THE COWBOY SONG contains in my opinion, one of the best r n' r guitar solos ever... great, but underrated band though
"Beautiful" - Garbage (been listening to it in the car on the way to work for the past 2 weeks or so, and am just to damn lazy to change it. Not only that, its not a bad album either.)
Ash - Meltdown Pretty Things - Parachute Delgados - The Great Eastern Badfinger - Straight Up The Wrens - The Meadowlands Hot Hot Heat - Elevator Gene Clark - No Other
That sounds like a group I need to check out. Most recently for me: Pete Mayes - Live at Double Bayou (really like this one) Glenna Bell - Face This World Ellis Hooks - Up Your Life Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers - Honky Tonk Revival Mike McClure - Everything
my personal favorite band of that genre (bluegrass/traditional/newgrass) is Old Crow Medicine Show. go buy their album right now, it's terrific. i believe it's self-titled. South Austin Jug Band and Leftover Salmon (broken up) are real good as well.
I do have one At the drive in CD in "Relationship of Command". I thought the singer's voice was too whiny, but I do like him in The Mars Volta. I'll have to give "Relationship of Command" a couple of more chances. But TOD is something that gets better and better after every listen, sorta like Aphex Twin.
All I have is an ipod and a laptop. But I have been listening to a lot of the Grateful Dead (well, today, since Jerry died 10 years ago and I'm nostaligic), Louis XIV, The Killers, Audioslave, and Arch Angels.
I've been thinking about getting that Mars Volta cd Frances the Mute, any thoughts comments on it Manny? Is it something that grows on ya?
^ l l l Both Mars Volta albums are really good ~ I actually like Sparta a bit more than MV. Sparta is the other guys from ATDI - they actually have the same sound as ATDI unlike MV which is prog rock. Btw- At the drive in has a 'greatest hits' album out now called This Station is Non-Operational
I’ve been on a retro kick for a little while, and a pretty eclectic one at that: Captain Beefheart – Safe as Milk Violent Femmes – Hallowed Ground The Orb – u.f.orb Sonic Youth - Sister, Daydream Nation Joy Division – Substance Joni Mitchell – Songs of a Prairie Girl
The Arcade Fire- Funeral Coldplay- X & Y The Bravery- self titled (UK release) Hot Hot Heat- Elevator Alkaline Trio- Crimson David Gray- White Ladder
Flyer, "Francis the Mute" is definitely an acquired taste, but I think it is a pretty solid album. It helps if you are into Floyd and progressive rock music like Yes and early Genesis, I think. Other stuff listening to now: "Kraftwerk 2" - Kraftwerk "Selected Ambient Works '85-92" - Aphex Twin "The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld" - The Orb "Leftism" - Leftfield And like 11 Queen CDs in my car including "The Game", "A Night at the Opera", "News of the World", and many others.
UTweezer, my man, buy that Faces boxed set. Best boxed set ever made, and this is from the proud owner of the Nuggets, Zep, Ray Charles, Bill Monroe sets. Tuff Darts kick major arse, btw. Love Robert Gordon. Big on Mike Nesmith right now, and Ian Hunter's first solo album has been on the turntable for a few days. Also loving a Merry Clayton LP, the bulk of it is mellow 70s/Flack-ish pap, but one cover of "Gimme Shelter" (she does the background vox on the original Stones version) is absolutely killer.
