QuoteElmo Lewis Excepting Who's Next, Who albums are like Prince albums - 1 or 2 classics and a lot of crap. The sheer unadulterated wrong-headedness of this take is positively intoxicating! It's difficult for me to say whether Mr Lewis is more in error with the discography of The Who or with the works of Prince. But variety is the spice of life - to each his/her own!
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QuoteRockman Heck Laz …. read Dino years ago …. finished it but it was a struggle … didn't leave much of an impression Preferred…. Unsung Heroes … Country twisted roots … dead voices...Hellfire He dug deep and unearthed weird shit on stuff like monkey glads and guys like Emmett Miller … sure knew some obscure records …. gonna be missed Agreed—-a real loss.
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my parents played the holy living f*ck out of hot august night back in the day. i saw him a few years ago at staples ctr here in la and he was pretty damn good!
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dug the historical bits a lot; not so much the jakob-led modernizations.
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QuoteRockman hhhhhhaaa … funny Lazarus … you remind me of a tall guy I know … Also, notice anything about those 4 "stylists"? They's all white, son! Yeah well after all they were all monumental in the history of things But But Okay Pa … who should The Killer have picked? Bessie ....Arizona Dranes …. Robeson ….. who …???? It's a good question, rockee. to be hones
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QuoteRockman Love Al singing Mammy ... As the Killer said .. there's only Four music stylists ... Al Jolson Jimmie Rodgers ... Hank Williams and me .... The Killer was completely and utterly full of malarkey and ignorant of his own racist reading of his own country's racist musical heritage. (Although he was the subject of one of rock's greatest biographies, the magnificen
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Amazing - his intensity just bleeds through the speakers.
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"...a shocked crowd of 300,000 — half of them on bad acid trips." LOLLOLLOL
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Quotedrbryant QuoteLazarusSmith This is great writing: Once there was a way to get back homeward Once there was a way to get back home Its emotional complexity comes from the oblique way in which it says that while there may have once been a way homeward, we certainly can't get back there anymore. The plaintiveness in the singer's voice is the cue: this is innocence lost ... a
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QuoteNikkei "Being prolific doesn't mean shit" typical Keith remark you can't quite agree with Does it belie an insecurity that is surprising from a dude who has written some GREAT rock songs? Why would it occur to anyone to call a bandmate's album dogshit? Why rag on a bandmate's prolific-ness? Of course, it's probably all just to sell some papers and get some
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This is great writing: Once there was a way to get back homeward Once there was a way to get back home Its emotional complexity comes from the oblique way in which it says that while there may have once been a way homeward, we certainly can't get back there anymore. The plaintiveness in the singer's voice is the cue: this is innocence lost ... and by not spelling it out direct
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Quoteroryg Nick's new release is incredible, probably the best of 2019. I'd also push you to Sincere Engineer, a great Chicago band with great licks and snarky wit led by Deanna Belos. God DAMN Ghosteen is a good un. Such heartbreak turned in to such beauty. Is there an analog for this sort of record in the annals of pop before (a father writing an entire album mourning a child who�
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Good new album discussion. Subthreads within threads should be markable as OT. 388 pages isn't that impressive -- someone pls document % of pages on- and off-topic.
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QuoteHairball Quoteschillid Maybe a better idea would have been a compilation album of 10 - 12 tracks... just the good stuff from Mick's solo albums. Minus the crappy tunes. I'd be hard pressed to come up with 10-12, and not just saying that because I can't stand Mick Jagger solo. Even when trying to be objective, coming up with 4-5 seems impossible. If it were up to me, a
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Cool stuff!
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Alas, the Horse is now a toothless nag, consigned to pulling a plow when once it galloped thunderously 'neath western skies.
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I've always just thought of it as a joke song. Rather than as a tribute to the "blues legends" who came before them, it's very much in the vein of "Dear Doctor" to my ears. Mick doing his campy "bull negro" vocalizings -- who could ever take that more seriously than "Curly, i'm sorry to hurt you"?
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QuoteLazarusSmith QuoteDandelionPowderman Not on Spotify here yet, unfortunately Nor here in the U.S. C'mon, Van, how'm'I sposed to listen to this????? There are 3 songs in a playlist on Spotify: "If We Wait for Mountains," "Days Gone By," and "Dark Night of the Soul." I am NOT usually a fan of new releases from boomer bands/artists but I g
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Not on Spotify here yet, unfortunately Nor here in the U.S. C'mon, Van, how'm'I sposed to listen to this?????
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QuoteIanBillen ... but they have been at least of the best work put out by any artist the year they were released... Ian I must admit to having guffawed cornflakes out throuh my nose at this! 1989: Paul's Boutique, 3 Feet High and Rising, Freedom, Doolittle, Pretty Hate Machine, New York, Disintegration, Automatic, The Sensual World, The Stone Roses, Straight Outta Compton 1994: Do
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QuoteMeise I refused to purchase the Beggars Banqut so called Deluxe Box Set due to missing specialties. It's the same with that one. Why the hell shall I buy a box set containing of basically four times the same songs? Because of a nice booklet? Don' think so. You cannot help but compare them to the pkgs for THE BEATLES and for ABBEY ROAD. These Stones sets are anemic to say the leas
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Perhaps I’m oversimplifying but I’ve always thought ABB would have been a much better album had it included good songs.
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QuoteHairball QuoteLazarusSmith QuoteHairball Quotemailexile67 I hope at this point that they'll go to finish the new album betwewen December and February of next year just in time for new North American Tour in May Both The Who and Neil Young are getting rave reviews for their new albums from the press. Hope the Stones can hurry it up, otherwise they might miss the boat of positivity f
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QuoteHairball Quotemailexile67 I hope at this point that they'll go to finish the new album betwewen December and February of next year just in time for new North American Tour in May Both The Who and Neil Young are getting rave reviews for their new albums from the press. Hope the Stones can hurry it up, otherwise they might miss the boat of positivity from the critics! New tour +
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Quotepeoplewitheyes Who cares? I mean who made the list and why is her, her or their opinion of any consequence to me? Is Carl Wilson on there? Right on, pwe I make it a practice to ignore any list of pop vocalists in which Carl doesn’t appear.
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Quotejlowe John Lennon in great form, what a superb live performer he was . Great shame that after 1966 he did so few live concerts and TV shows. Chuck Berry seemed a lot more relaxed than 12 or so years later when he did the TV film with Keith. I suspect he saw John Lennon as 'an equal'...one of the very few in his eyes. Yeah, that struck me, as well. Very different from the way Ch
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QuoteGasLightStreet Way in the future if anyone bothers to become a fan of them and knows next to nothing about their touring, they'll see the gap from 2005 to 2016 and probably wonder... what the hell happened, and then see their last album 4, 5, however many years later... and do some math... In my opinion, that math, alas, has already been done. It's 38 years and counting since the
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wow - such awesome sh*t here - indeed, great new music abounds! a couple of people mentioned brittany howard - her album is astonishingly good. don't know if any of you know this podcast called song exploder where musicians come on and talk about how a track was built ... she was on a recent episode talking about her single 'stay high' - very cool
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Sweet - thx, roryg!
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in the absence of any new music from the stones, is there any appetite on this website to talk about people/bands who ARE releasing records? i've been digging: Sturgill Simpson -- SOUND AND FURY Jim O'Rourke -- IN, DEMONS, IN! Major Stars -- ROOTS OF CONFUSION, SEEDS OF JOY Bremer/McCoy -- DRABER also want to hear Nick Cave's GHOSTEEN but haven't yet. i find it
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