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More like top 20 than top 5. Slow Train Coming Blood on the Tracks Blond on Blond Oh Mercy Bringing it all Back Home Just to start...

Is all well? I don't think so....

Randolph Drummer

One of the first albums I bought as a youngster....but not one of their best.

I thought they were dead...John Doe? Exene? That X?

To be honest, I think it was the alcohol and cotton balls that made that album. Still watching this show in Germany, and the small crowd is just sitting there.....Wow, Jay really can't sing a good back-up vocal, can he? Too many cigarettes, I think.

Hell is Chrome and Handshake Drugs seemed especially inspired at this show, if memory serves me.

I just put on dvd my brother-in-law gave me: German Hotel Kamera, and am watching 7/9/99, Rockpalast, Loreley, Germany, and am absolutely certain the current line-up rolls over Jay and company. I think by YHF Jay had given all he could and though integral to Wilco evolution, there's no comparison between line-ups now. My three cents.

You've heard it all before.... Point zero: MA1, which someone gave me in Jan. 2004. After a few listenings, went AWATT and have not put on any other music since then. Really, this Jan. will be two year anniversary for me to be in this delusional state. From Mermaid I went to A.M., then went simultaneously backward and forward in time: Anodyne, then BT, then March, then Summerteeth, then Still Feel Gone, then YHF, No Depression, finally AGIB. By that time I discovered other Tweedy related music, including GS and LF, but also began listening to the Jayhawks (just got Hollywood Town Ha

AWATT does not completely define who I am and what I do...yet. At this point still find other avenues for entertainment and escape, including reading when I have the chance!

My Flying Saucer.

Finally, summer reading begins: Bob Dylan, Chronicles; Larson, Devil in the White City. Started and loving the Dylan!

Just want to let all of you know we're talking about you in JAF, if you don't know already.

Isn't it odd that the "old timers" (been on the board years, with thousands of posts) choose not to disclose much or anything about themselves? Primarily newbies who seem willing to do so here.... Why is that? These kinds of posts must come in cycles so likely grows tiring for them.... LouieB we DO want to know! Stardog, why all the sarcasm? Veterans of VC who are you, really?

Oh yes, one of my favorites from Dylan. Does anyone listen to Roxy Music anymore? Now the party's over I'm so tired Then I see you coming Out of nowhere Much communication in a motion Without conversation or a notion Avalon When the samba takes you Out of nowhere And the background's fading Out of focus Yes the picture's changing Every moment And your destination You don't know it Avalon When you bossanova There's no holding Would you have me dancing Out of nowhere Avalon ...

And without the joys of cannabis, no counterculture at all--and certainly more than half of this list would disappear, leaving only.... Sinatra, the Spice Girls, and a few other nontokers.

Schweet, indeed! Thanks for posting.

My thoughts exactly--listening now and I'm loving this and recognize that Jay was a great contribution to the band. That said, however, I'm still a huge fan of Wilco post-Jay. Yes, me too, "a fair weather fan."

In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown On the silver paper of the wrapper There's a dapper little man And he wears a wax moustache That he twists with nicotine fingers As he drops his cigarette ash And someone comes and sweeps it up And then he doffs his cap And there's a rat in someone's bedroom And they're shutting someone's trap And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces And the doors swing back and forward, from the past into the present And the bedside crucifixion turns from wood to phosphorescent. And they're moving problem families from the South up to the North,

No one else hated Hoodoo Vodoo the first time through? Curious to hear so many saying Summerteeth, which immediately struck me as brilliant in a Beatles, Beach Boys, Costello kind of way--except for one song.

Why don't you decide for everyone else?

Blue Earth, again!

Jay - Jeff = 0

The Who, the Ramones, and Prince should be much higher on list of influential albums, IMO. The Spiced Girls changed music?

Which beach? Or were you by the pool? You don't know hot. Hotlanta, with the mosquitos, is hell.