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Cale gets this for me as well Paris 1919, Fear, and Vintage Violence get the slight edge over Lou's string of good albums in the 70's, and Cale's stuff has remained pretty consistently interesting if not quite as good quality wise since. --Mike

I haven't laughed that hard in awhile, thanks for the link. --Mike.

Yeah, I find myself really loving some of E's album (Electro Shock, Daises, Blinking Lights) and then not really getting into others at all (Souljacker, Shootenany) and I think this one might be in the later category. Still, he's an artist whose stuff I always want to check out as soon as it's available, and all of his albums have had at least one song I have really enjoyed. --Mike.

Sparklehorse: It's a Wonderful Life. --Mike

Thanks for posting, Vivadixie and It's A Wonderful Life are among my most listened to albums on my ipod, and Linkous is one of my favorite working musicians. I've been particularly into Rainmaker lately. Danger Mouse produced a couple of tracks on Dreamt, the reviews did seem to be a bit mixed on that one, but I don't recall anyone really hating it. There are some really great songs on it that are among the best things he's ever put out, Knives of Summertime was one of the best songs anyone put out that year. I guess I could do without some of the more longer slower dirgey tracks, but I can

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Sounds like an excellent time. Is the album completely mastered and sequenced? Would it be impolite to ask if anyone could venture a stab at the tracklisting? --Mike

Electro Shock Blues as well. --Mike

How is this? Anyway I could talk to you into maybe doing a B&P on that for me? --Mike

Is Tweedy going to be replaced by Sammy Haggar? As I've given this some thought, regardless of whether or not there's a drop off in quality in Wilco's work it's still not going to make me like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot any less. When I listen to Remain In Light, my enjoyment of it isn't affected by the lesser albums the Talking Heads made late in their career. "Ebony and Ivory" doesn't put a cramp in "The Fool on The Hill." No one's docking points off Pet Sounds for "Kokomo." It'd be nice if every band could release nothing but great albums, but it's very rare that there isn't a slight declin

Yeah, I agree totally with this as well, and I'd have been a lot more freaked out if I've seen this and it was Stirratt or Kotche leaving the band. --Mike

They've earned the right to quit whenever they want, but I understand your points. But they've got to show me that there still isn't the possibility of them ever putting out another great record again or start sucking live before I really get bent out of shape, and I've been pretty uninterested unfairly judgmental of post-AGIB Wilco. But don't pick up that shovel quite yet. --Mike. Edited after WTA Leak.

If a better album that this one exists (outside of Revolver and Astral Weeks), I've yet to hear it. --Mike

Well, when I listen back to the early live versions of the songs on Yankee and Ghost (and even as far back as Being There and Summerteeth) even though they weren't fully formed yet, there was something there immediately that made me think "wow, they've got something wonderful here." Even when I listen to the late 2005 Tweedy solo shows, I could tell "The Ruling Class" was going to be amazing, and that I was probably never going to be crazy about Is That The Thanks I Get? So, even though I don't have any idea what this record is going to be like I do think it's fine to speculate on the quality

Thanks for the link. I've listened to this set twice now and I am disappointed to say but I am really not feeling any of these songs. Hopefully they'll improve in the recording process (I remember Theologians being pretty underwhelming when it was road tested at first, but it ended up being one of the best songs on AGIB), but I don't know I've really kind of gone cold on post-AGIB Wilco for some reason. --Mike

Yeah, I agree. This is the same dude that did the Wilco over/under and my opinion of him hasn't changed much, he seems like a total hack, no wonder he's stuck on Magnet's website. --Mike

Given Eggers' and Jonze's history, I'd be more concerned about a scene with the parents metafictionally breaking down their characters and their roles in the movie than them going for the caricature route. Oh and the trailer looks brilliant. --Mike

Yeah, Rolling Stone's coverage of this album hasn't exactly increased my excitement level for it. --Mike

Yeah, I just don't see how I am not going to love this movie. One of my favorite directors teams up with one of my favorite writers to adapt my favorite children's book as a kid. I'm quite excited for it. --Mike

The piano line on Ashes that plays at the "I'm down on my hands and knees every time a doorbell rings" line. The last guitar solo in Muzzle of Bees. The end of Reservations, all of Chinese Apple. --Mike

12 of 16 isn't too bad, but that sleeper pick of Florida State going to the Final Four was epically stupid and my "mid-major team that gets hot and makes a run" Utah State didn't pan out. Of course I was wrong with my Mountaineers as well. Hopefully my other Final Four teams Louisville, UConn and Gonzaga stay hot and if Gonzaga wins the whole thing, I might just rebound. --Mike

I liked it so much I stole one of his answers for my sig. --Mike

What's wrong with being sexy? --Mike

It's a disappointing ruling because they really don't seem to realize that this isn't going to make anyone download illegally any less. The illegally downloading community right now is like the crowd of fans at Woodstock in 1969, and what the RIAA is doing is akin to Max Yasgur yelling out "hey you kids get off my lawn" and then trying to punish two or three people for what the entire crowd is doing. I don't see how it works. The RIAA can play whack-a-mole with P2P sites all they want but there's always going be another way to do it. It's just a shame for the one percent of people who are un

Looking at those trailers, they do have a bit of a campaign ad feel but it's clearly promoting movie and their attacks on Hillary in trailer don't seem to be any more scathing than say what Michael Moore did to Bush in Fahrenheit 9/11. I have virtually no interest in ever seeing this, but I do think they have the right to promote it. --Mike