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I am pretty sure the Loose Fur section of Poor Places starts is in the middle of the song it starts at 2:30 "it makes no difference to me" and lasts until about three minute mark when the piano cames back in. Some random thoughts... on every Wilco album except Yankee there is either a track-by-track breakdown of who played what in the linear notes or in the case of Being There a list of what everyone on the album after each member. I actually like Jay Farrar a lot more now after reading that for some reason. I am in complete agreement with Robert as to why we're seeing so many Jay thre

That Klosterman article is from 2004-ish I think it was right after A Ghost is Born. Since then Farrar gave his fairly infamous interview to Relix where he accused Tweedy of hitting on his girlfriend when they were in Tupelo, so I am not sure if that changes anything. Farrar has seemed quite misanthropic, though I don't know the guy personally, whereas to me Bennett seems like a bit of douche bag but more quirky than mean spirited. --Mike

This thread has since been merged so I guess there isn't a point to link to it inside the thread. --Mike

Yeah, that's right. He just kept going and going on that one. I am not sure if there's a cue, I've always just assumed the band keeps going until he hits the last one and then shifts into the last section of the song. --Mike

Hmm... probably neither. But I will say this my hunch on this is that if Tweedy called Farrar and asked him if he'd want to work together again, he'd say absolutely not. If Tweedy called Bennett, Bennett would be on the next train to the Loft. --Mike

Here's a bar argument for you: would Wilco have been better off immediately replacing Bennett in August of 2001 with Jim O'Rourke. O'Rourke could have easily fit Bennett's co-writer role as he and Tweedy work very well together in Loose Fur. O'Rourke has an equally kickass fashion sense-- check out the pants in this video . I could easily do my own list of 21 for this... I do really really like the Bennett/Tweedy days of Wilco, but since Jay has left the dropoff hasn't really been that stunningly significant yet. Have they ever topped Foxtrot? Probably not, but it's not like A Ghost is Bor

Everything that's been mentioned so far and Your Dictionary from Apple Venus Vol. 1. --Mike

. Fine film, and I am not just saying that because I am from WVa. I love Oldham's stuff quite a bit, this was one of my favorites of the year. --Mike

This might be obvious but if you haven't delved into the early Velvets or his solo stuff look no further than this guy John Cale. Fairport Convention also is worth checking out, and the record Wilco made with The Minus 5 has some great violin by Jessy Green, there's a great set from a 2002 show Wilco did where Green sat in on violin for most of the songs Setlist, sadly my copies are back at home or else I'd upload some tracks, but if you can find that anywhere it's quite good. --Mike

Top five favorite bands: 1.) The Beatles 2.) The Velvet Underground 3.) The Talking Heads 4.) Wilco 5.) Yo La Tengo Least favorite songs by Them: My Little Baby, I Got a Woman, Out of Sight... In all seriousness, it's next for impossible for me to make this list without pulling out Doug Yule for the Velvets, the last two Talking Heads albums that not a lot of people listen to anyway, and pissing off the Sky Blue Sky fans on the board ever more. --Mike

Everytime the band has put out a new album or gone in a new direction they've upset some fans who strongly preferred their previous incarnation. People whined when Summerteeth came out that they were moving away from alt-country, people whined when Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out because of the weird noises, people whined when A Ghost is Born came out because of the production, etc. So because Sky Blue Sky is considerably different than the band's last several records, it's had some detractors. I would say despite this it was still pretty well received among the fanbase. I was going through a pr

. You could tattoo some of the footnotes (though they are actually end notes) on your feet. Infinite Jest should have been on my list as well. --Mike

I'd guess maybe Ashes was recorded in a soundcheck or backstage like the residency videos. There may be bonus songs not in the actual documentary as bonuses on the DVD as well. For only 13 songs it's a pretty strong set, I'm quite happy Wishful Thinking made it. --Mike.

Yeah I was listening to the August 31, 2002 show from Vancouver last night, I think Mike might have been laptoping for them already at that point, but I really love the sound. --Mike

I actually have no problem understanding people wanting to impose personal concepts on the band at all, isn't that part of being a fan? No one has said post-Bennett Wilco is worthless, just that there are people prefer the band as it was with Jay to the current incarnation and therefore would embrace Bennett's return if it were a possibility. Anyone particularly distressed by the possibility of Jay returning to Wilco can rest easily, because there's a .001 percent chance of it ever happening. --Mike

Wow, those are amazing. --Mike

I hope they stream this on Wilcoworld pre-release like they did with Sunken Treasure. --Mike

Yeah, that was a great live era for a band, the majority of the shows I listen to are in that 2002-2003 run of shows. --Mike

Yeah, I can't wait to see this thing eventually get it's official release, I've had it for awhile too it's quite good. --Mike

One of my favorites . --Mike

1.) Franny and Zooey-- JD Salinger 2.) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius-- Dave Eggers 3.) Wonder Boys-- Michael Chabon 4.) Norwegian Wood-- Haruki Murakami 5.) Beloved-- Toni Morrison. --Mike.

This is my father's favorite Wilco album. I enjoy it from time to time as well, though I prefer the AM songs live, something throws me with the production on that record. --Mike

Yeah, even though I am a Steelers fan, and I do think it was a fumble at the end, I was stunned it wasn't reviewed. That coupled with the Holmes celebration that wasn't flagged for a fifteen yard penalty certainly leaves a lot of what ifs, but it wasn't quite as bad as the Laker fans storming the court before the end of Game 7 in the 1988 Finals (yes I stole this from Bill Simmons, but it is true). I have heard that the Cardinals player (number 47) that Harrison punched actually took a shot between Harrison's legs, which is why he went off, but that the cameras didn't catch it. If that's tru

The answer to your question is for the most part yes. Casual fans probably couldn't even pick Egan or Johnston out of a police lineup-- hell I am more than a casual fan and I probably couldn't even point Egan to you. They are both lumped in with only one era of the band, whereas Jay was around for the alt-country days, helped take the band into the Summerteeth direction, and then helped with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot as well. Egan and Johnston were eventually replaced by Leroy, who overshadows them in the same way Kotche overshadows Coomer. Jay also made significant contributions to the songwrit

I went to Merlefest, an Americana festival in North Carolina, with my dad the weekend before my finals junior year, and even wrote a paper that was due that Monday on the ride back. Twenty years from now I'll remember seeing Elvis Costello, I don't think I'll remember what I got on the finals. --Mike