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OTFPOTD: 12/3 - Why the Hell Did LaunchCast Just Play Jeff Beck Edition

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For some reason my Yahoo LaunchCast just played Jeff Beck. Why? I have no idea. I don't like Jeff Beck. My music tastes don't lend themselves to LaunchCast determining that I like Jeff Beck.

I watched two movies last night on my Xbox streaming Netflix: Ratatouille and Jesus Camp. Ratatouille was pretty good. I thought the first half of the movie was extremely slow, but the second half made up for that. Jesus Camp made me want to punch things.

What movies have you seen recently that made your temper go through the roof?

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That's exactly why I don't use/trust services like LaunchCast or Last.fm

because there’s not an algorithm in the world that can reliably predict what I’d like based on what I listen to, that I’ve found. The last five songs on my iTunes random play were

 - The Dickies: Bowling With Bedrock Barney
 - Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach: God Give Me Strength
 - Queen: Death On Two Legs
 - Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band: Open All Night
 - AC/DC: Whole Lotta Rosie

So my listening tastes don’t really lend themselves to a linear progression of “if you like X, Y then you’ll like Z” as most recommendation algorithms seem to do. I might like A through H, hate I, J, K, L, and M, and love N-Z; I prefer to control that myself rather than leaving it to a machine.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 8:53 AM PST   0 recs

Agreed.

And if you don’t have Painted From Memory, the record he did with Elvis Costello, it’s definitely worth getting.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:01 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Feh. A huge letdown

A letdown precisely because All This Useless Beauty was such a miracle comeback. That one isn’t just his best album since 1986, it’s one of his all-time greatest….the Bacharach collaboration was such a disappoinment in comparison. Some inspired songs (like “God Give Me Strength”) but a lot of sentimental dross.

I yield to no man in my admiration for both Bacharach (the ONLY classically trained “pro” songwriter to be a pop genius) and Costello, but PFM didn’t live up to the hype.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:10 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

All-time greatest? Hmmmm.

I liked Useless Beauty pretty well, but I wouldn’t even put it in his top 5. I would say it’s definitely his best album of the 90’s, and he hasn’t done anything remotely as good since. I guess I looked at PFM as more of a Bacharach album with Elvis Costello vocals, so I didn’t really rank it in the Costello canon – thus I don’t really view it as a disappointment.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:14 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Maybe not his top 5, but not far outside of that....

Let’s see, my personal ranking:

1.) Imperial Bedroom
2.) Get Happy!!
3.) Trust
[all three of these are agonizingly close to one another]
4.) King Of America
5.) All This Useless Beauty

Hey, what do you know, it DOES make my Top 5. But only because I think Armed Forces has FAR too much ponderous bullshit on it to beat out Beauty, which is remarkably consistent and listenable. At least with Get Happy!! Costello realized it was a smart idea to make the bullshit songs only last 1m50s or so.

So the rest of the top 10 would be…

6.) Armed Forces
7.) This Year’s Model
8.) Blood And Chocolate
9.) My Aim Is True
10.) Brutal Youth.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:19 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I should have checked my iTunes folder for Bacharach when the thread of cover songs came up.

White Stripes ‘I don’t know what to do with myself’, Cranberries ‘(I long to be) close to you, Cyndi Lauper ’Walk on by’. Holy crap I forget how many people he’s worked with and how many people have covered his classics.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 10:13 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Did Ratatouille look shitty?

I started watching it the day Netflix went up on Xbox, and it looked far worse than DVD quality.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 8:55 AM PST   0 recs

Huh.

Maybe it was first-day jitters. Or maybe I was overly critical. I was sitting a bit too close to the TV that day.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 8:57 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Same for me.

Thoroughly unimpressed by the quality on that one. Everything else looked fine for me

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:25 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I actually gave this a run after I heard you complaining about it.

Looked fine to me, but it might be because of my connection.

by BrianL on Dec 3, 2008 1:09 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

QUIT RUBBING IT IN I KNOW YOU HAVE FIOS

And I think mine was bad because I was torrenting, now that I think back on it

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 1:11 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

By the way, pbd, I started watching the show "Weeds" last night.

You weren’t kidding about Mary Louise Parker.

Swooooooooon.

by Phildopip on Dec 3, 2008 8:56 AM PST   0 recs

Yup, she shore is purty

and she only gets better as the shows go on.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 8:58 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

But the fact that it's covered by different artists every week was kinda cool

by this season they’d gone away from that song entirely in the credits though.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 8:58 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I love it.

More for the lyrics, though. It’s a dead-on critique of The Valley.

Also, in the later seasons, a new person/band sings it every episode, which makes it kinda fun.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 8:59 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Weeds is filmed where my girlfriend's parents live.

And it’s exactly like that. All the houses look exactly the same, and they’re massive, and they’re soulless.

by Teej on Dec 3, 2008 9:01 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

it's so much worse though

I have family in Riverside, and every time I go down there I get lost in their neighborhood because every house within four blocks is, without exaggeration, exactly the goddamn same. Same design, same color, same lawn, everything.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 9:09 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I also feel the same for her

I’ve got the first 2 seasons on DVD on my shelf, yet haven’t even watched them. Lazy I guess

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:26 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

So I'm like 75% sure I have a urinary tract infection. . .

I still have a week and a half left in my hitch up here. I don’t want to go home early, but I don’t trust the medics here to give me an accurate diagnosis.

Fear the NPE

by thewyrm on Dec 3, 2008 8:58 AM PST   0 recs

It's becoming apparent that Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket

is one of the more under-appreciated drummers out there. He pretty much kicks ass on their last three albums.

by Phildopip on Dec 3, 2008 9:02 AM PST   0 recs

I'm a pretty casual MMJ fan

but their most recent album verges on the unlistenable for me. It’s really not very good. Maybe I’m missing something, because I do like some of their older stuff OK, but Evil Urges is just….wow.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 9:10 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

That album has taken me FOREVER to get into.

But once I decided not to expect the southern rock that was prevalent on Tennessee Fire, At Dawn, and It Still Moves, I was okay. Z was already starting to move towards 70s pop, and Evil Urges is a continuation of that. It doesn’t surprise me that you don’t like it, since I know how you feel about Elton John, and that’s what their newer music reminds me of.

(bahaha, “Break Like the Wind” by Spinal Tap just started playing on my music player)

by Phildopip on Dec 3, 2008 9:14 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Highly Suspicious makes me want to kill people

but maybe if I skip that one I should give it another shot.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 9:18 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

"Big boy breakfast" Heh!

So how big is this bowling alley, and how much are these people drinking because that’s a lot of milk! And what the hell is a Dirty Mother?
 I love articles like this, when they leave you with as many questions as they answer.

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 10:08 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Dirty Mother:

Tequila, Kaluha and cream.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Dec 3, 2008 10:46 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

That's racist

Why when you throw anything Mexican related into the mix it adds ‘dirty’ to the title

by dpseadv on Dec 3, 2008 10:52 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Have you met my friend Sanchez?

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.

by kevin_ess on Dec 3, 2008 11:14 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Heh
“I am really happy to be back in Calgary, I love Canada. I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don’t know what that’s about. Enjoy the game tonight.”

http://deadspin.com/5101142/apparently-the-nhl-wont-stand-for-sean-averys-sloppy-seconds

by Robert on Dec 3, 2008 9:24 AM PST   0 recs

Luanchcast used to play me songs by William Hung

I think, for some of their peddled mainstream selection, they don’t care what your tastes are.

by Gomez on Dec 3, 2008 9:27 AM PST   0 recs

I'm picturing Pandora trying to justify this

This William Hung song has syncopated rhythm, melodic vocals, and an E-minor chord, which are all parts of [this song you actually like].

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Dec 3, 2008 9:29 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

WLHUNG

Ryan Howard: You a big William Hung fan?
Todd Packer: Why does everybody ask me that? Who the hell is that?

by Fin on Dec 3, 2008 6:09 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Charlie Weis staying at Notre Dame (haha)

While Mike Leach

is being swooned by UW.

Make. It. Happen.

Probably just a ploy to get more money out of TTU, but Leach would be an awesome hire for Washington. I mentioned how cool it would be

to have Mike Leach as a coach just a couple weeks ago.

(And I have no clue why the HTML breaks the line)

by Wilder. on Dec 3, 2008 9:28 AM PST   0 recs

Wilder was already taken.

My original screename was my real name, but it was not capitalized. I didn’t like it and went with my nickname that someone already took.

by Wilder. on Dec 3, 2008 9:32 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

YES

Let’s throw the shit out of the football at Montlake.

by Gomez on Dec 3, 2008 9:33 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Oh shizz, "Canibal The Musical" is on the streaming Netflix.

I’ve never seen this movie, and now I’m really excited.

Oh shit, so is Orgazmo.

by Phildopip on Dec 3, 2008 9:41 AM PST   0 recs

I didn't know Orgazmo was there

Cannibal! is on my queue already. I’m at like 50 movies, and the only reason I don’t have more is because it’ll take me forever to watch what I’ve picked already

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:33 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I had to stop myself. I already have a queue loaded with movies I've never seen before

And I don’t have a ton of free time to watch movies, so I need to slowly burn through them

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Dec 3, 2008 10:39 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

God, I'd give my first born for it to be next Thursday

I just want this fucking shitty year to be over with, and having school done would be a good start.

Jeff's guide to not looking stupid:
+/- is an absolutely terrible stat, so don't use it, and don't give up on young players before they turn 24.
54!

by joof on Dec 3, 2008 9:46 AM PST   0 recs

BOTD...

Changing it up a bit for laughs…

Bacon Hitler!!

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.

by kevin_ess on Dec 3, 2008 10:05 AM PST   0 recs

Currently listening to: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads

Holy shit, Talking Heads put out one of the greatest live albums in rock history. WHO KNEW?

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:06 AM PST   0 recs

A lot of people, actually.

It’s not like Talking Heads were some secret underground band. And, if you’re keeping score, they actually put out TWO of the greatest live albums in rock history – Stop Making Sense is fantastic too.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:08 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Actually, I've known that TNOTB was an all-time classic live album for years now.

It’s just that, listening to it again for the first time in awhile, its incredible freshness hits me all over again. The Rhino expanded reissue is flawless too.

Stop Making Sense is actually sort of weak. For one thing, it’s not really “live” (it was almost completely done in the studio), and for another it’s too heavily reliant on the Speaking In Tongues album, which was a massive drop-off from the first four albums.

But man…those first four Talking Heads albums…what a brilliant quartet. I honestly can’t say which is my favorite. Fear Of Music has some of my favorite songs in “Air,” “Cities,” “Heaven,” and “Memories Can’t Wait” but loses points for having too many mediocre cuts like “Mind,” “Electric Guitar,” “Paper,” etc. Remain In Light has their best-ever in “Once In A Lifetime” and “The Great Curve” but puts a lot of eggs into an 8 song basket and blows it with the unbearable “Overload.” So it comes down to ‘77 vs. Buildings And Food. Jesus, how do you split the difference between those? “Found A Job” is the great hidden Talking Heads classic, but then so is “The Book I Read”…crap, I’ll go with Buildings And Food for the Eno production. And the segue between “The Girls Want To Be With The Girls” and “Found A Job.”

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:16 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, I have to pull it out every year or so

because I always hear it and go “goddamn this is an amazing record”. I really like STop Making Sense, but that could also be connected to the fact that I saw it in the theater and was blown away by it and it’s stuck with me ever since.

I go with Buildings And Food, definitely, although there’s no bad choice between that and ‘77. I’m still so burned out on “Once In A Lifetime” that I can’t rank Remain In Light up there, even though I know it is – I need to go a couple more years without ever hearing Once In A Lifetime again before I can appreciate the reputation of that album.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Dec 3, 2008 10:22 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

The trick to getting back into "Once In A Lifetime": listen to Tina Weymouth's bassline.

It’s just two notes. THE ENTIRE TIME. Back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, never changing. She’s quite a capable player, so it was clearly some sort of hilarious art-rock conceit and by god it works. I could listen to her see-sawing back and forth on those two notes for hours.

Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism

by esoteric on Dec 3, 2008 10:31 AM PST to parent up   0 recs