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Rongomania said:
That is hilariously awesome .

Everyone I know in music HATES Bryter but ADORES Pink Moon.

Bryter all the way.

F’n Poor Boy?! Paul Harris just smoking those tracks. Woof. Beautiful record.
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Hazey Jane II and Northern Sky are god tier too.

I love both records, Pink Moon is unbelievable. Parasite is one of the greatest songs of all time PERIOD. That shit is so f***ing sad though. Bryter Layter is more my mood right now :D
 
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KooKooForKakko said:
Hazey Jane II and Northern Sky are god tier too.

I love both records, Pink Moon is unbelievable. Parasite is one of the greatest songs of all time PERIOD. That **** is so ****ing sad though. Bryter Layter is more my mood right now :D
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Yeah the whole relationship between him and John Martyn makes his short time here that much sadder.

All three records are utterly amazing pieces of music. All so different, all so interesting, deep and wonderful.

Hazey Jane II is such the burner.

Ugh, Parasite <3
 
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Bluenote13 said:
Albini has written a lot of great articles, love his stuff. He produced a lot of great records. And my ex roommate's album more than a dozen years ago.
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You ever read Michael Azerrad's Our Band could be your life? That was a great book. Albini has a minor role in it as his is one of the bands that Azerrad's devotes a chapter to.
 
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eco's bones said:
You ever read Michael Azerrad's Our Band could be your life? That was a great book. Albini has a minor role in it as his is one of the bands that Azerrad's devotes a chapter to.
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Yeah I've read it along with a few other good reads by Azzerad.

That article by Albini was from 1993, he was so right. The record industry had been ripping people off for years, both artist and consumer. He definitely became more optimistic with the rise of the internet.
 
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Stereophonics , Just enough Education to Perform

Pulled out some Steel Pulse recently

Some old Boiled in Lead, Cordelia’s Dad - sorta like the Punk/tradional music fusion
 
Bluenote13 said:
Yeah I've read it along with a few other good reads by Azzerad.

That article by Albini was from 1993, he was so right. The record industry had been ripping people off for years, both artist and consumer. He definitely became more optimistic with the rise of the internet.
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Yeah, he did a keynote speech in 2014 which is pretty interesting (below.) Lol the guy is so f***in dorky and soft-spoken... the waist guitar strap LOL, I love it. Like only watching this keynote would not prepare you at all for the guy's music. :laugh:

Big Black was so, so great though.

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In the I don't listen to this but absolutely hilarious department:

I occasionally get promotions from SiriusXM to enter contests to win tickets to concerts for bands that fall into my "selected" genre, or for local shows. Anyway, I get one today for a show June 2 at the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte:

Matt Costa, JD & The Straight Shot, and Matt Hartke.

Really? I mean that implies a few things. They tour and they actually have people buy tickets to see them. I honestly thought they were a band that might play a local bar once in a while.

This has to be a joke, doesn't it?
 
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In the I don't listen to this but absolutely hilarious department:

I occasionally get promotions from SiriusXM to enter contests to win tickets to concerts for bands that fall into my "selected" genre, or for local shows. Anyway, I get one today for a show June 2 at the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte:

Matt Costa, JD & The Straight Shot, and Matt Hartke.

Really? I mean that implies a few things. They tour and they actually have people buy tickets to see them. I honestly thought they were a band that might play a local bar once in a while.

This has to be a joke, doesn't it?
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Haha Dolan uses his connections to get some decent gigs.

The summary on this Wikipedia page is best

JD & The Straight Shot - Wikipedia
 
Picked up Kansas Leftoverture a month ago. been in m car cd player since.

If not that, then exploring 88.7 classical. Carl Ditter von Dittersdorf is a stand out amongst the usual names everyone knows pop culture wise for my liking.
 
KooKooForKakko said:
@aufheben do you prefer Closer or Unknown Pleasures
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So anyway they're both great records but also very different. I have a book that Peter Hook the bass player wrote about his time with Joy Division. But by the time they got to Closer Ian Curtis is pretty much at the point of giving up. Musically they've expanded and are experimenting more--Curtis's voice--sometimes sad, sometimes pleading, sometime almost vindictive or bitter--compared to the first record he sounds very ill. The rest of the band really have no idea what's going on with him--they're basically kids and yeah they've been picking him up off the floor for the past few years with all his epileptic seizures but they don't really understand a lot more than that. They're not paying a lot of attention to the lyrics he writing or singing either. What they see is they're going to make it big and they're not looking at the signals Curtis is leaving. Hook and Sumner basically we're from lower income households in industrial Manchester. So basically apart from his home life being a disaster and his marriage falling apart and the grand mal seizures getting worse and worse what happens within a month or two after the recording of Closer was pretty much inevitable. Even his prescribed medications turned out to be bad for him. Closer is kind of a fascinating record because of this--it's really about someone who is at the end of the line.
 
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eco's bones said:
So anyway they're both great records but also very different. I have a book that Peter Hook the bass player wrote about his time with Joy Division. But by the time they got to Closer Ian Curtis is pretty much at the point of giving up. Musically they've expanded and are experimenting more--Curtis's voice--sometimes sad, sometimes pleading, sometime almost vindictive or bitter--compared to the first record he sounds very ill. The rest of the band really have no idea what's going on with him--they're basically kids and yeah they've been picking him up off the floor for the past few years with all his epileptic seizures but they don't really understand a lot more than that. They're not paying a lot of attention to the lyrics he writing or singing either. What they see is they're going to make it big and they're not looking at the signals Curtis is leaving. Hook and Sumner basically we're from lower income households in industrial Manchester. So basically apart from his home life being a disaster and his marriage falling apart and the grand mal seizures getting worse and worse what happens within a month or two after the recording of Closer was pretty much inevitable. Even his prescribed medications turned out to be bad for him. Closer is kind of a fascinating record because of this--it's really about someone who is at the end of the line.
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The thing with Closer is that I love the juxtaposition of the almost poppy guitar riffs and bass lines (and forget about the keyboards in Isolation) and Ian Curtis’ haunting lyrics. There are great hooks all over the album (Peter Hook is very appropriately named). It’s such an off balance experience. It’s sorta like they took songs like Disorder and She’s Lost Control and just refined them a bit.

You have to be in the right mood to listen to it, though. It’s like looking into the abyss, staring at death. It’s almost a spiritual experience. Pink Moon is sorta the same way.
 
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