1. That Smell 2. Workin' for MCA 3. Call Me the Breeze 4. Mississippi Kid 5. What's Your Name? 6. Simple Man 7. Things Goin' On 8. I Need You 9. Swamp Music 10. Sweet Home Alabama
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
And yeah, that's what I was getting at, too, with the Pharmacists. I didn't feel like typing the whole thing.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:58 (twenty years ago) link
Drive By Truckers have yet to write a song as good as:
1. That Smell 2. Workin' for MCA 3. Call Me the Breeze 5. What's Your Name? 6. Simple Man 10. Sweet Home Alabama
Wittier lyrics, more engaged singing, fuller guitars, sadder beauty. More at STAKE. Not just a better beat, though they swung as hard as any rock band ever. But they were an album band, Anthony. You should buy their albums. The first two are a really fine place to start.
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Jonathan (Jonathan), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:08 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:17 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
Avalanches TOTALLY surprised me! I'd barely even heard of them!
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:22 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:25 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
because it's a good album that's been released in the midwest?
also, what rock were you living under that you'd never heard of the Avalanches? yeah, I even knew they sucked by then!
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
I heard the NAME Avalanches. Somebody in Canada had pitched me the record. I just assumed it was, like, a popular in Canada thing. I still don't understand what's so great about that album, so maybe that's got something to do with it. But obviously, many disagreed.
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link
I like that Spin's singles list had "No Letting Go" and no "Get Busy" (they're both great, but I like Wayne Wonder's song better).
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
That's like saying that Geddy Lee isn't as important a bassist as Quiet Riot's!
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:36 (twenty years ago) link
(By the way, I do think White Stripes DESERVE to beat Outkast and Radiohead -- and *maybe* even beat Dizee Rascal; thats a close one. But what I want to win and what I think will win are two different animals. Of course, most albums that I want to win won't even place.)
And most EVERYTHING music is bad, Michaelangelo. Why should electronic stuff be any different? But I love lots of it, as you know. Or you should.
― chuck, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:43 (twenty years ago) link
Don't you have 10 toenails?
― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:52 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:53 (twenty years ago) link
Neither the White Stripes or Outkast records are as good as those bands' previous records, but are both FAR better than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/Sea Change/WhateverthatFlamingLipsalbumwascalled, so I say Pazz and Jop is looking better this year!
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:56 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:57 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
The Flaming Lips rock.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
The Lips record, even though I can't remember what it was called, is my favorite of those three, but I like Elephant and Love Below/Speakerboxx better, though Elephant's apparent coronation somewhat perplexes me since it seems clearly inferior to White Blood Cells to my ears.
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:04 (twenty years ago) link
And if that doesn't make sense, tough shit!
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:10 (twenty years ago) link
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:11 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:16 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link
Nice to see Ted Leo and the New Pornographers on the list, at least. I suppose I'll have to wait until Pazz & Jop for some Decemberists love...
― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link