lost highway

Do they remind you of a solid alibi you have for when you were lifting weights with Tobin, Squeeb and PJ? But seriously, you have revealed that this could be a practice enjoyed by the sane.

Yaaaaaassss, Brewerrrrrrrs!

John Oliver once again, nailed the critical comedy on this better than anyone else. As he points out, Kavanaugh shared the year that his dad started reminiscing on Christmas Eve, calendar in hand. If the story is to be believed, a 14 year old Kavanaugh sat with his dad and listened to him share his calendar to celebrate the holidays. Which is either a really weird lie, or a really weird truth.

Holy shit Rockies vs. Dogers AND Brewers vs. Cubs for playoffs. Two tied rivalries. If the universe is kind we'll see the Rox and the Brewers emerge victorious.

I am proficient in both chronology and major league baseball.

Go Brewers.

There've been a few times in the last two years where I've talked about doing the right things for the wrong reasons is somehow still better politics. Sometimes I'm such a pragmatist I think I have a robot heart. Or maybe such an optimist I'm going to fly off on a date with Mary Poppins.

The FBI are going to investigate it. In a round about way, Flake somehow convinced the Republicans to do the right thing. A pig just flew by my window.

How is this vote going to go down tomorrow? None of my usual media sources are dumb enough to say they know. Are there any Republicans that don't want to go down as the party of Roy Moore?

I found these again. "Everyone Hides" should be the better of the two, great groove, great energy, and then it ends after a minute and a half. Probably the only reason it wasn't on the record. Catchy tune though.

At first glance, I'd put "Some Birds" in the "Taste the Ceiling", "Summer Noon" category. Kind of breezy folk pop with a Beatlesesque guitar lead. I'm curious to hear the rest.

One of my favorite things Jeff ever said in an interview a few years ago was that it's his job to stay curious and that's the most important thing for him. I found that inspiring and decided in some ways it's part of my literal job, but more so part of my career as a professional life-liver, to stay curious. This is a really long-winded way of me saying that I really like Wilco following whatever twists their creative life takes. To me Schmilco might be a slightly lesser Wilco album, but I love that they followed that path to explore making a weird little intimate record. I'd take two more a

There's another Tweedy song on that soundtrack. We were moaning about how you can't buy them individually a while back. To get them you either have to spend the $10 or whatever for the whole soundtrack, or do something illegal.

Sometimes hating Trump gets boring. It's such a consistent feeling when you're trying to keep up with the news that it almost gets tiresome. It doesn't mean that I want to turn it around and like him, more like my emotional balance requires me to feel nothing towards him and leave my disapproval and criticism to be coldly cerebral, less visceral. I'm not a very hateful person, and that guy just exhausts my hate. Sometimes he's so shitty it's fascinating and funny, but mostly lately I just want him to be ruined and go away, and let us have really boring conversations about the mixed blessing

Whoa, Long After Dark came in on my queue. It is fucking fantastic. It pretty much hits all the spots I want to hear from the Heartbreakers. The first 4 tracks are pretty much perfect.

Agreed on Hard Promises. I think it's overlooked in Torpedoes' shadow. Haven't heard Long After Dark yet, other than the big hit. That's up in my library cue and you've made me more psyched to dive in. Seriously, Kings Road is at this sweet spot between garage, classic rock, punk, power-pop for me. Can't get enough of that song.

Also, I'm kind of struggling with Wildflowers and Full Moon Fever for a couple reasons. First of all, they both are like at least half "hits" to me. Maybe not on the charts, but iconic and well known. Is a song like "Good to be King" too obvious for my deep cuts playlist? Or "You're So Bad"? The second problem is this makes me think I subconsciously love the non-Hearbreakers records even more than the Heartbreakers ones, which must be some kind of sin.

Yeah, Hypnotic Eye has a great sound, and I enjoy as a whole but not too many standouts, except maybe Fault Lines. That seemed like a step forward for the Heartbreakers with a new groove, even though they kind of wear it out by the end of the song.

So as a father's day gift I bought my dad the Petty bio, and being my dad he read it in three days and then insisted I borrow it. Covers a lot of similar territory as the documentary, with a little more musing on the man's psychology and damage which feels darker now looking back from his death. On the bright side it's got me doing one of my seasonal discography evaluation's I tend to find myself doing with a career artist (Beatles, Guided By Voices, REM, Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, some band called Wilco). Even though I grew up with Petty there were some gaping holes in my familiarity wi

Never heard! I'm going to download now. Thanks!

No, you're totally right. Those are the tunes that have that sound. The others are more flat, some might say 'slightly dark' but describing sound always makes us say silly things.

It's funny you picked "Nope" because it has kind of unique vocal production compared to the rest. The slap echo and doubling makes it sound kind of whimsical and Guided By Voices-ish to me. Suits the song. Most of the other stuff has a more 'uneffected' sound (not unaffected). They seemed to have really gone for a straight at the mic sound without a lot of extra gloss on it for the last few records. I think it sounds intimate, but I can see how some might hear it as sounding flat. Speaking of head colds, listen to 'I am Trying to Break Your Heart', that guy used to have some real sinus iss

I'm pretty sure they were produced in the same sessions and just didn't fit the sequence for Sukierae. Jeff is pretty damned prolific. There's a trove of hundreds of incomplete, and finished tunes sitting in the Loft right now.

Those greedy bastards made it so you can only buy the entire album on itunes, not just the Tweedy tracks. I remember thinking they sounded catchy when I watched that hilariously depressing movie.

Cool interview with what seems to be a very ex-patriated, English-rusty Jim O'Rourke about his new record Sleep Like It's Winter. https://www.stereogum.com/2007352/jim-orourke-interview-2018/franchises/interview/