Loaded vs. American Beauty

or freedom/ragged glory 1989/1990 neil made me want to.

Boomer comebacks 87-89:
Graceland
Freedom
Oh Mercy
Traveling Wilburys
Permanent Vacation
Steel Wheels

what else?

btw Shakey I saw what you did to Paul Simon there. But it ain't the proper thread.

haha yeah I'm being a little challopsy but there's some grain of truth there (and we've discussed it elsewhere). Certainly Neil, Lou, and Bob didn't draw on the same kind of resources Simon did for Graceland - a LOT of people's stuff went into the making of that record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmT6udys8Tc

I thought that the drumming was way more boring on Ragged Glory than on Freedom. I swear to God that every song seemed to be at the same tempo on Ragged Glory. "Over and Over" indeed.

ragged glory was awesome.

I still liked it a lot, but liked Freedom more.

can we count Cosmic Thing in that list? (even though they're punk & not boomer lol)

there's also George Harrison's Cloud 9

ugh not a good one

yeah, but it probably introduced him as a solo artist to a lot of people, right?

a lot of people under the age of 40...?

i'm sure that hearing "got my mind set on you" was one of the first george harrison solo joints i heard.

tho i may have heard "this song is just six words long" by weird al first, haha

would Permanent Vacation qualify as a boomer comeback?

Of course technically, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Bob Dylan AND George Harrison aren't really boomers. Neil Young comes closest, I think.

yeah, more like "boomer-approved 60s legend" comebacks

i'm sure that hearing "got my mind set on you" was one of the first george harrison solo joints i heard.

This and the Wilburys were great gateways to all kinds of sixties rock.

ehh not quite...got my mind set on you wz a jam when I wz seven tho

(not that I'm arguing - Graceland is better than everything mentioned on this thread so far, except for maybe Loaded)

― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Holy shit, you have to be kidding me.

not at all, Graceland is impeccable work

When the Touch of Grey video came out it was actually the first Dead song I ever heard and I was totally shocked - I thought that they would have sounded like Black Sabbath based on all the skull images and the band's name.

heh me too. i'm guessing this was a pretty common reaction.

(by kids)

I think I was 12 when it came out so yeah

this thread has been all about reminiscing about MTV in the late 80s when we were all wee ones.... :D

(today at least)

let's get back on topic
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wq91zQyc2yg/SI3FUMCKaMI/AAAAAAAAAs0/vUAjfZDLnAI/s400/steve+howe+04.jpg

That guy didnt play on Graceland.

he's better than Creedence though.

Finding out that George Harrison was in the Beatles was huge for me.

That guy didnt play on Graceland.

he did play left field for the Dodgers tho

I just thought of him as some Kenny Loggins-style beardo.

that's awesome

shakey mo you rate graceland as a better album than american beauty

its songs better than the songs on american beauty

just making sure I read you right before I say "wtf"

i sense a poll coming on

I have never willfully given much thought to American Beauty (see post way up there re: my Dead exposure) whereas I listen to Graceland all the time and have pretty much ever since it came out so yes

basically if it contains Bob and Phil's shitty ass singing, I am turning it off

like you know how you can't handle Fogerty YELLING AT YOU? well I can't handle the Dead's I AM WHEEZING OFF KEY AT YOU

yeah I feel you, that held me off the dead for many years (after a v. young pothead "I'm supposed to like these guys" interest in them phase) - but yeah, the songs on American Beauty just tower over anything on Graceland in my opinion

i like jerry's voice and i'm not really a dead fan

he sounds sad and exhausted and makes me blue

hey its rough being a fat junkie

be nice

as the old saying goes, do not speak ill of The Dead
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lol maybe! i don't know too many fat junkies. to maintain that weight while being that high must've required some hard-core calorie cramming

shakey mo you rate graceland as a better album than american beauty

^he also rates it higher than fragile, close to the edge, funhouse, every vu album, and every other album that has been mentioned on this thread. I'll have some of what he's been smoking.

haha okay I don't rate it higher than EVERY Velvets album (forgot they had all been mentioned). Funhouse, eh its good and groundbreaking and scary and everything but I def. listen to Graceland more.

also I am almost out of what I have been smoking, sorry

basically if it contains Bob and Phil's shitty ass singing, I am turning it off

― emotionally abusive jowls (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 27, 2010 4:04 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Phil only sang one song his whole career!

sings plenty of backup tho, right?