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Standing O didn't sound great to me, but Dawned on Me, from five rows back, blew me away. The quality on the YouTube video that surfaced wasn't that great, but I thought it sounded awesome. Reminds me of some of their older stuff. Also, even though the vids are blocked, you can d/l MP3 versions of Born Alone and Dawned on Me from the festival here: http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2011/06/27/mp3-wilco-debut-two-new-songs-live-dawned-on-me-born-alone/ As for the title, I'm kind of indifferent but did prefer Get Well Soon Everybody.

Those weren't requests, those were people in the balcony trying to tell the staff who was changing the trash bags in the middle of the songs to shut up. The dude doing it was making so much noise. Honestly, I didn't understand how it took more than 30 seconds to change the bags, but it persisted for two songs (as noted above).

Whores and Whores I think it's fun to say

Maybe a bit like HMD. But man, I haven't heard much Deerhunter in the past year and that sounds completely different from what I remember them sounding like. I dig very much.

Didn't even know about it, but I'll definitely check it out. I was really into these guys when they just had their EP out before the first album, but haven't really gone back to them much since then. I did like J. Tillman's recent cover of Tonight's the Night though. Very interested to see what they've come up with for the second album.

What Laura Says - Bloom Cheek Some of the best sounds I've heard in a while. I think this one easily tops my 2010 list so far. I also really dig the releases by Dr. Dog, Caribou, Broken Social Scene, Surfer Blood, Harlem, Vampire Weekend and Wavves. The Delta Spirit album I was kinda meh'ed by, but seeing them live again on July 4th easily made up for that.

I'm going to have to go with the 2/26/2008 setlist from the 930 club. Of all their shows I've been too, this one had more than I could ask for, including some great rarities and b-sides. To keep it under the 25 song limit, I took out Hummingbird (came after ITMWLY) as well as the entire second encore (Shouldn't Be Ashamed, Heavy Metal Drummer, The Late Greats), except for War on War. One of my favorites, so I'll stop the show on that one. 1. (Was I) In Your Dreams (w/Total Pros horns) 2. Blood Of The Lamb (w/clarinet only) 3. You Are My Face 4. Pot Kettle Black 5. A Shot In T

I got in and had four front row center tickets on the Grand Tier, then somehow lost them. And though this may be blasphemous, I think Ticketmaster may have done me a favor by saving me from another $250 spent on Wilco tix. ¡Que expensivo!

There's a pretty cool place I like to check out occasionally called HR-57. It's named after the House Resolution that established Jazz as "a rare and valuable national American treasure". You can usually find some good jazz there on the weekends, and it's BYOB (the cover and corking fee is like $15/person) -- http://www.hr57.org/ It's on 14th Street, so you can walk the few blocks north to U Street, where you'll find Ben's Chili Bowl and a lot of other nightlife. If you're around on Sunday evening and want to see something different, go to Meridian Hill Park (aka - Malcolm X Park) and ch

What I find funny is the reporting that I saw said that he wasn't even considered one of the front runners for the prize but won it unanimously. That made me wonder what's going on there. On a note related to global warming, at least this prize will put him basically at the Copenhagen talks in December because he'll be accepting it wherever it is that happens nearby, right around the same time.

"ooooo... we shan't be telling your mother this, shan't we?"

Somewhere I read or heard it said that if you want to know what movies will be like, look at the music made a couple decades prior (might have been on this forum actually). Well, 14-15 years is pretty close to two decades. This makes me really eager for the 2019 release of "Handshake Drugs".

Which 930 club show are you talking about? If it's one of the ones from '08 I need to somehow get a copy. I know they aired one of the two shows on NPR, so I'm thinking it's probably that one, though I would love to have a recording of the 2/26/08 show. I don't think a set list will ever get better than that (for me at least): http://www.wilcobase.com/event.php?event_key=1107 As for KT, it's easily got some of my favorite recordings on it. That version of Handshake Drugs and One by One are great.

The KT version is one of my favorites of any versions of any Wilco songs. I think the Ashes version is pretty good too, but I'm still partial to the KT one. Never heard the EP version though.

I don't think I'm qualified to say where number 11 should really fall on the list, but I'm glad it's on there. I've been following this for the past week or so, and have to say, have been thoroughly enjoying it. So as not to spoil the fun... http://alturl.com/nwe3