lost highway

"Only the Lord Knows", along with "Jesus Wept" are on the last Mavis Staples record. They've been playing them since Jeff wrote them, although I wouldn't mind a studio version with him singing lead. Mavis' version of "Jesus Wept" was amazing.

Does a disc 2 preference indicate one's sense of melancholy?

It sounds better than 'You Never Know'.

It sounds like a George Harrison tune.

I actually like Accelerate and the last one.

Skeleton Twins was really good. A visceral combo of funny and sad.

Yeah, sometimes it takes a hundred shows or two to make that stuff settle into something that looks natural. That's the thing, if you don't choreograph the moves (thank God these guys don't) it's a slow evolution of nightly interaction. When Pat was new I thought his presence was awkward, but the group vibe eases in. Now it's a fun, hammy part of the show.

If yelling at a rock singer in the middle of a concert is where you place your environmental activism..... you don't know where to place your environmental activism. That's the kind of self-righteous shit that is responsible for zero progress and gives the green movement a HORRIBLE name. On a brighter topic, I'm surprised they're already playing a new song. If they keep this up Tweedy will end up recording again with a bunch of people not named Tweedy. I wonder when they'll take a live crack at "I'll Sing It".

After many listens I've decided that the album sounds better when I let it play, no skipping around. In other words the sequencing sounds good to me. The only song that doesn't work for me is "Down From Above".

Now that would be wild. I can see what you mean, though.

I figured it out "Where My Love" has piano playing that reminds of the piano parts on PJ Harvery's White Chalk. Which is weird because you can't stretch that comparison any further. Also I decided that "Pigeons", could be placed between "More Like the Moon" and "Wishful Thinking" on a compilation of Tweedy penned songs that can choke me up if I'm feeling a little emotional.

And who are they to go trouncing around sticking there nose in others' business, killing Vietnamese folks? At least America has never done that, and if we did I'm sure we would have greater military and economic success in the endeavor. Amiright?

I think it has more intention than you might think. This kind of process usually goes through a couple stages, first smashing language together in different ways, and second looking over the big mess and selecting pieces that work towards your purpose/ linking them together etc.

Roughly half of the people incarcerated in Federal prisons are convicted of non-violent drug offenses.

Mine had the lyrics on the dust jacket of the actual LPs. Unfortunately the cover got a bent corner in shipping. Not enough of a setback to return it, just enough to put a small damper on the "new stuff in the mail" joy.

In fact, I'm gonna come out and say that I strongly disagree with the Disc 2 haters. I can imagine myself crawling inside of those songs and living with them this fall. It's perfect for dropping temperatures and changing colors. The only complaint I can share is that the songs, and also the treatments on 'Hazel' and 'I'll Never Know' feels just a little wrong for ending this hour and ten minute album. Maybe just a little too loose and ramshackle. I think he could have ended with 'Fake Fur Coat'.

That one is a haunting beauty. The piano especially gets me. It reminds me of something else that I can't place. It would work well in a film.

Same with 'Jesus Wept', one of my favorite non-Wilco Tweedy tunes.

Fascinating list. I didn't realize that they'd gotten so much licensing. Although, minus 1 nerd point for calling a Billy Bragg song a Wilco song.

I think many of the people who are listening to what U2 Clause put in their Itunes stocking, don't even know that U2 is Irish, or why that mattered in the 80's.

I love hearing his methods, one, but two, the fact that he's so unpretentious about it. When he says this way of writing isn't unprecedented, the Stones wrote some material this way etc.

It's really good. As mentioned, it takes a while to get a good understanding of an album, especially one thats an hour and ten minutes long. I still feel like the mellow stuff hits harder in this context than what the Wilco vehicle does with that material. For example, I'll take "Fake Fur Coat", or "Pigeons" over "Please Be Patient With Me", or "Country Disappeared". The unwieldy length is great to me. There are only 3 or 4 albums a year, tops, that I can really dig into and spend a lot of time with. A solid entry from Tweedy with 20 songs to chew on is a good thing. Usually when there

Offensive move? No. More sad and desperate than offensive. U2 has been making tired music for almost as long as they were making good music. They feel about as much like a real "band" to me as Nike or Apple do at this point. They make the Foo Fighters look like Fugazi.

I hate to beat a dead horse here, but I felt like something strange was going on in the world when I related to Rand Paul's statement. I think we all have some understanding of the human and financial costs of our last intervention in the area. Say we double down: who will be the new ISIL once they've been smashed?

Region Descends Into Chaos After American Military Intervention, America Considers Military Intervention (choose your own picture)