regiolanthe
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| Traveling Wilburys? What gives? You can get just about anything you please on E-bay. - as evidence by the 45 hits for the TWs. | |
| The Best Live album Don't have too many live albums, but I do enjoy Maceo Parker's Life On Planet Groove | |
| Records of the Year 2003 Okay - another response to ROTY - just got Blur's "Think Tank" for Valentine's day, and I just can't get past the ballads (Out of Time, Good Song, Sweet Song, Battery In Your Leg). I'm sure I have to listen to the other tracks more, but the first ... | |
| Good Pop Interpreters There'an album by Dennison Witmer called "Recovered" released last year or the year before. It's a compilation of really good covers of 70's pop (SoCal Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac - also Carole King, Neil Young and Big Star and others). Many are... | |
| Records of the Year 2003 Okay - weighing in with a second record of the year. An XMAS gift, so kind of late on giving a good listen - but Belle & Sebastian's Dear Catastrophe Waitress" is fantastic. I'd given them a spin several years back with "The Boy With the Arab ... | |
| under $300 bookshelfs: does excitement exist? I was impressed when I auditioned the Monitor Audio Bronze-B1's (about $300 retail). There's a comparison test of several bookshelf speakers at http://www.monitoraudiousa.com/reviews/soundandvision.html (although Athena's are not in the review). T... | |
| Do You Remember Your First Music Purchase? Oh - and Seandtaylor99 (way back up in response 2) - of course this fellow (sort-of) Brit remembers the Wombles ... I womble free all the time, and am pretty common...For s... and giggles, you can relive your past with the womble title clip. | |
| Do You Remember Your First Music Purchase? Oh - and yes, I still have it (Wings Over America) | |
| Do You Remember Your First Music Purchase? Technically, I think it was some UK top of the pops collections (covers of current hits by some "house" band) - similar to "Now That's What I Call Pop" nowadays, except for not the real artists. Can't remember what the series was called; but they ... | |
| The Best Inexpensive Wines Available Now Tropical treat recently tasted - Yalumba Viognier"On the crisp side, with pretty honeysuckle and spice notes around a nice core of pear and citrus flavors, finishing bright." - 88 Points Wine Spectator May 15, 2003"Not particularly good at making ... | |
| Anyone still do insightful or intelligent lyrics? Clarification RE M Newell ...Um, non-dyslexically, that would be GLE for Greatest Living Englishman | |
| Anyone still do insightful or intelligent lyrics? To CDelplato RE XTC,If you enjoy XTC (and looking at your threads, I can see that they are one of your favorites), I highly recommend that you pick up Martin Newell's "Greatest Living Englishman" (unless you already have it). He's a bit of an ecce... | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? Okay ... my second ONE all time favorite love song (brought to mind from thread on intelligent lyrics) ...Billy Bragg - The Fourteenth of February (from William Bloke):I wish that I could remember the first moment that we metIf only I could rememb... | |
| Anyone still do insightful or intelligent lyrics? Forgot to nominate Billy Bragg (speaking of Wilco) | |
| Anyone still do insightful or intelligent lyrics? Some of my nominations:XTC continue to be some of the wittiest lyricists around (okay - so they've been around for close to 30 years, but they're still going)Martin Newell (read poems on his website)Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera)Martin Phillips (The C... |