My favorite part of R+H is when BB King says during rehearsal, "I'm not that good with chords..." BB King. Guitar legend. Not that good with chords. :^) Pop is my favorite U2 album. I'm not saying it's their best, but it is my favorite. I love the statement, I love the dark themes, I don't think there is a weak song there and the great ones are so great they
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Bono admits to being coached after the 'Pop' album, which I loved and still do, to write songs in "happier" chord progressions. I think that change, beginning with All That You Can't Leave Behind, lends a somewhat lightweight quality to much of their later music. Still, they have not produced anything that I would call lazy, or weak... Just not as deep and dark sounding
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Loved the Live in Paris film. Great performance. It was quite an emotional experience, just like the Sydney '93 concert film, and every U2 show I have been to. I agree I have not been blown away by later releases, but I suspect they'll give us a couple more classy records before they're done. Every band evolves, sometimes the hardcore fans don't like it when a group change
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It could be that the success of B+L distracts them a bit from this new material. I hope not, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see some more enthusiasm for performing live. Not starting rumors, this is total speculation on my part, but it could be a good thing, playing these blues numbers live, and then getting back to the new material fresh off of a tour. If it means we get a more inspir
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I agree with James Kirk 100%. It is a mature album from a mature band, albeit the greatest mature band ever. I knew it would be big based on the first few reviews I saw on Facebook from folks I know that aren't big Stones fans... "It is awesome!" was the word from these casual fans. And when I went into my local record store (Bull Moose Music is still alive and well in northern
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Great thread here, really fun to read. Those folks mentioning the drums are really onto it. The studio original, with that fabulous samba and piano combo, translated to a funky, busy beat on stage in '69 and the very famous Ya Ya's version. It is raw and completely organic, the old fashioned phenomenon of a band creatively adapting a studio song to stage with a mere five musicians al
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As with any show, people talking and not really giving a shit. I have been to a number of Stones shows where I sit next to folks who somehow paid three times as much as I did for the ticket, yet spend half the show talking and the other half in line for beer. Baffling.
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Wilco Heartless Bastards Bruce Springsteen Andrew Bird Donny McCaslin quartet (jazz group on Bowie's album.. Maybe the best show of the year!) Suzanne Vega (next week)
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Yeah, I think that's pretty much how Stones albums happen these days. The songs on 40 Licks, GRRR, and most of ABB I think are songs Mick wrote. I'm guessing he and Chuck L, being quite sharp and coherent, are the big motivators in the machine when it actually comes to putting new music together. I think Keith Richards loves to work with The Stones, but he seems to rely on recycled r
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I like the version of Angie.
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Listen to the start/intro to 'Sympathy' in the recent Havana Moon release..
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I made a mix that I call "Early Cheese" of all the radio tunes that resonated with me in the late 70's and early 80's, when I was between 7 and 10 years old. There are a lot of ELO songs on there, for instance. And a Bob Segar song. And Billy Joel. I think I even put a Doobie Brothers song on there. Also songs from the Moody Blues mostly awful 1981 album, 'The Presen
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I love RogerW, always have... Depressing songs and all. I'd love to see a show, but all this talk of recorded vocals and actually lip-syncing... Really??? That is just not ok, no matter how spectacular the visuals are or whatever. Re-arrange the songs, change the key if you have to, but bloody hell, it's a concert, so sing your songs! And hey, if you absolutely can't pull it off
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I suspect it takes a lot of effort for them to rehearse things they haven't played in ages, let alone tunes they have never done live. If they were embarking on a major tour, I might expect them to dig something up, but for Vegas and CA, 11 years since the last album, I don't imagine their sets will include any surprises at all. I suspect it will be a standard slog through the hits, un
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Yikes... Always fun to watch MT with the Stones, but this version is a bit of a mess! The band is playing faster than Charlie's tempo for the first 3 minutes, and they miss the break (Mick yells "here we go!" to cue everyone, but it's just a tad late), then there is clearly an overlap of BK's solo into MT's solo that looks super awkward. Toward the end of MT's
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I grew up a big Red Sox fan in northern New England, where it's pretty much required to hate the New York Yankees. A favorite phrase of Red Sox fans is, "Yankees Suck." Except really, most years, they don't suck at all. They are the team with the biggest payroll and they recruit and invest in the best players in the world. I'll be the first to admit it, the Yankees real
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This is one of my absolute favorites. Charlie plays a 3/4 beat over a lovely 4/4 melody, and it works! Love it.
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Great humanitarian cause, great message for young people and old to hear in this age of regressive intolerance.
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Quotecrholmstrom I saw 2 shows with Wilco this weekend. They were incredible. They have stripped down the stage setup & are doing really intimate shows. That doesn't mean they are acoustic. They have also tore down the setlist & are going deep, playing a lot of material that they haven't done in awhile. Nels Cline is worth the price of admission alone. Highly recommended if you
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I think this is fantastic news, for my own personal reasons; Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl (the '77 release) was my first ever LP, which I got at the age of 6 or 7. Yes, the screechy crowd noise was ridiculous and pretty much destroys the actual sound quality, but I loved, loved, loved this album. "And now we'd like to play an old one... It's from last year, and it's ca
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I agree with Kowalski. ER and UC are among my most favorites.
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I listened to the SG album on the way home from work yesterday and on the way to work this morning. I was struck how powerful that string of two-chord riff punk-ish songs are, throughout the album (songs like Lies, WTWCD, Respectable, even SG and the ending of Just My Imagination), but then the hits like Miss You and Beast of Burden are nothing like that... Very polished and radio friendly (but
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Like AC/DC, I liked what this band did in the 1970's, period. Both AC/DC and Aerosmith hit a commercial formula in the 1980s and never went back to making truly original and creative music. AC/DC lost Bon Scott, so their change in sound, while I never liked it much, was at least inevitable, but Aerosmith became a radio-superfriendly pop music entity all on its own. But at least it was Aer
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Very little the Stones do regarding recording and promoting albums makes business sense to me. The tours are geared 100% toward money making, but I think the albums have been different. I love the double album concept, but I'd prefer all the "blues" standards and new material just be mixed up together. Either way, I think it's a great idea. Why not just put out a big chunk
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This is hard... For me it would be maybe: Got Live: Lady Jane Ya Ya's: Sympathy Leeds/Marquis: Satisfaction Brussels: Heartbreaker LA Friday: Fingerprint File Love You Live: If You Can't Rock Me --> Get Off My Cloud Live In TX: Love In Vain Hampton: Waiting On A Friend Still Life: Time Is On My Side Leeds 82: Under My Thumb Tokyo: 2000 LYFH Flashpoint: Factory Girl No
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I can tell by the comments in this thread that I will probably like this new Radiohead album. I like dark stuff. I like experiments. I liked BOTH the last two albums. Artists have every right to express themselves as they wish, especially when they have gotten as huge as Radiohead has. They have nothing to prove; let them just be artists. That's what I love about Bjork, and a handful o
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QuoteSweetCousinCocaine QuoteHis Majesty Quotepeoplewitheyes Not to very too far from the topic, but when was the last time Charlie played an interesting beat on record. Almost everything I can think of from the last 25 years features the same pedestrian bass-snare-bass-bass-snare plod... (standing back to avoid the rotten tomatoes) I think his drumming got kinda ruined once they tried t
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QuoteHis Majesty 2000 Man. I agree. 2000 Man with the 3/4 groove over the 4/4 rhythm during the verse is like a stroke of genius.
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I loved Made In The Shade and Sucking In The 70's. But I especially loved Metamorphosis. Man, this list is dreadfully written and foolish. I can agree with #1, but my order of the rest would be completely different. It is clear to me a non-fan put the list together.
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