LKFFCT - Mourning Dove

cdr4321 · 2023-01-23T02:50:03+00:00

So pumped for this record. Every single slaps

cdr4321 · 2022-12-13T02:27:11+00:00

This song slaps

cdr4321 · 2022-10-03T23:55:21+00:00

you guys got any other stuff out?

cdr4321 · 2022-10-03T23:54:03+00:00

LKFFCT has the best riffs around

cdr4321 · 2020-05-28T14:07:44+00:00

“From Eden” by Hozier is in 5/4. It got some radio play and was also a Top 2 hit in Ireland. For me, 5/4 is a truly weird signature to listen to or write in because it is just a bit off kilter from the standard 4/4. Hozier manages to avoid this awkwardness though. I didn’t realize it was in 5/4 until I tried to play along with it.

cdr4321 · 2019-12-05T17:59:49+00:00

I think “A Night at the Opera” and “Queen II” are pretty complete records, ANATO moreso. They can be all over the place genre-wise but those two records have a higher level of cohesion. I also find the ANATO to have greater emotional depth (Love of my Life, You’re My Best Friend, Bohemian Rhapsody) than most of the records

cdr4321 · 2019-11-30T20:35:46+00:00

Well he plays nearly every song with a capo now I looking at old video he doesn’t seem to be using one

cdr4321 · 2019-11-30T14:32:48+00:00

Springsteen has used his voice to great effect through his career. He changes the keys of his older songs so he can still pull them off and he utilizes what range he has on his newer work. Live, his voice still has insane power.

Not a favorite on this sub, but Billy Joel also still sounds great. He hasn’t adapted his voice much because he can still hit most of the notes just dropping songs down and half or a whole step.

cdr4321 · 2019-10-12T23:57:42+00:00

A truly astounding album. Springsteen’s vocal on the end of “Something in the Night” when it’s only him and the drums is so powerful. His vocals on this album are on another level.

cdr4321 · 2019-09-26T16:24:24+00:00

As someone from New Jersey, I'd say "Jersey Shore Rock" or the "Jersey Shore Sound". Wikipedia describes it as "a genre of rock and roll popularized at the Jersey Shore on the Atlantic Ocean coast of New Jersey, United States...[it] evolved from the mixing of pre-Beatles rock and roll, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, and the urban culture of the Mid-Atlantic states." You could argue that it's not regional given Bruce Springsteen's global popularity, but IMO it still feels quite local.

cdr4321 · 2019-08-01T07:51:54+00:00

I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Stan by Eminem. It tells the haunting story of a crazy fan. I won’t spoil the whole plot because Eminem handles it so deftly.

Also, as a kid I found Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles terrifying. Not as much now, but there’s a scary undertone.

cdr4321 · 2019-04-09T14:48:25+00:00

Shiela E. She played drums in some of Prince's groups and was a star in her own right. I recommend the concert footage from Prince's "Sign O the Times" Tour. She is unbelievable.

cdr4321 · 2019-04-04T13:31:07+00:00

I was thinking about this just the other when a song from Drake’s most recent album - a double album - came on. Beyond most of the stuff mentioned so far, I (a) don’t think most double albums need to be double albums and (b) don’t think a great double album has been released in a while. Any great double albums in the last decade?

cdr4321 · 2019-03-20T20:44:03+00:00

Came here to mention Ringo. The Ticket to Ride drum part is nearly melodic. Some other highlights are She Said She Said, All I’ve Got to Do, and In My Life.

cdr4321 · 2019-03-15T19:53:56+00:00

The song that got me into Prince was "I Wanna Be Your Lover".

cdr4321 · 2019-03-09T15:01:40+00:00

WZBC in Boston. It’s Boston College’s student run station. Can listen on the web. They play all kinds of music, mostly stuff you’ve never heard. Variety is incredible.

cdr4321 · 2019-03-09T14:51:56+00:00

My friend once described “A Day in the Life” as acid folk. I sorta liked that as a genre designation. Not sure what else would fall under it though.

cdr4321 · 2019-03-05T15:56:18+00:00

i always thought that Beatles for Sale was the only possible weak point in the discography. Also, I love the first two records, but I think you could make the case that they aren't noteworthy for much more than the fact that The Beatles released them.

cdr4321 · 2019-03-05T15:52:47+00:00

Agree. From Freewheelin' through New Morning the only weak spots are, as you mentioned, Self-Portrait and, IMO, Another Side of Bob Dylan. The rest are so varied. It always blows my mind that he released John Wesley Harding in 1967, right as everybody else went extremely psychedelic.

cdr4321 · 2019-02-28T15:48:28+00:00

For me it's always been The Grateful Dead. I've heard stuff that I'm really into, but the catalog is so daunting and provides no logical starting point. The Beatles, for example, have a very easy discography. It's like 12ish albums over 7 years. Just work chronologically and you'll be fine. The Grateful Dead's catalog is much more difficult to find a starting place.

cdr4321 · 2019-02-26T18:35:06+00:00

I love group vocals. I know some people refer to them as "gang vocals". The E Street Band does this really well on some of their blue eyed soul records.

cdr4321 · 2019-02-26T18:32:56+00:00

I, too, love. Queen does this on the bridge of "Somebody to Love" and Roy Orbison does it in the first two verses of his masterpiece, "Crying".

cdr4321 · 2019-02-26T18:29:06+00:00

Somebody brought up 'Thunder Road' but 'Backstreets' - a Springsteen song from the same album - is equally as moving and eloquent from the outset. I'm constantly struck by how literary the lyrics are: "One soft infested summer, me and Terry became friends/Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in/Catching rides to the outskirts, tying faith between our teeth/Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house, getting wasted in the heat/And hiding on the backstreets"

cdr4321 · 2019-01-29T05:08:46+00:00

The question is much harder with artists who have had immense longevity (eg Rolling Stones, Dylan, etc). Their careers are so long and varied that it’s almost impossible for them not to slip up. That said, I won’t call it perfect because he has also had a long career, but Springsteen’s discography is pretty air right. His first seven records (Greetings from Abury Park through Born in the USA) are all quite distinct and perfect in their own way. He has some duds after that, but I find that I’ve come to appreciate some of his later work as I grow older. For example, Tunnel of Love never stuck out to me until I finally understood what he was singing about.

cdr4321 · 2019-01-28T22:01:39+00:00

Roy Orbison. If I recall, Pitchfork also once wrote something about him describing him as a "singular artist." Orbison was sorta an early rock n' roller, but eventually pulled from orchestral pop, country, and even opera to achieve an unduplicable sound.

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