James Brown -- sings Out of Sight

those chromatic hits on "come rain or come shine" are stupendous.

Neurosis - Times of Grace. (Steven's in Birmingham, Marie's just gone out on the piss - let's go.)

Maurice wrote:Would that be the Tele-playing, gorgeous-singing Joel I think it is? If so, well chosen.

I happen to be listening to that Joel right now.

Customs is a really great record. If my band were making another record, I was going to push for us to have Troy Glessner do it. Both this album and Blackbird are two of the best natural sounding recordings I've heard done in the northwest as of late.

"Peeled Out Too Late" by Chavez

Islands by King Crimson. I'm cleaning up the house, and this is good housekeeping music.

ccr - "tombstone shadow"

what a solid band...

burun wrote:Bastard Pet Sounds.

Interesting in its way.

ucccch. i enjoy the shit outta mashups that work, but for fuck's sake people - they don't work if you don't tune the vocals! don't just assume that, because the first note of the verse matches the key, that it's all in key. use the pitch envelope in live or a copy of melodyne and tune that shit! dummies! bad news...

tallchris wrote:

Maurice wrote:Would that be the Tele-playing, gorgeous-singing Joel I think it is? If so, well chosen.

I happen to be listening to that Joel right now.

Customs is a really great record. If my band were making another record, I was going to push for us to have Troy Glessner do it. Both this album and Blackbird are two of the best natural sounding recordings I've heard done in the northwest as of late.

Customs is a great record indeed, but weird--it took several plays before it grew on me (and grow it did!). Some of the tunes still don't latch for me, but the ones that do are great. Other songs are beyond great and into amazing ("North and Annie-O," "When Will We Bury You?", "Kelly Grand Forks," "What the Sgt Said"). And on the bonus disc there's that cover of "Flying Shoes" that lays me out flat every time.

Another thread about [band from the 80s] got me thinking about how [songwriter of band from the 80s] writes all these almost-embarrassing and often yes-embarrassing couplets, while JRLP seems constitutionally incapable of writing a bad lyric. Not a single cringe in the bunch, and some devastating achievements. He's really one of the best we have.

Maurice wrote:He's really one of the best we have.

Technically "we" don't because he's one of Them. You know, a Canadian.*

If you live in Canada, you are a Canadian.

Maybe we can give him Neil Young-like dispensation.
























*I'm fully aware that Joel grew up in Montana, so is very probably born American. But he still lives in Vancouver, or did the last time I checked, and that makes him Not American.**

**Yeah, it's Saturday and I'm home posting nitpicky pseudo funny things on a message board. SO WHAT?!? I know I have no life. Don't make me feel worse about it than I already do.

burun wrote:

Maurice wrote:He's really one of the best we have.

Technically "we" don't because he's one of Them. You know, a Canadian.*

I was thinking "we" in the "humanity" sense. But yeah, "we" as USAians missed the boat, and I hope Canadia is treating him well.

burun wrote:**Yeah, it's Saturday and I'm home posting nitpicky pseudo funny things on a message board. SO WHAT?!? I know I have no life. Don't make me feel worse about it than I already do.

No problem. It's Saturday, and I'm posting nitpicky responses on a messageboard after having gotten back from Cleveland where I played an odd (the "drummers" were a visual artist and a trumpet player--not my definition of drummers) but rewarding (guarantee, good response) gallery show. Just now, I put the Young Man to bed, and now I'm on the EA board. So, y'know, whatever; it's cool.