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Glorious Noise: a nicer place to be. Once a month we look back on the stuff we wrote that got the most attention. We don’t do any special weighting for items that appeared later in the month, or anything fancy like that. These are simply the things that received the most views last month, according to our stats. If an item ranked last month, its position is in parenthesis.

1. (10) Runaways Movie Planned: Neon Angels (2007)

2. (1) Elliott Smith’s Girlfriend Cut Off (2007)

3. Remastered Beatles Box Sets Available for Pre-Order (July 2009)

4. (4) Neverland Ranch: Ghost Town (2008)

5. Rothbury 2009 (July 2009)

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Top 25 Punk Logos

July 6, 2009 Jake Brown 3 Comments

The Crimson Ghost The Y! Music Playlist Blog compiles the Greatest Punk Rock Band Logos. Impossible to argue with their top three, but the rest of the list is ripe for discussion.

Via punknews.

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Most Popular GLONO Items: June 2009

July 2, 2009 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Since we spent a great deal of energy this week whining about how Billboard splits their “catalog” releases apart from their main chart, we’ve decided it would be hypocritical for us not to present our own comprehensive chart. So here it is, the GLONO 20.

1. Elliott Smith’s Girlfriend Cut Off (2007)

2. 21 Reasons Why Jay Bennett Should Be Back In Wilco (February 2009)

3. Axl Rose Won’t Leave His House (June 2009)

4. Neverland Ranch: Ghost Town (2008)

5. 21 Essential Songs from Neil Young’s Archives Vol. 1 (June 2009)

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21 Essential Songs from Neil Young’s Archives Vol. 1

June 16, 2009 Jake Brown 14 Comments

Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963 - 1972) So let’s say you’re a Neil Young fan who doesn’t care about all the trappings of the Archives. You don’t care about old photos, rare video footage, or hand-written lyric sheets. You just want the music. Let’s assume you already have the first four albums, plus Decade, the Buffalo Springfield albums, and Deja Vu. Of course you already picked up Live At The Fillmore East 1970 and Live At Massey Hall 1971 when they came out. Do you really need the whole Archives?

Thankfullly for you, iTunes and Amazon MP3 both allow you to cherrypick from the Archives‘ sprawling 125 tracks. Here are the 21 tracks (iMix) you should download immediately:

1. (#1) Aurora by The Squires 2:07

2. (#2) The Sultan by The Squires 2:32

3. (#3) I Wonder by The Squires 2:21

4. (#5) I’ll Love You Forever by The Squires 3:22

5. (#6) (I’m A Man And) I Can’t Cry by The Squires 2:30

6. (#8) Casting Me Away From You by Neil Young & Comrie Smith 2:13

7. (#12) Runaround Babe by Neil Young 2:39

8. (#13) The Ballad Of Peggy Grover by Neil Young 2:48

9. (#15) Extra, Extra by Neil Young 2:41

10. (#22) Sell Out by Buffalo Springfield 1:40

11. (#25) Slowly Burning by Neil Young 2:58

12. (#29) Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (promotional single) by Neil Young 2:15

13. (#31) Birds (Previously Unreleased Version) by Neil Young 2:15

14. (#68) Everybody’s Alone by Neil Young with Crazy Horse 2:31

15. (#71) Dance Dance Dance by Neil Young with Crazy Horse 2:24

16. (#74) It Might Have Been by Neil Young with Crazy Horse 4:18

17. (#84) Wonderin’ by Neil Young 2:10

18. (#92) Tell Me Why (Previously Unreleased Live Version) by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 5:41

19. (#114) Bad Fog Of Loneliness by Neil Young with The Stray Gators 1:55

20. (#120) Journey Through The Past by Neil Young with The Stray Gators 2:21

21. (#125) War Song by Neil Young & Graham Nash with The Stray Gators 3:29

Bonus tracks: While you’re at it, you might as well pick up the two Mynah Birds songs on Disc 2 of The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 6: 1966 (Hip-O Select).

After the jump, I break out what’s included in the Archives and why some things are more essential than others…

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National Recording Registry 2008

June 10, 2009 Jake Brown Leave a comment

The Library of Congress has announced its 25 new additions to the National Recording Registry.

Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the Librarian, with advice from the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB), is tasked with selecting 25 recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and are at least 10 years old. The selections for 2008 bring the total number of recordings in the registry to 275.

Notable additions this year include:

• “Boogie Chillen,” John Lee Hooker (1948)

• “Rumble,” Link Wray (1958)

• “At Last!,” Etta James (1961)

• “The Who Sings My Generation,” The Who (1966)

Annoying that the LOC still uses Real Audio for its samples. What is this, 1999?

Full list of the 2008 additions after the jump…

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Most Popular GLONO Items: May 2009

June 1, 2009 Jake Brown 2 Comments

Current Chart

1. 21 Reasons Why Jay Bennett Should Be Back In Wilco (February)

2. Ex-Wilco Jay Bennett Dead at 45 (May)

3. Unreleased Wilco – I Wish I Were Ian Dury (May)

4. Kara DioGuardi writes worst song EVER (May)

5. Wilco (the leak) leads to Wilco (the stream) (May)

6. Photos: Jay Bennett In-Store, May 2002 (May)

7. Elliott Smith’s Archives: The GLONO Interview with Larry Crane (March)

8. Remembering Jay Bennett (May)

9. Fun with Forkcast, Round 14 (May)

10. John Lennon: New York exhibit shows bag of bloody clothes (May)

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Wilco Songs Co-Written by Jay Bennett

May 26, 2009 Jake Brown 2 Comments

Jay Bennett, All Over the Place In response to Jay Bennett‘s untimely death, Jeff Tweedy released a statement acknowledging his former bandmate’s “significant contributions to the band’s songs and evolution.” He wasn’t exaggerating. According to the two major music publishing organizations, Bennett received a co-writing credit on the bulk of the material Wilco released from the Mermaid Avenue material in 1998 through Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2002.

Of the 15 songs on 1999’s Summerteeth, for example, Bennett co-wrote 13 of them; and 8 of the 11 songs on YHF. It would be tough to argue that the following list doesn’t represent some of Wilco’s best material.

ASCAP lists the following compositions by songwriter/composer BENNETT JAY W:

1. AIRLINE TO HEAVEN (Mermaid Avenue)

2. ASHES OF AMERICAN FLAGS (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

3. BLOOD OF THE LAMB (Mermaid Avenue)

4. CALIFORNIA STARS (Mermaid Avenue)

5. CAN’T STAND IT (Summerteeth)

6. CANDYFLOSS (Summerteeth)

7. CHRIST FOR PRESIDENT (Mermaid Avenue)

8. ELT (Summerteeth)

9. FEED OF MAN (Mermaid Avenue)

10. HOODOO VOODOO (Mermaid Avenue)

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Most Popular GLONO Items: April 2009

May 1, 2009 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Current Chart

1. Elliott Smith’s Archives: The GLONO Interview with Larry Crane (March)

2. 21 Free MP3 Label Samplers (April)

3. Fun with Forkcast, Round 12 (March)

4. Review: Chris Cornell – Scream (April)

5. Beatles Remasters Finally Coming (April)

6. Dammers Still Out of The Specials (March)

7. Brian Eno on Innovation (April)

8. Gonna Use My, My, My…Imagination (April)

9. The End Of It All: Acknowledging The Awfulness Of Jandek (April)

10. Neil Young Archives Volume 1 on CD (April)

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Most Popular GLONO Items: March 2009

April 3, 2009 Jake Brown Leave a comment

Once a month we look back on the stuff we wrote that got the most attention. We don’t do any special weighting for items that appeared later in the month, or anything fancy like that. These are simply the things that received the most views last month, according to our stats. If an item carries over from last month’s chart, its prior rank appears in parentheses.

Current Chart

1. Unreleased Early Elliott Smith: Nine Inch Nails Diss Track (March)

2. (2) 21 Best SXSW 2009 MP3s (Feb)

3. Peter Doherty: Live in Glasgow (Photos) (Feb)

4. New Band: Jack White + Kills = Dead Weather (March)

5. SXSW Offers Torrent of 2009 Acts (March)

6. 13 Artists We’d Pay More Than $50 to See (March)

7. Lost Classics: The Magnolias – For Rent (March)

8. Kanye West vs. My Dear Disco (March)

9. Death of a Junky: the Rolling Stones (March)

10. Glorious Noise Interview: Eric Matthews (March)

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13 Artists We'd Pay More Than $50 to See

March 24, 2009 Derek Phillips 13 Comments

Ulysses S. Grant It pains us here at GLONO to see how rock and roll has become a product of the aristocracy. Skyrocketing tickets prices have driven most young people and low-wage earners right out of the market, leaving stadiums filled with the only people who can afford to pay hundreds of dollars for 90 minutes of fun. The result is more luxury boxes and Golden Circles populated by designer jean wearing sales reps and retirees with disposable income and a bad Just for Men habit.

So, many of us at HQ have a $50 rule. We’d love to tell you that it’s a protest of the above, but it’s also a product of simply not being able to justify the expense. There is an elite group of artists for whom we would break the $50 rule.

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