lost highway

Maybe it's cause I was only 7 this year, so my formative years music wasn't kicking into gear yet, and the stuff I look back at fondly came before this, but this is a year of things waiting to happen in my eyes (as well as dying off), more than things happening. The coolest record of 1989 has to be Pixies Doolittle. Honorable mention to Soundgarden Louder Than Love In other news Jawbreaker and Fugazi were getting going. Mudhoney put out their debut (with better things to come). REM was regrouping as was Bruce Springsteen. Sonic Youth was just about to get amazing with Goo, but not yet. Pub

Nice. I forgot how much I like this image.

Yeah, that's where the conventional wisdom falls apart. I think the reason folks suggest this is because of the rise in his approval ratings in general over the year, but approval ratings aren't elections.

Apparently while I got busy the Rockies swept the Diamondbacks and took their place in the NL West standings. Maybe I should always be busy and forget to check in.

The conventional wisdom is that an impeachment attempt on Clinton energized his base and the same might be true of Trump.

Red Eyed and Blue comes to mind. The green, green grass in The Family Gardener.... um I bet there's tons more I'm not thinking of yet. * Oh, the gold lame in The Lonely One.

I scoured the internet for a picture of Beck on a bicycle for at least two minutes, and I'm very sorry I came up empty handed. But just picture it for me.

Oh weak, I didn't even read that, sorry. Well, great minds think alike, except for me missing the original Rust was already live.

That's a cool record, but it's more bootleg than regular release in a sense. Maybe the best analogy for this idea would be Neil Young's Live Rust, if he never released Rust Never Sleeps.

Finally hearing this. It seems closer to disc 2 of Sukierae to me in that it unhurriedly kind of drifts with a lot of dreamy tunes. Not as tight or breezy as Warm, but I think each one has its place. All said, I love what he's done here with these 20+ songs, and at the same time I hope he uses the Wilco revitalization to do nothing like this.

Oh my feeble memory. I remember there was a small world connection there but have since forgotten who it was. Oh wait, you live up North East, by Mike and Morgan if I recall.

Englewood up to no good here. But I work for the Denver school district .... sorry Englewood.

Truth! I've said it before, Star Wars is the coolest Wilco record. Not best, but coolest which is fine by me.

I combed through the B-sides for a compilation. It's pretty magnificent when you pick and choose what they never put on albums.

I imagine they might have a single Warmer LP, or a deluxe double album package. Seems pretty doable.

He talked a lot in some guitar nerd magazine I read about having enough time on his hands with his daily Loft work, and Wilco being on year-long sabbatical, that he figured out how to record electric guitar parts that sound like pedal steel. The truth is, even after the hours he spent doing that, it was probably way easier than learning pedal steel.

Laura Jane Grace is the front woman for Against Me! and this is her first solo album. Against Me! rose out of the underground as a touring punk band with many critically acclaimed albums, their singer came out as transgender and transitioned to be a woman, a process chronicled in their record "Transgender Dysphoria Blues". The early Against Me! stuff was kind of lo-fi folk punk heavy on sing alongs, they gradually became more electric hi-fi punk with sing alongs. Also, this should probably be in the 'Someone else's song' thread.

Didn't make it out into the fray today. Please share impressions of the record, guys, when you've had a moment to form them.

I feel like I'm probably supposed to read that one. Maybe if I stay on a non-fiction kick I'll jump into it next. Agreed on Sacks writing. He's one of those writers who makes my loved ones suffer from me randomly sharing something I'm thinking about that I just read.

Oliver Sacks' The River of Consciousness I always loved his contributions to the Radiolab podcast. I perused my local library and randomly ended up with his last book before his death. It might have made more sense to start with one of his older staples, but I never seem to get into bands, directors, writers in the normal sequence. Anyway, if like me you love science in the sense of the big ideas, the history and philosophy of science while not being particularly bright enough to follow the nitty gritty processes to be a scientist yourself this book is great. So far I'm just in the section

I watched her ACL performance on youtube while grading papers this weekend. Her band is off the charts, like My Morning Jacket, Wilco level live band. They hit all the dynamics: intimate folk, blazing rock etc.

I'm just going to park Representative Schiff's words here because they're worth revisiting: “My colleagues might think it’s OK that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of what’s described as the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign,” he said. “My colleagues might think it’s OK that when that was offered to the son of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the son did not call the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse that foreign help — no, instead that son said he would ‘love’ the help with the Russians. You might thi

I'm not rooting for an economic downturn. It's more like you have a sunshine candidate who's ignored the forecast and you see clouds on the horizon. You know it won't go well for him. Also in spite of the recent years of plenty it's clear that our economy is still not working for everyone.

Don't worry guys. Trump has two years to shit the bed. The economy is going to slow down and he already stepped in it by talking about killing Obamacare in the middle of his 'victory lap'.

Yeah, they do love throwing the millionaire inheritor, fraud, casino guy in with them as just another underdog. "Poor guy got kicked around by that evil report that didn't blame him, and shows he's innocent, and no you should never see it." Oh man, I'm afraid.