lost highway

AM - I Thought I Held You BT - Say You Miss Me ST - Can't Stand It YHF - I'm The Man Who Loves You AGIB - Less Than You Think (but I still really like it) SBS - Walken WTA - You Never Know TWL - Open Mind

So it's already a winner for you

How does someone writing for a major publication get away with "where you believe everything what he says." Also "the American Thom York"? That could maybe be a productive analogy if you unpack it for five or six paragraphs, but otherwise why freaking bother? I think it was ol' Bill Shakespeare who said "Comparisons are odious."

I think appreciation for it is partly based on expectation. If you look at it as something that's supposed to matter as much as a new Wilco record (depending on your views) that could make it hard to stack up. But, if you look at it as a new "Wilco related" project then you stack it against the Autumn Defense, recent Golden Smog tracks featuring Tweedy, 7 Worlds Collide etc. There are great odds and ends in that list, but as a listener I can be more forgiving, and just kind of see what curiosities await. It's like you have your stack of inarguable CLASSICS by the Talking Heads. Then, Dav

Yeah, I'm also a teacher. My phone/facebook etc. is dead to me during work hours. I think with our impression of the workforce: we see what surrounds us, and we interpret it how it serves our particular views.

No, not defensive at all. It's good for people to get joy out of something someone worked hard on. I think the song is a grower for me. A couple more listens had my toe tapping and enjoying what was a very intentional minimalism in the harmony/melody department. As for the video.... it's less important anyways.

Some people at office jobs do that because they can and they're earning more money than people in 'the Greatest Generation'. It sounds like you haven't hung out with public school teachers, or blue collar migrant workers much- two different forms of intense ass busting. Good point.

Also of note, if you preorder any version of the album you get to download a song a week from it for the next 8 weeks.

The date on this thread is written the way that everyone else in the world does it, except Americans. You say 4/7/14 we say 7/4/14.

A.M. - Passenger Side Being There - Misunderstood Summerteeth - Shot in the Arm Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Kamera A Ghost Is Born - Wishful Thinking Sky Blue Sky - You Are My Face Wilco (The Album) - Bull Black Nova The Whole Love - Whole Love

That song is so repetitive. At first it seemed dull, but then started to win me over with it's persistently minimal melody (say that three times fast). It's like one of those comedy bits where the same thing happens over and over. It starts to bore/annoy, and then you start laughing harder and harder. Definitely could have easily been a Whole Love B-side, but not as good as that album. The video is an ok concept executed in a mediocre way. I hope he didn't pay too much for it.

Does labor reforms mean union busting?

I agree with that, but I feel like he could do more. I feel like Elizabeth Warren is the only prominent voice of sanity on these issues.

Well, we went from some real cowboy anti-regulation shit and a huge crash, to a lukewarm, pseudo-technocrat, semi-reform on banking policies. I predict you're right, a painful correction that's not quite as nasty as the last one, but nothing to look forward to.

As Ecuador, and the Northern parts of our continent produce more, we're also expanding wind and solar. At some point our middle-East oil imports are going to slide across a tipping point and cease to matter all that much.

Looking at that mp3 site makes it seem like the TWEEDY album will be under a similar deal with ANTI records as the last Wilco record.

Yeah, that's a bad one. The important thing to note at this point, is there aren't any reports yet about who actually did the kidnapping. I wouldn't second guess a strong Israeli military response to anything, but at this point I don't know who they'd be responding to.

Well, that's a sad way of looking at things. I do know there are plenty of weeks in August and September where none of these various side projects and solo acts are performing. Maybe they'll be regathering for recording.

Tweedy made some comments a while before the Whole Love came out, that they'd lost interest in debuting songs before they come out on a record. Apparently they got a live groove going with some of the SBS stuff that they felt they couldn't capture with the same energy in the studio after kicking the songs around live.

Meanwhile, there could very well be new album progress going on behind the scenes in the weeks between side-project outings this year.

For the record, I always enjoy when people recount the gig. Not just the setlist, but the moments that made it an interesting experience.

Dude, Pat could pin some adorable shit.

Our nation is definitely responsible for their current circumstances. This might be a bit of a cliche, and an overused piece of rhetoric, but perhaps militarily what ISIS needs is a scalpel approach as apposed to thousands of boots on the ground. A series of covert op's, an opportunistic drone strike, some Navy Seals. But I don't really know.

So if you're advocating for round 2, what would we do this time? What will work that we forgot to do before? Spend more money? Sacrifice more American lives? More Iraqi civilian casualties? We caused a problem with war. Then we try to use war to fix it.

I was already psyched about that movie. Linklater has been mentioning the project in interviews over the last several years. I think it totally plays to his strengths: just a little sentimental, but also philosophical. Great pairing here, and one of the better new solo songs.