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Pre-ordered the vinyl, I think this will be my 5th copy of Sgt. Peppers?? The original 80s CD, the mid-2000s CD reissue, an old Canadian vinyl pressing and the mono LP repress from a few years ago.... Yikes. You might think I love Sgt. Peppers but there's a handful of songs I don't like... Fixing A Hole, She's Leaving Home, and Being For Benefit of Mr. Kite. I love the rest though. I do wish the LPs came with the DVD. I watched an old VHS copy of the documentary (if it's the same one I'm thinking of) in 2006ish and I recall it being quite good. They go through the tapes and isolate channels.

So I received my copy of Triplicate today.... You know, like the previous two, it's not terrible. The arrangements of these songs are topnotch, the pedal steel is a really good fit. Bob's voice is pretty strong for 21st century Bob. But it's a collection of songs I have no connection with. Not only that, but it's essentially three albums of this, and the songs sort of sound the same. It's the same time signature, slow tempo, and crooning. There is some horns in the arrangements, which I don't think the other ones had, so there's that. I'll be seeing Bob for the first time (!!!!) this July,

Someone needs to explain to Neil that if you're pretending to be sick you need to lay low. This is what happens when you've never had a 9-5 job in the social media age!

Yeah I actually couldn't think of a better young person slang I'm familiar with. I guess I'm no longer "with it". To get things back on topic, if we're talking about musician as in a skilled performer, I'd nominate George Harrison as my favourite, mainly from his post-Beatles work. There's not a lot of other lead guitarists I can pick out of a song 100% of the time.

This has been my weekly instalment of Teaching Young People Slang to the VC Community. Next week we'll work on "lit"!

Wow, wow, why are you throwing shade at Bobby D? Last I checked this thread was all-time favourite musician, not musician you think plays the best.

I'm not going to lie, at this point hearing NY is sick makes me pretty nervous. Especially sick to the point where they know he still won't be feeling better in a few days. Hopefully he's OK.

I collect (and listen to) records. I play a fair amount of video games, it's the ultimate combination of music, art, storytelling, music, and exploration.... also maybe the only combination of all those things. I also watch a lot of Netflix, is that a hobby? I guess not. My main hobby though is trying to make my wife laugh, one day I will be successful.

My heart says Dylan. My Canadianness says Neil Young though. But if I had to just pick one, it would be Bob, I think he's released significantly more great music.

No more Promise of the Real please. But that fact that I publicly just said that means we'll get at least 3 more NY+POTR albums in the next 4 years. Sorry everyone.

New Fleet Foxes album announced, Crack-Up. Coming out June 16! I saw Robin Pecknold solo last year, he played some new songs that (I'm assuming) are from the new album, they were really great!

Agreed with Charlie. Anodyne is close to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot for my favourite Tweedy-related release. Every song on that album is great.

I'm A Wheel? You lucky ducks! Once again, thanks for the write-ups bbop, I'm jealous I missed out.

Jeeze, how did Neil not get sued by George Lucas?

In honour of Ryan Adams new record (which still has not arrived for me) I now present, my 5 favourite Ryan Adams songs. Spoiler: they're going to mostly all be from Cold Roses AKA his best album: Sweet Illusions Let it Ride If I Am A Stranger Cold Roses The Hardest Part

The fact that Jay seems open to it is huge, and something that 5-10 years ago would have been a definite "no". Give it some time and I think this could happen, assuming Jeff is into it too. What's Mike Heidorn up to these days?

I'm not the biggest fan of the oldies albums... BUT, I have to say, this new song, I Could Have Told You, is the best Dylan vocal performance in years.

Ok so here's what I have planned: Reckless Records in the Loop, because it's within walking distance of the hotel, so why not! Wicker Park has three, Permanent Records, Shuga Records, and the biggest Reckless, so those should all be walkable to each other, and they're not too far from the Loop so we could probably get a Lyft. My wife wants to go to the Lincoln Park Zoo so I'm hoping while we're in that area we can go to Dave's Records, which sounds promising. I want to go to Laurie's Planet of Sound as well, Lincoln Square sounds really nice, so if we can make it up there, have lunch and che

Thank you both, that's great. We'll be there for four full days, so that should give us time to hop on a train and explore some different parts of the city. I've heard the transit system's pretty good, so I don't see that being a problem. We're flying in so I can't buy too much, so I'll hit up Reckless in the Loop and branch out as much as I can!

The wife and I will be going to Chicago for the first time in the spring! I've never been to a city that big, it's pretty exciting. We're looking at staying in The Loop area, as that seems to have the most museums/restaurant/touristy stuff. We also considered The Magnificent Mile but that looks like it has mostly high end shopping, which isn't really our thing. I'm of course, very excited to do some record shopping, but the amount of Chicago record stores that come up online is a little overwhelming. Do the local Chicago VC'ers have any favourites?

I can't believe they're playing Seattle but skipping Vancouver. Well, I can believe it, I just don't want to believe it.

That's great. I saw Joan open for Wilco twice in Seattle, and she was great both times. Her guitarist was also, very, very good.

Great thread! Some of you are very worldly, I'm jealous. I've never been much of a traveller but I did venture out of British Columbia this year! The wife and I went to Seattle (to see a certain music act). I hadn't spent much time in the US of A before, but it felt very much like Vancouver, just with some slight differences. Next year we'll be going to Chicago, I've never been more east than Calgary before, so that should be interesting. This is all prep for a hopeful eventual trip to London at some point in the next few years. Other than that we spent a bit of time in Jasper Alberta which is

Got the e-mail while I was at work, and of course you can't download music off the internet on an iPhone, so thanks for the reminder! Sorry to hear that, hope you're doing ok Chuck!

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, of course we all knew that already didn't we? His vocals definitely sound a bit like his dad. His songwriting and production are top notch. Good stuff, Spencer!