Random Music Talk XXVI: You can smell the whiskey burnin' down Cobbledicks Rd

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Imperor said:
My Monday night:

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Bully.
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woah.

now that's a DJ set i would kill to see. i do enjoy going out clubbing but really, most of what the DJs play is music to drink/snort/chew your bottom lip off to.
 
just caught up on the last few posts in the last thread... it appears a chance to make a funny thread title about Sean Connery and slapping bitches was missed.

i hope you're all ashamed of yourselves...
 
I'm listening to London Calling.

Just wanted to make sure you guys knew in case you wanted to argue about it some more.
 
Yeah, I do too. I'd better. Otherwise, I'd look like a real asshole wearing my London Calling t-shirt.

I would prefer to talk about how awesome the Replacements are though. I'm listening to Let It Be right now and remembering why I consider them a nearly perfect hybrid of punk energy and sublime harmonies. Pleased To Meet Me was running away as my favorite album of theirs, but now I'm not so sure.
 
I like Pleased To Meet Me the best because it's their most diverse, and I really like the production from Jim Dickinson, even if it's a little dated. Throw in Alex Chilton's guest appearance and the song named after him and it's a Big Star lovefest.

Plus, and most importantly, Bob getting kicked out of the band allowed Paul to display that he was clearly the better guitarist. His solos on that album are the best in the band's career.

Also, they don't have another album that has as many MVP songs. I'd start listing them but that would be almost every song on there. The only ones I don't think are flat-out fantastic are Shooting Dirty Pool and...that's it.
 
And El Mel/GAF, you guys ever get into solo Paul?

I rate his second album, Eventually, pretty damned high (I'd honestly take it over every Mats album save for Let It Be/Tim/PTMM). So many great tracks. And there's some drum work by Michael Bland from Prince's NPG.

The first solo album, 14 Songs, isn't as good overall but does have a healthy number of standouts as well.
 
I have Mono/Stereo, and I have the obligatory "I went to college in the 90s" love of his songs on the Singles soundtrack.
 
Mono/Stereo has some very good material, as do some of the more indie stuff he's released subsequently. But I don't think the consistency of quality of those first three (Suicaine Gratifaction isn't bad either) was equalled after that; he seemed to lose interest in the whole record biz. Not that an album needs to have a record label and producer to be good, but when you go all D.I.Y. the results tend to be scattershot.

It's a little sad that those two Singles songs didn't make him huge. Unlike when he was with The Replacements, he really seemed poised (and willing) to play the game for a bit there. So many inferior imitators found success in his wake, or even at the same time he was around. I just don't get it.
 
Unfortunately the only solo Westerberg I know are the two tracks on the Singles soundtrack. I f'n love that soundtrack.

PJ were in some sort of crazy zone when that shit came out. "Breath" and "State of Love and Trust?" Two absolute monster tracks. And I was lucky enough to be at one of the like 10 shows ever where they did a performance of the Mother Love Bone song "Crown of Thorns" that shows up on that soundtrack. Awesome moment.
 
BoMac said:
Friggin' Cobbler. Of course she is. Anything that has anything to do with violence against women justifiably annoys her.
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I know that. I took her reply literally, forgetting I'd added the "slapping bitches" bit.
 
GirlsAloudFan said:
Unfortunately the only solo Westerberg I know are the two tracks on the Singles soundtrack. I f'n love that soundtrack.

PJ were in some sort of crazy zone when that shit came out. "Breath" and "State of Love and Trust?" Two absolute monster tracks. And I was lucky enough to be at one of the like 10 shows ever where they did a performance of the Mother Love Bone song "Crown of Thorns" that shows up on that soundtrack. Awesome moment.
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The Singles soundtrack also features a great Alice in Chains song, and what is arguably the best song the Smashing Pumpkins ever recorded (I personally prefer Mayonnaise, but Drown is my #2). And of course you have the big Screaming Trees song, and that OMG cover of The Battle of Evermore by the women from Heart.

GAF, seriously get ahold of Paul's Eventually. Like, stat. I won't tell Scumbo you DLed it.
 
Also, BTdubs, I really enjoyed my first listen of that Kurt Vile album.

Will have to check out the older stuff now.





I would never seriously say "BTdubs". COME ON.
 
I found out today Trent Reznor named his son Lazarus.

I wish I had a pithy remark to add to this, but I can't think of one.
 
Pretty Hate Machine is a kickass album, by the way.

Haven't listened to it in a long time, though.
 
It is. Though I consider The Downward Spiral to be much more accomplished, even if it isn't as "fun".

Gave The Fragile a spin a couple weeks ago. Better than I remembered, but I just don't have the attention span for that type of music anymore.
 
lazarus said:
And El Mel/GAF, you guys ever get into solo Paul?

I rate his second album, Eventually, pretty damned high (I'd honestly take it over every Mats album save for Let It Be/Tim/PTMM). So many great tracks. And there's some drum work by Michael Bland from Prince's NPG.

The first solo album, 14 Songs, isn't as good overall but does have a healthy number of standouts as well.
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Nope. For the same reason that I haven't far beyond the Trilogy. I wanted to familiarize myself with those, but now that I'm feeling wistful listening to any given second of those three records, I think it's time to move on. Keeping your comment on Westerberg in mind, is it worth it to head in that direction before the other Mats records? The last two records get awful reviews, and I'll confess that the idea of a less melodic Replacements doesn't really appeal to me, so the first two don't scream essential for me.

Nine Inch Nails is largely awful. Downward Spiral is very interesting, but a full listen to The Fragile seems like the sort of torture Reznor probably thinks is cool. No thanks.
 
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