Nonlinear Nonfiction

Sky Blue...Sky?

Bravo for that web-find.

Chuck Close version of me...by a bunch of 10 year olds.

I used to work at a summer camp (the same one Bob Zimmerman went to!) and I was really in with the girls who ran the art department. They always told me I had a big head! Anyways, they took a polaroid of me, made a grid of my face and then gave each of their 5th graders a square about 1 inch X 1 inch. The kids had no idea what they were making, but were instructed to only use fingerprints of black and white paint to enlarge their mini-square onto a larger one. The art teachers assembled the squares and revealed this in the dining room!

They said there were 17 songs that they were choosing from for the record. Obviously ended up with 12. I am excited for these other 5 to come out--if they do. I'm sure at least a couple will, maybe a studio version of Let's Fight and The Thanks I Get.

I think they should include these in bonus CD or something with the actual store-release. Just so people still buy the album!

I also heard some Wilco pre AGIB. Also lots of Wilco post AGIB if that makes any sense.

I hear ya.

What I love about all of Wilco's albums is that each one takes a step in a new direction...every record builds on their previous work and yet they maintain what their fans have grown to love. Tweedy always seems to find a way to introduce some kind of new element on every release. The first transformation we witnessed was when the band made an effort between A.M. and Being There to get away from an album full of twangy alt-country. Each album since then has continued to grow. This time I think it is Nels and Sansone in the studio. Wilco's albums, for me, are as much about what happened to the band in the 'off-season' than what happens on the actual record or in the studio (I guess that's why I have collected a box of bootlegged live shows that will take me a lifetime to listen to). Sky Blue Sky is sweetness to my ears and I keep playing it over and over again. The new songs have a life of their own but it is also clear how they are based on the same Wilco formula I have always loved.

I remember my uncle's cousin's brother's daughter's boyfriend's best-friend's grandpa's dog's breeder's vet's assistant's sister's neighbor's rabbi... - You Are My Face

Just kidding...I actually really like this song.

This record is what Wico should have sounded like with Bennett. He had too standard of a style of playing that got kinda boring after a while(in my opinion).

Phew! You had me worried for a second, I thought that was a fact!

They are hardly comparable in both the kinds of contributions they make to the band (song-writing versus guitar solos) and also their style of play. I don't see Nels jamming on the keys. I love Nels, I also love Bennett. Post-Bennett Wilco is just a different band...in my opinion.

Tweedy and Cline are like a 4 fucking headed dragon spewing fire and killing unicorns.

But they each only have one head...

PS- can you tell that i play guitar?

So THIS is how Pitchfork does it!

There ought to be a thread designated for PM requests?

I loaded the player last night and left it open until this morning and I'm listening right now! wooohoo

Pat Sansome, who is my neighbor, told me it's impossible germany. Not like I care he already gave me the album a while ago.

Who?

Go.

You're all wrong...it will be a track that already leaked.

all you have to do is search "sky blue sky wilco leak" on google.....im listening to you are my face right now, the site i found only has this song and either way

better yet, search this:

http://blogsearch.google.com/

Sorry everyone, they're officially gone gone gone...

well that sucks, why was the link deleted?

copyrighted material...thats my guess

Actually, it looks like the songs may have been taken down from the blog they were posted on, too... although only from the front page...

did someone say this? Couldn't they have found a newer pic of the band than the one they posted???

 

LouieB

Haha, i thought the same thing right away - it answered my other question, too: did they have special permission to post these?

Is Tweedy harmonizing with himself on You Are My Face?

these are obviously demos. geez people

I hope so...more versions! more versions! more versions!

When you're done listening to those mp3s, check out the dude doing a cover of "Hey Ya" from this blog's post the day before...

Also, SarahC...what drugs do you take in the morning?

Good Damn Morning !!!

 

Best breakfast in a while and give me "sketchy territory" anyday.

"Either Way", what can one say...ya know I'm not a big Trey A., the

Phish dude but know a good bit of his music and hear alot of Trey

(mainly in arraignment) hear.

 

Not real excited with "Walken"...wheres my bass?

 

Have a KIND day folks.

What drugs are you taking with your breakfast?

I think these are solid songs. Put on some headphones and appreciate how terrible the sound quality of these mp3s are...very flat. Now that is coming from someone who typically doesn't care or claim to be able to tell such things, but the sound is so flat that I really think these incredible songs will be even more incredible when we hear them in their full depth. Anyone else notice?

to stop everyone bitching just leak it

I don't think anyone is bitching...yet. I sure hope this waiting game doesn't turn violent, let's all stay friends.

I want to tell my grandkids that i sat and listened to Sky Blue Sky the day it came out.

To each his own.