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Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
edited June 2006 in Other Music
One Headlight is a wicked song but I've never heard anything else......

How's the other stuff??
"I Miss You Already!!!!!"

"Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

.NJD.
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    PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,154
    I heard most of the singles from Bringing Down the Horse and I like them.

    Plus, I may be the only one that likes their cover of Heroes.

    PBM
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    PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    I have Bringing down the Horse...great album.

    You will also most likely recognize "6th Ave Heartache", "The Difference:" and "3 Marlenas"

    I like their "Heroes" also
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    doogdoog Posts: 59
    I don't have alot of WF knowledge, but i do like all the songs mentioned by PBM and PB. Isn't their version of HEROES on the Godzilla soundtrack?? I love that song and i think i have that cd around somewhere. I'll have to find it.
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    PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,154
    doog wrote:
    Isn't their version of HEROES on the Godzilla soundtrack?? I love that song and i think i have that cd around somewhere. I'll have to find it.

    Yeah, it came out in the summer of '98.

    PBM
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    doogdoog Posts: 59
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Yeah, it came out in the summer of '98.

    PBM

    That's the one i was thinking of. (Matthew Broderick?). I just found the cd. I'm not even sure if i've ever listened to this cd from start to finish, but there are songs from Wallflowers, Rage ATM, Days of the New, Foo Fighters, Fuel, Green Day, and Silverchair. I may have to give this cd another try. It's just been sitting in my cd rack for years-probably since 98!
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    PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,154
    doog wrote:
    It's just been sitting in my cd rack for years-probably since 98!

    Probably because of the Puff Daddy/Jimmy Page collaboration. Sadly, Come with Me is in my iPod.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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    likepilateihaveadoglikepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    Ian MacKaye of Fugazi enlightened me to this...

    that record sold more than any Bob Dylan record ever.

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    pearlzepfanpearlzepfan Posts: 456
    I'm a huge Wallflowers fan.

    I have always thought that "Breach" was their best album. It came out in 2000. Phenominal album.

    Their newest album from last year is also very very good "Rebel, Sweetheart"

    Their best "studio" sounding album is "Red Letter Days." You can really tell they were trying to make a good solid rock album. Which they succeeded at.

    If I were to rank their albums it would have to go like this

    1. Breach
    2. Rebel, Sweetheart
    3. Red Letter Days
    4. Bringing Down The Horse
    5. The Wallflowers
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    failedpersephonefailedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    great honest rock sound. best song (for me) is "god don't make lonely girls" but it may be because of my mexican heritage.
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    jerve5150jerve5150 Posts: 30
    doog wrote:
    I don't have alot of WF knowledge, but i do like all the songs mentioned by PBM and PB. Isn't their version of HEROES on the Godzilla soundtrack?? I love that song and i think i have that cd around somewhere. I'll have to find it.


    Sidenote on the Godzilla Soundtrack. Stone Temple Pilots turned down big $$$ to put a new song on that soundtrack. The band members weren't in very good shape early 98. Well, I guess only one of them wasn't.
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    libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    I like them a lot i always thought they were a good band but they kind of fizzled out after Bringing Down the Horse. They are a good live band too.
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    pearlzepfanpearlzepfan Posts: 456
    libragirl wrote:
    I like them a lot i always thought they were a good band but they kind of fizzled out after Bringing Down the Horse. They are a good live band too.


    They just waited way too long to put out their next album.
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    HailHailVitalogyHailHailVitalogy Posts: 4,535
    Their 2nd album (I think it was the 2nd) was Breach

    That was an AMAZING album....

    Their most recent album is soso IMO...but I love them. I saw them in the city once and they were great.
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    DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    Bringing Down the Horse was the first album I ever owned. I remember getting the audiotape on my 8th birthday in '96. I was a pretty awesome kid, I must say. :)
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    red mosred mos Posts: 4,953
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    I heard most of the singles from Bringing Down the Horse and I like them.

    Plus, I may be the only one that likes their cover of Heroes.

    PBM
    I agree. Bring down the horse is a great album, and the Wallflowers are a really great live band. I saw them co- headline with the Counting Crows and was impressed. I feel bad for Jakob though cause the concert review in the paper criticized him saying that he needed to write songs on his father's level or something like that. I mean, come on, Bob Dylan is the shit, but they are two different people playing totally different styles of music.
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    pearlzepfanpearlzepfan Posts: 456
    HailHailVitalogy wrote:
    Their 2nd album (I think it was the 2nd) was Breach

    That was an AMAZING album....

    Their most recent album is soso IMO...but I love them. I saw them in the city once and they were great.


    "Breach" is actually their third album
    They released a self-titled album in 1992.
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    Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    Thanks for the help guys!!

    I think I'll pick up Breach and let ya know what I think :)
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

    "Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

    .NJD.
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    Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    So I bought "Breach" today and it's pretty good.

    I've only got throught the first lik4 songs but I like it :)

    I forgot that Ben Harper's current guitar player Michael Ward played with The Wallflowers and he's on this album .....I love Ben Harper, I just didn't even clue in :)
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

    "Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

    .NJD.
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