Oh go make another forgettable album and fall back on one of your 20+ year-old classics again, Gillespie. We all know you have the subtlety of a...45th POTUS.
And lol at the notion that Public Image Ltd "changed music".
Those two and the KV EP are my go-to's for this week (plus if the Black Thought finally drops but I'm no longer holding my breath).
So thanks to SG, never heard of Bartees Strange until just now!
Plugs for me, too. Lulu was good too...and I like a lot of King to a God, too. Best Meth verse in a while on "Lemon."
Price of Tea in China, though, if we extend it to Griselda artists' work before signing up.
I think KIWANKUA was a definite level up from Love & Hate, which I didn't really connect with the way some of my friends expected me to. But I probably am due to give that one another chance since I've liked everything he's done since a whole lot.
Holy cats, they actually picked my definite #1 pick from the nominees! Right on, I thought that was his best yet and had been revisiting it a fair amount over the last couple of weeks (unrelated to the Mercury Prize).
This is one of the big remaining albums I'm looking forward to this year. And that's mostly because of how great WITH was. Digging the advance releases so far.
Nah, they were hated on or dismissed in my youth in the late 90s and early 2Ks. Didn't Seth Rogen say "Steely Dan gargles my balls" to positive reception in one of the early Apatow movies?
But as for that link....ick.
I have to go back and listen to the softcover version again, but I think this one hit me harder on first listen. Good stuff as usual from one of my favorites.
There are shitty bands that never released a song as good as "Everlong" (or for that matter an album as solid as The Color and the Shape or There Is Nothing Left to Lose). Also SMB has decent, fun singles.
Neither is a great band, but there are plenty worse.
I do want a full Ghetto Sage album, but given how spotty recent rap supergroup albums have been (Pivot Gang ultimately included - I liked it at first and lost interest shortly after...thought Saba carried it), I think I'll be happiest with a new Saba album. He's gotten better each of his last two times out. "Grey" was one of my favorite songs of 2018.
Also joke's on him, Steely Dan has been rehabilitated for a few years now. Whatever generation of music fans we're ascribing taste trends to loves 70s California music (see also how much everyone seems to adore Nicks-Buckingham Fleetwood Mac now).
Right, because surely it's not Nickelback, Limp Bizkit (or any of the losers who dropped nu-metal dreck in their wake), Imagine Dragons, a hair metal band, etc.
I haven't really gotten very hyped by the advanced singles and extended rollout, BUT:
- I have more than enough ready-made hype from loving the hell out of Wildflower the last five years
- "Take Care Of Your Dreaming" is probably the best track we've heard yet (Curry always kills features on non-rap albums!) from this next one
They were a monster in the mid-2Ks, too....and honestly still when I saw them at Roots Picnic 2019. I mean they're just one of the elite live bands of the last 30 years, period.
You're probably right, but there's a huge gap for me between Deloused and most of Frances and anything else to come out of the post-RoC At the Drive In world. I had the first Sparta album or two and saw them tour Wiretap Scars, but they never really excited me. Deloused (and Relationship) blew me away.
I have nothing but fond memories for this album and still think it's pretty solid. The whole back-to-basics things got old immediately after this when it became apparently they were becoming creatively stagnant, and it's not Achtung Baby or Joshua Tree or anything, but most of these songs are good. "Wild Honey" is an underrated deep cut.
If you like things loose, funky, and sprawling (bordering on jammy even) it's gotta be his second album, The Wild, The Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle. It's fun in a way a lot of his other best stuff isn't.
If that doesn't sound like your thing, go to Born to Run.
Or if you especially think you'd like something hard edged and guitar heavier than you expect from Bruce, Darkness on the Edge of Town.
(those are his second, third, and fourth album, so it's all prime 70s Bruce)
I guess I'm on the outside on this on, but I thought tracks 10 - 12 made the most disappointing section so far (mind you I'm only on #13/Wye Oak). And not so much because I knew the originals as just didn't think much of the covers.
But that said, I found myself enjoying covers of songs I never liked - the Hinder one obviously, the Dirty Projectors cover, TPoBPaH.
"Maps" and "No Intention" are my favorites so far. Annnnnd as I finish this post, "Tipsy", too!
Fun stuff either way.
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