For my first pick, the Rock and Roll Means Well Team is very happy to pick in the 2000-2002 category, the Drive-by Trucker's 2001 double album of rock and roll genius, Southern Rock Opera.
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The rock opera isn't dead; it just smells funny - in this case, like whiskey breath, tour-van stink and the smoking wreckage of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1977 plane crash. In two discs and twenty songs, Dixie's Drive-By Truckers explode the yahoo baggage of 1970s Southern rock in a roaring memoir of growing up white, loud and desperate in the former Confederacy
This album is just so great. I could listen to it over and over again. It's just straight out rock, three guitars that just rip and snarl their way through some of the best rock and rolls songs ever written.
This album has also introduced me to another host of rock and roll bands from the South, as well as opening up my eyes to the great legacy of soul and blues music that came out the South.
Can you explain to me how it is possible that I don't own this album Hanna?
Great pick. Outstanding.
You know what Dis, I could understand that
The MTV UNplugged wasn't the same success that it was following the release of this performance. That album became a beast of it's own in regards to record sales... it reached a whole new audience... almost like the adult contemporary audience was buying up the units. I think the sales and new listeners had brushed of what would have been other listeners.
With the reliease of the movie sountrach for Rush and I think one of the Leathal Weapon... this releiase wasn't really the reliease that Clapton fans were waiting for or antisabating. I could have my time line off but if I remember correctly there was a huge growing demand for Eric to finially put out a blues record (From the Craddle).
Unfortunilty MTV and the record lable missed the boat and left out two of the most important songs from the show. With the death of his son Conor the songs My Fathers Eye's and Circus Left Town were more written about Conor then Tear's in Heaven, which was more written for the Rush movie and allowed him to touch on his emotions about the loss of Conor but know where in the depths of the other two songs.
.... One other not about the recording, I remember for the longest time afterwards that Eric had always performed Layla with the new acoustic arrangment. When he finially did eventually change over to the original electirc version... that opening riff at the show was like a bolt of electircity. A very amazing response from the crowd.
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For my first pick, the Rock and Roll Means Well Team is very happy to pick in the 2000-2002 category, the Drive-by Trucker's 2001 double album of rock and roll genius, Southern Rock Opera.
How does it compare to The Dirty South and Brighter Than Creation's Dark? I especially like the former.
How does it compare to The Dirty South and Brighter Than Creation's Dark? I especially like the former.
I love The Dirty South. Don't get me wrong, 'Where the Devil Don't Stay' is probably my favourite song. But Southern Rock Opera is just an epic 20 song saga that in tells the stories of the writer's lives growing up in North Alabama, as well as tying in a real cool parallel story about the rise and fall of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Just so many epic songs on this one and it just goes and goes.
Truly sets the bar for the modern rock band in my opinion. That is, the ability to put a double album worth of completely good songs. None of this single crap.
Heard the name Drive By Truckers many, many times. Never heard the music. I will be picking this up.
Thanks Pete!
Hanna....'Old Love'.....Perfect song.
Actually, I just bought it. Wife went to Best Buy spur of the moment and I said, "Hey....how about this!".
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The sophomore album from these metal gods was an incredible display with several songs that can be considered metal anthems: War Pigs, Ironman and Fairies Wear Boots. Interesting tidbit about the song 'Paranoid'
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As drummer Bill Ward explains: "We didn't have enough songs for the album, and Tony just played the [Paranoid] guitar lick and that was it. It took twenty, twenty-five minutes from top to bottom." The song was written with no intention of it being a successful hit for the band, only to be a filler on the album.
I don't know why I had never read this before but in my research for this album I found out the following information about lead guitarist Tony Iommi.
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He played guitar left-handed. In an industrial accident at the age of 17 on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory, he lost the tips of the middle and ring finger of his right hand. Iommi considered abandoning music, but his boss (who knew of Iommi's "night job" as a pub band guitar player) encouraged him to reconsider by playing a record by jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, who earned wide acclaim despite limited use of his fretting hand following an injury.
After attempting to learn to play right-handed, Iommi strung his guitars with extra-light strings (using banjo strings, which were a lighter gauge than even the lightest guitar-strings of the time) and wore plastic covers over the two damaged fingers. He fashioned the latter himself, by melting plastic liquid-soap bottles into a ball and then using a soldering iron to make holes into this ball, putting his fingers in while the plastic was still soft enough to be shaped. He then trimmed and sanded away the excess plastic to leave himself with two thimbles, which he then covered with leather, to provide better grip on the strings. Subsequent tips have been custom-made.
This is the reason behind the slower feel to the Sabbath songs. It is not as melodic as Maiden, doesn't have the epic solos of Metallica and doesn't rip your head off and s**t down your throat the way Slayer does. Sabbath, in my opinion, is pure metal. Heavy music that doesn't need to do any of the previously mention items to get your heart pumping and make you want to stand on your feet and throw up your horns.
I will add some youtube later, I am at work and unable to. I am really excited about the rest of this draft. Just the research for a band I am a huge fan of was a blast.
You guys have inspired me to dig a little deeper with my picks and try to unearth some gems that people may never have heard and might want to pick up. Was all set to go with what would have been super obvious choices for my first handful of picks, but screw that!
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The Four Elements select with their 1st round pick, in the 1994-1996 category:
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
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Endtroducing..... is structured completely out of sampled elements, including hip hop, jazz, funk, psychedelia, old television shows, interviews and percussion tracks. The entirety of the album was composed on an MPC60, a machine which Shadow would later pass on to Chief Xcel. The album has been cited in Guinness World Records as being the first album created entirely from sampled sources.
NPR included Endtroducing..... in its list of the top 300 American songs and albums of the 20th century,[2] and Spin placed the album at number 69 in its list of the 100 greatest albums between 1985 and 2005 in June 2005.[3] In 2006, the album was chosen by TIME as one of the 100 best albums of all time.
You guys have inspired me to dig a little deeper with my picks and try to unearth some gems that people may never have heard and might want to pick up. Was all set to go with what would have been super obvious choices for my first handful of picks, but screw that!
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The Four Elements select with their 1st round pick, in the 1994-1996 category:
Team EG (I'll think of something better when my head clears if that is all right) is proud to select in the category of greatest hits/Compilation album, The Essential Heart.
I wanted to provide a different perspective, something people may not have heard or something that isn't necessarily mainstream or popular, but I just had to have Heart somewhere on my list. I am a big fan, I could listen to Heart all day long. This one includes their best stuff.
Crazy On You is my personal favourite. I love the whole arrangement of it.
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Team EG (I'll think of something better when my head clears if that is all right) is proud to select in the category of greatest hits/Compilation album, The Essential Heart.
Well done. Heart songs are fun to play on the guitar.
Well done. Heart songs are fun to play on the guitar.
Can you play the start of Crazy for You? It sounds difficult, but is it?
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
