I love that there are these new Rolling Stones songs, but I don't love these new Rolling stones songs. They sound messy to me, not in a raw and bluesy way, but in a sort of onslaught on the ears way. These songs sound too busy, too forced, and In The Stars in particular has the Soul Survivor riff recycled for the 3rd time (see "It Must Be Hell,' 1983, which I love, but still...) an
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I agree with the comments that the drums, the snare that sounds all cannon-like, are dreadfully mixed on this album. The songs sound rushed to production and unpolished (and not in a good way), and Mick Jagger's vocals at times are really harsh (and... not in a good way). Harlem Shuffle is a great single, though. Too Rude is a great reggae-ish song, as well. Sleep Tonight is lovely. Fi
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Joe McDonald made his way to Maine in the 80's, and I saw him perform when I was a teenager at Raoul's Roadside Attraction, a now somewhat legendary Portland, Maine venue that no longer exists (I saw John Mayall there in the 90s, and Elvin Bishop as well). He was a fun storyteller, and it was a really enjoyable show. I always feel lucky to see such legends perform in our funkiest small
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Just got my tickets for Wilco in June. I've become a huge Wilco fan over the years. I love how the band has evolved from the alt-country Exile-style rock band to the more cerebral, experimental material in its latter day line-up (Nels Cline has become one of my favorite guitar players in recent years).
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John Scofield Trio in Camden, Maine in June, and... Black Country, New Road in Portland Maine in July with Horse Girl! I'm so thrilled that BC,NR is coming to Maine, I've been waiting for this for eons. I love the latest studio album and can't wait to see the live show. Also may go see the Mekons when they come around in may. Fun stuff!!
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Considering the song references events that happened a few days before it was recorded with a full band, saying it is not his best work is utterly missing the point. Saying it is like it was "written by a middle schooler" is just way off. Bruce wrote a very pointed protest song and performed it and recorded it with the full band backing him is a ridiculously short time. It is not som
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No Eileen, y'all?? You Don't Move Me Struggle Eileen Words of Wonder Trouble Close runners up: Locked Away How I Wish Hate It When You Leave ...and so many others.
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I too am looking forward to the '75 LA show... but I also love the dark, psychologically depressing Roger Waters era material, including The Wall and The Final Cut. TFC is raw, without the signature keyboards, but it adds to its poignancy, I think. I read somewhere that Roger's Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking album, which is also raw and dark, was offered to the band as a Pink Floyd projec
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I'd really like to see some '77-80 live releases. I know those performances are different, and some don't like them as much, but they contain later material and later versions of early material, which would be really fun to hear in good quality. A whole Knebworth show would be awesome, for example. I had of those boots on a cassette once upon a time-- a terrible reproduction with a
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This is hard. Let's see... Monkey Man Emotional Rescue Sister Morphine Can't You Hear Me Knocking Stray Cat Blues
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Reading through the responses to this post, there are a couple categories that live versions of Stones songs fall into for me: Better than the studio version, "lazier" than the studio version, or just DIFFERENT than the studio version. I enjoy all of these! Even the lazy versions: The Chuck Berry intro to IORR (etc) is not as good as the gritty groove on the LP (I mentioned that in an e
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It's Only Rock and Roll. I'm always taken aback by how such a gorgeous, dirty groove on the LP becomes a straight-ahead Chuck Berry riff live. Interestingly, The Foo Fighters did nice justice to that groove when they performed it with Mick on the Tonight Show (?) back in 2012 or so. I was really impressed. It was the best live version of that song I've heard.
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Solid Sound Festival in western Massachusetts next summer. Wilco headlines (Friday and Saturday nights) and Billy Bragg is confirmed for a Friday night 'Mermaid Avenue' performance with Wilco. Verrrry excited. This is the only weekend long festival I ever attend. Pure bliss.
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Jeff Tweedy, tonight. I'm a huge Wilco fan... Tweedy's latest triple LP is fantastic.
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It's hard for me to rank, but I have a lot of love for Emotional Rescue and Undercover. Undercover is a top 5 Stones album for me-- I think it's the smartest and most mature album , and then after that it was like every album was trying to capture something from the past. I enjoy breaking out each of the 80's/90's/2000's records from time to time, but Undercover is just a
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Anyone know anything about Anika Nilles? I just watched a couple videos on the Consequence of Sound page, and while her style definitely fits the prog/ fusion format for Rush, when I think of Neil P, I think of someone known for his speed and slick snare work (as on YYZ)... I haven't been a proper Rush fan since I was a kid, but that little tour announcement vid was super cute and now I'
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Tomorrow (Oct. 4th) I am going to "Sonic Sleepover," which is a one-day event (sleeping over is optional) hosted by Wilco's bass player, John Stirratt, held at his lakeside place here in Maine, with other Wilco members and several other fun acts, some local and some not. Last year Nels Cline performed, and I got to chat with him for 20 minutes or so while standing in line at a food
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QuoteBig Al QuoteTate #1… John Bonham is gone, and Jason is not as good. Just isn’t. LZ without John Bonham is definitely not LZ. #2… Robert Plant’s voice is not as it was. It is gorgeous, but it is aged and not capable of, you know, Immigrant Song and Black Dog as LZ would play them. #3… Robert Plant is a solo artist, and he is really into his solo work, and it’s good, and it’s not Led Ze
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#1… John Bonham is gone, and Jason is not as good. Just isn’t. LZ without John Bonham is definitely not LZ. #2… Robert Plant’s voice is not as it was. It is gorgeous, but it is aged and not capable of, you know, Immigrant Song and Black Dog as LZ would play them. #3… Robert Plant is a solo artist, and he is really into his solo work, and it’s good, and it’s not Led Zeppelin. LZ was leg
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Quote1963luca0 You had to be in Boston 99… I was there! Lovely, lovely show. March, right? Though I believe that was the show with the Goo Goo Dolls as the opener? They were a bit disappointing... but the rest of the show was amazing. I could be confusing the opening acts, but I do very clearly remember that Stones show. Dreamy.
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Turned out to be a video announce ent I believe. In honor of their first show 50 years ago, the first ever music video for Psycho Killer. They duped me again.
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I think M+K+R will go on as long as it feels good to them… but that’s 3 aging guys and probability dictates a likelihood someone will be either unable or unwilling to tour and/or record soon. Of course we hope they continue to beat the odds and go on forever. I didn’t love the HD album, but I loved that they put it out, and I still love the thrill of hearing a new Stones album. I’m very much look
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Being a huge Wilco fan, this is Wilco's only New England show of the summer, and I was SO on the fence with this one, and ultimately did not pull the trigger. Wilco will probably only get an hour set for this, maybe less, and with Willie in his 90s and Dylan in his 80s, and Lucinda not playing guitar anymore... I just couldn't do it. It WILL be a fun show, no doubt, but not quite worth
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Well, we know there's at least another album coming, mostly of material recorded during the sessions that produced HD. Is that what this is? They all seem healthy, but yes, they are now quite elderly... If it was just one solo artist, well, we can hope for longevity, but with three remaining core band members, the probability of someone bailing either intentionally or not increases quite a b
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Bruce talks about the setlist thing in his latest documentary. He made it clear that the setlist they chose for that tour was wholly intentional, and for the first time they were going to focus on a core set of songs and NOT mix it up, to let that setlist "tell a story." Maybe an excuse to give the "hardest working band in show business" a little break? I think we can give Bru
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I liked what they did up to Z, and I loved Jim James’ first solo record. I saw MMJ at a tiny venue in Portland, Maine (The Space) about 22 (?) years ago and it was a really great show, and then I saw that first Jim James solo tour in Portland as well. That show was also great. Since then, their material has not grabbed me, but I also haven’t given much of it a second listen.
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A mega set of Stones live material would likely be much more redundant than a Dead set. Think of all the versions of Gimme Shelter and Brown Sugar and JJF and Satisfaction we’d get from nearly every show. There are loads of us who would love a trove of unreleased live material, especially from the 60s and 70s, but I think a big massive set of dozens of shows would be hard to market to anyone
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Did they not already make clear that they recorded another album’s worth of material during the Hackney sessions? Would they not be simply polishing that up for release?
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Omg, just the title alone tells me this will be worth watching. ‘The End Continues.’ That’s brilliant. It’s the same people, the same writers, just older and wiser. It’ll just be fun. There’s no reason to expect this to suck.
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I’m a big Wilco fan here, and at first I was intrigued, but the stop near me is just them, Dylan, Lucinda,Waylon Payne, and Willie. I don’t know Waylon Payne, but I’m not sure I want to spend the $$ for a 60 min Wilco set and 92 year old Willie and 84 year old Dylan and Lucinda.
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