http://www.indieworkshop.com/ indieworkshop.com | articlesSun, 19 May 2013 20:10:01 -0400 en-us 2006 jake@indieworkshop.comhttp://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=359tylerbotts78@hotmail.com (Tyler Botts)2006-09-27http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=358jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-25http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=357jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-22http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=35613. Sitting On the Dock of The Bay - Otis Redding (The Dock of The Bay) Fuck openers. Has there ever been a song that more precisely details the loneliness, hopelessness, and general malaise of the American dream? Hell, American life? Otis travels west (2000 miles more specifically), sets up shop on a dock and sits there to watch the waves. Why? Because nothing is going his way. And nothing is going to change. Land of opportunity? Western frontier? Otis knows: The West is the same as the East is the same as the South. But wherever you're from, you can relate. – Chris Gaerig 12. Rocks Off - The Rolling Stones (Exile on Main Street) Here is an idea. Let's get the Rolling Stones in a hot room, have everyone play at once, and fade the vocals in and out like a drunk is running the soundboard? What sounds like a disaster is really the trademark for the loose, dirty, and classic Rolling Stones album, Exile on Main Street. The best thing about the Stones is that despite being one of the biggest bands of the time, they were still making music like raunchy juveniles. This song, about what sounds like the inability to, um, achieve satisfaction, kicks off a double LP of shit-scraping blues and does not get enough credit for being just about as punk as it gets. – Travis Hutzell 11. Prayer to god - Shellac (1,000 Hurts) After leading off their second album, Terraform, with the twelve-minute, two note epic 'Didn't We Deserve A Look At The Way You Really Are...' Shellac decides to bust out on 1,000 Hurts lead track with two minutes and fifty seconds of three-chord rock. Well, actually, it's more like 2:28 once you get past the spoken intro that regales the interested listener with advice like "set reproducer for reference levels" (dude, my ipod doesn't have a reproducer), but lest you think they went spoken-word on you, don't forget this is Shellac. Albini's guitar sounds like a grand piano being guillotined every time pick meets strings. Todd Trainer drums like Lurch from the Adams family, and Bob Weston picks an ascending bass pattern that spirals around it all with his familiar mid-range crunchy sound. Everything sounds twice as huge on this record, and the band's policy of no overdubs makes every hit scary precise. Albini, between stabs at his strings, wishes death on an ex lover and her new man, deadpanning "Kill him, fucking kill him, kill him already, kill him" for the last half of the song, taking it from a wish, to a scream, and finally a cruel joke. Just do yourself a favor and buy it on vinyl. – Geddes Gengres | 50 - 41 | | 40 - 31 | | 30 - 21 | | 20 - 11 |]]>jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-21http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=355jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-20http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=354jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-19http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=353jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-18http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=352jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-14http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=351jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-13http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=350jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-11http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=349jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-08http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=348jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-09-05http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=347jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-08-31http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=346jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-08-28http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=343jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-08-24http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=342jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-08-23http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=341jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-08-22http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=340jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-08-21http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=339jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-08-14http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=338jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)2006-08-10