What's your favorite song at the moment?

[T-RO]

Leonard Cohen is amazing. I like this version of Hallelujah more than Jeff Buckley's, but I also love Buckley's

You are in my zone today. This isn’t my favorite Cohen song but I like. Cohen sounds like Nick Cave here.

 

[T-RO]

This is my fav Cohen song-totally haunting.

 

[Runwildboys]

I’m in my 50’s. Some of my buddies think I must be messed up in some hidden way...that I like Eminem.

I'm 54 and I like him....when I'm in the mood for rap.

 

[T-RO]

A Mt Rushmore band for me, in contemporary music, with Sufjan, LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead

Trout...what do you think of Sufjan’s Carrie & Lowell?

One of the greatest albums ever, IMO...but definitely not background music or party music! It carries to a heavy-hearted place.

 

[T-RO]

Not seeing anything, Ro?

Maybe too sad to post here....now. It’s my birthday...I’ll choose one of his songs that, though still sad, is’nt as heavy.

 

[Melonfeud]

This is my fav Cohen song-totally haunting.

I was totally into this tune T-RO,,,till Suzie took me to the river that turned into a seaweed choked harbour,,,, that was more than my groovitude could hurdle.

 

[Trouty]

Trout...what do you think of Sufjan’s Carrie & Lowell?

One of the greatest albums ever, IMO...but definitely not background music or party music! It carries to a heavy-hearted place.

It is a masterpiece. A pure masterpiece, brother. "Illinoise" is his magnum opus, but this album was so much deeper.

 

[Trouty]

Maybe too sad to post here. It’s my birthday...I’ll choose one of his songs that, though still sad, is’nt as heavy.

Happy birthday, my friend. I'm elated to know you're a fellow Sufjan fan, brotherman. I am fanatical about him

 

[T-RO]

Happy birthday, my friend. I'm elated to know you're a fellow Sufjan fan, brotherman. I am fanatical about him

In the past 5 years...prob my favorite artist. I’m not religious but was earlier in life...love 7 Swans. I predicted to myself he too would lose his religion...as he seems to have mostly done so. Michigan, Illinois appeal to anyone who like pure tune craft.

His previous faith will impact him and be with him forever...as it has for me. Shadow of the Cross.

Perhaps I shouldn’t say he’s left his faith...don’t know that...just seems like it, sorta. And I’ll shut up now about religion.

 

[Trouty]

In the past 5 years...prob my favorite artist. I’m not religious but was earlier in life...love 7 Swans. I predicted to myself he too would lose his religion...as he seems to have mostly done so. Michigan, Illinoise appeal to anyone who like pure tune craft.

Michigan is good, really good. But Illinoise is brilliance. It's Starry Night. It's Anna Karenina. It's The Brothers Karamazov. Seven Swans is Sufjan flirting with a Dylan-phase, but never fully realized, and in Sufjan's acid. Yet still devastatingly great. He's our modern-day Prince, just practicing in a different genre.

 

[T-RO]

Michigan is good, really good. But Illinoise is brilliance. It's Starry Night. It's Anna Karenina. It's The Brothers Karamazov. Seven Swans is Sufjan flirting with a Dylan-phase, but never fully realized, and in Sufjan's acid. Yet still devastatingly great. He's our modern-day Prince, just practicing in a different genre.

Trouty you are gaining serious cred with me!

 

[Trouty]

In the past 5 years...prob my favorite artist. I’m not religious but was earlier in life...love 7 Swans. I predicted to myself he too would lose his religion...as he seems to have mostly done so. Michigan, Illinois appeal to anyone who like pure tune craft.

His previous faith will impact him and be with him forever...as it has for me. Shadow of the Cross.

Perhaps I shouldn’t say he’s left his faith...don’t know that...just seems like it, sorta. And I’ll shut up now about religion.

No, I believe I read he's out of the church, now. Maybe a Pitchfork article, maybe Spin. But I do believe I've read it in the last 2-3 years.

Do you like Elliott Smith??

 

[T-RO]

 

[T-RO]

Do you like Elliott Smith??

Not as familiar.

 

[Trouty]

Not as familiar.

Do yourself a favor and check him out. Make it simple and start with Either/Or. He's Sufjan minus the instrumental/production chops, but still a devastating delivery, and poetic verses, and a haunting voice.

His girlfriend killed him, but his death is still listed as suicide by knife to stomach.

 

[T-RO]

Do yourself a favor and check him out. Make it simple and start with Either/Or. He's Sufjan minus the instrumental/production chops, but still a devastating delivery, and poetic verses, and a haunting voice.

His girlfriend killed him, but his death is still listed as suicide by knife to stomach.

I will check that out...and maybe today.

Here’s a line from Mercury that I think about a lot.

“Where do you run to / Carrier friend”

Sufjan’s mother was named Carrie...and she ran out on Suf and his brothers and sisters, leaving them at a video store. Shattered his life. But I also sense a double entendre since a mother is a “Carrier”...carrying a baby. She carried them as babies...left them as children. Then Sufjan sought her ought as a friend in her last years and death.

 

[SlammedZero]

I'm telling you guys, I can't believe I slept on Snoop Dogg for so long. As a fan of his in the 90's, it really makes me feel guilty.

 

[Trouty]

I can't stand this guy, he reminds me too much of Adam Levine, but this track is rad. Give the whole song a chance, there's a lot going on.

 

[triplets_93]

DEVO

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Great live High Wire by Badlands with the great Jake E Lee