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[Jack Manfred]

So Tower Records is going out of business. I've already hit them up a couple times. They're going to gasp around for another month or so, like the fish at the end of that Faith No More video, slowly lowering prices until the final curtain falls.

I'm fairly current with new music. I've got podcasts that keep me up to date on new releases and hot bands. I know most of the classics. I don't need to be told to buy Revolver or Exile on Main Street. Plus, it's not like it's hard to find 70s rock. Even if beer and truck commericals aren't using it like they used to, it's on the radio in every market in the country. But are there any "classic rock" albums I actually need? Any that don't sound overplayed and cliched by now? I was thinking of picking up The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East. Are there any others?

Oh, and no Grateful Dead or Yes. I'm not in the market for patchoulli or twelve-sided dice.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
So Tower Records is going out of business. I've already hit them up a couple times. They're going to gasp around for another month or so, like the fish at the end of that Faith No More video, slowly lowering prices until the final curtain falls.

I'm fairly current with new music. I've got podcasts that keep me up to date on new releases and hot bands. I know most of the classics. I don't need to be told to buy Revolver or Exile on Main Street. Plus, it's not like it's hard to find 70s rock. Even if beer and truck commericals aren't using it like they used to, it's on the radio in every market in the country. But are there any "classic rock" albums I actually need? Any that don't sound overplayed and cliched by now? I was thinking of picking up The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East. Are there any others?

Oh, and no Grateful Dead or Yes. I'm not in the market for patchoulli or twelve-sided dice.

I used to love Tower Records that big assed one on Newbury St. in Boston. I used to wander that for hours in college.

What about Boston? [the group] or Rush? mmmpf. Or eighties music? Like Til Tuesday or Aimee Man or The Cure. or old Chicago.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Fugee
Look again after your sinuses stop throbbing. Those are not only fake. They are bad fake.

OK. Good thing I didn't hang around work to try to accomplish anything if I'm that off.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
look in phone book for card store in your town. go there. pull out a $20 bill and tell the guy you will pay $20 for those 2 rookie cards. he will order them if he doesn't have them.

is life so tough?

I was hoping to get them off ebay, as finding my local card store was more effort....i just wanted them to come to my door. I looked on ebay already and there were 10million different cards that all said rookie for those two players and i couldn't tell what was "THE" rookie card.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I can ask? my friend at my prior firm who works in the mailroom and sells baseball cards on e-bay. and let you know?

Hi bunny!!! I missed you.

thanks....i would appreciate that.

Sorry, haven't been around much, been cultivating my life of leisure, before someone actually checks and confirms I have my spinster card.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
So Tower Records is going out of business. I've already hit them up a couple times. They're going to gasp around for another month or so, like the fish at the end of that Faith No More video, slowly lowering prices until the final curtain falls.

I'm fairly current with new music. I've got podcasts that keep me up to date on new releases and hot bands. I know most of the classics. I don't need to be told to buy Revolver or Exile on Main Street. Plus, it's not like it's hard to find 70s rock. Even if beer and truck commericals aren't using it like they used to, it's on the radio in every market in the country. But are there any "classic rock" albums I actually need? Any that don't sound overplayed and cliched by now? I was thinking of picking up The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East. Are there any others?

Oh, and no Grateful Dead or Yes. I'm not in the market for patchoulli or twelve-sided dice.

here's a few things that could come out today and still sell.

• David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust; Diamond Dogs and I would get Aladdin Sane.

These are all great start to finish. and probably have little you will hear on classic rock. Do you really listen to a classic rock station?

Now, and this one you have to trust me on- buy,

• Roxy Music: Country Life

Roxy is remembered as a "2-hit wonder" with Love is the Drug and Both ends Burning. those were after the first 4 albums. the first 4 albums were a band that didn't belong on the radio, and mostly wasn't.

the first two, Roxy music and For Your Pleasure include Eno in the band. There are some great songs, but some esoteric masturbatory stuff too. The third, Stranded, has some great stuff, and is all pretty good- but it's weird good.

the 4th Album, Country Life, hits on all strides. It's a top 10 favorite album ever for me.

Bryan Ferry has the "bored rich euro- trash" act just coming out- and before he gets to be a joke. He was still dating Jerry Hall- and I think she's on the cover:



bonus- a friend want to borrow my LP overnight- even though i know he hated the music. Know any other 70s album cover that make you want to TCB?

there are alternate "cleaned up" covers with just trees, or a close up of the girl's face.

And it includes the lines:

Don't want to hear bout etiquette,
from glossy magazines.
why should i try to talk correct,
like they do in other scenes.

say no more about imagery,
you starting to confuse.
just make an offer of more romance,
of course I can't refuse.

which i really like for some reason. I think because i first was turned on to Roxy as a bored early teen in a depressing beat suburb, and these lines made me think my future could be exciting with smart parties. and I don't blame Ferry for the disappointment of how my life actually turned out.


And the song Prarie Rose is really good.

Seriously, buy this album. Don't buy a greatest hits. If you like this consider the first 3.

p.s. get the first Was (Not Was) -self titled. Early 80s, but really cool.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
But are there any "classic rock" albums I actually need? Any that don't sound overplayed and cliched by now? I was thinking of picking up The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East. Are there any others?

Hmm. Some of these are colored by misty water-colored memories of nostalgia, but here are the ones that immediately popped into my head:

Chicago Transit Authority. Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic. Cheap Trick Live at Budokan. Rainbow. Springsteen's Born to Run (skip the title track to avoid overplayed and cliched). Patti Smith's Horses.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
So Tower Records is going out of business. I've already hit them up a couple times. They're going to gasp around for another month or so, like the fish at the end of that Faith No More video, slowly lowering prices until the final curtain falls..

Is the online store part of the entity that's bankrupt and being broken up?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?


So pensive.

Your last two submissions have totally made up for your lackadaisical attitude with regard to this project.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
She's wondering where her clothing went.
These are all starting to look like the same chick. How about one with real boobs now and then?

Shut up.

TM

[nononono]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
She seems like a real person who is very enthusiastic and kinda fun, which is sexy. And she's attractive on top of that. Airbrushed models look sort of plastic, which is not real, and not-real is not sexy to a lot of people (including me).

I see the stunning stupidity as a big drawback, but to each his or her own.

But she gets airbrushed all the time! And to be clear, as I said yesterday, I think she's cute but am still mystified why people would want or expect her to be anything more than she is. I don't think her legs need to be up to her neck for her to be cute, but she's not [insert some model-du-jour here] - she's just fine.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by nononono
But she gets airbrushed all the time! And to be clear, as I said yesterday, I think she's cute but am still mystified why people would want or expect her to be anything more than she is. I don't think her legs need to be up to her neck for her to be cute, but she's not [insert some model-du-jour here] - she's just fine.

that is the kicker. she's cute but not celebrity gorgeous...she's not like Gwynth Paltrow all regal and elegant and well bred. She's country WTrash and she's dumpy looking...although she looks great now, compared to her baby weight stage.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
So Tower Records is going out of business. I've already hit them up a couple times. They're going to gasp around for another month or so, like the fish at the end of that Faith No More video, slowly lowering prices until the final curtain falls.

I'm fairly current with new music. I've got podcasts that keep me up to date on new releases and hot bands. I know most of the classics. I don't need to be told to buy Revolver or Exile on Main Street. Plus, it's not like it's hard to find 70s rock. Even if beer and truck commericals aren't using it like they used to, it's on the radio in every market in the country. But are there any "classic rock" albums I actually need? Any that don't sound overplayed and cliched by now? I was thinking of picking up The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East. Are there any others?

Oh, and no Grateful Dead or Yes. I'm not in the market for patchoulli or twelve-sided dice.

Some of these may be obvious...

The Allman Brothers Live at Ludlow's Garage
The Allman Brothers Live at American University
The Allman Brothers' extended version of Eat a Peach (second disc is great live material)
The Band's extended version of Music from Big Pink
Obscured by Clouds (underrated)
Black Sabbath Vol. 4 (...cocaine!)
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (height of crazy 70s arena/psychedelic metal)
Powerage (the best AC/DC record... really, this is not dumbass AC/DC... this is great boogie shit)
Black and Blue (Hand of Fate - best Stones tune nobody listens to)
Some Girls (believe it or not, some people don't own this)
On the Road (the Glad/Freedom Rider is spectacular)
Tonight's the Night
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Rust Never Sleeps (before anyone says "Everyone has that," read again... I'm not talking about Live Rust)

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
I looked on ebay already and there were 10million different cards that all said rookie for those two players and i couldn't tell what was "THE" rookie card.

I probably paid attention to baseball cards a couple years longer than Ty, by virtue of being a couple years younger. Or maybe I held on to the belief a bit longer than Ty that they would bring back the bubble gum in the card packs.

My recollection is that sometime in the mid/late 80s, the card market was really taking off. Before then there was Topps. And Fleer was really second rate, and then Donruss joined the business as well. Topps was generally recognized as the leading card manufacturer, and the card they produced in their annual set was "the" rookie card.

But baseball cards took off like dot.coms in the late 1990s, and a bunch of other companies started producing the cards as well, and multiple sets each year--rookies, traded, updates, special features, premium, 3-D, foil-lined, holographic, etc. There were so many different cards, series, manufacturers, etc., that there was no longer a "the" card. Maybe there's been a shakeout, but I suspect you won't find anything that's universally recognized as "the" rookie card for someone whose first season was in 2005.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
first CD great.

second CD, not so much.

third, live CD, no idea.

Live CD better than the other two. Incredible live band. Heavy, too.