plant you mean?

...

it’s not possible for me to conceive of that band without the guy. or any of its other members for that matter

it would be something completely different

I will definitely stream it, but there is no earthly way I’m spending close to $200 on a physical copy. Jesus, even the MP3 album is like $70.

Fuck that. Fuck that all over.

I have an old LP from when the album was first released, gifted to me by my dad (with poster!), the old blocky 2xCD version and the more svelte digipack-encased 2009 remaster. I’ve got White albums coming out of my ass, and as much as I love the album, I don’t need a fucking fourth or fifth copy — no matter how much swag it contains — for the price of a new pair of name-brand glasses.

I’m getting (fiscally) conservative and curmudgeonly in my near-middle-age.

I’ll bet it’s goddamn glorious, but the last two people on the planet who need to price an item that high are fucking Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Jesus fuck when will it end.

Yeah, Plant :o

I do like his more restrained vocals, on stuff like Tangerine or That's the Way.

Ultimately though, apart from a handful of songs, I'm not that much of a Led Zeppelin fan. And the songs I do like (like the two I just mentioned) are hardly the kind that made them famous.

Same.

Not a big LZ fan, but I do enjoy enough of their material to listen on occasion, and I can’t imagine any other person singing or playing any other instrument.

I’ve often wondered what Keith Moon playing for Led Zeppelin would sound like ... can’t quite picture it, but it would be interesting, and yet utterly non-Zeppelin.

Whatever they’ve been doing with the surviving members isn’t even worth my time. That’s not Led Zeppelin. That’s Page and Plant and some guys. That’s half a tribute band.

i love that band, and popular hype aside i always return to their first album as the one that never tires me. it’s really mostly a blues record.

i’ll take the original crisp recording, no remasters, no changes to the old school stereo mix with the clearly separate channels please.

I prefer their more expansive, weirder stuff. Not necessarily Presence, but some of the tunes on Led Zeppelin III, definitely Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti (“In the Light” is a vastly superior stoner anthem to “Stairway”).

Anyway... Their first album was one of the first records I ever purchased with my own money, but I don’t really “feel” it. I prefer the BBC sessions versions of the blues tracks.

Whatshisname... some rock guy... ah...Cameron Crowe! Yes! He once said he preferred them to the Beatles and that they were a logical extension of the Beatles’ four-personalities archetype. I couldn’t disagree more. They’re a one-personality kind of band. But still thumped when it counted

When people ask me what my favorite Led Zeppelin song is I say, “My favorite Led Zeppelin song is fucking ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ by the fucking Beatles. Now fuck off.”

*cluck cluck*

eh. that’s a bit of a boring tune for me

from their longer more bombastic songs i’ll take kashmir, or no quarter

but to me that’s really not their greatest strength—there were better prog bands than them

But that riff though.. like the parting of the clouds revealing the sun!

The sun, I say!

I'm waiting for the actual 50th anniversary in a week and a bit.

Streamed it today. Sounds fucking boss.

Still not buying the goddamn thing

Go-Betweens, 16 Lovers Lane

I love this band so much.

Y'know what? There was a piece about them in a magazine I get every month and they were saying how many great albums they have. Yet I haven't heard a single one. Best place to start?

It's on my christmas list to Father Christmas and I refuse to listen to it before then. I wanna crank it up in my car and soak that bitch up.

It’s so goddamn good.

Seriously.

I said I’d never pay for a (one, two, three, four) fifth? White Album just two days ago in this very post, but now I’m not so sure. Might have to treat myself.

Formidable album, phenomenal band.

Carrie Brownstein covered "Love Goes On" live, solo (this was during the Sleater-Kinney hiatus and before Wild Flag) but apparently nobody taped it. Sons of bitches.

Probably https://www.discogs.com/The-Go-Betwe...90/master/5054.

Speaking of The Go-Betweens and Sleater-Kinney, Janet Weiss is the drummer on their "comeback" album, 2000's The Friends Of Rachel Worth.

Don't you "bah" me, you little cellphonejunkie millenial.


I can dig that! Now I can hate metal wholeheartedly! :D


No, the problem is they picked up instruments in the first place.

Metallica is music for idiots. Are you guys idiots? Is that what you're sayin'?

16 Lovers Lane was the 1st one I heard and I never looked back, so I'd go with that one.

That's a great compilation and probably the best overview of their peak period but it's pretty rare, unless you can find a download.

I like that album, even though I don't really consider it a Go-Betweens album, as such. Oceans Apart is probably my favourite of the comeback albums. The Statue is one of their most beautiful post-classic era songs. (once you get past the weird drum machine effect at the beginning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L7Zr7UhkEc

Truly astonishing band.

Uh, that’s Xennial, thanks so much. Pretty sure you’re one too.

Remember Ronald Reagan? Not a millennial. So glad for the new term.

'This is a fascinating little gadget. It'll replace CDs soon. Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again.'

and here i thought subnazi was a pre-boomer grandma :confused:

i meant pre-boomer (makes a better picture)

but no i dont have time for that!

Well F you, Symbols! F you and your Bolivarian dreams!

see?

not hate

Right, only dickness.

i see what you’re saying


dickishness everywhere

Digging through all the fun little Radiohead snippets on citizeninsane.

None of that was mean-spirited, though. Severian knows it. And Metallica truly is music for idiots, what can I tell ya. :)

Who are you to say what I know? Maybe I wanna take offense really bad? Take umbrage? Cast aspersions? Eh?

neither is mr. t!

he’s kind to abuelitas





you can tell me that your opinions are getting in the way of your ears?

i’ve never been a metallica fan, but if you made a polite attempt to listen (for a moment anyway) you could realize that there are many great elements in their music, even if one can’t stomach the overall package.

Just do what I do and pretend that they all died in that accident that took Cliff.
That pretty much leaves the vast majority of the good stuff. It also works for Pink Floyd if you pretend there was a plane crash in 1972 and they never made Dark Side of the Moon and everything after that.
Also, even if you hate metal, go on YouTube and listen to the Agents of Misfortune recordings that Cliff did when he was younger. It's a live recording in a talent show of some kind and if you blindfolded someone and told them it was Fushitsusha they would probably believe you. Seriously. Do it now.

But... I like some of that Floyd stuff. :(

never heard it before! thanks for this

will go lookin

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eta

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1q0zLaXUuE

WOW

Anyway I’ve been listening to “To Pimp a Butterfly” a bunch because I finally bought a physical copy of the album, so it’s been spinning.

Great fucking album, obviously.

Someone mentioned Agents of Misfortune to me in relation to the whole Ascension thing, but until youtube I had no way of hearing them. The similarities, especially live, are genuinely uncanny.

More generally, I'd say Metal's been the only area of Rock music that has really evolved in any meaningful way in decades. I'm struggling to think of anything really new or interesting to have come out of the indie/alt rock scene since, christ, i dunno, Twin Infinitives? And that was nearly 30 years ago!!

yes, as energies get pared down to their most essential and rock as a popular art form retreats into historical space. rock’s last stand. after that it will all be nostalgia.

Yeah, although I'm sure I was wrong about the dates. Surely there must've been some innovation since 1990. I dunno. I'm not a fan but I suppose there's an argument for Radiohead - even if I wouldn't wanna be the one trying to make it.