lost highway

Sitting during the exciting moments of a football game is kind of weird. Complaining about other people standing is hilariously ridiculous. Sitting during a rock concert (no less a Wilco concert) is just plain bizarre. Celebrate life. You paid to see a band you love. What good would it do our hearts to stand and dance a couple hours. You can sit at the computer, most people can sit at work. Let us stand, dance and be joyful.

What's amazing about Blood on the Tracks is how truly horrible the harmonica solos are on 'Jack of Hearts' and how the song is so good it doesn't even matter. And, for the record I love Dylan's harmonica style.

I love old videos like that- the fact that a band can be that geeky and terrifyingly cool at the same time.....

Bloco do Eu Zozinho, is just ok. You can get Ventura off of Itunes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXYJ36wSoGs&feature=related

The most criminally underhyped band from Brazil is Los Hermanos. They started as just a goofy alt-rock band with Portuguese lyrics and evolved into the sweetest indie rock-meets-samba band ever. Check our their last two Ventura and Cuatro, if you like that kind of thing.

Radiolab. It's the best.

I bet his credit is awesome too.

I bought this. It is really very good. Her last record was charming, this is something else. It feels like it's making a bolder statement.

Oh yeah, I meant the Odyssey, not the Illiad. How embarrassing, getting my Homer mixed up like that.

I would argue the opposite of the original premise. I think sometimes in our culture it takes a concerted effort to hear certain pieces of music as music. The Beatles are like this, as are U2 and the Stones. Their marketing has been so massive, their brand so ubiquitous that it takes effort just to hear a record of theirs as a band making songs. I get the same taste in my mouth from a U2, 3-D movie trailer, or cardboard cutout at Guitar Center as I do from a lame Nike ad. I have to divorce that experience from a very different experience of listening to Joshua Tree as just a great album b

I've said it before "I hate you less than the rest, we're all swine, but you're all mine" might be the most charming anti-romantic lyric. It sounds like something Charles Bukowski would say in some gross novel.

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.