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They were still playing New Madrid every once awhile on the Sky Blue Sky tour, and We've Been Had was played pretty consistently up until the end of the YHF tour. Other than that Tupelo songs have been pretty rare in Wilco shows. I'd certainly have no problem with them giving a few of the Wilco songs they play every night up in favor of a few UT cuts, but if they like playing Walken more power to them. --Mike

This one's quite good.

I have this cued up on You Tube. . Saw this over the weekend, really love the final scenes:

I am about ready to plunge into this show, after seeing previews for it during Pulp Fiction/Traffic this weekend. --Mike

They already put out a greatest hits album, it looked like this:

O My Soul is just about perfect, isn't it?

Ugh. I can still remember grabbing the CD issue of #1 Record/Big City from the library when I was 17, it was one of those excellent music listening experiences where the material lived up to the raves I'd read about it. He lead one of the quintessential American bands, sang one of the greatest songs of the sixties, inspired my favorite Replacements song, shame to see this news. --Mike

Playing "the last great Wilco record" game is difficult, because who knows how the band is going be thought of down the road. Every record since YHF has gotten a pretty mixed reaction. And while I agree Ghost is miles above and beyond Sky and Wilco The Album, it's really hard to tell how we'll think of these things down the road. They're also not done yet, there are still Major League songs on SBS and WTA, even though overall AA is probably the best description. --Mike

Yankee is a perfect record for me. It has been since the minute I finally stopped listening to I Am Trying To Break Your Heart on repeat and gave the entire thing a listen. But Ghost was the record that transitioned Wilco from a band I really liked to a band I cared enough to post on their message boards, and listen to every thing they ever recorded. I became obsessed with Ghost in a different way than YHF, because Ghost isn't perfect to me. And I found that imperfection a little more interesting than Yankee. The fact that parts of the album didn't seem to fit, it started quiet, stayed quiet,

Good news, you can actually here it for yourself by downloading the Chelsea Walls theme from this show: Loose Fur Brooklyn Owl and Bear. It's a pretty longish instrumental around the main riff of the Chelsea Walls theme with a bit of Jim's Prelude to 110/220/Women of the World (the first song on Eureka) mixed in. I like it quite a bit, good driving music. --Mike

If it's anything like his version of Something Big, I'm certainly psyched.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLlg9LMPwnE&feature=related I miss Leroy.

I'm sorry, Jules.

I'd love to see an American pro-league adopt that system. There are too many teams in almost every pro-league anyway, it would be a pretty interesting twist. --Mike

Did you catch Derek Anderson's comments on his way out of Cleveland? Oy! Harsh words. Yes, I am trying to avoid further talk about my team's quarterback who's busy sexually assaulting college students. --Mike

I'll chip in to that thread, I have been playing with those songs on different ipod playlists for years. I have a double and a single album version. This is my personal favorite alt Ghost mix of all-time, dug up from the Via archives.:

I have shows from September-ish 2003 where they played Cars Can't Escape and Jeff talks about it being available on the internet then, maybe not officially. I'm pretty sure it's purely a YHF outtake, without any tweaks on it, the version sounds almost exactly like the one Jeff and Jay listen to in the cut scene from the documentary. Jay was given official credit on the itunes tag I have for that track, but it's possible I did that myself years ago and forgot about it. No, don't think so. I don't think anything was being officially released in 320 in those days, some of us were still o

This seems to be getting sadder and sadder... 2006 interview with Linkous:Feature: Sparklehorse Eulogy from Atheist Climber: There’s a Star For You – RIP Mark Linkous --Mike

It has to be heard to be believed. --Mike

I am pretty sure Tony M. had all of the copies destroyed.

5.) They were at their hottest, not as you'd expect playing in 100 degree midafternoon weather at Bonnaroo, but actually at the moment Jeff Tweedy wrote Poor Places. After all it was so hot in the poor places that night, he wasn't going outside. House rules prevent me from linking to anything on YouTube featuring Poor Places, but if you search for the I am Trying To Break Your Heart documentary on said website you can find the band rehearsing it. --Mike

4.) In this video they were at their most lukewarm. Seriously sky diving? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcaGlJGijj0

3.) They were also pretty cool here, because Letterman apparently keeps his stage rooms freezing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSZjVb4w7oc

2.) Wilco was pretty cool here in Germany in 2002, because it was raining that day and because former guitar tech wizard/tamborine man Jonathan "JP" Parker forgot to the turn down the air conditioning backstage. Sources close to us tell us it was in protest of the band not including Ziggy Stardust on the setlist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucce14GwwR0

After hours of research and Taco Bell dinners the department of Wilco research at the University of California-Monterey has released this report. 1.) Wilco was at its coldest during this performance, at the exact moment when Bob Egan falls into the snow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e7f-2hBFm8