of freestyle rapping/jamming. As per usual, The Roots made things up as they went along and were that much more incredible as a live act for it.

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