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Okay, you've got a link waiting for you where you can (this section deleted by the RIAA) I mean, uh, pre-order the album. . --Mike

Finally leaked in a decent bitrate. . Not quite finished with it but unless the last four songs completely suck, this is my favorite album of the year. --Mike

Oh I love their lyrics, but I guess the difference between Califone and Wilco lyrically is when I am listening to Califone for the lyrics I am thinking "oh that sounds cool" when I listen to Wilco it's "oh that sounds real" if that makes sense. But anyway do yourself a favor and find Quicksand/Cradlesnakes and Roots and Crowns first and see what you think. --Mike

Mine would be... YHF AGIB ST BT AM SBS --Mike.

Yeah, if you enjoyed YHF, Califone would be right up your alley. They're not quite as good lyrically, but sonically the band is amazing. --Mike

Just like we're all clamoring for them to repeat Sky Blue Sky right now . Just messing with you though, I remember wanting to bash my head against the wall when the pre-Sky Blue Sky threads took similar directions. Every album they've put out has had it's detractors, and now just like the YHF fans had to bare with the original fans who wanted them to stick with the AM/BT sound, the fans of the more experimental Wilco albums are a little grouchy. I am starting to see parallels between Wilco's new stuff and SBS and the Talking Heads records after Eno stopped producing them. They aren't bad by a

I did like your original version of this post that got moved to the other thread, I edited one of mine down a lot last night because I thought it was a little rambly, but I liked your reasoning behind a lot of those ideas. --Mike

Wilco The Song certainly isn't groundbreaking, but it's got a goofy Werewolves of London type vibe that makes it pretty pleasurable to listen to and I find it far easier to take than Hate it Here or even I'm a Wheel when I am not listening to it in the record. This may be delving into "What do you want from Wilco," but there were a few times on SBS where the "you had three years in between records and this was the best you could come up with" thoughts start cropping up, and I can understand people's concern if Wilco The Song is listed as a standout track-- keep in mind though Rolling Stone mag

. I think I am just going to have to accept that fact that I feel completely different about this matter than some other people on here. --Mike.

I think we're all going to just have to accept the fact that each of us wants something a little different from the band and that not everyone is going to feel the same way about each release. Unfortunately doing so wouldn't give us a hell of a lot to talk about on this side of the message board. --Mike

. Well played, sir. Well played. --Mike

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Yeah, I am actually among the two or three people who really like Satanic Majesties also. It's one of my favorite releases of theirs. --Mike

Red Apple Falls is one of my favorite albums ever, it was my avatar for quite awhile. --Mike

Electro Shock Blues is one of the greatest albums ever, I loved his book as well. Looking forward to this one. --Mike

This isn't quite Jim O'Rourke is producing and mixing the album or Jay Bennett has been re-instated to co-write some of the songs exciting to me, but it's up there. Jeff and Carla Bozulich's duet on Forget the Flowers from the 9-20-2003 show is excellent. --Mike.

Moonlight Mile and You Can't Always Get What You Want might be my two favorite Stones songs, they really knew how to close off an album. --Mike

From reading DeRogatis bio on the Flaming Lips, I picked up the sense that Wayne has a very specific vision for what he expects out of people and when he doesn't get that he's not always the easiest guy to really get along with. I wouldn't be too worried if I was the Arcade Fire, they're in pretty good company: Brian Wilson, Robyn Hitchcock, Ronald Jones, Beck, etc, amongst people Wayne Coyne has bitched about. --Mike

Between the Buttons is the one I listen to the most, but I think it comes down to Let it Bleed and Sticky Fingers for me with LIB getting the slight edge. --Mike

I am thrilled to see someone else really love that first CSN album, I have fond memories of stealing that out of my Dad's CD collection and listening to it repeatedly the summer between my eight and ninth grade years. It's an incredible record, and my favorite thing they've done. I also strongly recommend Songs for Beginners and Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name is fantastic as well. --Mike

I don't think Bennett is self-aware enough to say anything other than exactly what he's thinking. --Mike

It's not a rights issue, you're free to play pretty much any piece of music you'd like live without having to pay royalty rights. Though the songwriting in Uncle Tupelo was split three ways on the first two records, I believe like R.E.M. they decided to split the royalties three ways no matter who wrote the song and for the most part Tweedy wrote the songs he sang, Farrar wrote the songs he sang and they didn't really collaborate much. Jay Bennett wrote the chorus of Jesus, etc and most of the music. This is how Jay's interview with Glorious Noise in 2002 ends I know he can make it

My dad and I might be heading to the Columbus show, I'm quite excited. --Mike.

I think this list would work a little better if he used least favorite and favorite, instead of overrated and underrated. I am still scratching my head on how What Light, a song that got signaled out on a lot of negative SBS reviews, can be overrated. And how A Shot in Arm, one of the band's more popular songs, can be underrated. Also the audience for this type of list is going to be primarily Wilco fans, no? I mean it's pretty rare I'd want to read a longer article about a band's catalog, if I haven't heard the songs. So why all the potshots? Isn't it best not to shit where you eat? For