KBCO 5/3/06: 1996

[princessofcairo]

was this only the second coming of beck? or was there an album in between the loser ep and this one?

[mshray]

BOS Beck, I think I'll recant my earlier vote for Paula Cole.

[mshray]

was this only the second coming of beck? or was there an album in between the loser ep and this one?

Odelay is actually his 4th LP.

[princessofcairo]

harumph. the wallfowerzzzz guitarist hit a big flat note. of all the tunes to pick to play ten years later! didn't they release a real album that year? one with the flat notes edited out?

i'm so mean.

That was a live-on KBCO version, no?  It didn't sound like the original.

BOS Beck.

yes, it was. that's what i mean. why pick a flawed live performance when you can use the flawless album version?

bos again to barenaked ladies. a fine paul heaton impersonation!

[RGMike]

"Shoebox of Life"???

[urth]

Sorry, this has been one of Ginger's more underwhelming efforts. I'm pretty sure there was better music made in 96.

[RGMike]

"Shoebox of Life"???

Ginger says "Shoebox of Love", BNLs.  Whatever.  The BNLs were getting no airplay in SF at that point.

[mshray]

now, who's this? i vaguely remember the song. and the whiny voice. but i can't place the band. it's not bush, that's for sure.

[belated post]  You didn't realize that the 'whiny voice' was Matchbox 20?

 :roll:  :roll:

[mshray]

"Shoebox of Life"???

Ginger says "Shoebox of Love", BNLs.  Whatever.  The BNLs were getting no airplay in SF at that point.

maybe this is why:
Barenaked Ladies' third album, Born on a Pirate Ship, recorded during a period of personnel instability and misgivings over the band's artistic direction, is by far the Toronto group's weakest effort. The few attempts at humor in the manner of 1992's Gordon tend to sound forced, and the inclusion of reworked versions of early material like "Shoe Box", which had originally appeared on the band's 1990 demo, suggests that primary songwriters Steven Page and Ed Robertson were short of material.

[princessofcairo]

now, who's this? i vaguely remember the song. and the whiny voice. but i can't place the band. it's not bush, that's for sure.

[belated post]  You didn't realize that the 'whiny voice' was Matchbox 20?

 :roll:  :roll:

nope. how quickly we forget. maybe if he had given me his heart, and made it real...

[mshray]

Sorry, this has been one of Ginger's more underwhelming efforts. I'm pretty sure there was better music made in 96.

I thought it was a strong finish, but yeah, basically you're right.

'96 is when I moved back from Taiwan & promptly gave up on mainstream radio.  The only stuff I really liked from this set is the stuff that you could only hear on Live 105 that year.  Of course now you can hear Beck & BNLs on KFOG.