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So what you're saying is there's still hope.

Love these guys, and thanks again to LouieB and GloNo for turning me onto them a few years back. You oughta still be able to get Month of Sundays pretty cheaply through Amazon. If you like Summerteeth, it's up your alley. I hope they find some label support or self-distribute online. I know it's got to be damn near impossible to make any money through record sales as a band at their level (and even bigger). But getting this stuff out there would be great. --Mike

It's a mafia term introduced in American pop culture by The Godfather: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/159900.html

Tough call my two favorite Wilco songs are Muzzle and War on War and both are track fours. Can I use Kicking Television? 1. Sunken Treasure 2. Hell is Chrome 3. Muzzle of Bees (Disc Two, KT) 4. War on War 5. Hummingbird 6. Ashes of American Flags 7. Pieholden Suite 8. Remember The Mountain Bed 9. Pot Kettle Black 10. Poor Places 11. One By One 12. When You Wake Up Feeling Old and the same last three you had.

I'd actually like to take his music to task. The fanbase could be full of the coolest people in the world and I would still hate all of his albums. I had plenty of exposure to his catalog in high school. I don't particularly like Jimmy Buffet, John Denver, Kenny G or third string jam bands. I really don't like the sound all of them blended together.

My CD copy has a couple of liner note errors as well, the lyrics of Daggers Drawn run twice and they aren't any for Groove Supply. --Mike

Yeah, I'm excited for the release of it. But one of the things I've always loved about Smile is it's fluidity, it never tangibly existed so it could be whatever you made out of the boots out there. David Thomas of Pere Ubu once said that Smile was “the only perfect record that was ever made, because it only existed in the imaginations of Brian Wilson’s fans… you would listen to all of the working tapes and you would assemble the perfect track from all these incomplete views of it in your head. And therefore it was perfect because it never existed." So an official release of the sessions ends

So how does Mike Love fuck up the release of this?

Paris 1919 is Cale's best, but Vintage Violence has always been a close second for me. This one is tremendous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDh1L2EvopI --Mike

Oh cool, they thanked someone from Wheeling during the pledge show last week. Since I finally started seriously listening to it last fall it's been one of my favorite things in the world. It's knocked just about every other podcast out of my rotation (in part because it's so long). But the comedy on it is great, you aren't going to get a 45 minute interview with a fictionalized version of Bernie Taupin as voiced by Jon Wurster anywhere else: Bernie Taupin

The Best Show on WFMU

If you want to bash the Camel album and the Sky one, you'll get no argument from me. But nothing on those records even comes close to the atrocity of Make Believe. --Mike

That's one of the best posts I've ever read here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJfP6G0LSEA

Parachutes Rush Of Blood X&Y Wilco the Album Viva La Vida

Kid A OK Computer In Rainbows The Bends King of Limbs Hail to the Thief Pablo Honey Amnesiac

You and I are on the same page on this one. Colin sounds great on this record, and Johnny's arrangements are all over it. Some of the songs meander a tad (a weird thing to say on a 38 minute album) but for the most part I find it really enjoyable. I know what a band in an artistic decline sounds like and to me King of Limbs is far from it. --Mike

Hmmm... I kinda like it, but I liked Eraser a lot too which may have something to do it with it. Bloom, Little by Little and Separtor are early favs.

I have heard this too, but I've also heard it's just a rumor so not sure what to believe. Apparently they don't want the tracklisting out until the album comes out. I am quite excited for it, I really really liked In Rainbows a lot, I know some people didn't dig it, but I thought it was good mix of a lot of the things I like about Radiohead's sound. --Mike

Love the first five Talking Heads albums and Stop Making Sense, the records they made with Eno are among the finest ever made in my opinion and Byrne/Eno have had some strong solo records as well. He isn't beloved by his former bandmates but I think given the quality of the last Talking Heads album, he did the right thing retiring the name.

I guess I have the advantage of Michael Stipe always looking something like that since I've been aware of his existence. --Mike

Michael Stipe, right?

Yes, the instrumental version on the YHF demos is just listed as Instrumental One, I believe. --Mike

Yeah, there are a few shows from the March 2002 run worth looking into. The 3-13-2002 House of Blues show is a soundboard, but there are a couple of drops in the boot. The 3-19-2002 Bolder show is also really amazing, one of the encores is side one of Being There and it concludes with the first full band Be Not So Fearful into Reservations. The Pittsburgh show from 2003 was my first Wilco concert, I've always loved that boot. Usually on the YHF tour, Jeff would start Ashes on acoustic and then switch to electric right as the keyboard noise kicked in at the "I'm down on my hands on knees eve