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Post by dee on Feb 25, 2010 7:01:06 GMT -5
Would have been easier to promote the singles if they were on the album. Stain Yer Blood,C'mon,C'mon,C'mon.
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Post by dee on Feb 23, 2010 23:03:30 GMT -5
I always thought that while it was catchy pop melodies, it wasn't too sugary, that it still had an edge to it. I agree.The music is tight with a rock edge to it.Check out the clip of Ain't Got Me on The Tonight Show.It's pretty awsome. I think inventing GrandpaBoy and following his muse on Suicane were two great moves.It led to Stereo/Mono.It was kind of hard to get a read on his solo career before that.
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Post by dee on Feb 23, 2010 22:22:57 GMT -5
Production wise had it sounded more like Suicane the subject matter would have matched the music better.The problem lies in that the songs are stark but the music is like adult contemporary bubblegum pop. Today I'm thinking Jackson Browns Late For The Sky production would really suit the songs well on Eventually.I heard Fountain Of Sorrow on the radio and thought of Eventually.
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Post by dee on Feb 23, 2010 9:02:23 GMT -5
I don't hate it.I know it inside & out.It's not a black-mark on his career by any means.I actually like it.It's not disposable.Keep in mind if Tim is my favorite album of all time and Eventually isn't in my top 100 thats quite a gap.
I think after this record did what it did he re-thought his approach to what he was doing.To just follow his muse more instead of bucking against the trends.
I remember the day it came out.I got the CD before work and when I was coming home to listen to it my neighbor,who is also a huge Westerberg fan,was sitting on his steps.I asked him how it was and he kind of paused and said "It's alright." I was like "Oh no,you don't like it."That never happened before with a Mats or Westerberg release.
The album might have been a reaction to the music of the day.Also Paul was wearing suits.It was like he was playing a character or wanted to be taken more serious.He looks like a wax doll on the back of the CD.
Also he was taking 3 years between albums so I think expectations were high and this may not have been the album some people were waiting for.Maybe he spent the 3 years writing These Are The Days.Something just felt out of character about Paul then.That's just where he was at.Then he cut up and painted on his suits and called it a phase.
Production wise had it sounded more like Suicane the subject matter would have matched the music better.The problem lies in that the songs are stark but the music is like adult contemporary bubblegum pop.
The Open Season soundtrack sounds a bit like Eventually production wise and I like it.Those songs fit the production better.More playful with a tinge of sadness I guess.Eventually seems to be all about alienation and exile.It's no wonder he made Suicane next,it's the album that was bubbling up inside him as far back as Eventually.
Of course years later throwing on a suit and making a slick album is a career move all the singer songwriters do.
It's better than Hawks & Doves and Human Touch by a mile.
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Post by dee on Feb 20, 2010 2:48:38 GMT -5
I think I would have liked Eventually more if someone else had made it.I dislike the production more than any other record PW has made.I didn't think 14 Songs matched the songwriting of All Shook Down and I didn't think Eventually was as good as 14 Songs.Maybe if the super catchy Trumpet Clip didn't name check Demi Moore.Maybe if Brendan O'Brien was NEVER involved.There's a sheen to the production I just don't care for.His voice sounds bland and syrupy.Eventually seems like the full album version of A Few Minutes Of Silence.
I like Hide N Seekin' and the line from Century about "the brooms and the mops and the keys." That line goes thru my mind alot for some reason.
I think Pauls music's been gaining momentum since the first Grandpaboy EP.By It's A Wonderful Lie his voice and writing felt "right" for lack of a better word.
If someone released a single consisting of LIDC & GGAB I would love it. Almost as much as if they released We're Comin' Out and Willpower.
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Post by dee on Feb 1, 2010 6:08:17 GMT -5
There's nothing on Mono that even sounds remotely like Tommy. Except the backing vocals on Call That Gone. Also rumor was that Axl Rose sang backing vocals on Lets Not Belong Together.Let your ears decide.
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Post by dee on Jan 24, 2010 5:31:16 GMT -5
Learning to play the guitar is awkward enough without everything on it being upside down and backwards,plus the volume and tone knobs are right where a leftys wrist wants to be when strumming.It would make much more sense to invest in a guitar made for a lefty.
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Post by dee on Dec 6, 2009 8:21:51 GMT -5
On Hootenanny thru DTAS there were 11 songs on each record.All albums have good tone setting opening songs.There are some throw away rockers,funny songs,ballads,pop gems,a cover,some anthems,some genre experiments.Was there a formula?The albums were great,do you think there was a sequencing blueprint and stylistic blueprint?Whatever it was it was very favorable to the band.It's like every song serves a purpose in the makeup of the whole of the album.I know,that's what it's supposed to do,right.
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Post by dee on Nov 16, 2009 22:46:44 GMT -5
I always had a literal interpretation of it, but I never thought that he was calling his girl a whore. I always imagined Paul on the road filling the void with "this whore" and pining away for his girl back home. I always thought of it as a pretty brave line, in the sense that he's exposing himself as a real jerk (to put it mildly). But it's one of those jerky/sweet things, because he's confessing that he's fed up with the empty, romance-free encounters he's having on the road. There's an old interview where Paul is asked how difficult it was to readjust to dating after his divorce from his first wife, and he replies that he never stopped dating. Reading that pretty much reinforced my interpretation of the Answering Machine lyrics. I like this interpretation alot.I remember reading that interview. I don't take it as he's calling someone a whore.It's more of an internal thought that passed through his mind.It's also not unlike the "libido/mosquito" line from Smells Like Teen Spirit where "whore/romance" is a mash up of opposites.It's a bit like word math.
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Post by dee on Nov 14, 2009 1:04:09 GMT -5
Considering the level of vitriol leveled at the song's ( Answering Machine's) subject, the "try to teach a whore..." line works, however, I don't love the idea of Paul calling someone a whore. This is why I never date songwriters. I'd rather not be the girl on the other end of the line in Answering Machine. I wonder what Axl Rose would call her?
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Post by dee on Nov 11, 2009 2:31:38 GMT -5
What is the most modern song PW has covered?
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Post by dee on Nov 6, 2009 16:06:19 GMT -5
"a hand full of friends one needs a match,one needs some ice" this is not filler.it is genius. you understand that the "friends" he mentions are the drink in one hand that needs ice and the cigarette in his other hand that needs a light.It's a great play on words.This would also mean he's alone,being faithful(for the moment),smoking and drinking to cope with being apart. also the "Try to free a slave of ignorance,try to teach this whore about romance" line has everything to do with the song.It's his thoughts running wild with the frustration of not being able to get a hold of his girl.He assumes she's not really into him and that she's out messing around.He gets the answering machine and thinks the worst,thats why he hates it.lol. I agree with the genius comment. I adore these two lines. I'm not one to really analyze lyrics, but I do like your suggestions about the friends being his hands. I never looked at it that way. I also like the bootleg version (SS&S, I think?) where after the whore line he pauses and adds "...no chance." I take it to mean his friends are what's "in" his hands. Nothing is definitive.It could soley be a rant on technology if you want.In that case those lines would be filler. To each his own.I took the bait to argue their validity when those lines were called clunkers so they must mean something to me.
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Post by dee on Nov 5, 2009 22:50:55 GMT -5
"a hand full of friends one needs a match,one needs some ice"
this is not filler.it is genius. you understand that the "friends" he mentions are the drink in one hand that needs ice and the cigarette in his other hand that needs a light.It's a great play on words.This would also mean he's alone,being faithful(for the moment),smoking and drinking to cope with being apart.
also the "Try to free a slave of ignorance,try to teach this whore about romance" line has everything to do with the song.It's his thoughts running wild with the frustration of not being able to get a hold of his girl.He assumes she's not really into him and that she's out messing around.He gets the answering machine and thinks the worst,thats why he hates it.lol.
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Post by dee on Nov 4, 2009 23:10:42 GMT -5
Paste's 50 best albums of the decade has Folker at 28 Where's all the rock music? I just got the Nirvana at Reading DVD/CD and it is refreshing to hear.
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Post by dee on Oct 29, 2009 3:03:38 GMT -5
Rolling Stones Alt Rock-A-Rama.Chris Mars shares Mats stories and drummer jokes!
Spin Alternative Record Guide.
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Post by dee on Oct 29, 2009 2:58:59 GMT -5
Down on all fives...Lemme crawl.
Only exercise you ever get is the shakes.
Got a big switch blade,chop chop abilities
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Post by dee on Oct 29, 2009 2:17:05 GMT -5
I checked out the Neil Young box as well and it doesn't begin to compare to Dylans bootleg series.I look forward to the next part of Neil Youngs backlog as it is my favorite era.I hope they do without all the previously released material.As far as live stuff goes I'd like to hear a show where Neil is wasted and borders on falling apart.What other kind of live performance is there that he hasn't already released? From what I've heard and read of Neil Young I wouldn't label him a "teetotaller" but on the other hand he always seemed to have things pretty well under control. Somewhere in Jimmy McDonough bio, SHAKEY it is mentioned that Young once passed out from exhaustion while working very, very hard on a tour, but not from being wasted. An album of wasted falling down Neil Young would be both unlikely and, well, a waste. Was Tonights The Night a waste? I don't mean something like Live & Drunk by the Mats.Neil is a perfectionist,but he seems to get caught up in what he's writing at any particular time,like he's method acting.I would just like to hear something besides a folkie set or a stadium rock set.Something like Time Fades Away with a little Tonights The Night vibe.Maybe wasted was the wrong word,I should have said lit.
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Post by dee on Oct 28, 2009 21:38:41 GMT -5
The Replacements/PW music still sounds good to me.
Sobriety though has ruined the listening pleasure for me of a few bands I really liked.Maybe in time I'll hear the music differently. Has anybody else had a similar experience?
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Post by dee on Oct 28, 2009 21:17:11 GMT -5
I checked out the Neil Young box as well and it doesn't begin to compare to Dylans bootleg series.I look forward to the next part of Neil Youngs backlog as it is my favorite era.I hope they do without all the previously released material.As far as live stuff goes I'd like to hear a show where Neil is wasted and borders on falling apart.What other kind of live performance is there that he hasn't already released?
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Post by dee on Oct 24, 2009 4:02:00 GMT -5
Which period?
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