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post #751 of 1270
3/2/10 at 11:30am
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Originally Posted by BubWilliams View Post
Thanks for that!

This morning's action:

November Rain - GnR

Fireflies - Owl City
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post #752 of 1270
3/2/10 at 12:51pm
"Tik Tok" - Ke$ha

Yeah, I'm lame, but I'm totally addicted to this song.
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post #753 of 1270
3/2/10 at 2:44pm
Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine," "Hit 'Em Up Style."
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post #754 of 1270
3/2/10 at 3:07pm
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Originally Posted by Anakin's Dad View Post
Fireflies - Owl City
I ask this not to be douche-y, but because I feel some sort of music fan obligation: have you heard the Postal Service?
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post #755 of 1270
3/2/10 at 4:30pm
Every time this song gets into my head, it stays stuck in there for quite a while. I'm providing the link to it in the off-chance that anyone may not have heard it before. This is as wonderful a rendition of an iconic film theme as I've ever encountered. The actual "theme" doesn't begin until 1:05...

Mekong Delta - Interludium (Begging for Mercy)
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post #756 of 1270
3/2/10 at 4:40pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman View Post
"Tik Tok" - Ke$ha

Yeah, I'm lame, but I'm totally addicted to this song.
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post #757 of 1270
3/2/10 at 5:06pm
"Ain't No Grave" - Johnny Cash

WOW... I heard this for the first time just now. Incredible.
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post #758 of 1270
3/2/10 at 5:50pm
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Originally Posted by Jake View Post
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Is that your fuse slowly burning down?

Believe me, my wife loves crazy pop/synth/techno dance music, but she can't figure out why I like that song. And I can't either.
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post #759 of 1270
3/2/10 at 6:01pm
It's just painfully bad. And I make no bones about liking Lady Gaga, but what Ke$ha did with that is unforgivable.
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post #760 of 1270
3/2/10 at 6:10pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
I ask this not to be douche-y, but because I feel some sort of music fan obligation: have you heard the Postal Service?
Nope, not at all. They good?
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post #761 of 1270
3/2/10 at 6:21pm
After watching Chungking Express yesterday I've had the Cranberries stuck in my head all day. I'd forgotten how much I actually liked DREAMS as a song.
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post #762 of 1270
3/2/10 at 7:00pm
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Originally Posted by Anakin's Dad View Post
Nope, not at all. They good?
I love the Postal Service album and I'm not a big Death Cab for Cutie fan. It's definitely worth checking out, great album.
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post #763 of 1270
3/2/10 at 10:24pm
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Originally Posted by Anakin's Dad View Post
Nope, not at all. They good?
It's where Owl City shamelessly stole its entire schtick (starting with a very similar electronic sound, but down to the vocal phrasing). If you like "Fireflies," you owe it to yourself to give them a listen. Their sole album, Give Up, is probably one of the better pop albums of the last decade.
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post #764 of 1270
3/2/10 at 11:12pm
Yeah, do what Dave said. And throw that fuckin' Owl City album as hard as you can into the street.
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post #765 of 1270
3/2/10 at 11:23pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman View Post
"Tik Tok" - Ke$ha

Yeah, I'm lame, but I'm totally addicted to this song.
Same ... it's been on loop from grooveshark all afternoon.

My favorite part?

... before I leave brush my teeth with a bottle of jack because when I leave for the night I ain't comin back!

eta.. actually it's the whole fucking thing.
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post #766 of 1270
3/2/10 at 11:25pm
Snaieke,
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post #767 of 1270
3/3/10 at 4:09am
Mastodon - "The Bit"

I think I actually it like better than the original Melvins version.
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post #768 of 1270
3/3/10 at 12:36pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
It's where Owl City shamelessly stole its entire schtick (starting with a very similar electronic sound, but down to the vocal phrasing). If you like "Fireflies," you owe it to yourself to give them a listen. Their sole album, Give Up, is probably one of the better pop albums of the last decade.
I looked it up once I got home and figured out your "not to be douche-y" comment about 3 seconds into "Such Great Heights". I'd just heard the "Fireflies" song while feeding the runts yesterday and it had stuck in my head. I liked SGH, so I'll give Postal Service a listen. But, (this may need to go to another thread) should you stop listening to a song you enjoy when you find out the the artist is a "thief" or a fraud (I still listen to Milli Vanilli occasionally)?
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post #769 of 1270
3/3/10 at 12:54pm
Yes.
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post #770 of 1270
3/3/10 at 1:54pm
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Originally Posted by Anakin's Dad View Post
I looked it up once I got home and figured out your "not to be douche-y" comment about 3 seconds into "Such Great Heights". I'd just heard the "Fireflies" song while feeding the runts yesterday and it had stuck in my head. I liked SGH, so I'll give Postal Service a listen. But, (this may need to go to another thread) should you stop listening to a song you enjoy when you find out the the artist is a "thief" or a fraud (I still listen to Milli Vanilli occasionally)?
No, all great artists are thieves to some extent. Art is a cultural activity, not a solitary one, and attributing greatness to utter, out-of-the-ether originality is a bullshit notion that poets popularized a couple of centuries ago to stroke their egos (as they pilfered and re-tooled the great works of history to their own ends, just as all poets have always done).

More to the point, Rancid made at least two remarkably solid albums on reheated Clash. The difference between them and Owl City is that their work adds some interesting new things to the template. They didn't offer an inferior version of the Clash sound, but a different version of the Clash sound. IMO, Owl City is an inferior version of the Postal Service. Check out the nuance of the production, the intelligence of the lyrics, and the strength of the melodies. The guy who writes and performs as Owl City doesn't add anything new to the Postal Service coloring book; he's coloring within the lines with a smaller box of crayons.

Just because I think this doesn't mean that you should stop listening to it. But I suspect that most active music listeners who listen to Owl City and then the Postal Service will ultimately come to prefer the Postal Service, since there's more to chew on there.
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post #771 of 1270
3/3/10 at 2:39pm
Put simply: Owl City is Postal Service fanfiction. Nobody's going to stop you from enjoying it, but try to extoll its virtues and you'll probably get slapped down pretty quickly.
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post #772 of 1270
3/3/10 at 2:53pm
See, I've never heard of Owl City before this thread. It really is a piss-poor copy of The Postal Service. Damn.
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post #773 of 1270
3/3/10 at 3:01pm
Note: I am not an Owl City fan. I just heard the song, it got stuck in my head and I posted it. It seems playful and innocent, and the twins seemed to bounce along with it well. I'll try to sample more Postal Service tonight.
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post #774 of 1270
3/3/10 at 3:46pm
I've actually never heard either band, but since I can't resist a good brouhaha, now I'll have to sample both; I'm getting a kind of "Curve vs Garbage" vibe here.
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post #775 of 1270
3/3/10 at 3:47pm
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Originally Posted by Anakin's Dad View Post
(I still listen to Milli Vanilli occasionally)
This may be part of the problem. Time to let that one go.
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post #776 of 1270
3/3/10 at 3:47pm
Oh, I don't think anyone's pissing on you AD. Hope you enjoy Postal.
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post #777 of 1270
3/3/10 at 3:48pm
I'll only piss on him if he pays me.
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post #778 of 1270
3/3/10 at 3:57pm
We don't roll with that fruity stuff down South, Jake. LA faggot!
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post #779 of 1270
3/3/10 at 4:02pm
"Smalltown Boy"--Bronski Beat
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post #780 of 1270
3/3/10 at 5:16pm
I picked up the Posies' At Least, At Last box, and holy shit, they do a near-perfect reproduction of Cheap Trick's Surrender. I know covers are supposed to say something new about the song, but fuck, it's the Posies covering one of the greatest power pop songs of all time.

I have such a boner right now.
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post #781 of 1270
3/3/10 at 10:00pm
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Originally Posted by Louris View Post
I picked up the Posies' At Least, At Last box, and holy shit, they do a near-perfect reproduction of Cheap Trick's Surrender. I know covers are supposed to say something new about the song, but fuck, it's the Posies covering one of the greatest power pop songs of all time.

I have such a boner right now.
Weird - I just got around to ripping that box to iTunes yesterday. At Least At Last is pretty stellar, but, if you can, I highly recommend getting your hands on another two-disc set of rarities that they couldn't legally include called Limitless Expressions (it was an e-mail list-only thing, but they had a pretty substantial e-mail discussion list so it really got around). Lots of covers, b-sides, and stuff that ended up on compilations. I've seen it floating around file sharing networks.

They do a decent live version of "Surrender" on Alive from the Iceberg, too, but it's a bit looser. I'm really partial to their cover of Blondie's "Dreaming" on At Least At Last.
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post #782 of 1270
3/4/10 at 2:02pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
Weird - I just got around to ripping that box to iTunes yesterday. At Least At Last is pretty stellar, but, if you can, I highly recommend getting your hands on another two-disc set of rarities that they couldn't legally include called Limitless Expressions (it was an e-mail list-only thing, but they had a pretty substantial e-mail discussion list so it really got around). Lots of covers, b-sides, and stuff that ended up on compilations. I've seen it floating around file sharing networks.

They do a decent live version of "Surrender" on Alive from the Iceberg, too, but it's a bit looser. I'm really partial to their cover of Blondie's "Dreaming" on At Least At Last.
No luck so far tracking down Limitless Expressions, but I'll keep looking. I've always meant to pick up Iceberg, but I haven't seen it for a reasonable price. It's on my list, though.

Dreaming is fantastic, too, but Surrender is working for me on a meta-level due to its usage in the montage from Conan's first and last Tonight Show.
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post #783 of 1270
3/4/10 at 2:18pm
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Originally Posted by Louris View Post
No luck so far tracking down Limitless Expressions, but I'll keep looking. I've always meant to pick up Iceberg, but I haven't seen it for a reasonable price. It's on my list, though.

Dreaming is fantastic, too, but Surrender is working for me on a meta-level due to its usage in the montage from Conan's first and last Tonight Show.
Looks like Last.fm has the first (and stronger) disc of Limitless Expression available for listening (if not downloading - I've never played with Last.fm, so I'm not quite sure how it works).

Iceberg's okay. As far as official live releases go, I kind of prefer In Case You Didn't Feel Like Plugging In, but that's the band in acoustic duo mode.

While I was listening to At Least At Last the other day, I found the Swedish live in-studio session that yielded "Dreaming" on Soulseek, and it's really good ("I Am the Cosmos" and "Burn and Shine" from the same sessions are on Youtube).
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post #784 of 1270
3/4/10 at 2:33pm
NPR had an album preview for Broken Bells online they other day, pretty solid stuff and I'll be picking it up next tuesday. BTW, are the Shins worth checking out?
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post #785 of 1270
3/4/10 at 2:37pm
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Originally Posted by Rando View Post
BTW, are the Shins worth checking out?
Absolutely. Start with their first two albums, proceed with the third with slight caution (it's not as infectiously good as their first two but is still alright). As long as you can divorce the band from the dumb Garden State hype, you'll be fine.
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post #786 of 1270
3/4/10 at 2:37pm
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Originally Posted by Rando View Post
NPR had an album preview for Broken Bells online they other day, pretty solid stuff and I'll be picking it up next tuesday. BTW, are the Shins worth checking out?
Totally, if you can keep from being mentally annoyed at the "The Shins will change your life!" Garden State nonsense, which I admit can be difficult. Oh, Inverted World is bliss.

EDIT: Beaten by Jake!
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post #787 of 1270
3/6/10 at 4:40am
"For the Love of Money"---The O'Jays
"Living For the City"--Stevie
"I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)"--Johnnie Taylor
"It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "Nutbush City Limits", "Up In Heah"--Ike & Tina Turner
"Black Country Rock", "She Shook Me Cold", "The Width of a Circle", The Supermen", "Shapes of Things", "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", "Growin' Up"--Bowie
"American Pie"/ "The Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll"( Live),
"All the Way from Memphis" ---Mott the Hoople
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post #788 of 1270
3/7/10 at 3:28pm
"Rock Steady"--Aretha
"Pop That Thang" --The Isley Brothers
"Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way"--Waylon
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post #789 of 1270
3/7/10 at 5:59pm
EDIT: Mistake, sorry.
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post #790 of 1270
3/7/10 at 8:42pm
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Originally Posted by Jeb View Post
Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine," "Hit 'Em Up Style."
Oh my god, WNCW (local npr station) has been playing this song a TON the last couple weeks. I liked it at first, but after hearing it about a hundred times I've grown tired of it kinda.
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post #791 of 1270
3/7/10 at 8:57pm
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Originally Posted by Uth Vaspetad View Post
"Ain't No Grave" - Johnny Cash

WOW... I heard this for the first time just now. Incredible.
Not sure if you knew this or not, but it features Scott and Seth Avett, of the Avett Brothers.
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post #792 of 1270
3/7/10 at 9:55pm
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Originally Posted by DJ Dylan View Post
Oh my god, WNCW (local npr station) has been playing this song a TON the last couple weeks. I liked it at first, but after hearing it about a hundred times I've grown tired of it kinda.
I can see how that would happen. Really fun album, though, besides those songs.
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post #793 of 1270
3/8/10 at 4:39am
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Originally Posted by Jeb View Post
I can see how that would happen. Really fun album, though, besides those songs.
I'll have to check the rest of the album out then.
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post #794 of 1270
3/8/10 at 6:05pm
"Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", "Hum Along and Dance", "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" --The Temptations

"Time", "Cracked Actor", "Drive-In Saturday"--Bowie

"Drivin Sister", "Violence", "I Wish i Was Your Mother"--Mott the Hoople

"Hello Trouble"--Buck Owens

"Beats To The Rhyme"--RUN DMC
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post #795 of 1270
3/10/10 at 4:08pm
"I Gotcha" --Joe Tex

"Shake"--Sam Cooke

"You Send Me"--Aretha

"The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)"--Joe Tex

"Somebody Up There Likes Me"--Bowie

"Jerkin' Crocus" / "One of the Boys" / "Rock & Roll Queen" / "Get Back" / "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On" / "Violence" (Live)--Mott

"The Ruler's Back", Teacher Teacher", "The Moment I Feared", "Let's Get Crazy"--Slick Rick
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post #796 of 1270
3/10/10 at 4:14pm
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"Jerkin' Crocus" / "One of the Boys" / "Rock & Roll Queen" / "Get Back" / "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On" / "Violence" (Live)--Mott
My fave live Mott is "Walking With A Mountain" from the first Live album-- "Oi'd loik tuh introduce you to Aaaeeriell.... Bennnndaaaaah!"
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post #797 of 1270
3/12/10 at 1:14pm
Funky 4 + 1 --"That's the Joint,"

EPMD--"Da Joint"

The Roots--"You Got Me"

RUN DMC--"Here We Go"

EPMD--"Strictly Business"
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post #798 of 1270
3/17/10 at 12:18pm
Grant Hart- Think It Over

and, oddly enough

The Posies- Grant Hart
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post #799 of 1270
3/19/10 at 11:01am
Goddamn catchy pop track;

Ellie Goulding - This Love (will be your downfall).
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post #800 of 1270
3/20/10 at 1:43pm
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"Rule the World"
Written by Mark Owen / Gary Barlow / Jason Orange / Howard Donald
Performed by Take That
Courtesy of Polydor (UK) Ltd.
Under License from Universal Music Operations Ltd.


Hat Tip to Ken Savage for telling me the name of the song
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