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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2685 on: April 29, 2016, 05:09:45 am »
There was a professional film crew there. Has that video emerged?
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2686 on: April 29, 2016, 05:10:31 am »
Woah, some asshole stole Boogie Boy's mask and ran away. I like how the guy filming said "Gee Whiz!"
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2687 on: May 04, 2016, 12:39:13 pm »
A friend of mine does the music photography for the local indy paper. He posted some photos of Foals who played here last night. So I googled them and really liked it. Seems like I was exposed to them awhile back and maybe forgot about it. Did anyone here bring them up?
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2688 on: May 04, 2016, 08:58:36 pm »
There's a certain style of banjo playing. It's not playing chords, or that fast bluegrass picking. I don't know if Neil Young invented this style, but he's the oldest example of it that I know about. Everytime I hear the banjo played like this it just sends me.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2689 on: May 04, 2016, 09:47:42 pm »
Wikipedia says that that's James Taylor playing a banjo tuned like a guitar on Old Man. So maybe it's just that fingerstyle guitar players don't try to play so fast.

(also you know maybe James Taylor has a dang smooth style love him or hate him)
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2690 on: May 04, 2016, 09:59:06 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on May 04, 2016, 09:47:42 pm
(also you know maybe James Taylor has a dang smooth style love him or hate him)

I like James Taylor, he's alright. I like him more right about now learning that he played on one of my all time favorite songs.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2691 on: May 05, 2016, 02:38:09 pm »
My mom sent me a copy of the latest James Taylor album (she likes to copy CDs and send them to me, which isn't altogether legal) and wrote a note saying I should listen to "Angels of Fenway" or whatever it's called.

Before I did, I googled it, and found this piece on Deadspin, which includes one of the greatest lines of criticism ever: “Angels of Fenway” sounds like a parody song, or maybe what James Taylor would perform at an improv night when handed a random card reading, “Sing a song about the Red Sox.”
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2692 on: May 05, 2016, 02:56:54 pm »
Copying a CD to another CD and sending it in the mail is a charming form of piracy.

James Taylor is my dad's favorite. I want to say I can't stand him, but that's a bit strong. I definitely do not have much interest in his music though. My dad used to sing "sweet dreams and flying machines" to me when I was a baby so I can't hate him.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2693 on: May 05, 2016, 03:26:40 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on May 05, 2016, 02:56:54 pm
Copying a CD to another CD and sending it in the mail is a charming form of piracy.

She maintains that giving a copy to a friend is somehow fair use. I haven't asked her for a legal citation on that.
Once I understood how little recording artists typically get paid, I am much less down with "free music."
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2694 on: May 06, 2016, 01:34:02 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on May 05, 2016, 02:56:54 pm
James Taylor is my dad's favorite. I want to say I can't stand him, but that's a bit strong. I definitely do not have much interest in his music though. My dad used to sing "sweet dreams and flying machines" to me when I was a baby so I can't hate him.

James Taylor's first album, on Apple Records, is actually surprisingly decent (well maybe not that surprisingly, given that Paul McCartney and George Harrison appear on "Carolina in my Mind"). "Something in the Way She Moves" is also really good.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2695 on: May 06, 2016, 06:57:07 pm »
The only real criticism of James Taylor that comes to mind is he's overly serious. I wouldn't call myself a fan, but I like his hits from back in the day when he made hits.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2696 on: May 06, 2016, 10:16:37 pm »
Damn, this album is so good. Plus, the cover is a tribute to a great Nick Drake album.

I am a huge sucker for guitars that are overdriven and sustained in this way... it's almost like they're singing? Also present at this moment of this incredible Feelies song.

I finally bought a guitar pedal that makes my guitar sound like this last year. It's great. Although maybe the sound is also about humbuckers. My jag has single coils.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2697 on: May 06, 2016, 11:14:13 pm »
Quote from: Carlos del Vaca on May 05, 2016, 03:26:40 pm
She maintains that giving a copy to a friend is somehow fair use. I haven't asked her for a legal citation on that.

Mmm, I think she has gotten that confused with "lending your own copy to a friend."
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« Reply #2698 on: May 16, 2016, 08:07:36 pm »
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #2699 on: May 17, 2016, 08:15:09 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on May 16, 2016, 08:07:36 pm
This one has been in my head to the "can't sleep at night because I'm mentally singing it" level for a week. Damn.

I heard a couple songs off this album and really liked them so I bought it. A little while later I went to listen to it and was bored out of my mind. And then I listened to it again a while later and I loved it. Maybe I'm just extra moody these days.

But I just listened to this song and I still like it a lot.
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