So I've been lax in posting here, but I figure this may be somewhat interesting to some of you out there. I pretty much addressed all my notes from the show this week during the actual broadcast. In the interest of trying to be... interesting I've attached what I wrote up for the seventh show, which is more extensive.
Enjoy, hopefully!
Show notes from 09/28/2006
| Live | Rattlesnake - 4:52 | Live is a band that got almost too weird for mainstream on “Secret Samadhi,” the followup to their breakthrough “Throwing Copper.” While Lakini’s Juice and Freaks were the singles, the best song is arguably Rattlesnake, a brooding rocker with a dirge-like quality that launches from mundane musings into soaring pronouncements about return to nature and touching something primal with the assertion “in another place, in another time, I’d be driving trucks, my dear / I’d be skinning hunted deer.” |
| Silverchair | Without You - 5:17 | This song kind of combines the things I liked about Creed and sheds the things that were annoying and sanctimonious about them. Silverchair’s musicianship is comparable (if a little more pop-rock) to Creed/Alter Bridge, but I think this song is noteworthy because no one thought they had staying power after the rawness of Frogstomp and the sophomore slump of Freak Show. |
| Robert Plant | Tin Pan Valley - 3:46 | What can you say about Robert Plant that hasn’t already been said? This album is a fantastic collection of songs – See also All The King’s Horses and Dancing in Heaven – but Tin Pan Valley is clearly the best. It recalls his glory days in Zeppelin (both lyrically and musically), and refers to a fairly hermit-like existence. His lyrics still have some of the near-goofy mystical tones that they attained in Zeppelin IV days, and I wouldn’t change a thing. |
| Dredg | Spitshine - 3:34 | Dredg’s Catch Without Arms album was my #1 album of 2005. They tightened up their at-times rambling sound displayed on El Cielo into a hooky attack powered by haunting vocals and innovative, syncopated drum patterns. Spitshine is IMO the emotional crescendo of the record, and remains my favorite track on the album. |