MUSIC THREAD

Leaked R. Kelly album, Double Up. I think it will be released next Tuesday.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QTDKU2N7

I still enjoy his older shit, but the dude has been in the game too long.

 

Which Jayhawks album?
Hollywood Town Hall and Tomorrow the Green Grass are better than the more recent stuff like Rainy Day Music and Smile. Sound of Lies is my least favorite Jayhawks album.

 

The Jayhawks put me to sleep; they're the alt-country equivalent of the Grateful Dead, for me anyway.

Now Golden Smog, I can dig some of that.

 

Rainy Day Music.


Here is an idea I'm sure people would be excited about and no one will be passionate enough to organize/ignite:

A friend of mine is in a mixtape club. Every month, someone sends out a mixtape (really a CD, but it's cooler to call it a mixtape) to everyone in the club, and everyone has a brief discussion about it on a website dedicated to the mixtape club. My friend says it kicks serious ass, because you end up getting introduced to all kinds of good music you'd never try otherwise. The only rule is you can't repeat a song. He said there is all kinds of pressure to come up with something cool when it's your turn, but that the people in the group really dig it.

Would be a fun thing to try here, I think, but like the SportsJournalists.com book club, I fear enthusiasm would putter out quickly.

 

I'm predisposed to like Wilco since seeing Uncle Tupelo during their last run in '94. I've listened to Sky Blue Sky a few times since buying it the other day, and the vibe I get from it is early '70s, kind of a Gram Parsons kind of thing -- more mellow than recent albums, to be sure, but not the great disappointment that many on here seem to think it is.
I driving to Davenport for their June 13 show, and I'm excited to see which way they take it in concert. First concert since the Summer Teeth tour.

 

DD,

I'm down with trying that, although my CD burning skills are weak. I'm always looking to be exposed to new music. I especially like the challenge of trying to come up with something different.

 

I like the mixtape idea. If someone wants to organize it, I'm in.

 

Paul McCartney's new music video 'Dance Tonight' starring McCartney, Natalie Portman and Mackenzie Crook (Gareth Keenan, Dwight Schute's precursor in the Brit 'Office'). It was directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind).

 

Count me in on the mixtape idea.

 

I'd be in too.

 

I'd be in for the mix disc idea too, as long as its a one-time thing, not a monthly thing.

On a Springsteen list I'm on, the conditions of participating were:
1) Everyone had to post a review of the disc he/she received
2) Limit yourself to no more than 2 songs by any one artist on the disc, to expose people to as many different artists as possible.
3) Unless you buy music that was on the disc you received you should throw the disc out within a week or two (this was done to appease the people on the list who complained that a mix-disc exchange was stealing music from the artists because you're giving away the music for free).

The music could be from any age (although the stuff on the mix disc I made was 95% 2000-present). The disc I made for that (which would be very similar to the one I'd make for someone here) had 21 songs by 19 different artists (none of whom were named Springsteen).

 

I have my MC Hammer's greatest hits CD almost completely burned. Where should I send it?

Actually, I'd be in for this sort of thing. The post office would love to see us buying stamps at the new rate, also.