Oranje Spur

what exactly is wilco ticketing? and do you get a password or do you just try and buy through wilcoweb.com?

I emailed some people in the know and found out that more dates will be announce in two weeks for shows in Oct. The Twin Cites is in that group. Whao!

the ITK is not in the Wilco camp but works with them.

HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT A MINNEAPOLIS SHOW?

his love ones his family his community his world I think this song speaks to all of these people past and present.

i was at a Chuck Klosterman book signing in NYC at a Barnes and Nobles last thursday and during the Q&A i told him how much i enjoyed is wilco article in his recent publication Chuck Klosterman IV. i thought he did a real nice job with a difficult story...i then proceeded to ask him what he thought of Sky Blue Sky. he was quick to answer that it was his favorite record by Wilco

is there a link for this story?

Glenn really acellerated the musical confedience and progress of Jeff. Wilco has a joy and confedience seen in few bands now days and I would say that Jeff was getting their but Jim O'Rourke and Glenn seem to have help speed things up. Glenn is a true musical scientist who is selfless as well. Ok that was a little much so I'll stop.

Glenn is the catalyst for the growth in the band though.

I think this is Wilco's masterpiece. If I was to pick one song to show somebody what Wilco was all about, this would be it.

 

I think the song is about family, and how modern-day alienation impacts our relationship with family and loved ones. With T.S. Eliot taking a bow in the wings....filing into tight lines, ordinary beehives, no current through the water wire, in the dirt and the dust.....classic imagery from a classic theme. But updated for post-modern family life, including teenage melodramatics ("the door screams i hate you hanging around my blue jeans"), and the cold anonymity of technology ("trying to be thankful our stories fit into phones").

 

In the end, there are no certainties, even with loved ones, and we are left wondering, worrying, and quietly asking to be loved. That last verse is so achingly beautiful, and so beautifully human, and I cry every time I hear it.

 

And then there's the incredible arrangement and musicianship of this piece, not just the three sections, but the brilliant transitions between the sections. The middle section, with its power and virtuosity, should startle being sandwiched between the softer sections, but it never does because those transition sections are so skillful, meshing what comes before with what comes after. Being a Cline/Tweedy composition, I'm guessing that these transitions, with which the song would not work without, are the contributions of Mr. Cline. Plus that unfuckingbelievable guitar solo. What a song.

I like your assisment here. I can't speak to the TS Elliot, as books are basically cryptonite to me, but it is just a powerful song and I can picture different snapshots in my head each time and put it in different eras. I'm so drawn to this song. I'm not one to overthink lyrics too much. I love robyn hitchcock but I don't have a clue what his intentions are on about 1/4 of his songs yet I love them still. The harmonies kill me - reminds me of The Jayhawks.

I just been so drawn in by YOU ARE MY FACE that I've become curious to hear what other people thought. Thanks for sharing. BTW I'm new here is there a lot of song dicussion or is it frown apon?

I love this song but I think I'm over thinking it's meaning. Would love to hear others thought on what the song means to them.

Simply I think it is a reflection of Great Gasby America - seeing what is around and uncertain of the future.