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couldn't stand waiting for it to come out on cd so i just bought it off Itunes- so check it out and buy it if you enjoy it (which you will because i don't think vic ruggiero has put out anything terrible)....

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damn.... i left it on my work computer and was hoping to use this to dl it when i got home- oh well i'll try again tomorrow....

This guy releases like three albums a year. They can't be that good.

This, like everything else he's ever done, is a really good album.

agreed. i have had a copy for a week now and have been listening non-stop. (check the last.fm)

I really enjoy the new versions of old material and an digging all the collaborations. Vic always puts out quality stuff and I am diggin this new one and the variety of musical styles that are employed on it.

For the first time ever, I requested tunes to be played at the slackers show in Ithaca. Included on the list were hopeful pleas for slackers versions of "love of confusion" and "Taking Care of Business" : D

You'd be surprised then. I like some of his stuff more than others, but I've never heard him put out crap. He just writes a lot.

Thanks for posting this go go gergie! Great, great stuff.

when's he coming back to the 'cuse? look like he will be back n the states for a bit. hint HINT.

And don't forget, we've had Vic Ruggiero solo before as well and he's said he'd like to play here again that way as well.

oh i haven't forgotten - can't wait to see it again was my aim here. : D

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing. I'm pretty sure I like this better than the Slackers.

i have been a slackers fan for 15 yrs now...yet i was just saying to a friensd of mine yesterday that i find vic's solo stuff way more infectous than the slackers lately.

As much as I love the Slackers, I think the solo stuff works better because he's not as confined to one sound (ska). The solo material gives him some room to try different arrangements with different musicians and I think it really works in his favor. I think Vic would be recognized as one of our generation's best songwriters if he wasn't fronting a ska band...

By the way, does anyone have the pre-Slackers garage stuff? I think the band was called the Nods. Been looking for it for a while...

I ganked it off of Mason's getfile. I'll figure out a way to get it to you.

Agreeable that vic is a sensational song writer and as zI mentioned above, hearing the different styles he employs in his songwriting make is albums memorable and intoxicating to me. But I do, however, love the slackers and his contributions to ska and reggae music. I feel his lyrics and musical compositions have a good voice with ska but I do see his folkier efforts and folky versions of slack material to be just as good or better in many ways.

...and the nods...yes i do. i can up it somewhere for you this weekend.
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