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• 1 - Aaman

  Jan 25, 2005 at 2:15 am

  Lovely covers - the Marianne Faithful, the Lou Barlow and the Bright Eyes particularly. They left the Channukah song off "Now..Kosher"? Hmmm...

• 2 - Al Barger

  Jan 25, 2005 at 3:19 am

  That does seem like a pretty glaring omission, now that you mention it.

• 3 - Tom Johnson

  Jan 25, 2005 at 11:47 am

  Adrian Belew's new solo album, Side One, with Les Claypool on bass and Tool's Danny Carey on drums, is out today as well. Sound clips at Amazon make it sound like a must have for guitar fans.

• 4 - JR

  Jan 25, 2005 at 12:03 pm

  Also a new solo album by Sylvain Luc, Ambre.

• 5 - Mark

  Jan 25, 2005 at 12:35 pm

  Yes! Chemical Brothers! I have been longing for a new album from them. =)

• 6 - mark caputo

  Jan 25, 2005 at 5:04 pm

  Al, love your writing.
  Please email me off list. I have a question for you.
  Tanks in advance

• 7 - Aaman

  Jan 25, 2005 at 5:04 pm

  Al - a real fan!

• 8 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo

  Jan 25, 2005 at 5:56 pm

  those two bright eyes albums should be top of folks lists.

• 9 - Mark Saleski

  Jan 25, 2005 at 6:06 pm

  hmmm, weird day...all sorts of "i don't get it" discs being mentioned.
  
  first Elliot Smith, now Bright Eyes.
  
  i've been trying to narrow down what exactly it is about some of these singers that leaves me cold....they're often described as "downcast", "moody", etc. i get absolutely no emotion out of any of it.
  
  weird.

• 10 - The Theory

  Jan 25, 2005 at 6:25 pm

  Bright Eyes is fucking terrible. I mean, seriously...
  
  That said, "I'm Awake It's Morning" will probably end up in my collection because Emmylou Harris sings on three of the tracks. I LOVE Emmylou.
  
  I sampled the Marianne Faithfull album yesterday at B&N... sounded pretty good. Some of the reviews seemed so-so on it, but it'll probably be a good one to check out.
  
  I'm listening to the Trail of Dead album now... good. Not as epic, perhaps, as past albums, but worth the listen.

• 11 - Eric Olsen

  Jan 25, 2005 at 7:19 pm

  I highly recommend the Nat King Cole collection. MuzikMan liked it too. If all you know is "The Christmas Song," this is a great place to start.

• 12 - Eric Olsen

  Jan 25, 2005 at 7:21 pm

  great line: "I, however, disapprove on grounds that the album cover is not quite gay enough"
  
  these country hats can get away with the most questionable shit because, you know, they're country

• 13 - Al Barger

  Jan 25, 2005 at 11:57 pm

  Hard telling what Chesney and Toby Keith are doing up in the hayloft, but I'm sure it's good clean Republican fun.

• 14 - Bill Lamb

  Jan 26, 2005 at 12:11 am

  Eric,
  
  Just curious what is so great about the line "not quite gay enough"...because my expectation is a line "not quite straight enough" wouldn't be such a great line.
  
  

• 15 - Al Barger

  Jan 26, 2005 at 12:32 am

  Mr Lamb, is this some PC rebuke? Big tough gay cowboys are funny. Run of the mill hetero cowboys are not particularly.
  
  In fairness, however, the specific phrase "not gay enough" comes somehow from SNL. I forget where exactly.

• 16 - Bill Lamb

  Jan 26, 2005 at 6:17 am

  Al,
  
  The question wasn't directed to you...but I will make this comment...
  
  I find it interesting that the primary people who I've seen or heard make comments about "gayness" of Kenny Chesney are straight men.
  
  The gay community doesn't claim him.
  
  Straight women drool over him.
  
  So..what do some straight men see in him?
  
  How would they know he's appealing to someone of their gender? I don't think gay men or straight women put it in their head.

• 17 - Eric Olsen

  Jan 26, 2005 at 8:04 am

  Bill, it isn't nearly that insidious or sociological: I was merely responding to the wording of Al's comment, which struck me as humorous. It was droll.

• 18 - Bill Lamb

  Jan 26, 2005 at 8:12 am

  Eric,
  
  I wasn't trying to be either insidious or sociological when I asked you the question...which you still didn't answer.
  
  I didn't read it as funny, so I didn't get the joke. I was asking to find out.
  
  I made my own response to Al...some straight men seem to know an awful lot about what makes some men homoerotically appealing in the same way that Dr. Dobson seems to know an awful lot about it being hard work to resist having sex with other men. That's just an observation in the same general territory as this topic.
  
  Not PC at all...I'll defend Al's right all day to make the comment. It's just I didn't see it as funny, and I wanted someone to talk about what makes it funny instead of assuming the blogcritics audience all see the world the way he does...and then deflecting by bringing up a tired old PC line..or "I just saw it as funny, that's all." It doesn't answer the question.

• 19 - Eric Olsen

  Jan 26, 2005 at 8:29 am

  as I said, the WORDING is what was funny, not any of the real world implications. The wording in conjunction with the picture of a good looking country star sitting in front of his blue chair in a cowboy hat and some kind of odd sleeveless shirt struck me as funny. It's that simple: funny either is or it isn't, and it's prefectly fine if it doesn't strike you as funny.

• 20 - JR

  Jan 26, 2005 at 9:48 am

  I thought it was funny. Whether or not Keeny Chesney is gay or straight or talented or not doesn't really matter, it's just an amusing comment on the album cover.

• 21 - Shark

  Jan 26, 2005 at 10:05 am

  Big AL on Chesney: "I, however, disapprove on grounds that the album cover is not quite gay enough"
  
  
  Al, you must understand that not everyone can meet the high standards set by Prince.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  heh. Just hadda.
  
  
  
  BTW: I thought it was a great, funny line.
  
  
  

• 22 - Eric Olsen

  Jan 26, 2005 at 10:23 am

  great one Shark!

• 23 - William Lamb

  Jan 26, 2005 at 10:55 am

  Such an odd comment shark...can anyone define what you mean by "gay"? Since Prince is most definitely not gay, does nothing to appeal to a gay audience and has never been embraced in a significant sense by gay audiences?
  
  Dumb, uniformed attempts at humor are just that...dumb, uninformed attempts at humor.

• 24 - Mark Saleski

  Jan 26, 2005 at 10:59 am

  i think yer sarcasm detector is busted.

• 25 - Eric Olsen

  Jan 26, 2005 at 11:00 am

  Bill, you are coming at this from an entirely different place. I'm sure you can see this. None of this has anything to do with actual "gayness" or gay people or appealing to gay people or not appealing to gay people or gay constituencies: it has to do with perception and image and the contradictions inherent in them both

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