lost highway

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

On occasion, usually as a product of limited space on a vinyl side, or to create a vinyl buying incentive.

Wait, I didn't think the tour started for a few days. Where are they playing?

Part of it I think is that little drum booth they have. A dead little drum room with little natural reverb. Couple that with Glenn's dry taste in drum tuning, using moon gels, tape, towels and extra heads, and you get some really tight drums. Only a drummer as good as Glenn can sound so good on such "small" sounding drums. I'm actually not wild about the overabundance of hi hat swish on the rock out ending, but why complain about a single wart on something otherwise so perfect?

Totally.

The first 5 tracks are perfect.

Yeah, totally. I don't know all the lyrics yet, but from what I've absorbed there is definitely a pretty deep look into the human experience. There are some sublime, poetic dealings with the idea of suffering. "Born Alone" has a pretty: I been through a shit storm and here's what I've figured out so far.... thing. I think "One Sunday Morning" digs deeper than anyone of us has figured out yet. Something about death and consolation (or lack thereof) in spite of religious skepticism. "Rising Red Lung" is just as big of a bitter-sweet existential sigh as many of my favorite tracks on AGIB.

I just caught how much this song's arrangement is like a Jim O'Rourke thing. In a good way I mean.

I think the nature of the Almost beast is less of a purely live recording setup. I think there was a lot of layering done in various sessions. The scattered footage showed Pat playing producer from the Ikea couch, but I bet there were days when he was patching up moogs, or guitars and fuzzboxes, or whatever. I want to know more about how they worked with the string section. I have already said how I think this album has the most successful use of strings of any Wilco record. They sound integral, not like an afterthought.

I wanna see the album credits. I'm curious who gets 'co-writing' credits with Tweedy and on which songs. I'm also curious if they were able to get such intense, hi-fi, string sounds at the loft, or if those were done in another room.

1. AGIB 2. YHF 3. TWL 4. BT 5. ST 6. SBS 7. WTA 8. AM I'm not even kidding. What's interesting is to listen to all of TWL and then put on one of their older records. They've changed a lot over the years. It's hard to compare the band that made BT to the band that made TWL. They seem to have very different ideas about playing music.

I get that. It doesn't sound like "Theologians", but it feels like it. Something like spiritual pop music, or stating some really deep convictions over something you can tap your foot to.

I don't know about anyone else, but now that I've heard the album a few times this one keeps popping into my head. It's definitely got a dance in your bedroom kind of energy. Tweedy has taken a stab at falsetto a few times over the past few records, but I feel like he only just nailed it here. This one could be really fun live. "And I know that I won't be easiest to see and I know that I won't be the last cold captain tied to the mast I'm on the other side unsatisfied (?) I'm lookin for your love."

I love Being There. I could do without the "Kingpin"- "(was I) In Your Dreams"- "Why Would You Wanna Live" part. I like "(Was I) In Your Dreams" in a Randy Newman kind of way, but at that point in the album those three seem kind of inferior to everything that came before.... it gets a little tired. One thing about BT, that I think Laughing Dog is noticing (and apparently offending people with) is "Misunderstood" (maybe "Sunken Treasure" in a way too) is the only song that deconstructs genre conventions. The rest is kind of a exuberant game of roll the genre dice. Most of the exercises ar

Black Moon is huge. Love it.