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Originally Posted by BarryL
Saw Al Stewart in town here last Thursday night. Great solo show by a great song writer. Very entertaining.
I didn't think too much of Down In The Cellar though. What's your opinion?
He has a new album coming out very soon. Looking forward to picking up a copy.
BarryL,
I think the cd is good, not his best, but good. Have you given it a fair shake? I would have to say it grew on me after hearing it many times. Seeing him perform live about 18 months ago certainly helped as well. He did a limited set since he was warming up for Blunstone/Argent, (The Zombies - highly recommended if you ever get a chance see them). He only did 'House of Clocks' from this cd, but kept everyone engrossed with his story-telling and guitar picking. He's a very underestimated guitarist IMO.
Thanks for the heads up on the new one, I'll keep an eye out for it.
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Originally Posted by Slosh
Better sound or more songs? Tough choice, especially since vinyl is nearly always cheaper by a couple of dollars around here.
Yeah, I'd go for the vinyl if I had my turntable out. Nice looking package and a 180 gm slab. I was a bit surprised at the price difference because Streetlight is usually one of the cheapest places to buy vinyl, even better than online, but you can even get this one for a couple bucks cheaper online at insound, which is normally kind of high. Oh well, get the vinyl and I'll give you a copy of the bonus CD when I send out CRSV10. It's only got 4 songs and two of them are demos of songs on the album. Haven't listened yet.
The Electrelane is a bit on the cold side after one listen. Not as infectious as the last one and mostly instrumental. Melodious shimmering math rock with some occasional skronky parts. Cool for me, but not a crowd pleaser. They seem to be very much under the influence of Albini at this stage of their career, which is both good and bad. Not quite the breakout album I was hoping for after reading some of the early PR, but still cool nonetheless :)
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Originally Posted by Monkey Bones
Oh well, get the vinyl and I'll give you a copy of the bonus CD when I send out CRSV10. It's only got 4 songs and two of them are demos of songs on the album.
CRSv10 only has four songs and two of them are demos :confused: ;)
Cool, that sounds like a plan to me. :) I'll send you a preview :rolleyes: of 13&God and Album Leaf once I get around to putting these on CD-R (only got around to LP 1 of 13&God thus far).
McLusky's last CD is also an Albini production and it is one of the most compressed CDs I've ever heard. Guess Steve really only cares about vinyl just like the disclaimer for At Action Park says ("There is, in fact, nothing special at all about the manufacture of this compact disc").
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Originally Posted by Slosh
McLusky's last CD is also an Albini production and it is one of the most compressed CDs I've ever heard. Guess Steve really only cares about vinyl just like the disclaimer for At Action Park says ("There is, in fact, nothing special at all about the manufacture of this compact disc").
He probably just doesn't care that much about McLusky :)
The Electrelane CDs sound great. They were mastered by Steve Rooke at Abbey Road, as was the Albini engineered Valina CD that I also got recently (and also as are those great sounding recent Nina Nastasia CDs too). But I don't think he's against using compression for some types of music. And it's true that some of them get screwed up after he's done. He did an album for Edith Frost a couple years ago called Wonder Wonder that I really like, and apparently used a very complex mic setup to capture lots of ambience and it does sound like a great recording, but the CD is punched up some with compression. Not sure why that happened, but I'd be surprised if it was his wishes to add the compression after going to all that trouble with the engineering. Not really bad though. Mark has the vinyl and it might be less compressed. She's a big vinyl fan. Ya never know who's really responsible for the final sound unless the artist and engineer and mastering people talk about it, which doesn't often happen.
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Originally Posted by Snowbunny
I heard one of the best cryin' in your beer songs by him the other day called' "Hurt".
If ever you get chance to see the video I guarantee it will bring a lump to your throat and a tear to your eye
Cheers
Mike
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oh man! someone gave me a Rupee instead of a quarter for change. I don't know where it came from. How much is a Rupee?
I think I got ripped off. :mad:
It looks much to much like a quarter. You can't trust anyone these days.
I'm still listening to my M.I.A. cd
today's favorite song is "Galang"
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Originally Posted by Hawkeye
BarryL,
I think the cd is good, not his best, but good. Have you given it a fair shake? I would have to say it grew on me after hearing it many times. Seeing him perform live about 18 months ago certainly helped as well. He did a limited set since he was warming up for Blunstone/Argent, (The Zombies - highly recommended if you ever get a chance see them). He only did 'House of Clocks' from this cd, but kept everyone engrossed with his story-telling and guitar picking. He's a very underestimated guitarist IMO.
Thanks for the heads up on the new one, I'll keep an eye out for it.
I'm very lucky. I saw the Zombies in Seattle at the Crocodile 2 yrs ago. I ended up at the show by accident but was absolutely BLOWN AWAY.
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Where do you get the Outkast vinyl?
Also. Congos - I gotta get that!!
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I grab them at a local shop, but I see that circuitcity.com has them for 12.99 each. Search for OutKast and click on other formats by each selection. I've ordered from them before and they ship quickly and all that. If you get Speakerboxx/Love Below, it's like 4 discs I believe, but I haven't grabbed that one, so I don't know.
You can get the Congos, and any other Simply Vinyl titles along with more reggae than I've ever seen from one source, from ernie B's reggae. Huge selection and great prices. They've also got a single LP version of the Congos disc quite a bit cheaper, but I haven't heard it. You can find them here...
http://www.ebreggae.com/
If you're a reggae fan and go there, be very careful or you'll end up way in debt.
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I hate when that happens
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Originally Posted by KEXPMF
oh man! someone gave me a Rupee instead of a quarter for change. I don't know where it came from. How much is a Rupee?
I think I got ripped off. :mad:
Your best bet is to try to pawn it off on someone else. For example, a convenience store.
Don't worry about them, they do it to me all the time.
It's worth about a penny, according to Yahoo.
That reminds me, I have a 50 Centavos piece from the Honduras, I wonder how much that is worth? (I actually had it rejected on me, "Hey, man, that's not a quarter!" -- just give them the real deal. Keep trying, eventually someone will take it.)
Ugh, mine's only worth about 2.6 cents -- that's about 10% of what I thought I got.
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