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I love Too Late! Agree Hey Jane is one of Jason's best tracks and So Long is excellent too. I Am What I I am...is nearly a great song. Just doesn't seem to go anywhere so it always sounds semi finished to me. Overall... definitely better than the two albums that came before it, but not as strong as ...

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Brill, thanks all. Going to make my way through these...

James

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Encouraged by the excellent Spaceman podcasts I'm moving beyond the studio albums...what's the pick of the live albums out there?

Thanks all

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Cool...thanks everyone!

Gonna get 1/2 of these and go from there...

Take care

James

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I've been listening to a bit of Can for the first time on youtube (couple of live recordings plus peel sessions). I've been enjoying it and was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for where I might start with their back catalogue?

Thanks! James

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I've always been fascinated by Jason and Sonic naming the exact instruments they've used on specific albums in the sleeve notes. I guess it helps that the names of the instruments themselves are so evocative...Vox Starstreamer etc. Do any other artists do this? Where does it come from?

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I was at the Belfast gig too...and loved it! Ok, so I was only able to go at the last minute and I've not seen them since the SHSL date at Manchester Academy which was years back, so I was thrilled just to be there... Having said that the first two songs off the new album felt very leaden but things...

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Used to love Wilco...but not bought an album since Sky Blue Sky which was ok. They now just feel like another 'big' rock band...dull and pretentious. Still this thread has persuaded me to listen to A Ghost is Born for the first time in ages - had forgotten how great it is. And how amazing Jeff's gui...

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So...I think it's a pretty solid album but not outstanding. Some great songs (Soul on Fire, Sweet Talk, Borrowed You Gun, Death Take...) but what really irks me about this realease is the vocals. Anyone who went to the acoustic gigs knows Jason can sing properly but here he puts his croaked/weary bl...

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doggen will be I am sure. dont know about john c.

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I agree, first listen and it feels a bit dull bar a few great tracks others have mentioned. J has his wounded/weary bluesman voice on quite a few tracks and he sounded a lot better on some of the recent live bootlegs than on this.

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Interesting $26,according to this http://www.thewonder.co.uk/select.htm some of the pics in the new MM book were on the original LP although they are not specific about which... In any event I agree there are no real traces of the Television sound upon SP3 at all really so this is all mindless fancy...

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My aging copy of Marqueen Moon is a bit knackered so I bought a 'gatefold' style CD reissue for Â£5 the other day complete with an insert full of photos and text. Some of the photos may have appeared with the original LP release. Anyway, some of the photos are very much like that of Perfect Prescrip...

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As a combination has to be Verlaine and Lloyd...

Seeing them play Call Mr Lee live last night was insane...Patti Smith's band were totally lumpen in comparison.

Other current favourites include Jeff Tweedy (his playing on the last Wilco album is great)

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Looks good although apprently entirely uncritical. Bit like his fawning docu of the Band

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Apparently he also dismantled the hotel room's Corby trouser press in a drug fuelled rage. But it didn't appear on the bill...

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Loved it when it first appeared, don't really listen to it now. The only tracks I come back to are Don't Just Do Something, Straight and NArrow and Anything More. In fact I really got in the latter when it was played at the Fibbers gig with Jason just singing and looking a bit awkward. The song just...

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Isn't it funny how everyone has different tastes...I really can't recall the last time I listened to Amazing Grace, I really don't think it has any good tracks bar The Ballard of Richie Lee and possibly Rated X. The record just sounded like a rock n roll garage record and most of the tracks could ha...

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was at the leeds gig last night and pretty good stuff it was to.

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Is the Run video filmed through lots of blue smoke and has outlines of jason and the band? I think I saw it as part of the Indie Chart of the Chart Show on a Saturday morning once...

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Has anyone got this - the Television live recording? I've heard one track off it years ago (Friction) and the quality was pretty poor. Has this been rectified on the newer version that is for sale via Amazon at a rather steep Â£18.99?

Any verdict?

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Wilco have a very good site as well, very regular updates, free downloads, new pics... I feel a bit cheated by this site cos it only ever gets updated when there's something that the record company wants us to buy. So no doubt there will be a tons of new stuff to coincide with the DVD and then we wi...

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Me neither....any news on the website as well?

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ok, am now up to 40 but struggling badly...

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I wonder if Nick Hornby went to Sister Ray and was so pissed off he based his character of Barry in High Fidelity (the one played by Jack Black) on their members of staff?

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It's very nearly a month since the promise of the DVD and the website changes. Given that JP does not seem to be blessed with much innovation generally over the past year it's hardly surprising it's taking so long.

This forum is the only thing that keeps the site alive...

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The mono-browed Gallagher bros mean oasis have to be up there somewhere...

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have any other bands gone to the lengths to name specific instruments used in making albums on the album sleeves..or is it just a SP3/SPZ thing?

Anyone know they they do it...maybe they just like using evocative names of things like Vox Starstreamers....

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jason's posture on his stool is not great so he is putting a lot of strain on his lower back. He prob needs to sit upright and do some work strengthing his abs if he to avoid possible problems.

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Anyone bought this yet? What's it really like?

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I was wondering who actually updates this site...is it run by JP's management team or what?

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was only 14 at the time...what's the tracklisting?

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Does the DVD have any black and white footage on the Zep circa their debut LP? There were a few clips on the BBC a while back, a very sinister Dazed and Confused, plus How Many More Times with Bonham going ballistic. May have been TOTP or something.... Personally I think the Zep are awesome, though ...

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Most of NY's stuff is great (esp On the Beach, Tonights the Night) but a big part of why I like him is that he is a bit of a oddball - messing around with model trains, making dire stuff like Trans, Landing on water, then coming back to form, doing a CSNY reunion then quitting mid-way through. The b...

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On the whole I am glad Pierce is still making music since some of my fave tracks have come from the last two albums (Don't Just Do Something, Anything More, Richie Lee, Rated X). But this can't disguise the fact that there are just a few decent tracks from the last two compared to a whole load of gr...

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Guardian review of the RFH gig here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/ ... 75,00.html

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what was the setlist?

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i agree, great research that makes me think twice about my original post.

Ian - you have very good ears...

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What do people think about the constant drug refs in JP's songs? To begin with I went along with it but now it just seems incredibly tiresome. I mean the outstretched arm on the cover of AG then reading in The Guardian that his daughter is called Poppy...I mean it just seems, er...boring. Or it it b...

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On the whole I do really like JP's voice although I do find it annoying when he insists on the overdone hoarse-croaky effect (Oh I am a modern-day bluesman, life is so tough and weary etc) - taken to ridiculous extremes on 'lay it down slow'. Live he does tend to do quite a few 'rock whoops' as well...

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They might open with 'All of My Tears' instead of 'Electricity'. That would be a shock to the system!

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This is almost exactly the same set that got played on the UK tour about 6 months ago. Doesn't JP get bored of dragging the same set all over the place..or is he that lazy?

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Is that John Coxon wearing his hideous glasses again (as on inside sleeve of AG and tucked in pocket at numerous gigs

Can't really tell due to monitor problems.

bit of a typically lazy track...

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Does anyone know past band histories of the current line up? I know Coxon and Thighpaulsandra have been around for a while know but anything more on the others?

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Hiya blindsummit

would also love a copy of the Fibbers gig - which was one of the best i've been to in ages. can't wait to hear thaat mad pause in 'this little life...' again.

thanks so much

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was the evening setlist any different?

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Was the setlist for the 'evening' gig any different? Anyone know?

Excellent intimate gig, although too many new songs really.

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