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[Dev]

love take me down to the streets by paul mccartney and wings

love the wings, buddy.

[Kevin Davis]

[Simple Torture]

Yeah, that's a great one. "Change" is pretty good too.

Agh they reissued these two on vinyl a few years ago but haven't gotten to "...Is Terrified" and "!" yet, which is infuriating.

[Kevin Davis]

Just checked eBay. Glorious CD copies galore.

[Simple Torture]

I used to have them on CD! Digitized them, then sold them. I sold Emergency & I for like $20 three years ago, people on eBay are insane.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I just heard a new Green Day song. WTF is that emo shit?!

[jwfocker]

I just heard a new Green Day song. WTF is that emo shit?!

its so bad.

[washing machine]

Giving that new Brad Mehldau and Chris Thile record a spin. Really hitting the spot.

[Dev]

And you won't. That's the best one out there. It IS notable for its version of Blue Sky which is the only known soundboard recording of it with Duane in the band.

My problem is just that I can't find a decent quality mp3 version online. 128 is the best I could get and it's fuckin garbage. This is the Allman Brothers we are talking about. People need to show a little respect.

[Kevin Davis]

Giving that new Brad Mehldau and Chris Thile record a spin. Really hitting the spot.

Just loving it so far, this and the album closer especially:

[Kaius]

Why am I just now hearing this

[washing machine]

Giving that new Brad Mehldau and Chris Thile record a spin. Really hitting the spot.

Just loving it so far, this and the album closer especially:

Beautiful.

Did you ever listen to Nickel Creek, KD? I'm unfamiliar with their music and only know Chris Thile through A Prairie Home Companion.

[washing machine]

I was worried when I heard their lead guitarist left that the jangle would go with him. Definitely not the case here.

[Kevin Davis]

You know, I have listened to Nickel Creek, and I gotta say I never really cared for them. Bluegrass seems to be a perpetually unsatisfying genre for me -- if you could bottle its essence and experience it as this sort of vague musical concept, I think I'd really like it, but time and again, actual bluegrass artists just let me down. Either the songwriting is undercooked, or exists as background to the soloists, or too much responsibility is given to instruments with limited physical and emotional ranges -- I dunno, it's a lot of fun for a short while but I feel like it doesn't hold my interest for long. Nickel Creek also had that terminal "hot young bluegrass virtuosos!" vibe that came across in their music more than one would hope -- they seemed like from-the-cradle music school kids with a ton of technique but nothing to say. Thile was (is?) in another band post-Nickel Creek called Punch Brothers, which I've consistently confused with Avett Brothers and therefore avoided. But I enjoy his singing a lot on the Mehldau disc, and the mandolin playing is...as good as I can imagine mandolin playing being.

Nickel Creek's violinist Sara Watkins had some nice solo stuff though, in that girl-with-a-nice-voice-sings-unpretentious-if-somewhat-unremarkable-acoustic-music kind of way. She also played with the Decemberists on "The King is Dead," if memory serves.

[doug rr]

[tragabigzanda]

[Kevin Davis]

You know, I have listened to Nickel Creek, and I gotta say I never really cared for them. Bluegrass seems to be a perpetually unsatisfying genre for me -- if you could bottle its essence and experience it as this sort of vague musical concept, I think I'd really like it, but time and again, actual bluegrass artists just let me down. Either the songwriting is undercooked, or exists as background to the soloists, or too much responsibility is given to instruments with limited physical and emotional ranges -- I dunno, it's a lot of fun for a short while but I feel like it doesn't hold my interest for long. Nickel Creek also had that terminal "hot young bluegrass virtuosos!" vibe that came across in their music more than one would hope -- they seemed like from-the-cradle music school kids with a ton of technique but nothing to say. Thile was (is?) in another band post-Nickel Creek called Punch Brothers, which I've consistently confused with Avett Brothers and therefore avoided. But I enjoy his singing a lot on the Mehldau disc, and the mandolin playing is...as good as I can imagine mandolin playing being.

Nickel Creek's violinist Sara Watkins had some nice solo stuff though, in that girl-with-a-nice-voice-sings-unpretentious-if-somewhat-unremarkable-acoustic-music kind of way. She also played with the Decemberists on "The King is Dead," if memory serves.

Have you ever listened to Gillian Welch?

Only sporadically, trag -- though, interestingly, the lead single from that Thile/Mehldau album is a cover of "Scarlet Town."

[LetMeSleep]

Listen to Time The Revelator immediately, KD. Or her track Wrecking Ball

[tragabigzanda]

[VinylGuy]