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I don't think I'd ever heard a solo Muzzle of Bees before. That was REALLY impressive. Easily the most technically difficult stuff I've ever heard Tweedy do on acoustic guitar, and totally beautiful at the same time.

At some point there will have to be a double disc b-sides and outtake album. Starting with Student Loan Stereo and Blasting Fonda, working its way to Dark Neon. Many of the albums have four or five outtakes that no one has heard. I'm sure it wouldn't all be top shelf stuff, but it would be good to hear it all together.

I know what you mean. Strange enough, White Chalk is actually one of my favorites. Especially in the fall. But that brings us back to the "all of the time" part of it. I might have a harder time being in the mood for 'Dry'. Every month that passes, more recorded music is available. I have a 120 GB Ipod that is always finding new content. So, in a way my listening doesn't really follow the "all the time" prescription, since I have so much stuff I can spontaneously gravitate towards. "All of the time" is more like: what really seemed like a good idea that morning/afternoon/night. Cou

Dinosaur Jr. Miles Davis Husker Du Brad Mehldau Samiam Nick Drake Jawbreaker The first 7 or 8 Elvis Costello records The Clash Feist Billy Holiday Fugazi Hot Snakes Radiohead Mark Lanegan PJ Harvey Regina Spektor Manu Chao Otis Redding Charles Wright and Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band Charlie Parker Harry Nillson about 90% of the time

BTW, if Van Morrison hasn't sold you yet check out Astral Weeks. If you're still not sold, don't invest any more time.

Yes! I've read so much glowing press on these guys that I always end up streaming their newest record, or someone burns it for me. How can such blase' music be packaged so well that people interpret it as multi-layered intellectualism (their prerogative by the way, just trash talking here). I see photos of them with a million and a half cool instruments on stage, and then the new single comes out and all I hear are guitars. Ooooh great a cheap Bruce Springsteen knock-off with some New Wave tendencies obsessing over suburban angst, or political soap boxing. I'm also disappointed with Lad

Yeah, it's been over a decade since I called myself a "punk rocker" (hee hee) and I still find a lot of these bands that have been mentioned are holding up well. Aggressive, melodic and primitive rock an roll- what's not to love? I would throw X, and Stiff Little Fingers to the list of classic punk bands mentioned. Then you take it further into the 80's and 90's and the list just gets longer.

The opening track of the Black Mountain is an instant classic. The rest of the record is just pretty good, but it's worth it for that track. No one seems to know who Bottomless Pit are (ex Silkworm) but if anyone likes Yo La Tengo, and Neil Young, Bottomless Pit is fantastic.

Superchunk- Majesty Shredding Black Keys- Brothers El Guincho- Pop Negro Mavis Staples- You Are Not Alone Bottomless Pit- Blood Under the Bridge Dr. Dog- Shame Shame Black Mountain- Wilderness Heart Brad Mehldau- Highway Rider At first I thought it was a dud year, and then I remembered all of these great records.

Yeah, I'm the same on the Dead. I like almost every noteworthy West coast, hippy, folk, rock, psych band out there, but not the Dead. And Froggie, not liking CCR is like not liking pizza. You are one of a kind!

Do you prefer Paul or John? (I swear, this could connect)

You thought someone would soberly and accurately calculate the chances of the album sucking?

Preordered the new record (after it leaked) Kidnapping all of you And everyone's wrong but me. This thread rules.

The looping thing certainly has a certain gimmick element to it. It seems like the first handful of people to find a way to do it well kind of get some points, and forever after it's "another one of those looping guys", little more of a technology than a musical concept. Andrew Bird happens to do it in a way that transcends the gimmick. Can I cop out and say I want to see both?

Me too, but it's more an arrangement than a song. Imagine a solo version, kinda repetitive. I'm not sure that disqualifies it by any means. What about YAMF, Wishful Thinking (that's my weepy song), Hummingbird, In a Future Age, How to Fight Loneliness. Okay, I'm bad at calling one thing the best....

Yeah.... sometimes insane brutality and shocking scenes aren't worth it. I find that it's interesting sometimes to let it play out and see what meaning comes out of the extra-sick places my mind typically avoids. I suppose I give books more license than movies. I watched Match Point the other night and covered my eyes during the violent scene. Guess I'm becoming a real mild man. But I digress... One lasting effect of Beatrice and Virgil that I found, was a way to re-approach the despair of the holocaust without couching it in the same terms it has been looked at for the last couple deca

This was an interesting ride for me. I read it in two days and found I couldn't put it down. After I finished it, I was sure that it was devastating, but not sure if it completely blew my mind of if it was kind of horrible. I suppose anything that makes you think so much about it afterward has some inherit merits.

Good to see folks gearing up to hate something that hasn't been made yet. Being a fan is awesome. I'll take devil's advocate; no one has heard any of it, but based on a subjective laundry list, I'm 86% sure it's better than half their albums- objectively speaking.

NPR Story here Sounds really cool.

1. Songs Ohia- Coxcomb Red 2. Radiohead- Go Slowly 3. Deltron- Things You Can Do 4. Brad Mehldau- Free Willy 5. Gang of Four- I Found That Essence Rare 6. Nico- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 7. Neil Young- A Man Needs a Maid 8. My Bloody Valentine- To Here Knows When 9. Hot Water Music- Elektra 10. XTC- Helicopter 11. Guided By Voices- (I Wanna Be A) Dumbcharger 12. Linval Thompson- Pop No Style 13. At the Drive-in- Pickpocket 14. Aloha- Waterwheel 15. Samiam- If You Say So

I would think they would make it refined, yet slightly saccharine. Something I might like more when I get older.... in a cup.

This is what makes being a Pearl Jam fan just as interesting as being a Wilco fan. In fact I think both bands first albums stand out as being unusually 'slick' sounding and playing within a set of conventions the bands later turned on their heads. To me what make Vitalogy such an important record is the places where it nailed a chemistry that makes Pearl Jam amazing to me; when they find a really amazing balance between weirdness, rocking, and beauty. "Not For You", "Tremor Christ", "Immortality". That's where it's at for me as a PJ fan. It's also why I love both Riot Act and Binaural.

What's interesting is most of the rock oriented stuff mentioned so far was released by people who wouldn't call themselves "Christian rock". For whatever reason believers often make great music about faith, but when they call themselves "Christian rock" they suddenly have a hard time making good music. All of scientific research can not find the cause of this phenomenon.

I think a lot of fans can be disappointed right now, in a lot of teams. There isn't really any classic domination going on. Everyone has already lost a handful of games. I watched the Denver Broncos (woot!) somehow handily beat KC last night which dropped them down to tied with the Raiders. It's anyone's season at this point.

Watch it again. A lot of his flicks (for me most notably Darjeeling) grow on you with repeated viewing. Bill Murry's hatred of the dolphins. Klaus' inferiority complex. The sloppy shootout scene on the island for their rescue mission which was sound-tracked by Mark Mothersbaugh (who is to Anderson as Elfman is to Burton). The boy on Murry's shoulders and beautiful stylized scene of the film festival. The interns going home with incompletes after the pirate attack. Uh, I need to go watch it again right now.