Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-08-14T04:47:10Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/tags/prog/ Songs I Like When you're dealing with Elephants, 9 > 6 * 1.5 tag:vox.com,2008-08-14:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fa9690e97d0002 2008-08-14T04:45:54Z 2008-08-14T04:47:10Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

01 Dodovoodoo

I do not now, have never before, nor do I think I ever can possibly feel any affinity for the music genre that has become known as "indie", as typified by R.E.M. in the 80s and the Elephant 6 "collective" in the 90s. And I think it's just awful t...

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]]> Crate digging, groove mining, recontextualizing tag:vox.com,2008-06-22:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad692ee1b0005 2008-06-22T17:34:42Z 2008-06-23T01:16:55Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

06. Through My Looking Glass 02 Track 02 05 - Supernaut

One of the great things about the sharity blogs is that many of the albums ripped, uploaded, and blogged are done so by fans. While some bloggers just cut and paste the Wikipedia or AMG entries for albums into their blog posts, others write a cou...

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]]> Holding pattern: The Mars Volta tag:vox.com,2008-02-25:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cfd19e90001 2008-02-25T03:55:14Z 2008-02-29T13:53:41Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez

The new Mars Volta album (The Bedlam in Goliath) has me listening to all the old ones again, so I'm not ready to move on from them yet. Here's a video of a highly-abbreviated "L'Via L'Viaquez," one of my two favorite songs from my still-favorite ...

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]]> The Mars Volta reminds everyone of King Crimson tag:vox.com,2008-02-23:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cddbc220002 2008-02-23T03:21:28Z 2008-02-23T04:56:03Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Mars Volta - Goliath King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man April Wine - 21st Century Schizoid Man

I'm not the first one to notice that "Goliath" from the new Mars Volta album sounds like King Crimson's 1969 prog-rock classic, "21st Century Schizoid Man," but I did arrive at that conclusion independently. At just after the 4-minute mark they a...

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]]> Prog backwards: Memories tag:vox.com,2008-02-23:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398df5a9c0005 2008-02-23T01:08:59Z 2008-02-23T01:34:25Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Mars Volta Memories (cover) 07 - Memories (Voc. Whitney Houston) 06 Memories 03 Memories (Hugh Hopper) 22 Memories (Hugh Hopper)

Cranking up The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute album the first time was revelatory, and it had me jumping around for days. I caught up with their other albums afterwards, but none of them quite did it for me the way Frances did. And now they have...

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]]> Here and now (but not really here) tag:vox.com,2007-10-18:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b3e3ae0001 2007-10-18T00:07:04Z 2007-10-18T00:31:41Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I don't only trawl through my archives, or the dusty corners of my brain, searching for music from decades past; I also keep half an ear open for music that's happening right now. Once in a very long while something new will pin my "Oh yeah!" met...

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