MUSIC THREAD

XM is broadcasting live from Bonnaroo this weekend ... I listened to an hour of My Morning Jacket earlier. Top notch. It's on Ethel 47 tonight until midnight and tomorrow 3-midnight.

 

Always loved the Crowes, sort of the U.S. version of Oasis in that the brothers keep on fighting. Hopefully, for those that are going, Robinson will sing a couple of songs off his recent solo album. Damn good stuff.

 

rack. incredible shit. "when i get big, i'm going buy an electric guitar."

war lotta love.

 

Thanks to this thread, I picked this up over the weekend. Enjoyed it very much, although I don't think I'll rush out and buy more of his stuff. This kinda resides in my "Only Need One Albums' Worth" category of music, much like my main reasons for liking JazzFest. I only need to hear about an hours' worth of Gospel music a year, so I sit in that tent for an act or two and get my fix. Same for Dixieland and other genres.

 

Should you have XM Radio and have a chance to catch Colin Hay's live, acoustic set, I highly reccomend it.
It is currently playing on XM 50, The Loft.

All I knew of this guy was the Men At Work stuff, but this is awesome. Anything you guys can reccomend from Colin Hay? Do his albums tend to be as mellow as what I'm hearing right now or is it a little more rocked out (does that makes sense?)?

Thanks.

 

I really like Colin Hay's post-Men stuff. (And for what it's worth, I saw Men at Work and The Clash at the US Festival in 1983, and Men at Work blew The Clash off the stage -- and I was a HUGE Clash fan.)

Anyway, a great starting point is his CD "Man @ Work." It has some of his best solo stuff, plus acoustic versions of "Down Under," "Overkill," "It's A Mistake," "Who Can it Be Now?" and "Be Good Johnny." It's on iTunes.

 

One of Colin Hay's best songs is on the Garden State soundtrack... It's called something like, "I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You." It's a beautiful, heartbreaking song, containing the lump-in-your-throat lyric: "If I lived till I could no longer climb my stairs, I just don't think I'll ever get over you."

Who Can It Be Now? is a great track, too.

I know I'm being a grup loser here, but I'm loving the Angels & Airwaves album. It's a little earnest but perfectly anthemic. "The War" is a good starting point, probably because you've already heard "The Adventure" a bajillion times.

 

Sirs, Madames,

I'm throwing this on this thread though it might be one-half a film post.

A while back Mrs Miler and I did an evening of cinema and caught an amazing documentary: The Devil and Daniel Johnston. The latter is a eclectic, eccentric and alas schizo primitivist artist/alt-country musician of some talent and much history (counted Kurt Cobain as a fan [world's best songwriter, said the late Mr Love], colloborated with Sonic Youth and various other alt icons). It's a fascinating film in the vein of Capturing the Friedmans (an absolute treasure trove of family film and tape archives for the film-makers).

I bought a CD (probably a couple of yrs old) of DJ work. Almost unlistenable. Maybe the early stuff works better.

Is anyone familiar with his work? Any of his stuff that you can recommend?

YHS, etc

 

most of his own work is unlistenable. your best bet to appreciate his work is listening to the great bands that covered him. there are some compilations out there of just that. my favorite DJ cover is Yo La Tengo's "Speeding Motorcycle."

 

I know he's pretty much been releasing the same album every year for the last 20 (just like AC/DC), but I just picked up George Thorogood's new one, The Hard Stuff. Nothiong spectacular but good, solid blues and boogie. Too bad his albums - even the live ones - can't match the energy of his stage show.

 

At my last job our accountant was George's cousin. We called him Uriah Heep. Go figure.

 

This has nothing to do with anything, but my wife isn't here and I need somebody to pass along some meaningless information to. This seems as a good a place/people as any.

XM Channel 47, Ethel, has now played so many good songs in a row that I've lost count. I started with some Smashing Pumpkins, then Pearl Jam, has included Jane's Addiction, Artic Monkeys, about six or seven other kick ass songs and now Tool's Vicarious, which as I recall is a board favorite.

I am so glad not to be bound to regular radio any more. There's only so much Bon Jovi, Brittany Spears, Creed and Ne-Yo a man can take.