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Posted: **Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:52 pm**

I'm on a huge Lucksmiths kick lately. Just got the "Where were we?" cd off Amazon the other day. This is probably what's most heavily influencing my own music lately, although I am a poor, poor imitation indeed.

Posted: **Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:49 pm**

Motörhead's Capricorn

Turns out Lemmy is born on the same day as me (different year) which adds spice personally. And bloody rockin' "slow as you can get, mellowed out man" indeed.

Posted: **Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:17 pm**

PlainSongs wrote:Motörhead's Capricorn

Turns out Lemmy is born on the same day as me (different year) which adds spice personally. And bloody rockin' "slow as you can get, mellowed out man" indeed.

I didn't know that. I was born on Dec 25th, so we're Earth brothers. I've always liked Motorhead, and I was just talking to a friend the other day about them. We were talking about the fact that we're aging and still like to rock. A lot of our friends have started playing easy listening type music, but it bores us so much that we feel out of place in an ever changing world. We need more bands like Motorhead.

Posted: **Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:48 pm**

Fleet Foxes and Motorpsycho. Both with great vocal harmonies.

Posted: **Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:02 am**

Billy's Little Trip wrote:I didn't know that. I was born on Dec 25th, so we're Earth brothers. [...] We need more bands like Motorhead. :P

Hey Earth bro :) I never really listened to Motörhead, partly because I can't help but pronounce ö German-style and it sounds silly. I was just wondering if there are songs called 'Capricorn' and so found that great song. Now I'm rapidly becoming a fan. Their music has soul, for want of a better word. With or without rock instrumentation.

I suppose easy listening has its place, but yeah guts are good too. Rock on. :P

Posted: **Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:37 am**

I've been listening to the Hold Steady on repeat since seeing them live again. I wish they could influence my playing, but Tad Kubler is a guitar god and kicks my ass. Then again, they all kick my ass musically. It's not hard to do.

Posted: **Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:22 am**

The Very Best of Little Richard
&
David Bowie Live in Santa Monica '72

Posted: **Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:17 pm**

Frankie's "I Hate You"
&
Bowie's cover of "America" at the concert after 911. That's sweet and makes me choke up a bit.

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:49 am**

roymond wrote: Bowie's cover of "America" at the concert after 911. That's sweet and makes me choke up a bit.

I remember seeing that one when it first aired on TV. I didn't recognize Bowie at first, and I spent the first minute or so thinking "Who is this guy? This cover is great!"

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:38 am**

Kill Me Sarah wrote:I'm on a huge Lucksmiths kick lately. Just got the "Where were we?" cd off Amazon the other day. This is probably what's most heavily influencing my own music lately, although I am a poor, poor imitation indeed.

Is that the Lucksmiths from Melbourne? Haven't heard them in years.

I always loved their song "T-Shirt Weather".

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Your post just prompted me to search out this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVDr5l90 ... re=related

What a great song! And cool film clip - never seen that before.
aaahh - I feel like it is 1993 again on a sunny spring day in Surrey Hills, Sydney.

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:43 am**

Generic wrote:
roymond wrote: Bowie's cover of "America" at the concert after 911. That's sweet and makes me choke up a bit.
I remember seeing that one when it first aired on TV. I didn't recognize Bowie at first, and I spent the first minute or so thinking "Who is this guy? This cover is great!"

It seemed something screwed up in the beginning, where the midi arrangement had some timing issues and such, but Bowie adjusted, and squeezed in a few awkward lines that just sounded like an interesting take. Soon it settles in and it's fine, but I was thinking any other artist would have bailed and started over or something, whereas I'm sure not many people even noticed.

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:24 am**

Huh. I always thought he did it on purpose.

In other news... Crosby Stills, and Nash were on the Colbert Report last night. They played a song at the end of the show, and about halfway through, my wife and I noticed that there was a fourth guy standing far stage-right singing with them. Who was it? Of course, it was Colbert himself, holding his own with the big guys. The clip isn't on Youtube, but you can get the whole episode on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/28648/the-col ... ul-30-2008

"I didn't know Stephen Colbert could sing!" said Allyson. But I knew he had in the past, at least once... spent the next few minutes racking my brain for it, and then went online and found the video for this wonderful duet with John Legend: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/79025/

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:42 am**

Generic wrote:Of course, it was Colbert himself, holding his own with the big guys.

They may be big guys, but they're sucky singers.

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:33 am**

Generic wrote:Huh. I always thought he did it on purpose.

In other news... Crosby Stills, and Nash were on the Colbert Report last night. They played a song at the end of the show, and about halfway through, my wife and I noticed that there was a fourth guy standing far stage-right singing with them. Who was it? Of course, it was Colbert himself, holding his own with the big guys. The clip isn't on Youtube, but you can get the whole episode on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/28648/the-col ... ul-30-2008

"I didn't know Stephen Colbert could sing!" said Allyson. But I knew he had in the past, at least once... spent the next few minutes racking my brain for it, and then went online and found the video for this wonderful duet with John Legend: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/79025/

I saw it too. And yes, I've seen Colbert sing in the past, not bad at all. I'm pretty sure it was his funny way of upping one on Neil Young. Remember earlier in the show he was ranting about Neil getting a spider named after him, (Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi) so Colbert insisted he gets one named after him as well. So after Colbert's ranting, biologist Jason Bond told Colbert that he will name a spider after him.

Obviously I had to look up that spider name because I couldn't remember any part of it except neilyoungi, lol.

By the way, if you missed it, everything started with this episode.

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:48 am**

Caravan Ray wrote:
Kill Me Sarah wrote:I'm on a huge Lucksmiths kick lately. Just got the "Where were we?" cd off Amazon the other day. This is probably what's most heavily influencing my own music lately, although I am a poor, poor imitation indeed.
Is that the Lucksmiths from Melbourne? Haven't heard them in years.

I always loved their song "T-Shirt Weather".

EDIT:
-----

Your post just prompted me to search out this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVDr5l90 ... re=related

What a great song! And cool film clip - never seen that before.
aaahh - I feel like it is 1993 again on a sunny spring day in Surrey Hills, Sydney.

Yes, one and the same. I picked up on them just a year or so ago. They're working on a new album.

Posted: **Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:00 pm**

I was cleaning up my computer, deleting amassed old crap, when I came across a folder of old SF-related songs I'd downloaded but forgotten about. As a result, I'm totally digging:

Abjure! - Totally Digging Your Mom
Future Boy - My Two Baby Girls
Raised By Wolves - Black Hole
Frankie Big Face - Violet Wants It Her Way (cover)
Milwaukee Youth Center Choir - Ray's Place Theme
Doctor Worm - Restless, Restless

Posted: **Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:40 am**

Never thought I'd see a song I wrote in this thread. 8)

I've been digging Elvis Costello's latest, Momofuku. It's the most energetic I've heard him on an album in a while.

Posted: **Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:25 am**

Generic wrote:Never thought I'd see a song I wrote in this thread. 8)

Which one, Jon?

Posted: **Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:52 am**

Adam! wrote:Frankie Big Face - Violet Wants It Her Way (cover [of Jon Eric's original])

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:42 pm**

"Houdini" by Melvins.
This probably makes me sound like an old fart, but I loved this fucking album when it first came out, and I still do now

Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:11 am**

A friend loaned me a turntable and a big stack of LPs they wanted copied to CD. So I've been listening to a lot of Tom T. Hall, Jim Reeves, Ray Price, and Chuck Mangione (at least based on the one album I heard, I think Jim Reeves is the grandfather of emo, stuff like "I'm Waiting for Ships that Never Come In.") Moe Bandy was better than I expected (unfortunately, the entire album is only 24 minutes long); Chuck Mangione is talented, but just never made me care...

Anyway, with that stuff out of the way, now I've got an even bigger stack of my own old LPs to copy over, so I'm getting to hear some stuff that I haven't heard in years... Rev. Gary Davis right now, Utopia (Todd Rundgren). Randy Newman's "Little Criminals," which I would have actually bought on a CD if I could have found it, just for "Kathleen."

So, anyway... a bunch of old stuff that I haven't heard in years and am really happy to have "available" again.

Charles (KA)

Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:30 am**

Are you doing this manually to computer, or did you get one of those LP-CD recorders? My mom was thinking about getting one, but the reviews I saw were not great and word was that it wasn't really much easier than just doing it manually.
-bill

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