OK, I’m sorry about jumping to the wrong conclusion… with all the talk on this board how weak the show was, or whatever with Bo Bice… I guess I just figured it was in a negative connotation.
In the immortal words of Mr. Weir… “A thousand pardons folks… We will start that again now.”
Right now I am listening to one of my favorite hangover albums… Keller Williams Incident - Breathe… Love the Cheese music to Keller’s words
Aside from drowning myself in the Island Tour…
—69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields. Yup, it’s the 3CD box set. Yup, it’s 69 love songs done by a really good indie rock band. The guy has a really unique, baritone kind of voice and the songs are incredibly varied and good. I actually bought this for my girlfriend, but she let me borrow it finally.
—Life Won’t Wait and Rancid (2000) by Rancid. Yup, it’s really good punk. The former is very Clash-ish while the latter is mostly straight up punk.
—The Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson. You call yourself a music fan and don’t own a copy of this?!
—Roseland NYC Live by Portishead. If you’re into trip hop, you cannot go wrong with Portishead. Very chilled out and jazzy music. Good to get stoned to at night and/or make out to.
The Nugs.net Pure Jerry Sampler…
Great musicianship on “Cats” and the “Keystone Jam”… However it has a very strained-sounding vocals of Mr. Garcia.
However… I always love August because it seems the JG Dam breaks open and everything comes flying at you like water from a hose.
To finish my post above… just finished the Pure Jerry sampler… and it is pretty amazing…
One of the best JGB "Deal"s I have ever heard… and the “Ripple” to end it sounds just as good. I would highly suggest everyone should check these out, especially if your into JGarcia.
I like both the sampler as well as the NUGSCAST that has more Garcia on it.
Makes me want to get MORE live JGB shows…
Yes indeed… Do you have “After Midnight”? Definitely my favorite Jerry release… although maybe these Pure Jerry releases will top that.
But the After Midnight->Eleanor Rigby->After Midnight is jaw-dropping. That’s all I can really muster to say… speechless.
I don’t think Portishead is that depressing, more or less similar to Massive Attack and Air in “make out to this music”-ness. Rancid are awesuma indeed, and I do indeed love Op Ivy though I don’t have the album. I heard it once at my friend Dave’s house whilst pretty drunk and it was like hearing it for the first time.
GWAR, jack johnson and surrender to the air are what’s in my disc player. i saw gwar on 8-5 and they were amazing. they get better every time i seen them
Nothing…I really can’t get myself to listen to anything else…I listened to Phil & Phriends from 4/16/99 last night…does that count?
My girlfriends been playing a lot of T-Rex and Allman Brothers, both of which I love (and actually got her into), but when I’m putting on music, I’m putting on phish.
just like Madonna, i am from Detroit. so i must never stop talking about how i’m from Detroit, and i must also never admit how much i fucking love and endlessly listen to everything the White Stripes have ever done, because that’s not too cool anymore if you are from Detroit, like Madonna.
and disc 2 of Cold Roses by Ryan Adams and the Cardinals instantly became my all-time favorite Grateful Dead album. Seriously. it will be great to watch all the hipster Ryan Adams fans secretly begin buying Dead cd’s off Amazon (oh my god, do NOT go into a record store for that, whatever you do, because that will NOT look cynical or angsty at ALL), and get all “hippy-chic”. mark my words. cuz like, i never really got into the Dead all that much, but now i kinda want to like, buy something, or whatever.
and have any of you heard Jeff Hanson yet? this guy’s voice is beyond description. it will freak you out. but then you will hear the songs, and it will no longer seem…“odd” or…“disturbing”, but more “amazing” and “fucking wow”.
oh and i forgot to mention Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Murder Ballads. very very dark and spooky stuff, evil possibly, and just soooo increadibly good. also, The Lyre of Orphieus/Abbatar Blues new double album can bring tears. Sounds like Mr. Cave may have actually worked out some of his demons a bit and is seeing the sun for the first time in a while.
on a side note, i’ve seen a few mentions of American Beauty (the only Dead i own, and yes, i have loved it for years). if anyone is familiar with a short-lived television show called Freaks and Geeks (amazing, amazing show. way too good for T.V. that’s why it was cancelled after one season i suppose. shame.), the last episode portrays one of the main characters life hinging on a major decision, and that album plays a big role in what she decides to do. it’s very clear that the creators of the show were Dead fans, and they give the props. one season. out on dvd only by a miracle of F&G fan support. quality programming the way phish plays quality music. check it out.
I watched F&G a few times… But never really got into it… Maybe it is time to check it out again…
And what ELSE I am listening to? Velvet Underground, “Candy Says”, self-titled album… Good night all.
I consider myself both hipster and hippie. In the end, I guess I’m just ‘hip.’
This week I busted out Made in the Sun b/c I haven’t heard it in such a long time. Something about the vinyls and the Stones earlier sound that really makes me love it.
oh heavens to betsy, i nearly forgot…
the soundrack to “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”. godDAMN this is some cool shit!
I have permanent shuffle on my ipod while making calls. Lots of Jay Z and Newgrass Revival. Spectrum anyone?
^ Are we talking Sonic Boom Spectrum? Good stuff indeed…
New Riders of the Purple Sage, circa 1971 w/Jerry Garcia on the lap pedal steel guitar. Awesome. This is one of my Dad’s favorite bands, and know he’s got me converted.The song i’m jammin is “Henry” to be more specific “This one goes out to all the smugglers out there”
Live version of The Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense
Next up on the drive home from work: Paul Simon’s Graceland.