lost highway

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.

Huge upgrade by the Autumn Defense on that one.

I disagree with half of that, I think The Whole Love benefits hugely from Nels' inimitable style. But I also think that when Tweedy has to step up as a lead guitarist he brings something very unique and human to the six strings. Nels and O'Rourke have been quoted saying as much about Jeff's guitar playing. When we listen to the record we'll hear Jeff on lead. He's the only guitar player (bass player, keyboardist?) on there.

I've gone out on a limb here to state that I'm not particularly devoted to the current extent of my 2nd amendment rights, and that I'd be willing to limit them severely in exchange for the mere probability of reducing some homicides, but I recognize that there is something more than access to firearms going on in this country. I think what's hard is identifying that "thing" before even attempting to treat it. It's not the cheap scapegoats of violent music or video games, it's not some lack of religion. It's something more nebulous, but still cultural. All I can detect is it has somethin

You're right, but the catch is this is a socio-political judgement, not a personal-psychological judgement. It's not particularly important if I personally have a hypocritical stance of support the troops while not doing anything to help them except rally for pointless wars. What is important is the conversational consensus at large. The way the issue is presented, talked about, and understood at a glance. I think our symbology- the shared mythology around the topic- can be deterministic.

It's hard not to conclude that the pomp/circumstance, hawk rhetoric in this country comes with a lack of authentic caring for the people who served, or the legitimacy of the pentagon's call to action. I wasn't trying to make you feel bad. The greater half of the last century of U.S. foreign policy is littered with military entanglements that were not initiated in good faith and left foreign lands as well as U.S. soldiers in ruins. There comes a point where we need to start talking about more than taking our hats off. At some point people will get wise to the fact that pundits and politicia

We have made countless swaps to get our soldiers back in the last several military quagmires we have gotten ourselves into. This one got controversial because it is close to election season, Obama stamped his name on it, and Berghdal is a Muslim, or at least a Muslim sympathizer who grew disillusioned with a very nasty and pointless war. As far as I'm concerned the bed wetters on this one are just spewing party-line rhetoric conjured to excite the base. The most interesting thing here though is the fallout right after Memorial Day. How many damn baseball games did these folks take their h

Yeah, it kind of makes sense that he's playing acoustic all the time at this point. Other than the drums, all of the instruments on the record were played by Jeff, so he really could approach the band interpretations of what they recorded from whichever instrument and teach everyone else the parts from the record. The acoustic is probably the simplest way for him to hold down the chord progressions, follow the blueprint of the new songs, and focus on singing. I wouldn't be shocked if an electric guitar comes out more as the tour goes on. Meanwhile you get to hear a very competent electric

It's OK. I don't usually respond all that strongly to a single, until I hear it in the context of an album. I didn't love "Hey Chicken", or "I Might" until I heard them next to other songs. The production is definitely cool.