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    Jay Bennett R.I.P

    in Just A Fan

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    Oops...sorry admins/moderators. Didn't mean to try and start a new topic...thought this one was over.

     

    *According to Billboard/AP, Jay Bennett's death was due to an overdose on painkillers.

     

    http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/ex-wilco-member-jay-bennett-died-of-overdose-1003986858.story

     

    Ugh. That's terrible to hear. It hits home for me...my dad was prescribed Fentanyl, along with a boatload of other pain management drugs. They never really did much more than temporarily mask things, and the danger of overdose was always there.

     

    Pretty safe to say he wasn't looking to go out like that. RIP...hope you found peace, Jay.

    Bits and pieces, pleasures and disappointments

    in Just A Fan

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    Pleasures:

     

    - The way that several of the songs (One Wing, BBN, You Never Know, the Song) so easily find a groove. I listened to this album while moving out of Miami this past weekend and it got me through some pretty boring stretches with ease...even joy.

     

    - The sonic density, which a lot of people have mentioned

     

    - The album pacing. Probably the best sequencing of all the Wilco albums.

     

    Disappointments:

     

    - The duet with Feist. Lyrics aside, the sound of this song is something out of a romantic comedy soundtrack, or a bad TV drama.

     

    that's really it

    Wilco a Chicago band?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    This story probably doesn't fit here, but whatever...

     

    I was flying from Atlanta to Chicago (Midway) earlier this month, and ended up sitting next to a twentysomething girl. We started asking each other questions, and she said she was married and her husband is from the midwest. So I asked her where from, and she says "Belleville, Illinois".

     

    I'm like, "Oh, yeah, the home of Jeff Tweedy."

     

    And she got all excited that I knew that. And then proceeded to tell me that her husband actually went to high school with Jeff and Jay, and that the first-ever performance of what became Uncle Tupelo occurred in her husband's parents' back yard. Which I thought was pretty cool.

     

    Then she said, "I'm impressed that you know Wilco isn't a Chicago band."

     

    So...there? I guess...

    Wilco track challenge

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Well, this proved to be almost depressingly hard.

     

    1. At Least That's What You Said

    2. Kamera

    3. Spiders

    4. Muzzle of Bees

    5. Side With The Seeds

    6. Shake it Off

    7. Please be Patient With Me

    8. Company in my Back

    9. Pot Kettle Black

    10. Poor Places

    11. What Light

    12. The Late Greats

     

    Biggest challenges were:

     

    Poor Places vs Theologians

    Radio Cure vs Spiders vs IG...that one made me cry

    One Song

    in Just A Fan

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    If you had to make an all-star baseball team from Wilco songs (3 song limit from each album), which songs would you pick, and what positions would you put them at? Assume that you have a DH, a starting pitcher, middle relief, set-up guy, and closer.

     

    THEN, what would your batting order be, and who would you pinch run for, and which song would you sub out against southpaws? And which songs are switch-hitters?

     

    GO!

     

    AMERICAN LEAGUE

    (in batting order)

     

    SS - Monday

    CF - War on War

    1B - Sunken Treasure

    LF - You Are My Face

    3B - Pot Kettle Black

    DH - Impossible Germany

    RF - Airline To Heaven

    C - Ashes of American Flags

    2B - Remember The Mountain Bed

     

    SP - Misunderstood

    MR - Someday Some Morning Sometime

    CL - Shake it Off

     

    Lefty relief: Heavy Metal Drummer

    Pinch runner: Outta Mind Outta Site

     

    NATIONAL LEAGUE

     

    CF - Nothingsevergonnastandinmyway(agin)

    2B - Spiders (Kidsmoke)

    DH - I Must Be High

    RF - At Least That's What You Said

    1B - Summerteeth

    C - California Stars

    3B - Shouldn't Be Ashamed

    LF - One by One

    SS - Company in my Back

     

    SP - I'm Always In Love

    MR - Hesitating Beauty

    CL - Passenger Side

     

    Lefty relief: Candyfloss

    Pinch runner: I'm a Wheel

    Best. Song. Ever.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    ....and a good morning everyone.

     

     

     

    Shuggie Otis version?

     

    You got it. Although I love the feeling the Brothers Johnson version gives me...but it's kinda like the Hendrix version of Watchtower vs the Dylan version of Watchtower. The Hendrix version is a great sonic landscape but loses some of the "spook", whereas Dylan's Watchtower has this reservoir of romanticism and mystery due to its sparseness.

     

    Same thing with the Shuggie Otis version. It's got this intangible spook that BJ version doesn't have.

    Favorite post 1980 Neil Young Record

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Sleeps With Angels is my favorite of his post-80 output. It was one of the first NY albums I bought on CD, and it took me about 7 years to get into it, but the whole album just spooks me out emotionally...which not many albums do.

     

    Mirror Ball is an excellent road trip album. Yeah, it drones a bit, and as I heard someone say, the songs probably took a total of 40 minutes to write, but there's really not a bad track on the whole album.

     

    Broken Arrow is another excellent album, provided you can get beyond the lack of chord changes in Loose Change and the C+ audience recording at the end of the disc.

     

    I also want to put a good word in for Trans. I agree that the light acoustic stuff at the start of each side of the album sucks, but the vocoder stuff is freaking awesome. Computer Age may be in my top 5 favorite Neil songs.

    Best. Song. Ever.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    My heart goes to the PurpleChick mix of the Beach Boys' "Surf's Up". Possibly the most sublime melody line ever written in pop. But does that recording really count, since it's really a FLAC-only sort of thing?

     

    If not...for me, it always goes back to Gimme Shelter, which I saw was mentioned earlier. A menacing riff, an absolutely remarkable sonic atmosphere, some truly dead-end lyrics, and Merry Clayton singing the hell out of it. I've always felt that it sounds like nothing else in rock and roll.

    Steely Dan

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    There should be no guilt whatsoever in loving the Dan.

     

    I first got hooked by an old, old reel-to-reel mixtape that my father had cobbled together off of radio broadcasts in the late 70's. It had "Peg" on it...that was my entry point. Still one of my favorite songs ever, even moreso because I understand what the lyrics mean now. :)

     

    I've been on a kick here lately, trying to collect all of the available torrents from the 1974 live shows. It's a shame that there's so little bootleg live material out there from the band. Despite Becker and Fagen's loathing of touring in the 70's, they put on a hell of a concert. "This All Too Mobile Home" FTW!

    Magazine Called Sunset opening music

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Its actually part of the DEMO funtion on the mellotron. A mellotron has a bunch of different sounds and all are run by tapes. Magazine is full of 'tron strings and voices. and like many keyboards the tron has canned tapes that work as demo features for the instrument.

     

    I made a major fool of myself when I discovered this while overdubbing with a real mellotron at Q division on our new EP when we put the key in (you need a key!) and fired it up it played that intro and i started saying "MAGAZINE! MAGAZINE!" to which our non wilco obsessed engineer replied... "no. mellotron. mellotron."

     

    Great info...thanks for knowing it!

     

    I wonder if they owed any royalties for sampling a product demo.

    Magazine Called Sunset opening music

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Maybe I'm a bad searcher or something, but after 14 pages and 35 minutes of searching, I only found a handful of threads specifically discussing Magazine, and there was no consensus on where that little piece of music is from. Bummer.

     

    Also, as I go back to listen to the song...am I the only one who prefers the YHF Demos verson over the MLTM version?

    Magazine Called Sunset opening music

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    At the start of Magazine, there's about a 7 second clip of what sounds like canned music before the full orchestration starts. Is that a Wilco original, or is it sampled from something else?

     

    I remember hearing that clip of music on a golf commercial a couple years ago, which is what made me wonder.

    Favorite '90s alternative radio hits

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    oh oh collective soul! i used to LOVE them. i hear they're still pretty good but i haven't heard any of their recent stuff.

     

    Yeah, they had a string of radio hits in the mid-90's...didn't "Gel", "Shine", and "Where the River Flows" all come out within like a year of each other?

     

    I haven't heard any of their new stuff, either.

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