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Re: frog queen, emo, and beer




>
>brian abbott wrote:
>
> > >actually SDRE is alive and well having put out one studio album, a live
> > >album, and later in June another studio album since the "break up". 
>Frog
> > >Queen is fantastic though and by far my favorite Jeremy thing.
> >
> > i first heard jeremy on poor old lu's 'straight six'.  i've always loved 
>his
> > voice.
>
>That's about the first time I heard him, too. I heard the song on the poor 
>old lu CD and SDRE's
>first CD about the same time. I liked it, but didn't realize how much I 
>loved that band until I got
>the last CD about a year and a half ago.
>
> > anybody know much about the emo-punk movement. (if you could call it
> > a movement)
>
>It's not really a movement, really. Just some really great bands.
>
> > i've heard people put sdre under that title.  i think of bands
> > like jawbox and mercy rule and sdre as emo.
>
>It's hard to put Jawbox or Fugazi that people put in this category into the 
>same category as SDRE or
>Mineral, who are so much more melodic (which I like a lot better). Those 
>1st two, bands like Burning
>Airlines, Appleseed Cast, Brandtson, The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids... 
>but nothing compares to
>SDRE or Mineral, imo. There's also some people that put the whole "mellow" 
>thing in with this stuff.
>Like Pedro the Lion, Damien Jurado, etc.
>

hey layne. thanks for the insight.  i was wondering why nobody responded to 
that post.  WHY?, YOU IMBECILES!  WHY?  but alas. . .  my restless soul has 
been consoled.

i don't own any sdre.  i'll have to check 'em out.  and mineral, too. . .

brian



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