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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Yacht Rock is back with a vengeance. A friend hipped me to this this morning, and I haven't stopped listening.
Young Gun Silver Fox.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

What did you think? I really dig a lot of their older stuff.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Felt all nostalgic after the Temple of the Dog tour news and listened to this. Ah, the early 90s....

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Overall, a \m/.

I still listen to Gibraltar at least a couple times a week. Just a damn good song.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

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Phish @ Wrigley 6.25

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fock this club. I should manayer.

Still excellent.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3olGsQ6tQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunW-2pkfJA


Scott H Biram is an American treasure

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Nice!

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Someone finally put this whole record online. Bill recorded this with a rockabilly-style trio at Albini's house after the untimely demise of the Sonars. The two standout tracks are "Delta 88", a tune Jeff, Bill, and I wrote in the Sonars and "Nashville Wedding" a heartbreaking tale of the breakup of Bill's first marriage that he was still working on when the band broke up. There's a bunch of filler here, like "Mack Daddy" and the dreadful "Zydeco Baby", but it's a worthwhile listen for the other stuff. Rockin' Pharaoh is a hoot, a nod to 50s/60s novelty songs but with some killer guitar work.

http://www.rockinbilly.net/#!rockin--pharoah/nhmyk

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Don't take it personally.

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

new The Dear Hunter album in September.

https://youtu.be/nozJHtuautU

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

I'm digging the new Deive-By Truckers tune, "Surrender Under Protest."

Incidentally, the DBTs are the best American band of the past two decades, yes?

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That's quite a statement. I'm not sure about that. I'd say it's fair to bring them into the conversation though.

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Who else do you put there, JORR? I'd love to hear your selections.

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For starters:

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Against Me! is one of my favorite bands of the last 20 years, but I can appreciate people saying they are kind of a one-note band. It's a note that is right in my wheelhouse.



For sure.

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Well, I think the Flaming Lips are a special band. I wouldn't say I necessarily like them more than Drive-By Truckers, but they do stuff that nobody else does, where as the Truckers are a pretty standard rock band, albeit a damn good one. Furious mentions the White Stripes above. I'd go with them as well. Sleater-Kinney. The Dirtbombs. The Black Lips. The Flying Luttenbachers.

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I hear you.

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Interesting selections. The Flaming Lips, White Stripes and Sleater-Kinney definitely need to be part of the conversation.

Question: Why do you hate Jeff Tweedy?

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I don't hate Tweedy. I think he's a great songwriter. I just prefer him as a more straight forward, what I guess I might call a "pop" artist, rather than a guy who allows the weirdness and noodling of Kotche and Cline to overshadow his songs. I find their contributions to be a distraction from Tweedy's songs. I think Jay Bennett was more important to that band than Tweedy thought he was. To me, Summerteeth is still Wilco's masterpiece. The Whole Love is my favorite from the Cline/Kotche era. I hate Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Maybe my tastes just aren't sophisticated enough.

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How far back would you take this "best American band in the last ____ years"? Flaming Lips have been around since '83.

For the first time, I went and looked at the history of Wilco...I've never been in love with them...I now know they were formed as an offshoot of Uncle Tupelo in 1994. How about that?!

I'd throw Ike Reilly on the list of best things going in the US over the past 20 years, although without huge commercial success. It's been 15 years since Salesmen and Racists came out.

Green Day
Foo Fighters
Black Keys
White Stripes

I do really like Scott H Biram...who will probably become more famous as other bands cover his songs.

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I thought about Ike, but I don't really consider him a band, do you? I think of him more like a singer/songwriter who plays with a band. He'd be comparable to Jackson Browne.

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