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I'm going to my local record store on 4/18 to find out. Woo hoo.

I went in Boulder last night. Wow. I can honestly say it exceeded my expectations. This has the makings of being up there, top ten concert films (but then again, I only think about a half a dozen are truly that good). The composition in some of the shots was gorgeous. The footage from outside of the concerts was also great. Something about the vibe of the sound-check performance of Wishful Thinking was awe inspiring. I'd put it up there with the rehearsal footage of Jesus etc. from IATTBYH. All in all it reaffirmed why Wilco is one of my favorite acts. There is something life-affirmi

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It's all about the vinyl with the download code. MP3's you can burn or throw on an ipod and a big fat chunk of gatefold art with a slab of vinyl inside. That's how I like to see it done.

Ha! I got my chronology wrong- I believe it preceeds two of their best.

Might be the worst Sonic Youth record. But it's sandwiched between two of the best. I think anyone who has put in years doing anything creative (writing, painting, songwriting, whatever) can tell you you never know. Genius, or mediocrity are always around the corner. People's predictions of these forecasted trends in someones creative abilities have no bearing on my experience of reality. Long career artists have shown how often the quality control can sink, and then skyrocket (the Boss, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, even the Beatles).

I own neither. I'm guessing the Crocs correlation is closer with Wilco than Radiohead.

My girlfriend and I enjoy both. It is because they are awesome. If you don't like Radiohead but your new squeeze does maybe he/she can help you see why they are awesome.

Sorry, Wesley Willis reference, the guy is kind of obscure: He also said "Whip a water buffalo in the ass wif a belt!" For more on the late artist visit: Wesley Willis on Wikipedia

AGIB rules. SBS is really good. This thread sucks a giraffe's balls with Heinz 57 sauce.

To ease your whining, I suspected- and more tech savy member confirmed: shooting something in HD has a positive effect on its quality no matter what format it comes out on. The DVD will look good, because Brendan Canty and Christoph Green are good with cameras, and they use HD ones. It's not as if you're buying something that was recorded in stereo and pressed in mono. It will be awesome, don't worry.

Op Ivy is on the list! That is amazing. I was suprised to see Marquee Moon hasn't already been done. That should have been in the first twenty they wrote.

Why aren't these escorts saying anything about this? Were they sworn to secrecy?

I think it is fine, and fair. I just keep holding my opinion until I hear the real deal. I heard the live debut of "The Late Greats" and it was pretty lame. Early live recordings showed "Impossible Germany" to be promising, but it wasn't yet essential- but it is now. I guess if I were to drop any judgement on a slap-dash collection of solo, and full band live debuts: I would say it looks promising. I really like SBS, but I think this might even be better. +1

Yeah. I'm not sure hearing the early live versions of most of what might be on the album puts anyone in a better position to know what the thing will actually sound/feel like. Again, the reviews are coming in before anyone has heard the thing. Dude it's Jeff Tweedy. Look at the man. Par for the course in my eyes.

Totally. That's a good observation. I also notice touring bands tend to play the last album a little less on tour. It's like they're getting tired of the last record's songs, because they had to represent every night. I have also noticed a lot of bands playing more of the songs two albums back, like they've rediscovered that once over-performed song cycle. When I saw Wilco touring for AGIB they only played a couple YHF tunes and seemed to be relishing in the summerteeth. After SBS I found a lack of AGIB songs in their set. Maybe that's a crap theory, but I've seen them do it, and Radio

Those features have made other Wilco albums enjoyable. I think (speaking out of turn for a few critics) the songwriting and production are what make AM a lesser album in a lot of people's eyes (or just mine). There has been a lot of acoustic guitar on every Wilco album. What's fascinating is how the band surrounds the acoustic guitar that Tweedy writes the songs and plays them on. I mean dang, Forget the Flowers, Via Chicago, Radio Cure, Company in My Back, What Light. All of those have acoustic guitar and sound and feel completely different. I think my motivation for almost every resp

Why is that?

I just printed my tickets to see it in Boulder. Woo hoo.

This article re-affirms the exciting idea to me; we have no idea what the next Wilco record is really gonna feel like.

HD is a type of camera. It makes better digital pictures than a regular digital camera. The way the bit ratio matches up to whichever mpeg codec dvd uses vs. blu-ray is for someone a little more video tech than myself. I venture to say that something shot in HD looks a lot better on a DVD than something that was not.

I agree with you in the sense that the bonuses are only as relevant as the financial sectors actions in general. They are symptoms. Bonuses did not destroy our economy- the attitude that continues to pay them after a bailout, that is the kind of thing that did. The heart of the entire issue is credit, usury, deregulation and a lack of industry.

That's true, it is often these kinds of symbols that mobilize the populace and call on politicians and the press to answer the public call.

I gotta say, there is a 'fact of the matter' kind of outrage- but do the numbers. AIG gets about 160 billion from a bailout, then they turn around and toss 160 million of it into bonuses. That means they wasted one thousandth of their bailout on fat cat cash. That's like if you were about to declare bankruptcy and some new government program handed you a hundred thousand dollars and you turn around and spend a hundred dollars at the liquor store. Not a kind, or just gesture, but not really a big piece of the proverbial pie. I bring this up, not because I think AIG should get away with it