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If you don't mind getting a greatest hits, that 89/93 comp is a really good overview of their best stuff. --Mike

All of his records are great, but the one I connect with the most is From A Basement On The Hill (odd as it came together differently than he intended had he lived.). It's a great "dark night of the soul" album. I first became aware of him through the use of Needle in the Hay in the famous attempted suicide scene in Royal Tenenbaums. Elliott was also supposed to cover Hey Jude for the beginning of the film, but was not in the best shape while it was being made and they had to use a Mark Mothersbaugh version.

Huge fan. Still remember reading on the WOXY boards about his death while I supposed to be working in high school French class in the computer lab.

The AV Club's Gateways to Geekery weighs in. http://www.avclub.com/articles/steely-dan,70509/

Sounds really cool, I like it. --Mike

Yeah, I usually listen to the first two records a little more than the rest (Can't Buy a Thrill may be my favorite), but their entire seventies run (no none of the comeback albums count) is pretty impeccable. 60 percent of the text messages I have back and forth with my brother are Steely Dan lyrics. --Mike

Mr. Heartbreak, I kindly request you turn that jungle music down just until we're out of town.

Welcome to VC! Any Loose Fur fan is all right with me. My favorite two records Tweedy has been involved with are Summerteeth and the self-titled Loose Fur record (YHF is a close third). --Mike

Yeah, that version is my favorite one too. I love the acoustic/electric guitar layering on it. You can grab it here: http://wilcoarchive.com/wilco%2020020902/shn/d1/. It's track one. --Mike

In the 2002-2003 shows they kicked a few more arrangements of it around as well, here's what they called the "arena rock" version:

If they retired all of Wilco The Album and Sky Blue Sky (except for You Are My Face, Seeds, & On and On and On), I wouldn't mind all that much.

Here's a favorite deep cut of mine from Davy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6cpo_5lMWs

Usually on my ipod either in the house or in the car. I listen to most of the albums all the way through and have a few my favorite songs sprinkled in with different playlists. With the exception of the YHF Demos, which I almost consider a separate album in and of themselves, I am not quite as compelled to listen to live/bootleg stuff as much as I used to be, but I'll still pop on an old live gig every once and awhile. --Mike

That sounds incredible. Eureka is a favorite record of mine. Don't quite have the funds or the time to head over to Japan for this but hopefully someone with a recording device will capture at least Jim's set. --Mike

Beatles Nick Drake The Kinks David Bowie The Zombies The Rolling Stones Radiohead Brian Eno XTC My Bloody Valentine Plus: The Move Kevin Ayers Syd Barrett John Cale The High Llamas

Bought this in December way over due to actually sit down and read it.

Hummingbird might work as an inspiration for a great road story. I write a lot to Wilco particularly the Wilco Book CD, but I haven't really done anything about them yet.

Yeah, I agree. And I'd actually take Jerry Harrison out of this, I don't recall ever seeing him too upset in the press about the band's break up. It's the Weymouth/Frantz household were Byrne's name is really mud. But if I had to play Wordy Rappinghood 100 nights a year, I'd be pretty irritable too. --Mike

When the three forced Eno out of the producer's role after Remain in Light, I think it sealed their eventual fate, that Byrne was going to eventually abandon them. Byrne and Eno two of them were so in the pocket in that time. While I can understand Chris and Tina feeling like session men in their own band, sometimes you have to adapt when something is really working creatively or risk pulling a Mike Love. While I am not going to forward an old idea a professor of mine, who was a massive TH fan had, that Byrne should have just let Frantz and Weymouth walk in the eighties and kept making reco

I mean where else do you get Tweedy as Simon Cowell, Scott drunkenly stumbling through the most awesomely off-key rendition Mellow of My Mind I've ever heard, and Karen Green shredding on violin in an early "At Least That's What You Said?" It's amazing to hear the ping-ponging between the total shambles long banter rants of Scott's interspersing the loose musical brilliance of this set. Very happy we have this one and the 4/30/2003 Minus 5/Wilco set (with Jim O'Rourke making an appearance) on the archive. Do you want to? I don't know where to point you if you have a PC, but I use this

Do me a favor and give this show a shot? http://wilcoarchive.com/Minus%205%20Wilco%202003-04-17.shn/. If it's not your thing, that's more than okay, but it's one of my favorite Wilco related live shows from the era and one of the most fun, loose gigs they ever played. The first half is mainly Down With Wilco stuff with a few covers and then Jeff leads the band through some early versions of A Ghost is Born tracks in the encores. --Mike

Yeah, I can hear that. Little bit of All Things Must Pass-era George and Plastic Ono Band on the darker stuff. --Mike

I think I voted for The Talking Heads or the Byrds in the "greatest American band of all time" poll we had here awhile back. The three records they made with Eno and the two live albums are perfect. I feel bad for the other three Heads and I'm not anti-reunion, per se, but Byrne was probably right to put the band on ice. They had a great run, they were probably just at the edge of making records that weren't very interesting anymore (all due respect to fans of the deep cuts on True Stories and Naked), and Byrne's heart wasn't in it. I'd be happy to see them on a reunion tour if everyone's i