lost highway

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)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/jeff-tweedys-family-affair-20140904

"Box set of rarities", separate form "best-of" is how they explained it, which is a good sign. I'm excited/afraid of disappointment. Part of the burden of being a super-fan (dork?), is that we tend to unearth so many things already. I have a playlist of 18 songs on my ipod that are just B-sides, deluxe edition EP material, alternate versions. Pretty much the 'Australian EP' from YHF, the Wilco book stuff from AGIB, the soundtrack and bonus stuff from SBS and the bonus EP stuff from the deluxe edition of TWL. There are a few soundtracks and randoms sprinkled in there. All of this stuff c

ISIS seems to unanimously leave a different taste in the American mouth than the Hussein regime, the Taliban, or even Al Qaeda. Somehow they've reignited our since of shock and disgust after a decade of suicide bombers made that atrocious act somehow feel like a "normal problem" for the area. I think that emotional reaction comes from a raw, humanistic desire for good, nonetheless it is still a tactical quagmire. Even the republican hawks have grown disenchanted with the fantasy of orchestrating regime changes and "building democracies". The airstrikes of late seem like the only thing eve

I'd imagine he'd curve the bill at least a little instead of leaving it flat like the doofuses do these days.

If anything about it had anything to do with 'covets band' or 'hired entertainment' it matters not at all. If it's a band doing their own thing than it's not cool. Basically, if you're playing mainly for money who cares? If you're playing for art than you should know your own songs by heart. This matches with the pattern that most bands who play mostly originals tend to play with 2-3 other bands, should probably be playing 25-40 minute sets (unless headlining) and probably will be paid very little. Hired cover bands playing music the crowd shpuld know will probably need to fill 1-3 hours a

I was on the opposite side and started digging into things/ did the preorder, and I kind of wish I didn't. The more my ipod playlist of the pre-order downloads grows the more the album is starting to really sound like "something" to me. It would have been better to have listened front to back all in one go next month.

Just got it. I dig it.

I was expecting this would be the Monday download for people who preordered the record today, however they didn't add a Monday download. Boo!

I feel like Lotti deserves a TV show, or at least some Funny or Die sketches.

Yeah, I kind of got caught up in the Sukierae part of the conversation. As for the voice: I became a serious fan of Wilco watching the IATTBYH documentary. One scene in particular affected me, which was towards the start they're doing vocals at the loft (I want to say it was for Poor Places) and you get up close during that part of the process. As a huge music fan, and aspiring singer I was struck by how relaxed and effortless he sounded. His delivery was so dang unadorned with none of the "singer voice" theatricality of so much of the music I had listened to. It made the abstract, poet

My thought is that these songs are going to grow and so far (with maybe an exception for Diamond Light) they're better as NOT Wilco songs. The stripped down treatment and some of what Jeff was kidding about his "limited" skills on some of the arrangements give them their appeal. Maybe some of these tunes with all of the finesse the 6 members of Wilco have could have been polished into sounding a little ho hum. This could leave some creative space for Wilco to take on more of the contemplative, weird, tense, dark or explosive material they produce so well and not so much of the laid back stuff.

Also, the first Alkaline Trio album did the whole heart-on-its-sleeve, adolescent woes feeling really well (I find their subsequent work disastrous).

Cloud Nothings- they tend to have more aggro albums overall (in a way that I enjoy) but they've put one or two poppy gems on their last two records that are total, standout, mixtape songs to me. Jawbreaker- best pop punk band ever for my money. Of course like any great band when you think about it, they don't really fit into their genre. Also the first Jets to Brazil (same singer/songwriter) album is fantastic, the subsequent ones are more mixed with some Beatlesesque gems for sure. For power pop I always end up getting the whole obscure, record collector thing- it's fun to think

... complete with makeshift cardboard box/gum pack drum kit AND Lucius. http://www.npr.org/event/music/338016630/tweedy-and-son-take-to-the-tunnels-friends-in-tow?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=20140807 Also, as the "found percussion" kit demonstrates. Spencer may be his father's son, but he's also Kotche's protege.