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All it takes to qualify as a killer storm hereabouts is six flakes of snow in the sky at any one time! Seriously, an inch or so of snow paralyzed the city of Raleigh a few years ago.
Now the forecast is calling for a "chance" of snow Sat… -
Andy Gill's guitar is that essence rare and it is definitely what I live for.
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Gang of Four is on YepRoc? It's not the original quartet, is it?
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No snow in Central NC, but we are experiencing a 40-degree drop within a 24-hour period.
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Sad but true. Especially concerning their original fan base.
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Katrina: no it didn't matter to the music. They were the best of that era.
I don't think they liked cats very much, though. No one's perfect... -
Not even the new Superchunk made the list. Doesn't running the most successful indie-rock label count for anything?
BigD-Bluez: my retro old fart self is still trying to figure out the lyrics to Clash songs from 1978. Any similar multi-d… -
No Spoon? No New Pornographers?
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I would give anything if our moggies would use the toilet. We have three of the little angels: two black domestic shorthairs (one of whom looks just like your Morgan Jane) and a flame-point Siamese (a terror). All rescue kitties.
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But is The Gilded Palace of Sin way better than Sweetheart of the Rodeo?
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I think U2 albums would be nearly perfect if released in dub form. The Edge may be more of an engineer than a "player", but that's exactly what his music needs.
As for the vocalist, the Mekons called him out more than 20 years ago:
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I don't think--and I will gladly admit that my memory after more than two decades is incredibly selective--that many of their fans knew or suspected at the time that either Bob and Grant were gay. If all you knew were the records, any lyrical clues …
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If LWS has Merge & as much jazz & African music as others on this thread have reported, then it deserves a trial. BTW, I'm listening to Ghana: Electric Highlife as I type this and it is wonderful, as good as any of Soundways comps that have …
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Thanks again! I'll probably sign up for a trial this afternoon.
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Thanks. It really does look like a decent option. Now I wonder if the labels who are deserting the sinking eMu ship will turn to it. Should be interesting...
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Is Limewire VBR like eMu? I can't find any info on the website?
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Thanks to all who responded to my Limewire question. The website does remind me a bit of eMu's back when I first stumbled across it, March 2005. Don't want to sign up today, but who knows, maybe tomorrow...
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I wish I had something witty, or, failing that, heartfelt to say about the Decline and (seemingly imminent) Fall of eMusic, but I can't stir up any emotion other than relief that my always-precarious finances not only precluded my investment in an a…
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So much for the Beatles' career...
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Katrina, how was the Springsteen book? Which one was it?
Craig, one last music book suggestion: England's Dreaming, by Jon Savage. And, as a companion piece, The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe--the scene where one of the teenage character… -
Congratulations on your book and best wishes for its success! I live two states over, in piedmont North Carolina, so I completely agree with you that autumn in the upper South is a sweet season. Alas, hereabouts it is followed by three months of cli…
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Craig: I kinda threw those names out as I was typing last night. I started reading all three as a teenager in the late 1970's; of the three, Christgau is the only one I still read regularly. Two other names from that era deserve mention: Nick Tosche…
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I'm glad I fianlly remembered that I registered here a couple of years ago and I'm sorry I didn't post earlier. You're a good group of people and this is a great site.
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Rudie: Read the Amazon teaser for Walsh's book, which is probably as far as I'm going to get. Don't know if they deliberately sabatoged their career; for me, they just stopped making interesting records. Same with Westerberg's solo career, although …
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Katrina: I was found on the eMusers doorstep in a bassinet with a note attached, "don't mind the smell; he's almost housebroken"...no, you don't know me; I've never posted before. I was an eMusic member from 2005-2010 and would read the message boar…
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Not to go off-topic, but I've always considered Paul Westerberg to be his (my) generation's Greatest Tragedy. Listen to Let It Be or Tim (yes, even with its godawful production) and you hear a talent so perfectly pitched that it seems effortless; ev…
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Craig, is there a book about the 80's Twin Cities scene? I assume since you quoted "Books About UFOs" (my favorite Huskers song) that you're a fan.
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"Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984" by Simon Reynolds.