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Revolution 9 was meant for mono!

I love "Good Morning Good Morning"

Please Please Me / The Beatles With The Beatles / The Beatles A Hard Day's Night / The Beatles Beatles For Sale / The Beatles Help! / The Beatles Rubber Soul / The Beatles Revolver / The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / The Beatles Will I get through all the Mono remasters today? (Yes, yes I will.)

Wowee, I was just going to say that. Listening to "Tomorrow Never Knows" as I type.

you make me dizzy miss lizzy

Finally got my hands on my Mono Box, after listening to Please Please Me: totally worth it.

Some indie labels are still fairly priced, single LPs usually $12. Thrill Jockey has a base price of $13 for double LPS. I realize Wilco has a larger company on its back, but it's a little steep for single albums stretched over two discs.

http://news.cnet.com...0355448-93.html

Thanks for linking that. Good article, though I wish it was a flat out transcribed interview. I want to hear more about why his Drag City albums are physical copies-only, which I doubt simply reduces to a "stand" against compression (as if "The Visitor" is going to change the tide of music consumption).

Wilco LPs are too expensive.

The section about the motion-capture remake made me throw up in my mouth.

Going through it song by song has convinced me Rubber Soul is one of their best. My only complaint is that "Wait" sounds like a straggler which, if I remember the Anthology interviews correctly, it was.

Radiohead messageboard ateaseweb has a Beatles remaster thread 4x as long as Via Chicago's, and it's so much more illegal... Bobbob -- nice article, but I have to make a slight disagreement and put Paul's bass at a close second to Ringo's drumming. The remasters are so much more percussive- drums and pianos are no longer heard as if through a concrete wall. Listening to the Abbey Road medley yesterday, I was simply thrilled to hear Ringo kicking so much ass.

Generally I'm waiting for my Mono box, but I listened to a few stereo remasters today, such as "Old Brown Shoe" since it's stereo only, holy holy something it sounds great!

Also their ability to make fans say "meh"!

Speaking of Radiohead, I came across two news items today about the band that I had polar opposite reactions to. First, I read Jonny Greenwood speaking sense about mp3's. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2009/09/dithering-jonny-greenwood.html Second, Yorke and Greenwood are releasing 2 songs on a 12" vinyl that's over $16, which seems unreasonable until I realize the mp3s will probably be cheap as free.

Today so far: The Fiery Furnaces / I'm Going Away Jason Lytle / Yours Truly, The Commuter

Looking forward to this more than the Beatles remasters! 09/08/09 is where it's at.

Today: Jason Lytle / Yours Truly, The Commuter Radiohead / Hail To The Thief Pavement / Wowee Zowee Animal Collective / Merriweather Post Pavilion

If anyone has an mp3 of this? I'm searching the blog-o-sphere with no luck.

One is instructed to play Transmissions from the Satellite Heart by The Flaming Lips at maximum volume on the CD sleeve. So I'll say: Slow Nerve Action.

PlayStation 3!

I once got to play one of my songs for Tweedy before a Wilco show. He asked me if anyone else had heard it, I said no, and then Tony handed me a briefcase full of money! I'm glad it's in the right hands but I've always wondered if I could have got more money from the Kit-Kat people if I sang it as "Break It Off".

I ordered the Mono Box today, I just couldn't stand letting it pass me by. I figure I'll be able to get the stereo remasters at my leisure. Tower said it couldn't process my order, and I tried more times than I'd like to admit though it was sketchy sketchy. Successfully ordered through Barnes&Noble, though I dislike that particular company and they "projected tax"ed the hell out of me. It's a little unreasonable for me to be spending this amount of money at this time, so...it better be good, Beatles.

W(TF) is right. These are the top 500 tracks Pitchfork want to talk about, presented by Haagen Dazs. Fun, delicious, but a joke. Songs have nothing to do with it, it's a barometer of relevance that doesn't extend beyond the bubble of internet music journalism. All three Wilco entries are from the span of time Wilco was relevant to said bubble.