jakobnicholas

I got Abbey Road and Past Masters. The songs on Past Masters are really all the proof needed as to how great and prolific the Beatles were. Not only are their albums great, but their singles are arguably equally great. This Boy, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine, I'm Down....ALL superb. We Can Work It Out and Day Tripper were teamed up on a double-A-side single. Paperback Writer and Rain were paired up. Hey Jude and the rocked-out version of Revolution were put out together. Their output in 7 years is truly mind-boggling.

For me, Being There and Summerteeth are screwdrivers or pliers....I use them the most. A Ghost is Born and YHF might be the hammer or tape measure. W(TA) is the caulking gun.

Thanks for compiling all this. It's a pretty great list. Of the 25 songs, 20 are Wilco songs. Of the other 5: - 2 Uncle Tupelo (Gun, New Madrid) - 1 Golden Smog (Radio King) - 2 Loose Fur (Laminated Cat, Chinese Apple) That's a fair list of songs, though they're not my personal favorite Tweedy songs in those bands. (I think Wreckroom is his most INTERESTING Loose Fur song....even if maybe not as lyrically great as the 2 on the list). Were there other non-Wilco songs that rated high? To me, a Top 20 Tweedy song list MUST include a March, 1992 song. And I think All the Same to Me is

The Big Star records are great. Alex Chilton, rightly so, is the name most associated with the group. But Chris Bell's contribution on #1 Record is huge. Bell was supposedly fighting depression and/or a bad relationship, evidenced in emotionally strong songs like "Feel", "Don't Lie To Me" and "My Life is Right". Chilton was more sunny with songs like "The Ballad of El Goodo" and "Watch the Sunrise". Radio City is a great pop record. Bell was supposedly devestated that #1 Record received virtually no commercial success and left the band. He also supposedly didn't like that Chilton was start

It's so true. I dug out my Beatles Anthology Vol. 1 yesterday, and even hearing their "bad" versions of songs makes me realize how truly special they were. The Anthology version of And I Love Her is AMAZING. Sometimes I think I can listen to the Abbey Road medley 20 times a day for a whole year and never not be stunned by its brilliance.

Yes. When actually listening to the song, it DOES really bother me. I know you're not suggesting You Never Know is on the level of Misunderstood. 'Cause that would really be silly. (You're not are you. ) To me, Wilco's work from A.M. to A Ghost is Born is almost unquestionable...it really seemed that with each effort (including Mermaid and b-sides and work in other bands), Jeff and the band were really striving for something great and/or special and/or thrilling and/or fun. Sky Blue Sky was a very worthy effort, though I got a tiny sense that they were taking the foot off the throttle

It IS all silly. And it's a little embarrassing to spout out what I think is wrong with something...as if I know better than the artist. But isn't that's what these forums are for? Isn't that's what's fun? It's like seeing a movie by a favorite director, then spending the next week talking with somebody how you liked the movie but wished they did this or didn't do that. Or watching a football game and screaming at the TV, "why the f*ck are you running on 3rd and 12....pass the ball you dipshits!". To me, it's very similar to listening to an album. I so badly wanted One Wing to end in a

I think Tweedy's Loose Fur songs are phenomenal....especially Hey Chicken, Laminated Cat and Wreckroom. I think Sonny Feelling is a shitty song and would rank it in the bottom 2 percent of any Wilco/Tweedy song ever. So, yeah, I AM stupified that someone could really like a song that I think is crap. But Transformers 2 was pretty terrible, yet has made over 800 million worldwide. We all have different tastes...sometimes WAY different.

I disagree but respect your opinion on the first 4. But the last 2 leaves me stupified. Wow.

Then I guess I prefer Tweedy when he just "spits them out". Sorry, but W(TA) couldn't hold the jock of Tweedy's Loose Fur songs: Hey Chicken Laminated Cat You Were Wrong Wanted The Rulling Class An Ecunomical Matter Wreckroom Chinese Apple

I think on W(TA), Wilco "stuck with the formula", which is why I and many others find it just kinda so-so overall. Most songs on W(TA) make me think of past Wilco songs that are much better. It sucks for Wilco, but they've created their own monster. After a long string of very rewarding, challenging, unique music, for some of us this new record sounds like treading water. That's not saying it's a bad record. It just doesn't raise the bar higher. In some cases it lowers the bar. Bull Black Nova and Solitaire are the 2 songs that make me feel the Wilco magic. Those are the only songs where I f

I would agree with you if I thought that they did, in fact, release an album FULL of good songs. Sky Blue Sky, though maybe not a great album, sounded fresh. I didn't care much for Shake it Off or Walken, but they did have fascinating bits. And the more direct, simple songs seemed unique to Wilco because of their uplifitng lyrics. I find much of W(TA) to be just be mediocre. You Never Know, Sonny Feeling and I'll Fight are very mediocre and unremarkable "rockers" when compared to past Wilco rockers. The uplifting and 'pretty' songs (You and I, Everlasting Everything) are OK, but sound a

You oviously hate Brett Favre and/or hate his prima donna-like perception and/or hate all the offseason back and forths he's had with his not retiring then retiring then not retiring again. That's all fair. But Favre's not a cheap-shot kind of player. He found himself in a bad spot, and did what he thought would help protect himself. It was more of "oh, shit, I'm gonna get pummeled so I better twist my body to take the hit as safely as possible" than "I'm goonn hit that guy in his knees". Wouldn't be surprised if the NFL drops a little fine on him to send a message. The story isn't the

I agree with all that. Bull Black Nova and Solitaire, to me, are the only songs where it SOUNDS like Wilco really attempted something special. Too much of the rest are mostly pleasant songs, but have a safe-ness about them that I can't really explain. One Wing is a very good song, but comes up a little short. Wilco (The Song) is a very good rocker with very solid lyrics, but it's hard not think they weren't doing a 2009 version of a Summerteeth rocker. I found an old review of R.E.M.'s "Reveal" that was written by a critic named Scott Wilson. He defended "Reveal" in his review...not say

The play was WAY over-blown by the announcers. Favre looked clueless as to how to actually block a guy. He was waist level, and to avoid getting hit on his throwing shoulder, he kind of twisted and dropped to make it appear worse than it actually was. Favre didn't look like he was purposely cheap-shotting the guy. The bigger question is why the hell did the Vikings call a play to have their Hall of Fame, $12 million quarterback BLOCK....in a freakin' pre-season game?! Dumb!

I think Denver made the right move to get rid of Shanahan. BUT....hind-sight 20/20, I'd think most Denver fans would rather have Shanahan/Cutler/Marshall. McDaniels has a lot of work to do. Orton just looks like most NFL QB's. Cutler has the look of a franchise QB. Time will tell. San Diego WILL under-achieve, but will almost surely win the West. I'd be shocked if Denver, KC or Oakland got to 9 wins.

Jay Bennett just rolled over.

Uh....yeah, I know. It seemed like a HUGE mistake by McDaniels then, and after last night, it seems 10 times HUGER (is that a word?) Looking like a little kid in a Bill Belichek uniform surely can't help the perception that he's in over his head. Denver got tired of Shanahan's controlling ways, but might it be better to have Shanahan and Cutler (and a happy Brandon Marshall), than an inexperienced coach, a mediocre-at-best QB and a pissed off all-pro reviever? (As a Chiefs fan, I'm loving all of it. Kansas City will probably suck this year. But Denver may suck worse.)

Josh McDaniels looks like a kid dressing up as Bill Belichek for Halloween. I understand he likes wearing sweatshirts, but why must he look like mini-B? None of this matters, of course, but he's surely under a microscope in Denver after the Jay Cutler debacle. Orton DID NOT look close to the level of Jay Cutler last night.

For me, W(TA) has some great Wilco songs...Wilco (The Song), One Wing, Bull Black Nova and Solitaire. But much of the rest is just so-so. SBS was fairly similar...I'd put its best songs with some of Wilco's best (Either Way, Impossible Germany, Sky Blue Sky, On and On and On). But as a whole, it leaves me kinda flat.

I found this at Beatlesnews.com: With only two weeks to go now before the Beatles Remastered hits store shelves, we have now heard from many readers, and have confirmed, that the Beatles Remastered Mono Box Set, which will be available in limited quantities, is no longer available for pre-order on the web sites of Best Buy, Costco and Wal-Mart. We do see that Best Buy is now listing the Mono Box as being available as an "Import", however, it is listed with a retail price of $703.98 and a sale price of $563.18. (The final Amazon price for the Mono Box set was $229.49.) In addition, Best Buy

Which specific albums are you all most wanting to hear remastered? The mono Sgt. Pepper's would be AWESOME to hear. I'll be buying a new Abbey Road for sure. You think Walmarts and Targets will sell-out the sets on the first day? Will they have mono sets in-store?

Well, he DID do that stellar cover of Waits' "Downbound Train". (That was a joke... ) I found a funny blurb I liked from the Beatles Songwriting Database website. This is Paul talking about the Rubber Soul song 'Girl': PAUL circa-1994: "It was John's original idea, but it was very much co-written. I remember writing 'the pain and pleasure,' and 'a man must break his back.' ...It was amusing to see if we could get a naughty word on the record. The Beach Boys had a song out where they'd done 'la la la la' and we loved the innocence of that and wanted to copy it but not use the same phr

Bingo. It was TOO real for me. Creeped me out big time.