#harvey limbeck

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Playlist for Saturday, March 23, 2019

Brick and Mortar - “Original Sin” The Aesthetics - “Should’ve Never Been” Morning Harvey - “With the Pinstripes” Kevin Devine - “Now” Navigate!” Frightened Rabbit - “Old, Old Fashioned” Death Cab for Cutie - “405″ Ron Gallo - “‘You’ Are the Problem” The Kooks - “Swing Low” The Dandy Warhols - “To The Church” AA Bondy - “When the Devil’s Loose” Sam Cooke - “You Send Me” Elliott Smith - “Alameda” Limbeck - “I Saw You Laughing” Foxing - “Nearer My God” Caged Animals - “Ghost Riding” Elvis Costello and the Imposters - “Suspect My Tears” Flogging Molly - “If I Ever Leave this World Alive” Temple of the Dog - “Hunger Strike” Alkaline Trio - “My Standard Break from Life” The Twilight Sad - “Keep it All to Myself” Better Oblivion Community Center  - “Forest Lawn” We Were Promise Jetpacks - “When I Know More” ISLAND - “Something Perfect” Colour Revolt - “Mattresses Underwater” Jimmy Eat World - “Get Right” xo - Bex&Rich.

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A couple months ago, someone left their CD collection in the laundry room of my apartment building with a note basically saying “take them or I’ll throw them out.” Every now and then you win the lottery.

The most impressive pickup was a Led Zeppelin box set which included all of their studio recordings. I had never owned a Led Zeppelin album before nor had I ever listened to one front-to-back. 

It shouldn’t be surprising that LZ albums don’t show up all that often in bargain bins. 

So two weeks ago, during the first delve into the “L” albums, I got to listen to the first four Led Zeppelin albums in a row. Here’s what I discovered.

There is a clear and definite reason why they’re seen as one of the best bands of all time.

All of the albums ran under 45 minutes and contain 10 tracks or less. I listened to Zeppelin for a little under 3 hours straight. I never got bored and the music never felt monotonous. This is a pretty extraordinary accomplishment and one that argues for structure and brevity over limitlessness. We’ll have to see how I feel about “Physical Graffiti.”

I don’t normally like blues but I do like math rock. Page brings the math to blues.

There is a sweetness to Plant’s screeching that appears after listening to it for a while. Kind of like one of those pictures that you have to stare at for some time to see the hidden image.

The next time I’m going to have a one-band experience like this will be with Weezer and I highly doubt it will be as successful.

What I listened to last week:

Top 100 contenders in bold.

dredg - Leitmotif

The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads: Evan Dando plus the rhythm section from The Descendents? Yes please!

Propagandhi - More Talk, Less Rock

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

The Replacements - Let It Be: This is one of those “classic” albums that I just don’t get. I mean, it’s fine and all, and has some amazing tracks, but on the whole, I don’t find it masterful.

Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You

Sorry About Dresden - Let It Rest

Limbeck - Let Me Come Home

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let’s Face It

Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On: Again, another “classic” that I fail to understand.

Mystikal - Let’s Get Ready

Rancid - Let’s Go

Brandtson - Letterbox

Defeater - Letters Home

Bright Eyes - Letting Off The Happiness

The Hives - Lex Hives

Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill

The Used - Lies For The Liars

The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death: Perhaps if I liked “Ready to Die” less, I would like this sloppy, mediocre, way too commercial sounding double album more. However, even with all its setbacks, Biggie’s lyrical prowess continues to outshine any of its flaws.

John Vanderslice - Life and Death of an American Fourtracker

Crosstide - Life as a Spectator

Jermaine Dupri - Life in 1472

Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion

Hidden in Plain View - Life in Dreaming

MxPx - Life in General (PPP #39)

Albums listened to in total: 911

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Playlist for Saturday, March 09, 2019

The Kooks - “No Pressure” Brick and Mortar - “Strange Bird” The Dandy Warhols - “Be Alright” Sunshine Social - “Body Parts” Delta Spirit - “Language of the Dead” Augustana - “Sweet and Low” Morning Harvey - “Come to Me” Elvis Costello and the Imposters - “Burnt Sugar is so Bitter” Ron Gallo - “Always Elsewhere” Copeland - “Chiromancer” Bad Books - Ambivalent Peaks” Elliott Smith - “No Name No. 5″ Dashboard Confessional - “Again, I Go Unnoticed” Pedro the Lion - “All Seeing Eye” We Were Promised Jetpacks - “Impossible Pauses” Guster - “Overexcited” Mastersystem - “Notes on a Life Not Quite Lived” The Frames - “Seven Mile Line” Death Cab for Cutie - “A Lack of Color” The Twilight Sad - “Keep it To Yourself” Foxing - “Five Cups” Iron and Wine - “What Hurts Worse” Petal - “You Got Lucky” (Tom Petty cover) Limbeck - “Apartment Song” (Tom Petty cover) xo - b.

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Playlist for Saturday, March 13, 2021

TOLEDO - “You Won’t” Alexandra Savior - “Crying all the Time” Mo Troper - “Lucky Devils” Pedro the Lion - “Model Homes” Guster - “Bad Bad World” Band of Horses - “Knock Knock” Ben Folds - “Dr. Yang” Arlo Parks - “Too Good” Sun June - “Everything I Had” The Frights - “Echo in the Corner of the Room” Will Joseph Cook - “Boundary Street” El Obo - “Sayonara” Limbeck - “Trouble” Blitzen Trapper - “The Green King Sings” Courtney Barnett - “Charity” The Mountain Goats - “Rat Queen” Widowspeak - “Money” Phoebe Bridgers - “Kyoto” Morning Harvey - “Come to Me” Hot Hot Heat - “Sad Sad Situation” Cage the Elephant - “Tiny Little Robots” Miniature Tigers - “Tell it to the Volcano” The Strokes - “Why Are Sundays So Depressing” City and Colour - “Imagination” Wild Nothing - “Blue Wings” Neon Trees - “Our War” Less Than Jake - “All My Best Friends are Metalheads” xo - b.