TS: Knopfler/Harris vs. Sweet/Hoffs

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Tasteful.

Harmonies.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

Christ-on-a-mountain-bike-awful.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ is a GE Money Genie (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

The NPR crowd sure does love that Knopfler/Harris thing... Or they did until the new Dixie Chicks became the fashionable thing to buy after hearing about from other like-minded free-thinkers.

― vartman (novaheat), Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

i like the hoffs/sweet record. don't have a lot of interest in the other one. i guess i like fuzztone nostalgia more than fingerpicked ambience.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 25 June 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

On paper, I thought Sweet-Hoffs collaboration would be the better record. Despite a great track list, Under the Covers comes off a tad contrived and I don't think their voices complement each other. On the other hand, Knopfler and Harris' is a subtle grower and Emmylou's voice is a wonderful foil to Knopfler's.

― Matt MacInnis (Mitter), Sunday, 25 June 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

The Knopfler/Harris record is a brilliant record- unless of course you have poke holes in it so you feel like your cool cred stays intact. I haven't heard the other one.

― Anthony Lombardi (CCPO), Sunday, 25 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

unless of course you have poke holes in it so you feel like your cool cred stays intact

or maybe you just think it's worthy but a bit boring? like the notion that anyone w/differnt taste than you is a cool-cred poseur?

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 25 June 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

The NPR crowd sure does love that Knopfler/Harris thing
sure does smack of cool-cred consciousness....

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Sunday, 25 June 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet/Hoffs had excellent, excellent taste in material. I haven't heard the other yet.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 25 June 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe you just think it's worthy but a bit boring?

Then state that instead of the "NPR crowd" bullshit-

― Anthony Lombardi (CCPO), Sunday, 25 June 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

we've got some supportin' listeners here

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 25 June 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uh.edu/kuhf/images/totebag.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 25 June 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I lsiten to NPR everyday. and I don't follow the crowd but there IS such a thing as an NPR sensibility, y'know Nic Harcourt kinda shit

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 25 June 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

the phrase "The NPR crowd sure does love that Knopfler/Harris thing... Or they did until the new Dixie Chicks became the fashionable thing to buy after hearing about from other like-minded free-thinkers." doesn't exactly scream "non-provocative, justified use of "the npr crowd" as a demographic term.

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 25 June 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

hey I didn't write that in the first place.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

But it's true.

― vartman (novaheat), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

well there's that.

I just get annoyed by this "artists of quality and the trendy little shitz who can't appreciate them" trope.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that's a shitty one, but so is "boring old fuddy-duddies that only the lame-os who listen to npr like"

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

there are things by both emmylou and knopfler that i love dearly, and i have expressed that on other threads. i've heard one track off the new record, thought it was about what i'd expect of such a collaboration at this point in their careers, and didn't have a lot of interest in hearing more. (i can also totally understand someone having the exact same response to sweet/hoffs.) none of which has to do with coolness or cred.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

These days, I'd expect to hear Sweet/Hoffs on NPR before Knopfler/Harris.

K'n'H are playing here this wednesday. I'm highly tempted. It couldn't be anything other than grebt, right? Even if it's tastefully grebt.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 26 June 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously though, Sweet/Hoffs is much more "Nic Harcourt kinda shit."

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 26 June 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

The thing about the Sweet/Hoffs thing is that, yeah, it is EXACTLY what you'd expect, but the surprise is how pleasant that turns out to be. I'm really looking forward to the 70s volume (or maybe a whole album of Bee Gees covers, please?)
Knopfler/Harris just sounds like it would be either a) precious b) boring.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

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