These are all relatively new releases I've been listening to: Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours The Teenagers- Reality Check The LK- Vs. the Snow The Bell- Make Some Quiet Tapes N Tapes- Walk it Off Sun Kil Moon- Caldo Verde Jens Lekman- Night Falls over Kortedala No Kids- Come Into My House Hot Chip- Made in the Dark Repeater- Motionless Hours EP MGMT- Oracular Spectacular Born Ruffians- Red, Yellow and Blue Some older albums also been listening to include: Wolf Parade- Apologies to Queen Mary Handsome Furs- Plague Park Lymbyc System- Love Your Abuser
I never thought they would make it. When I was a sophomore in high school, one of the guys in their band worked at Borders in Meyerland Plaza. He shamelessly self-promoted his cd to us and I bought it. The Now Hustle for the New Diaboliks was a lot of noise. I just sampled that cd on Itunes and it sounds like a little bit better made noise. But whatever floats your boat. I'm listening to Vampire Weekend, Bloc Party-Weekend in the City, Lupe Fiasco-the Cool, Z-Ro-Power, Beck-Midnight Vultures, My Morning Jacket-Okonokos, and Brooks & Dunn-Greatest Hits. Wow, I'm kinda all over the place.
Joe Walsh's Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know... I believe he is highly underrated. The old James Gang albums were awesome.
Sorta of, I got a new job (same company) and as a result I have little to no downtime whatsoever. Add on that, that I have no home computer and the times for me to post have about evaporated. But thanks for starting the thread, SWT, I can always make time to respond to these threads. Lately, I have been running through all of my Band and Byrds albums on my iPod along with "Biograph" by Dylan and "Van Morrison's Greatest Hits, Volume 1" in the car. These Band and Byrds albums include such goodies as "Mr. Tambourine Man", "Sweetheart of the Rodeo", "Untitled/Unissued", "The Notorious Byrds Brothers", "The Basement Tapes", "Rock of Ages", "Music From Big Pink", and "The Band" among others. Yet, I am really pumped with the fact that I should be getting within the next couple of days these CDs: "GP/Grievous Angel" (2fer1 deal) by Gram Parsons and "White Light" by Gene Clark. SWT, I would guess you probably have these CDs but if you don't, I think you would like them, especially the Gene Clark one as he has been compared to Neil Young. Hell yea it does!
love me some gram parsons... grievous angel is a classic, and having emmylou harris back him up on vocals just puts it over the top. i hear a lot of parsons in ryan adams work, which is one of the reasons i love him so much. parsons was also a huge influence on the stones, and even got booted from their recording session of exile for his rampant drug use (imagine that, the *****in stones calling your drug use a distraction ) haven't checked out gene clark, but it seems like something that would be right up my alley.
Co-sign on this... I put in Paul Wall and Chamillionaire's "Get Ya Mind Correct" a few days ago and been jamming that hard ever since... good ol days.
More recently (music from the past two years): A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers Band of Horses - Cease to Begin The Black Mages - The Black Mages III Darkness And Starlight Blonde Redhead - 23 Cat Power - Jukebox Ceremony - Disappear Clark - Turning Dragon Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours Digitalism - Idealism Enon - Grass Geysers Carbon Clouds For Against - Shade Side Sunny Side Feist - The Reminder Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt Jamie Lidell - Jim Japancakes - Loveless Justice - Cross LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver M83 - Saturdays = Youth Man Man - Rabbit Habbits Mar - The Sound Pacific UV - Longplay 2 PJ Harvey - White Chalk Portishead - Third Radiohead - In Rainbows (CD 2) Rumskib - Rumskib She & Him - Volume One Soundpool - Dichotomies And Dreamland
Funny you say that...on both Lupe albums, there were like 4 tracks that'd immediately stand out and I'd listen to them over and over... And then eventually I'd work my way to the rest of the tracks, and then THEY'D become my new favorite tracks. He continues to impress.
do you have "The Byrds play Dylan"? a compilation of all their dylan efforts throughout the various incarnations of the band. also check the GP tribute that came out a few years back w/ emmylou, the pretenders, lucinda williams, whiskeytown, et al...
Depeche Mode - Live At The Terra Vibe Athens Bayside - The Walking Wounded Lupe Fiasco - The Cool R.E.M. - Accelerate
I have heard of that album but found no need to get it since I have all of the Byrds studio albums except for "Byrdmaniax", "Farther Along", and "The Byrds" (the only reason why I don't have those is that the first 2 are OOP and fetch ridiculous prices considering they are mediocre and the last one, which was the re-union album, is also mediocre). I do plan on getting these last 3 albums somehow. What I did was create a playlist on the iPod that takes all the Byrds songs that were written by Dylan, so I have, in a way, that album you speak of, basso. Getting back to Gene Clark: He was one of the original Byrds and was their first great songwriter. Some of the songs he wrote on the first 2 albums include the seminal "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", "Here Without You", "I Knew I'd Want You", "Set You Free This Time", "The World Turns All Around Her", to name a few. He also co-wrote "Eight Miles High". Unfortunately, he was beset with a slew of problems including not liking the resentment he felt from the rest of the band due to his extra money he was making for his songs as well as getting ribbed by that jokester of jokesters, David Crosby, for his mean tambourine playing (Clark was a guitar player in name only and that is about as nice as you can say when it came to his prowess on the instrument). But his 2 biggest problems were a fear of flying and alcoholism (he was supposedly bi-polar and he drank a lot because of that and to alleviate the fears of flying). Once the Byrds became big, Clark couldn't handle the travelling and touring because of the flying. I read somewhere that he had watched a plane crash when he was a young boy and he was never able to get over that. At any rate, he left the group shortly before they recorded their 3rd album, "Fifth Dimension" to start a solo career. His first album has been repackaged over the years as "Echoes" and features the Gosdin brothers, Rex and Vern, along with the original Byrds rhythm section in Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke. This album is considered along with The International Submarine Band's album (Gram's band before joining the Byrds) to be one of the first true country-rock albums although it still had a lot of folk influences in it. The album was on Columbia but came out the same time as "Younger Than Yesterday" (the Byrds 4th album) and thus never got its commercial due. Gene then hooked up with Doug Dillard of the Dillards (and also of the Darlings fame on Andy Griffith Show) and did 2 albums as "Dillard and Clark" in which the first "The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark" is considered to be the best and a classic in its own right. Some of the musicians on this album in addition to Dillard and Clark include future Eagle, Bernie Leadon as well as Chris Hillman, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Byron Berline, Donna Washburn, and Jon Corneal among others. Their 2nd album wasn't quite as good but it is now packaged with "Fantastic Expedition" as a 2fer1 deal (just like Gram Parsons' 2 solo albums and the first 2 Flying Burrito Brothers albums). Clark resumed his solo career with the "White Light" album. Clark's backing band on this album included bassist Chris Ethridge of the Flying Burrito Brothers, pianist Ben Sidran of the Steve Miller Band, organist Mike Utley, and drummer Gary Mallaber also of the Steve Miller Band as well as producer Jesse Ed Davis who played guitar. There are 2 other solo Gene Clark albums that were held in high esteem, critically, but were commercial flops like all of his other (including the Dillard & Clark) albums in "Roadmaster" and "No Other". Sadly due to his aversion of travelling, he never got a chance to tour and promote these albums so they pretty much fell into the realm of cult status. He died in 1991 (he lived long enough to see his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Byrds) from a bleeding ulcer due to years of heavy drinking. He was 46. This is a guy that should have been huge. So, SWT, does that give you enough information on Gene?
The Duke Spirit - Neptune The Long Blondes - Couples Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve - West Hot Chip - Made in Dark Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours Mystery Jets - 21 Sons and Daughters - The Gift Portishead - Third
