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The Whole Love and Born Alone stand out for me from the live recordings. Dawned On Me sounds alright I guess, certainly the best recording or performance. The other unknown new one sounds alright, easily the most along the lines of the "obnoxious pop songs" tag.

New song. http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2011/06/listen-new-ryan-adams-7-single-alice-in-chains-cover-version/

Here's what I think our count on songs played live (that we have recordings of) from The Whole Love, let me know if I'm missing anything! 1. Open Your Mind - played solo a few times 2. Born Alone - solo and full band 3. I Might - we have the recording 4. The Whole Love - played at SS 5. Dawned On Me - played at SS 6. Unknown new one - played at SS And we know of the songs: 7. The Art Of Almost - we think portions of the recording were on Vimeo 8. Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend - according to the Spin article

Yeah apparently the first new song they played was "It Dawned On Me". Neat!

Summerteeth-esque tune that meets Bridge EP Camera? I love the mix on this though, the boxy drum sound, fuzzy bass up really high, the organ, all super good. Wilco is also usually really good when they use glockenspiel. Good glockenspiel.

Man John's bass playing is so good on this tune.

From a cobbled together Twitter setlist, night one looked like this I think. 1. I Might 2. Misunderstood 3. Bull Black Nova 4. Muzzle 5. IATTBYH 6. One Wing 7. Via Chicago 8. New Song 9. Hotel Arizona 10. Impossible Germany 11. Shouldn't Be Ashamed 12. Handshake 13. Radio Cure 14. New Song 15. Poor Places 16. Reservations 17. Spiders 18. Walken 19. ITMWLY -------- 20. Red Eyed 21. I Got You 22. Split Enz song w/ Neil Finn

Here's the short blurb on I Might in RS. "On this garage-y blast of a seven-inch, Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy sings, "It's all right/You won't set the kids on fire/Oh, I might," like he's having a late night talk to the mirror after some teenagers yelled "Dad rocker! at him outside the minimart. Not much danger of that, though - the tune is too awesomely weird, with guitarist Nels Cline firing riffs like he's having a seizure. If this is dad rock, turn it up!"

RainDogToo did he mention if it would be a double album or not?

I bet there will be a bunch of new stuff played over the two nights. God I hope someone is able to tape it...

The Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver records are my two favs this year I think. That Derogatis is ridiculous though. I can see how some people could be put off by the record at first, I'm an example of it, but the tunes were there from the start and with each listen I've just loved it more and more.

Ryan posted on his Twitter that his new album (Glyn Johns produced) will be out later this year. Apparently it will be pretty stripped down (always a good thing for him) and that he has another record ready along with Blackhole as well.

This album seriously does get better with each listen, so Solace you're totally right. It sort of demands repeated listening because there's so much going on musically that becomes really intriguing over time. I still can't handle the odd synth sound on the record, but you really have to hand it to Justin that he's been able to bring together all of these different sounds and create a record that is pretty unique. Ye!

Only funny because it's so true!

So I've listened to this a few times now, and while I'll definitely say that the tunes are still there I can't say I'm crazy about a lot of the sounds on the record. It's a super hi-fi record and ultimately that just comes with having success and being able to go and record in a nice studio, but a lot of the guitar sounds I find to be, for lack of a better word, pretty gross (Towers for example) and the synth/guitar sounds on Beth/Rest are the worst of super 80's chorusy cheese, again for lack of better adjectives. Maybe this'll grow on me but I must say I'm turned off by it a little. I di

3rds and 6ths!

Hey everyone check out our new music video for Thick As Thieves! It's essentially a stop-motion history of the world done by our good friend Kevin Parry (who's moving to San Fransisco to work for Pixar in a few weeks!). Thanks!

So excited for this, easily one of my favourite Canadian bands around today.

It's easily my favourite record of the year by a long shot, possibly one of my favourites of the past few years actually. I really think they stepped it up in every respect this time around and they came out with a near perfect record IMO.

http://exclaim.ca/News/brendan_canty_reveals_plans_for_new_wilco_film_talks_future_of_burn_to_shine Wow really didn't look hard enough! Delete please!

Steinbeck. I remember reading once his favourite book ever was Don Quixote.

Yeah Bleedorange articulated what Jeff was trying to say really well I think. George was asking Jeff if he still thinks he's making the best music of his career, if he's still thinks he's writing better songs. Jeff made no direct references to WTA in the interview he just said that there is no way he can compete with his older material and past success with any new record because of the time that has allowed those records to seep into people's lives. He doesn't know if he's making the best music of his career but he still thinks he's making music that is interesting to him, and maybe that's

In terms of what you're saying about Radiohead, Kid A was basically the exact opposite of what you're saying (although it is a perfect example of what Tweedy is saying). When Kid A first came out yes some people thought it was a masterpiece but it received plenty of bad reviews as it alienated a lot of people who hailed Radiohead as the "saviours of rock". Melody Maker (at the time still sort of influential in the UK) gave it a 1.5/5 and NME (again the same as Melody Maker) gave it a 7/10, and now it's basically universally hailed as the best record of the 00's. Tweedy is totally dead on.

David Fricke has another piece on the new album. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/jeff-tweedy-opens-up-about-wilcos-new-album-20110425 Pretty interesting to hear Jeff wrote upwards of 50 songs for this record, I get more and more excited the more I hear about this though. Paste also has their 30 Best Wilco Songs, and I must say I really will have to disagree with this list on the whole. http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/04/the-30-best-wilco-songs.html

""Born Alone," meanwhile, starts as an up-tempo, synthed-out slab of power pop, with sharp chord changes that are similar to the group's 1999 song "Summer Teeth." Halfway through, however, it explodes into a thick, distorted wall of noise, with Tweedy and Cline's guitar chords descending to the subways." Hearing this song solo I seriously can't imagine it sounding this way, but damn is it exciting.