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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jan 12, 2004 23:43:14 GMT -5
But my two favorites, Neil Young and Bob Dylan did some lackluster work in the 80's.
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Post by cornjob on Jan 12, 2004 23:53:29 GMT -5
Bob Dylan did write some Gems in the 80s.Neil Young changed his whole style for a little while.What was the name of that album where his voice was synthesized?
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jan 13, 2004 0:06:42 GMT -5
Trans. I lkie that one and some others but it wasn't his best decade.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jan 13, 2004 0:08:37 GMT -5
There's some other lesser known. Marshal Crenhaw, T Bone Burnett. And Warren Zevon, but he started in the 70's so I guess he's not strictly 80's. I just remembered, T Bone Burnett is mentioned in the short "The Days Of Our Years". I know the've mentioned Crenhaw somewhere.
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Post by cornjob on Jan 13, 2004 0:20:20 GMT -5
Thats probably where I heard it from then.
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Post by Rowsdower on Jan 13, 2004 2:18:38 GMT -5
here's what my collection looks like, my favorites are in bold:
Most of my collection is made up of 'indie rock' and Southern blues (1920s folk style, not modern bar rock wank a la B.B. King and those guys…not dumping on BB, I just don't like his music).
'68 Comeback, Apples In Stereo, Ashtabula, the Baptist Generals, Beaux Freres, Big Star, Blacktop, Blood Thirsty Lovers, Bob Log III, Booker T & the M.G.s, Boxhead Ensemble, the Breeders, Jeff Buckley, Built To Spill, Captain Beefheart, Champ!, Cheater Slicks, the Clash, the Clears, the Compulsive Gamblers, the Cool Jerks, Cornfed, the Creatures, CCR, Devo, Dirtbombs, Dirty Three, Doo Rag, The Drags, Duraluxe, Fastbacks, The Flaming Lips, Flecton Bigsky, Folk Implosion, the Gories, the Grifters, GBV, Gza, Hayden, Kristin Hersh, Hot Monkey, Hovercraft, Iggy & the Stooges, Impala, Jetty Webb, 'Blind' Willie Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Ross Johnson, King Sound Quartet, Latin Playboys, Furry Lewis, Love Battery, Lucero, Magnog, Man or Astro-Man? , Memphis Goons, Mercury Rev, Mission Of BurmaMississippi John Hurt, the Mississippi Sheiks, Modest Mouse, My Dad Is Dead, Mudhoney, the Neckbones, Oblivians, Greg Oblivian & the Tip-Tops, Jack Oblivian, Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, Pixies, Porch Ghouls, Quintron, the Rachels, Radio Birdman, the Reatards, Otis Redding, the Reigning Sound, Residents, RFTC, Sad Like Crazy, the Satyrs, the Scienetists, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the Screws, Sebadoh, the Simple Ones, Sin Ropas, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Songs:Ohia, Sonic Youth, Son House Tobin Sprout, South Filthy, Strapping Fieldhands, Sun Ra, Superchunk, Talking Heads, Those Bastard Souls, Throwing Muses, Tren Brothers, Mick Turner, Ugly Casanova, Unsane, Tom Waits, Wilco, the Wedding Present, Werbo, Andre Williams, Wu-Tang, xbxrx, Yatsura, Neil Young, Frank Zappa.
Plus a healthy collection of classical…Chopin, Ivanov, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, the B., Ravel, Glinka, Sibelius et al.
probably my favorite song of all time is by Didier Hebert...the depressing as all get out, "I woke up one morning in may"...I love Cajun blues. Unfortunately, its the only song of his I've been able to find. It was on Harry Smith's must own Anthology of American Folk Music...best box set ever.
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Post by Rowsdower on Jan 13, 2004 2:33:40 GMT -5
Neil Young and ...did some lackluster work in the 80's. agreed, except I have to voice my displeasure in seeing every hack music critic cite TRANS as his low point. What was wrong with Trans? I like Trans. If Neil's 80s output is going to be criticized it should be for duds like LANDING ON WATER and Crazy Horse's LIFE. I like 2 songs off of LOW (ha) and a couple off of Life, but those are pretty awful albums. EVERYBODY'S ROCKIN' was a good idea that didn't really work...he should have canned the female backing vocals (it should have been more 50s r'n'r and less doo-wop)...still, Wonderin' is an indispesable tune. RE-AC-TOR and HAWKS & DOVES are rather weak and unmemorable...GODDAMNIT, WHY DO PEOPLE PICK ON TRANS? The strangest thing is that Neil released his crappiest album of all time just under two years ago. I don't understand how he could team up with a) Booker T. & the MGs b) Crazy Horse and produce a horrid album like ARE YOU PASSIONATE? Not only does it have a lame 9-11 related song, but it also boasts a ghastly sleeve that looks like a 12 year old bootlegger made it in Photoshop during recess. Thank god for GREENDALE...I was worried there for a bit. Greendale has to be seen live to really 'get'.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jan 13, 2004 8:53:20 GMT -5
I like Trans also but I also like re-ac-tor. Landing On Water may be the worst Neil but he later did some of those songs live with Crazy Horse and they were MUCH better. Youyr right, everybody's Rockin' should have been more rockabilly.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jan 13, 2004 8:54:54 GMT -5
This riffer thread seems to have become a music discussion.
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Post by Rowsdower on Jan 13, 2004 9:17:20 GMT -5
yeah, I feel kinda bad about that...
Hey, I like both RE-AC-TOR and HAWKS & DOVES, I simply find them weaker efforts from Neil.
From Landing on Water I love "I Got A Problem" and "Pressure". I want to believe the rumours that he did that album as a big F-You to the record company for attempting to sue him for not sounding commercial enough (so he went and made the most middle of the road sounding radio crap album he could muster).
I wasn't aware he ever played any of that stuff with the Horse.
There are a couple of gems on Life..."Mideast Vacation" is great if yr in an angsty mood...particularly about modern politics..."Prisoner Of Rock n Roll" and When Your Lonely Heart Breaks" both sound great now when they play em live..."Inca Queen" is pretty questionable but I kinda dig it in a so-corny-it's-fun kind of way. That album is WAAAAAAAYYY overproduced (and apparently all was not well with the band). It's too bad.
Another album I find weak is RAGGED GLORY...cool sleeve, great title for a Crazy Horse album...and somehow it's flat-sounding...I like White Line though.
Most Underrated album: Broken Arrow...I love it. Everyone should own: On The Beach now that it's been reissued...brilliant companion piece to Tonight's The Night...equally frightening and delightfully trippy.
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Post by LordKaT on Jan 13, 2004 14:34:05 GMT -5
I guess I'm the only one that didn't riff on things before mst3k heh. I was a really quiet type person, until I went through puiberty. Then I rediscovered MST3k, and became a wiseass ... now I'm just a regular pain in the ass --LordKaT
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Post by Buddhist Kitten on Jan 13, 2004 18:03:15 GMT -5
Thank you everyone for their 80's recommendations! Now my lung is healthy again. Send more, if you would like, for someone could never have too long of a favorite bands list.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jan 13, 2004 19:31:04 GMT -5
Is this thread working right for everyone else? It's 4 pages right now but from the BBoard home page it tells me it's just 2. Not a big deal I'm just wondering if somethings not quite right.
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Post by cornjob on Jan 13, 2004 19:35:24 GMT -5
I have the same problem.Very Strange.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jan 13, 2004 19:38:35 GMT -5
OK then. It's not just me. A moderator or somebody should lookinto it. Hey, wait a minute.
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