Recent Music Acquired

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The King of Limbs from the Basement DVD/Blu Ray set. Free if one wants it to be on youtube, but I sprung for higher quality.

Reports that the band's legacy or even status was in danger were greatly exaggerated.

[NinjaRob17]

Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Becoming the Archetype - Celestial Completion
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

[ajyouthguy]

The Fray--Scars and Stories
Grammatrain--Imperium

[Ian]

The King of Limbs from the Basement DVD/Blu Ray set. Free if one wants it to be on youtube, but I sprung for higher quality.

Reports that the band's legacy or even status was in danger were greatly exaggerated.

Not a big fan of TKOL, but what I have seen of this set was terrific.

[ajyouthguy]

Justin McRoberts--M
Foy Vance--Noise Trade Sampler
Chasing Summer--Noise Trade Sampler

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Not a big fan of TKOL, but what I have seen of this set was terrific.

I think that it, in many ways, increased my appreciation for the album. I still think the dismissals were too often knee-jerk and completely lacking in insight, but at the same time, I think very few would have complained if it was the album.

The only bad thing about it is that the Blu Ray disc is more or less just a collector's item seeing as I don't have a PAL compatible set-up. I'll make sure to pack it with me if I ever take a European vacation.

[murlough23]

I think that it, in many ways, increased my appreciation for the album. I still think the dismissals were too often knee-jerk and completely lacking in insight, but at the same time, I think very few would have complained if it was the album.

I listened to it yesterday. Good live renditions, but I still prefer the studio takes in most cases. (To be fair, this is almost always true for me for just about any band.)

I also finally caught up with "The Daily Mail/Staircase" and "Supercollider/The Butcher". Those'll take some more digesting. I'll just file them as part of the TKOL album in iTunes to make sure I don't forget they exist. (I wish a special edition with all 12 tracks existed.)

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"The Butcher" is the only one that is conspicuously missing on the DVD, but it's also my least favorite of the era, so I guess that's ok.

[murlough23]

"The Butcher" is the only one that is conspicuously missing on the DVD, but it's also my least favorite of the era, so I guess that's ok.

Yeah, I didn't care for that one as much, either. The band actually said they recorded it during the TKOL session, but couldn't make it "work" on the album.

The other three were all being worked on (some for years) before TKOL came out, though, and these four songs are being promoted as singles with artwork similar to TKOL, so I'm a bit perplexed.

(To be fair, this isn't a first for Radiohead; they've had non-album singles as far back as "Pop Is Dead". I have no clue why that one wasn't deemed worthy of the album; it's not like it would have made Pablo Honey any worse.)

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I'm not really. When they release singles/EPs, they are usually released with artwork and fonts similar to the related album.

(To be fair, this isn't a first for Radiohead; they've had non-album singles as far back as "Pop Is Dead". I have no clue why that one wasn't deemed worthy of the album; it's not like it would have made Pablo Honey any worse.)

IDK, but Pablo Honey is already a bit more than long enough.

[murlough23]

I'm not really. When they release singles/EPs, they are usually released with artwork and fonts similar to the related album.

Yeah, but usually those singles are actually on the album. (EPs are a different story, since they're usually B-sides, or alternate/live/acoustic takes of album material.)

I guess I'm used to seeing a "single" as a tool to promote the album. I know it wasn't always this way (lots of the early rock & rollers had non-album singles, so there's precedent for it), but in modern times, it strikes me as odd, especially with indie bands who really couldn't give a rat's ass about radio anyway.

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I'm used to singles serving a variety of purposes, but I don't know that they do much that would be a normal promotion of albums anyway - not a lot of music videos either, for example.

[murlough23]

I'm used to singles serving a variety of purposes, but I don't know that they do much that would be a normal promotion of albums anyway - not a lot of music videos either, for example.

They've been bucking the trend regarding how albums are normally promoted since Kid A, anyway, so comparison to the usual model might be irrelevant.

Though they did have the "Lotus Flower" video, and that was quite clearly timed to promote the album.

[ajyouthguy]

Foy Vance--Hope

[ewok20t3]

Here's the used albums I've purchased over the last few weeks:

Nada Surf - Let Go
Keith Green - The Ministry Years Volume 1: 1977-1979
Dwight Yoakam - Gone
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
New Order - Technique
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Mary J. Blige - My Life
Prince - 1999
Dio - Metal Hits
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Belle and Sebastian -If You're Feeling Sinister
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Buzzcocks - Operators Manual: Buzzcocks Best
Nine Inch Nail - Broken
Pavement - Watery, Domestic
Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground
Saosin - Saosin
Statistics - Statistics
Out of The Grey - (See Inside)
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Elliott Smith - XO
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
Portishead - Dummy

[murlough23]

Out of The Grey - (See Inside)

Hey, there's a blast from my past. That's sort of their "alternative" album after they realized they had gotten too poppy. Not that it isn't still poppy. But I enjoy the more organic approach. It was the mid-90s; everyone was getting an alt makeover back then.

[ewok20t3]

Hey, there's a blast from my past. That's sort of their "alternative" album after they realized they had gotten too poppy. Not that it isn't still poppy. But I enjoy the more organic approach. It was the mid-90s; everyone was getting an alt makeover back then.

I haven't listened to the album yet, but I remember "Disappear" being one of my favorite songs on CCM radio back when it was released. I'm hoping this album resembles the style of that song, and by your description, it sounds like it will.

[murlough23]

I haven't listened to the album yet, but I remember "Disappear" being one of my favorite songs on CCM radio back when it was released. I'm hoping this album resembles the style of that song, and by your description, it sounds like it will.

A good chunk of it does. "No Leaving" and "Not a Chance" are pretty solid pop/rock tracks, and I always thought "Winter Sun" was a fascinatingly strange entry among the mellower songs.

It's also an interesting album in that it contains solo songs for Scott ("That's Where I Live") and Christine ("Joy"). The latter is one of my favorite OOTG songs, period. It's very abstract.

Their debut album is always going to be my favorite, though. It still sets a high bar for my idea of "the perfect pop album" because it is both very catchy and very inventive. Perhaps a bit dated now, but it was definitely ahead of the game in terms of early 90s CCM.

[ewok20t3]

A good chunk of it does. "No Leaving" and "Not a Chance" are pretty solid pop/rock tracks, and I always thought "Winter Sun" was a fascinatingly strange entry among the mellower songs.

It's also an interesting album in that it contains solo songs for Scott ("That's Where I Live") and Christine ("Joy"). The latter is one of my favorite OOTG songs, period. It's very abstract.

Well, I paid a whopping 25 cents for it, so it sounds like it'll be well worth that.