Charley Rogulewski
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To start things off...I certainly don't think so. I came across this article today on Crawdaddy.com that basically compares My Morning Jacket and their frontman Jim James to Neil Young. How flattering, considering James in a recent Spin cover story explained how much Young's Harvest influenced him.
However I don't really agree with it that much. I can see how both blended genres...although I feel Neil Young's sound is way more specific, while My Morning Jacket run a gamut of musical flavors and sound a hell a lot more sloppy.
I wanted to get some Moggers opinion on this topic.
The article goes on to say...
The muse speaks through Young and James with the same voice. People talk about the similarity of their metallic wails, somehow both angelic and rustic. But dissecting their voices reveals the contrasting nature of their artistic methods.
How much weed did this writer smoke before writing this?
You'd think Coldplay would spend the summer in Europe like most bands, enjoying stops along the French Riviera, because they have the dough to yacht it up in Cannes. But, instead the foursome is spending the summer touring the muggy U.S. The band will kick off their tour in Philadelphia on June 29th. And while most bands try this new trend of greening up their tour, Coldplay don't seem to be riding the lowering carbon footprint wave as they are stopping almost in every major U.S. city.
Some ticket go on sale May 16th and 17th, with the rest for sale on June 14th. Viva La Vida hits stores on a few days later on June 16th.
I went to see how I could score tickets to the free Madison Square Garden show on June 23d via the band's Web site. It says something about having to unlock band videos in order to score the tickets. However, when I tried to sign up, my computer didn't do much. Why does it have to be so complicated? People should just show up at the venue that day and make a charge for seats.
Coldplay tour dates:
June 23: New York City, NY; Madison Square Garden
June 29: Philadelphia, PA; Wachovia Center
July 2: Washington, DC; Verizon Center
July 3: Hartford, CT (XL Center)
July 5: Detroit, MI (The Palace of Auburn Hills)
July 6: Cleveland, OH (Quicken Loans Arena)
July 8: St. Paul, MN (Xcel Energy Center)
July 9: Kansas City, MO (Sprint Center)
July 10: Oklahoma City, OK (Ford Center)
July 12: Phoenix, AZ (Jobbing.com Arena)
July 19: Las Vegas, NV (MGM Grand Garden Arena)
July 21: Sacramento, CA (ARCO Arena)
July 24: San Jose, CA (HP Pavilion)
July 27: Pemberton, BC (Pemberton Festival)
July 29: Edmonton, AB (Rexall Place)
July 30: Calgary, AB (Pengrowth Saddledome)
August 1: Winnipeg, MB (MTS Centre)
August 3: Omaha, NE (Qwest Center)
August 4: Chicago, IL (United Center)
October 20: Montreal, QC (Bell Centre)
October 21: Ottawa, ON, (Scotiabank Place)
October 26: East Rutherford, NJ (Izod Center)
October 29: Toronto, ON (Air Canada Centre)
October 30: Toronto, ON (Air Canada Centre)
November 3: Boston, MA (TD Banknorth Garden)
November 11: Atlanta, GA (Philips Arena)
November 18: Houston, TX (Toyota Center)
November 19: Dallas, TX (American Airlines Center)
November 21: Denver, CO (Pepsi Center Arena)
November 22: Salt Lake City, UT (Energy Solutions Arena)
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they aren't coming to st. louis. i see how it is.
they probably can't lower their carbon footprint because they need tight secuirty for gwenyth.
y'know - i just heard the new coldplay "single" yesterday for the first time, and it's probably all old news by now, what with the speed of the internet and all - but i have to say, i wasn't really enjoying it. i'm not a huge coldplay fan, but i do like to listen once in awhile - and this new one - violet hill - just rubbed me totally the wrong way. aside from making me think of bands like Foreigner at times, it also seemed to say "hi, we're coldplay... listen to how we can totally rock out, but look we're still sensitive, and now we can end the song."
i agree mocha. it's not as gut-wrenching as previous ditties like clocks and the scientist
Well this is a first, but then with Radiohead firsts are the norm. Thom Yorke isn't exactly telling Radiohead fans to go out and buy the band's The Best Of album. Why? "We haven't really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose?" Yorke rationalizes.
Back it up though and you might remember that Radiohead's The Best Of album is the final album fulfillment on the band's record contract with their former label EMI , which didn't end on good terms. The album, available as a one-disc and double-disc is scheduled for June 2nd release in the UK and June 3rd in the US.
"Personally I just wanted to forget about it, Yorke told The Word in regards to the EMI contract obligation. "It didn't feel right. And now it's like when you move house: you don't want to peer through the window and see what they've done with the wallpaper because it will only upset you."
"There's nothing we can do about it," Yorke admits about the out-of their-hands release. "The work is really public property now anyway, in my head at least. It's a wasted opportunity in that if we'd behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good."
Does this mean he also doesn't want us to buy the accompanying The Best Of music videos DVD ?
The not-so good The Best Of tracklist (according to Yorke):
DISC ONE
01 "Just"
02 "Paranoid Android"
03 "Karma Police"
04 "Creep"
05 "No Surprises"
06 "High And Dry:"
07 "My Iron Lung"
08 "There There (The Boney King of Nowhere.)"
09 "Lucky"
10 "Fake Plastic Trees"
11 "Idioteque"
12 "2+2=5 (The Lukewarm.)"
13 "The Bends"
14 "Pyramid Song"
15 "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
16 "Everything in Its Right Place"
17 "Optimistic"*
DISC TWO
01 "Airbag"
02 "I Might Be Wrong"
03 "Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased.)"
04 "Let Down"
05 "Planet Telex"
06 "Exit Music (For A Film)"
07 "The National Anthem"
08 "Knives Out"
09 "Talk Show Host"
10 "You"
11 "Anyone Can Play Guitar"
12 "How To Disappear Completely"
13 "True Love Waits"
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Is it just me or does that album cover look like a take on Pink Floyds Wish You Were Here?
I find that most Radiohead fans have everything by them all ready, so...the......is.......no
point.......in.............buying......................................no, they'll get this as well.
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i think neil would approve of that kind of weed inspired wordsmithery
it would take a long and storied career with massive variety from album to album and various bands/supergroups for jim james to even begin this discussion
he's on the new bobby bare, jr. record, which is awesome if you haven't heard it
We can check back in 30 years time- Comparisons are a headache
I dunno...some of those old Crazy Horse recordings from Uncle Neil are pretty sloppy, too. Comparisons are never 100% accurate, but I think this is a pretty good one...even though that excerpt from the Crawdaddy article does make my head hurt.