thisyearsgirl
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It says it is from Summer '08 and is with Andrew Bird...off-hand, does anyone know what show this is from?
I also think it is funny that it is credited to "Andrew Bird & Wilco"...whatever.
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Not a Wilco song, but how about a Tweedy-related song?
My husband (CKC on here
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I know. It's hard to imagine, isn't it? However, I've enjoyed myself at shows at both venues, so the "sound thing" probably means more to others than to me.
I wish some of these dates had been this summer, before it's back to the classroom. I don't foresee this being an approved field trip.
I think the same thing: Hope I don't get sick this year, because all of my school personal days are going to concerts! -
I had a good time last night and did record the show. To my knowledge I was the only one. The previous comments about the sound were pretty accurate. It is a boomy room with poor acoustics and it is reflected in the recording. Stan did a great job and after the first two songs, he got it sounding better, but it is just not an ideal venue for music. All that said, it is very listenable and besides, there weren't be any other sources! The torrent can be found on etree:
Man, the recording was EXCELLENT! Not a ton of talkers around you, eh? I think you did a really stellar job, especially since the acoustics were less than ideal. Still, what energy! What a crowd! What a band!
Thank you SO, SO much for giving us a chance to hear the show again!
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Wow, that's a helluva lot of info on Chicago....
But nothing on a hotel close to this venue. Only thing I've come up with is Super 8. Would love any other suggestions but seems to be closet choice....and I'm not staying in the international youth hostel!
Sorry I'm getting to this late, but there's a great modern B&B that's cute and reasonable called House 5863. It's a half of a mile from the venue.
Just a thought. I run by it every day, and plan on putting family up there if the need comes up.
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Man I wish I had a money tree...
Yeah, because then you could buy tix AND not have to work. If I came into a great amount of money and had the energy I have now, I think I'd chuck it all in and just go to concerts all the time.
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In the Spin picture posted previously here, I see that the Tweedy's have the Seeburg jukebox of my dreams. I have been wanting one my entire life. Someday...
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I'm curious to see what other spots they'll hit in the Midwest, but a GA floor (assuming...) show in St. Paul would be hard to miss.
A Friday night too?!? So tempting!
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Scored another pair of tix, they started to go on sale at around 9:55 AM.
Let's hope that screws up the scalpers!
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Wilco at Superdawg!Awesome! I can't wait for my Spin to get here. Thanks, Dude.
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I've been tryiong to think of what that tune was all day. Thanks. I was thinking it was something off of this:
I thought it was "Cissy Strut" by The Meters.
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It was kind of disappointing that one of the stage girls didn't get the hint from Pat on what the rhythm for California Stars was, but I'm pretty sure everyone inside the theater felt good about the entire night of reciprocations.
The arrhythmic girl was not one of the "stage girls" pulled up on stage by the band...She and another girl came up on their own a bit later and crashed the party.
Why am I telling you this? I was one of the girls pulled up there and don't want to be known as having no rhythm!
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What an odd thing to find on iTunes! You can listen to the song (and his others) on lala.com.
This probably goes unsaid, but it's terrible.
However, if you're curious about the rest of the lyrics, they're along these lines:"Jeff Tweedy
You're a rock and roll genius
Jeff Tweedy
You're the mastermind behind Wilco
And Wilco is the best band in the world
Wilco is what Radiohead wishes it could be if it wasn't so computerized and icy."
...then the Billy Bragg and record company/album lines referenced in the original post as well as an "I wonder if the record company did that on purpose to build hype" line or two
It ends with
"Jeff Tweedy
I want you to be my friend
Jeff Tweedy
I want you to be my friend
my number is 606-784-2349" (or whatever the actual numbers were)
I also listened to the Wesley Willis track. Wesley would have been incredibly disappointed.
That's too bad. Wesley rocked it. This guy WISHES he could be as cool as Wesley.
Anyway, I love the phone number part. Hilarious. Thanks for filling in the blanks!
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Oh god, yes.
Wow. Yeah, I've never seen anything that strongly worded. Very odd, and very disappointing. I'll live through the descriptions, though.
It did pretty much say everything except having to give up your first born.
I take these warnings seriously since the time I went to an Elvis Costello show a few years back (when camera phones were less common and really not good for any sort of detailed photography) and security actually told you to either take your phone back to your car or throw it away!!! They really meant it too!
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Yesterday, I was at my neighborhood Borders and saw Tweedy on the cover of a songwriting magazine. I checked out the article and saw Jeff remarked that he had recorded another track for the I'm Not There soundtrack. Since I love the "Simple Twist of Fate" cover, and I already own the CD, I got on iTunes this morning looking to see if the other song appeared on an extended version of the soundtrack. The answer is no, but I did find a really weird CD by someone named The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan. The artist has all song titles referencing musicians on this album, called Songs about Musicians. Titles include the following:
"Brian Wilson's Masterpiece"
"Thom Yorke Needs to Lighten Up"
"Ben Folds, You Use Too Many Bad Words in Your Songs"
"Keith Richards is Never Gonna Die"
"The Edge is Annoyed with Bono"
I could go on...
Anyway, there is a song called "Jeff Tweedy". The clip on the site has these lyrics:
"You are your kinda guy
You're not just gonna lay down and do whatever Billy Bragg tells you to when you're recording Woody Guthrie songs together
Oh, Jeff Tweedy
Everybody talks about how you have this brilliant album that the record company refused to put out"
Yikes. If anybody buys the song, please let us know what else this guy says because it is pretty funny in a Wesley Willis sort of way...strangely enough, he has a song called "Wesley Willis" too!
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It was mentioned before, but mine is definitely:
"This is an aural arms open wide
A sonic shoulder for you to cry-i-i-i on"
I also love the alliteration I've noticed in different places on the album. I teach HS English, and I used to use "Fickle finger of fate" as my example, but I might switch to "All you fat followers get fit fast" this year. On a similar note, there's some awesome imagery on this album as well that I might use in class.
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hmm, now WHY on earth was ELT the top requested song that show drew??
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I had a good time last night and did record the show. To my knowledge I was the only one. The previous comments about the sound were pretty accurate. It is a boomy room with poor acoustics and it is reflected in the recording. Stan did a great job and after the first two songs, he got it sounding better, but it is just not an ideal venue for music. All that said, it is very listenable and besides, there weren't be any other sources! The torrent can be found on etree:
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Dude!
Didn't get to say goodbye to you or Stacy. Seriously couldn't have asked for a better time with friends and our favorite band. I loved turning around every few minutes and seeing you rock out. It's been too long since our last concert together!
Let's do it again this weekend at The Wrens!
I am speechless. Literally. My voice is gone. I left it at the ROMT. I've never had that much fun at any other Wilco show.
In A Future Age and the rest of the Summerteeth songs were such a suprise and treat. Fortunately, we were up front so the crowd chatter was not an issue during the quieter moments.
Great to see everyone again - a nice Residency week reunion of sorts.
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Yay, Drew! Please come hang with us again. You made the night so much more fun!
P.S. Your picture that Erin took with Mr. Cline looks great!
Yep, a fantastic show. I've never seen them having so much fun up there and the songs just kept coming.
I used to think the same thing too, but after seeing them again last night, those songs are just so fun to sing along to. And getting to see Jeff absolutely tear it up and stomp about the stage on I'm The Man Who Loves You is great.
Great meeting all you fellow VC folks- Paul, Jen, Chris, Erin, and Kalle.
By far the best show I've been to. Great crowd, great energy, great set, great show. Couldn't have asked for more.
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there was nobody to collect the fee at the parking garage after the show - score free parking!
Awesome, right? We were so excited when we were told just to go through! Just another happy surprise on an unbelievably perfect and surreal day!
Thanks to the band for taking care of their fans and putting on such an awesome show. (Probably one of the best out of the many I've been privileged to experience!) We know that you all have to be wicked tired after crossing the U.S. and coming back again, but, as always, you brought all of your energies and talents together in such an amazing way that old fans were reminded why they keep coming back for more and new fans realized that they may have just found their new favorite live band.
Thanks as well to my friends and all of the other fans that made this night one of the greatest ones of my life. Friends that Wilco together do truly stay together! Let's do it again soon!
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Made my JenCo shirt already!
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Any show with "Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)" is all right by me!
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Couldn't find this elsewhere on here, so here it is. I don't know if it is new or not, but I picked up the Time Out this morning:
What a bum-out it’d be to see Haruki Murakami penning Hi and Lois or Gerhard Richter painting Precious Moments figurines. Ridiculously creative artists should not be reduced to playing with their medium’s basest forms. Upon hearing Wilco’s latest, a heart sinks when Nels Cline lends his jazzy art-rock finger-scrambling to a Tom Petty knockoff or quirky percussionist Glenn Kotche ditches his dense drum workouts for tepid toe-tapping.
The sorta-eponymous seventh from the reigning Chicago rock champs is a warm, hypoallergenic bath of an album. Mellow-but-upbeat ballads and breezy midtempo rockers fill out the brief wheel-spinning record that rehashes the past couple of releases with diminishing returns.
Among the pleasant soft rock, only four tracks stand out. Unfortunately, two of them—the cheeky cheer-up “Wilco (The Song)” and the saloon-piano stomper “You Never Know”—mimic ’70s classics “Werewolves of London” and “My Sweet Lord.” The other highlights evoke the pretty experimentalism of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Not coincidentally, Jeff Tweedy’s poetry shines brightest on these as well. “I’m in a bull-black Chevy Nova,” the frontman mutters with paranoia as the band envisions Steely Dan as Berlin beatniks on “Bull Black Nova.”
But the beautiful “Deeper Down” is the real gem. “By the end of the bout / He was punched out / His capsized muscles shouting / Deeper down,” sighs Tweedy with the hard-boiled poeticism of Raymond Chandler reading over a chamber ensemble. Plucks and strums tick and interlock in complicated, golden clockwork.
Everything else struggles to capture the same level of detail. The conservative dad-pop framework confines Cline’s guitar in a pressure cooker. In each song, when the L.A. axman finally gets the chance to lay down lines, his notes trill with pent-up restlessness. The solos in “One Wing” and “Sonny Feeling” dart and hum like pesky mosquitoes. Can’t blame them, looking for any sign of flesh or swamp. After the similarly disappointing Sky Blue Sky, with the bar still merely set at pleasant, Wilco seems content to remain LeBron James dunking on a Nerf hoop.
Sing live-band Wilco karaoke at the Hideout’s album-release party on Monday 29.
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Way to teach your children well, Mr. Hamm.