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Thanks. I like to listen and share.

I didn't take it as sore, a few just disagreed. I totally see your cultural critique but the response was business, supply and demand for exceptional athletic talent.

Alright, I'm gonna nerd this out hard now that I have a legitimate download (still waiting for my vinyl). "Normal American Kids" Super intimate. You can imagine it coming out of the scene in IATTBYH when Jeff was playing solo. It's so simple and crystalline, one of those moments that show Tweedy can sit along side Joni, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen... distilling feelings into an acoustic guitar and some singing. "If I Ever Was a Child" This sits in the unassuming, Kinks-ish cheery sounding strummers he's been writing- along side "Summer Noon" and "Taste the Ceiling". The accom

Yeah it seems that one trend here is many people liking WTA less than most others.

You ranked AM twice. We're getting to a large # of records with a huge range of possible rankings. I think it's expressed mathematically as 10! But I forgot how to solve for '!'.

This is what I'm grappling with (a lot of people feel the way you do): Why is it especially disrespectful at an NFL game? Is the NFL American church? Would it be easier to accept at a soccer game? I agree, and that's why I think it is an essentially American gesture.

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Is that an indictment of his gesture, or the people having the dialog about it?

The most revelatory part of it for me is how many white people I know who are living comfortably and didn't even want to think sincerely for one instant what he was trying to communicate. I feel like I've become an unlikely spokesperson for understanding white privilege. I really think it starts with getting folks off of the defensive. White people, like all people are shitty listeners when they feel attacked. It turns out they feel attacked when the football guy doesn't stand for the song about their country.

Yeah, two albums in a row that pitchfork hasn't shit on. A 7 from them is like a B+ in one of my other professor's classes.

Has anyone else found their Facebook feeds cyclically littered with hot debate about whether a pro athlete should ever sit out the national anthem?

Oh Wishful Thinking. That's my personal have-to-see-it-live gem before I or the band expires.

Duke: a Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout. Is it good?

Nice: " Therein sits the fascination of “Schmilco,” a record of reckless grace, deceptive tension and what Tweedy has termed “joyously negative” music." Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/article100234537.html#storylink=cpy

Well at least his perspective allows for some heavy praise of both new and old entries into the catalog. But I strongly disagree. What does David Fricke say in the iattbyh doc? If you don't get it, then that's just kind of too bad.

For me the music and sentiments of both are perfectly enjoyable. What they both have are weak lyrics with trite rhymes. The sad, bad, you should be glad and the cry, die situation... Anyway I'm glad you like it. I've never understood the impulse (mine or others) to explain to someone why something is bad. Who ever said, "I was thoroughly enjoying this, but now that you put it that way I'm not enjoying it. Thanks!"

It's always a thin line between the eschatological and the scatological. Especially in politics these days.

A number of interesting things here. I didn't realize how aware of some of the fans' criticisms he is. While I may substantiate his sense of fans disliking "Everlasting Everything" and "On and On and On" (no matter what Bill Fay says), I am a big fan of both "Deeper Down" and "Common Sense". Also, I loved hom talking about loading up AGIB with animals like an arc. It felt pretty dark and revelatory when he said he felt like he was putting all of himself into it as some kind of capsule for his kids. I can't help but wonder if he was a little too aware of his mortality at that time- feeling pr

I think at this point I don't want to hear or read anymore arguments for or against "dad rock". I kind of just want to ignore those words and see if they'll go away.

I was thinking about it... these guys really made a "fucked up country record". This morning I was showering, my wife has Pandora set up in the bathroom so I sometimes listen to the Wilco "station". Someone Else's Song came on and it struck me both how classic and conventional it sounds. They really used to be an Americana band, as in mastering conventions in order to employ them for making new songs (never mind the somewhat meta lyrics). Schmilco would not have been possible in those days. Now they've mastered conventions and often transcend them. Ryan Adams came on the station second. He's

I got a notification a week ago, but it only says they've created a shipping label. No item sent yet.

Lyrically or musically?

"Common Sense" is easily the strangest song to appear on an official album. It's so crooked and wound up sounding.

I've heard it and I love it. I'm going to live in it this fall like my alpaca cardigan. Damned beautiful. More later.

I'm dying over here... it's a small number of days. I LOVE that people are wrestling with it. I'm really into the idea that a band can be around for so many years and still challenge their listeners.