lost highway

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

I'm buying it on vinyl that day it comes out vivanleyones@gmail.com

In their defense it looked like a high rise porch to me....

I think the idea that something that is not solemn signals a lack of seriousness about art..... that's just pretentious. Ever watch a Bunuel or a Godard movie? Those guys can often be seen to make movies that are absurd, playful, even pointlessly bizarre, but they are craftsmen. Look at Franz Freakin Kafka. His entire anthology rests somewhere a little left of solemn and serious, but he wrote some seriously crafted books. This kind of veers back to the idea that great art can only be a product of intense torment (which has a bizarre Catholic s&m kind of value system). I think many t

Sorry, I don't think it's goint to stop being awesome to me. I do hope we both like what's inside of it.

That would be the fastest way to fill the documentary with pseudo-witty fart and bong humor at a clip so unnaturally fast you can't believe the characters. Sure to make some gains in the under eighteen audience for Wilco.

Me either. And that's the day after my birthday. I might have to say I'm having my birthday party with SY.

The cover rules. Much like the new Neko Case, I find the complaints come from people who struggle with the idea that quality art can be light hearted. I would also like to add that the photograph is exceptionally well taken/processed.

Awesome, that is an in-depth, and even-handed looking review. I think I'm gonna like this one.

If Pitchfork's opinion is so irrelevant than why is it being anticipated/discussed so much?

I think your first idea is dead wrong. I think the band does really well when they play out, but I don't think they make any where near that kind of money after you factor in crew, bus, the venue cut etc. I think your second idea is probably exactly right. I think Bennett set it at 50 grand because he thought it was a number that he could actually get. I can imagine an out of court settlement where Tony M. gives him 30 grand and says "Get out of my sight you piece of....." But I don't really know. Wilco will endure this little mess.

+1 (with My Darlin' running a close second)

The pirate stands for tongue in cheek.

I said, daaamn girl!