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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 19:03:37 GMT
88 degrees is cold this time of year in South Florida. I listen to a ton of surf music through the summer and reggae. "Legalize It" by Peter Tosh and "Survival" by Bob Marley will be in my CD changer until September. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4BJYBcGOyQ
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Post by 50belowzero on May 21, 2015 19:12:47 GMT
88 degrees is cold this time of year in South Florida. I listen to a ton of surf music through the summer and reggae. "Legalize It" by Peter Tosh and "Survival" by Bob Marley will be in my CD changer until September. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4BJYBcGOyQYou better pop in some Aswad.
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Post by dezaruchi on May 22, 2015 22:44:10 GMT
There are some good songs on Americana For Hipsters. I really like the song Skin And Bones by Gibson Bull. Just added some more AC-DC and The Flaming Lips to my playlist.
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Post by dezaruchi on May 22, 2015 22:47:15 GMT
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Post by seobrien on May 23, 2015 0:55:47 GMT
There are some good songs on Americana For Hipsters. I really like the song Skin And Bones by Gibson Bull. Just added some more AC-DC and The Flaming Lips to my playlist. Been on them since way back, when In a Priest Driven Ambulance came out. Obviously, The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi are the great albums for introduction to them.
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Post by MrHulot on May 23, 2015 21:18:34 GMT
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
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Post by dezaruchi on May 24, 2015 17:46:11 GMT
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God Been listening to them a bit lately. Saw them open for Steve Earle 20+ years ago. Great show.
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Post by bookboy007 on May 25, 2015 0:42:02 GMT
Two parter: 1) I mentioned the New Basement Tapes earlier. I bought it (band is New Basement Tapes, and the album is Lost on the River) and have been giving it the first couple of listens. If you're a T-Bone Burnett fan (I am - easiest way to get a sense of what he's done besides produce and bring together great synergies of talent is to get the 20/20 compilation), you'll like this. If you're an Elvis Costello fan, you'll like a lot of this. Rhiannon Giddens has a fantastic voice - holy crap. T-bone plays and sings, and he's got such a soulful voice when he's not mugging (some of his earlier stuff, I thought he mugged more than he needed to). Other members of the band are Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes (I've heard maybe two songs but now feel like I should give them a shot), Jim James, and ... Marcus Mumford. I hesitate on Mumford because, well...the songs he leads on here sound like Mumford and Sons, and if you're not crazy about Mumford and Sons, that's going to bug you here (it does me). Beautifully put together - and their website clarifies the story ("lost" Dylan lyrics looking for someone to turn them into songs - and respect what came out of the original Basement Tapes with Dylan and The Band). You'll recognize the Zimmerman lyrical style almost immediately, but without the voice you either love or hate. I never really recommend music to people because I have no reason to think anyone will like what I like, but I liked this.
On another note - I have mad respect for Jack Bruce. I mean, I love the Wild, the Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle, but you'd also be hard pressed to find a better pure musician than Jack Bruce. Several years ago - probably more than a decade now - when I was teaching, I taught Ian McEwan's _Saturday_ in a contemporary fiction class. Bruce is name-checked as the mentor of the main character's bassist son. None of my students had any idea who he was. It was even important to setting up some of the conflicts in the novel - though in a minor key - that you know Bruce went from power trio to conservatory instructor in the course of his life. Nope. Nothing. I despair of the young.
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Post by bookboy007 on May 25, 2015 0:45:51 GMT
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God Been listening to them a bit lately. Saw them open for Steve Earle 20+ years ago. Great show. Great album. [Have to be careful about how I phrase this...] Rum, Sodomy and the Lash probably exceeds it as an album. Saw them in a tiny venue - standing room only - at least 20+ years ago. Once with Shane, once after he left. His stuff with the Pope's is worth a listen. It doesn't have quite the same energy.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 1:35:44 GMT
Two parter: 1) I mentioned the New Basement Tapes earlier. I bought it (band is New Basement Tapes, and the album is Lost on the River) and have been giving it the first couple of listens. If you're a T-Bone Burnett fan (I am - easiest way to get a sense of what he's done besides produce and bring together great synergies of talent is to get the 20/20 compilation), you'll like this. If you're an Elvis Costello fan, you'll like a lot of this. Rhiannon Giddens has a fantastic voice - holy crap. T-bone plays and sings, and he's got such a soulful voice when he's not mugging (some of his earlier stuff, I thought he mugged more than he needed to). Other members of the band are Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes (I've heard maybe two songs but now feel like I should give them a shot), Jim James, and ... Marcus Mumford. I hesitate on Mumford because, well...the songs he leads on here sound like Mumford and Sons, and if you're not crazy about Mumford and Sons, that's going to bug you here (it does me). Beautifully put together - and their website clarifies the story ("lost" Dylan lyrics looking for someone to turn them into songs - and respect what came out of the original Basement Tapes with Dylan and The Band). You'll recognize the Zimmerman lyrical style almost immediately, but without the voice you either love or hate. I never really recommend music to people because I have no reason to think anyone will like what I like, but I liked this. On another note - I have mad respect for Jack Bruce. I mean, I love the Wild, the Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle, but you'd also be hard pressed to find a better pure musician than Jack Bruce. Several years ago - probably more than a decade now - when I was teaching, I taught Ian McEwan's _Saturday_ in a contemporary fiction class. Bruce is name-checked as the mentor of the main character's bassist son. None of my students had any idea who he was. It was even important to setting up some of the conflicts in the novel - though in a minor key - that you know Bruce went from power trio to conservatory instructor in the course of his life. Nope. Nothing. I despair of the young. I've got "Atonement" on the shelf with a few others. Should I move it to the front of the list? I picked it up because there was a sale at the library and I got it for a buck, it's not something I would rush out to buy.
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Post by bookboy007 on May 25, 2015 2:41:44 GMT
Well...depends. What do you like to read? McEwan's a great prose stylist, very English, and he builds the story on multiple levels, usually with some kind of issue as the backdrop and analogue to the action of an individual life. He used to be very macabre, but less so lately. If you didn't already have Atonement, I might have suggested Solar or Amsterdam or maybe Saturday instead. I like him.
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Post by MrHulot on May 25, 2015 19:57:09 GMT
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God Been listening to them a bit lately. Saw them open for Steve Earle 20+ years ago. Great show. It's them with Steve Earle on "Johnny Come Lately" from "Copperhead Road". I saw them in '88 (with Shane), they were awesome.
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Post by dezaruchi on May 25, 2015 20:02:18 GMT
Yeah,and you can hear their influence on some of Steve Earle's later work.
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Post by MrHulot on May 25, 2015 20:26:02 GMT
Been listening to them a bit lately. Saw them open for Steve Earle 20+ years ago. Great show. Great album. [Have to be careful about how I phrase this...] Rum, Sodomy and the Lash probably exceeds it as an album. Saw them in a tiny venue - standing room only - at least 20+ years ago. Once with Shane, once after he left. His stuff with the Pope's is worth a listen. It doesn't have quite the same energy. I have both albums, and I think it's almost too close to call. Of course, for sheer power nothing tops "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"...
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Post by MrHulot on May 25, 2015 20:56:23 GMT
The Armoury Show - Waiting For The Floods
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 21:03:52 GMT
Well...depends. What do you like to read? McEwan's a great prose stylist, very English, and he builds the story on multiple levels, usually with some kind of issue as the backdrop and analogue to the action of an individual life. He used to be very macabre, but less so lately. If you didn't already have Atonement, I might have suggested Solar or Amsterdam or maybe Saturday instead. I like him. My favorite these days is probably Cormac McCarthy, especially "Blood Meridian." I read a lot of literary fiction with some genre fiction like Stephen King, James Cain, Irvine Welsh. Then a lot of short stories, Updike, Raymond Carver, Junot Diaz and Flannery O'Connor.. Not much for non-fiction besides "Writer's Workshops" books and some literary criticism. I'm thinking either "Atonement" next or a lighter crime novel like Carl Hiassen, Don Winslow or Elmore Leonard. Some of these "prize winners" take a good three weeks of heavy reading, I'm looking for something breezier.
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Post by NAS on May 25, 2015 21:27:15 GMT
Rum Sodomy is #1 for me. I have seen them five to six times. Even loaded off his rocker, Shane ever missed a beat.
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Post by Fletcher on May 26, 2015 1:22:50 GMT
My favorite these days is probably Cormac McCarthy, especially "Blood Meridian." I read a lot of literary fiction with some genre fiction like Stephen King, James Cain, Irvine Welsh. Then a lot of short stories, Updike, Raymond Carver, Junot Diaz and Flannery O'Connor.. Not much for non-fiction besides "Writer's Workshops" books and some literary criticism. I'm thinking either "Atonement" next or a lighter crime novel like Carl Hiassen, Don Winslow or Elmore Leonard. Some of these "prize winners" take a good three weeks of heavy reading, I'm looking for something breezier. Carl Hiassen is perfect for a flight or quick read opportunity and I bet you Florida people enjoy it even more. His hatred of people in general always cracks me up. I was a prof assistant for a class down in the Everglades once and have enjoyed those books ever since. I rotate between easy and heavy too, and generally don't have the most sophisticated tastes. Reading 'Boys on the Boat' now because my father gave it to me. Just finished 'Old School' by Tobias Wolfe book (which I loved) and need to get back to the heavy list I've assembled after some summer kitsch.
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Post by bookboy007 on May 26, 2015 2:09:52 GMT
Okay, now we need to take this over to a new thread....
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Post by NAS on May 26, 2015 2:15:17 GMT
Assholes! We are not "Florida people"!
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Post by bookboy007 on May 26, 2015 13:50:10 GMT
Assholes! We are not "Florida people"! Seriously. I mean it's "Floridian Americans" or maybe "Branch Floridians"....
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Post by 50belowzero on May 26, 2015 14:07:35 GMT
Assholes! We are not "Florida people"! Seriously. I mean it's "Floridian Americans" or maybe "Branch Floridians".... Nas and Henry are "Branch Floridians",love it! Are they waiting for the second coming of the Barkov-bop comet?
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Post by 50belowzero on May 26, 2015 18:02:46 GMT
The last 2 weeks i've been listening to,Blue Rodeo,Jimmy Dale Gilmore,Black Keys,John Hiatt,Peter Gabriel,Blackie & the Rodeo Kings,Judas Priest,Fred Eaglesmith,Neil Young,Clapton & BB King collaboration,Mumford & Sons,Tom Waits,Metallica, all great stuff. When you listen to Waits voice on the album "Closing Time" and then 20 yrs later on "Mule variations",you can tell there has been a lot of whiskey & smokes taken care of!
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Post by jmwalters on May 26, 2015 18:18:59 GMT
The last 2 weeks i've been listening to,Blue Rodeo,Jimmy Dale Gilmore,Black Keys,John Hiatt,Peter Gabriel,Blackie & the Rodeo Kings,Judas Priest,Fred Eaglesmith,Neil Young,Clapton & BB King collaboration,Mumford & Sons,Tom Waits,Metallica, all great stuff. When you listen to Waits voice on the album "Closing Time" and then 20 yrs later on "Mule variations",you can tell there has been a lot of whiskey & smokes taken care of! That's quite the eclectic list
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Post by walktheline on May 26, 2015 18:19:53 GMT
My favorite these days is probably Cormac McCarthy, especially "Blood Meridian." I read a lot of literary fiction with some genre fiction like Stephen King, James Cain, Irvine Welsh. Then a lot of short stories, Updike, Raymond Carver, Junot Diaz and Flannery O'Connor.. Not much for non-fiction besides "Writer's Workshops" books and some literary criticism. I'm thinking either "Atonement" next or a lighter crime novel like Carl Hiassen, Don Winslow or Elmore Leonard. Some of these "prize winners" take a good three weeks of heavy reading, I'm looking for something breezier. Carl Hiassen is perfect for a flight or quick read opportunity and I bet you Florida people enjoy it even more. His hatred of people in general always cracks me up. I was a prof assistant for a class down in the Everglades once and have enjoyed those books ever since. I rotate between easy and heavy too, and generally don't have the most sophisticated tastes. Reading 'Boys on the Boat' now because my father gave it to me. Just finished 'Old School' by Tobias Wolfe book (which I loved) and need to get back to the heavy list I've assembled after some summer kitsch. Read that last summer while on vacation in Maine and absolutely loved it.
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