lost highway

I already tried. Sorry. But really, you live in a Democracy pull your hand out of your pants, stop preaching about your racial paradise and do something. Anyone who thinks racism is a thing of the past is probably white. I happily celebrate obvious improvements in this country, right along side you. But to run around telling everyone racism is dead is irresponsible and absurd. To follow that up with a push for not voting makes me think you are icing over this political thread with some sugar-free vanilla. It's like someone coming to a football thread to tell everyone not to play. Voti

That makes the last four years of awfulness .00001% your fault. Thankyou for helping.

"Change does not come from Washington. It comes to Washington."

I don't know the guys, so I can't say. But, I wanna step out on a limb and say the souls and egos of Wilco's current members seem to be sitting just fine.

Oh, so you heard the rumor on the working title: Intestinal Frequencies?

I'll go with that. Maybe wouldn't fly under an academic classification of "literature", but in the broad since of well written English letters, sure. I even agree with your hierarchy only I might swap SBS and ST.

I am a FanMan and I refuse to be referred to as anything less.

I would also add that an Evil Urges-like disappointment from wilco would be devastating. I don't expect as much.

A lot of these strike me as great lyrics more than anything. They should be put to music.

Hey, way to be brave. There is definitely some dramatic language, and effective images in both of those poems. You stick to the ballad meter and format very firm. Makes me wonder how much Dickinson you've been reading. On a casual glance, I am curious about the absence of punctuation. The missing periods and commas made me sing song through your ballad meter so fast that I had to go back to get the substance of what you're doing. In "Looking Back They Made You" you interrupt the ballad format on stanza 3, 6 and 8. On 3 you added extra lines and I think it works fine, on 6 it is just ho

Summerteeth is the vision of Jay Bennett dominating. YHF is what happens when he was forced to compromise control. I would say that much of what we regard as the wilco aesthetic from the past three records, from the ensemble playing, to the avant flourishes, to the distinctive production style is a break from that Summerteeth approach. When I heard Bennett's solo record this became increasingly clear. I would say O'Rourke's stamp on the band has been just as, if not more significant since he came into the picture. (thank god)

I repeat again that we all have no idea what the next record will actually sound like. But, comments the band has made seem to be exciting most of us..... me too. It just occurred to me that the band has not been playing as much of the new material as we may have thought. Two songs were debuted and neither has been played for some time. I wonder if the band is going to keep a tighter lid on this one, so we don't analyze it to death before we get to hear a finished work.

Serious sounding, the Neutral Milk Hotel album might have a pretty intense thematic thread, but it sounds like a fun-time circus. It's too bad that guy wanted to disappear.

Welcome to the board. How come those guys didn't come to my birthday party and give me a custom Mid Fi pedal? That's awesome. How did you come across that, you workin for Mid-Fi want me to demo any new models?

Admitting that I'm taking us further into fandork debate, which is where record geeks debate the subjective to comic ends....... 1. I find it fascinating to know a Wilco fan thinks Summerteeth a better album than YHF. 2. "Electioneering" is a much needed face melting rock song to jolt you from all of the deeply intense midtempo numbers. 3. You're right, Radiohead never lightens up. Wilco's a little more 3 dimensional there. 4. The production on Summerteeth, that is, not the instruments chosen and arranged, but the way they were recorded and mixed sounds kind of gross to me sometimes

I see what you mean, but it's pretty vague. You get these weird little chunks of evidence from that book, the fundamentals, improvisations, certain goals and sonic approaches, but there is almost no personal information. Almost nothing from Jim O. You get to hear Glenn's multi-percussion theory, a good quote from John about lots of instruments making tiny sounds, other interesting stuff about Sear Sound. I love that book, but it doesn't really give me an idea about what making the album was like, it's more a picture of the tools and the schematics. (which is totally awesome in another w

Agreed. I could write a list. This one is just the most pressing.

There's a closeup picture of Jeff's pedals as the homepage at Wilcoworld right now. You can't see them all but the 'Blister Agent' is front and center.

But that's the point. Kot has told that story. No one has told the AGIB story. I've heard snippets that are fascinating. Like, Tweedy had to sing super soft to record the vocals on AGIB because his headaches were killing him. I'm sure we'd all love one for each album, but I think AGIB is the story least told.

That's an interesting battle......In the Aeroplane is so much more playful, it's hard to put up against such serious sounding stuff. But, you might have it there.

Let me know if you want me to convince you...... I've got a case for this. (AGIB AGIB AGIB) the parentheses make it subliminal.

I love the 33 1/3 book series. I've thought about how someone should do one on Wilco, but which album? AGIB seems like the most interesting to me. YHF has been journalized to death. Most of the early experiences were covered for better or worse by Greg Kot. But the AGIB sessions are largely a mystery in spite of the Wilco Book. There is much said about the musical approach, but wouldn't it be awesome to get some good Jim O'Rourke comments. Hear Leroy's perspective after some years. I remember both John and Jeff looking at that period as dark times for the band, I'd love to see how they