Comments on: Holy Triumvirate: The songs like that edition

By: Headphones

Headphones — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:43:48 +0000

I agree with Some Guy on all points except on Postcards vs Folk Star.

Postcards from Paradise is one of my all-time favorite PW tunes. It sounds more like it should be on Mono than on Stereo.

As for the original post, Eyes like Sparks has THE best riff on Mono.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:10:31 +0000

The Stereo vs Folker debate got me curious so I pitted the songs against each other.

1 Baby Learns To Crawl vs Jingle
2 Dirt To Mud vs Now I Wonder
3 Only Lie Worth Telling vs Positively My Dad On 4th Street
4 Got You Down vs Looking Up In Heaven
5 No Place For You vs Anyway’s All Right
6 Boring Enormous vs $100 Groom
7 Nothing To No One vs 23 Years Ago
8 We May Be The One vs As Far As I Know
9 Don’t Want Never vs What About Mine?
10 Mr. Rabbit vs How Can You Like Him?
11 Let The Bad Times Roll vs New Life
12 Call That Gone? vs Gun Shy
13 Postcards From Paradise vs Folk Star

1 Stereo
2 Stereo
3 Stereo
4 Stereo
5 Stereo
6 Folker
7 Stereo
8 DRAW
9 Stereo
10 Stereo
11 Stereo
12 Folker
13 Folker

I’ve got Stereo winning 9-3.

By: the bub

the bub — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:00:16 +0000

Good point. Next cage match should be ranking Paul’s solo records.

By: Placemat

Placemat — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:33:46 +0000

Jake makes a good point about it being the end of a burst. Beer goggles help. 😉

Seems like people more-or-less agree on what makes a great Mats record, but not so much when it comes to Paul’s records.

Be interesting to see how people rank the solo releases.

By: Placemat

Placemat — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:25:47 +0000

I donno about Folker.

I wish time away would have brought understanding, but I still don’t hear it. The songs just aren’t there for me.

There’s a particular line, something like “I don’t wanna bug ya, I just wanna hug ya” … outch, I cringe every fuckin’ time.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:25:14 +0000

I have to say that stereo is better than folker. It seems more inspired. Westerberg seems to be tired by the time we get to folker. Not that it is a terrible album. But stereo is my favorite. They are different though i agree…..There are days when folker hits the spot.

By: the bub

the bub — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:46:13 +0000

Kind of like 49:00 is a great summer album.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:40:20 +0000

See, Folker feels like fall to me. I think because it came out in like September and I listened to it a lot in the fall.

By: the bub

the bub — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:34:37 +0000

No. Folker feels like summer to me, which is good. Stereo feels like the fall. They are different, but I love them both equally. They both have and will have their time and place.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:24:21 +0000

But you operate under the assumption that everyone likes summer better than fall.