back from hiatus. anybody miss me? no? eh, that's ok.
drive-by truckers' back catalog via brighter than creation's dark. brighter than is my favorite of theirs though. i think that makes me the only one, but i guess i'm ok with that. decoration day and the dirty south are both stellar as well.
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Originally posted by kalibtweli: back from hiatus. anybody miss me? no? eh, that's ok.
drive-by truckers' back catalog via brighter than creation's dark. brighter than is my favorite of theirs though. i think that makes me the only one, but i guess i'm ok with that. decoration day and the dirty south are both stellar as well.
I haven't dug back into their catalog yet, even though I really liked certain parts of Brighter.... They really ride the fence between good music and cookie-cutter-mainstream-country. I was afraid to look further.
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i'd like to be able to help you out, but i was raised on 90s country and love garth brooks. i'm not sure which parts you thought were cookie-cutter-country, but i think their previous efforts tend to rock harder if that does anything for you.
Posts: 95 | Location: Tuscaloosa, AL | Registered: 23 April 2008
I am not sure what you mean by cookie cutter Country music since my ears don't hear that at all. But I would strongly recommend all of Drive-By Truckers previous albums. My favorite may be The Dirty South but their double album opera is great as well. They have a knack for making great, catchy, grooving music with strong, heartfelt lyrics.
I would suggest you highly seek out their albums, all of them are awesome.
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I think cookie cutter country is like when some "country boy" gets wasted, vomits and then some young fool comes along and eats it, then vomits ad nauseum. When people are too lazy to hunt their own food so they resort to eating vomit. That should clarify it.
Originally posted by FragileKidA: I am not sure what you mean by cookie cutter Country music since my ears don't hear that at all. But I would strongly recommend all of Drive-By Truckers previous albums. My favorite may be The Dirty South but their double album opera is great as well. They have a knack for making great, catchy, grooving music with strong, heartfelt lyrics.
I would suggest you highly seek out their albums, all of them are awesome.
Oh, sorry. I'm talking about songs like "Bob". Cookie Cutter Country, in my mind is a twangy song with a rather simple verse-chorus-verse structure with lyrics that are either sappy nostalgia, failed humor (typically built around a pun, or commonly used colloquialism), or a cliche balad about a relationship. The Truckers aren't guilty of this, but it makes me want to smash things when a country singer enters ever chorus with a dramatic pause before saying the name of the song (which doubles as the punch line for the verse).
Brighter Than Creation's Dark is worth the money just for "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife" and "The Righteous Path". But the rest of the album is fairly simple and overly twangy. I don't hate it by a long shot. And even songs like "Bob", I don't mind listening to, but it's not really something that consistently blows me away.
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I've been listening to a lot of non-2008 music lately. And frankly, most of it blows this year's music away. Here are my favorites:
The National - Alligator Over the Rhine - Discount Fireworks Over the Rhine - Ohio Over the Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer (Yes, I'm pretty much in love with OTR right now.) Karine Polwart - Faultlines Karine Polwart - Scribbled in Chalk
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Over the Rhine - Discount Fireworks Over the Rhine - Ohio Over the Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer (Yes, I'm pretty much in love with OTR right now.) Karine Polwart - Faultlines Karine Polwart - Scribbled in Chalk
I first heard Karine Polwart this year as well via This Earthly Spell. What a great album, and I still need to dig into her past releases that you mentioned.
I also love OTR. Catch them live if you can as they're excellent on stage as well.
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I will rep for Polwart's first two albums, the aforementioned Faultlines and Scribbled in Chalk. Both very solid. Highlights include "Azalea Flower," "Resolution Road," "Hole in the Heart," and "Daisy" (I like her darker songs the best).
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Posts: 4119 | Location: NE Indiana | Registered: 14 April 2005
I've owned 4 REM albums for years now, but just a few days ago decided to deluge myself in classics such as Murmur and Document. Surprisingly, I like Murmur better.. it is more memorable.
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Originally posted by stereo: I'm sort of addicted to Madvillainy. I was definitely not expecting to like this album this much. The beats are so great...
That's a damn fine album, if I must say so. It was the album that got me back into hip-hop. Random recommendation: If you like it you should immediately get GZA's Liquid Swords (I looked at your last.fm and saw that you didn't have it listed )
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Originally posted by stereo: I'm sort of addicted to Madvillainy. I was definitely not expecting to like this album this much. The beats are so great...
That's a damn fine album, if I must say so. It was the album that got me back into hip-hop. Random recommendation: If you like it you should immediately get GZA's Liquid Swords (I looked at your last.fm and saw that you didn't have it listed )
Yes, get Liquid Swords!!! Best hip-hop album of all times by a long shot. Just listen to the RIDICULOUS beats on Swordsman and 4th Chamber, they will make you go WTF.
Cyrone Know-It-All Posted 03 September 2008 12:26 AM Hide Post I've owned 4 REM albums for years now, but just a few days ago decided to deluge myself in classics such as Murmur and Document. Surprisingly, I like Murmur better.. it is more memorable.
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Not Surprising at all, Murmur is way better than Document, which after Automatic, is probably the band's most overrated album. It's really solid, but I've always had Life's Rich Pageant and Murmur as the band's top two works, then Automatic for the People alone at Third, then Reckoning, Document and Out of Time all kinda of duking it out for the 4-6 slots.
Originally posted by thefanste: I'm TOTALLY kicking myself for not checking out out Friend and Foe last year. This is probably gonna turn out to be my retrospective #1 of '07.
I wouldn't put it that high, there were a lot of fantastic releases last year, but it's best five songs (Muscle n' Flo, The Pelican, Wet and Rusting, Weird, Evil Bee) definitely kick ass
A couple of nights ago I was watching late-night music television and came across this video, "That's Entertainment" from The Jam.
I was just frozen during the whole video, what an absolutely brilliant song. I'll have to check out The Jam, for some reason I was under the impression that they were a bit shit, I'm wondering now though.
Posts: 66 | Location: New Zealand | Registered: 17 September 2006
I've been listening to Keith Jarret recently. I heard of him a long time ago but never listened to his music until now. The Köln Concert is amazing! Such incredible improvisations. Bregenz concert sounds good too, have to listen more.
Originally posted by thefanste: I'm TOTALLY kicking myself for not checking out out Friend and Foe last year. This is probably gonna turn out to be my retrospective #1 of '07.
Nice to see this. #1 of 07 is a strong word, though.
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