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Bumping this thread in hopes we can more some votes for this thing. Polls will be probably open for another two weeks. --Mike

In Order I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Misunderstood At Least That's What You Said Can't Stand It I Must Be High Wilco The Song Either Way. --Mike

Here's a great audio archive of various interviews, readings, etc that DFW did over the years, the Brief Interviews With Hideous Men audiobook as read by David was recently uploaded. The best places to start in my humble opinion are the all of the Bookworm Interviews and the this American Life McCain piece. --Mike

Studio, and it's not really close for me. --Mike

I am eventually going to plan a week around coming to LA to see a Brion Largo show. And if he's ever in Chicago again, now that I am within driving distance half the year, I'll be all over that as well. --Mike

About 2002, Jay isn't on it. I think Mike probably recorded it, and may have played the synths on it. Jeff is on the lead guitar, Leroy is playing the piano and he might be on the acoustic as well. John's playing the bass, Glenn's drumming. I like the early version a lot too, there's a slightly haunting quality about it. --Mike

I think your sense of humor might have been numbed by all that Michael Bay you've been watching. --Mike

O'Rourke's career path kind of reminds me of Brian Eno's. Excellent solo albums, he produced some of the best records of the last decade, he was a great sideman in Sonic Youth and to a lesser extent Wilco, he's been involved in a ton of interesting side projects. Like Eno, I tend to prefer the work a band or artist does with O'Rourke to the work they do without. As for this album, the song Insignifcance unfuckingbelievably good. I had this CD in my car the first month I was driving around St. Paul/Minneapolis getting acclimated with the city so a lot the songs kind of sync up with different

Fuck. This is horrible news. --Mike

My college roommate and I once spent an entire day doing Amadeus laughs back and forth. When I say there's nothing to do in Wheeling, West Virginia... --Mike

You're being way, way to hard on Bad Boys II, he destroyed an entire fucking village in that movie. That has to count for something. It also sets up one of the funniest moments in Hot Fuzz. "Shit just got real." --Mike

One of Leroy's finest moments: When The Roses Bloom Again Soundstage 2003. I still think this is the best lineup of Wilco, and I'll stand on Nels Cline's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that. --Mike

More often than not a lot my favorite works of art are considered among the best: The Beatles, David Foster Wallace, Woody Allen from Annie Hall to Husbands and Wives, and even the stuff I like that has suffered a bit of a backlash: Wes Anderson, Neutral Milk Hotel, early Dave Eggers, still tend to get generally positive reviews overall. That's not to say I am incapable of enjoying a bad TNT buddy cop movie or Michael McDonald era Doobie Brothers now and then (the wiseman has the power), but the art I tend to generally really connect with often is on the good end of the critical scale. --Mi

One of these things is not like the other... I'll Fight really? Everything else is pretty good, but it's going to be far inferior to the top twenty we here at VC will come up with, vote early, vote often. --Mike

. I was just about to post the same thing about What Light. --Mike

That one's fine, go ahead and vote for it. --Mike

Thanks for the clarification. Thus far if you vote for that song I assume you mean the disc one version unless otherwise noted. --Mike

General in the Wilco Army, My thoughts are the same as yours on this matter. Yes, over time a lot of these songs have changed between studio and live versions, but ultimately at their core it's still the same basic song with a different arrangement. We can get into the definitive versions of all of these songs later, but right now if you're voting a song you're voting for it in all its incarnations. A vote for Not For The Season is a vote for Laminated Cat is a vote for Not For The Season (that sentence also made my head hurt). If you'd like to distinguish what you're favorite version of

Hi everyone. If you didn't get a chance to read my very long-winded opening. Essentially anything Tweedy got a songwriting credit for and sang (just to clarify that you can't vote for Whiskey Bottle even though Jeff did get a credit for that song) is fair game. If you prefer not to vote for the MA songs because of your own personal preferences and guidelines that is more than all right with me, but please note that you can. The best of the Mermaid sessions is as good or better than anything Wilco has put out and thus I feel people should be able to vote for it. Elton John isn't any less of a s

This is pretty much exactly how I feel. This was the longest one I remember. Deliver Us From Spiders --Mike

Billy Bragg is given a sole co-writer credit on this song with Guthrie, however it's common knowledge or at least known by the hip-hop artist Common that he unfairly poached full credit from Bennett/Tweedy. Thus while we here at the Let's Do This Right thread give Billy Bragg a lifelong pass for anything short of murder because of Waiting For the Great Leap Forward alone, we do consider Another Man's Done Gone a Guthrie/Tweedy/Bennett/Bragg composition and it is thus eligible for this list. Warm regards, The Rules Committee.

I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

Good God, that's exciting news. --Mike

Thanks a lot. . Dude's just upset because it's getting harder to hold out hope for the tape deck or the Creedence. --Mike

I broke all my ties by going to my itunes and seeing which song I'd listened to more. --Mike