Saw them at Fillmore at a sellout show last weekend. It was a beautiful performance and the band seemed to enjoy playing as much as the crowd did being there. This is one of those bands that are perhaps more powerful live than in the records.
I saw the same show, and couldn't agree with you more - they bring it out best in person and live.
So the Stones have a copyright to that phrase?
Karl Wallinger has been heavily influenced by the Beatles and the Stones. Throughout the history of art and music, people have always borrowed from other artists. We all know who the Stones borrowed from. Beethoven's early work shows the influence of Mozart. Wallinger would probably be the first to admit his borrowing. This song is probably more of a homage than an outright imitation.
Sneaky. Great stuff from Beck.
This album has always been one of my favorites. It's like Beck took valium for a few months and ended up with enough material to cut a record. And it's titled very appropriately when you consider that it followed Midnite Vultures.
Great stuff indeed from Beck - very different from his norm, but my favorite album. His muse here was not chemical - it was acute melancholia from a bad break-up.
Following up Joseph Arthur's "In The Sun" with this one leaves the playlist saying "Seasons In The Sun". Do you guys remember that song? I just loved that song when I was a kid. Funny to look back on it now.
Yes - what the world needs now is more Terry Jacks!
Yes, this was a great disc (or I had it on vinyl then) with some haunting harmonies. Let's not forget Pride in the Name of Love came off of this one too. Ah youth....
I'd queue up "Pride" on my Zenith turntable every morning before junior year of high school to get me going (hadn't discovered coffee quite yet)...yes they were really great then, but have aged quite well I must say. Proud to have loved 'em then, proud to love 'em now.
this album is actually pretty old, so trendsetting a bit of the "hushed female singer". these guys were a ton o' fun til the chanteuse and the 2 funky brothers went separate ways.
Is this a "Ballad"?
I wrote a report on this song for my English class in my senior year of high school, and Mrs Aumiller thought it really wasn't a ballad....
She did give me an A-, by the way.
Any help here?
Me too - Mr. Glaven gave me an A-, but I got the feeling he didn't really read our papers... I argued it was a classic WWI ballad ala Wilfred Owens' "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" - (it is sweet and right to die for your country) just set to mid-80's synth. Substitue a dulcimer, harmonica and violin and it's circa 1917. Sadly, this song and the poem are appropriate for our lads and lassies in Iraq.
I thought this was a remake of the John Cafferty and Beaver Brown band for Eddie and the Cruisers. I believe the song was Dark Side.
But of course! Everyone knows that like Dylan or Robert Johnson, the influence of the Cafferty/Brown Band is spread vast and wide across the musical landscape.
I enjoy the album but was dismayed to hear the title song being used in a car commercial.
Not sure getting paid is such a bad thing. I know I try to get paid as much as I can for my work, so why shouldn't they? Are musicians not supposed to make money like the rest of us? Besides, according to Tweedy most of the band members either are past or current satisfied VW owners.
Yes he did, with a slightly different arrangement. Excellent show all round....
Saw him at the ACL fest last Friday - literally a smoking hot show (including the nearby fire). They covered Peter, Bjorn and John's "Young Folks" - what a bass and drum workout!
Another good, not great, album by the proliferator. What has been a great surprise is how tight he's been in recent live performances with his band the Cardinals. Stark contrast to the "uneven" performances of years past. Yes that's a Casio calculator watch on the cover, and it does show 4:20 as the time. There's a story behind that one....
Unmistakably Duane on the guitar. I recall that he recorded his guitar part sitting in a bath room w/ headset on. Great duet, great example of some soul and blues!
Interesting lyrics and sung in a Dylanesque or Josh Ritteresque manner...it would be pure genius. However, rapped, disgusting. Spare me the repition and everything that is (c)rap music. One for being lazy.
Yes, and while on the topic of "esque" Dylan would have definitely been more popular if he employed Burl-esque styling, and Burl Ives woulda had street cred if he was more Dylan-esque
I saw the same show, and couldn't agree with you more - they bring it out best in person and live.