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Yeah, for some reason that's the stuff that's grabbed me this time around. Probably because I'd been listening to a lot of Tweedy acoustic shows the last couple of weeks. I need to listen to side one of Being There and then spin this thing and see if I can get as excited about Hate it Here. Edit: Shit I just realized my favorite song on Side One of Being There is Far, Far Away. I guess I have a softer side, I still windmill along during I'm a Wheel, scream along with Kingpin, and my favorite Uncle Tupelo song is We've Been Had. --Mike

If I had to pick one it'd be Please Be Patient With Me, with Sky Blue Sky as a close second. --Mike

No prob. Jay too me, to use the Stones analogy, is a bit more like Wilco's Brian Jones. The Stones did some excellent stuff without Brian, but there was an element that he brought to their sound that was unreplaceable. I feel the same way about Jay. It doesn't really matter that they've found a better guitar player, or that Leroy and later Mike and Pat could replicate or better his keyboard parts, they'll probably never find a guy that could write with Tweedy as well as Jay did. He understood him on a pretty deep level, and more often then not knew exactly what he could do to make the songs be

Well it's been five and a half years since Bennett was ousted, and the band has certainly done some incredible stuff without him, but it's hard not to get a little nostaglic listening to Summerteeth, Foxtrot or the Foxtrot demos. It would be a welcoming development if he was brought back into the fold, though I have a feeling we'd sooner see Taylor Hicks the lineup before Jay returns. But shit J. Mascis and Lou Barlow made up, so anything can happen. --Mike

The best guitar album Wilco made in my opinion is A Ghost is Born, which had neither Bennett or Cline. --Mike

Good not great. --Mike

That's one of my favorites. Good pick. I've neglected the genius of Mr. Bill Callahan for way too long. Wilco needs to get Jim O'Rourke to use his mad skills on the hurdy gurdy on their next realease. --Mike

As usual I agree with everything Speed Racer says --Mike

Yeah that's one of the things I miss from YHF and AGIB, Glenn's stuff is pretty straight forward throughout and he's barely on Patient With Me (I do here vibes towards the end). I'd have liked to here a little more of him in the mix as well. --Mike

No I think they're one of the biggest influences, along with the Band and a little bit of Steely Dan on a few tracks as well. I've listened a couple of times, I don't think it matches Ghost or Yankee for me, but it's more consistent then Ghost and overall it's a lot more immediate. Sky Blue Sky and Please Be Patient With Me are devine and the only song I wasn't really taken with seems to be the one everyone really likes, Hate it Here. So it's certainly going to take a couple of more listens for me to pass anything near final judgement, but so far so good. I'd really like a track to just grab m

Man that was fantastic. --Mike

Excellent news what a great way to spend the last night of Spring Break. Five hours and counting --Mike

Excellent, excellent connection. I hadn't thought of that, but I just listened to The Man and Walken back to back, good call there. And there's certainly some Little Feat in there as well. --Mike

Yeah the sound is perfect, I'm getting a lot of rumble on some of the bass parts, but that's probably because I'm listening on pretty shitty computer speakers. But the songs are all great, I could listen to Walken all day, Either Way sounds heavenly, and You Are My Face is the perfect combination of the first part of Wreckroom and Muzzle of Bees. From these three songs it sounds like they took everything that made Ghost great, warmed the sound up a bit, and then told Nels to go nuts. I have a feeling Sky Blue Sky is what I'm going to be reaching for the mornings after I'm up all night listenin

I love all three of these, I can't wait for the whole thing to leak. I think our boys have done it again. --Mike

Fortunately, Daniel adds interesting and often hysterical content to his posts, rather then harping on the same 3 or 4 complaints each time around, unlike the starter of that other thread --Mike

Because the songs weren't written at the same time the ones for YHF were written. --Mike

It would be impossible if O'Rourke was in Germany, but just unlikely Japan. I had to do it. --Mike

This record is perfect for me at the moment, I love this band. --Mike

Revolver has been number one for me pretty much ever since I got it for my 13th birthday, though both Abbey Road and Rubber Soul have flirted with knocking it out of the top spot. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Bryter Layter, VU and Nico, In the Aeroplane Over The Sea and Pet Sounds are all up there as well. And at the moment my favorite record is Electro Shock Blues by the Eels, which I've essentially lived inside for the past four weeks. --Mike

For awhile I felt that the new material was more of a "bunt instead of a grand slam", as Dennis Wilson aptly described Smiley Smile, but Either Way has really grown into one of my favorite cuts and Impossible Germany, Shake it Off, Side With The Seeds, Sky Blue Sky, and Be Patient With Me are all excellent editions to the cannon. And while Walken is pretty simple, it's still a kick ass song that's improved everytime they've done it. It has four monster albums preceding it and it wasn't really until Impossible Germany that I heard a song I personally prefered to anything (aside from I'm a Whee

Yeah and with just the trial you can still convert to WAV as long as you keep the software, which will burn with almost any music program. --Mike

It's good but without Leroy Bach's piano stylings (check it out on any bootleg from 2002-2003 or on disc two of I Am Trying To Break Your Heart), this one isn't quite the same. --Mike

Monday was the itunes exclusive and can actually be purchased as a single track, I think. (Usually itunes' bonus tracks require you to purchase the entire album to get). How To Fight is the music today bonus. I've never heard anything about Kingpin from any of those nights surfacing. But there are plently of great versions of it circualting from the 2004-2006 shows. --Mike