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Facetious
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- #11
- Posted: 05/16/2012 14:18
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| Romanelli wrote: | I like this guy!
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Yeah, sometimes when hairymarx1 starts talking nonsense, somebody has to put him back in his place.
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fellow
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- #12
- Posted: 05/16/2012 15:46
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LOVE this record! My favorite country record. Whenever I'm asked if I like country music I respond, "I like Bob Dylan and the grateful dead".
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hairymarx1
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Location: London
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- #13
- Posted: 05/16/2012 21:29
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| lethalnezzle wrote: | | It may be produced to sound like it's bordering on kitsch, and it's undeniable that they excelled in a live surrounding, but I personally feel the quality of the songs alone make this a great album. As a band, you have to draw your live material from somewhere, and there has rarely been a better selection of songs to add to your repertoire than those found on 'American Beauty'. I feel that the production allows the songs to prove themselves. The Dead live is a different proposition, whereby you can listen to a great show and go, "what a great band", but this album, with it's straightforward country sound, showcases great songs. I'd also argue that no music is "pointless". Music may be aimless, meandering, or simply mean very little to you. But never is it "pointless". |
Ok, aimless and meandering - that's a good description of this album.
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Mr. Shankly
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Age: 52
Location: Auburn, Washington
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- #14
- Posted: 05/17/2012 02:21
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I tried to like the Grateful Dead. I really did, and since I like a little mellow twang in my life, I gave this album a spin. Sorry. It just doesn't do much for me.
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kidamnesiac
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- Posted: 05/17/2012 02:30
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you have to listen to it 3 times before you like it
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Yourselfisntsteam
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- Posted: 05/17/2012 02:33
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Its a bunch of simple folk songs essentially. There are many albums out there that could fill the same aesthetic space as this one in a persons music collection. I don't blame Hairymarx for his opinion, in many ways its correct. However for me this album just really works. I really enjoy the interplay between the guitars, bass and sometimes mandolin on some of these songs, Friend of the Devil in particular (song is pretty much 3 melodies, vocal, guitar and mandolin at once, bass sounds like its playing a melody at times to). Those sorts of layers of interlocking melodic parts over simple chord progressions gives a lot of replay value while I try and figure out what each instrument is doing. Other tracks like Brokedown Palace just have sweet melodies and those endearing sort of sloppy vocal harmonies. And of course Ripple is the greatest thing ever.
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