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    New album called "The Whole Love"?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I like Born Alone too, but Dawned on me and Standing O are pretty...well... unexciting in my opinion.

     

    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.

    Jeff Tweedy at the Lincoln Theatre, Washington DC, 7 Dec 2010

    in After The Show

    Posted

    At some point between songs, someone shouted a request. Then another. Then another. Then a few more. Jeff sort of turned and looked behind him and said, “Is the ‘Request’ sign on?” Then he said, these are all requests.

     

    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).

    Fleet Foxes

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    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.

    2010 So Far

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    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.

    Your fricking perfect 25 song Wilco setlist.

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    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 The Arm

    6. Side With The Seeds

    7. Pieholden Suite (w/Total Pros; Nels on banjo and tambourine)

    8. Impossible Germany

    9. Sky Blue Sky

    10. Handshake Drugs

    11. Too Far Apart

    12. Summer Teeth

    13. Jesus, Etc.

    14. Walken (w/Total Pros horns)

    15. I'm The Man Who Loves You (w/Total Pros horns)

    16. A Magazine Called Sunset

    17. Red-Eyed And Blue

    18. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

    19. Monday (w/Total Pros horns)

    20. Outtasite (Outta Mind)

     

    Encore:

    21. Hate It Here (w/Total Pros horns)

    22. Can't Stand It (w/Total Pros horns)

    23. The Thanks I Get (w/Total Pros horns)

    24. Just A Kid

    25. War on War

     

     

    This was also the show where someone gave them the "Grammy" and was included in the Ashes film.

    MD sold out in a minute?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    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!

    Things to do in DC

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    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 check out the drum circle. I've yet to do this myself, but hear it's a real cool experience: people of all walks of life and ages just drumming and dancing.

    Barack Obama hates Buddhist people...

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    The nominations were early in the year. I don't think the voting was done then.

     

    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.

    Passenger Side

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    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".

    How Is Kicking Television holding up?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    With all of the live recordings available, and the Ashes audio tracks, the 930 club show and such, how does Kicking Television hold up?

     

     

    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.

    Unlikely Japan...?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Im really digging Unlikely Japan, quite different. especially the Robot vocals at the end!

     

    I dig this song, especially those robot vocals. I wouldn't mind hearing some more stuff go this way. It's certainly one way to change things up.

    new Animal Collective album

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Bluish>Taste>In The Flowers>Daily Routine>My Girls>Lion in a Coma>Brothersport>Summertime Clothes>No More Runnin>Guys Eyes>Also Frightened

     

    Agree with you here, Bluish is definitely the best song on the album. I haven't heard a song that sounds that good to me in a real long while.

    Fleet Foxes

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I just have to say, I'm amazed that in a period of like 10 months they went from being the opener for Blitzen Trapper of the backstage area of the Blackcat here in DC (of which, the main stage isn't even that big) to being on SNL.

    jeff tweedy's favorite albums

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I remember also reading that Bonnie 'Prince' Billy was his favorite "American songwriter" at the moment. I also remember him mentioning John Cale's Paris 1919, the Books, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Dr. Dog, and Grizzy Bear as well.

     

    I first found Dr. Dog after reading that NYT article that Jeff mentioned them in. What a great find. They've only gotten better since that too (in my opinion at least).

    Embarrassing movies, good music

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    No confessions, but I've always wondered how many fans the Replacements earned through the movie Can't Hardly Wait. Seems like a weird movie to carry a Replacements song as its title. Jennifer Love Hewitt and the Replacements should have a few more degrees of separation between them.

     

    Ironically, yesterday I finally came across my copy of All For Nothing/Nothing For All, which I had searched for a few times at random points over the past 4 years or so. I loved that movie in high school and when I checked out the song that it had been presumably titled after, found a sweet band too. That's the only thing I own by them but I really liked it, and was pretty disappointed when I thought I had lost it. Finding it made my day yesterday.

     

    So there you go, there's at least one.

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