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Do people like Stand enough for it to overrated? It's place as the theme of Chris Elliott's Get a Life gives it an eternal pass for me, but that seems a weird pick for the overrated list. --Mike.

Crush The Cities

It'll probably be a little longer-- they haven't released the official tracklist or the title yet-- but the album is apparently finished (according to the last living room show thread Jeff's escorts to the northwest burbs of Chicago got a preview of the whole thing) so it's just a matter of time. Hopefully they'll do the same thing they did with SBS, stream it months in advance and let it essentially leak from that. --Mike

Hey if "your" stupid, don't get angry. --Mike

There's nothing quite like watching your favorite team in person sleepwalking through a first round game in front of a dead Metrodome crowd. After seeing the song girls in person last night, I am officially adopting your school the rest of the way and subsequently trying to figure out why I never applied there. --Mike

This post > Post Summerteeth Wilco. --Mike.

Didn't Neko open for Wilco for a few shows in 2003? --Mike

It's in the Metrodome so I'd assume they'd probably sell booze. Sadly your Jayhawks are in my team's bracket, so I am going to be rooting passionately against them in both rounds. --Mike

I listened to both of these records a lot when I was an undergrad. These days I haven't really been that compelled to listen to the post-Ronald Jones Flaming Lips very often, but Summerteeth still gets a monthly spin. I got both it and YHF within a few weeks of each other in 2002, and it was the first Wilco album I ever heard. It pretty much blew my mind and rendered half of my CD collection irrelevant so I am quite fond of that record. --Mike

Dearest Ction, Where do you land on the great BluRay debate? Does it really even matter as none of the DVD's they've put out are as good as Summerteeth? Best Wishes, --Mike

I splurged on tickets to all of the games in Minneapolis region-- I figured how many times is WVU going to be playing in the tournament a few miles away from me, and a sheet for all three sessions was a little less than half what stub hub was charging for a single game. Has anyone been to a tournament site before? Any tips? --Mike

Thrilled to see the Mountaineers got into the Minneapolis bracket, I am going to try to swing tickets for the game. Not happy about drawing Kansas as our 3, and even Dayton as an 11 isn't going to be an easy win, but they've done pretty well in the first weekend the last three years. --Mike

I have only seen the uncut version of this on the website, was the edited version more intense? I felt Stewart certainly took him to task, but I felt he showed a lot more restraint than he has in the past with asshats like Chris Matthews and when he went on Crossfire. The conversation always seemed pretty civil, and Cramer, perhaps to his credit, seemed to just take most of it without fighting back, but he never really admitted he did anything wrong. --Mike

I actually had that in the first version, but I thought it was a little too obvious and I kind of liked the idea of a couple people actually thinking it was a real list. --Mike

Dear ction, Long time listener, first-time caller. How excited should I be for the new Wilco release? Since I haven't heard it yet I can always imagine it may be a return to the band's earlier sound, yet realistically should I be bracing myself for another Steely Dan meets the Eagles collection to curb the disappointment I'd feel when I actually hear the record. Thanks, --Mike. (Another post W(TA) edit, even though this is obviously a fun thread, I don't like how snarky I come off, and quite honestly I fucking love Steely Dan-- I hope ction doesn't see this-- is there gas in the car? Y

You'd think "distorted distortion" would have tipped him off. --Mike

Track-by-track listing of Jay Bennett's contributions to More Like The Moon from the deep archives of GloNo. Camera six-string guitar twelve string guitar eight string guitar Kazoo patched into synthesizer noise distorted distortion. Handshake Drugs Five Tamborines filtered through a guitar amp. At the 2:43 mark you can hear Leroy's cell phone buzz that was me calling him. Woodgrain You know that "I'm not a poet and I know it" line? All me. A Magazine Called Sunset Piano Mellotron Celeste Opitgan Orchestron Rhodes Organ Wurlitzers "Prepared" piano Synthesizers Hand Claps Distort

With all due respect to Ken Coomer, the more I think about it, I feel all of the songs recorded on the albums before Glenn joined the band sound better live post-2001, because of what Glenn brings to each song, and then after it's the studio versions with the exception of some assorted tracks on AGIB and SBS. --Mike

I came upon the board in the winter of 2005, I was searching for information about the Bill Fay song Be Not So Fearful, which Tweedy and the Band had covered many times. And right around that time I had downloaded some live shows and the YHF demos from this site called "The Grotto" and slowly and surely I got hooked into them, and I started posting a few months after that, I wanted to get a copy of the 9/19 and 9/20 2003 shows because of the Wilco Book, and Speed Racer sent me a PM within about an hour of my post and a week later I had those shows. Trading was my biggest interest, and then I f

Album by Album... AM (songs were better live particularly with the newer lineups) BT (generally better live, though it's a toss up on a few songs) ST (the uptempo stuff is better live particularly after Glenn joined, the songs like She's A Jar, Pieholden Suite, We're Just Friends, and In a Future Age are all better on the record) YHF (studio) AGIB (could go either way here, but I think I like the studio versions a little more) SBS (live). --Mike

You are using logic when posting on the internet, it makes your posts pleasurable to read and they don't seem like aimless rants. --Mike

Not every band that writes political songs turns into U2, (and even U2 wrote some pretty awesome politically themed songs). Tweedy has been talking about politics have informed his songwriting on the last few releases, and the songs themselves have never seemed excessively driven one way or the other and having heard Crush the Cities/My Country, it's not exactly something off of Living With War. I have no problem with him with talking about how he feels about our political situation, but I do acknowledge I agree him. "Fuck George Bush" just really can't be said enough. --Mike

Sunken Treasure (done in the solo style either solo or by the band) Misunderstood (studio) Misunderstood (live) Sunken Treasure (studio) --Mike

Sky Blue Sky 2: Electric Boogaloo. --Mike