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Post by Kapitan on Nov 18, 2019 22:42:33 GMT
Haim released another really nice single, "Hallelujah" today. (It's not that "Hallelujah.") Very pretty acoustic guitar-based song. (The video is, yet again, directed by PT Anderson.)
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Post by Mike's the Greatest!! on Nov 21, 2019 20:31:11 GMT
Has anyone listened to the new Tommy James album? It is (somewhat surprisingly) very good! His voice doesn't sound like it has aged at all, and he is 75! I originally thought he was doing the rapping on the album, but later read it was by t.o.n.e.z., whoever that is! Also Gene Cornish shreds on the "I'm Alive" remake. The album has a few re-makes but they are sufficiently different from the originals and so well done that they are enjoyable. His new original tunes are quite good also.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 22, 2019 0:27:08 GMT
Has anyone listened to the new Tommy James album? It is (somewhat surprisingly) very good! His voice doesn't sound like it has aged at all, and he is 75! I originally thought he was doing the rapping on the album, but later read it was by t.o.n.e.z., whoever that is! Also Gene Cornish shreds on the "I'm Alive" remake. The album has a few re-makes but they are sufficiently different from the originals and so well done that they are enjoyable. His new original tunes are quite good also. I haven't checked it out. I didn't even know Tommy James had a new album out! That flew under the radar. From your description it sounds interesting. I always liked Tommy James' (and The Shondells) stuff. Actually, I think he should be in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 22, 2019 13:21:19 GMT
Several new releases today that are of some interest to me: Harry Nilsson's posthumous Losst and Founnd, the McCartney singles I posted in that thread, and a new single from Andrew Bird feat. the great singer Erika Wennerstrom of Heartless Bastards, to start with. There are a couple other albums I'll be checking out to see whether they're any good. More reporting to come as necessary.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 6, 2019 13:08:57 GMT
Dangit, I'd so been enjoying these past couple decades, and now this morning I heard a new Alanis Morissette song. Could've happily lived out my days not hearing that voice again.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 6, 2019 13:20:34 GMT
Dangit, I'd so been enjoying these past couple decades, and now this morning I heard a new Alanis Morissette song. Could've happily lived out my days not hearing that voice again. New single, new album, and a new tour - the Jagged Little Pill Tour 2020. See what Brian Wilson started!
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Post by kds on Dec 6, 2019 13:42:34 GMT
Dangit, I'd so been enjoying these past couple decades, and now this morning I heard a new Alanis Morissette song. Could've happily lived out my days not hearing that voice again. New single, new album, and a new tour - the Jagged Little Pill Tour 2020. See what Brian Wilson started! I don't think this is the first time she's toured on that album either. I remember in the summer of 1995 when You Oughta Know hit radio, and I thought the song was a beacon of light when the rock world going down the shitter. A friend of mine bought the cassette of Jagged Little Pill, and we eagerly awaited hearing a hard rock record, only to be extremely disappointed by the whole of the album.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 6, 2019 13:49:30 GMT
I really despised her music. Her voice has a braying quality to it, and she (unmusically, in my opinion) crams too many and too-awkward syllables and words into lyrics, all in this snotty way.
That and, pedantic ass that I am, I couldn't get over that she didn't seem to know what the meaning of "ironic" was.
To KDS's point, I'll grant that at least she had a hit album that largely included instruments played by people. That's always nice. But otherwise I'll take her work on "You Can't Do That On Television" over her music anyday. And what's with being nasty to Dave Coulier? Cut. It. Out!
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Post by kds on Dec 6, 2019 14:10:33 GMT
I'm just grateful that I wasn't sitting next to her and Dave in that movie theater.
Although, I'll say as much as I didn't care for her brand of alternative chick rock in the 1990s, it sounds like pure gold compared to what we have in 2019.
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