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I don't necesarily mean he added the noise, but I think he reinforced Tweedy's interest in the noise elements. Bennett himself said in the documentary that he believes it all should serve the melody, where I think Tweedy was more interested in roughing up the edges a bit. also, to be fair, removing the noise doesn't mean much since there's still quite a bit there and it's even more noticable because they had a guy like him arranging those pieces. I think before (on the demos) I noticed the noise but it seemed cumbersome or naive, where O'Rourke's take made me glad that he mixed it. It made

for YHF it was Jim O'Rourke-- he created Loose Fur with him around that point, brought him in to play on some songs (I think they said that Poor Places was mostly the three of Loose Fur)-- and had him remix the entire album. Jeff was starting to get into O'Rourke and his music as well as more noisy stuff, where Benett wanted to pull him elsewhere. I'm convinced that if JT never met Jim (or had him get so involved) the album would have been entire entirely different, possibly for the worse. I think that's why Jeff felt Bennett had to go--Summerteeth was his place, where YHF and AGiB was Jeff

wow, I live in Albany and completely forgot this.

well, the Daniel Johnston one just made me love the guy because he's adorable, and a decent visual artist. his music, I'm not sure so much. But Dig just blew my mind that such an obnoxious child could have such a massive following.

man, I don't get these guys at all. It seems to me like awful, flat out mediocre hipster trash. watching parts of DiG I was amazed that people took this guy seriously. one minute he's talking about "it's about fucking love man" and the other minute he's fighting with people. or he's acting like he knows everything while acting like a tough drunken rockstar pointing a gun at somone. I didn't see any actual competition between talented bands in that movie, I just saw a bunch of beligerent children acting like they were god's gift, here to relive all the "hip" aspects of the sixties. if str

wow, I like how Radiohead gets fireworks during their set and Wilco gets them after, despite Wilco being from Chicago.

ok this time for real it'll be I'm the Man.

I'll get a lucky break at some point... next song: I'm the Man Who Loves you. I'm throwing that out there.

oh wow, this was unexpected.

okay, so the next song HAS to be I'm the Man. oh, or Walken, then I'm the Man.

Jesus etc. I'm gonna make a guess: next is I'm the Man

ooh, that ended a little messy.

I wish these guys would release an album already.

I know, I'm sorry. I can't keep my mouth shut.

who would talk???

my view on Tweedy specifically was that he played a nice line between "rock deity" (i.e Neil Young) and somone who's 40 and has a wife and kids. Guys like Dylan and Neil Young expect everyone to bow down and have never had anyone shrink their giant heads (as seen here), while Tweedy seems generally easygoing and down to earth for somone who is a popular rock musician. like I said, I figured people would be aghast at my opinion, and they are. Yeah, Wilco owes a buttload to Young, but that doesn't mean that the guy is some olympian figure. The only person, like I've undoubtedly said before

personally, I hate his music (with the expection of some of that Massey Hall album and On the Beach), but it goes beyond that. I feel like if you're still kind of (relatively) an up-and-coming rock band getting more mainstream attention, the last person I'd want to go on tour with is Neil Young. Why? a) he's just another aging boomer relic who is pulling out the "rares" in order to wow the audience that grew up on his hits while simultaneously egging on your overzealous critic fans to give you more praise than you deserve. Each member of your band can singlehandedly outperform him and has m

jeez, is this really the type of person Wilco wants to associate with?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clju205JUEg

this is the same type of crap I was talking about in the Dr. Dog thread- again I don't mind snobbery or pretentiousness, but I hate when reviewers go at length to throw punches. It's a god damn Batman movie, not a Nietchzeian exposition on the psychology of the high and lows of society. Using the term overrated when going at lengths to describe how Alan Moore "does The Joker better" is the biggest contradiction of the entire thing-- most comic writers (ESPECIALLY Alan Moore) are overrated in their own right. Expecting some sort of freak of nature-- an entertaining pop culture movie display

I don't mind bad reviews, but isn't a little stupid that a publication allows their reviewers free reign to just be flat out douche bags? It seems to me like the people who write these negative reviews take it personal, or for what ever reason are just angry at x band for making whatever music they make. Rather than discuss the merits (which was given about one sentence in the entire page long review) they snipe at the band. I don't mind some pretentiousness or snobbiness, I think it makes it more fun to read, but I don't understand why they have to throw punches. I think it was on an Emin

Jack Nicholson isn't better than anyone at anything. Even acting for that matter. One of the worst things ever to happen to comics was the asinine Tim Burton Batman films.

that first song makes the whole thing worth getting for me, imo. it does lose a bit of it after awhile.

well I was joking about everything, to be fair. except for John Stiratt. love the guy.

I remember an article awhile back where Jeff stated being psyched on Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, and Dr. Dog. So we can only hope the next album is some hellspawn Wilco combination of the three bands. Personally, if you combined them, I don't think you could go wrong, and it's freaking Wilco: Jeff effing Tweedy, the Nels Jazzmaster Cline, Glenn the conservatory drumming genius, and the man who will go down in history as the most under rated bassist of all time, John Stirratt. and then there's Mikael and Pat. frankly, it's like the dream team of indie rock or flat out musicianship.