lost highway

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Okay you win, we dont read directions. Some people smart, I not. Ho ho ho ho.

I think many people thought we were ranking awesomeness not release order. At least I had that problem. So most of this thread is pointless, unless you find that mistake humerous. You guys are silly.

We've been all working on being tolerant around here, so in the most friendly way possible: I am completely shocked that anyone would put AM ahead of everything. It is so unlike everything they have ever done, I would hate Wilco for the last ten years if I thought AM was the best thing ever.

wait, when you guys put AM on top that means you think its the number one best album right?

wait you guys are putting your favorite at the top right? (please read this as serious and sarcastic simulatenously and actually inform me cause i cant tell)

Yeah-like Bill Fay S/T songs, but arranged and performed a la Time of the Last Persecution. Lots of heavy handed "search for light" kind of images. Doesn't get quite as Biblical as Fay but its definitely down that road.

I, for one agree with you.....halfway. AGIB and SBS are starting to look like companion albums to me. Their similarities being their very organic, live analog recording sound. And the level of expressiveness in the playing. Thematically and mood wise AGIB seems like its looking down a long dark tunnel, there is definitely some light but its pretty dark stuff, Sky Blue Sky seems to step out (excuse the pun). They're two different moods that compliment each other extremely well.

I've only got about seventy percent of the album so far, so hard to say. This is really damn cheesey to say but the shit just chokes me up. It fully captures what killed me when I saw them at the Fillmore (Denver). This sense that their sound and communication with each other is filled with this really romantic kind of humanism. Listening to these songs feels overwhelmingly positive. Much more "joyful" then AGIB. Right now suprisingly all I can say stands out is that Walken is my least favorite. Something I never expected. Can anyone send me mp3 of Patient With Me, Leave Me Like You

I am cutting that term out of my vocabulary. Some of the most mind expanding music came out when my Dad was my age.

I don't hear anyone talking about how much this just sounds like really good 70's music. I mean shit doesn't anyone smoke pot anymore? If this is a cofee table book then so is Elliot Smith. Anyone who thinks the organs sound like Fastball, are listening to too much fastball and not enough Highway 61 Revisited. But still I don't totally know whats up with this album, I just like what I hear so far.

Oh God, I told myself I wouldnt do it. I am so weak. Oh it sounds good. Crap.....

I'm not gonna make a poll here, but I get the feeling post #1 is real and the person has actually heard the album. I also think that the other 9 pages of this thread were a mixture of good humor, lies, angry internet feud, and excited speculation. Yeah?

Well I am going to be in Seattle this weekend and you already sold it. Too bad for me, but hey at least you dont live in Eastern CO. I had a friend from high school who moved to Hotchkiss and I since lost track of him. My lady friend went to high school in Fruita CO. Yee haw!

Thats like saying you live 200 miles away from Chicago the ha is on you. Just teasing cause I am really wanting that pedal. But are you 200 miles west of Denver or 200 miles bad of Denver.

You may be able to purchase it from them at the show in Australia. Often times bands sell albums before they are released at shows.

About a stones throw from the Gothic Theatre.

And good riddance. Now, back to business-I have decided that the inter-band love is so musically and personally miraculous it has turned into not a love triangle but a love hexagon. All writing credits will be in arcane diagrams and in ten years when a book comes out the details of interband relationships will be so charming that it will read like a Cameron Crowe screen play.

What about Rabbi's in Brooklyn. I am only going off of popular film which has lead us all astray on issues of religious/ethnic minority and their distinguishing vernacular. Hey sky blue sky!! Whoooo!!

I propose Pecan Pie and I have an internet joust. I also live in Colorado so I can come pick it up...... eh? eh?

AGIB is my favorite too. When people say AM or Summerteeth is their favorite I dont get it, but I do try and refrain from calling strangers nuts. AGIB is easily on of my top ten desert island albums, its a freakin journey. I think that album is spiritual, only YHF gets near that for me, but hey some people like key lime others eat some cherry pie.

Yeah, I keep coming back thinking I will run into someone who's actually heard the album talking about what they heard. Instead we keep getting a whole lot of not. In viachicago fashion: "There is nothing worth discussing on here for at least a month so......I hate that one guy that said that one thing."

It's just a combo of the sweet effect and using your left hand to make an over exaggerated vibrato. He might have used a bigsby but I think you can do that all with your left hand, especially way up high with a lot of gain.

I can just imagine him doing his smart ass head nod and a winning smile while singing "You can rely on me honey" You know he would stall the beginning of the line just a bit.

See thread below (prunes and custard) and shake your left hand pretty hard while doing it. Voila!