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Rchecka will be happy to know that Santigold cites the 80's pop group, Devo, is her"ultimate favorite band"....LOL

Anyone who sites Devo as their favorite band must be pretty dope. Devo is so friggen cool.

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America - 'Tin Man' and 'Ventura Highway (live)'












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Marvin Gaye - 'Is That Enough'










peace.

^No offense dude, but I could never get into that America stuff. I tried, they are good musicians and writers but I can't feel their mellow hippy shit.

That Marvin Gaye on the other hand I love.

As far as hippys go I prefer Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin over their Simon and Garfunkleish sound any day.



Last night...



Various - Source Material LP (Source) 1998



^Weird story... I bought this from Metrowax years ago and it only had one of the 2LPs in it. I got it at a huge discount cuz it was only half a set... under the stipulation that I would get the missing disc if it were ever to show up. Now over 2 years later Wade was digging thru some unopened boxes and found it and gave it to me. Happy ending, it found it's way home. So I finally got to hear the second disc last night. Man what a great compilation of spacy beats and vintage synths. I used track A1 on my space mix last year, but the whole thing is really strong. A few ehh songs, but that's to be expected on any compilation like this. Cop it if you see it, it's cheap and dope.

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^No offense dude, but I could never get into that America stuff. I tried, they are good musicians and writers but I can't feel their mellow hippy shit.

no offense taken...I feel the exact same way about Bob Dylan and Grateful Dead - so I can relate....




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^No offense dude, but I could never get into that America stuff. I tried, they are good musicians and writers but I can't feel their mellow hippy shit.

no offense taken...I feel the exact same way about Bob Dylan and Grateful Dead - so I can relate....

Come on man, you don't really think that America is better than Dylan the guy that wrote "All Along the Watch Tower" and then admitted that Jimi Hendrix did a better job than he ever could do, do you?
Not to mention "Mr Tambourine Man" the worlds best protest song, and what about "Hurricane" and "Like a Rolling Stone". America is great, they are good musicians and have good lyrics, but Dylan's way more relevant and way more talented by miles. America had great folk rock music but they can't touch "How many roads must a man walk down. Before they call him a man..." type ish.

I wouldn't classify Dylan as hippy music either, although he was doing nothing but hippy music unintentionally during the hippy movement, but he's grown way past that label.

You should bust out my Dylan mix again, and you'd hear what I'm saying. I wish that mix woulda been able to change your mind about him but I've known you long enough to know how changing your mind is like trying to steer a train.

The Dead on the other hand, no one would argue that they are hippy music, even though it's a broad, negative term, even hardcore dead-heads would call it that. Janis died before she could escape such a label during the hippy movement.peak.
Yet personally I think both of them have a blues vein that can't be denied.

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