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Have 2 tix for 10-15-2009 Massey Hall, I was planning to take my stepdaughter, she's just turned 12. But...she hasn't spoken to me in a week. She even unfriended me and blocked me on facebook. She wasn't too enthused about seeing Wilco in the first place (even tho some of her friends who she looks up to are fans and were at the Lewiston show). I'm just hoping things turn around and start to stabilize again, we're going through a difficult separation and she's pretty angry and bitter right now. I think seeing Wilco will blow her mind, she's never been to a real rock concert. Anyway, if s

Great post, CDM. I've noticed the same uhh, 'diverse' opinions here. Not an easy crowd to please as a collective. You forgot one, the proverbial 'Wilco has sucked since Summerteeth, but I keep coming back to VC to annoy you guys.' Jeff gets a special kick out of that one. I still like this forum better than any other band-specific board, mostly because most of us don't hyperfocus on one issue relentlessly. There is plenty of obsessiveness and weirdness here to be sure. But plenty of 'normal' ppl too, the types who'd be afraid to post on the Dylan or NY sites lest they be crucufied. An

Ditto on these comments.

Paper profits don't equal jobs, look at your unemployment stats in the US. The financial system is also geared to the uber wealthy. For example, when most 'hot' companies go public I believe you need minimum $100,000 balance with your broker's account to buy into the IPO - so the wealthy are more enabled to speculate, trade freely and manipulate the outcomes where the most money is made. Similar in real estate, banking, etc. Not to mention all the fucking corruption at nearly every level in the chain. I know it's a free market economy and all that, it just doesn't work that well for the v

I meant, if I pick one of MY favorite albums, I doubt if I would find the entire thing that interesting or enjoyable. As opposed to one of the band's faves, which probably would be really amazing. But....if I picked a random bunch of my favorite songs and then Wilco performed them live for me in a single, My Terms kind of show, that might be a lot of fun.

Thanks, will check them out.

Fair enough, and I hope the rest is also true. I've been dealing with too many personal issues this year to follow Obama closely, but I admire him as much as the next guy. It's just sad (and predictable) that he can't effect the kind of change he envisions, at least not with any kind of haste. Btw, I was in the US during several of the debates last year, as well as on election day. (just to make sure y'all did the right thing this time..hehe)

This in and of itself is only "good news" on paper, and basically only for the wealthiest 10% of the nation. Consensus seems to be that real recovery is a very long way off if you want to talk about meaningful employment etc. And even then we are likely to see another bullshit "recovery" based on restoring the masses' faith and dependence on unsustainable consumer debt. I think Obama is doing his best, and doing a lot more than that antichrist before him. But he ain't gonna be the messiah either.

FAIL Not the worst band name by any means, but I think by this point the OP knows he's made a mistake, he's made a big mistake.... Personally if I was copping a Tweedy line for a band name, I'd pick something wittier... e.g. Suburban Gangster Sprawl, Making Love Understandable, The Old Buildings Downtown, Keeping Things Clean, Rumoured To Be, My Mother's Sister's Husband's Brother. Or just an actual song title like Someone Else's Song, Deeper Down, What Light or any number of others. At least something quasi universal that a non-Wilcohead might get also. You might need permission from To

It would be hard to imagine a sequence as good as ITMWLY, Pot Kettle Black, Poor Places, Reservations. Reedo's sequence would be really great too, but while I love Radio Cure as a song, I usually find it quite painful to listen to Jeff sing it...or rather, croak it out in that sheer unbridled misery. Dunno if Jeff can detach from the emotion of RC and just sing it with irony or whatever, but I doubt it. Maybe that's the reason they don't play it that often.

I don't really like this idea either, but it might be fun to hear/see them do an old classic like Freak Out!, Pet Sounds, or Loaded. Then again I think most of it would probably be kind of boring. If the band were ever to actually do this my guess is it would be Big Star, Television, or the Replacements.

Very well said...I agree. If you really listen to In Rainbows (and WTA), the songs have a ton of depth and many textures and layers to them. IR has more of an album/theme feeling to it, WTA feels more like a collection of good songs (and some great ones).

Yep Mary or maybe Sue/Suzy/Suzanne..

Finally saw IB on the weekend. Not a perfect film, but very, very close to perfect...and thoroughly enjoyable and satisfying to watch on the big screen. If nothing else Tarantino is the ultimate film buff, and beyond all the nods and homages he gives you everything you could ask for--- riveting suspense, great acting performances, great interplay between the characters, subtle storytelling cues, superb lighting and framing, superb use of music (the scene with Bowie's Putting Out Fire was incredible), brilliantly 'classic' (mixed with postmodern) use of the hero and heroine, and classic comed

I think he said Christian, not Christmas. As in, gospel rock...Slow Train Coming, Saved, etc. But Dylan does have a Christmas album in the works apparently.

Truly, Madly, Deeply (tho I dont even know who sings it) Some Madonna and MJ Some Mellencamp (like Pink Houses) and a little of Seeger and Eagles stuff SOME America-- e.g. I like Horse With No Name, but I absolutely hate that Tin Man song Occasionally I can rock out to Queen in the car, a la Wayne and Garth I will always love Bowie's disco phase..Let's Dance, Putting Out Fire etc. Don't care what anyone else thinks. Pretty much anything Cindi Lauper ever did is fine with me, if I'm in the mood Some old torch singers like Julie London or Johnny Hartman Some new agey pseudo-jazz i.e. quite a bit

Keelor and Cuddy live can both shred pretty damn well on guitar! Check out a show if you haven't seen them. But of course you're correct, its the songs... I knew Jim was a fan, and last time at Massey I think a few famous ppl were spotted close to the front-- Ron Maclean, Ron Sexsmith, can't remember who else. Maclean is a huge fan. Actually the Jim Cuddy Band (who I've also seen live) has an entry on wikipedia that mentions Jeff Tweedy as a past guest contributor, does anyone know the details?

EB? Never!!!! Wasnt me. Ok, back to that good good Dexter talk....

Lenny Kravitz has three songs on that list, REM has one. That's fucked up. A big 0 for Phish as well. I gotta stop obsessing about this.

Bob Egan is still with Blue Rodeo, another band loaded with good guitar players. He still makes his mark. Saw them a couple weeks ago, great concert. Their new stuff is really good...they played 6 new songs but when I checked their website seems unawares of it.

This list was compiled from polling their listeners, who seem to be down a few brain cells. I get why Misunderstood and Via Chicago aren't there...Wilco never got airplay. I just can't fathom how Fake Plastic Trees isn't even on that list. That had to be one of the 10 best 'new rock songs' of the decade, no matter how you slice it. The list completely ignores bands that had a fair bit of radio success in the US... Garbage, The Breeders, Sleater-Kinney. Too alternative I guess. lol

Yep.... Small world, I grew up near York Mills & DVP. Would have gone to the same h.s. the guys from Rush went to, but went to alternative school downtown instead. What an awful fucking suburb. I started listening to The Spirit Of Radio around `79 when I was 14. I mean, even the classic rock stations were pretty decent back then, but 102 was way more exciting than listening to Chum or Q107. Must've been in the 90's all the stations realized you had to play Nirvana, Radiohead, Oasis, The Verve, or die. Then they all became clones of each other. I guess Alan Cross' show is the last g

Check out the Lonesome Dove miniseries with Robert Duvall if you haven`t seen it. Mind you that was twenty years ago, umm yeah we need some new ones.

Yeah the first season was stunning..the 5th episode (I think) of season 1 was maybe the best hour of tv ever. But I think the stories and focus got better once Cy arrived and later as he and the Doc became major figures. Calamity Jane got old pretty fast, she was kinda one-dimensional. I never got tired of Al, Seth, Sol, Alma, Joanie or the others. (Seth and Sol always reminded me of Robbie and Rick circa `The Band`) I suppose E.B. was tiresome after awhile too, but you need a character to hate on. When Hearst arrived it got more interesting again. *sorry for threadjack

Oh yeah...not much of a tv person but that is the best series I've ever seen. Superb production, writing, acting, music, everything. Hence my avatar...