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Really? I thought it was just as good as YAMF. Jeff changed the chorus a little from "I should be satisfied" to "Should I be satisfied?" That was a little strange. But, the band did march on in formation, which was terrific.

oh, no, I meant Yamf was very very sloppy...When they went from soft/loud you here whoever is on Piano hit a wrong note and it literally sounds like a huge error and it doesn't sound as drawn out as on the album. while I'm all for changing tunes, there was like half a second without sound and a wrong note to top it off, then Nels has to struggle to pull things back together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNJdWUX1do&NR=1

was Jeff trying to be a yank or something?

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RRkrccHgNI...ted&search=

I just found Sky Blue Sky, too...after watching YaMF I was dissapointed at how sloppy it was.

this song is used in a car commercial now, I saw it on T.V. earlier.

39? I thought he was in his forties.

where Simone and Jeff are backstage in the "dressing room" discussing something about stocks? are they avoiding the camera's gaze? and what was that about lesbian/gay rights and his house in the Hamptons? was it a joke or intended to be a weird scene?

man, Letterman has got to be the unfunniest guy...I could be twice as funny if all I did an entire talk show was sit with my nose in notecards. this is the kind of public speaking disaster they teach you about in High School. Rickles was eight times funnier than Letterman, the Sopranos guy was boring, and the band was probably unimpressive to anyone not a fan.

I don't really care what anyone says about the album, but I do care HOW they say it. This review is just plain obnoxious and the only thing more tepid than LMLYFM is her asinine referencing every two seconds in conjunction with poor jokes.

it sounds like "smoke pot" to me on both version, but on the record it's slightly more distorted

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one of the new songs

that one off of YHF

another YHF one

something from Summerteeth...I guess

a quiet Being There one

a louder Being There one

another new one

another new one (to show how much I like the new one)

that one song everyone digs

another song

why is it people like you can't just post instead of making some comment you think is witty?

me and my girlfriend got our tickets today, she gave me them as a graduation present...this looks to be a great time.

edit: I was just wondering how hard it is to get to the front, seeing as how I'm a really short guy and I want a good view.

shouldn't he be a bassist or something? look at 'im, he's like 6 feet tall and he never moves. Even Stirratt does more bouncing than him. All he does is kind of jerk his head and be a tall goofy jazz guy. He's way too low key to be some weird avant-string freak.

I find it funny that in every review of each of his records, everyone points out his age as if it makes any difference. When he was 24, he wrote like a kid. Now he's 27, and he's still a bad writer, an even more pretentious singer and writer as well. He never gets off from his high horse of how terrible the world is while still remaining an ailing narcissist who is too busy focusing on how terribly alone he is being a big superstar. Not only that, he's full of false pretensions, pretending he's some wounded folkie with his country titles and pretending he has been tending to cattles living in some pasture. I don't buy it and I find his music anything but inspiring.

is it just me, or does AGiB feel like a collage album? I say this, because somone said 'Company in My Back' may have been on the eight track album, and some songs are very odd and some are very straightforward.

I hope at some point there is a Beck on Flaming Lips showdown, at the least..

> I have a question: what's so thrilling about Summerteeth, and those early albums?

 

uh, people have different tastes?

I realize this, that's why I didn't say I thought the album was bad or stupid. I like bits of it, but a lot of it sounds like a lot of things I've heard before musically or productionwise [for instance, the Foo Fighters from the same period, or Pearl Jam] so I was just wondering what people thought. I liked YHF and AGiB more than ST or SBS I suppose because of the immediate care idiosyncrasies in the lyrics and songs themselves. For instance: 'The ashtray says you've been up all night' is a really good line, but "I am an american aquarium drinker'" feel more quirky and inspired, leaving more room for the listener to participate. On YHF there's all this care packed into making sure little bits are picked up on and certain things sound the way they do. On ST it's all more or less on the same level and it's just loud more than anything else. I suppose that's why I dig "She's a Jar", given that it's such a weird song lyrically and there are some mellow spots for quirky things to sink in. I just feel like the whole album sits on a fence on whether or not it wants to be happy or sad musically.

Pardon me for saying so, but this is a really dumb question to post on a WILCO FORUM.

I always found this idea of fandom perplexing. Just because I am a fan does not mean I like everything the band has done. I find it more listenable than the radio or something, but I've seen with other groups where people become fans and automatically latch onto everything that was done by them great.

I have a question: what's so thrilling about Summerteeth, and those early albums? they're not bad, by any means, but masterpieces..? I can't think about anything in the sound of them that makes them any different from any 90's alt rock group.

isn't that Nel's guitar jeff is playing?

"I dreamed about killing you again last night/and it felt alright to me"

I suppose it's not as obscure as "pure bug beauty" but I think it's awfully strange