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Upon video review... looks like they're all wearing the same clothes in both performances. They shot both songs at the same time. Oh the wonders of television. --Mike

Does John play keyboards on this song also? It seemed like there was a Korg to his far left. Maybe it was Pat's from One Wing. --Mike

Here's something I learned from tallying VC's votes on the most popular Jeff Tweedy songs last year, the least popular songs on Yankee are still in the 30-40 range of the songs for which people voted. They are all in the 90th percentile. I happen to think HMD is pretty tremendous myself, it's the great single on the album (even though I think it was actually War on War that was released as a single). --Mike

Nigel and David clearly... end of thread. --Mike

This is like ranking my favorite family members, but nonetheless if I can do that (all of Aunt Carol's stories have started to sound the same IMHO, Uncle Jim really fell apart after he fired Jay Bennett...) I can do this. 1.) The Royal Tenenbaums 2.) The Life Aquatic 3.) Rushmore 4.) The Darjeeling Limited 5.) Bottle Rocket 6.) Fantastic Mr. Fox. Fox was just about note perfect for what he was trying to do, and I found it very enjoyable, but almost by design it didn't quite have the emotional resonance of his other films. Bottle Rocket is hysterical, but the Inez scenes particularly her an

"We stink, stink!" : Bruce Drennan goes batshit over the Indians. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t9-DIKDGGA&feature=player_embedded#!

Here is my contribution. Forget about emancipation, It's just imagination http://www.divshare.com/download/launch/11283128-8df 1.) Neil Innes: Immortal Invisible 2.) Broken Social Scene: Cranley's Gonna Make It 3.) Smog: I Was a Stranger 4.) Rod Stewart: Mandolin Wind 5.) Fleetwood Mac: Hypnotized 6.) Genesis: Stagnation 7.) Mercury Rev: Sudden Ray of Hope 8.) Robby Poitevin: Bubba Dub Bosa 9.) The Moody Blues: Ride My See-Saw 10.) The Who: Pictures of Lily 11.) The Beatles: Baby You're a Rich Man 12.) Grizzly Bear (featuring Michael McDonald): While You Wait For the Others 13.) Yo La Ten

Well, I am all for anything that lets me talk about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Six times out of ten when I listen to Foxtrot, War on War is my favorite thing on it. It gets my vote. I just love the tune and the line "you have to learn how to die if you want to be alive." Kamera is tremendous as well, I can get lost in Glenn's percussion and the wall of sound guitars and keyboards and listen to it on repeat dozens of times. --Mike

. Weirdly enough I told my friend John something similar about WTA: "it's great, when you don't really listen to it." --Mike

Everyone by Van Morrison comes to mind for me, though almost entirely in the context of the end of Royal Tenenbaums. Doing this based on films can be dangerous of course because on paper Donovan's Atlantis is hardly a song you'd think would be great to kick someone's ass to, but after seeing Goodfellas it should be required background music for all bar fights. --Mike Oh also: Oh La La by the Faces, which works even out of the context of its usage in a Wes Anderson movie ending.

I was thinking he was asking which song on WTA do people here like the most? Which as with everything can be tricky to navigate as we all have vastly differing opinions. If I attempted to answer the question: What’s the consensus on Wilco (The Album). I think even as objectively as I tried ultimately I would favor my own opinion of the thing, which while shared by a number of people here, I don’t consider a consensus. My perception of WTA from reading these boards is that there aren’t quite as many outliers as there were with Sky Blue Sky and Ghost. People that really like WTA aren’t quite

Look let's not kid ourselves we all enjoy a good argument here now and then (even us moderating types), but I'd think if you got to an argument six months ago, you might not adore it if a uninvolved third party brought it up to try to egg you on. --Mike

It's pretty interesting to me at least, that it was only after they left Reprise, stopped making bad nineties music videos, letting David Kahn remix their singles, etc. etc. That they finally started selling records, though they're certainly not doing en masse. I have had Secret of the Sea stuck in my head since this was posted, it's an awfully catchy melody for sure. --Mike

Either it or Bull Black Nova. --Mike

Airline to Heaven and She's a Jar were in the Denis Johnson adaptation Jesus Son, awhile back. --Mike

Secret of the Sea has grown on me over the years, but it does seem odd that on a record with about two or three Wilco masterpieces on it (Mountain Bed, Airline, Someday Some Morning) they went with it. That would be like them playing You Never Know on television in support of Wilco The Album... oh wait a minute. --Mike

They may have already taped it actually. Though most of the interviews on that show are live, sometimes they film the musical acts in advance. I was listening to an interview with John Hodgman, who'd appeared with They Might Be Giants on Ferguson in December, and he explained that they filmed it in the last of week of October. So, yeah, the old One Wing might happen. I have to admit, I have only been half paying attention on this tour. So, what else from WTA could they do? That they haven't already played on television. --Mike

The production actually was pretty heavily derided/debated here when it leaked, so much so Jeff actually commented on it in some magazine several months ago. Hmm... I'm not so sure that's the case. You're right on about people harshly judging WTA in comparison to past Wilco works, but I am not sure it's Sky Blue Sky people want them to remake. That album has it's fans for sure, but very generally the biggest critics of WTA were also pretty big critics of SBS. A Ghost is Born and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the albums more people want to hear sequels too I think. --Mike

They're also in a little band called Yo La Tengo. --Mike

Goes through phases. Since about 2008-ish, I've probably been listening to Loose Fur even more than Wilco. I still have a lot of their stuff on my ipod/in my CD collection, but I'd put the percentage of how much I listen to them at a little under 10. It was as high as 75-80 in the 2004-2006 range of my life, when I was really actively trading, and before I realized how easy it was to download full albums on the interwebs. --Mike

Count me in.

Those are great, at first I wished he'd drop the weird "the narrator is a psycho killer" subplot, but in the Attack of the Clones piece it really started growing on me. Those movies are clusterfuck awful, and I can't wait to see what he does with Episode III which might be my least favorite of all them. --Mike

Looking Forward to Seeing You is quite delightful. I really like the Weird Tales album. --Mike

Okay, if you weren't around here last summer, there was this pretty hacky American Songwriter feature on the best twenty Tweedy songs. And it created like a 25 page thread about people complaining about how idiotic the list was, reading through that I felt inspired that rather than complaining about it, we could just make a better list. I opened a voting thread for about a month, and a lot of people voted on it, and these were the tallies. There was no editorial input on my part. I didn't break ties, I didn't count all the votes for songs I didn't like as halves (though if I Thought I Held You

It's a tough situation for the organization for sure. As a fan I'm trying to wrap my head around things, Holmes was part of what one of the highlights of my life as a sports fan (keep in mind the Steelers are the only team that I root for that actually win things), he is a great, great receiver. But that isn't the whole story with him, and I'm not sure if his current predicament should taint my positive memories of Super Bowl 43. Would you rather win with douche bags or not win at all? --Mike