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Does anyone know if 2009-08-21 (Toronto) was taped? I don't see it on etree, and my dime account was toasted. Any help much appreciated.

3) Tweedy dumps the band and joins forces with Leslie Feist to cut a tribute album to Sarah Mclachlan.

It is a great album.

There's plenty of great music on the list, but overall it seems HEAVILY skewed to Pitchfork's darling-of-the-week bands, with token nods to some mega commercial pop and rap like Britney, Alicia, Jay-Z et al. But others like Gwen Stefani and Franz Ferdinand are getting dicked. Same for bigger acts like Radiohead and Green Day are dicked here. My beef is that some very established artists that have done great work this decade are either severely underrepresented or posting a big fat Zero on the list so far. Examples....Springsteen, Cohen, Young, all zero. Nothing for Golden Smog or Loose Fu

At some point..? I just looked thru all 430-something they've picked so far, for giggles. That list is a fucking joke.

He might be a dick, but some of his records are outstanding. My faves are Heartbreaker and Easy Tiger.

That was pretty wild. Pure Jersey....look at the cop, she even looks like Ralph Macchio.

Definitely worthwhile for anyone who enjoys MA, even just for the footage of the recording sessions. It is a little Billy-centric, but Jeff manages to steal most of the scenes he`s in. Most remarkable for me is Nora Guthrie, her frankness and courage in talking about her dad.

Ok I guess this is my rough draft...I will grudgingly whittle Jeff down to 20 (very hard) and add some comments on each song when I get some time; probably not in the next few days. These arent in any real ranking order but the first 10 I do consider to be his real Wilco masterpieces, so those will not be coming off the list. Also, its obvious from this set that Jay Bennett deserves major credit on many of these songs for helping make them as poignant and special as they are. Reservations Via Chicago War On War Sunken Treasure Misunderstood Shes A Jar Hell Is Chrome Jesus etc Ashes Of Amer

I actually wish she wouldnt bother trying to rock out. Her sad songs and ballads are superb...Side of the Road, Greenville, Blue, Minneapolis and others can reduce me to tears. And I dont cry much. LW is a great writer and I like how she pulls off the stretching of her vocal limitations-- like on Blue. Very imperfect but still beautiful. She is notoriously obsessive though, which I guess doesnt help her in live performance.

Lot of valid comments. I enjoy most of KT quite a bit, in spite of it being a "production" as Lauren asserted. (and has been discussed here ad nauseum) Mis->Company->TLG->Hell is a great sounding run, and the versions of One By One and Airline are fantastic too. These are all certainly great versions and sound seamless enough to suspend my disbelief over whatever studio dub trickery may have been added later. Comment is a fave, I kind of cherry pick the rest. As for Handshake Drugs - I haven't heard a "bad" live performance but to me it seems Jeff and Glenn hadn't quite perfected

Hmmm, why abort Jesus? I thought this was a liberal congregation.

20 is really tough.....I don't think I can do it. 30 maybe, not 20. All I know for sure is that Screen Door wouldn't make my top 100.

Crack A Bottle?

True enough....but check out J.S. Bach sometime.

I went from favorite screen name to best screen name.

They're all better live, IMO. There are only a handful of Wilco tunes that I need the studio version of... Dash 7, Sunken Treasure, She's A Jar, and a few from YHF that are just nailed to perfection. I feel AGIB and SBS in particular really need the live treatment. That said, all their released studio stuff is well done and I could see how someone would feel that way about AGIB.

It’s hard to read the above as anything but an indirect insult by sarcasm. Having said that, Jim should grow some skin and let it go. It’s an internet forum for godssakes, and in fact if you stood in the front row at a Wilco show you’d run the risk of being humiliated in front of your peers by a similar quip from Jeff. That to me isn’t one of Jeff’s most likeable qualities, but it’s generally all in good fun and there is nothing wrong with laughing at ourselves once in a while.

I thought the piano closing piece was Mikael playing an extension of the AOAF soundcheck. The soft horns interlude in the middle of the film sounded like a Louis Armstrong piece off Satchmo Plays King Oliver. (St James Infirmary?) Well, I could be wrong on both counts.

Hmmm. I dunno if this can apply to something like pop music, where thousands of releases come out every year and no one can possibly listen to them all, much less hear them objectively. Same for books, magazines, hockey players, etc. Multiply that x the internet...and x the frail ego of the modern critic. This is what makes modern "best" lists so meaningless. Ya know? I can't see any definitives with music, just 'what we liked and that managed to pass through our thousands of filters.' Wolfgang and Ludwig, John and Paul, Jeff and Jay. God and Jesus. "Take your pick."

Yawner (The Thread) v.16.89901 The suggestion that Tweedy needs to get stoned is ridiculous. Wilco are blowing crowds away every night, and from what I can see Jeff's best writing may still be ahead of him. If it's not your cup, so be it. No need to shit on someone else's creations.

The audio streams on that site sound pretty good.

This is a much better list.

Music always hits you differently depending on the moment and circumstances. I was in a different place when SBS came out, and I still have more fondness for it than W(TA) or AGIB, which I know are 'better' records in a lot of ways. My view is skewed, and that's how it's supposed to be. I think the same goes for concerts. Let it go, people......no one is completely objective. And even if we were, it wouldn't mean anything but more arrogant comments and armchair quarterbacking.

Nah, Jesus is pretty high maintenance. Being in love with SMT sounds more akin to being in love with your favorite old shoes. It's just simple and comfortable. And a fine song, IMO. Same for Country. I don't know why Jeff's more "direct" lyrics cause such a ruckus with the cognescenti here. The guy isn't a flake or a simpleton, just a songwriter trying to express or reflect what he sees and feels. Wilco fans seem too self-conscious and uptight about style issues. I enjoy the music for what it is, can't be bothered to argue with hipsters about it.Love it, hate it, whatever. Dissecting every