LMan
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Re: Prejudice
Jun 24, 2005, 17:14
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More info please!
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Dog 3000
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Re: Styx
Jun 25, 2005, 16:58
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Just for you, I'm going to listen to "The Grand Illusion" LP today!
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Dog 3000
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Re: Americana
Jun 25, 2005, 19:50
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I've always just thought of that kind of music as simply being "folk / country influenced rock" (I don't use the phrase "Americana" ever.)
I mean, Neil Young & The Band are avatars of that sound, and they're (mostly) Canadian!
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mojojojo
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Re: Prejudice
Jun 27, 2005, 13:35
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http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/discog_yamasuki.html
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Dog 3000
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Re: Styx - followup
Jun 27, 2005, 17:53
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Listened to 2 Styx LP's while cleaning house:
"The Grand Illusion" (1977) was OK (the hits are the best cuts, DeYoung's keyboards are mixed too hig and they sound very cheesy and dated)
"Pieces of Eight" (1978) is pretty good though (meatier production, better songs -- interestingly NO HITS BY DeYOUNG on this LP) . . . . yup, this the one to start with.
Also interesting that I never realized they had such prole-consciousness:
"America spells competition!
Join us in our blind ambition!
Get yourself a brand new motor car!"
. . . from "The Grand Illusion", which is a pretty great song that combines ELP's "Karn Evil 9" and "The Endless Enigma" into one tune that's probably better than either of those. The lyrics may not be poetry, but at least they make sense and are about something vs. Greg Lake nonsense.
The anthemic title track to "Pieces of Eight" is another anti-capitalist screed. (Chicago is a big union town ya know.)
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LMan
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Re: Prejudice
Jun 27, 2005, 18:05
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I'll check it out, thanks.
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Juliette Lewis
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Re: Prejudice
Jun 27, 2005, 18:52
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For me, it's any kind of hip-hop. No matter what the music press says, it became the new conformity back when I was in junior high school in the mid-late 80s and all the horrible rich kids at my school were into it.
Today, it's worse than ever thanks to abominations like The Black-Eyed Cheese. Hip-hop is now in its fourth decade, and like Rock and Roll around the same age, it's become completely absorbed into the mainstream. Time for something new.
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Lawrence
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Re: Styx - followup
Jun 28, 2005, 00:43
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Yeah, I remember "Blue Collar Man". That and "Working Man" by pre-suck Rush were typical prole-rock anthems at least in my town...
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Dog 3000
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Re: Styx - followup
Jun 28, 2005, 11:33
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"Blue Collar Man" is also on the "Pieces of Eight" album . . . and "Renegade", another of Tommy Shaw's best which also has that anti-establishment vibe.
Musically I'm hearing a lot of Queen in their music, plus some ELP, Wishbone Ash and The Who. . .
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vince
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Re: Prejudice
Jun 28, 2005, 21:49
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Weller. Prize twat & good-fer-nuthin charlatan in my book.
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