A thread for random thoughts about music

I'm a huge fan of Ben Folds' solo work but I too miss BF5. The other two guys, particularly Darren Jesse provided the punk sensibilities to counter Folds' melancholy. BF5 shows were a riot, guys totally abusing that piano.

To paraphrase Chris Rock, Michael Jackson couldn't have molested all those kids by himself. LaToya musta fondled some of them.

Also, the word "classically trained" is thrown around way too casually. It seems like all you have to do is play classical music as a kid - which is just about any kid who played the piano or an orchestra instrument - to be labeled "classically trained". That said, despite her overrated debut album, Alicia Keys is the real deal.

 

Nelly Furtado's new CD is great. Anyone else have it?

 

I think I saw one of the guys from O-Town holding a sign about a rug store liquidation sale on Rt 22 near my town tonight.

 

Wish I wasn't such an old geezer waited down by massive quantities of children. Then, I could go to Cafe St. Ex when my friend Randy DJs.

 

Saturday night when I was leaving work a friend said that I should check out Jet, thought I would like that band.

Got home and my wife had SNL on. As soon as I walked in the host said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Jet!"

Got up Sunday morning to play soccer and was flipping through the Best Buy ad while making toast. Jet's CD was on sale for $7.99.

Finally got around to unwrapping my Madden2004 and the first song that comes on is Jet.

God has spoken, I guess. Got the CD, it rocks.

 

off topic, but I've never seen a carpet store (or more specifically a rug store) that wasn't either going out of business or having a liquidation sale.

 

I did something similar, except it was Simon and Garfunkle's America.

Rankin' Full Stop - now that's a good song.

 

Well there are 69 songs, ya know. But, I hear ya completely thats a magical collection.

I finally listened to the stills last night. good stuff.

 

I second that. I can say the same thing about No Doubt. They are my true musical guilty pleasure.

 

Help me out with my next CD purchase. Which one of the following?:

Jet - Get Born
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Streetcore
Ryan Adams - Rock n Roll
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Leaning toward Joe.

 

Streetcore is great.

 

YanksFC, I'd go with Streetcore as well. Though I find it very suprising that you don't own Loveless. You should have that at some point too.

 

........and now for some more random thoughts:

Robert Burns wrote some really excellent songs. Really.

You ever notice how Irish bar folks singers all sing the same 25 songs. Over and over.

oh, and buy Streetcore it's very excellent.

 

Danko Jones should be huge everywhere, not just Toronto. Amazing live show.

Rap was great from '92-'94. Now it is just shamefull.

Everytime I turn on MTV, Turbonegro is on in the background. I blame those silly kids from Jackass. Glad I got to see Turbonegro on one of thier rare appearences in the States.

I was in a riverboat casino last night, and "merry christmas (i don't wanna fight)" was on the muzak. Weird.

Lee Ving from Fear is Mr. Body in the movie "Clue" Weirder.

 

I think The Beat's best song has to be "Sooner or Later" Amazing track. Suprisingly, Harvey Danger does a rather good cover of it, too.

 

Jet. But every time I say the name of that band I sing to myself the woo-woo-woo part from the Wings song.

 

Neko Case does good honky tonk with her boyfriends.

 

I would assume you mean "Save It For Later"?

Other random thoughts: The Rascals have to be among the top five all-time underrated rock bands.

OK, so Morrissey is now worshipped by a large group of disaffected hetero Mexican men -- stranger things have happened. (Well, actually, maybe they haven't.) But how can they just ignore his sexual ambiguity?

Someone else to add to that list of people I've seen in concert who have died. Actually, that's not really true -- Cunningham sat in on an Irish music class that I took at Boston College, and was a guest player at the request of the instructor, Seamus Connolly.

Is there anyone in popular music so desperate to make himself appear culturally relevant than Wyclef Jean?

After seeing the video for "It's The Sun" I added the keywords "POLYPHONIC SPREE" to my TiVo wish list. Let's see if anything ever comes up.

 

My three-year-old will only listen to Wilco. I play lots of different CD's while we're driving together, but he always demands Wilco now.

 

I can't *#*#*#*#ing believe it. He played with his brother and Dougie Maclean here in DC this past summer AND I *#*#*#*#ING MISSED IT.

This is truly sad, he was an amazing musician.

 

Ah, silly me. Got the wrong chorus line mistaken as the title. Yes, Save it for Later. Sacrilege really, considering all the 2Tone albums I own.

 

And silly me for not noticing the error. I saw Dave Wakeling last year. A very good show. Not as good as when I saw the English Beat without ever had of heard of them - they blew me away, but quite good. He's still got it in terms of singing and performing. Don't know about the new material thing, though.

 

Pitchfork just released their top 50 albums of the year -- which is equal parts obtuse, impermeable and esoteric as usual -- but I thought I needed to post this phrase from their snippet on Ted Leo's Hearts of Oak album:

"...
Hearts of Oak is the most thrilling Ghanaian-American sensation this side of Freddy Adu.
..."

A sort of BigSoccer Music Board harmonic convergence, if you will.

 

Which reminds me, I wish Chisel had never broke up.