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DB_Cooper said:Sween said:Do you own any winter clothes? 15 degrees with the wind chill this morning. A bit nippy. Supernumerarily nippy, even. (Oh, and N.B.: I know my man's just trying to be nice with his off…
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This one's for you, Hoarvey: When I was out on some errands the other day, I saw a car with plates that read "ME N GZUS." It was not, alas, a Granada, but still.
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Possum Tom said:james said:Possum Tom said:i give up man, this shit is over It seems safe to say that at least part of the unfortunate but deserved decline of Record Day can be attributed to 1) dudes cracking on other dudes' tastes and 2) dude…
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Possum Tom said:i give up man, this shit is over It seems safe to say that at least part of the unfortunate but deserved decline of Record Day can be attributed to 1) dudes cracking on other dudes' tastes and 2) dudes playing schoolmarm regard…
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DocMcCoy said:double-dipped in Infowars tin-foil-hat bullshit or complaints about the music industry Forgetting for a moment the larger context of this whole discussion, this may be the best thing I've read all week.
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And on a less lofty note: The Miles band with Reggie Lucas and Michael Henderson and Mtume and Cosey and Gaumont and 'nem really is some of the best shit ever. It is absolutely on that primo Funkadelic/Band Of Gypsys level, and there's not a lot you…
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Miles, I think. My relationship with Coltrane's music is probably purer, and in some cases maybe even stronger, but my relationship with Miles's music is complex in a way that has over time proven more gratifying. Please don't mistake that fo…
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staxwax said:Fight The Power My copy of this is on Def Jam/Columbia/Sony.
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FortyFivan said:Where did you get these? I made it VERY clear to everyone I shared these with NOT to post online. Not putting you on blast, I'm indifferent, but I did make a promise to a close friend who owns this record and hipped me to it that I w…
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day said:the argument that it's our collective fault for clicking on a thread doesn't hold water here. Just to clarify: My argument is mainly that it's our collective fault for not posting more quality shit, for not having more character. I really…
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I think banning is wack and I think an Ignore feature is wack; I think self-regulating with regard to clicking on threads is underrated and I think the contributions of some of the folks cheering the loudest in this thread are overrated; I have alwa…
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rootlesscosmo said:I think when you're watching a show with your kids you're already making a compromise w/r/t subject matter. It doesn't need to be perfect. I agree with that, but I'm not talking about subject matter; I'm talking about a baselin…
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Girls' Father, Son, Holy Ghost, The Rapture's In The Grace Of Your Love, and Inc.'s "Swear," mostly.
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rootlesscosmo said:But like you said, for people of "our" generation who may have younger-than-tween kids, this *could be* a show that can be watched together. I'm not sure I'd agree. I don't think it's strong enough visually or stylistically to g…
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downtownrobbrown said:I say pimp cause management roles are always more difficult in the business world. I used to work at a free clinic, where I once helped coordinate pro bono vaginal reconstruction surgery for a thirteen-year-old who'd recently…
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Murdock said:Tough one... Eh, I don't know about all that. I'll concede that I now realize that it's not as one-sided in Nice's favor as I may have once thought, but still, the occasional niceness notwithstanding, Smooth Bee peaked on that first r…
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Bon Vivant said:james said:I can't really speak on matters of history, but let me just say this: If I were the dude who put down the sax on "Baker Street," you wouldn't be able to tell me shit, cousin. Guitar solo on "Baker Street" > Sax riff…
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Cosmo said:I play a great organ That's not what she said.
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Cosmo said:Bobby Kimball Oh man. His performance in the "Waiting For Your Love" video is a virtual four-minute master class in mic control. File under: Sweating Like A Ham Ring But Doing The Damn Thing. I thought dude was gonna turn into a werewol…
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I can't really speak on matters of history, but let me just say this: If I were the dude who put down the sax on "Baker Street," you wouldn't be able to tell me shit, cousin. I'd spend my days counting my Time-Life-compilation-residual cheese and la…
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bassie said:(I am losing sight of the meaning of "suspect" from some of the posts in this thread) Yeah, just to clarify: "Suspect" refers to an outward indicator of inner tendencies toward the strange, flawed, or shitty. It does not refer to the s…
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And this is tangential, but: A little while back at some school assembly, I overheard one guy telling another, "I mean, she's not pretty pretty, but she's teacher pretty." Oof.
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bassie said:A few years ago my friend came up with a great term - beautiful monster. I think there's actually an existing term for this, though I'm blanking on it right now. It is, of course, something French. "Pretty-ugly," maybe? (Or whatever th…
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The dude who patrols a few streets over wearing a bandolier strung with bike seats in different sizes and styles: SUSPECT. The yellow Frank Lloyd Wright house whose front curb stays festooned with used rubbers and empty Mickey's bottles: SUSP…
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LaserWolf said:I think this is simply a case of "I love the original which can't be matched". Not really. Like I said earlier, this is not my favorite Smokey song; I think it's a really fine example of a heavily-populated form (falsetto ballad), a…
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LaserWolf said:Aretha does a great job on this and the duet is wonderful. I heard no steamrolling and you best go back and listen to her piano to fully appreciate what a staggeringly great job she does here. Her piano under smokey's verse is killer …
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mannybolone said:Smokey's best song? It's up there, but no. "Tracks Of My Tears" is better. It's not as cool, and probably more played-out in the public consciousness (and a pedant could argue that it gets the asterisk due to "Pete" Moore writing …
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Velvet Underground Dixie Chicks
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I'll let more-informed folks speak on its viability, but I'm under the impression that place gets hit long, deep, wide, and consecutive, and subsequently stays pretty tapped out. As long as you're not from Chicago, I'd guess there's still exciting s…