If you haven’t already, seek out “Double Live.” Captures the Surfers in their glorious prime.
Don’t waste time looking for a CD copy (they’re rare and expensive), but if you know how to comb the Web for MP3s, you should be able to find it.
Gojira - Fortitude
This is today’s clear winner. It’s badass.
Yeah I have heard Double Live!!!..its furious and unhinged…just the way I like my Surfers
Jane’s Addiction La La Palooza 91"
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The Jackofficer’s- Digital Dump
Morphine-Cure for Pain
Pink Floyd - Animals. I have never been able to shake the existential dread that comes hand in hand with the fate of the doomed capitalist on “Dogs,” which I consider to be Floyd’s finest moment. I usually don’t get impacted by lyrics, but the line “[he] was found dead on the phone” is right up there with the pure poetry of “It’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around.” Genius.
On a similar note, although I listen to lyrics less and less these days, I still like songs that present as one thing, and then turn the tables with a single line. One that comes to mind is Tom Petty’s “Into The Great Wide Open,” which is ostensibly about a young rocker’s rise to stardom. You spend the whole song waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it does so on the last two lines of the last verse:
Their A&R man said “I don’t hear a single”
The future was wide open
9 words and the song goes from being a standard ditty about a young entertainer and becomes a barbed statement on the way the music industry chews up and spits out hard-working humanity.
OK, podcast over. Everyone back on your heads.
Animals was my favorite release but I think I’m an Atom Mother’s Heart lover now. I never focus on lyrics…maybe king diamond as the exception but yeah, what you mention is some cool thoughts from artists.
Can’t stop listening to the new St. Vincent (out 5/14). “Daddy’s Home” is a 21st century take on 1970s NYC rock and roll. Amazing shit.
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Roddy bottoms new band - man on man.
Hot pink early bird vinyl, 300 pressed
Animals is my desert island Floyd album,no doubt…
Animals is a SICK record. Might have to go on a Pink Floyd plunge later.
Found a copy of Grab It by L’Trimm in my friend’s vinyl collection, so uh, yeah~
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Kirlian Camera - Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak)
Sisters of Mercy-Vision Thing
Underrated album. Love “Ribbons.”
Absolutely underrated record… It seems to get critically panned simply because it is such a departure from the first 2 albums…I love it myself and yeah Ribbons is a deadly cut…
Ace Frehley - solo -
Aren’t you the dude who loathes Elvis too? Is there any old rock n roller you don’t hate? lol
Eh I think that album is overrated by a small group of Floyd fans. I think it’s good but it doesn’t even sniff my top 5 PF albums. My brother loves that album too and maybe I’ve gotten sick of hearing it across the hall everyday as a teenie bopper lol.
Hahaha! Yes, that’s me. And yeah, I pretty much hate them all. Heh.