Every music fan has moments they hold dear. Maybe it was the time they performed "that" song at a concert. Or maybe it was a song what happened to be playing when an important relationship began. Perhaps most simple is when we hear a particular artist for the first time...and everything afterward seems different. Here are my own words related to the 2004 release the 25th anniversary edition of London Calling by The Clash:
To this day I can remember where I first heard side one. It was up in my high-school buddy's bedroom at his house on the little lake deep in central Maine. His dad's stereo was normally used for blasting John Phillips Souza-type stuff but on that day "London Calling" and then "Brand New Cadillac" pinned me to the wall.
Partner-in-crime Glen Boyd rightly reminds us that The Clash were once known as the only band that mattered. Hyperbole? Give Live at Shea Stadium a listen and then make up your own mind.
It's not fashionable to be an Oasis fan these days, but I'm a fat, grouchy, 35-year-old music dork in Huntsville, Alabama. Fashion went out my window long ago.
Those who can get past the surrounding silliness where Oasis is concerned know the band has been on a big upswing that started with Heathen Chemistry, continued in a big way with Don't Believe The Truth, and I'm hoping Dig Out Your Soul will be the culmination of the band's return to greatness. How confident am I? I've fallen in love with the "first single "The Shock of The Lightning" and I plunked down $100 for the big box version of this album as a birthday present to myself. For those less obsessive, the album is also being released as a single CD and as a CD/DVD combo package.
Here are all of this week's new album releases courtesy of All Music Guide:
Deerhoof
Offend Maggie
Kill Rock Stars
Indie Rock, Noise-Rock, Noise Pop
Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
Columbia/Legacy
Singer/Songwriter, Rock & Roll
Lambchop
OH (Ohio)
Merge
Chamber Pop, Alternative Country-Rock, Indie Rock
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Not Animal
Epic
Indie Rock
Article comments
1 - Donald Gibson
It's more like Chrissie Hynde as the Pretenders. She sacked Martin Chambers (the only other living original member) and gathered a brand new batch of players (including Jim Keltner on drums).
2 - Glen Boyd
She sacked Chambers? Wow, thats harsh man...especially since hes the one guy who didn't leave the band "the hard way" if you know what I mean?
On the other hand, Keltner's a great drummer...
-Glen
3 - Donald Gibson
I've been in the presence of Chrissie Hynde yelling at someone. I'm not altogether sure that death wouldn't be a better way to go...
4 - Josh Hathaway
Keltner is a great drummer. You guys have to check out the new BB King if you haven't yet. He's great on it.
My Dylan arrived tonight, so I'll be listening at work tomorrow!!
5 - Glen Boyd
I did see Chrissie cussing out the audience at an outdoor Neil Young show one year for barbequing hamburgers if that counts.
Josh, the Dylan is freaking amazing. Hopefully you got the thre disc version (or at least the two disc). Its great shit.
-Glen
6 - Donald Gibson
Yeah, that counts. I was hanging out in the lobby of the venue before the show when Chrissie came out to yell at a lady wearing a fur coat. She wouldn't let her inside til she brought the coat back to her car.
7 - Tom Johnson
If anyone gets that three disc edition, I hope they'll be seeding disc three out to torrent sites. At that ridiculous, disgusting, putrid, stink-ridden, assholish, vomit-inducing, bad thing price, they'd better be expecting everyone who gets those to be farming out copies to everyone they know. God, I'm pissed as hell about this - this beats the crap out of the Walmart exclusives. I hope this deluxe set tanks. Fuck off, Dylan & Columbia, you thieving shit-asses. It's kind of like they're asking people to steal music, isn't it?
8 - Heartwing
Yep, Chrissie yells alot! She yelled at me for taking her picture at a concert recently. Yelled even more at someone else for the same thing. Pretty much was hostile to the whole audience all evening. Sigh...tortured rock star. Still like her tho...