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What are you listening to? (7 Viewers)

as usual i'm like a year and a half late to this album, but it fucking rocks:


 
Chicken Rob said:
Yup. WTF got me listening to this for the first time ever as well.
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i had tried their earlier stuff years ago and i didn't care for it (tried it again last night and still don't actually), but i would say more than half this newest album is brilliant.
 

really looking forward to moving into my first home (august 1st):

 
Melikey dis the most this summer. In finnish but don't let bother. Loving it.

Haloo Helsinki! : "Pulp Fiction"


Lyrics translated in english:

I step in a bar,
barely nobody anywhere,
and I walk straight to the jukebox.
I put a track on,
you appeared saying "Smile for me please"
Chuck Berry started to create the atmosphere,
I said to you "Well hello!"
and went to get a glass of water.
When I came back
you were really messed up

But then I understood,
that you had been like that since birth.
You swallowed the beat,
took my hand
and moved me so skillfuly

Dance with me,
Dance more tightly
Just like in Pulp Fiction
but more fiercely.
I'm Uma, you're John,
this move is so restless, but let it be.
I'll dance with you,
yet another track
Just like in Grease
but then I'll vanish
I'm Olivia, you're John
this life is restless, but let it be

The gang started gathering around,
I thought should I back up,
but then the circle closed.
In the middle of it just two of us
and our feet swam in GT.
Then you did something radical,
you took some UV-paint from your pocket
and started to fistpump the air.
I raised my right hand
and then the left one
and my hips started shaking.

Dance with me,
Dance more tightly
Just like in Pulp Fiction
but more fiercely.
I'm Uma, you're John,
this move is so restless, but let it be.
I'll dance with you,
yet another track
Just like in Grease
but then I'll vanish
I'm Olivia, you're John
this life is restless, but let it be (x3)
 
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pigpen was the man.


and if you're interested in a longer bit...

 
I'm about to listen to the new Wilco album Star Wars

I'm on the Anti mailing list and got an email saying digi download is available free for next 30 days from wilcoworld website.

http://wilcoworld.net

@jbutler in case you don't know already?
 
Add Grateful Dead to your Billy Joel and Eric Clapton most-overrated/least-talented list. I'd listen to either before those repetitive blowhards....
 
Toby said:
I'm about to listen to the new Wilco album Star Wars

I'm on the Anti mailing list and got an email saying digi download is available free for next 30 days from wilcoworld website.

http://wilcoworld.net

@jbutler in case you don't know already?
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Going to see them in early August, first time seeing them and I haven't even tried to get into them yet. Very excited!
 
I don't think the GD should be on the "overrated/least talented" list. Perhaps the black licorice list?
 
Toby said:
I'm about to listen to the new Wilco album Star Wars

I'm on the Anti mailing list and got an email saying digi download is available free for next 30 days from wilcoworld website.

http://wilcoworld.net

@jbutler in case you don't know already?
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Big Jilm said:
Going to see them in early August, first time seeing them and I haven't even tried to get into them yet. Very excited!
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about to start up the new record now for the first time. i really hate to be one of those "they were better back in the day" people, but...wilco were better back in the day. at least to me. the last album that i really liked was sky blue sky and that was still a clear fall off from ghost which was a tremendous fall off from YHF. they still make good records and they still have a signature sound, but it helps when you have one of the best living rock drummers and one of the best living guitarists in any genre (nels cline) in the band. nels could scrape his tuning pegs across the chalkboard and i'd listen.

as for live, i've seen them a bunch and they still have it, but the setlists keep me from really, really loving them live nowadays. they played two of the best shows i've ever seen: one on the being there tour where jay bennett and jeff had the feedback/noise/stones-imitation thing down to a T. and then later when they were touring YHF before it had actually been released. i would literally pay at least a thousand bucks each to go back and see either of those shows again. i'm sure it helped that they were in 1500-person venues, but still, the music was just perfect and the energy was insane.

Big Jilm said:
I don't think the GD should be on the "overrated/least talented" list. Perhaps the black licorice list?
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black licorice for sure. and i can understand the other side. i came to the dead very, very late. i thought it was all hippie burnout bullshit through high school and most of college. i didn't really get it until i listened the much further out stuff (stretched out dark stars, drums/space, etc.) and then i backtracked through the rest of it. i still don't really fawn over a fair amount of their stuff, but the really out jams and the really traditional blues/bluegrass/country stuff kill imo.

up until now i've actually only been listening to zeppelin today. i'm usually one arguing that they're overrated, but i think it's probably more a case of overexposed. i've heard waaaaay too much zeppelin in my life as have most people probably. but houses of the holy is one of my wife's favorite albums and we listened to that and III all day and damn if houses didn't sound fucking great.

 
There are some gtreat tracks on III, but I'm not that big a fan, I thikn I, II, IV and Houses are all better than III. Houses is VERY strong though.

Like youo, I am way overexposed, especially the first 5 albums and In Trhough the Out Door. Those 6 albums got played to death by me in high school.
 
Chicken Rob said:
There are some gtreat tracks on III, but I'm not that big a fan, I thikn I, II, IV and Houses are all better than III. Houses is VERY strong though.

Like youo, I am way overexposed, especially the first 5 albums and In Trhough the Out Door. Those 6 albums got played to death by me in high school.
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it may be due to it being abused by overexposure even more than the rest, but i don't really even like IV much anymore. i listen to misty mountain hop and going to california every now and then, but that's about it. i'd say my overall ranking for zep would be:

II > houses > III >> I >>> physical graffiti >> IV > in through the out door >>>>>>> presence

as noted, i think the quality difference among II, III, and houses is pretty slight. they also sound fantastic when i pull them out nowadays after having semi-avoided zep for a long while.
 
jbutler said:
it may be due to it being abused by overexposure even more than the rest, but i don't really even like IV much anymore. i listen to misty mountain hop and going to california every now and then, but that's about it. i'd say my overall ranking for zep would be:

II > houses > III >> I >>> physical graffiti >> IV > in through the out door >>>>>>> presence

as noted, i think the quality difference among II, III, and houses is pretty slight. they also sound fantastic when i pull them out nowadays after having semi-avoided zep for a long while.
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I'd put them: houses > II > I > IV > III > in through the out door >>>>>>> presence/coda/song remains the same, but those first 5 albums are all great for me. I enjoyed hearing over the hills for the first time in a million years today.

I think my ranking has a lot to do with how successful the bands I was in covered that material.

Undeniable great track from III. Cliche favorite, but justifiably so:

 
just to balance my jaded "they were better back in the day" comment concerning wilco above, i will say that while i am absolutely firm in my belief that weezer's first two albums absolutely destroy everything they did since, there are a handful of songs in the albums that followed that are good and sadly underrated even among those who bother with weezer anymore.




not that they're all THAT recent, but they are definitely after the best days of the band and still deserve to be heard.
 
My first Zeppelin exposure was Physical Graffiti (compliments of my older brother). Then, I found the greatness of I, II, III, IV, Houses, (then there is the rest of it that I didn't care for with the exceptions off Presence, In through the out door, and Coda such as For your life, nobody's fault but mine, fool in the rain, and maybe Poor Tom) late releases like Hey, hey what can I do, and white summer (as part of BMS), and traveling riverside blues were great too. Overall I LOVE Led Zeppelin despite experiencing several "overexposed" moments during my life. But they are up there with all of my overexposed bands such as Pink Floyd and The Beatles etc.

Say it ain't so is my favorite Weezer song. Lots of goodies to choose from though....
 
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Paint Box is excellent as is See Emily Play. I love a lot of the older stuff with Syd, but some of it is just a little too out there.

I was watching Grandma's Boy today and tracked down a band called VHS or BETA from the soundtrack. The song in the movie is Night on Fire and you only get a good 10 seconds before it is just in the background. Always thought it had a catchy beginning so looked it up. Really digging these guys so far...

 

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