Random Music Talk XXIV: Where there's CLICK!ing and NASH!ing of teeth

[Jive Turkey]

So anyone have recent NSW news? Didn't he move to Seattle? And even if he's spending all his free time lurking outside Cori's place, can't he steal her internet and pop in here once in a while?

Spoiler

He left some anti Canadian sentiments on my PSN account about a week and a half ago.

 

[lazarus]

It's already too late.

He'll be back.


I'll be waiting.

 

[martha]

dude

 

[PhilsFan]

You were right about the end
It didn't make a difference
Everything I can remember
I remember wrong

 

[iron yuppie]

You were right about the end
It didn't make a difference
Everything I can remember
I remember wrong

Great song - probably my favorite from Alligator. Maybe that should be in the unpopular opinions thread, though.

 

[PhilsFan]

Saw it at the Philly show. Wonderful.

 

[bono_212]

Until this evening, I had never heard a GNR album.

I have no heard Appetite for Destruction.

Jesus, I didn't think it actually could be that good, but I am so glad I was wrong. What a fun album, and it's really just that good all around. The songs I already knew and loved were just that much better surrounded by the ones I didn't.

I really enjoyed "Think About You" for whatever reason, even though it seemed a tad cheesy.

Anyways, that plus Lift yr Skinny Fists = two 5 star albums I've heard this week, which is pretty awesome.

 

[lazarus]

Appetite is a great album. Think About You is...not one of the better tracks. It's rather top-heavy, even if side 2 has Sweet Child O'Mine. My Michelle is good, and I love Rocket Queen. But the other three are somewhat disposable, and the acoustic version of You're Crazy on Lies is better IMO.

That whole acoustic side of Lies is pretty awesome, actually.

 

[the tourist]

Bearded assholes from Ohio - The National

The Black Keys?

 

[LemonMelon]

This is the time and life that I am living
And I'll face each day with a smile
For the time that I've been given's such a little while
And the things that I must do consist of more than style
There are places that I am going
This is the only thing that I am sure of
And that's all that lives is gonna die
And there'll always be some people here to wonder why
And for every happy hello, there will be good-bye
There'll be time for you to put yourself on

/awesome lyric copy+paste

 

[lazarus]

Is that Taylor Swift??

 

[LemonMelon]

Forever Changes was 1967's best and most exciting pop album.

 

[iron yuppie]

Forever Changes was 1967's best and most exciting pop album.

It really is splendid. I think, however, that The Doors manages to trump it. I seem to remember The Doors being fairly maligned here, so I may earn some criticism for that.

 

[bono_212]

I haven't heard Forever Changes in "years". It is a wonderful little album.

 

[LemonMelon]

It really is splendid. I think, however, that The Doors manages to trump it. I seem to remember The Doors being fairly maligned here, so I may earn some criticism for that.

Oh, I despise the Doors myself, but there's no denying the influence or quality of a clutch of songs on their debut. The Crystal Ship is so bewitching and beautiful that it somehow manages to be underrated. End of the Night has a creeping, suffocating quality about it that reminds me of the things I love about early Pink Floyd. I don't need to mention the singles. But then Twentieth Century Fox, Alabama Song and Take It As It Comes show up and shit all over everything.

I will say that 1967 was probably the strongest year for rock music. 1970 was another great one. Generally, I hate getting into arguments about that, since it's all so absurdly broad and subjective. Plus, I can't claim I've heard everything from any one year, so I can't properly judge. But a couple of years really strike me as particularly amazing.

 

[iron yuppie]

I've long been a fan of The Doors and Jim Morrison, which is strange seeing as how he is the complete antithesis of my personality. I enjoy "Alabama Song," "Roadhouse Blues," and other Doors songs like them for the kitsch factor, but I can understand how others would dislike or even revile them.

A compilation of the top twenty or twenty-five Doors songs, however, is consistently great in my estimation.

 

[IWasBored]

la woman is a good song. otherwise, i'd prefer to never hear anything from them ever again.

 

[corianderstem]

NSW and I did not get to the chance to meet up during his stay in Seattle. We tried. We planned. We even toyed with the idea of taking a picture to resemble the stalky window pic. Alas, it was not to be.

 

[bono_212]

Damn, a real version of the stalky window picture would probably have killed me anyways.

 

[BoMac]

You mean that window pic is not real?

 

[lazarus]

Forever Changes was 1967's best and most exciting pop album.

It really is splendid. I think, however, that The Doors manages to trump it. I seem to remember The Doors being fairly maligned here, so I may earn some criticism for that.

Personal taste blah blah blah, the suggestion that either of those albums tops Sgt. Pepper, especially if we're talking about "pop music", is total contrarian garbage. And it doesn't matter that it's not their best collection of songs.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Agreed with Laz.

 

[nirniva]

I will post this here as well, as I realized the vast majority of us don't keep up to date on threads about festivals we aren't going to. Anyways, this cracks me up.

Haven't checked the Random Music thread recently, so I just saw this. Made my day.

Spoiler

Sellouts Who Think Indie They Are Indie for the win.

 

[iron yuppie]

Personal taste blah blah blah, the suggestion that either of those albums tops Sgt. Pepper, especially if we're talking about "pop music", is total contrarian garbage. And it doesn't matter that it's not their best collection of songs.

Well, neither Forever Changes nor The Doors contain an aimless sitar workout or "Good Morning Good Morning." That's a major advantage for both.

 

[LemonMelon]

Personal taste blah blah blah, the suggestion that either of those albums tops Sgt. Pepper, especially if we're talking about "pop music", is total contrarian garbage. And it doesn't matter that it's not their best collection of songs.

I was referencing GAF there. Forever Changes isn't even a pop album; rather, it struck back at the hippie scene in many ways and its sound doesn't resemble the pop music of the time, so the comparison is flawed from the start.

Sgt. Pepper is nowhere near the best collection of Beatles songs, but that probably has no relevance to this discussion since the album does tower over most other '60s pop albums by virtue of its creativity alone. I do love it, in spite of its more visible flaws (see Yup's post above).

Top 10 of 1967, and I don't care if I'm a contrarian asshole for this or not:

1. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
2. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
3. Love - Forever Changes
4. Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
5. The Who - The Who Sell Out
6. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
8. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
9. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
10. The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks

For the record, all 10 of those albums are better than The Suburbs AKA my favorite album of last year. This is what curmudgeons are talking about when they say new music blows.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

'67.

Good time to be alive.

Summer of love, man.

Good drugs back then. Good music. Good women. They just don't make 'em like that anymore.

 

[LemonMelon]

http://www.u2interference.com/forum...t-or-give-me-death-209157-64.html#post7105159

Finally received my iPod knockoff today. It came pre-installed with Baby One More Time (not the worst pre-installed track I've ever received, certainly) and pictures of two rather attractive Japanese women. Likely its previous owners, whose souls got entrapped by this piece of shit. I assume that was their favorite Britney track.

For the time being, I have 8 GBs to mess around with, at least until it chooses to eat my soul and discard the rest.

 

[u2popmofo]

NSW and I did not get to the chance to meet up during his stay in Seattle. We tried. We planned. We even toyed with the idea of taking a picture to resemble the stalky window pic. Alas, it was not to be.

Dang, that would have been fantastic.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Have fun with your new faux iPod thing, LemonMelon .

4. Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

That is a beautiful album. Lots of pretty songs on it. "Nights In White Satin" is one of my favorite songs ever.

I also like the Doors. "Love Street" is my favorite song of theirs-I've always liked the keyboard work of Ray Manzarek on the band's songs in particular. There really was a ton of fantastic music back then, I envy my parents sometimes for getting to grow up in that era and have all that great stuff to listen to. I've been going through this book I got at work about 1,001 songs to hear before you die, and it's really amazing to go from, say, the 1940s big band/blues/jazz music of that time and then go to stuff from the '60s like the Doors, or Jimi Hendrix, or Jefferson Airplane, and realize how drastic a change music went in just 20 years' time.

Also, the altered Coachella poster is hilarious. My favorite one is "No Name Band That Gets a Very Small Font Size".

Angela

 

[lazarus]

I was referencing GAF there. Forever Changes isn't even a pop album; rather, it struck back at the hippie scene in many ways and its sound doesn't resemble the pop music of the time, so the comparison is flawed from the start.

Sgt. Pepper is nowhere near the best collection of Beatles songs, but that probably has no relevance to this discussion since the album does tower over most other '60s pop albums by virtue of its creativity alone. I do love it, in spite of its more visible flaws (see Yup's post above).

Top 10 of 1967, and I don't care if I'm a contrarian asshole for this or not:

1. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
2. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
3. Love - Forever Changes
4. Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
5. The Who - The Who Sell Out
6. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
8. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
9. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
10. The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks

For the record, all 10 of those albums are better than The Suburbs AKA my favorite album of last year. This is what curmudgeons are talking about when they say new music blows.

The problem with ranking Magical mystery Tour is that you're essentially including a compact disc/cassette tracklist among a bunch of legit releases (I'm assuming you're not just talking about tracks 1-6 here). It was an EP, with "side two" made up of singles and b-sides. Sure, it was released that way in the U.S., but I'm going to assume you wouldn't go by the American track listings for Revolver, Rubber Soul, etc.

I also find it a more pleasurable listen then Sgt. Pepper's but it ain't a real LP.