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BarcaDeac said:
Dead and Co were awesome when I saw them in November in DC. hope to go to their show out in the burbs in June.

speaking of, if you are at all a fan of the Dead, do yourself a favor and check out Joe Russo's Almost Dead. Saw them last night and those guys smoke. Started by the former Further drummer and features some fantastically talented musicians. The guitarist Tom Hamilton is also in Bill Kreutzman's group Billy and the Kids. I've seen a lot of post-Jerry groups, and that might be the best show I've seen, including Phil and Friends, Further, Ratdog, Dead and Co, and The Dead (2009 version).
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Joe Russo's is dope. Hamilton is gnasty. They play in Denver all the time. If you like other jams with Hamilton, check out Electron.
 
New Kanye has dropped. Haven't been able to listen yet. Final name is "The Life of Pablo."
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
New Kanye has dropped. Haven't been able to listen yet. Final name is "The Life of Pablo."
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Dude has made so many changes to the album. SHMG --> Swish --> Waves --> TLOP. Then he made quite a few cuts from Waves to TLOP including No More Parties in LA (ft. Kendrick), 30 Hours, Waves, and Nina Chop (can't really tell what he wrote on the track list for Waves).
 
BarcaDeac said:
Dead and Co were awesome when I saw them in November in DC. hope to go to their show out in the burbs in June.

speaking of, if you are at all a fan of the Dead, do yourself a favor and check out Joe Russo's Almost Dead. Saw them last night and those guys smoke. Started by the former Further drummer and features some fantastically talented musicians. The guitarist Tom Hamilton is also in Bill Kreutzman's group Billy and the Kids. I've seen a lot of post-Jerry groups, and that might be the best show I've seen, including Phil and Friends, Further, Ratdog, Dead and Co, and The Dead (2009 version).
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Yes, they played in Raleigh on Halloween. Of course with kids there was no way I could go. Really bummed. Hearing rumors they will be at Lockn this year.

D&C were really good in Greensboro. Looking forward to Charlotte.
 
The shot Kanye takes at Amber Rose in 30 hours is hilarious. "My ex said she gave me the best years of her life. I saw a recent picture of her I guess she was right."
 
ChrisL68 said:
Yes, they played in Raleigh on Halloween. Of course with kids there was no way I could go. Really bummed. Hearing rumors they will be at Lockn this year.

D&C were really good in Greensboro. Looking forward to Charlotte.
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they're coming to Alpine Valley and tickets onsale. I've always thought Meyer sang like a dweeb but I get it he can play. It's good though, huh?
 
ChrisL68 said:
Yes, they played in Raleigh on Halloween. Of course with kids there was no way I could go. Really bummed. Hearing rumors they will be at Lockn this year.

D&C were really good in Greensboro. Looking forward to Charlotte.
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JRAD's jams are amazing and their transitions are always creative. On Wednesday we got a Help > Slip > Stranger at the beginning of the first set and a ridiculous 45-minute Scarlet > Fire > Rider to open the second set. There were a few more brief Slipknots in the second set, too.

WakeandBake said:
they're coming to Alpine Valley and tickets onsale. I've always thought Meyer sang like a dweeb but I get it he can play. It's good though, huh?
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ChrisL68 said:
Personally, I liked it better than the FTW.
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Yeah I liked it a lot better than the Dead show I saw in 09 and the FTW shows I've listened to. You do miss Phil's bass, but Oteil's no slouch. Mayer does a good job emulating Jerry's guitar, but his voice ain't near Jerry's. But it's miles better than Phil's.

I wish Bob would sing less, too. Like he has no business singing Eyes or Fire but he sang both at the D&C show I saw.
 
Okay. Phew. The Life of Pablo is damn good.

(disclaimer: i'm about to type a track-by-track breakdown and it will be stupid and pretentious and terrible)

My biggest concern with all of these shakeups and subtractions and additions was that the album structure wouldn't flow right, but that worry seems to have been misplaced. The whole thing works as the culmination of Kanye's career to-date, a veritable tour of the six very distinct albums that got us to this point, and instead of feeling disjointed and choppy, everything just seems to fit.

The first half of the album is stellar. "Ultralight Beam" may be the best track on the entire album; it feels like an 808s cut with a brilliant Chance the Rapper verse. "Famous" is radio-ready, and wouldn't feel out of place on Graduation, and it leads right into "Feedback", which sounds like it could have come out of the Yeezus sessions. "I Love Kanye" functions really well as a (surprisingly self-aware!) interlude.

The second half is a little more uneven, and I think it suffers a little from having so many tracks that were previously released. It starts out well enough; it's immediately apparent on "Waves" why Chance wanted it on the final tracklist. But "FML" is disappointingly aimless, wasting an obligatory Weeknd guest spot, and while "Real Friends" is still as brilliant as it was when Ye released it weeks ago, it leads into a new version of "Wolves" that feels flimsy without Sia and Vic Mensa, eschewing their parts in favor of a disjointed Frank Ocean spot.

Thankfully, the best stretch of the album is the closing four tracks-- like I said on Friday, "30 Hours" is incredible, and the extended-cut album version is perfect. I've been a big fan of "No More Parties in LA" since it was released, and nothing's changed here. I think it would have held up well on MBDTW (at least, if Kanye wasn't rapping so much about dat family life on it), as an overlong overconfident jam with a monster guest verse. The new Charlie Heat version of "FACTS" improves immensely on the original, a track I originally thought was one of the weakest he had released in years. And it all leads into "Fade". Which, oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. That track. I need eleven million fire emojis.

anyway, i really like this album guys
 
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