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Post by Confessor on May 7, 2024 8:05:32 GMT -5
#5 – Eleven Hundred Springs - Bandwagon
That track "Thunderbird Will Do Just Fine" is funny...enjoyable stuff. I too have fun memories drinking T-Bird when I was underage. Wouldn't touch the stuff now though. #4 – Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now
I really like Steve Earle, but I only know (and own) his albums Guitar Town (1986) and Copperhead Road (1988) -- both of which are great. Those two tracks sound very much like business as usual for Earle, although his voice sounds a little bit more world-weary than the late '80s. Great snare drum sound on that track "The Revolution Starts Now" too. As for Earle's politics, I've always basically agreed with any of the sentiments he's expressed on the albums I'm familiar with. |
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Post by Confessor on May 5, 2024 19:29:32 GMT -5
R.I.P to actor Bernard Hill (King Theoden in LotR, Captain Smith in Titanic, et al), dead at 79. And Yosser Hughes! An early 80s icon here in Britain. He was a great actor. |
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Post by Confessor on May 5, 2024 19:26:05 GMT -5
MWGallaher's already mentioned this just a few posts back. Well, then, that comic would have an audience of at least two of us! With Cody's ideas, they could expand from the one-shot mine would have been into a whole miniseries! OK, great! I'm envisaging something in REALLY bad taste. A totally offensive comic. Like, the Stormtrooper has hit his head so often that he's got brain damage and has badly compromised coordination and cognitive skills...but it's all played for cheap laughs! Call it, Star Wars: Spaztrooper.  |
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Post by Confessor on May 5, 2024 19:21:00 GMT -5
They didn't get you as many favors as a Hershey Bar, though. Which is weird because Hershey chocolate tastes like sh*t. No wonder a slang term for the arseh*le is the Hershey Highway! |
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Post by Confessor on May 5, 2024 19:14:22 GMT -5
I think they should do one about the stormtrooper who bonks his head on the door, on the Death Star. Follow him from Imperial Boot Camp, through Star Destroyer duty, to the Death Sta, then have him in sick bay, with a concussion, when the Rebels attack. 's already mentioned this just a few posts back. |
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Post by Confessor on May 4, 2024 6:27:15 GMT -5
Carrying on with more of my favourite albums from 2004... #5 - Where the Humans Eat by Willy Mason U.S. singer-songwriter Willy Mason was just 19-years-old when he released his debut album Where the Humans Eat, though his world-weary voice sounds much older. It's a lo-fi collection of earthy, sparsely arranged confessional songs that tend sneak up on you and worm their way into your heart, rather than bash you over the head. Slam_Bradley -- this is the guy I was telling you about a few days ago who doesn't sound a million miles away from Dave Alvin. Where the Humans Eat is a fine debut album, with Mason's songwriting sounding fully developed and much more mature than his tender years. Standout tracks include "Oxygen", "Fear No Pain", "Hard Hand to Hold", and "Where the Humans Eat". Overall, this is a gentle, reflective collection of folksy, bluesy originals that creak with the "warp of wood of old America" (to quote Jack Kerouac). Here's the single "Hard Hand to Hold", which is pretty representative of the album as a whole… |
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Post by Confessor on May 3, 2024 20:16:26 GMT -5
My Dad. I'd love him to meet my wife. He passed away 17 years ago, so it's been a while. Dude, you're my brother from another mother. I chose my pop too. He met my wife, it's just that I miss him and he was my hero. Yep....same as how I feel about my Dad. |
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Post by Confessor on May 3, 2024 20:15:19 GMT -5
Here's a bit of related trivia: the guy who invented them was inspired by the British sweets Smarties. He wasn't inspired enough, because I don't find M&Ms nearly as tasty as Smarties. But perhaps it's just down to which one you get used to as a kid.
If we're talking just milk chocolate in a crispy shell, then yeah, Smarties are the go to. But I love peanut M&Ms. |
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Post by Confessor on May 3, 2024 18:32:47 GMT -5
I didn’t know this until now: Here's a bit of related trivia: the guy who invented them was inspired by the British sweets Smarties. |
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Post by Confessor on May 3, 2024 18:26:07 GMT -5
I heard an interesting question today- if you entered a room that had everyone you ever met, who would you go to first? My Dad. I'd love him to meet my wife. He passed away 17 years ago, so it's been a while. |
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Post by Confessor on May 3, 2024 11:16:10 GMT -5
Next favourite album of 2004... #6 - All Years Leaving by The Stands Liverpudlian band the Stands desperately wanted to be the successors to the La's (of "There She Goes" fame), but they simply aren't that good. Not by a long shot! But that's not to say that there isn't some good music to be found on the band's debut album, All Years Leaving. It's a pleasent mix of jangly guitars, unabashedly '60s-style melodies, and earthy songwriting. It's also an album I've found myself returning to many times over the last 20 years. There's an appealing sepia-toned nostalgia to a lot of the songs, as well as a sense of weary melancholy that I find appealing. Standout tracks include "I've Waited Too Long", "Here She Comes Again", and "I Need You". If you like the sound of the Byrds, Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and (of course) the La's, you'll find plenty to enjoy here (not that the Stands are in the same league as those bands and artists, you understand). I've picked out the single "Here She Comes Again", which was a minor hit here in the UK, and which is probably the strongest track on the album… |
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Post by Confessor on May 3, 2024 11:11:19 GMT -5
#6 – Dale Watson – Dreamland
I don't know Dale Watson's music, so I can't compare how much slicker this is than his other stuff, but that track "Fox on the Run" sounds like vintage Flying Burrito Brothers to me. I like it a lot. "Honky Tonkers Don't Cry" is fairly enjoyable too, with some nice fiddle and pedal steel -- and I dig that twangy guitar solo. Overall, I like the retro country-rock vibe of these songs. |
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Post by Confessor on May 3, 2024 2:59:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I immediately assumed it was a street address too ...likely of the comic's original owner. Like, 414 Geneva Drive, Detroit or something.
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Post by Confessor on May 2, 2024 18:23:35 GMT -5
#7 – Dave Alvin – Ashgrove
Yeah, not bad at all. I quite liked the track "King of California" that you posted a while back from the 1994 album of the same name and these two tracks are also good. "Ashgrove" is more blues-flavoured than that earlier track, but it rocks along nicely. |
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Post by Confessor on May 2, 2024 18:14:18 GMT -5
Next favourite album of 2004... #7 - Together We're Heavy by The Polyphonic Spree For the uninitiated, the Polyphonic Spree are a 24-piece Texan band led by lead singer and songwriter Tim DeLaughter, who all dress in the robes of a religious cult and make uplifting and symphonic-flavoured, neo-psychedelic alternative rock. This is the band's second album and musically it treads much the same ground as their debut – like a weird cross between early '70s Chicago, the Association, Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys, and the Flaming Lips. Overall, Together We're Heavy sounds more expensively produced than the band's first album, but the songs on it aren't quite as strong. The enormous-sounding arrangements are still infectiously epic and ambitious, but the quality of the material is a slight come down from the band's earlier work. Still, it's not a bad album by any means, with standout tracks being "Hold Me Now", "We Sound Amazed", and the 10-minute plus "When the Fool Becomes a King". The Polyphonic Spree's "happy-clappy" brand of sunshine pop optimism (which has a certain melancholy to it) might not be to everyone's taste, but it's hard not to feel at least a little bit more positive about the world in general when you listen to them. Here's the single "Hold Me Now" for your consideration… |
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