I hate being told what music to like, but "The Royal We" is an absolutely perfect song. Even if it sounds like the Pumpkins.

The Gladiator soundtrack. Even about ten years later, it's still one of the best soundtracks ever.

I agree with this statement.

I was listening to Kasabian on my way into work this morning.

Also, shifting gears, I've been listening to a lot of The Tallest Man on Earth lately:



The new album, The Wild Hunt, is absolutely amazing.

Shelby Lynne, where have you been all my life.

What's the deal with this new Exile on Main St. release, anyone know? A new remix? Unreleased tracks? I know Jagger has been saying for a while that he wanted to redo it. Some of the songs on the original mix really do sound like shit.

It's remastered for the one CD. You can also buy a double CD that includes the remastered original plus 10 unreleased tracks, I think. And then there is some other ridiculously priced set that includes a book, postcards, a DVD, toenail clippings, and a pubic hair, along with the vinyl records.

That album has a lot of extra crap thrown in there already, can't imagine that I'd want an additional 10 songs. But it will be nice to hear some of the classics with a better sound. On the original, you can barely hear the vocals on "Happy."

The Hold Steady was on the Colbert Report the other night:

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Heh - I just met them (Hold Steady) at my wife's office a few hours ago.

Since it was Keith singing, I don't think that was an accident.

Revisiting the 80's.

I heard Morrissey in Lowe's yesterday - which filled my recommended daily allowance of cognitive dissonance.

I've had some similarly weird experiences lately: I heard Echo and the Bunnymen in Walgreens and a Radiohead song from "In Rainbows" in the grocery store.

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Another recovery from the Cassette Ark Of The Covenant in my basement. This album still kicks all sorts of ass twenty-something years after I first bought it.

I just heard Supernaauat on the radio in the sshsower.GOod fuckin shit.

Was this related to the WNYC performance at the Greene Space? I was there for that. Opener Das Racist did not perform "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" but did thankfully drop a song about White Castle.

Also...

Gonna have to break out the Ronnie James Dio to mourn his passing.

Recently acquired "Rock and Roll Animal" again for the first time in many years.
My LP version back in the day had been puked on (not me...I think), so that some songs could not be played after it was cleaned up.
I kept it for a long time after and would just play Sweet Jane and Rock and Roll between the "scars".

Seeing these guys this weekend.

Honor him:

Saw Mumford and Sons at the Music Hall last night, and it was pretty intense. The Cave was especially amazing, and some of their new material sounded great too. I'm officially on the bandwagon - that's another one I owe you, 'bug.

Oh -- I'm jealous.

Definitely check out the album I mentioned earlier, The Tallest Man on Earth -- The Wild Hunt. If you like Mumford and Sons this should be right in your wheelhouse as well.

Also kind of folky, I've been enjoying Basia Bulat's latest album, Heart of My Own.

BTW, Geezer's friggin' out of his mind on this one.

A classic. Always favored the material with Bon Scott over Brian Johnson.

Anyone a fan of Isis?

I haven't been a huge fan of Isis since Celestial. I saw them four or five times before Oceanic came out, only twice since. I'm never a fan of their newer albums until I see them live (they, along with Neurosis, are the two best live acts I've seen. Converge is [or at least was] right there, too.)

Guess I only have one more chance to see them live. I'll be curious to see what Aaron Turner focuses on next.


I should clarify that by "huge fan" I'm pretty sure I have the largest collection of Isis test presses of someone not affiliated with the band. I at least used to. I don't know of anyone else with a Celestial or Red Sea test press. I also have a copy of The Red Sea limited to 3.

This is quite awesome:

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That was better than awesome. I was beeping and bopping at my desk.

I'm slightly ashamed to say that yesterday was the first time I've ever listened to Astral Weeks.

Snort.

I must have listened to this album ten times yesterday:

Pretty hard to take someone seriously when they call drinking anthems rote on one hand, and praise a guy for his easy-to-grasp visions of elves on the other.

I know - I just found the juxtaposition of the two to be pretty hilarious.

Despite my Hold Steady fandom, which I've gushed about here many times, I read the first part and thought ,"hmm, OK, never thought about it that way, those are some good points." And then he praised Dio for doing the same thing he took apart the Hold Steady for, namely for sticking to a vision and making "easy to grasp" music.

The man has been dead for less than a week, Mike. Have you no shame? I understand that you're too fancy-pants to appreciate the lyrical dichotomies of Ronnie James Dio, what with being raised on liberal textbooks and all. But to speak ill of the recent dead? So shameful. You know, Dio was in league with the dark forces. LOOK OUT!!!!

dude...you've got some listening ahead of you...

I've had the song Short Skirt, Long Jacket by Cake stuck in my head the last few days.

It's a good one to get stuck in there!

This is all Chuck's fault.

How can you go wrong?

Tom Waits, Rain Dogs. Greatness.

I'm embracing my inner dork. I can't help myself.

Once you say it out loud it becomes an outer dork.

What happens if I shout it, shout it, shout it out loud?

You become a member of the kiss army?

I don't know, but it's gotta be better than friggin Hammerfall.