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Okay, I couldn't take my eyes off her in Elf (still can't when she's on the screen) and that interview only added to that feeling of attraction I get seeing/hearing her. The album is wonderful and I have been unable to get "This Is Not A Test" out of my head for more than 15 minutes at a time the past week.

As a fan since late '99, I thought my list would include most older tunes, but in the grand scheme of things my mix still seems to revolve around newer stuff: Airline To Heaven You Are My Face Outtasite (Outtamind) Muzzle Of Bees War On War Jesus, etc. Impossible Germany Monday I'm The Man Who Loves You Pot Kettle Black I'm Always In Love The Thanks I Get Box Full Of Letters One By One Hesitating Beauty Side With The Seeds Hummingbird Via Chicago* Shot In The Arm* Kicking Television* * - All taken from "Kicking Television" and sorta spliced together.

I like YLT but all of their albums just seem to go on for a bit too long. Most of the epic long tracks get long-winded or highly repetitive. IMO I Am Not Afraid Of You is the best I've heard yet (I have everything from "I Can Hear The Heart..." onwards) and it still could be trimmed back and tracked differently.

Vampire Weekend - "Vampire Weekend" Marah - "Angels Of Destruction!" The Whigs - "Mission Control" Stephen Malkmus - "Real Emotional Trash" MGMT - "Oracular Spectacular" Black Keys - "Attack & Release" Bon Iver - "For Emma, Forever Ago" She & Him - "Volume One" Chris Walla - "Field Manual" Nada Surf - "Lucky" That's in order at the moment but I can see Bon Iver and She & Him moving up the more I listen and Walla falling off the more albums I get.

This is pretty exciting news. Can't wait to hear it.

Holy God. If my expectations for the whole album weren't huge before...what a friggin' great tune.

You might be building it up juuuuust a little too much for yourself.

Strange. While I feel it's totally over-produced, I still love the tune. Just a fun pop tune.

The 16 that come immediately to mind: Hendrix Jerry Garcia Page Clapton Jeff Beck George Harrison SRV Nels Cline Tom Verlaine Keef Richards Jack White Gary Louris (old Jayhawks mostly) Mike Campbell (da Heartbreakers) John Dieterich (Deerhoof) Andy Summers Frampton This is totally based on their skill set, not songwriting ability. If songwriting was in there, this list would be much different.

Indeed it was.

The WAND (used in the Dell) clip is just a sweet and easy riff that I thought would fit well in promotional spots the moment I heard it.

Okay, WTF? No Chicago dates? Man...

I really do despise these festivals and, sadly, each summer Wilco turns into a festival band. I guess I shouldn't complain because, for the rest of the year, they're the best mid-sized venue band anyone could ask for. I've never gotten hyped up about hundred dollar tickets to see a concert with 50K of your closest friends. It just doesn't do it for me. That and the retarded time slots.

This new one is slowly growing on me, but it's a very slow grow. I'll most likely be tuning in for it.

I'm pushing for Via Chicago. She's not really goin' for it... Seriously though I do suggest it as a joke and it gets a major roll of the eyes to which I of course have to (poorly) sing the first few lines. Really, I don't know what song it'll be. Just as long as she doesn't want some lame Jack Johnson number, I'm cool.

Arcade Fire Beatles, The Clash, The Dylan, Bob (toughest letter for me) Eels Fleetwood Mac Grateful Dead, The Hives, The (don't have much H stuff) I'm From Barcelona (ditto) Jayhawks, The Kinks, The Led Zeppelin My Morning Jacket Neutral Milk Hotel Oasis Petty, Tom Queen Rolling Stones Spoon Television Uncle Tupelo Vampire Weekend (I guess) Wilco Xiu Xiu (only X I have in my collection) Yo La Tengo ZZ Top (read explanation for X)

Not sure how they're comparable to Vampire Weekend. In sound, they're a lot similar to The Strokes than anyone else that immediately comes to mind upon first listen. I'm not unimpressed, but I'm not terribly enthused by what I'm hearing.

I care because it's right on with my rankings.

My program is acting strange and I'm getting nothing at all except for the "wilco in concert" screen and a "webcast coming soon" message. I have Quicktime.

Anyone else unable to load anything with the quicktime program?

New favorite venue.

Maybe I'm forgetting the liner notes for AFD. I thought Gary had a hand in songwriting on all but maybe 4 tracks on the record. And, for the record, I wasn't comparing AFD and Vagabonds sound-wise, but reaction-wise for myself. They both are almost entirely forgettable IMO.

If we're comparing to MMJ, Band Of Horses sound much closer than Fleet Foxes do, but it's that reverb effect plus they're vocal stylings. Sometimes the way they all seem to mumble and then enunciate certain syllables is very strange too. I think that all lends to the comparison.

Just listened to this album. Ouch, is all I can say. I am very, very unimpressed. Reminds me a lot of the way I felt about the most recent Golden Smog record (basically consisted of entirely Gary's stuff) and I haven't touched that one since the day I got it. Just disappointed.

To some extent I enjoy Rhett's solo stuff although it's way too saccharine for me to make it through either of his entire albums. The Old 97's themselves have been on a steady decline album-wise although I'd still kill to see 'em live. Sadly, they seem to play only on weeknights when I CAN see them and that makes it difficult.