lost highway

This was my fifth Wilco show and it had to be a contender for best ever. My girlfriend and I had GA tickets and after getting super bad vibes from a neurotic dude who was not ok with us sitting next to and only partially on the tarp he was using to save twenty seats we ended up finding a seat in row five. It sounded amazing and we could see everybody. I feel like these guys have figured out how to fill an amphitheater like Red Rocks with energy. Definitely beat their last time at RR. Jeff seemed super relaxed, he didn't even get irritated or wag a finger when someone chucked a glow stick

AGIB YHF BT WTA SBS ST AM I don't even know if that's how I really feel- that's a tough list to make. My top and bottom picks are pretty certain though.

Got mine. No disappointment at all. And both the Vinyl and the CD sound way better than the stream.

Good. I love Wilso!

For those interested this is easily found on the Youtube. Although be warned, the stage presence of Feist can be dangerously adorable and charismatic.

Ah, the B-Side fetishism. I agree that it is good. I enjoy this track. I have no idea where you could stick it on AGIB where it would work with the flow. I also think the Vocoder effect (along with the pure electronics) at the end might take it so far outside of the Wilco vocabulary it might not work on any Wilco record unless there was a lot more of that (which I might not like at all). It definitely has a commonality with the atmosphere of Panthers (which I also fetishize). I have never found a Wilco B-Side that I thought could fit right in the tracklist (except maybe Cars Can't Escap

How'd they pull off Deeper Down? Rusty first try, or did it live up to the recording?

PM? Big hearts to the lovely VCers.

The boss ones work fine. I use mine as an outright boost for solos and such. You get all that volume boost ability with huge control over the tone. Handy, also nice if you have to play acoustic guitar through an electric amp. Can reduce feedback and get you closer to a regular acoustic tone in a pinch.

SBS is better than your record. (maybe that should be my signature)

Wow, I thought this would be good live but..... wow. Sounds like they don't really need to 'ease this one into the setlist'. They kind of own it already.

Yeah, I still love it. I'm no longer listening to it every day. More like I take a week off and then rock it front to back again. I think Deeper Down- BBN- One Wing is the best run on the album, but I like it all.

Jim was never in the band. He played on Ghost and it was awesome, but he was never a regular part of the band.

I haven't gotten to read the lyrics, which a lot of times solidifies my idea of a song. When just listening over and over, parts creep in kind of like osmosis. The song never struck me as literal. I always thought of it as a kind of melodramatic devotion to one person. The Jesus imagery is borrowed to give a kind of hyperbolic weight to the idea. Leonard Cohen has done the same thing with Christian imagery, borrowed it for personal psychology, romance etc.

I wouldn't be all that surprised if they didn't have all of those tunes completely under their fingers. They might be wood shedding them at sound check, slowly but surely they will probably have them all ready for U.S. tours. I imagine "Deeper Down" will be a hoss to pull off live. I also imagine when and if it does it will be magnificent. I don't know that we will be getting a lot of full band versions of "Solitaire" but you never know.

How sad. What the hell happened? I suppose that's not how everyone processes this kind of thing, but it just makes me wonder what the hell happened to him. The guy was 45..... I don't know. I guess it doesn't change anything, but it just seems so strange that someone his age would pass so suddenly from a surgery. In any case, may he and his loved ones be well, peaceful and happy.

Dude, if any of you play, try sitting behind a drum set and playing Glenn's part for One Wing. It's quite a challenge, and when you focus on it you can see how aggressively he drives the verse of the song. Positive: Crazy percussion sounds shooting out every measure on BBN. Deeper Down sounding like cinematic magic. Sonny Feeling proving way less thin than the live bootlegs made me think it was. Feist nailing the harmonies on what seemed like a sweet trifle, but may be the most deceptively complex lyrics on the record. Nels proving himself to be a craftsman of sound and texture, and not onl

The three best songs on SBS might be better than anything on W(TA). W(TA) seems to be a more solid album front to back than SBS. So in a way, it's like 27% inferior, 73% superior to SBS. Those are quick reads though, I'll have my people cross check the data and get back to you.

You know, I'm one of the folks who felt it was a lesser song on the record a few days back, and it has really grown on me. In fact after taking the album in many times, I find I'm picking single songs to listen to on short drives. The only one I don't play alot is W(the song). I like it just fine, but I feel like it's a playful introduction to the real album that follows.

I'm thinking When/If Wilco releases three more albums, and someone will make the same statement about the latest one saying "To me W(TA) is where they peaked, and they've just been treading water on the last couple records".

I see what you've done here. Strange.

I'm about seven spins in and I am declaring some 'grower' power on this record. My instant faves (One Wing, BBN, I'll Fight) sound even better and the ones that seemed a bit more mediocre (You Never Know, Country Disappeared) are finding a little spot in my heart.

I don't know about everyone else, but on first listen I found "You and I" a little tepid, but very sweet. On second listen I was blown away. I always thought (from the live bootlegs) that it was a paint by number love song lyrics. I thought he said "I want to know everything about you." But he says "I don't want to know everything about you." The bit about being like strangers, too. It seems to have a little more emotional complexity to me than baby your the best. At first it was weird to hear Feist's vocals without the AM radio, re-amp treatment they put on her records, but after a co

I am pretty blown away. I might have a couple critical gripes about the record, but I need to listen a few times before I whine. Right off the bat, a couple things I read on here have proven to be incredibly false: 1. The songs sound and feel pretty much the same as what you heard in the live version. To that I would reply not at all, the production and the intensive layering completely changes the effect of all the previously heard songs almost all for better and maybe a peppering of for worse. 2. If you liked SBS you'll like W(TA), if you didn't, you won't. I think this record migh