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liebzz


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Nice! Thanks. Yeah, getting moving to Astoria in Queens on Saturday, getting married in October and honeymooning in Mexico. Good times.

Black Keys were awesome as per usual last night. Their set finally creeped to the 90 minute level, so that was great, and their new stuff sounds really awesome live, even though they are bringing up two guys to help them on those songs (they also helped on Same Old Thing and either a new song or a cover, not really sure). The Morning Benders were generic indie band-ness. Nothing really good or bad to say about them in either direction.

Which brings me to my new realization of the decade: every decade or so, a "craft"-like beer becomes part of the beer drinking lexicon of acceptable beers for regular everyday beer drinking people who want to sound like beer snobs, but don't have the chops. In the 1990's, that beer was Heineken. In the 2000's, it was Stella. In the 2010's, that beer has become Blue Moon - an inoffensive white belgian brew that is nothing really special, but makes people think they are drinking sophisticated brew. Congrats to Blue Moon for making the jump, but I hereby disavow any connection to them as a self-righteous beer snob. smile.gif

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Last night was a lot of fun. We missed Buddy Guy because one of the guys I was seeing the show with was running late, but free ticket = good times. Tom Petty, who seems to move in some slow motion that consistently gets the crowd energizes (I need to learn that trick) sounded much the same from when I saw him 9 years prior.

My only gripe is that he apparently plays the exact same setlist every night, as the dude behind me kept telling his girlfriend what song was next, and he was right every single time (I referred to him as the Petty fundamentalist)...and pardon my ethnocentrism for a moment, but how do you come to Madison Square Garden in New York City, charge fans upwards of $125/ticket for the 300-levels, and play for a grand total of 1 hour and 50 minutes. I'm as huge a Tom Petty fan as the next guy, but that is just highway robbery. For those complaining that $80 is too much to see Pearl Jam for over 2.5 hours, here's your retort.

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The Mystery Tramp


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I think Suburbs is a lot better than Neon Bible.

Also been listening to: Ted Leo, Duke & The King, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, The Mummers,  Richmond Fontaine, Stornoway, Foals, I Am Kloot, and Xx (the last three albums all cost £3 in a one-day Amazon promotion - Xx in particular is very good).

I've also found the next band I'm going to devote myself to for the foreseeable future, called The Legendary Shack Shakers, who sound like a cross between Primus, Gogol Bordello and The Hackensaw Boys.  Managed to get hold of four albums on Ebay.

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I had already forgotten who The Mystery Tramp was, until I clicked on his profile.

Welcome back, dude!

I've been listening to an obscene amount of the Dead Weather lately. But when it hasn't been them, it's been:

- Sleater-Kinney
- Son of Dave
- The Black Crowes
- Led Zeppelin.

Rock on, friends, rock on.

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Nice. Some great action on here again. Hello everyone again.

Good choice and article on the Dead Weather album, Nick. I keep not wanting to say that Sea of Cowards is better than Horebound for fear of shaming...but alas, it is an improvement, even if I did enjoy the first album.

My spinning has remained with Pearl Jam, The Black Keys, and The Roots lately, with a little Beatles and Springsteen thrown in. Really, I want to go try Arcade Fire as I've been loafing on getting into them (all signs appear to point to me really liking them), but with my recent move and upcoming wedding (less than 2 months now!), I've been a little distracted by the lack of distractions.

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Any fans of The Verve here?

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The Mystery Tramp


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wes wrote:

Any fans of The Verve here?


Yes and no.  I haven't listened to them since the mid/late-90s (I believe they're releasing albums again though?).  Urban Hymns is quality though, and bobbing around up there with other classics that that time and place - Definitely Maybe, Different Class, Moseley Shoals, Parklife, I Should CoCo.

Certainly not what I thought at the time, but the upper echelons of 'Britpop' look like this in my head: Pulp>Blur>Oasis>Supergrass>The Verve>Ocean Colour Scene.

 



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I'd never heard them before(except of course "Bittersweet symphony"), but I've been listening to Urban Hymes quite a bit over the last month or two, along with some of Richard Ashcroft's solo records to a lesser exent.  But I couldn't remember them being talked about on GTW which seemed odd given that they've got some catchy banging tunes.  (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKihs7IRWxg)

I don't think I'm nearly qualified enough to give a ranking of those "britpop" groups, but thats something I've been trying to change lately.


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Had a few in central London after work of Friday, and met up with my mate's Portuguese friend who I've been swapping music with for a couple of years, before hitting the record stores around Tottenham Court Road.  He's one of those people who oozes musical knowledge without being at all in your face about it.  As my mate said, 'everything we think we know about music, this guy knows three times more'.  He spent £370 on vinyl.  For almost every unknown cd I picked up in the record stores, he was at hand to offer little snippet of information, like 'that guy was in the Tindersticks', or 'the Japanese version has three extra tracks, you might as well get that one off the internet' etc.  At one point I picked up an African cd that sampled actual voodoo rituals, and he promptly directed me to a different, but better, voodoo sampling cd.

I don't do a lot of music shopping in stores to be fair, and I pretty much never buy music without a bit of internet research/youtube, so I set myself a mission to take a gamble on a selection of artists I'd never heard of, and set about judging albums by their covers, song titles and insturments used, which turned into a really enjoyable afternoon.  I came home with eight unknown albums for £28 (and an early Mazzy Star album I've been looking for).

If anyone can shed some light on my purchases:

Joker's Daughter - The Last Laugh (produced by Danger Mouse and featuring a bouzouki or two, lol)
Dark Captain, Light Captain - Miracle Kicker
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager
Leon Jean Marie - Bent Out of Shape
Zoey Van Goey - The Cage Was Unlocked All Along (I literally bought this because it had a nice cover)
Stuart Staples - Leaving Songs
Lucas Renney - Strange Glory
Amazing Baby - Rewild

If I get on with the majority of albums I bought, I'm going to do this every couple of months; walking around London having a pint after each music store was one of the best outings I've had for a while......even if the albums do turn out to be ****e.



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Unfortunately, here the used record shopping isn't as profound. For every shockingly cheap copy of The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, there's 50 varieties of Kenny Loggins' Greatest Hits. I usually make a day of it and go to multiple stores and come away poor, but also have tired eyes from sifting through shelves of Jackson Browne's Pretender before finding something awesome I would have never expected.

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