lost highway

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

They're like us only creepier..............

Sounds fair enough. But my inflammatory reaction brought on a good debate. So I will rage on for those who are not yet bored. Blues was the result of mixing African and 'White' folk music. It was sung in English on guitars invented in Spain by slaves. A similar mixture develops between the two worlds creating Jazz, R&B, multiple forms of American folk music (including country), and eventually rock and roll. It was called 'race' music not because it was solely created and engineered by black people for black people, but instead because black people were intimately involved in its crea

If thats part of the article I don't think I will read it. Number one: Wilco has admitted to being heavenly influenced by musicians who are black (As if that matters anyways). Likewise, Kotche could do a doctoral dissertation on syncopation, in fact he nearly did; it's called Mobile. Every great, original American music is indebted both to 'whites' and 'blacks' and historically I've marveled at how critics and narrow-minded fools have obsessed over this race issue, while multi-ethnic bands have laughed their way up the charts. For example: Booker T. and the M.G.'s, Dave Brubeck Quartet.

I always hear people gripe about how new music all sucks. I think this is a result of laziness. Everyone has their own taste but come on: Band Of Horses Blonde Redhead new Radiohead Scout Niblett New Pornographers Feist Bonny Prince Billy Magnolia Electric Co. Animal Collective TV on the Radio Battles Dr. Dog PJ Harvey Bill Callahan Destroyer the Weakerthans Maritime Mastodon Shellac Devandra Banhart I think indie means very little. For this reason swearing off a genre that doesn't particularly exist is about as relevant as claiming it is your favorite thing. It is the same situation o

I always figured growing Bob Dylan's beard means becoming wayward with your lady. Dylan doesn't have the best track record for being faithful to the women in his life.

I support your guess coming to fruition, to the extent that I grant you god-like powers in order to ensure this. Go forth and bring us new Wilco tracks.