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  1. lost highway
    I see people responding to being shamed for disliking things on here. It is so often a conversation around this band: person A says "This is neat." Person B says "No it sucks." Someone else tells person b not to down on everything. Person b responds with the rationale that opinions, art, music- all that stuff is interesting for discussion. You don't have to like everything to be a fan of the band. (This gets relevant cause I think SBS is a big breeding ground for this cycle). I could always philosophically appreciate this 'person b' line of reasoning, but in practice it sometimes irrit
  2. lost highway
    SBS is a winter sweater. It sounds like when the sun is out but it's still cold. I mean that in the best possible way.... if that makes any sense.
  3. lost highway
    If someone gets some real news in the next couple weeks they should start a new thread.
  4. lost highway
    I go to work for 12 hours, come back to a thread with no leak, but some baiting and flaming. Boo!
  5. lost highway
    What makes the song genius is that it initially comes off as an "easy rocker". If you listen a few times on a good system you can hear some really beautiful subtle layering in the course of the tune. Definitely more than it seems.....
  6. lost highway
    A Ghost Is Born Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Being There Sky Blue Sky Summerteeth Wilco (the album) AM I might be alone in this. Also, if there is a mathematician in the crowd they should tell us how many different combination of 7 can exist.
  7. lost highway
    Is it splitting hairs to notice the band had a different name and that half the songs were written by a different singer and songwriter?
  8. lost highway
    I didn't think they were very small at all. I can't name any contemporary rock bands that I'm a fan of who are 'bigger' (save a few veterans: Stones, the Boss etc.) If you think you have Wilco to yourself then you will be excited to find a world of extraordinary musicians that people care about even less.
  9. lost highway
    Yeah, I'm totally pumped too. I think there was a lot of talk about how their management/record label was going to be run out of MA, so it is kind of their second home now.
  10. lost highway
    It all happened at the Loft. If anything, I think recording at the Loft has always been the best thing for them. From what we can tell so far it worked well this time.
  11. lost highway
    No matter how much/little you enjoy it, I can not think of any other sonic detail that has been discussed in as great a length on that record. That right there shows something is artistically relevant. It attempted to communicate something; a lot of people responded to it. I haven't heard half as much on here about most of their other songs. I'm not saying that makes it 'good' (I happen to enjoy it from time to time), but it does make it 'of note'.
  12. lost highway
    Last month I was hanging out in a small surfing community in Northern Peru. One friendly local was very fond of responding "Just cruisin' " to any question about what, or how he was doing. I think when you're there to see the authenticity of it, it's very charming. Hard to hear in downtown Chicago, NY etc. and not cringe, but some people are really that laid back. It is authentic.
  13. lost highway
    The argument for LP's is that you're getting a constant sound wave off the vinyl, not sampling in bits. You're also hearing both the odd and even harmonics, whereas cd only has half of that picture. I agree that it is a slightly more precarious medium, at its best it is better sounding. At its mediocre it is more charming in a sonically inferior kind of way. People have been going back and forth on this since the advent of the cd. Digital mastering and conversion has gotten WAY better since the conversation started. At the end of the day it's really about how people emotionally interact
  14. lost highway
    I wonder why the Dbpm label site isn't up yet. Maybe they'll debut it with a stream of the Whole Love a few weeks before it comes out.
  15. lost highway
    I wonder how soon it will leak. I wonder if I'll be able to avoid peeking. In the mean time: Deluxe CD Preordered.
  16. lost highway
    Jolly Banker is great. I love the recording of it even more than W(TA).
  17. lost highway
    Well, I can only assume some people might feel comfortable pre-ordering/buying either the LP or the deluxe CD and downloading whatever they missed from the other. Those people feel like they supported the band by buying and enjoying their product.... it's like paying for a mixed drink and then reaching across the bar to grab a cherry. I don't know what I will do about that. Hmmmm.... Sometimes Wilco resolves these issues for us before we have to either spend a ton of extra money, or do something that is ethically questionable.
  18. lost highway
    It sounds kind of like Teenage Fanclub..... that's awesome.
  19. lost highway
    Yes, total winner... that's all I can say. A gem right there.
  20. lost highway
    I love both of those things.
  21. lost highway
    Yeah, weird. Must be temporary. I almost felt like they would never change their old design just cause it is so good.
  22. lost highway
    Personally, I always love articles that talk about the ephemeral resonance of aural sculptures.
  23. lost highway
    I personally would be down to hear something a bit sprawling with some loose ends. When I listen to the More Like the Moon ep, I love how it sounds kind of unfinished in places. I think a lot of people heard something like that in Being There: a freewheeling kind of looseness.
  24. lost highway
    Now that it's mastered I wonder when they will let us know if it's a double album or not. Big decision, big decision.
  25. lost highway
    Vimeo videos were removed for fear of fans cynically judging isolated takes of guitar tracks- that may or may not be on the record- out of context.
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