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[columbia]

Happy 138th 70th birthday to Keith Richards.

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[viva la ben]

Ian Wadkins, lead singer of lostprophets sentenced to 35 years in jail for pedophilia.

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[Gaucho]

Add Laura Marling's Once I Was An Eagle to the list of good 2013 albums.

[JS©]

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Season 39 of Austin City Limits starts on January 4, 2014 with Queens of The Stone Age

Playlist:
EPISODE SETLIST
Millionaire
No One Knows
My God is the Sun
I Sat by the Ocean
In the Fade
If I Had a Tail
Little Sister
Smooth Sailing
Go With the Flow
The Vampyre of Time and Memory
A Song for the Dead

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Here's the full list of Austin City Limits broadcasts set for January and February:

January 4, 2014 | Queens of the Stone Age
January 11, 2014 | Jason Isbell/ Neko Case
January 18, 2014 | fun. / Dawes
January 25, 2014 | Portugal. The Man / Local Natives
February 1, 2014 | Sarah Jarosz / The Milk Carton Kids
February 8, 2014 | Kacey Musgraves / Dale Watson

[Gaucho]

I <3 Neko Case.

[FreeCandy44]

Solid setlist from Queens, it leans heavily on Like Clockwork.

[RxBandit66]

I just noticed that the Sex Pistols are in....by most, they qualify as talentless.

Does someone want to argue that they don't belong in such a venue?

They aren't exactly my up of tea either, but I'd argue they in the grand scheme of things were much more important to music than Nirvana ever was. I have a blind hatred for Nirvana I admit it. I think they sucked(besides Grohl), and their impact on music other than causing other **** sound alike bands like them was next to nothing.

As a big classic rock fan, I tend to agree. While I'm not a fan of Nirvana, I don't have a blind hatred for them, but I'd agree that their "influence" didn't produce many good bands who have endured or stood the test of time. The same cannot be said of the Sex Pistols, or Aerosmith, or Queen, just to name a few. As a matter of fact, there is a striking similarity between Nirvana's signature song and "More Than a Feeling" by Boston. Many people think that Cobain stole the riff and the polyrhythms from that song:

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[FreeCandy44]

Nirvana is basically a new age Pixies.

[FreeCandy44]

I gotta say....Eddie Vedders 49th birthday is tomorrow. I feel very very old considering the youngest memeber is 47 and will be 48 in April. All of my fav bands are gwtting so old.

[Gaucho]

I thought he was much older, tbh. Many of my favorite musicians are 60+.

[FreeCandy44]

I guess I just remember him swinging from lighting rigs and climing and jumping from the second levels of clubs.

[Gaucho]

I just realized I confused Eddie Vedder with Eddie Van Halen... now that makes me feel old.

EVH is 58.

[jbiafra]

I really like the new Bad Religion Christmas Album

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[RxBandit66]

I thought he was much older, tbh. Many of my favorite musicians are 60+.

Mine too, and I'm only 35. For some reason, musicians seem to be making great music much later into their careers than in decades past. Neil Young's "Psychedelic Pill" was one of his better efforts IMO, at age 67. Tom Waits' "Bad as Me" was phenomenal, and ZZ Top released "La Futura" well into their 60's, which was perhaps their best album in three decades.

[columbia]

Please comment more on that ZZ Top record.
I'm a big fan of the first 6 albums; not so much of anything after that.

[JS©]

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I was inspired to make this supercut after posting my 10 Best Country Albums of 2013 list for EW. A few commenters told me that my choices weren't mainstream enough, and I thought, "Well, yeah, because so much of what's on the radio these days sounds exactly the same!" So I decided to make a video to prove my point.

I hope country fans will stop settling for this derivative junk. I love a dumb party song every once in a while (including some of these!), but when they're the only flavor available, they get old very, very fast. Here's to better music in 2014.

You could probably do a similiar video with mainstream hiphop from 2001-present

[MRandall25]

You could probably do a similiar video with mainstream hiphop from 2001-present

Or mainstream pop, or what is now considered mainstream rock (Black Keys and bands of that hipster-ish ilk).

You could do a similar video with pretty much all mainstream music during that time period. There's only a few outliers here and there.

[Factorial]

The Black Keyes sound like a vanilla ripoff of The Blues Explosion.

[columbia]

They are one of those bands that has more motivation than inspiration, which is largely what it takes to be "successful" in the music biz.

[MRandall25]

I'd also lump them in with the Arcade Fires, the Kings of Leons, and the Vampire Weekends of the world. Their music is basically interchangeable.

Yet, that is what's popular.

I may have posted it in a different thread, but Ritchie Blackmore said it best:

"To be (musically) successful, you have to be a good musician. To be popular, you just have to be fashionable."

[columbia]

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[FreeCandy44]

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So so awesome...

[KennyTheKangaroo]

You could probably do a similiar video with mainstream hiphop from 2001-present

This gentleman always had a theory that hip hop and country were way more similar than either cared to admit. What exactly is the difference between singing about your maybach vs your john deere? Getting drunk vs smoking dope?

[pcm]

You could probably do a similiar video with mainstream hiphop from 2001-present

This gentleman always had a theory that hip hop and country were way more similar than either cared to admit. What exactly is the difference between singing about your maybach vs your john deere? Getting drunk vs smoking dope?

So true.

I was driving through west texas recently listening to the radio thinking how grand it would be to have a country vs. rap battle / mashup.

[jbiafra]

Please comment more on that ZZ Top record.
I'm a big fan of the first 6 albums; not so much of anything after that.

I didn't know they even put out a new one. I'm listening to it for the first time right now. I'm always skeptical when an old band puts out a new record, especially after that horrible "new" album Van Halen released. This is actually quite good. I like how they mess around with silence in a lot of the songs. Chartreusse.. man, that song is good. I don't care for the lyrics. Their lyrics were never in my taste anyway. But the music is spot on. Great guitar, great voice, great everything.