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Thankfully cd's have become slightly more green as the years have gone on. Getting rid of the huge plastic security cases that once housed them and the jewel cases moving to card has been a good move. But, I think the cd is mainly on its way out because young kids today buy songs and when they do i...

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Bruce Springsteen - Walk Like A Man (Live in Mountainview, California 1988)

Great performance of one of my favorite songs from Tunnel of Love, my favorite Springsteen record. A lot of the stuff from the record didn't get played too much live and this is definitely a semi-forgotten gem.

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Beady Eye - Wigwam

Good psychedelic track. All things considered Beady Eye has been better than I expected.

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spzretent wrote:All made to a Bob Dylan/The Band soundtrack while drinking.

Before The Flood? The Basement Tapes?

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What about 'The Last Waltz'? I know there are some fans of The Band in here so it seems that album should be listed. The Last Waltz is a real mixed bag. Some great tracks but I don't care for some of the guests, and some of the performances of standards are not their best. I'd go with the expanded ...

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Slipstream - Everything and Anything

A really nice, blissful instrumental from the Transcendental album.

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One of my favorite P. Kember songs, brilliantly realized in a number of different mixes and then given a sequel, itself with several mixes, for Recurring. I was listening to the 17 minute single version of Rollercoaster and at around 10:20 you can hear a little riff that sounds a lot like the song a...

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I have no problem with live albums either. But remember...there are MANY live albums that were hastily released simply to comply with contract requirements. With no new studio product on the horizon or the artist wanting to deliver a quick product to get out of a contract the live album is an easy ...

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jeff buckley at sin-e Good choice. The original EP in particular has magic to it. Jeff Buckley is a good argument for both live albums and boots. He could be pretty inconsistent live and tended to play the same setlist in his short touring career, so going through tons of boots for the gems can be ...

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i'd much rather see a list of top 40 bootlegs. they're far more interesting than live albums. For me live albums are still significant despite the prevalence of bootlegs nowadays. At their best, they're a representation of how the band sees themselves live, or how they want to be remembered. They h...

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Alas, like many a similar list it prioritizes contemporary name dropping over the true classics... George Harrison et al. - Concert for Bangladesh Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East Derek & The Dominoes - Live at the Fillmore Eric Clapton - Just One Night Beatles - Live at the Hollywood Bow...

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I have 42 of them, though to be fair I've listened to about 35 of those. Strange thing to advertise in one's social media. All in all I think this was a better list in terms of what's been fashionable in various indie-rock circles over the last ten years than most equivalent attempts I've seen.

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While I admit, unlike most in this forum I do tend to play more far out 60's stuff in my house than contemporary psych. The music of this era, in my opinion, was so free from preconceived ideas, perceptions and musicians really had free reign to explore. Rock and roll was still young and so much fr...

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I've always respected rather than loved MBV because I didn't think there was enough pop. There were great textures and soundscapes but sometimes they didn't feel integrated into realized songs the way that the Spacemen or Verve could do. This album I think reflects Shields' time with Primal Scream l...

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shalloboi wrote:the first track is beautiful

The first track is really lovely. All I've heard so far but it's already one of their highlights for me.

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I agree that the LGM studio version is the definitive take on the song. I may slightly prefer the more straight-ahead vocal from the Friendly Fire version, but the way the original dissolves into noise that is both dischordant and blissful is a definitive Spiritualized moment for me. Because I like ...

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Jeff Buckley - Tongue (live) Tongue was recorded "live in the studio," so I tend to think of it as a studio recording from the Grace sessions. Great instrumental that illustrates the importance of reverb and dream pop to Buckley's sound. This really blew my mind when I heard it in high sc...

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Jeff Buckley - Tongue (live) Tongue was recorded "live in the studio," so I tend to think of it as a studio recording from the Grace sessions. Great instrumental that illustrates the importance of reverb and dream pop to Buckley's sound. This really blew my mind when I heard it in high sc...

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George Jones - Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1MoAiKWvw I've tended to be somebody who skims the best of many genres rather than dig so deep in any one area, so I don't know if this will appeal to hardcore fans of space rock, but this is a fantastic relatively modern-day ...

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Coldplay - Fix You I loved Coldplay in high school and played them a lot in my college radio days, but gradually came to find them sort of grating and horrible. While I usually blanch and press skip when Coldplay comes on my mix, I'm generally happy to hear them in public places where they're one of...

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The 192 KB MP3s sound pretty good! And don't break if you drop them.

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Not once have I ever felt the need or the urge to have a gun. I do not hunt but I understand that some people do. I still do not understand why anybody would need a semi automatic or a fully automatic gun. Once you have that type of arsenal it seems to take the "sport" out of hunting or t...

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Semi, and everybody else, in one sentence: why do people deserve to own guns? Certainly not because it says so in the constitution, that's the most bullshit answer I've ever heard, so please don't give that; the question I guess is - why, from a modern perspective , should guns be mentioned in the ...

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Thanks for posting this. Like many others I assume, Pitchfork loomed large in my adolescence. There's some immaturity listening to pop music at that age and it's easy to assume that music does and should speak to your concerns in the moment, which must automatically be the zeitgeist, as opposed to b...

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I am very pleased with my ipod for the majority of my musical needs, but do often miss the concise discipline of an 80 minute CD! I frequently make playlists that would fit onto a CD... as a big Al Green fan I don't mind putting all 13 hours on shuffle, but there's something clarifying about boiling...

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Johnny Ace - Memorial Album (+ bonus tracks) Johnny Ace was a R&B singer from right before rock 'n' roll, who kinda splits the difference between postwar blues and 50s high school dance jukebox music. He famously died preposterously young, either in a game of Russian Roulette or otherwise mistak...

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Interesting how the 2nd Ammendment written in the late 1700's is used to make the argument for the right to bear arms. That was the late 1700's. Things are slightly different in 2012. It doesn't work. If these 26 innocent lives lost can slap this country back to reality and force change as well as ...

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Has anybody been watching the 12.12.12 Sandy relief concert? I don't want to harsh the mellow of anyone affected, but this music is seriously, abysmally bad. Bruce Springsteen has never been more bloated or hollow, and Roger Waters really defiled some of his catalog with the help of Eddie Vedder on ...

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I've mentioned it before but I find a lot of J's instrumentals pretty Christmassy, and I've made a Christmas with J. Spaceman compilation: Harmony 2 Silent Sound [Last Movement] You Know It's True [Instrumental] Huh? (Intro) Silent Night Rock And Roll [Instrumental] Paris Beach Garden Walk Going Dow...

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Alas, I've never had the opportunity to listen to any EAR. Does it have the slightly pop quality of the more floaty Spectrum stuff or is it purely abstract?

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Anyone heard the cover of Renee by Black Ships/Submarine? Pretty nice cover, considering it's come from a cover of (from the tracks I heard) pretty awful Talk Talk covers. King Creosote's take on Living in Another World was quite shocking. I love that Black Submarine cover -- it's just promising en...

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Loads of early Primal Scream, from All Fall Down to Crystal Crescent to Sonic Flower Groove, along with some of the Peel sessions from the time. What early Scream lacked in chops they made up for in mystery and atmosphere, plus there's an affecting sweetness to a lot of this stuff. I prefer this er...

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Loads of early Primal Scream, from All Fall Down to Crystal Crescent to Sonic Flower Groove, along with some of the Peel sessions from the time. What early Scream lacked in chops they made up for in mystery and atmosphere, plus there's an affecting sweetness to a lot of this stuff. I prefer this era...

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Good stuff, Runcible. Thanks. I do relate more to the shorter stuff, but the jams have their moments too when I'm in the mood.

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Great article, thanks. I'm afraid from my deepening appreciation for 2 minute twenty second country songs that i might be one of the concision people the author says doesn't get it, but i am inspired to give them another. Generally i'm put off by the style and sensibility of the new yorker, so it wa...

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Congrats to all of you who are cheered by this decisive victory! I feel that there are important truths often ignored by Democrats, but hope that those nuances can be explored with mutual respect rather than the bitter discord of recent years. I often struggle to be optimistic, but do hope for the b...

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Watching these election results is too nerve-wracking! I need a drink.

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For anyone who doesn't have them (if this is OK to post) here are the Recurring Demos that circulated a few years back -- 2 separate folders. I'm not clear on how much overlap there is between the collections, but one of them has the Battery Studio remixes of Big City, Drive and I Love You. http://w...

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I've been a fan for about 10 years or so, certainly less than some of you who've been around since the mid-80s, but it's been odd over the years to see Spacemen 3 vs. Spiritualized vs. Sonic Boom get more and less trendy and gradually become a widely praised legacy cult act rather than the spaced-ou...

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Unfortunately the new songs were nothing radical, and neither was the setlist, with the exception of Come Down Easy which was a real and welcome surprise. Did the new songs namecheck Jesus and/or obliquely deal with drug abuse? In Come Down Easy, did he sing "1987 - all I wanna do" or did...

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The center of the storm is getting close to our area now with some really intense wind bursts going on as I write this. Just keeping my fingers crossed we don't lose power or even worse that the huge tree outside our house doesn't come crashing through our bedroom window later tonight...think we'll...

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I'm in New York, not at the center exactly but the wind is outrageous. Trees down, cars smashed, and the constant ominous threat of losing power. Haven't been listening to any music because the power of the wind is wondrous, but Dylan's "High Water Everywhere" has been playing in my head.

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There are some Recurring demo sessions floating around out there... pretty hissy from what I've heard and I haven't listened to them comprehensively. I don't have a sense of how different they are from the LP or whether they might be marketable. Much as I'd like to see more material from the under-r...

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Lots of postwar blues...

My Dad's in town and recommended Jimmy Reed from when he grew up at the cusp of the rock 'n' roll era, and then I played him some Elmore Leonard, Little Walter, etc.

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Spiritualized - Feel So Sad (Live at Flux Festival 1998)

I've never gotten around to listening to this before but it's excellent... perhaps as good as the Peel Sessions version.

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Pink Floyd - The Wall For me The Wall is so theatrical and melodramatic that it becomes a little silly... I can still relate to the teenage emotions but I think I'm usually too amused to find it that dark. I'd nominate: Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers Bob Dylan - Street Legal Bruce Springsteen - Neb...

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i like some of MJ's stuff. some of it is simply irresistible pop perfection & he did a great job of bridging the leap from motown funk to disco to pop & rock. BUT there were a LOT of crap songs at the same time, as many misses as there were hits IMO. but the hits, his best songs, are cracki...

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Right now, Michael Jackson - Breaking News Then again, I feel like no one around here ever responds when I mention him. Any other fans? maybe because he was a child molester? Such cynicism! For what it's worth I've read into the evidence, and it's my impression that both sets of accusers were black...

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Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man (still awesome, plush and atmospheric) That is a genius album and maybe my favorite blaxploitation soundtrack. I always skip the more dischordant incidental stuff, about half the album, but the rest of it is lush atmospheric funk at its best, seriously evoking life-changin...

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You're a Republican....of course you are going to say that.. I've voted for Dems, Repubs, and 3rd Party candidates. I'm not here to spout a party line. Do you say things only because you align Democratic, or because you are trying to tell it like you see it? I'm sure it's the latter, but there is o...

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Thanks for the link. I gotta say, though, that i find the choice baffling. The album has some darkness on it but also excitement, malaise, grace, love, hope, recovery, etc. -- with such lush, bright orchestration that i don't find the album very dark at all. To me it's more huge and life-affirming. ...

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I don't know about that VP debate. I don't think either of them came off particularly well but Biden laid it on a little too thick, I think. There's folksy and then there's pandering, and I'm not sure he stayed on the right side of that line. A lot of the credit should go to the EXCELLENT questions ...

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The Republican Party, for the most part at least, has always seemed to me to be a party that is based off of people voting irrationally against their own self interest (i.e. people who would benefit from Democratic policies but vote Republican - think poor Republicans in the south who vote for tric...

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I guess I musically came of age during the last flush of the CD era, so I still have a certain fondness for the medium. Sure, the artwork and physical object is less satisfying than vinyl, but it was a lot more portable and convenient in the pre-mp3 era. It's easy to forget in this age of ipods (whi...

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A bunch of semi-obscure Michael Jackson: Unreleased tracks from the Bad sessions, just released on the 25th anniversary box Some previously unreleased material from his "Ultimate Collection" box Tracks from his posthumous "Michael Jackson" album Several of these songs -- most not...

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This was one of the better tracks off the mixed Forever Alien LP. I'm interested to see if the remaster will be different at all.

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The Black Ships, now Black Submarine appear to have been 'recording' since at least 2009. Simon Jones is also in the band....unfortunatley considering how long theyve been together it is taking an awful long time to get their arses in gear. theyve done ONE gig, released an okish EP and had a 10min ...

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I know it's not every Spiritualized fan's cup of tea but Jason obviously likes it judging by the amount of AG tracks that have made up the set lists in recent years. Mrs Shines walked in to This Little of Life of Mine and said what a racket it was! I really like the album on the whole; O Baby is be...

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I have high hopes. I think Beautiful Future , flawed as it is, was a step in the right direction after Riot City Blues , which I couldn't get into at all and struck me as a unbearably cliched, a corny rock pastiche. I take it that I'm in the minority to think that Riot City Blues and Beautiful Futu...

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At a certain point, re-issues become excessive and kind of insulting. I'm not the biggest VU fan in the world but I have all their albums, some live stuff, and the comps of unreleased material. This release just feels redundant to me -- how many times has it been remastered already? Similarly, the h...

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I wasn't gonna bother downloading (my 160g ipod is nearly full!) but the mention of a new version of Alison persuaded me. It's great! Slowdive/Mojave3, unlike some of their contemporaries, had really sturdy songs under the noise, and this confirms that. I may just have to generously tip Mr. Halstead...

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I'll be in London next month, around October 20 or so, on my very first trip to the UK. I've got an event for work and am staying a few extra days. I'd be up for a meet up, if anyone in the area would be interested. Not that there's any shortage of things for the tourist to see!

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I would have thought I Am What I Am too in terms of most commercial possibility, but the truth is that the third vinyl single from a middle aged pop artist will sell based on the fanbase rather than appealing to the public. So, whatever strikes J's fancy I suppose.

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freelovebabies - home improvement for condemned buildings freelovebabies - written in sand Two good ones for sure. Right now, Elvis Presley - Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances Amazing, supercharged gospel music! This is some of The King's greatest material and good demonstration that ...

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I'm gonna go ahead and say - SPOILER ALERT!!! that I think that album is getting a little too much critical kudos. There are some really memorable fantastic tracks, but also a fair bit of latter-day Dylan by numbers. Some of it could have used a bit of editing and the album sags a bit towards the en...

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I always thought that there's more of that gig than what was on the video, they should release that officially. I'd like to get my hands on a recording of the gig that particular recording is from. It's like detroit 1997 or something, isn't it? I think so, but as far as I know a boot of that gig is...

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