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[CortJstr]

Indeed, it drives me nuts to hear a band that I know was really solid described as a one-hit wonder.  Ever hear Big Country's entire first record?  Or any of their other albums? They freakin' rocked. Yet they will always appear on VH1's One-Hit Wonder shows.

I just recently discovered that The Cardigans have other songs that aren't awful.

In the Meantime was the only Spacehog song I ever heard on the radio. Of course I also thought until recently that Train was a one-hit wonder because my radio station played Drops of Jupiter for about 2 weeks 9 years ago then never mentioned them again. Apparently on other stations they had many, many other songs.

[pmcd9]

i want to live

I'd never heard that song before, was it a hit?

I checked their wiki just yesterday.  They actually have three albums, but only the one sold well I think.  I liked that song from their third album so maybe i should check them out as well.  Especially since I love their first album so well.

The wiki also says they reunited in 2008 and started working on an album in 2009, but it hasn't been released.  There is also mention of another band with 3 of of the four Spacehog members called Arckid, but they haven't released any music either.

[Nabubrush]

i want to live or in the meantime?

I Wanna Live.

[Nabubrush]

Well, one-hit wonder is sort of a specific definition. People probably shouldn't be slagged with the designation - after all, Jimi Hendrix was a one-hit wonder, and Black Sabbath only had one single (Paranoid) crack the top twenty.

[Choop]

OK, I proclaim today The Mayor's day all day long and into the night for being so right.

Them dude's were solid.

look out here come's an 's

[Nabubrush]

It's a big country.

[Nabubrush]

I am listening to Ren and Stimpy production music.

[Lister]

This is apropos of nothing, but I miss two things about music.  They sound like they're opposites but they're not.

1. I miss people who are actually good at what they're doing and try to sound good.  Alternately, I miss people who are having fun doing what they're doing and try to sound like they're having fun.  You don't have to use ALL the menu options in ProTools just because they're there, producers.  It's okay to practice stuff and get better at playing it, musicians.

2. I miss hearing mistakes in musical recordings.  A recording made of 140 perfect 4-bar cuts just doesn't have the soul of a performance.  If I Fell is a good performance even if Paul misses a note.  That's kind of a crappy example, but basically if nothing unexpected happens when you're playing the music isn't really free in my opinion.

I have no idea why I posted this today!  But I did.

[KeithHernandez]

I saw Spindrift today.  They played their new/not yet recorded album (from what I understand the album at this point, pretty much in order.)  It seems like that is going to be a really good album.  The main guy is like my favorite guitarist ever, but he uses a lot of shitty effects live.

Also, standing two feet away from a really loud stage with only highs and lows equals pain.  Sweet sweet pain.

[robot_god]

I been seein all these local acts so there is no point to mention the names, but on Friday I was dancing like a prick until I twisted my ankle hell of bad.

Thursday gonna see Dance Fight.  Instrumental power trio and the lead man plays keys and keytar simultaneous.

[jaydub]

I don't normally go on about bubblegum pop, but hearing some goof on NPR gush over Taylor Swift's new album made me drop my jaw. The reviewer played clips of the music seeking to prove his point, but all I heard was mildly clever teen-angst sung in a reedy voice, punctuated with crystal clear autotune corrections.  Was the autotuning a deliberate stylistic thing?  It didn't have the over-the-top feel of Cher's playing around in Believe, but it sure as hell didn't sound natural to me. 

[greenkoolayd]

I don't normally go on about bubblegum pop, but hearing some goof on NPR gush over Taylor Swift's new album made me drop my jaw. The reviewer played clips of the music seeking to prove his point, but all I heard was mildly clever teen-angst sung in a reedy voice, punctuated with crystal clear autotune corrections.  Was the autotuning a deliberate stylistic thing?  It didn't have the over-the-top feel of Cher's playing around in Believe, but it sure as hell didn't sound natural to me. 

supposedly writes her own songs, but they all sound like teen-pop BS. it appears as though she is being marketed as a less threatening avril lavigne.

[Nabubrush]

If it's on the radio nowadays, it's going to be autotuned.

[theinevitable]

I'm reading The Rest is Noise and trying to listen to the people he writes about. I am really bad at listening to any music over 4 minutes long, though, so it is a challenge.

[Nabubrush]

Any big Swans fans up in this piece? They're playing Portland in February. I like the (citation needed) bit in Wiki: "One of the trademarks of Swans' early period was playing at painfully loud volumes during concerts, to the point where some audience members would vomit".