CortezTheKiller

With the exception of your assessment of Unplugged and Time Fades Away, I think you're dead on. The only things I'll say are TFA and RNS are much different from the others in that the songs that appear on them were not to be found on a previous studio album. Plus, RNS has the audience removed from the recording giving it less of a live album feel. I agree that TFA is an aquired taste, but man, it's a fucking great album. There's not a single weak track on there. To me you cannot seperate TFA, OTB, and TTN. All rank among his best work and share such a great doom and gloom rawness.

I have Why Do Lonely Men and Women Want to Break Each Others Hearts (I guess a shorter album title was out of the question) and This World Just Won't Leave You Alone (not too short either). Both are excellent records. Not sure if you were aware of this, but their steel guitarist John Neff is now a full-time member of Drive-By Truckers. I know he's done a bunch of side projects with Athens-based bands as well.

Perhaps you can be a defensive coordinator in the NFL now. You've unlocked the mystery to shutting down Manning and Brady.

I'm fucking jealous as hell.

Weld might possibly be my favorite live album ever. Neil described it as the soundtrack to the Gulf War.

Star Room Boys

Next time he records it, tell him to stay out of the bathtub.

Hey Babe Hold Back the Tears Bite the Bullet Star of Bethlehem Like a Hurricane Homegrown Those are some pretty fucking essential tunes in Neil's catalog.

I've heard every single one. And Mirror Ball is with Pearl Jam, not El Caballo Loco. Also, Comes a Time strikes me as more of a country record than a Southern Cali/folky/hippie one. I listed 10 in my earlier post, but other "essential" Neil records (if you're an irrational Neil fan like myself) could be expanded to: Zuma Freedom Greendale Comes a Time Sleeps With Angels Broken Arrow Mirror Ball Silver & Gold Prairie Wind Chrome Dreams II If you were looking for a place to start, then Decade is where it's at.

Love everything he does? As far as CDII goes, it's not his best, but far from his worst. I like Ordinary People a lot. Other goodies off his latest include No Hidden Path (my favorite song from 2007), Dirty Old Man, Spirit Road, Ever After, and The Way.

Reviving an oldie. . . . Top 10 Harvest Moon After the Gold Rush Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Ragged Glory Harvest Tonight's the Night On the Beach Rust Never Sleeps American Stars 'n Bars Time Fades Away

30 Year Low Mendoza Line Tim Bracy and Shannon McArdle were finalizing their divorce as they wrote and recorded this swan song. Tunnel of Love Bruce Springsteen Goodbye Julianne. Hello Patti.

Handshake is easily my favorite Wilco song.