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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #90 on: November 30, 2006, 05:41:33 pm »
man, I dig you LFM. I totally don't get lobster.

but I love Bob Dylan, and that's just based on his first album where he covered (mostly) old folk songs. So I'm kind of putting off listening to his other stuff, lest I turn into some kind of drooling stalker.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #91 on: November 30, 2006, 08:23:01 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on November 30, 2006, 05:41:33 pm
man, I dig you LFM. I totally don't get lobster.

but I love Bob Dylan, and that's just based on his first album where he covered (mostly) old folk songs. So I'm kind of putting off listening to his other stuff, lest I turn into some kind of drooling stalker.

Avoid Highway 61 Revisited then.  For your sake and his.

(Just trying to drag it a bit back OT)
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #92 on: November 30, 2006, 11:00:05 pm »
Also avoid Another Side of Bob Dylan, avoid it today if possible (with Highway 61).
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #93 on: December 01, 2006, 05:14:28 am »
Definitely steer clear of his latest Modern Times because it stands among his best.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #94 on: December 01, 2006, 09:08:48 am »
Actually I confess I would choose Blood on the Tracks over a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. It just would be so much better if someone slightly different were singing on it.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #95 on: December 01, 2006, 03:24:19 pm »
Complaining about Bob Dylan's singing voice is kind of like complaining about Jimi Hendix's lyrics.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #96 on: December 01, 2006, 09:30:51 pm »
Nobody complains about Hendrix lyrics when he's singing All Along the Watchtower.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #97 on: December 01, 2006, 09:35:22 pm »
....do people not like hendrix lyrics? I like his lyrics. typically.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #98 on: December 01, 2006, 09:41:56 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on December 01, 2006, 09:30:51 pm
Nobody complains about Hendrix lyrics when he's singing All Along the Watchtower.

You get a can for that.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #99 on: December 01, 2006, 09:43:59 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on December 01, 2006, 09:35:22 pm
....do people not like hendrix lyrics? I like his lyrics. typically.

OK, let me put it another way.  It's like criticisizing Michael Jordan for being a lousy cook.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #100 on: December 01, 2006, 10:23:42 pm »
Doctor Comparision has resurrected another patient, folks!
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #101 on: December 03, 2006, 06:39:03 am »
Although I am happy that someone else has amalgamated Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen in their mind, I'm interested in this concept of Springsteen as "not too political".
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #102 on: December 03, 2006, 08:25:29 am »
Perhaps, better to say, "vaguely political".

A lot of... very general sort of like "the working man is rough and tumble and the fatcats on Wall Street are keeping him down" kind of stuff but... not the kind of specifics that would actually alienate a dude on a tractor in a Ford commerical. Because tractor dude buys records too.

Sort of a Green Arrow deal.

On first blush, you read a Green Arrow story and you're like "that's wild, this superhero is very politically liberal" but... after a while, you realize that he's actually not saying anything specifically very political at all.

Perhaps to make sure that the reader understand the writer and editor aren't taking a position, it's just this is his character trait for the purposes of the story. Because tractor dude buys comics too.

He's... gesturing TOWARDS political things all the time but it ends up being as nebulous as:

"Green Lantern, you're always watching out for the purple man, but what about the black man?"

Or so on.

He's being not too political but he's being not TOO political all the goddamn time.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #103 on: January 08, 2007, 04:05:14 am »
Anybody listen to Mercury Rev?  There Yerself Is Steam record is amazing.  As well as Boces and Deserter's Songs.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #104 on: January 08, 2007, 04:49:02 pm »
Anybody have a recommendation on The Residents?
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