@EsotericCD @Political_Beats Nice! Can’t wait. Official meaning studio albums, or also live compilations like Europe 72 and Reckoning? I can wait to find out, just curious.
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Jon Spruce
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@Political_Beats (keep in mind, all I do in my spare time is listen to random Dead shows, and I have quite literally *heard every single one* btw 1966-1978, and tons afterwards as well. So this is a hard one for me to tackle.)
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I think I'm finally ready to discuss the Grateful Dead on @Political_Beats. Just their "official album discography." I think I finally have formulated an approach that will do them justice.
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@EsotericCD Frost has turns of phrases that have entered the American idiom without crediting him, like folklore. So he gets my vote.
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It's Eliot, Plath or Frost.
Democritus Sr@DemocritusSr
Who was the greatest American poet of the 20th century?
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@EsotericCD I love The Band version of this song — I never knew it was a Stevie Wonder song. Thank you!
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The single greatest Stevie Wonder song that Stevie never recorded himself. Half of my favorite '60s artists agreed, and did their own versions. But it's always gonna be the Four Tops: youtube.com/watch?v=eaXGBG…
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What film were you surprised to learn was from that particular director?
For example, I was surprised to hear Irvin Kershner did Robocop 2 in addition to The Empire Strikes Back. Also, that Wolfgang Petersen did Enemy Mine, in addition to Das Boot.
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@Gibboanxious I also think the way the film was structured with about four timelines/plots blended together made it impossible to cast younger actors. And yeah, this doesn’t look good but what do you want? Less DeNiro? Less Pesci? Not me.
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As much as I love The Irishman, this scene should have stayed on the cutting room floor.
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@divalectics And Peter Cushing from the Hammer studio movies was the other big star.
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the cast of STAR WARS is so funny by 1977 standards. it is just not the group of actors a studio would’ve chosen to on-purpose make the film so seismically significant that will change everything: the director’s friend, a nepo baby, guy from a soap commercial, and alec guiness
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@JoyceCarolOates Which version/publication do you read for the Journal? I switch back and forth between Damion Searles’s version and Odell Shepard.
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also spent hours on a trans-continental flight reading Henry David Thoreau's Journal in loving detail confident that probably no one anywhere even in an alternative universe was reading the words I was reading at that time.
"if a dog comes after you, whistle for him."
"there is no remedy for love but to love more."
"each man's world is but a clearing in the forest."
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates
I've taken to a very niche occupation: reading sections of novels that no one reads, taking time with background passages that professors who are familiar with classics routinely skip over. all the descriptions at the start of "Madame Bovary"--amazing whale minutiae in "Moby Dick"--most tedious passages in "Ulysses" (Irish politicians, old feuds)--almost hallucinatorily precise descriptions of landscape in Paul Bowles. knowing that NO ONE ELSE is reading these passages is a weird sort of pleasure. it is good to do useless things often.
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Paul McCartney says fans deserve to hear the songs they paid for, which is why he's never fully embraced Bob Dylan's approach to rearranging classics or playing obscure tracks live.
"I've been to see a couple of shows of Bob's, and I couldn't tell what song he was doing. Now that's a bit much, because I know his stuff. I get it if he doesn't want to do 'Mr. Tambourine Man.' Maybe he’s fed up with that, but I would like to hear it. And I've paid."
consequence.net/2026/05/paul-m…
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can't think of a single cover of a Beatles song that is better than the original
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@fender_belly Got to get into the Never-Ending Tour. Dylan from about 1993-1999 is some of the best Dylan, love 90s Dylan.
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The 1990s had not been particularly kind to Bob Dylan. He began the decade with Under the Red Sky, a star-studded record with some strong songs that might be best remembered for “Wiggle Wiggle,” a nursery rhyme from hell.
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Name a postseason hero whose career is remembered through one October only.
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@EsotericCD And he was a much better piano and organ player than people give him credit for!
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@EsotericCD I keep going back to ‘71 too. You’re right, it’s Pigpen in his glory. A recommendation: 3/18/71 at the Fox in St Louis. A very emotional Wharf Rat and the only Caution from 1971.
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Man, there's just something agelessly agreeable about the Grateful Dead in 1971. Not pushing out too far, just keeping it square in the zone.
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Favorite Billy Joel deep track?
Pop Base@PopBase
Happy 77th birthday to the legendary Billy Joel.
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@TheExtremeMusi1 Sometimes I’m not in the mood for No Time to Think on Street Legal.
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I'm enjoying one of my favorite albums, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but once again, I'm skipping over "Within You."
Are there any albums you adore, despite disliking one particular song???
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Who’s the greatest detective of all time?
A) Basil of Baker Street
B) Perry Mason
C) Suspicious Wife
D) Monk
E) Scooby-Doo
F) Columbo
G) Axel Foley
H) Jim Rockford
I) Inspector Gadget
J) Sherlock Holmes
K) Batman
L) Dick Tracy
M) Nancy Drew
N) Comment another detective ✍️
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