Archive for March, 2008
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
That friends, is not the name of a fantasy novel.I would never call myself a Grateful Dead fan, but i do appreciate the idea of the Grateful Dead. I dont think i have to explain what that idea is, everyone knows what they need to know about the Grateful Dead and if you dont know anything then thats how much you need to know and im not going to force the Dead down anybody’s throat. However, if you must know only one thing about the Grateful Dead, then you must know Dark Star. It was originally a three minute studio experiment on Anthem of the Sun but by the time they had gotten around to recording the shows that would be featured on Live Dead, the bands first of many hundreds maybe thousands of live recordings, the song had ballooned to over 23 minutes of improvisational glory. This song i think is the closest rock music has ever gotten to being legitimate jazz ( I welcome other opinions and examples, mostly for my own listening enjoyment). Phil Lesh plays the main melody very occasionally on bass, Bob Weir bangs out a couple of ‘Weir’d (sorry) oddly formed but perfect rhythm chords and the rest of the song is just Jerry soloing, sometimes quietly with that almost new age guitar sound Jerry likes but sometimes wailing, with the whole band kicking in behind him. The interesting thing about this is that normally, and when i say normally i am referring to standard jam bands, todays jam bands, when the improvisational section reaches this fever pitch it means the jam, and more often than not the song, is over. Not with Dark Star though. They just bring everything back down from space inside the Earth’s atmosphere and start again, Phil laying down the melody and everything folding and unfolding itself around it.Im talking about the Dead and specifically Dark Star because my band, Disjoinedin (pronounced Dis-Joined-In), has decided to undertake this monster of psychedelic rock to great effect. we had practice yesterday and i think we played the song 5 times. We never got up to 23 minutes but we consistently reach hit five or six improvising on the main melody before miraculously it turned into something completely different. The first time we played it turned into Love Will Tear us Apart by Joy Division, the second time it turned into A Love Supreme, the third Ten Years Gone by Led Zeppelin. After it turned into Sparks by the Who and then Shakin’ All Over we started dubbing it The All Song meaning that Dark Star is all songs combined into one and much like white is all of the colors mixed together. Or is that black? I dont remember, either way, Dark Star truly is the centerpiece of not only psychedelic rock but of all rock. It all revolves around Dark Star, like the solar system around the sun man.No, I am not on drugs.
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
I received a new computer at work so my C button now functions properly, which is nice.
Tomorrow is my birthday. Im going to be 26. I dont think i have any feelings regarding this fact one way or the other. 26 doesnt really seem like a big deal. Im not going to worry about it.
I need some new sneakers so on my lunch break im going to go and try to achieve some new sneakers. I dont want anything too flashy. thats the problem with sneakers, sometimes they are just too flashy.
Im not hungry but Im going to eat. I hate that. i havent eaten in at least 16 hours so i know should eat but i am not hungry. this really bothers me.
How come there are no websites devoted exclusively to books. there are websites for movies and music and art and websites devoted to spying on people you used to know, they call them social networking sites, and politics and everything, but nothing just for books. Some one should look into this. they could review books and rank books and have constantly updated news about books and an agents site and and authors site. I really think this idea has legs and those legs are taking it to the next open spot on my mental shelf of things that i will forget the next time a slightly more interesting idea pops into my head.
Dad, maybe you can clarify this for us, I was at band practice yesterday and we were talking about Utopia and we just could not figure out the appeal of Utopia besides it including Todd. If anyone else would like to chime in on this feel free.
I hate the Yankees.
Maybe Ill write something later but i dont know if Ill have time. Its been pretty busy at work which is horrible. Im glad tomorrow is my birthday, it gives me an excuse not to come in. I think tomorrow Ill start my day with some jumping jacks.
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
I know nothing about Eliot Spitzer nor do I know anything about what he has done during his term as Governator of New York, but is anyone really surprised by this, being part of an elaborate prostitution ring? And if you are why? This is just what our politicians do. Its their job. We elect them to engage in the illegal activities they put us in jail for. Good work Eliot Spitzer! You are just the next in a long line of huge embarrassing failures elected to serve a branch of the United States Government. Presidents, congressmen, senators, governators and mayors i hope you’re watching how this is done. I hope youre getting some good tips and ideas for when its your turn to stab each one of the citizens you are supposed to represent in the back by being selfish arrogant pigs. This makes me laugh more than anything else.
And Im sure his wife will stay with him because one day shes going to run for president.
i suppose that was uncalled for.
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
My Tuesday nights usually look something like this: get home at 6, pet the cat, talk to Nicolette, determine if we have anything better to do that night, decide we dont, order Chinese food around 7, pick it up around 730, watch American Idol from 8-9 pretending like there isnt primary coverage for that hour and then when American Idol is over settling in behind the “Best Political Team on Television” to watch hours of primary coverage on CNN. Its been this way since primary season began and only once have we had any kind of break from the routine, the week there were no primaries on Tuesday, and even then i was itching like an addict for the sweet sounds of Anderson Cooper and his never ending cast of talking heads and punditing showoffs.
I think though, tomorrow, the routine will come to an end. Ive been sitting here all day reading articles about Barack and Hillary and how they might run together and Barack saying theyre not. Ive read every one of Newsweeks dozen or so articles published online today about Hillary Clinton culminating with an exclusive Q&A during which she says nothing new or interesting or anything that might dissuade me from thinking that this ‘interview’ is really just a series of quotes put into the context of an interview using newly written questions that correspond to a previous statement. To be honest, I am just tired of the whole process. The back and forth and the, quite literally, he said she said, its just so tiring and if you’re supporting someone its nerve racking and i just dont want to do it for a while.
I think i might swear off primary coverage until Pennsylvania by then, hopefully, a victory either way will really mean something. Hillary won both Texas and Ohio and what did it mean? Nothing, it didnt mean anything. Any delegates that Barack lost on Super Tuesday 2 he got back by slaughtering Hillary in Wyoming. So, he still has a sizable delegate lead. He is still leading in the popular vote. In polls he is still beating John McCain soundly while Hillary struggles to maintain even a one or two point lead. They even have her losing in some polls. Congratulations Hillary on your big wins last week. They were totally meaningless.
I think this Tuesday im going to make a big salad, watch American Idol and then read a book or work on wedding plans. Something constructive. and if between now and Pennsylvania something monumental happens and a group of primaries in smaller states may actually shape the end result of this thing maybe I’ll tune in to Anderson, Wolff, Candy and Dana and let them sing me sweet lullaby so that when i wake up the next day this whole crazy thing is over and we can get down to the business making a real difference.
Keep on Chooglin’
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Nothing much to report today so were going to take a look at album #2 on my list of Top 15 favorite albums of all time. And the winner is…
Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
I remember vividly the first time I heard this record. The year was 2000. i was managing a mall record store at the time and I was going through my Led Zeppelin phase. We had a 6 disc changer at the store and me and my co-workers would fill the changer with Led Zep, hit random and those would be our stores listening selections for the day. Before that i was opening the store every morning with Black Flag blasting out the doors for the mall walkers to enjoy and right before that i had just discovered the Black Crowes. so you can see where my head was at when a middle aged woman walked into the store wearing a long green trench coat, her face marked with old acne scars telling me all about ‘indie rock’ and that her favorite record was by the group Belle and Sebastian. I told her that that was the stupidest name for a band i had ever heard and she just laughed and told me her husband agreed with me but that i should listening to it anyway. I told her to have a good night when she left having made several purchases but when she was out of ear shot i cursed her stupidly named band and cranked up the ‘Battle of Evermore’ which isnt lame in any way.
As it ended up I grabbed the record she was talking about, If You’re Feeling Sinister, before i left for the night with the intention of listening to it on the way home. the fact of the matter was that Led Zeppelin was kind of getting on my nerves as was the entire genre of ‘ROCK’. I find everything after Houses of the Holy a little terrible and I can only listen to the Rain Song so many times before Jimmy Page’s huge 12 string open tuned chords start to grate on my generally very short and very already grated nerves. Robert Plant had no voice after Houses of the Holy and it is almost impossible to listen to his stupid little breathy squeal on Kashmir and and everything on ‘In through the Out Door’ and ‘Presence.’
Basically i needed a change in the music i was listening to. I had been drowning in alternative/hard rock for as long as i could remember and the lady in the trench coat came into my life at just the right moment.
I spent an hour that night driving around listening to If you’re feeling sinister and i suppose you can say that my life changed, if ever so slightly. It made me aware of different kinds of music and different ways that songs that would normally be rockers or folky rockers could be presented so that they conveyed a different message and brought about different images and feelings. I doubt that Belle and Sebastian do this to everyone and frankly i dont think that any of there other records are really all that great but by August every year i am longing for the days to grow short and the nights to get cold so i can drive around with the windows open listening to the wind blow leaves off the trees which most of the time is louder than Stuart Murdoch’s vocals.
The first thing that grabbed me about If You’re Feeling Sinister was how amazingly weird the lyrics were. Why were they singing about track stars and Bob Dylan and hookers and girls who are torn between religion and S&M? it didnt make any sense then and because i never bothered to research it it doesnt make any sense to me now but they make me laugh and i still havent heard very many new artists who are as adept at telling as detailed as story in a song as Belle and Sebastian is.
The magic on this record is from the total lack of electric guitars. An acoustic guitar is so much more expressive and effective at portraying emotion than an electric guitar and they use that to great advantage on this record. Imagine how different “Me and the Major” would be if they were banging out those bar chords on a well amplified Strat rather than a warm acoustic instrument. Its the same reason I love the Pogues, the instrumentation just exudes so much warmth its hard stop once you start listening to it. At the time this seemed like a big deal. now it just seems ridiculous that i was so in love with the sound of a sustained distorted E chord.
The center piece of this record is the title song. It most certainly has a spot on my Top 30 tunes of all time. With its introductory sounds coming from a recording of children playing on a Scottish play ground and the round tones of a Harmonium this is the quintessential Belle and Sebastian song. it is the song that defines them as i mixes soft almost Nick Drake-esque guitar strumming with a light propulsive shuffle from the drums. The song tells the story essentially of two people whose quest for answers just leads to more questions and more frustration and boredom and pain. In the end its decided that youre probably better off if you dont even bother. Its my ultimate Autumn song and gets me every-time.
If You’re Feeling Sinister opened me up to a whole world of music outside of the crap that is played on WPLR and on any classic rock station or mainstream ‘alternative’ music station across America. Since then i am a loyal purveyor of Pitchfork and Magnet magazine and there was a point, before I started quitting job and needing to sell my reocrds to live, that i had maybe 1,000 records most of them ‘indie rock’ and most of them sounding nothing like Led Zeppelin.
Thank god.
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
I recently returned from a business trip to Bangalore, India (I go to India three or four times a year). I always leverage the hotel’s car service to take me where I need to go. The drivers all have the same script: “Is the air conditioning comfortable?” “Is this your first trip to Bangalore?” “Would you like to hear some music?”
When I had responded “yes” to the music question in the past, the drivers would usually turn on a radio station of “western” music, often a mix of overplayed hip-hop. This time, Vasanth, who drove me virtually the entire week, selected a CD mix of his own making. The first song that came out of the speakers was the Foo Fighters’ All My Life. How did Vasanth know I would like the Foos? I’m 49 years old, my hair is pretty gray … how did he know the Foos is one of my favorite bands?
The other songs on the CD weren’t as impressive as the first - Rhianna’s Umbrella, Hey There Delilah, Sean Kingston’s Beautiful Girl - nothing you would ever catch me adding to my iPod. The first day, the CD also included Sheryl Crow’s song God Bless this Mess, the one where she criticizes George Bush for getting us into the war in Iraq. While I didn’t outwardly say anything, I wondered whether that was an appropriate choice, not so much for inclusion on the mix CD, but rather for playing it while I was in the car. For Vasanth, whose livelihood depends on the gratuities he receives for the service he provides, playing this song for a Bush supporter could have cost him a tip.
I’m not a Bush supporter, so it didn’t cause me to reduce my tip. But, I never heard that song for the rest of the trip. No matter how many times he played that CD for the rest of my trip (and I never want to hear that Beautiful Girl song again - repeating the word suicidal in the chorus is a huge turn-off), God Bless this Mess was not to be heard. Did Vasanth put his politics aside in pursuit of a few extra rupees?
Put aside your core political beliefs for some kind of gain - what a novel idea! Where have we seen that happen in the U.S. political arena, not just in the current campaign but for virtually all of my adult life? For Vasanth, this was an easy decision to make. His views of U.S. politics, while important to him, weren’t worth the potential reduction in his compensation.
Each of the presidential candidates will, in some way, shape or form, be asked to compromise on their core beliefs to better appeal to groups who wouldn’t ordinarily vote for them. Some of these compromises will make them better leaders; others may turn them into the very person we didn’t want to vote for. It will be interesting to see where each one lands by the end of this long campaign.
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
The time has finally arrived! My Dad will be posting his first ever entry onto the site today so why dont we all give him a great big round of applause (the soound of applause rounding). My Dad was one of the reasons I wanted to do this blog. He was a writer for the now defunct Milford Citizen way back in the day and i told him that if i got a blog i would want him to start writing again and post every Sunday. His column at the Citizen was called OneVoice so thats what this one is going to be called. You can find them archived in the ‘Categories’ section as well as in the tag cloud. So without further ado: my Dad, the Blogger.
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
For anyone who doesnt know, I am a Mets fan. This is the one sport i dont waver on in any way. In basketball I am a born Celtics fan, became a Bulls fan for a while but have since become a Celtics fan again. In football while i am a New York Football Giants fan i do like watching at least a dozen different teams every Sunday and if im engaged in a heated fantasy football battle and the Cowboys are playing the Giants and Terrell Owens catches an Eighty yard touchdown well then i just might jump out my chair a scream for joy while simultaneously acknowledging that my Giants are getting the pants beaten off of them. But when it comes to baseball there is only one team i root for and even care about and those are the New York Mets.
I am a slightly above average sports fan. Im not a crazy but i am also not one of those guys that everyone has running around their office trying to strike up conversations about what they think to be the major sports story of the day without having any real grasp about how the game is played or know anything about the past the present or the future of the team they claim to be such a huge fan of. I know my stuff, i root hard for my teams, when they fail it hurts me some, when they succeed i feel that i was integral to their success and when it comes to steroids in sports i will be the first one to call someone a cheater or a liar, ill be the first one to irrationally advocate that they go to jail and ill be the first one to say an asterisk isnt enough next to their name in Cooperstown. I say lets break out the fat sharpies, cross out the whole name and pretend they never existed.
However, and believe me it kills me to say this, as a Mets fan and a baseball fan, Omar, why havent you signed Barry Bonds yet?
I dont know how closely anyone has been following spring training but the good old Mets being just that, Good and Old, have already been wrecked by injuries and we havent even played a full week of games yet. Our outfield is falling apart, as Im typing this im sure Calros Beltran has pulled some kind of muscle in his back or groin, Endy Chavez was probably in a car accident and it wouldnt shock me to find out that Ryan Church is thinking about retiring or some such nonsense. We have no first baseman, we have a terrible bullpen, we have an unproven end of the rotation and to top it all of our starting out field is falling apart faster than (please insert remark about a failed presidential campaign of your choosing)! So what the hell are we going to do about it?
The answer came to me while i was driving to band practice today listening to the FAN (WFAN). I dont remember who the host was and they made the statement in such a matter of fact way at first i wasnt sure if i had heard them correctly and when they failed to continue the discussion i was sure i had misremembered but after thinking about it a little while longer, in the liquor store buying a case of New Castle, and in Daddy’s buying strings, the thought just would not leave my mind. “That is just too perfect,” I said to myself. “He can still hit and hes a free agent, we can platoon him in left and because it doesnt seem like anybody else wants him we can give him 8-10 million dollars for the one year and if it doesnt work it doesnt work, if it does well then World Series rings for everybody!” But then i caught myself. Hes a steroid user, a cheater and a liar, i dont want this kind of fellow on my beloved New York Mets. But i did and i do and i must. We need Barry Bonds. He is the absolute perfect player to solve the Mets outfield problem. he may not make the problem go away but he makes a large problem smaller and thats really all you’re ever looking for when your team has been plagued by injury.
How though do I justify his steroid laden past with my desire for the Mets to win a World Series? I have been thinking about this all day friends and i dont have an answer. I think the Mets should sign Barry Bonds but i also think they shouldnt. You cant justify behavior like Bonds’ by, when your need is great enough, ignoring the fact that he, along with Roger Clemens, is helping to ruin the game you, me and many other people hold so near and dear. thats what being a fan is. you want your team to win at any cost even if that means employing a liar and a cheat but shouldnt you also want your team to act ethically and morally and in the best interests of the sport?
These are all good questions and i wish i had the answers to them because it would make rooting for the Mets this year a lot less difficult. I think, if they do sign him, I’ll be just as unhappy as i would be if the dont sign him.
Such is the life of a Mets fan. You can never win.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
I didnt hate Brett Favre. I do now. Why? Because ESPN insists on convincing me he is the greatest human ever on the face of the planet. I dont think he is. How do you like that ESPN? Let me tell you that ESPN doesnt like that at all. So here’s a poll idiot masses. A certain majority of the population feels hes the greatest quarterback ever in the NFL and if hes the greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL and the NFL is the best thing that has ever been invented since the person who invented the person who invented the NFL then Brett Favre must be the human to end all humans.
And now he’s retiring. What the hell are we all going to do with ourselves. We have three options. 1) We can all move to Green Bay and start a cult in honor of Brett Favre. we will all cultivate a permanent partial beard on our faces and speak in southern accents. we will run around all day throwing touchdowns and picking each other up in fireman carries and then we will be interviewed by ESPN where we will say, “Maybe Ill retire Maybe I wont” a month later we will retire but retire for us means drinking Kool Aid laced-with rat poison, essentially doing for real what ESPN wants us to feel like is happening because Brett Favre is retiring. 2) We can pull up our boot straps and move on with our lives trying to carry on as best as we can all the while knowing there is a little hole in our souls where Brett Favre’s crusty old face used to be. 3) Who really cares about Brett Favre retiring!!!!! he plays football, he doesnt do anything of any real importance but we are treating him like America was being attacked by Nazis and he vanquished them personally and alone. Captain America wanted to help out but Brett Favre brushed him off and said, “No thanks Cap. Me and my buddy Donald Driver an take it from here.” But he didnt. he didnt do anything. He played alot of football for 17 years and then he stopped. why do i need to watch hours of programming devoted to this. i just want some scores, i want a few highlights, i want Barry melrose breaking down hockey everyday instead of every six weeks. I want steven A smith screaming about Shaq and Lebron and KG until his head explodes and I want my football exclusively from Tom Jackson and John Clayton. If Outside the Lines and the Sports reporters are all about Brett Favre this week i am going to start pitching car parts off of an over pass until an ESPN news crew comes to cover the story.
This leads me to a greater question which is: what is ESPN’s problem. Why cant they just relax? they are aware that they arent a real news program right? They do know that there are more important things going on in the world than the NFL Draft and Brett Favre retiring and Cleveland Cavaliers games right? I mean they have to, dont they?
The answer to this question is they have no idea, and now apparently neither do you. and the only reason they treat sports this way is because you want them to. I dont know how it used to be, im only 25 years old, i grew up with ESPN so i have never known what its like to really look forward to a sporting event because its always been right in my face regardless of whether i wanted it there or not. I have always at all times been conscious of the fact that sports is a business and is a business above everything else that might be great about it. I love sports, i grew up loving sports and i hope my kids love sports but you have to have perspective about sports and ESPN doesnt have that and because ESPN doesnt have that we dont have it either. ESPN is a business, i get it, They want to make money, and they make money by having as many people ingest their product as possible. But does ESPN need a Disney weekend? Does it need a cell phone? Does it need to make crappy dramatic television series? the answer to all of these questions is no. Who wouldnt be sooooooo much happier if all ESPN was was ESPN news, Just scores, just highlights, some analysis but nothing you an really object to. No Mel Kiper. Ever. no Jay Bilas. NO NO NO!!!! Chris Bermann. Oh please god no more Chris Bermann, i just cannot take Chris Bermann anymore.
I think this is an easy request ESPN. Just relax. take it easy, have some perspective. I love sports but frankly i also love reading, watching movies and hanging out at my house doing nothing. I understand you want to make money but its obnoxious and not becoming of a tv channel at all. Let me be clear though, ESPN is 100x better than the YES network, but then again ESPN doesnt subject me to Michael Kaye.
Dont get me started on Michael Kaye.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Tuesday was one of those rare days in new music when there are a lot of things coming out that you are interested in, you have the free cash to purchase anything you want, you buy 3 or 4 or 10 records, you get them home, listen to them one after another and they are all great records. Not just, “well, i dont regret buying that” great but legitimately great, like flirting with your top 50 great. Im not saying any of these records are in my top 50 but if in five years im still listening them, they would not look strange amongst the golden tapestry of my top 50. We will take them one by one…
The Black Crowes - Warpaint
What can i say about this record that i havent already said in two of my previous posts this week. There are two misses here, “Wee who see the deep” a Mississippi Queen re-write that never gets off the ground on record and “These Gold in them Hills” which has a lot of good ideas rolling around in it but its obvious they had no way to connect them. their solution just throw them all together and pray that no one notices. However, neither of these songs are bad and they definitely dont ruin the record. there are some classics here, songs that you know are going to be in the live show for years. “Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution,” “Movin’ on Down the Line.” There are a couple of songs that are perfect for sitting on the porch of your giant Day-Glo commune House’s porch smoking, drinking some New Castle passing around a couple of guitars and a pair of bongos. I listened to “Whoa Mule,” at 9 in the morning, at the beach watching the sun shine of the waves and the birds come home over the water and “Locust Street” was obviously written while they were all stoned and drunk, tinkering with a mandolin, writing down lyrics they didnt know were good until they sobered up the next day. This is just rootsy groovy soulful music man. This is the record that the Black Crowes have been trying to make since they took their sound as far out as they could take it with Amorica and we should all get down on our hands and knees and thank the lord they were still around to make it.
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
There was always a kind of unfathomable magic to all of Pavements albums, something you just couldnt wrap your face around. Some songs were pretty and you could sing along and song songs were ugly and Stephen spent most of the songs yelping about nothing in particular and some songs just seemed like genre exercises. Never the less, the sums was always at least relative to its parts and the result of that was always too insane to think about for any real length for time lest (am I using that correctly?) the next time you pick up your guitar everything you play sounds like Summer Babe or Silent Kit . You cant sing along to Real Emotional Trash, you cant even really listen to it for more than two songs consecutively with out going to back to re-listen to them. There is just no rhyme to reason to this record and because of this fact it is just an astounding piece of music. I may like this record better than Warpaint and i am the biggest Black Crowes fan from here to Baltimore. It just cannot be described what tremendous things are being done here and the presence of Janet Weiss, formerly of Sleater-Kinney, adds a foundation to the band that Stephen never had with Pavement. One thing that this record has that Pavement records never had is a sense of direction and purpose, albeit while still reveling in its random psychedelia and sometimes cringe sometimes laugh inducing guitar wanking. Good Times.
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
How many times can Greg Dulli make the same record before it stops being good? Apparently as many times as we let him. Saturnalia is another notch on his moody, slightly dementedly sexual, sometimes overwhelmingly dark but always groovy belt, the only difference this time is the sustained presence of Mark Lanegan. Sometimes he changes the bands name, Afghan Whigs to the Twilight Singers, sometimes he releases an EP of covers instead of an album of covers but sometimes you really need to shake it up and bring in the preeminent baritone of the 1990’s. And who’da thunk it, it works, again, like it always does, for no reason. Every song on the record sounds grossly similar to the ones that were on The Twilight Singer’s “Powder Burns” and his solo record “Amber Headlights,” but in the weirdo world of Greg Dulli if it aint broke, dont fix it and he never fixes it and at the end of every record i find myself turning the record over sliding the needle to the edge and re-listening to the whole thing. Saturnalia is no different. I compare Greg Dulli records to fantasy novels, more specifically fantasy novels that take place within a very expertly detailed and creatively realized realm, think Harry Potter. Starts out a little scary, in the middle it gets a little boring but by the end you are totally submerged in this alternate reality fighting back demons and begging for more. This record is a lot like that. Its starts scary with Mark Lanegans creepy rumble gets a little stale in the middle and by the end you are apologizing to Greg Dulli for making him so insecure about women and checking his website for tour dates and an EP release schedule. I dont know how he does it but he does and i love him for it. There are just Greg Dulli days, when you wake up in the morning, look out the window, sigh and say “god dammit.” Thats when you want your buddy Greg next to you telling you hes got some stuff that will make the day pass faster. he may mean tunes, he may mean cocaine, booze and ladies either way youre going to feel a whole let better until it ends and you start itching for more.
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