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Well, technically, Pat would be Jonny Greenwood considering the amazing string sections he's writing.

Loving "Capitol City"!; they pulled a "Beth/Rest" in that they took something that on surface level was critical-mass cheese factor and made it absolutely awesome.

Sort of disappointed in "Open Mind"; loved the solo version that's been floating around. Was hoping for some sort of "Patient With Me" treatment or something; I shouldn't be making expectations, but considering the amazing acoustic arrangements on songs like "Black Moon", "Rising Red Lung", and "One Sunday Morning", I'm surprised they went with the sort of SBS/W(TA) autopilot arrangement for this song. A minor complaint though. Everything else is just gold.

Ok, I was about to write a big-ass rant defending Wilco (The Album), but "The Whole Love" is pretty much negating whatever points I was going to make. Carry on.

As a big "In Rainbows" fan, I naturally hated this album at first, because it kind of is the antithesis. I guess I'm simply going to have to go with the whole "I listened to it a couple dozen times before it set in" thing. Which, can be a bit demanding and excessive for an album. But I think an album that can reward patience, and potentially transform my idea of music will always be a better value than one that does a great job of adhering to my expectations and wears itself out. A lot of the album is enjoyable to me in the same way Kraftwerk, 'Ege Bamyasi'-era Can, or songs like Kidsmoke and

"Bull Black Nova". Although I guess that would qualify as a great Television solo. Which is why it's such a good solo! And "You Are My Face". The best Jeff Tweedy solo not actually done by Jeff Tweedy!

Still thought the LP outro was pretty good. Nels' solo was amazing. I just think of Bull Black Nova being the rock-tastic coda.

I also concur that this review was spot-on. The AGiB review's central thesis was "This isn't YHF!" and SBS's was "This is Dad Rock, and Dad Rock is very bad."

They played "Veckatimest" by Grizzly Bear in Borders. And for some reason, hearing it in public made the album a lot more enjoyable for me.

For some reason, I love "I can't calm down, I can't think," both in Tweedy's expression, and the point of tension in the music at that point in time. Also, the Television-esque breakdown around 1:40ish - 2:10ish is so delicious in every way imaginable.

The similarities would have to be "One Wing", "Everlasting", and "My Country Has Disappeared", but even those have a lot of distance from their SBS counterparts.

1) Wilco The Song: I loved Nels' lead. It's somewhat random, but it seems to seamlessly fit in. Loved the harmonies in bells in the bridge! I don't know why they had to dial it down so much on the album compared with the Colbert Report version. 2) Deeper Down: Kind of like "Faust Arp" on "In Rainbows". An intriguing deviation. I won't call it my favorite song, but it's one of the more rewarding listens. I love Nels' baroque breakdown! 3) One Wing: For some reason, I find the songwriting very weak. Makes me appreciate "Impossible Germany" a lot more. Preferred the live version; they had a n

Thirded. The small things like the feedback in W(TS), the backwards outro in You & I, and the outro for Everlasting made a helluva lot of difference.

This post nailed it. Lock the thread, Mods.

I still yearn and pine for a Jim O'Rourke album. This album feels like something Phil Spector produced, and then thirty years later, they went back and tried to remove Spector's touch. That being said, as a whole, I think it's got some of Tweedy's best songwriting, and I think this puts to rest the debate about Jay being needed to bring in the melody.

Great guitar work by Henneman.

It's funny. After watching Jeff play "ALTWYS" on Ashes of American Flags, and after watching Ashes of American Flags, I realized I'd hit my Nels Cline saturation point. That being said, I thought he did a pretty good mind-meld with the material on Wilco (The Album)

As album, I remember "Chutes" more than I do "Wincing" As songs, I remember "Sleeping Lessons" and "Phantom Limb" more than I do the best songs on Chutes.

Ok, now that I have it on iTunes... 1) "I'll Fight" has been changed to "Conscript" 2) "My Country Has Disappeared" has been changed to "Crush The Cities!" 3) "Everlasting" has been changed to "Dark Neon". And all is well now with W(TA)!

This post FTW!

The live version was pretty much Impossible Germany. The studio version is sort of "Roscoe" by Midlake. And they greatly trimmed down the Nels noodling. Which can be both a great thing, and a bad thing.

1st listen... Sunny Feeling is definitely the winner for me. It's like, the greatest pop song they've ever written, ever.

I have the foresight to realize that this album will definately be a grower... But I still think the production is terrible. This ain't exactly a headphones album like YHF. Which is fine, but there was all this hype about using the studio as an instrument and so forth, but it pretty much resembles SBS in terms of production.

Art is a very subjective thing, a unique bond between the music and what each listener and their own life experiences bring to shape something truly beautiful. Therefore, anyone who disagrees with the below is wrong on pretty much every objective level: AM BT ST YHF AGIB SBS W(TA)

Well, everyone knows that H.O.T.H. clearly has the same ranking as AGiB.