OT: New Music?

Badger_Fan · Post by **Badger_Fan** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:20 pm

Just had two nights of DBT and The Hold Steady at 1st Ave. I saw Sunday night's show. The Hold Steady led off on Saturday and DBT did on Sunday. Here are the setlists from each show:

SATURDAY

HOLD STEADY: Positive Jam / Constructive Summer / Sequestered in Memphis / Stay Positive / The Swish / One for the Cutters / Party Pit / Massive Nights / Yeah Saphhire / You Can Make Him Like You / Southtown Girls / Lord I’m Discouraged / Stuck Between Stations / Chips Ahoy! / Your Little Hoodrat Friend / Ask Her for Some Adderall / Certain Songs / Redux of the Minutemen’s “History Lesson, Pt. 2,” with lyrics such as “I learned punk-rock in Minneapolis, I used to take the bus in from Edina” / Slapped Actress

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: Two Daughters & a Beautiful Wife / Ghost to Most / Righteous Path / Women Without Whiskey / Sink Hole / I’m Sorry Huston / Uncle Frank / Putting People on the Moon / 3 Dimes Down / Home Field Advantage / Hell No I Ain’t Happy / February 14 / Marry Me / Lookout Mountain / Ronnie and Neil

ENCORE: Zip City / (all the rest with Tad, Franz & Craig of THS:) A World of Hurt / Let There Be Rock / Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World

SUNDAY

TRUCKERS: Marry Me / That Man I Shot / Self-Destructive Zones / The Company I Keep / Carl Perkins’ Cadillac / Righteous Path / Sink Hole / Ghost to Most / The Home Front / The Living Bubba / Zip City / Dead, Drunk & Naked / Guitar Man Upstairs / Hell No I Ain’t Happy / 3 Dimes Down / Lookout Mountain

HOLD STEADY: Hornets! Hornets! / Constructive Summer / Stuck Between Stations / Navy Sheets / Banging Camp / Yeah Sapphire / Sweet Payne / Joke About Jamaica / Hot Soft Light / Stay Positive / Stevie Nix / Cattle & the Creeping Things (included a shout-out to Blind Approach) / Massive Nights / Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night / Some Kooks / Cheyenne Sunrise / Lord, I’m Discouraged / Don’t Let Me Explode / Chips Ahoy! / Sequestered in Memphis / Slapped Actress

ALL-STAR ENCORE (every band member eventually came on stage): Most People Are DJs / Look Out Cleveland (cover from the Band) / Let There Be Rock / Killer Parties

Last night's show was epic. I'll definitely be looking for a torrent of the show.

Badger_Fan · Post by **Badger_Fan** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:48 am

By the way, anyone interested can find both Sunday sets (with very good sound no less) on eTree. Worth the download for sure.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:11 pm

Thanks for the tip, Badger. I'm all over these shows, and yes, I'm a jealous mofo!

Take care,
PK

Badger_Fan · Post by **Badger_Fan** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:22 pm

You'll enjoy the shows PK. The sound quality is very good for a non-SB taping. And you'll particularly enjoy "Let There Be Rock" during the Hold Steady encore with all members of both bands on stage.

GTHobbes · Post by **GTHobbes** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:20 pm

Saw KoL at the Tabernacle here in Atlanta last night...great show and a very nice mix from all 4 of their albums. If you have a chance to check 'em out, I'd definitely recommend doing so.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:20 pm

Badger_Fan wrote:You'll enjoy the shows PK. The sound quality is very good for a non-SB taping. And you'll particularly enjoy "Let There Be Rock" during the Hold Steady encore with all members of both bands on stage.

Damn, Badger, you weren't kidding. That's one of the better-sounding boots I've grabbed in a long time.

Most taped shows either have too much bass or not enough, resulting in either muffled or tinny sound.

The taping of this show has very good balance for a boot. Thanks again for the tip!

Take care,
PK

EZSnappin · Post by **EZSnappin** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:48 pm

Unrelated to all the Drive-By Truckers love (which I share - not a fan of the other guys though), I rarely warm to hip-hop these days but am really liking the debut from The Knux, Remind Me In 3 Days. Inventive and varied in sound (and, for the most part, decent rhymes to boot), these brothers show some real promise.

I think my album of the year is Lambchop's OH (Ohio); it is at least the best thing they've done since the Nixon and Is A Woman back-to-back masterpieces to start the decade.

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:06 pm

Badger_Fan wrote:You'll enjoy the shows PK. The sound quality is very good for a non-SB taping. And you'll particularly enjoy "Let There Be Rock" during the Hold Steady encore with all members of both bands on stage.

So jealous you went to this show, but thanks for the tip on the recording. I'll have to check it out.

matthewk · Post by **matthewk** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:13 pm

Listened to the new Guns 'n' f-ing Roses disc twice through today.

It really is more of an Axl solo album than true GNR. Not bad, but nothing that needed to take a decade and a half to come up with. A little on the mellow side, which I've come to expect that from my favorite bands of the 80s. They are all getting old, and I no longer expect the same energy and edge that they had 15 years ago.

I can't put my finger on it yet, but I feel a bit of a 70s vibe to a lot of the songs.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:25 pm

I gave "Chinese Democracy" a spin last night, too, and it's OK. Just OK.

It's about what you'd expect from the schizophrenic W. Axl Rose: A couple of songs are killer, a handful are ordinary and a couple are absolutely horrible. Some very good guitar licks on this record, but the entire record is WAY overproduced. It makes the "Use Your Illusion" albums sound like "The Basement Tapes" or Neil Young's "Ragged Glory."

Certainly not the return of G 'N R to its lofty heights -- did anyone expect that, anyways? -- but not terrible.

I would pay three figures to see a proper G 'N R reunion show, though. Still one of my favorite bands of all time.

Take care,
PK

Rodster · Post by **Rodster** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:44 pm

I saw GNR during the UYI Tour in '91 at The Trop in St. Pete.

Awesome concert with Sound Garden as the opening act.

I heard a couple of tunes from Chinese Democracy. It's not the old GNR and I wasn't expecting that since Axel is the original member left. They've lost their attitude and Rose is 15 years older and his voice is not what it use to be.

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:16 pm

My first reaction is that Velvet Revolver is a much, much better GnR cover band than Guns n Roses.

Wilk5280 · Post by **Wilk5280** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:28 pm

I really like the song "Better" a lot. disk is ok, but yeah nothing exceptional.

greggsand · Post by **greggsand** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:39 pm

I'm not much of an Axel fan, but I gave it a listen. The amount of 'Axel vocal layering' going on is ridiculous on this record. Some of those tracks sound like 25 vocal takes piled on top of each other. If there's no slash, it's a 'gnr' album in the loosest sense... Anywhoo, I always thought Izzy was coolest 'gun'.

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:15 pm

Well, it is better than The Spagetti Incident. But it sounds so tame. "Shackler's Revenge" sounds like Nickelback if they didn't wax their balls. Yeah, it's a little more hard core, but it's still Nickelback's balls.

When I listened to Appetite and even the wildly uneven Use Your Illusion albums, they both had songs that grabbed me by the throat on the first listen. Velvet Revolver's "Slither" did that, even if the rest of the album never approached that sleazy high. Chinese Democracy doesn't have any moments like that for me. "Street of Dreams" is a pretty good piano-driven song in the mold of "Yesterdays" from Illusion II, and "Madagascar" is good until it made the right turn at Albequerque about halfway through. Overall, though, I found myself getting bored or irritated with most of the songs.

It's a shame, because despite the crazy ego excess of Axl, I really hoped this album would be good. The world could use another great GnR record, even if it's only from one of them.

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:32 am

Is this the place to confess that I watch the Single Ladies video once a day?

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:37 am

I can't believe I am the only one to say this yet...

F*CK AXL ROSE!!!!

I wouldn't let my ears listen to anything that man "creates" now. What a fuckstick.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:34 pm

Anybody else try Grooveshark, one of the new music-social media mashups? This thing is BAD-ASS: I like it WAY better than last.fm or any other music-social mish-mash I've tried.

http://www.grooveshark.com/

Take care,
PK

GTHobbes · Post by **GTHobbes** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:16 pm

The Grammy nominations were released today, and Kings of Leon (3 noms!), My Morning Jacket, Eddie Vedder, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, Beck, Radiohead, Neil Young, and even AC/DC are all up for awards. I've never had this many personal favorites up for a Grammy before...guess I'll have to actually watch this year. Good job, Academy!

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i ... my-awards/

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:33 pm

Anyone catch the Victoria Secret Fashion Show last night? There was a song by the Ting Tings called That's Not My Name that I think my wife will totally dig.

greggsand · Post by **greggsand** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:43 pm

It's that time of year for the "Who gives a rats ass" file! From my blog:

10. REM - Accelerate (Amazing what can happen when Peter Buck gives a sh*t again. Man Sized Wreath & Living Well are the best songs they’ve written in 8 years.)

9. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Berman at his most relaxed, for better or worse. Might be time to get Malkmus on the phone...)

8. Steve Malkmus – Real Emotional Trash (Malkmus at his most “jammy”, for better or worse. Might be time to get Spiral on the phone…)

7. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (Not quite the Bi-Sexual "Smile" it tries to be, but it's not for an uncomfortable lack of trying.)

6. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Nice sense of humor – electric-y, rock-y, stone-y, and they make it on the Hills on a regular basis - wink wink.)

5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (These guys seem to get less & less cool by the minute, but the album was a good one to argue about.)

4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Yeah, they sound like My Morning Jacket, they sound like 70’s-Beach Boys. I got over it.)

3. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours (Anytime you hear “dance music, BUT they also play GUITARS!!” there’s an instant gag reflex. This works, really works, go figure – crazy aussies.)

2. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (I can't help it. Much like Wilco's 'head scratcher' last year, I can't stop listening to this damn thing. It's funny that my 2nd favorite album of the year has the most annoying track ever - u know what it is...)

1. Deerhunter - Microcastle (Spacey, Stoney, Reverb'd to all hell, catchy, difficult, good times. If I was a college kid, this would be the band to make me buy a guitar. The next record will be their true breakout and/or start a turf war with Deerhoof fans. Can't wait)

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:30 pm

I don't what's wrong with Vamp Weekend. They haven't turned into The Killers or Coldplay.

The Killer's get my 2009 "Hey we're trying to be Oasis vote." f*** what happened after hot fuss.

Fleet Foxes is good sometimes too mellow.

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:31 pm

pk500 wrote:Anybody else try Grooveshark, one of the new music-social media mashups? This thing is BAD-ASS: I like it WAY better than last.fm or any other music-social mish-mash I've tried.

http://www.grooveshark.com/

Take care,
PK

Nice find! Expect nothing less than good free music from PK.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:36 pm

JRod wrote:Nice find! Expect nothing less than good free music from PK.

My epitaph will read: "If it was free, it was good for me."

Take care,
PK

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:31 pm

Vampire Weekend is a really good album. Too much hipster doofus hating on those guys, which almost always happens when a young, talented group takes off right away (see The Strokes).

I like that Fleet Foxes record a lot, but think that Band of Horses does a slightly better job of mining the Americana ground.

My Morning Jacket left me cold. I applaud their sense of adventure, but they reached a point where they didn't sound like themselves so much that it was almost like listening to another group.

I'd have to go with Bon Iver's For Emma, For Ever Ago as my record of the year because it's so original, intimate, and creative. That slightly edges out The Hold Steady's Stay Positive which, while again not terribly original, rocks my face off.