*** Post-1979 Album Draft - Commentary Thread ***

[revo]

Are these real albums or is Foot punking us?

[ManCalledFoot]

Are these real albums or is Foot punking us?

Sadly, they are all too real.

[Erik]

Yeah, I'm pretty much with Sheep on Springsteen. The title track of The River is one of his best songs, though.

[Mithrandir]

Yeah, I really wanted that Fiona Apple album too.

I have several additional "chick-esque" artists on my list.

My next 5 or 6 picks will be chicks or bands with chick singers.

[Fresno Bob]

I have a Phillip Glass soundtrack album on my list still

[johnnya24]

A couple of records I've checked out in the last few days:

Good, Morphine (1993) - Another band I've never heard off. Morphine should be a great name for a band, but it's impossible to search for without qualifications. I can see myself getting into this. Right up my street. Any music which survives the use of the saxophone is generally worth checking out.

A Ass Pocket of Whiskey - R. L. Burnside and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (1996) - JSBE are great. Saw them at a warm up show in a tiny London basement club in the mid-00's. One of those gigs were the band have to ask the audience to give them a little room. Terrific gig. Never heard of R L Burnside, and I listened to a lot of blues revival stuff when I was well into the White Stripes. Good stuff.

Edit to add: The 100 Club, Oxford St.



... they have a pic from that JSBE on their website

[johnnya24]

Iron Maiden Help Turnaround UK Economy

In a report published on Friday by the London Stock Exchange, the group – formed in Leyton, east London in the 1970s – has been cited as one of the UK's fastest growing music firms, helping to pull the UK from economic heart failure into recovery.

Iron Maiden LLP, the group's holding company, is one of six music firms at the vanguard of the new music business, according to the report entitled 1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain.

The group has been ranked in the music category of the report alongside digital newcomers, such as app-creators Shazam whose musical pedigree is a little less tried and tested. Publishers Kobalt Music Group and the production music library Audio Network also made it into the list, albeit with fewer riffs and less impressive hair.

And it appears that the band – consisting of founder, lyricist and bassist Steve Harris, 57, 56-year-old guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers, 55-year-old vocalist Bruce Dickinson and 61-year-old drummer Nicko McBrain – have done it in the traditional way, using old fashioned graft and relentless touring.

On the back of 109 days of touring, which saw the band perform 46 shows in 24 countries (their crew drinking 5,646 bottles of Trooper beer and eating 96 wheels of cheese) for their Maiden England World Tour – Iron Maiden saw their international fan base grow by five million online fans, according to Musicmetric, with a vast number of them from South America.

[revo]

Loved the Faith No More pick....that was on my list as a double blind late rounder.

I'm not surprised about Synchronicity -- another monumental album whose songs I skip without a second thought when it pops on the radio (except for Synchronicity II, which is one of my favorite songs, and perhaps King of Pain).


As far as pics go, here's my business photo:


My boys (and their iPads):


Me & fellow RJer Hammer at a Jets-Giants game:

[Fresno Bob]

I love the Cake pick

[johnnya24]

Check this out ... I've been rockin' that Daft Punk song, Get Lucky for a while now. Turns out they just totally ripped off a Korean Youtube star ... who turns out to be pretty awesome.

[Pogues]

Love both the Suicidal Tendencies and Cake pick...but the Cake pick a little more.

[DMT]

I love the Cake pick

Yep, they're on the same list as Los Lobos, a band I'm happy got drafted since I knew they wouldn't make my roster.

[johnnya24]

Nice picks sir ... I would have picked Mellon Collie at some point if no-one else did.

[Fresno Bob]

Nice picks sir ... I would have picked Mellon Collie at some point if no-one else did.

Me too, for some reasoning thought it was already gone

[Erik]

I associate Linda Rondstadt with the 70s, so I wasn't thinking about her in this context. Forgot she had one "normal" album in the 80s before going off into all kinds of genre exercises.

I LOVED Mellon Collie when it came out but Billy Corgan's wankery during the show I saw on that tour turned me off. But there's a stunning array of good stuff there; even ostensible filler tracks like "By Starlight" are gorgeous.