3 posts tagged “epic”
Audio: Share your favorite track from a live album.
Submitted by -Lisa.
How about this classic, the last song on Rush "Exit.. Stage Left"? It doesn't get any more progotastic than this.
Rollling Stone magazine has posted a preview of the forthcoming Yo La Tengo (scheduled for release September 12th) album "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass" which sounds like it could be another epic masterpiece like I Can Feel the Heart Beating As One or And Then Nothing Turned Inside-Out.
Beginning with the snarling, ten-minute guitar jam "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind," the indie vets veer through Vince Guaraldi-influenced R&B ("Mr. Tough"), country-pop confections ("Sometimes I Don't Get You"), uptempo crunch ("I Should've Known Better") and the more familiar ambient sounds of their recent albums ("I Feel Like Going Home"). On "Mr. Tough," infectious brass is followed by bassist James McNew's winning falsetto, imploring, "Don't you think we've suffered enough?/Meet me on the dance floor." And "Black Flowers" pairs horns and strings -- along with bells and gorgeous harmonies from drummer-vocalist Georgia Hubley.
Ten minute guitar jam? Like that. Guitar theatrics were noticeably absent from 2003's "Summer Sun" and that was by design. They left several songs off of the album because they didn't fit the album's feel, a gutsy move that, after much going back and forth, I've decided I agree with. The omitted songs ended up the companion EP "Today Is the Day" which included the rock version of the mellow, wistful track from "Summer Sun" proving that it takes a very speical band to produce two equally valid, but utterly different versions of the same song.
The advance single from the album, "Beanbag Chair," is already available in the form of a free download, which has ended up on Vox, thanks to Harold.
