My one allowed phone-it-in FMD. Hey are you checking out Beau's ranking of all 211 Beatles songs? You should, it's pretty damn impressive. Only a couple of egregious errors thus far.
Drop your lists.
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FMD — Cool Show Bro
Bootsy regaled us with some stories last week of cool ass shows he saw back in the day: U2 and Radiohead at First Avenue. Got me thinking are there shows you saw that were classic? Me, I saw Replacements at their 5 night 7th Street Entry gigs to promote Tim. Also the Replacements at Riot Fest was pretty special and Lydia Loveless shows April and November 2014 was pretty epic. But what other famous concerts or shows do you wish you had seen live? I have a couple.
Beatles at the Cavern Club – Seeing one of those shows, especially right before they became huge, would have been so cool. The atmosphere, the fact that no one was doing what they were doing. Saying you saw The Beatle at the Cavern would be instant cool cred.
Alan Ginsberg reciting Howl for the first time at Six Gallery. Here’s the backstory. If I could go back in time, this is one place I would go.
Sex Pistols in Manchester – A hundred people saw them and all started bands we all know: The Clash, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Fall, Buzzcocks.
Elvis at Overland Park Memphis. Just 25 days after That's All Right Mama was recorded, this generally considered Elvis's first concert and just maybe the one place you could say Rock and Roll was born.
Dylan Goes Electric at the Newport Jazz Fest. Did people boo or not?
Guided By Voices in Dayton, Ohio early 1990s. Oh to be at one of those shows when only a few knew.
How about you?, What show/concert/performance do you wish you could say “I was there maaaaaan?”
Radiohead — The Bends
This is such a cool version of a great song.
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Loading... Cheap Trick — California Man/Surrender
This is one goofy fun video. The parents and kids audience, obvious lip syncing, dry ice fog. Rick Neilsen looks like Pee Wee Herman.
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Friday Music Day
What is your attitude on deleting songs from an album on your song library? With I-tunes, it’s so simple to eliminate the songs you don’t like that you can basically re-create any album to your liking. Don’t think Yellow Submarine belongs on Revolver? One key stroke and it’s gone. Me? I’m an album guy and for the most part I don’t eliminate songs from albums. If I want to listen to an album, then I have to listen to the way the artist/producer envisioned it (doesn’t mean I don’t use the skip button if I want to). If an album only has one or two songs I like and the rest has no interest I will take those good songs and put them on some “greatest hits” collection. I will admit that in a few cases I have found a song so odious that I’ve had to delete it; but that’s very rare.
This, of course, brings me to Guided By Voices. Robert Pollard has penned, recorded, and released thousands of songs. Even if he batted a phenomenal .600, that’s literally hundreds of songs that are crap. And believe me, even a freak like me will admit there’s a lot of crap GBV songs out there -- dude could seriously use an editor. But then who knows? One person’s garbage song is another’s treasure.
The album Propeller is a great example of this. Released on 1992, this was the album that finally caught the eye of some record company swell from NYC and Guided By Voices got invited to play in the big City with a resulting record contract. It’s the record that propelled (my pun) GBV from obscure Dayton, OH band to at least a cultish indie-darling band. The album is pretty damn good, but as I mentioned above, there’s some just awful songs on it too. I’ve kept all the GBV songs on I-tunes by album but I’ve also created playlists of their best songs (still way into the multi-hundreds) and sometimes created albums that are all killer, no filler. Propeller is one album that is a go to. If interested below is a playlist for Propeller that in my opinion is much more listenable. Perhaps create it on Spotify and give it a listen.
So drop your lists, and share your attitude about changing albums on your personal song library, do you create albums based on how they should have been released?
| Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox |
| Weedking |
| Quality of Armor |
| Metal Mothers |
| Unleashed! The Large-Hearted Boy |
| Red Gas Circle |
| Exit Flagger |
| 14 Cheerleader Coldfront |
| Ergo Space Pig |
| Circus World |
| On the Tundra |
Guided By Voices – Over the Neptune/Mesh Fox Gear
It's a FMD video cross link!! From Propeller.
Sound quality isn't the greatest but a good version nonetheless. In the upper pantheon of GBV songs.
http://youtu.be/w4pBc1pIwq0
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Loading... Pavement – Unfair
Pavement gets classified as a slacker band or lo-fi. But man they could also jam too. This one rocks!
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Loading... The Minutemen — Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
O.k. I felt bad for yesterday's 11 plus minute U2 song. So here's 106 seconds of The Minutemen covering Van Halen.
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Loading... U2 –Bad
Looking at some Bowie stuff, I came across this. Bad is definitely my favorite U2 song. Warning if you don't like the preening Bono, you probably won't like the last half of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zIW8qDPhos
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Loading... Speedy Ortiz — Raising the Skate
Surprised this album didn't get more love during our best of lists. Definitely a nice kick off to Freealonzo's Rock Week.
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