lost highway

Just the kind of brain I need. Thankyou, meltdown temporatily averted.

Fuck the eagels......that is all.

Oh god, it gets worse and worse. My old college email account was finally deleted, too bad that is the one music today has me under. Also too bad I can't change the email on my music today profile. Also too bad when I log in on the music today site it shows no proof that I have payed for the cd/dvd. This could amount to one of the biggest dissapointments/technology snafus of my life. Shit.

Which Mott the Hoople album is this song on?

Oh this brings on so many revelations. 1. The whole Pat is dead rumor is totally bunk. 2. All of the footage so far hasn't been them recording, but rehearsing. 3. Nels Cline is positoned strategically behind a pole so as not to blind people with his magnificence.

Thanks, anywho. You're still a twentieth century boy in my book.

Didn't find anything. I was hoping for some more of that instant gratification stuff we come to expect from the interweb. But thankyou anyways Mr. Bolan, I will telegram Sam and tell him your are still rocking on.

I'm one of the many who preordered off the Wilco site in order to attain the much coveted DVD. I was curious if anyone had any experience with ordering from them, and if so: Will we get it before the release date? After?

I'm a hack piano player and this one seems easy. I'm sure I could just listen to it and play along a million times, but I wanted to see if somebody already had it. Cheers.

Not the Jeff Tweedy cross dressing thread I expected.

I mean to say this is another reminder that anyone can be senselessly struck down in an act of violence, or an accident. Best thing you can take from a tragedy is attention to the living people around you, because there are no gurantees for you or them. Take what you can get, it could be fleeting.

Thou shalt not take the lords name in vein.

Everyone should be sure to listen to the people in your life. They are not safe, and we aren't either. Awful things seem to happen. Enjoy your moment.

Its a long shot. But, am I lame because I know exactly what you're talking about? (I am also in the field). Kids seem to not like Open Court too, but the older grades have some decent stories in them.

I love how that guy said it drifts from one song to the next with hardly a change of rhythm or tone. I would almost be inclined to say its a bit uneven, but I like eclecticism so its not a problem for me. (come on from Please Be Patient With Me to Hate It Here to On and On and On, three wildly different songs in sound, tone and appeal).

"Jeff, I know you are really sad....and I like that."

That might be the Prunes and Custard pedal made famous on such hits as Hell is Chrome and Spiders.

Yeah they definitly sparkle in the live setting. Hence the constant enjoyment of Kicking Television. I can see how if rawness is what attracts you to the band how the restrained playing, the maturity and perfectionism on SBS can cut down on that for you. Maybe the bonus DVD will have tons of loose, rockin early versions of these tunes for you to enjoy until they come to your town and use Side With the Seeds to blow your face off. Until then you will have to sew elbow patches on your cordorouy jacket and take what we can get outta SBS.

I don't understand. The better takes would be less polished? Its no doubt Wilco can afford high tech recording, but its all analog, pretty much everything after Summerteeth (SBS included) is way more natural sounding to my ears then any other band at their success level, or below it for that matter.

The album was recorded all instruments live, including half the vocals. Same room, no headphones.

Is this based on a concert experience you've had? I saw them the same year Nels joined (is that '04 or '05?) and they were incredibly visceral.

As per the relativism I can't make you feel what I feel when you listen to music, but for me AGIB is easily one of the most emotional albums I've ever heard. I've listened to it at five or six in the morning on every road trip I've done since its come out. It sounds like someone having a really passionate conversation while trying to remind themselves to keep their voice down so they don't wake up the neighbors. Its a crazy tension. I've never heard anything like it.

I love that rehearsing new song look that people get, Jeff displayed it perfectly. As they start to jam into it, he keeps almost stopping to make a suggestion, then telling himself to wait, then likeing something, then almost stopping to suggest something, then remembering to let it develop, and then the song really happens.

For some reason the Minus 5 has a .333 batting average to my taste buds. I compiled one to five songs that seem like solid tunes off each album and ended up with a decent record. Funny enough, the best listen start to finish is At the Organ. One thing that guy can do is keep writing awesome songs and get Jeff Tweedy or Collin Meloy to sing them. I'll keep listening either way, the gems are worth it.

Mean, mean, mean......sometimes the victim of a verbal assault looks like the winner; strange.