lost highway

Being able to create a piece of art and sell 82,000 of them in a week is a remarkable feat.

Wilco makes the best noise around.

I think the stream is over cause it's in stores tomorrow. I also think I might have to purchase a copy.

You can hear Metals at www.listentofeist.com I think it's a really cool record. Pretty dark and grainy. A lot of unique sounds/ production ideas. I imagine the fat free vanilla latte crowd will be turned off.

Comparisons are odious.

There are new tape manufacturing companies. They recorded in Pro Tools and then bounced it to tape when they were mixing down. What Rockinrob said is the way most records with a budget seem to be recorded these days.

I like 'Message from Mid-Bar', it's everything a B-side should be. "I hate you less, than the rest. They're all swine, and you're all mine."

The trick is to stagger people's jumps back up. As they step downward through the scale they run out of fret board, if people jump back up an octave at different times, it still sounds like its going collectively lower.

Most violent noise outbreaks I've ever heard on this song.

I think on a philosophical level (in other words not to quibble with the other humans on here) I feel that there's something really good about rash exuberance towards new creations. I think a lot of people are very cognizant about what a heavy word 'masterpiece' is, so they don't want to look silly by throwing it around. I get that. But I feel that it is refreshing to respond to new things with this level of enthusiasm. To find things that we can hastily delight in for their genius. I think it can allow a person to become engaged, and more celebratory. I don't mean to advocate being shal

Me too, I'm liking "Message from Mid-Bar".

I feel it. There have been few albums in the past five years that hit me as immediately, that seemed so clearly to be a staggering achievement. TWL is one of them.

It's cool. Not in sound, but feel it reminds me of a lot of Sonic Youth stuff; it sounds really cool, it's pretty exciting, on a thematic level it doesn't engage the heart. It's just cool, no more, no less. The interplay between various band member's skronks after the first loud part is one of a handful of brilliant moments on that record.

Definitely some similarities. Definitely not even an homage. If I had a ton of time to waste I could post five pop rock songs that have similar chord progressions or melodies. If you know how to chop these chords out on a guitar or piano you will realize how much they are like so many songs. Meanwhile, 'Dawned on Me' is good. So is Supergrass.

On my computer it just plays the commercial over and over for 9 minutes

More fetishizing of pain.

And still we're misusing epic, even when trying to note the correct usage: "Opening track “Art of Almost,” and the closer “One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)” are truly epic in the pre-internet sense of the word." Everyone needs to let that word rest a while.

I can't find the B-Sides any where that doesn't look like a way to get a computer virus. I suppose I'll have to wait for my legit copy to arrive.

Capitol City > Walken

I think TWL is just as challenging, and shines a light in just as many dark corners of the psyche as YHF. I'm not going to say whether it is better or worse. So far I like the reviews where the listener was able to take it in as an experience without being overburdened by some back story. For example, the fact that this album is being released on their own label has almost no artistic relevance whatsoever. Every journalist is forced to notice this, and many are tempted to interpret what they hear through the lens of that nearly irrelevant fact.

Yes.

If you listen carefully to 'Hey Jude' you can hear Paul cursing after a mistake, "Aww Fuck Me!".

There is something to the psychology of the Illiad here. It has to do with the captain's foresight into the temptation of the sirens. He knew that no one could resist, so he made a preventative measure of having his crew tie him up. It's the part of us that understands ourselves, and makes safeguards against our weaknesses. I think perhaps a degree of this kind of control is necessary for preserving love (?).

All three awesome. I think people who make cracks about creative people drying up as they get older, or more adjusted, are clearly not creative themselves. On a similar note, Tom Waits is still making cool stuff.

I was at a random douchey club once that my sister dragged me to in LA, and I was totally hating life when I recognized Dave Grohl standing next to me. I struck up a conversation and we talked about metal, and Sunny Day Real Estate. He seemed content and amused to sip his drink and chat with me all night. Super approachable. I asked him what a guy like him was doing in a club like that, he said "Acting as stupid as possible." He said he'd loved the terrible club ever since he was there the same night as Ozzy came. "They had to carry him out that night. That man is like a god." I was s