lost highway

I probably don't need to tell you, but share your reactions after you've digested the thing. We're all very excited to hear how it came out.

Yes Blue Ray..... Meanwhile, any of you Chicago locals going to the premier next month?

I realized you lived in Colorado, I thought I might even check out your show. Then I realized it's not in Denver. Hit me up if you guys ever want cheap studio time in Denver.

Sorry, what is the Community Song?

I think many great albums have, but I don't think all great albums have intense conflict. I suppose any creative venture is bound to have some kind of conflict, but you seem to be pointing towards the dramatic kind. There are some examples of another type of great album: Highway 61 Revisited Kind of Blue the Crane WIfe Grace the Argument This Year's Model Revolver I'm not an expert on all of these, I might be dead wrong on a couple, but what I'm getting at are those great albums made by highly capable musicians with a camaraderie found by striving to make great art. I would like to thin

The thing about Nels is you can't really get a good picture of his musical personality (which is way diverse) by looking at his work on SBS. A lot of what he does on that album is in response to the material that was brought to him. If you ever listen to anything start with the Nels Cline Singers, either Draw Breath, or the Giant Pin. It was very interesting for me to hear Nels Cline as a chord player instead of a lead player. He can be very minimal and moody. He can also be a noise maker, he can make a YHF array of noise just with a guitar and effects. Maybe you still won't like it, bu

I think the mistake with SBS is to think that just because it is a fairly relaxed listen (compared to AGIB, YHF) doesn't mean it wasn't a challenge to the band. Those smooth songs have super intricate arrangements with six performers and it was recorded live with everyone in one room. I think it must have been extremely challenging. They definitely could not have achieved it with that level of grace in a former incarnation. I also think that Tweedy is always challenging himself. I saw a short interview somewhere on Paste where he was talking about how none of the bands previous albums ma

Man, sometimes I think Brendan Canty might be one of the coolest dudes alive. It would be one thing just to play drums in Fugazi. Most people can't compete with that. But then he adds his efforts with Trixie films and Burn to Shine. The guy is like the sweetest curator/producer ever.

Re: no one can accurately guess what the album will sound like. The only thing we do know is one Wilco album has never sounded all that much like its predecessor.

Let me take this one: if I liked Blu Ray, and had never heard Wilco, I would by their Blu Ray movie so I would hear them and stop being such a freaking loser. The same applies to any other format they have releases on. High five?

But HD tv looks like a DVD. Blu Ray's merits are only visible to those with massive and expensive tv sets, and to them the improvement is a mere subtlety. At least that's what a specialist on NPR told me. I don't mean to be a Luddite, but come on.... 24-bit cd's, blu ray dvds? Some of these new formats seem like little more than cash cows to me. Excuse the rant. Yeah Wilco, put out a new DVD! Wooh!

The bass playing shines on vinyl in a way the cd didn't capture. It's a great album to listen to on vinyl if you don't mind the work of changing for the four sides it spans.

Awesome. That was an interesting twist on "Monday" made me feel better that it is 1/13th of the setlist. I think I see now what they meant about getting the 'feeling' of a live show in. Way to go Brendan Canty!

I actually prefer this. 13 songs of live rockin is good enough. I always find the 'behind the scenes' material from music documentaries to be more interesting. Maybe if I hadn't seen the band four times live my attitude might be different.

Nonesuch put up a tracklist: 1 Ashes of American Flags 2 Side with the Seeds 3 Handshake Drugs 4 The Late Greats 5 Kingpin 6 Wishful Thinking 7 Impossible Germany 8 Via Chicago 9 A Shot in the Arm 10 Monday 11 You Are My Face 12 Heavy Metal Drummer 13 War on War

Checked again. Still nothing. Maybe there's technical difficulties.

This is supposed to be up. Dang, if I knew they were going to be late with it I would have slept in more.

I love it. It is not my favorite of theirs but I love it. There are things about it that I like more than Summerteeth. I would say I like most of the "weak" songs listed above less, but I still enjoy them. Except, I actually think "Leave Me Like You Found Me" is really pretty. It is the perfect song (album?) for driving on a winter morning. I bet the new one will trump it though. We'll know in a few months.

Nels Cline: edit: crap someone already did this. I have no original bones in my body.

If that song is straight up James Brown, than Sublime is straight up Jimmy Cliff. Kind of a stretch. But I digress.

I still really need to hear this. My awesome girlfriend got us tickets to his show coming up.

... it's like telling your friend to get back in an abusive relationship with an ex they have no interest in anymore.

Oh I think I found it. Shure Beta56. Say yeah if you agree. I don't do live sound so a lot of those mics are unfamiliar to me.

I am an audio engineer and a lover of microphones, so I can't stop wondering this. The past couple times I've seen Wilco and in all the recent photos they have very distinctive looking microphones on the guitar cabinets. They have that kind of rounded- oversized egg shape like a lot of kick drum mics have, only a bit smaller. I haven't found a good enough picture to share, but if you're a mic geek and know what I mean, see if you can figure it out.