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Rediscovering Gold: Oldies but Goodies
Calaveth:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 06 Sep 2008, 11:05 ---DEFINITELY agree about Whale. The album after We Care was also very good, and I saw them open for Tricky on his Angels With Dirty Faces tour. They were fantastic live.
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All Disco Dance Must End in Broken Bones? I liked Four Big Speakers, and 2 Cord Song, but I don't think I ever listened to the whole album. I had to check that it actually was an album and not an EP or something.
rynne:
We Care is up. Also included is another mid-90s classic: New Kingdom's Paradise Don't Come Cheap, a sorely underrated stoner-rap album. Allmusic describes it as if Tom Waits made a hip-hop record.
So All Disco Dance Ends in Broken Bones is worth checking out too? I caught Tricky on the Angels with Dirty Faces tour as well, but I don't think Whale opened at my show. (Incidentally, AwDF is another record that never got the respect it warranted.)
Jackie Blue:
I think Tricky did two tours for that album, sort of. I remember seeing him right before it came out and he didn't have an opener (well, there was a DJ) and it was in a small club so that I was about 5 feet away from him, close enough to smell how good the weed in his spliff was.
Then I saw him again maybe 6 months later, after the album came out, and it was with Whale and in a bigger, "fancier" venue. So yeah.
Christophe:
So I was just at Wal-Mart, getting the car's oil changed. For some reason, I had the song "Dial Up" by Ted Leo/Pharmacists in my head, so after the mechanics had just finished working on the car, I popped up "The Tyranny of Distance" on my mp3 player as I drove home.
Holy Hell was that album so Goddamn awesome. I must have listened to it a million times in high school, and as I drove home listening to Biomusicology, I thought about the time I had saw TL/RX live about a bunch of years ago at a cramped youth center near a high school, being at the front of the crowd and being in front of the dinky-ass stage with the band rocking right in front of me, and how I got to talk to Ted afterwards and get my photo taken with him (looking like a 16-yr-old nerd, natch).
Those were the fucking days.
Now I'm listening to TTOD, and man, if there's anything Ted Leo and the Pharmacists should be admired for (other than Ted's songwriting prowess), it's their endurance. Ted must have muscles like Michael Phelps to strum his guitar so insanely fast (like in Parallel or Together), and the drummer probably has sizable guns too. Man, this band was something special to me, and even if I stopped listening to them after Shake the Sheets (and I haven't even bothered to give Living With The Living a try based on how bad the one before was), listening to this album made me realize once more how much Ted Leo rocked back in the days.
Now, you talk about your experiences with an album you hadn't listened to in a while, popped in, and re-realized how great it was.
This was the original thread in the second topic, pre-merging. Just in case anyone was wondering. - Inlander.
Scandanavian War Machine:
i listened to Deltron 3030 for the first time in a long long time today and man it was fucking awesome.
i'd totally forgotten about that record.
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