Let's talk about music

Troy Loney · Post by **Troy Loney** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 11:28 am

I think there's a difference between offering your album for free and just stuffing into everyone's pocket. RE: U2.

Post by **Digitalgypsy66** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 11:42 am

Even more bizarre is the obligatory 5 star rating for aforementioned album by Rolling Stone.

Bono, Springsteen, and Mick Jagger can do no wrong in the pages of Rolling Stone.

It'll be interesting to see if this U2 album does anything for their back catalog.

FreeCandy44 · Post by **FreeCandy44** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 10:19 pm

To be fair.....that new U2 album is pretty good.

FreeCandy44 · Post by **FreeCandy44** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 10:56 pm

Just watched/heard the new Slipknot song The Devil and I, it was very good. Laugh if you want....but good songs are good songs. Id link the video but this is a family board. The new drummer is supposidly Max Weinbergs kid.

jmh470 · Post by **jmh470** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:35 pm

DFA79's latest makes me sad the world went without them for so long.

FreeCandy44 · Post by **FreeCandy44** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 5:21 pm

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Awesome Widespread Panic song I heard on WYEP today.

JS© · Post by **JS©** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:44 pm

jmh470 wrote:DFA79's latest makes me sad the world went without them for so long.

I'm still not sure if I like that song or not. Gonna have to give it a second listen when I'm not so distracted.

Post by **PghSkins** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 4:10 pm

Troy Loney wrote:I think there's a difference between offering your album for free and just stuffing into everyone's pocket. RE: U2.

Agree... I'll probably listen to it but I do kind of feel like my privacy was violated by Apple and U2 throwing the album on my iPhone. I could change my preferences I guess but... didn't seem like they'd use it for this.

FreeCandy44 · Post by **FreeCandy44** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:47 pm

Its a good album, feel happy to have it.

Post by **tifosi77** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:18 pm

Pavel Bure wrote:
tifosi77 wrote:Paul McCartney is a musical genius who reinvented popular music. John Lenon was a musical genius who depressed the living sh|t out of everyone he met. George Harrison was a musical genius who was a real unsung hero of the 1960s. Ringo was the drummer.

Wings was a pox on music, a pet project done to give Linda something to do (badly). Four or five decent songs, one or two really good ones, and the rest of the catalog is dirge.
Yeah man Band on the Run what an awesome innovative song. He's to music what Carrot Top is to comedy.

That is quite possibly the stupidest public comment I've ever read.

Yesterday, Hey Jude, Blackbird, Helter Skelter, Penny Lane, Eleanor Rigby, We Can Work It Out, Back In The U.S.S.R., Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, Good Day Sunshine, Got To Get You Into My Life.... to name but a few. Wrote or co-wrote over 30 #1 hits in the U.S., plus another 28 in the U.K. (the most ever). He was effectively the musical director of the band and took the Beatles from their 'cute' phase into their mature works from '66 on, which contains their truly revolutionary repertoire. He is largely the reason why the Beatles are still relevant today.

I do not deny that Wings was useless - I said as much when I said 'Live And Let Die' was my favorite Bond song. But I take it for what it was; a vanity project that was all about simple pop songs. But bear in mind that every song they released as a single (about two dozen) reached the Top 40 in the U.S. They may have been light and fluffy and much of their repertoire does not hold up well, but they were immensely popular.

Pavel Bure · Post by **Pavel Bure** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:36 pm

You are well versed in Beetles lore.(I am not) Paul became a hack later in life... I was thinking of something when I wrote that in the Bond thread. Can an early career of dominance be overshadowed by pure hack practices later in life? For example you hear "wings" and think back to wait this is the guy that wrote Hey Jude?

Troy Loney · Post by **Troy Loney** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:39 pm

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Right. So we all get old and then we can't hack it anymore. Is that it?
Sick Boy: Yeah.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: That's your theory?
Sick Boy: Yeah. Beautifully ********* illustrated.

Post by **Gaucho** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:45 pm

Pavel Bure wrote:Can an early career of dominance be overshadowed by pure hack practices later in life?

No. Although R.E.M. tried their best to prove me wrong.

Spoiler:

Post by **Gaucho** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:47 pm

For the record, I hate Yesterday.

Post by **columbia** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:49 pm

John and Paul were good at keeping one another's excesses in check.

JS© · Post by **JS©** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:23 pm

Gaucho wrote:
Pavel Bure wrote:Can an early career of dominance be overshadowed by pure hack practices later in life?
No. Although R.E.M. tried their best to prove me wrong.

Spoiler:
Not only R.E.M., of course, but they were the first that came to mind.

REM is a great example.

FreeCandy44 · Post by **FreeCandy44** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:26 pm

They really are, their first couple albums were great. Then "everybody hurts" hit mtv and bam...crap.

eddysnake · Post by **eddysnake** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:29 pm

anyone listen to Plants new album, Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar? Got some pretty good songs on it.

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reminds me of his cover of song to the siren on dreamland, which I think fits him rather well in his later days.

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other songs

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Post by **Gaucho** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:32 pm

Like.

Post by **columbia** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:34 pm

I heard some stuff from this last week.....it's better than I would have expected.

eddysnake · Post by **eddysnake** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:35 pm

I wasn't a huge fan of his last album (Band of Joy), but other than that, I love his solo stuff.

Post by **Gaucho** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:37 pm

I think Raising Sands with Alison Krauss is his ony solo album I know. It's good.

eddysnake · Post by **eddysnake** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:44 pm

Gaucho wrote:I think Raising Sands with Alison Krauss is his ony solo album I know. It's good.

that is excellent. Fate of Nations (1993) is my favorite. Also enjoy Dreamland (2002) which has a lot of old blues covers of some of his favorite stuff.

Post by **columbia** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:45 pm

eddysnake wrote:which has a lot of old blues covers of some of his favorite stuff.

Kind of like the Zeppelin records.

eddysnake · Post by **eddysnake** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:50 pm

columbia wrote:
eddysnake wrote:which has a lot of old blues covers of some of his favorite stuff.
Kind of like the Zeppelin records.

pretty much, they are at least credited here

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