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High traffic? Why for?

I'd guess an unexpected downloading frenzy of the Scruffy Shrew, track.

Can anyone give me a good reason to not completely delete my current eMusic "Save For Later" files?

Walking In A Straight Line, The Mayflies USA
Hold On It Hurts, Cornershop
Singles And Sessions 1979 1981, Delta 5
Can You Fly, Freedy Johnston
What Another Man Spills, Lambchop
The Million Colour Revolution, The Pinker Tones
Strange Geometry, The Clientele
Cost of Living, Delbert McClintonThrough Glass Colored Roses: The Best Of The Green Pajamas
Favorite Colours, The Sadies
Jettison, Naked Raygun
Everyone Is Here, Finn Brothers
Man Made, Teenage Fanclub
About A Bird, Peachfuzz
Death By Chocolate, Death By Chocolate
Properties of Sound, The Nines
Exercising The Demons, Big Fuzz
Deep Banana Blackout Release The Grease Live At Irving Plaza, Deep Banana Blackout
ONoffON, Mission of Burma
Pride On Pride, Steve Pride And His Blood Kin
Take Your Flunky And Dangle, Steve Wynn
The Suitcase Sessions, Steve Wynn
Mink Car, They Might Be Giants
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Yo La Tengo

Can anyone give me a good reason to not completely delete my current eMusic "Save For Later" files?

Can You Fly, Freedy Johnston

Man Made, Teenage Fanclub

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Yo La Tengo

The first is my favorite Freedy Johnston album. If you like Teenage Fanclub, Man Made is certainly as good as any of their other albums. And that Yo La Tengo is great, esp if you like their more spaced out sound.

I found out the hard way that emusic won't let you save more than 100 items. You want to delete your whole file?

These have all been in my Save For Later for over a year it seems. I figure if anyone around here can shove me a bit, it might be worth giving some a try, otherwise...

I just don't know if Freedy is for me. I suppose I'll never know if I don't take the plunge.

You would hold "Man Made" up there with "Bandwagonesque"?

I enjoy Yo La Tengo when I spin them but afterwards they evaporate. I couldn't hum a single tune right now from either of the albums I own.

Ha Ha Ha! I'm just seeing this right now (MON. morn)
This reminds me of the montages that Rick D. and the other BLACK HOLE dude used to show on the T.V.s during Firenze Shows.
"What's wrong with being sexy?"
"Oh! sexIST, such a fine line, really"

i also like the suggestion that i might be a SICK FUCK.
Kudos Mr. Mod!

Can You Fly? is much rougher, more 'indie' than his subsequent albums, which became more standard singer-songwriterish.

I don't distinguish much between the individual TFC albums; I like them all equally well.

Memorable tunes is not what YLT is about, especially the later period. The one you cited is one of their more impressionistic albums, and I enjoy that feeling of evaporation. YMMV.

I know what you mean about emusic's Save For Later file. They keep adding new material, and new labels as well, and there's no shortage of stuff to download, so the longer something stays in your file the less likely you are ever to get around to downloading it.

DISRUPTION IN POP MUSIC SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM DISCOVERED

Hey -- howcum the song "Soul Man" has a line saying that the singer was "educated at Woodstock," when the famous music festival occurred two ful years after the song's release? Is this one of those misheard-by-everybody lyrics? Is Sam Prater actually saying "of good stock"? What the heck is going on here?

You would hold "Man Made" up there with "Bandwagonesque"?

I know you're not asking me, but Man-Made is definitely not up there with Bandwagonesque, although it has more memorable tracks than Howdy (for me, anyway) - do you have any of the other albums besides Bandwagonesque? If you're going to download a Teenage Fanclub that you don't already have, I say go for Thirteen (with their cover of Older Guys in the rerelease) and also, for a good primer/best-of 4766 seconds of light is where it's at.

I would also say go for it with the Mayflies USA, a friend turned me on to them when I first moved here with the track The Stepford Wives, not sure if that one's on there, but I would say give em a go.

Cool that the bandwidth was upped, I got kicked out of RTH on the weekend!

Hrrundi:
"I was educated, from good stock, when I start lovin' oh, I can't stop"

from the mouth of babes... i don't think he's talkin' chicken noodle;)

All kudos belong to Gerry Todd for this one and his sense that you would identify! I got a good, guilty laugh out of that clip myself.

>Can You Fly, Freedy Johnston

A decent record. His best, IMHO, is "Never Home". Really a great pop listen all the way through.

>The Best Of The Green Pajamas

It's not bad. This is one of those bands that makes me wish for a make-your-own-best of-collection device. If I had all their records, I'm pretty sure I could do a decent job of compiling such a best-of. I just don't trust their best-of, especially since it didn't have some great tracks that I've heard on the radio in the past. Rat bastards.

>Man Made, Teenage Fanclub

"Songs from Northern Britain" and "Grand Prix" are much better. Man Made was kind of a disappointment. "Howdy" is better, too, in comparison.

>Death By Chocolate, Death By Chocolate

Has some funny moments perfect for compilation-making.

>And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Yo La Tengo

It's excellent, but it's more about moods and ambiences and less about 3 minute pop songs.

At work - but wanted to put this out there - anyone heading out to see The Detroit Cobras at The Khyber tonight with Willowz? I have a feeling a few of you might especially dig Willowz (Dim Mak) - okay, got to go back to work -

The Internet: an amazing tool for the advancement of mankind!

http://www.menwholooklikekennyrogers.com/

I don't buy it, some of those guys just look like Santa, and Tim Allen as Santa. Except for Balloon Animal Kenny (*shiiiiver...!*)

I miss out on all the fun while I'm at work including valuable dugout chatter time!

I would like to nominate a favorite (one of many) name drop usage in a song (Devin Davis' 'Cannons at the Courthouse'):

Before I knew it / I was in the other room, with a rope ladder / hanging from the ceiling... / when, sliding down the rope / came Willie Nelson /
sayin' "son, let's find the party that never ends!" / We smoked some reefer / on the roof of the White House / couldn't wait to get back on the road again...!"

Favorite name drop in a song lyric?

Singles And Sessions 1979 1981, Delta 5

This is great, female-fronted post-punk from Leeds, so they were contemporaries of Gang of Four. Nevertheless, they were sparser and more minimal. I really like this and songs like "Mind Your Own Business" and "Now That You've Gone" are definitely worth your time and attention if you like that sort of thing.

Strange Geometry, The Clientele

This is by far my favorite Clientele album. I enjoy all of their records, but every single other one of their records, while all good listens and pleasant, lacks memorable songs that I remember afterwards (sort of like what you said about YLT) except for this one. Anyway if you like them I would definitely recommend keeping this one.

Jettison, Naked Raygun

While not my favorite Naked Raygun album (that would be Understand?), it's still a must. There's a great cover of "Suspect Device" (to tie several threads together) as well as a great false ending on the last track "Which Side You're On".

ONoffON, Mission of Burma

I much prefer last year's The Obliterati, but this is still worth having if you're a fan. If you don't have Signals, Calls and Marches or Vs, then by all means get those first and listen to this one later.

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Yo La Tengo

This may be my favorite YLT album. I know I'm in the minority here, but I really like their moody, 3rd Velvet Underground album type stuff and this is the best manifestation of that. Also, it's the album that got me into them, so I'm partial to it.