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That's a great list, Dondante. I'd also make arguments for Beck, Califone, Feist, Grizzly Bear, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Marah, Lucinda Williams, M.I.A., Ryan Adams, Ron Sexsmith, Jack White/White Stripes, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen. But it's hard to disagree with any of your picks.

I enjoy NPR...that's not a bad list really. My beef with ALL the lists I've seen for the 00's is the failure to mention the one major artist that's finally received some global recognition for his decades of songcraft-- Leonard Cohen.

I liked the Milan setlist with California Stars better. Actually I'm just bitchy because I had meetings all afternoon and couldn't listen to any of the web cast.

Ummm...no Little Feat or Allman Bros., WTF. Okonokos is a big omission too. And since jazz was fair game, why not Jazz At Massey Hall aka The Greatest Concert Ever Played?

I realize that, just find it ironic there seems to still be a transoceanic distance between Jay and the current band. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. But, had some of the current members been able to attend, that might've been even weirder.

Kinda weird that Wilco's in Europe again during this..... I hope it's a great evening for everyone.

That's almost a dream setlist, to me. I hope there were tapers!

One perspective is that this battle for souls between Islam and Christianity is now being played out most heavily on the African continent, using charities, NGO's, and other "non-traditional" methods. Interesting article. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/nigeria

I do that too....no worries. Personally I think W(TA) is a better record than SBS, by a fraction or two. But SBS will probably always mean more to me, just because of where I was at and the way it affected me at the time. IOW, let's try to bear in mind that these things are completely subjective.

I agree with that. But I have to disagree with your previous assertion. ^^ Have you read the Bible lately? Your Presbyterian church apparently sticks with the warm and fuzzy parts- which are all nice and good, and are in part a basis for our societal justice systems etc. However. The literal readings of sin, judgment and punishment in the Bible are bad enough in terms of ascribing feelings of personal guilt-- but the factionism and racism that was normalized by the scriptures all the way back to Genesis (Bible and Koran) are a major part of the ideological divides we face in the world

Yep that's the one. It is better than okay.

I think the thread was originally about militant atheism. The other opinions being posted are all interesting, but this topic tends to go nowhere since we never all agree on black, white, or the shades of gray. (or whether it's all black and white with no shades.. lol) Sam Harris does make an interesting case for 'zero tolerance' of all religious faith. The point being that mankind is on the precipice of world-ending conflict and that it'll be largely fueled by the ideologies of two supposedly opposing faiths. It's a very radical position, and I didn't think his thesis was fully fleshed o

You say SBS was a good record, then you call it lacklustre. Then you presume the same about W(TA) after admitting you haven't even listened to it?

Scarlett Johansen x 5

Wade Davis's The Wayfinders is next on my list to read, it just won the Massey Lectures award for 2009 here in Canada. Dunno why I never became much of a fiction reader, I seem to gravitate to musician biographies, political history (occasionally), and cultural anthropology like this. http://recycledminds.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-review-wayfinders-by-wade-davis.html

Not sure if that's rhetorical or not, and I haven't read Dawkins..only heard him on the radio a few times. I've read Sam Harris, and in his first book The End Of Faith he seemed to have plenty of vitriol for all the major religions. (especially Christianity and Islam)

YEAH!!! Thank you Wilco(The Crew)!

Oh goody.

Definitely. I picked up MA1 on vinyl in '98 or '99, and in '00 I was dating a woman who lived in D.C., so on my second visit we saw the Guthrie exhibit at the Smithsonian (or was it the MONH, my memory sucks). My hope was that Guthrie fever would come back in vogue, it doesn't seem to have happened though...maybe these things come in cycles, dunno. The MA1 stuff was on display there too, among all the Woodybilia. Really enjoyed that day, we also by chance saw Peter Yarrow singing in the lobby at the Kennedy Center.

Oh hell yeah....we have to include Johnny Cash - The American Recordings I - V. Great stuff, the Man does everything from Danny Boy to Paul Simon to Trent Reznor. These are as essential as anything I heard in the 00's, gotta go change my top picks in the other thread now. Live albums - Kicking Television, MMJ's Okonokos, Leonard Cohen's Live In London (and some parts of I'm Your Man). Lou - I disagree about In The Beginning. It's uneven like all of TVZ's releases, but there's a raw bluesy energy to Townes' early work that faded steadily out over the years what with all the drinking and

I like it. The MA's are going to be classics...err, someday. Even with the Grammy nods they're both still vastly unappreciated records.

Alicia was the bomb. But Liv got much more desireable later. Like much later, in Lord Of The Rings etc. It's a bit creepy to think how young Liv was when her dad put her in Crazy.

'Zactly. Or just typical Tweedy wry sarcasm. Personally I don't hear any huge similarities between the two bands.

Athens, GA. Rome, NY. Hamburg, NY. I bought a used motorcycle from a guy in Cuba, NY - upstate in the Allegheny region south of Buffalo. Great guy, schoolteacher. (damn commies)

Neil Young as well. Sonic Youth, Big Star, Television, and as always, The Beatles - especially John Lennon.