Midnight Special
Young Galaxy - Swing Your Heartache
Sunday June 10, 2007 at 9:11am
If You Like the Sound of Brazil
I think you'll like this podcast. A friend of mine sent it to me the other day, great listen. Os Mutantes!
Friday June 8, 2007 at 1:55pm
Bands Destined for, but Never Reaching, Greatness
We all know of bands that are considered great, and in personal opinion you consider that they're good, but have never put together an album that delivers actual musical greatness. I'm not talking about bands that we don't get - for example, I'm just not a big fan of the Grateful Dead, I've tried and tried to listen but I just don't see it. Personal tastes vary for a variety of reasons, and I'm not going to say that the Dead weren't great, but I will say that I don't see it.
No, this is more about bands that you kept thinking would reach some sort of significant apex with their next recording output, and just never did. They made music you liked, but not music you loved. In short, even though you may be glad that you included them in your musical listening experiences, but if you had never heard them, you don't really think it would have been that great of loss.
A band I've been listening to again recently fits this category for me - The Replacements. I liked them in the 1980s, had them on both vinyl and then on tape, but I never bought any CDs of theirs. I recently bought a compilation album of their stuff, and it's good - but not great, and it made me wonder, what didn't click? They were so close...
Does any particular band strike you the same way - you'd listen to their new offerings each time, expecting eventual greatness, but it never happened, at least for your ears?
