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Yeah, the conversation quickly became obsolete when HRC clearly had more regular delegates anyways. I suppose if the GOP used super delegates they may have sidestepped the whole Trump conundrum. There's no avoiding the fact that both the DNC's super delegates and the GOP's winner take all states are further tempering an already indirect form of democracy. Still, somehow both parties nominated unpopular candidates... it's bizarre. I wont retread it fully, but I'm still vexed that our fellow citizens couldn't sustain an interest in some more balanced candidates on both sides of the aisle.

I'm kind of a skeptic about the old format wars, I like vinyl because it's nostalgic, interactive and mechanical. All of that said Sky, Blue, Sky just sounds better on vinyl. Most notably the bass. I didn't realize how elegant John's playing on that album was until I heard the wax.

Yeah, I think many on here have astutely recognized that a certain core of his supporters haven't wavered in spite of him saying things that disqualify him in an intellectual, moral and leadership capacity. The good news is polling has started to turn. With any luck he peaked at the beginning of July and sanity is prevailing with moderates who don't admire Russia, support out troops, think foreign policy is nuanced, and wouldn't publicly badmouth a fire marshal after he rescues them from a stalled elevator. ** This just in, Clinton just tipped the scales back in her favor in the battlegro

Oh man. Not only are people wrong, but they're interpreting an album they haven't heard.

On that front you are subjectively wrong, but in the overall intention of this thread you are definitevely, objectively incorrect.

I thought Hix was voting for Johnson. At any rate, the guy is a) smart, not insane, and c) right leaning. Most folks who fill all of those categories have been pretty quiet since Drumpf became the nominee.

Incorrect.

I also love Draft Morning, sometimes I think Notorious is one of the strongest influences on Wilco's sound.

Was it 3rd Eye Blind that was mercilessly booed for such bold proclamations in Cleveland?

HRC is nailing it right now.

Ah, we're dusting off this old chestnut.

Yeah, I think more people find overdrive pedals more handy, but there's a tool for everything, and really the difference between overdrive and distortion is kind of academic. Really it's a progression with most pedals.

I read this in a thick Scottish brogue, "FOOkin'".

It sounds awesome. Too bad it's almost 300 bones!

Well there's Reaganomics, Iran-contra, the savings and loan crisis and he ruined the EPA with industry corruption. Don't believe me? Ask the Dead Kennedys! But we digress.

I'm convinced that in an alternate universe, a Sanders presidency would leave his supporters as disillusioned as many Obama supporters felt. I think this is the nature of being president of this country. I also think similar to Obama, Sanders would make changes in the places he could. There has been an ongoing philosophical cliche about the 'lesser of evils' as an unacceptable motive to vote. The more I think about this, the more limited I find the perspective. Every president of the U.S. (at least in the last century, I'm not sharp enough on some of the earlier ones to say) has been directl

I've read more than one article recently that suggested NAFTA was neither the disaster its critics claimed it to be, nor the smashing success its proponents have claimed. I'm no economist, but I found that perspective interesting.

I'll take a senator/constitutional law professor over a business mogul every time.

No need to feel bad. I think everyone can agree that the music has changed. I freakin love Star Wars, I love it. But my relationship with it is different. It's like AGIB and YHF were in my bones the way Joni Mitchell, or Nick Drake can get. It's a poetic, sonic, deeply emotional conversation that merges with your actual identity as a listener. Star Wars gets into me the way that Guided by Voices does. It's imaginative, invigorating and joyful, it just doesn't cut as deep. Few things do, I love the Faces, or R.E.M., or the New Pornographers, or ELO, but they don't bare the same kind of weigh

Strategy question: did Clinton gain more votes from the center for her VP pick or did she lose more from the far left? (Talk amongst yourselves).

It's about acceptance- accepting who you are, being accepted by the person in your life. Both Whole Love in the human relationship sense, and a full confession as Jeff pointed out. Laying it all down on the table. I feel like the quasi title track lays the theme out there, also Born Alone in kind of a depressing way, Dawned on Me in a romantic way are songs of acceptance. I remember in the interviews for Sky Blue Sky Jeff said he had always wanted to put out a record with some lyrics that could express his life with his wife in the kinder terms she was deserving of. I don't really know i

It's such a lame waffley move. Okay, you can button hook the LGBTQ community as a talking point while you're thinking about bombing the shit out of ISIS. How progressive.

This is my question. Are enough people really this scared? Has their everyday experience of America been that frightening? I mean, I get the suffering of some rust belt folks with industries shutting down, but do that many of our citizens walk outside everyday and say, "Oh god, how terrible. This place is falling apart and I'm frightened for my life. The last eight years have been the most dangerous time of my life."

This is a sidestep, and terribly on the nose, but I remember they were leaking an mp3 a week for the Tweedy album the summer my wife and I moved. I was making a lot of extra trips in my car and I probably played "Summer Noon" about a million times. It brings me back to that moment in a great way every time I hear it. In fact, I think driving is a huge part of my association for these songs and albums. Probably because it's the thing I do where I hear the most music (other than playing music). YHF, Summerteeth and SBS are all winter to me. Don't know why, they just remind me of wanting to

I'm not sure what you're looking for here.... sorry you feel this way? You're right they're on a downward spiral? Shut up dude, it's awesome you're listening wrong? But seriously, Star Wars rips, hard. If you're not into how that works it seems the next one is likely to please you as it resets the dial a few notches in the other direction (or at least that's what they said). As for the title, a rose by any other name.... the way I see it now is that Tweedy and Co. have artistically liberated themselves. They already had their own studio, then they got their own label, and now they've s