lost highway

What's that? Does that mean Less Than You Think?

I have found the "Ghosts of the..." album to be infinitely more engaging than anything else he has done. To the degree that it's hard to understand that it is the work of the Red House Painters creator. Does anyone else share this affliction. Any way, heres to hoping the Sun Kil Moon moniker brings more genius.

I saw them in Denver. Outstanding. They have the MMJ effect of taking catchy, somewhat mellow songs from an album and giving them more power live. Enough power to induce rhythmic head thrusting from audience members. I also like that they were the worst dressed band I've seen in a long time. They looked like they just got done skiing, that kind of fashion oblivion is a virtue in todays hot-selling indie market.

When is this antiquated, backwoods attitude towards socialized health care going to croak? I've known countless Americans who work hard and pay through the nose for crappy medical insurance that covers little and demands constant co-pays etc. Insurance companies are one of the most absurd, immoral and corrupt entities we have in American business. How much do you think it would really cost us all to pay tax on a universal plan? More than your monthly bill? The government doesn't just give people health care, the people give the government the power to give each other health care. And

Fairport Convention (especially unhalfbricking) Baby Huey Battles Scout Niblet X

THis is the same response I got for my Wilco vs. Chocolate thread, I mean come on it's an honest question if you were a hot dog would you.........? Just a question.

I don't claim to know what effect Clinton would have in office, but I would be willing to try it. I'd rather see Obama take charge, but for some reason his campaigning hasn't been as successful as I had hoped.

I know some people were dissapointed with SBS (I was not), but Easy Tiger......I like Ryan Adams and I am an apologist for his mega-prolific ways but that album is his most lackluster effort. Overall a great songwriter, lacking grace.....kind of a tool. But I guess that's the fun of being a fan of his.

It seems CO is only showing it on PBS digital, and I am not a cable subscriber. Lame....

Well thats dissapointing, but I guess not everyones a super dorky fan that already has all of that.

That little guy you have below your responses is creepy. You should get rid of that, it makes the non-tech savy paranoid.

I wonder what 'scheduling conflict' means. That's curious indeed.

I ask this as a fellow Ryan Adams fan: Were you not the slightest bit disappointed with this album?

Sometimes I wonder if the Godfather series was less the genius of Coppola and more the genius of a script, an ensemble and editing. This was encouraged by reading "The Kid Stays in the Picture" by producer Robert Evans. Nonetheless a gutsy philosophical picture is usually worth a shot. I'll probably see it when it comes to the states.

I jusst spoted him cos I was a English majer and Im always making mistakes but I was not in grammar so much for allmy lit classes and creative writing classes that didn't dock me points except for when I wrote essays and they said I had too many run on sentences

English teacher, or English major? I got scared for a minute and thought that I did it.

Jeff did a pretty faithful cover. Jim James can't seem to make his voice sound bad no matter what he does. Cat Power really goes for the Dylan accent, the only thing I didn't like was the super compressed Dire Straits guitar playing on the verses.

"Hey what were you guys talking about? Oh yeah? Uh Huh? Well I don't care." Perfectly valid......and banal. You paint a rich taperstry of apathy that has enhanced our conversation, thank you.

Yeah WTF guys? How is discussing lyrical content with obvious religious implications off-color? Posting 'I don't care' is like attending an open debate and getting on the microphone and saying 'I don't care, and you're dumb for talking about this'. If you don't care, don't post. I thought this was a place for communication, not playground politics.

Is that really true though? Sure, YHF is not concerned with butt shaking as much as other agendas, but in different ways I think Feist, Hot Snakes and Radiohead are three completely unique examples of effective rhythm sections that promote groove. Really I think Wilco does too, but it's in a different domain then what that guy was referencing. But really if rhythm power is what you want, all things are inferior to Afro-Cuban stuff, or James Brown, Fela Kuti.......there's a million variants.

That is really well stated. If someone wants to whine about how amazing bands are underappreciated I'll pat them on the back, but when people have to complain about a lack of good music they need to leave the house. I've gotten at least a dozen mind blowing albums from the Denver Public Library in the last year. There's so much great stuff. If you're fixated on rumbling your car seat just get excited for the new Wu-Tang.

The i tunes on your pc defaults to aac. I pods play both without quibble.

The thing to keep in mind is not only bit rate but file type. You get a higher quality out of an AAC (the standard i tunes format) than a normal mp3 with the same bitrate. For example (this is a guesstimate) say 128 AAC sounds the same as 160 mp3 or better. That's because an AAC is really an mp4 which manages the data more efficiently to get higher audio resolution at a lower bit rate, whoop, dropped my pocket protector.

That's just the thing though......how can you debate the quality of a term that has no clear definition? I'd say indie has more elasticity as a term than punk ever did. The word everyone used in the 90's was alternative, alternative to what? And if indie is anything independent than your cousins unsigned zydeco band is the best thing to happen to indie.

Actually it started in Asia. Later the Moors brought a pre-guitar to Spain during one of the short lived periods of multi-culturalism and relgious tolerance. It was there that it got closest to what we now recognize as an acoustic guitar. The blues uses harmonic theory from European music played on existing American folk instruments in a way that is distinctly African-American. Later you have folks like Les Paul innovating the technology, Elvis mixed rock with country, Chuck Berry showed how the guitar could really be played, Little Richard brought the piano to new heights. My point is n