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That song is Less Than You Think, it's the one with the 12 minutes of white noise at the end of the studio version. --Mike

Love is perhaps the biggest douchebag in music history, but I'm not sure he's any less essential than Al Jardine. --Mike

1.) Muzzle of Bees: A Ghost is Born 2.) Not For the Season: Any live version from 2002-2003 (technically not officially released, but neither is the version Pieholden Suite from the IATTBYH doc). 3.) She's A Jar: Summerteeth 4.) Jesus, etc.: YHF 5.) Poor Places: YHF or Kicking Television Close: One By One (MA 1), Remember the Mountain Bed (MA 2), Sunken Treasure (Tweedy solo version), I Am Trying To Break Your Heart (YHF), More Like The Moon (EP), Diamond Claw (Wilco Book), Hummingbird (Wilco Book), Cars Can't Escape (B-side). --Mike

I don't find him funny either. His shtick might have worked for like five minutes five years ago, but now it's pretty tiresome. He's not Dane Cook bad, but he's certainly not good either. --Mike

This is easily Bez of the Happy Mondays, though as Tony Wilson says "every band has it's own unique chemistry and Bez was a particularly good chemist."

I love her playing on Heaven on the Stop Making Sense album. Great bass player for sure, don't know about best ever, but she is awfully good. --Mike

Meanwhile Goomer Pile err... Bill Stewart's Mountaineer squad is on a winning streak. I only say this because it might be the only time I get to say it this year. There's a good possibility that the winner of the Big East this year might not even end up in the Top 25. Though as bad as WVU has looked 9-3 is a distinct possibility, because the Big East is so weak. Anyway Michigan would be willing to work a three-way coach trade with LSU, you guys get Les Miles, we take Rod back (three weeks into the season I immediately realized everything negative I said about Rodriguez in the off season was

Good point. For reference Leroy played "Special Day" which can be found on the K-settes bootleg (Jay, Jeff and Leroy) from 9-11-1999 at the Hideout. John played Recuperating From the War, which is on The Green Hour, the first Autumn Defense Album. --Mike

Further confirmations that I have no real life: I have a June 1999 Lounge Axe boot with Chinese Apple on it, so I was under the impression Tweedy brought that one to the sessions like he did with Laminated Cat. Who knows? Wilco needs to get set up with a Mark Lewisohn, who will go through all their tapes and give us "A Complete History of the Loft." I'm sure 10, maybe ever 20 people would buy it, and I'd certainly volunteer myself up for it. --Mike

According to this article in Spin I found in the archives, the original title was Here Comes Everybody, also an instrumental on the Wilco Book CD and also was named a possible title for AGIB as well. Spin. According to Jay in the Glorious Noise interview he gave around the time YHF finally released it was his idea to actually put the Conet transmission of YHF on to the demo, though it was Tweedy who was constantly listening to the boxset. --Mike

Looks like you've got a good handle on it. Bob Dylan's Beard was worked on for YHF as was Magazine. I think Handshake was written sometime in 2002 after YHF was released, I'm not sure about Woodgrain and More Like The Moon-- both were debuted in 2003. Chinese Apple was written sometime during the YHF sessions also, but I don't think there's a Wilco version of that out there. --Mike

Yeah I agree there. Farmhouse and BB are their only albums I'll listen to the entire way through. Rift would be a great album with a little bit of editing. I can't even remember Story of the Ghost, I had it at one point but haven't listened to it in about six years. I don't think I ever heard Undermind the whole way through. I did like parts of Round Room. Live they were a trip. It'll be nice to see them back. Jambands tend to get a pretty rap, and there are quite a few of them like in any genre of music that are godawful, but Phish is pretty interesting and worth checking out, though there

. All kidding aside Billy Breathes was a seminal record for me in high school, I listened to that record more than anything the summer between my freshman and sophomore year. Waste is a wonderful tune. This is probably the least surprising reunion news I've ever heard-- seriously did anyone expect this "break-up" to actually hold, Phish is like the Brett Favre of music. Though nothing of theirs every really grabbed me in the way Billy Breathes did, I'm still glad to see them back. --Mike

Been working through Broom of the System-- it's a little difficult to read for fun in a Creative Writing MFA program, but I wanted to finally read it. I may tackle Infinite Jest (I've finished it the whole way once and read sections from it a few times) in it's entirety again at some point. --Mike

Yeah, the majority of the band's best songs are Tweedy/Bennett compositions. You'd think after seven years people could forgive the guy. The more I watch I am Trying to Break Your Heart the better I understand him. I think Jay is an extremely talented guy, who desperately wanted to make a great album and wanted his friends in the band to like him, unfortunately his communication skills aren't the greatest and a lot of jokes were either misunderstood or bombed. I still understand why they canned him, and I think we got an excellent album A Ghost is Born out of the post-Bennett years. But regard

This one of the shows that everyone needs to have. The Bennett/Kotche lineup was unreal, and this is sadly the only decent quality boot from that short run of shows they did together before Jay got sacked. It's hard not to listen to YHF and this boot and not play the "what if" game. --Mike

I was there last night and Wednesday, easily the two most exciting baseball games I have ever been to. --Mike

No Tuesday is complete without a visit to college football news to read Pete Fiutak's weekly Cavalcade of Whimsy column, excellent read for college football fans, this week he offers up some potential good news to fans of tOSU, and scary news to everyone else in the nation. Yes, I have also rigged up a very very very unlikely sequence of events that would get my team the 1-2 and unranked West Virginia Mountaineers into the big game as well, unfortunately it starts with hitting the proverbial reset button and starting the season again. Hey it works on NCAA Football 09. --Mike

Yeah, the fact that their record label kind of went kaput didn't help them either. If not for Glorious Noise I don't think I'd have ever heard of these guys. It's just a little baffling to me that they have such a small presence even in the indie scene when they have an album as good Month of Sundays. It's one of the great undiscovered gems of the era, maybe 30 years from now people we'll be talking about them like we talk about the equally obscure in his day, Nick Drake. Any update on their new album, Lou? You said awhile back they were having problems getting a label to pick them up? If it

Yeah, sadly it looks there are about five SEC teams that could play USC for the national title this year (maybe they'll all beat each other up again). It's only September, but after watching Bill Stewart's "Art Shell-esque" clock management last night, I'm ready to completely forgive Rich Rodriguez. Though the fact that Michigan has the same record as WVU at the moment might help. --Mike

This was my spring album also, it's awesome in any context. Why aren't these guys more popular? --Mike

I feel so bad for Pat McAfee the WVU kicker who shanked a 23-yard kick, Morgantown fans are getting pretty nasty, as this looks like a pretty shitty season already. That kid might have to go into the witness protection program, he also missed two chip shots in the Pitt disaster last year. I am disappointed, but I am actually kind of still delusional enough to think they'll turn it around and be blowing through the Big East in November. If not we may be looking at a Notre Dame esque tumble. --Mike