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Let's just hope Tweedy doesn't drop a "Wilco is more popular than Jesus Christ" comment in one of his interviews for WTA. It may cause many fans to burn their albums, and many more fans to burn their fingers trying to burn their albums. --Mike

Uh... this is the Mason-Dixon line: And here is a electoral map of the 2008 election: So do Maryland, DC, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida not count anymore? --Mike

Lester Bangs always did a pretty good job of mixing his personal reactions about a work in, while still talking about the music. I, too, can't tell the difference between 5/4 and 4/4, but when I am reading a record review I personally prefer hearing more about the songs and the writer's opinion on them then a digression that feels more suited for a personal essay. But all depends on the writer, if the voice is engaging enough I'll always be willing to follow it. --Mike

The Wilson Phillips got a 9.9, but the review was mainly about the Minneapolis White Castle where Ryan Schreiber worked as a janitor. --Mike

This is probably the biggest criticism I hear about pitchfork. You'll get a band that not a lot of people have heard of like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! or Tapes n Tapes before their first record, and Pitchfork finds it, gives it a glowing review and they become very popular among the pitchfork readers. Then by the time the second record or in some cases the third they'll turn on them. Now this in and of itself can be seen as a little "holier than thou," but though I have my problems with Pitchfork, I am not entirely sure they're always totally off base. A lot of the indie bands Pitchfork has re

Thanks so much for that, I wish I had gone to that high school. --Mike

Yeah me too. I am sure I listened to it at some point, but I can't remember any of the songs on it. I loved Oh, Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow, but it's been awhile since I've felt compelled to listen to them again. --Mike.

It's got to be tough being an internet savy kid of someone relatively well known in this era. I'd be freaking out over every remotely negative comment I saw, and the album cover reactions have been tame compared to some things I've read about the Bennett lawsuit or Sky Blue Sky. Hopefully he'll learn not to take any of it to heart, and he might not want to search the pitchfork review archives for his dad's band past Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. --Mike

Good work by the mods for changing the title. --Mike

Bonus B-side: Muzzle of Fees!

. She looks familiar to me as well. --Mike.

You can also google blog search this, if you don't mind MP3's, and find it for illegal download. --Mike.

I'm very pleased to see that you have been able to take a thread about a news story that I was really, uh... "dreading," and turned into one of the most pleasurable and humorous threads I can remember on this side of the board in quite some time. So excellent job, and now humbly I've got to make a request, you got to do the song Bennett so dulcetly performs in I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, we need a My Darling parody. --Mike

I think I am just as excited to see Lauren's (Speed Racer) Bennett-ized parodies of the tunes as I am for the actual album. --Mike

Promos are out, it won't be too much longer. --Mike

Didn't John Mulvey used to post here as WildMercurySound? --Mike.

This review is the epitome of pretty much everything I hate about pitchfork: Jim O'Rourke: Halfway To a Threeway --Mike

What's the over/under for the word count of Bill Simmons response to this on espn.com? --Mike

I don't think it sounds like a deravit: Clell Tickle --Mike

"Another one of Dad's suits?" "Hey, I

. You're my kind of moderator. --Mike.

In 1970, Dirk sued Stig, Nasty, and Barry; Barry sued Dirk, Nasty, and Stig; Nasty sued Barry, Dirk, and Stig; and Stig sued himself accidentally. It was the beginning of a golden era for lawyers, but for the Rutles, live on a London rooftop, it was the beginning of the end.

Now friends as with any thread on Via Chicago about Jay Bennett, the truth tends to get distorted by well-meaning, but ultimately Godless posters with an anti-mellotron agenda. Thankfully those in search of the truth, have fine upstanding board members like myself, to set the record straight . For I am the both the Woodward and the Bernstein of the Jay Bennett saga. So here's what's really going with this lawsuit. This drama goes all the way back to December of 2000, on an icy winter evening the actual Jay Bennett crashed his Saturn into an egg truck in the Wendy's Parking Lot in Detroit

I like a great deal of the tracks on the Wilco book, Diamond Claw is one my favorite tracks the band has ever put out, and I like the Soma Hummingbird (both versions of this song work for me), and The High Heat a great deal also. On the subject of least favorite/worst songs, it's got to be that B-side/soundtrack cut Glad it's Over, that was the first and hopefully only Wilco song I have ever downloaded and deleted from my ipod. I also really don't like Tried and True the Can't Stand It's b-side, though I love the song Summerteeth (which it eventually became). My least favorite album cut is eit