The Picture

camaroheadus · Post by **camaroheadus** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:35 pm

after even more reflection, this song really reminds me of something off of "Living With War"

alphabot · Post by **alphabot** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:22 am

I love the range of opinion on the horns. I'm confident it'll become classic to almost everybody after a while.

I admit to more than a little 'WTF' when it first came through my speakers.

I think a little bit of 'Ring of Fire' when I hear it.

But I also echo the notion that it's similar to 'Angel of Harlem'.

I also hear a little bit of the Indigo Girls 'Peace Tonight' in there, too.

Can't wait for a pre-order...

seger_and_priest · Post by **seger_and_priest** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:47 pm

i think that 'the picture' will make more sense when we here 'slow hearse' and 'action,' the two songs it's sandwich'd between. if this record is the futurist, pomo-beat blowout that shorefire'd have us believe, the horns may be just one of many disparate elements for us to chew on, no?

sturgeongeneral · Post by **sturgeongeneral** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:32 pm

Horns do not really bother me. It provides a retro sound that I listened to as a kid with groups such as 'Blood, Sweat and Tears' and the old 'Chicago'. It will just take some adjustment to adapting that sound to Jay's musical stylings. I saw Wilco a couple of years ago and their opening band was 'Head of Femur' who had a horn section. Tweedy brought them out during Wilco's set and I thought the horns actually enhanced the live Wilco performance. So, in conclusion, I will keep an open mind as to Jay's new musings because he stills beats 90% of what is out there in today's musical offerings.

fraggle · Post by **fraggle** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:36 pm

Sorry, not diggin the horns. Keyboards would have worked better.

ScottZeagle · Post by **ScottZeagle** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:54 am

farrarfan1 wrote:Never being afraid to display my ignorance, I'm curious about something. Does the artist recieve any money for tunes sold on Itunes? I'm assuming they do but...

From what I understand (from my tiny connection to the music business) artists actually make more money from an itunes download than on actual CD purchases. That is why you see more and more artisits jumping on that bandwagon.

It makes sense, when you figure that there is absolutely no packaing, shipping, etc. It is just zeros and ones.

farrarfan1 · Post by **farrarfan1** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:00 am

Figgered so. Thanks.

calexico · Post by **calexico** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:43 am

farrarfan1 wrote:Never being afraid to display my ignorance, I'm curious about something. Does the artist recieve any money for tunes sold on Itunes? I'm assuming they do but...

Oh yea I imagine they do Tom. Most like any online business. I have no idea of the ins and out of it but iTunes is a store after all.

farrarfan1 · Post by **farrarfan1** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:02 pm

Never being afraid to display my ignorance, I'm curious about something. Does the artist recieve any money for tunes sold on Itunes? I'm assuming they do but...

dcarter · Post by **dcarter** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:55 pm

The more I listen, the more I like. The same goes for "The Search". This is going to be a trailhead of an album.

Still Be Around · Post by **Still Be Around** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:11 pm

I could go for that.....

the art guy · Post by **the art guy** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:55 pm

Interestingly, that press release does make it sound as if the entire album will be on iTunes on 2/13. Although I can't imagine that would be the case.

dcarter · Post by **dcarter** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:51 pm

farrarfan1 wrote:Intersting choice as the single to be released to radio. Might draw a crowd that never listened to Son Volt before with the brass. Then they buy the album and find out it's the only song with brass.

Some would say that Jay has a lot of brass to do that.

farrarfan1 · Post by **farrarfan1** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:51 pm

Talus wrote:It would be brass-akwards?

Touche'.

Talus · Post by **Talus** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:46 pm

It would be brass-akwards?