ACE

Orange County, California, UNITED STATES


Joined June 8th 2008

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Cover Songs (Part 2) ...

September 19th 2010 23:21
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Cover Songs ...

September 19th 2010 21:06
I love a good cover. Here are a few I have stumbled across recently that I really dig.

Enjoy.







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Sufjan Stevens is an odd bird.

Spooky, pop-y, humorous and banjo enthusiast all rolled into one. His true talent is that of arrangement. His songs usually beautifully constructed with a good use of instrumentation.

He has a new tour and an new EP available (stream for free).

Or go and pickup his record Illinois. I dare not to be creeped out - yet mesmerized by the song "John Wayne Gacy, Jr".

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Gillian Welch (Where are you?)

August 17th 2010 00:56


I cannot believe it has been seven (SEVEN!) years since the last (proper) Gillian Welch record. Along with her partner David Rawlings, she put out some of the most consistently enjoyable folk/rock records of the last 20 years. Hurry back, G-dub. We miss you


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KT Tunstall - The Dylan Covers

August 4th 2010 01:05


I love a good cover


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The Wilco EPs

August 3rd 2010 03:10


Wilco has put out some pretty cool EPs along with the proper records. At the time, you had to put the CD in your computer to get access to the bonus material. Now they are nice enough to let anyone download them - for free, no less


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Led Zeppelin: Their 4th Album Outtakes and Rehearsals (FLAC


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Neil Young's Lost 1970s Records(!)

July 27th 2010 00:12


Big news from Neil this week


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Avett Brothers - Laundry Room

July 23rd 2010 03:42


I have to admit that I didn't like the Avett Brothers latest LP "I and Love and You" when I first heard it. I loved "Emotionalism" and the two Gleam EPs. But after my first spin of I&L&Y, I said to myself, "Not enough banjos! Too many pianos


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Wilco has a wealth of unreleased (or under-released) tracks. The holy grail of all of these is from the so-called YHF Engineer's Demos. It is a song called "Cars Can't Escape". It is such a beautiful and heartfelt tune with the apropos YHF era noise coda. But it's not just the haunting lyrics that make this The Song. Listen to the brilliant bass line and the subtle piano. The arrangement is just the perfect accompaniment to this piece. It is hard to imagine why it was not on the album


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Comment by ACE
on The New Wilco Record: Live Preview

May 14th 2009 02:14
Wilco is now streaming the record on their website.



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Comment by ACE
on Swapped Tuners (pics inside)

August 19th 2008 23:48
It is much lighter. Can't tell you the exact difference, but noticable. My stock still dives, tho. Grr...

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Comment by ACE
on Random Thoughts: Earthquake & Comic-Con 2008

August 5th 2008 01:45
Funny reactions:

Really Long Link

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Comment by ACE
on Bad Taste Songs

July 16th 2008 01:54
How about GnR's "One in a Million" from the Lies LP?

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Comment by ACE
on Top Records since Y2K (A biased opinion)

July 16th 2008 01:52
No Dance, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Funk, Ska, Grime, electro pop, Disco House, Electro Funk or R&B.


Music, like all art, is subjective. While I do not find any of these genres compelling (anymore, at least), your entitled to your opinion. That is what makes art so worthwhile - we all see it with our own perspectives and take something different away.

Their is probably only one album on your list that might get close to a list if I made one and that is The Garden State Soundtrack.


Funny, I almost left this one off - due to its inclusion of pre-Y2K music (Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel). But it defined a new genre that was born this decade. Therefore, worthy of inclusion.

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Comment by ACE
on Five Decades of Music - Your Top Five Artists

July 14th 2008 01:13
Here are my favorites by Decade:

1960s: Dylan
1970s: Zeppelin, Pink Floyd
1980s: INXS, Police
1990s: Uncle Tupelo, Radiohead
2000s: see my post here: http://soundr.com/

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Comment by ACE
on A True Golden Age of Music

June 23rd 2008 00:44
When a band of today last like the Stones, Beatles, Beach Boys or Who, THEN you can say this is the Golden Age of music.

I assume you are joking, right?

Beach Boys didn't make it out of the 60's with imploding and begining the neverending greatest hits tour.
Beatles obviously didnt "last"
The Who hasn't put out a good LP since Keith whent over the moon.
And the Stones are the poster children for recylced baby-boomer nostaglia and egoism.


No, I am referring to this as a golden age precisely because those dinosaurs no longer have the influence over the culture like the used to. Technology has opened the doors of perception (to borrow another out-dated phrase of a dead generation).

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