KevinG

I have had this album for a couple of days now. My first impressions after a couple of listens is the same to every other Jay Bennett solo effort (the Bennett Burch discs notwithstanding). I want to go up to Jay Bennett and scream at him, "For Fucksakes, man! 1000 different effects on a song do not make it good!" Jay's words are great, Jay's vocals are unique, but when put together with a producer that sounds like he has just discovered pro-tools the outcome is crap. Stop with the effects. I think Jay's production ruined this record. The vocals are so muddled; music is obscured by layer

In no particular order Jeff Tweedy Michael Doughty (i'll fight you on this one if necessary) Ben Folds Rufus Wainwright Paul Westerberg Prince Eef Barzelay Michael Franti Frank Black Aimee Mann honorable mention Tim Rutili Neko Case John Flansberg and John Linnell

and would have been funny if it was 10 years ago.

That was not good. I am very disappointed. Now American Dad is on. I remember when Fox was cutting edge, not borning and stupid.

Guess I am the hater on this thread, becasue it was not funny nor clever. 12 minutes in the episode, and I wish I would have watched the Dallas/Redskins pregame. Ok it is not that bad.

I used to love the simpsons, but in recent years it has been more of a , then anything else. I think the show has become a parody of itself. But tonight I have nothing to do, I might as well turn on the TV and watch Jack and Meg. More then likely they will only be part of the episode for a few minutes in the beginning and a bit at the end. So I am not expecting anything great

I just got this today. I haven't gotten into the whole Colin Meloy thing. We will see what this album does for me

Who cares?

Hey me too. I just got this the other day nad I love it. I know I am a bit late to the party

Weak, can't view it on my Mac. MTV sucks

The Rolling Stones in general are in poor taste.

Actually I think it is poor taste. Can't they think of an orginal name? Pretty weak if you ask me.

Bigger than Blue is Jay's best solo release. It has some great songs and some that just suck. Is stuff with Burch is fablous and you can't go wrong with the two Palace records. Do not bother with anything else becsue it just is not good. I have always felt that Jay Bennett's music suffers from the fact that there is no one to tell him no. On Bigger then Blue some needed to say, "hey Jay 500 tracks of different weird looping changes, and 30 different guitar parts do not show your genius. Hold back a bit." A perfect example of this is Jay's version of Cars Can't Escape. Jay gr

why?

While I applaud Jeff and his health, the track record is against him. Billy Joel, Elton John, Eric Clapton, James Taylor are just a few that I can name who have gotten "clean" and their music was not nearly as good as what it was when they where on drugs/mental issues. Now with that being said, I feel Jeff's music will be better than before. He has one thing that they do not, a kick ass band/group. People tend to forget that Jeff Tweedy is a member of a Wilco. He is the driving force "front man" but it sounds like the songs they are working on now are a true collaberate effort. I saw

Eddie Izzard?

Just started this last night. Quite good so far. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time