Nonlinear Nonfiction

Just listened to this album and watched the DVD - what a treat. There is a great insert in the packaging with some details about the infamous box set. The extra features on the DVD are strange - on par with Eat The Document.

wait til backets come out sunday

Yeah, notice I didn't give mine up! hah. But how about these conference tourneys...wowwwowwwoeeewaaaa. I don't remember the conference tourneys being this entertaining in recent years - this year, the close games and especially the overtime games actually made me forget (for a moment) that the big dance is next week.

I'm not sure of the good sites, but anyone interested in joining a VC pool (free?)?

I've joined this one: http://startribune.collegebasketball.upickem.net/ and I set up private group there.

Group Name: Via Chicago

Password: Your favorite band (it's actually your favorite band, don't type in "your favorite band" you idiot - and if the password doesn't work, then that isn't your favorite band - PM me if you're confused).

EDIT:

THE OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL VIA CHICAGO POOL

Join at Yahoo.com

Group name: Via Chicago

Group ID #: 113876

Password: wilco

I thought I would start a thread for this most excellent sports extravaganza...

Who do you have in your final four?

Go Badgers!

Cool. I'm downloading now...any thoughts on these so far?

i imagine live it could be a whole 'nother thang.

I don't really know what exactly he is doing on that computer but it sounds rediculously terrific.

Yeah, welcome to concert-going in the 21st century. Expect people to be taking pictures and recording the audio and video everywhere. Get used to it, it's only going to get crazier.

In the future, people will broadcast a holographic image of themselves on the stage trying to kiss Tweedy.

I would guess 99% of all the copies going around are ripped from the webcast - a format that I assume is extremely low quality. No matter what "kbps" your mp3s show up as, I would guess a real analysis of the audio would put them much lower than that. First, in order to stream the audio, it is compressed and then the software for capturing the stream and convert it to mp3 brings it down even more. I'm sure there are some copies going around ripped from an "advance copy" put out by Wilco's record label but because they streamed the album, that rip is probably the most common.

As for them leaking their own album? Of course they knew some techgeekfan would record the webstream and make it available for download the next day. It's cool that they are cool about it. I also think it was smart, because it flooded the internet with crap-quality versions of the CD and we will all have to buy the album on May 15 if we want a good copy (or wait until someone else buys it and uploads FLACs or higher mp3s).

"Some side with with leaves, some side with the seeds."

all i hear is the pops of a record player...im also having trouble downloading the zip file...help!

EDIT: The site is getting so much traffic, it is quite unbelievable actually...

here, I found a blog with the mp3's posted...everyone should check this out, its fantastic

http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARraritie...dylanhears.html

Well, considering the name of the song according to Wilco's website is "Hate It Here," I'm not sure.

yes!!!! oooo-I love her!!!!! and I also think Nickelback and every other artist in VH1's top twenty are so talented.....

Is that supposed to be a joke? Spektor doesn't belong on a list called VH1's top twenty, and I'm always surprised to see her in that light. The Spektor I know is the one who has been playing small spots in NYC for the past five years.

She rocks...one of the most organic and independent artists around today that I think still knows how to appeal to a wide range of ears.

Most copies on BT are rips of the stream from the website the other night, and do sound kind of cloudy. The bass lacks punch on a lot of tracks. The CD will certainly enhance the experience -- but I don't think it'll make anybody do a 180 as to how they feel about.

Most?! PM me if you have found anything otherwise...

I agree, I think this album could benefit from a few minor level adjustments (that maybe will come to fruition on the official release) - everything could be a little crisper, and Glenn's drums could be more boomin!

A brilliant move by Wilco to leak a poor quality sounding version of this album before good ones can appear on torrent sites. This stream-rip will forever cloud people's ability to get a full quality CD rip of the album if this is the case...makes Oink seem brilliant (or stupid?).

I hear Wilco EVERYWHERE! This weekend I was eating breakfast at a new cafe near my house and California Stars was booming through. One time I was in the middle of the park reading a book under a tree, no one was near me and I didn't have an iPod yet somehow Forget The Flowers seemed to be filtering through the forest nearby. It was weird, but awesome.

A video I made years ago...

Is currently the no. 18 most watched "How to/DIY" video! Woohooo, more than 1,600 in less than 16 hours. Check it out...very educational

My son has a friend named Ben who, when he sleeps over and I tell them to shut up and go to sleep at 3 in the morning, sez "Me and my dad always stay up till 6 in the morning playing video games". I still don't buy it.

 

Hi, though.

Next time he's over, just push your clocks forward two or three hours. They will think you're the coolest for letting them stay up so late!

I'm surprised the record for most users online at one time wasn't broken in the last couple days...it sure felt crowded.

link, please?

I'm working on it... may be hard to find online because it is in his most recent book. Worth picking up the full copy though.

BUMP

Thanks Wilco - for 'leaking' your own album - sorry if we were getting so impatient that it pressured you into it! We (I) promise to actually buy it when it comes out. But, seriously, thank you for streaming it this weekend and releasing What Light to the public. G-ddamn you're awesome.

Also - GregRVA - it looks like you're going to get that return to Australia you asked for - now you just have to hope for Richmond!

Hey welcome! I'm Ben, too! Thanks for introducing yourself without asking for a PM and link to the new album! Make yourself at home and stay as long as you like.

Does anyone else listening to the lyrics on this album wonder whether there is some tension going on in the Tweedy household? Frankly, this sounds like an outright divorce album to me. I am not trying to get into conjecture about Jeff's marraige, but does anyone else agree?

Eh.

6.

Listen to each song six times - first listen to Tweedy, then Nels, then Glenn, then Sansone and Jorgensen, then try to find Stirratt in there... then listen one more time and enjoy this richly textured record.

Go for the new Bridge Benefit compilation put together by Neil Young. It's only available on iTunes and the money goes to a good cause. Check it out - these are all the LIVE performances included in the set.

It's All Been Done - Barenaked Ladies

Jane - Barenaked Ladies

Burn One Down / With My Own Two Hands - Ben Harper

In the Lord's Arms - Ben Harper

There Will Be a Light - Ben Harper

Whipping Boy - Ben Harper

For What It's Worth - Billy Idol

Rebel Yell - Billy Idol

Home - Bonnie Raitt

The Road Is My Middle Name - Bonnie Raitt

True Blue - Bright Eyes

We Are Nowhere, and It's Now - Bright Eyes

Murder Tonight In the Trailer Park - Cowboy Junkies

Sun Comes Up It's Tuesday Morning - Cowboy Junkies

Just a Song Before I Go - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills & Nash

The Lee Shore - Crosby, Stills & Nash

This Old House - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Crash - Dave Matthews

Warehouse - Dave Matthews Band

Better Man - Eddie Vedder

Love Hurts - Emmylou Harris

Prayer In Open D - Emmylou Harris

Sweet Old World - Emmylou Harris

The Maker - Emmylou Harris & Daniel Lanois

I'll Tell Him Tonight - Hayden

I'm to Blame - Hayden

Hannah Jane - Hootie & The Blowfish

Let It Breathe - Hootie & The Blowfish

Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls

Get Out the Map - Indigo Girls

Gone - Jack Johnson

Carolina On My Mind - James Taylor

Copperline - James Taylor

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

Something In the Way She Moves - James Taylor

Trains - Jill Sobule

Rebellious - Kacy Crowley

Scars - Kacy Crowley

Crazy Dream - Los Lonely Boys

Heaven - Los Lonely Boys

Perfect Day - Lou Reed

Vicious - Lou Reed

Bring Me Some Water - Melissa Etheridge

You Can Sleep While I Drive - Melissa Etheridge

Fade to Black - Metallica

The Four Horsemen - Metallica

Comes a Time / Sugar Mountain - Neil Young

Cortez the Killer - Neil Young & Dave Matthews Band

Creepin' In - Norah Jones

Nearness of You - Norah Jones

Wing - Patti Smith

Corduroy - Pearl Jam

Nothing As It Seems - Pearl Jam

So I Am Over You - Pete Droge

Straylin Street - Pete Droge

Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.

I've Been High - R.E.M.

Losing My Religion - R.E.M.

The One I Love - R.E.M.

Beverly Hills - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

I Just Want Something to Do - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Road Trippin' - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams

The Fools We Are As Men - Ryan Adams

Elsewhere - Sarah McLachlan

Ice Cream - Sarah McLachlan

To Sheila - Smashing Pumpkins

Walking With a Ghost - Tegan and Sara

When I Get Up - Tegan and Sara

You Wouldn't Like Me - Tegan and Sara

Neil - Tenacious D

After the Gold Rush - Thom Yorke

Street Spirit - Thom Yorke

Innocent When You Dream - Tom Waits

Bob Dylan's 49th Beard - Wilco

Company In My Back - Wilco

Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys - Willie Nelson

Time Slips Away / Crazy - Willie Nelson

Inevitably this album will be compared to YHF and AGiB but I would like to see someone review Sky Blue Sky without having to comment on Tweedy and Wilco's history in order to make excuses or explanations for the new songs. As someone who can do that for myself, I beg the question: how will someone feel about this album who has NEVER heard Wilco before?

haha, that made me laugh. who is the DJ there, is it you?