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I can understand why a lot of people were/are disappointed with SBS, but for me, Wilco (or maybe just Jeff Tweedy) are a band that really understands context and how to play with it. The next album could totally redefine SBS (for us fans at least) if it is different. In hindsight it's easy to declare YHF a masterpiece, but I bet there were a lot of ST fans who thought WTF? for quite some time (Radio Cure, Reservations......????) Conversely, I had never heard ST until after YHF and thought WOW!!! Constantly reacting against expectation is a difficult trick to pull off successfully, but don'

Cool site with some great links! And thanks for the Williamsburg recording - very nice!

I only started getting into Wilco around he time of AGIB. I heard Muzzle of Bees and wanted to investigate further. However, a learned friend suggested I start with YHF. I have to say, initially I was hugely disappointed: Kamera, Pot, Kettle Black and I'm the Man..... were good tunes, but the rest seemed just too difficult. In particular, I remember thinking that Ashes of American Flags, Reservations, Poor Places and Radio Cure were always going to be tracks that I skipped. Radio Cure I positively hated. I can't remember the exact moment when the tide started to turn, but those four track

I got one at the Barcelona show and it is really cool (and warm too!). Just right for what looks like being a very cold winter. I don't know if it's an old favourite either.

WOW! There must have been a certain dream-like quality to that whole experience and the picture is fantastic! Anyway, my best moment: Meeting Pat before Barcelona, requesting In a Future Age and it getting played! (is that more than one moment?) So, while I'm exceeding my moment quota, second best moment (a very long one): the first encore in Dresden. Get this: "War on War", "Why would you wanna live", "Poor Places", "Reservations">"Spiders". Missed moment(s): Dublin - those setlists look incredible.

"Let's Not Get Carried Away" - is that Zeppelin meets White Album era Beatles, or what???? (I think it's great, by the way)

It certainly looks like it was a bit of a classic! They seem to be really pulling out the stops towards the end of this trip. I think the shows in Dublin will also be something special and if it wasn't for the fact that I would lose my job, end up divorced and be even broker than I am already, I would try to figure out some way of getting to the Wednesday show. Umm, let me go and think about that.

Hey! Don't get too excited. It was the soundcheck and it wasn't the whole song! Anyway, Barcelona was the first gig I've ever been to on my own (I travelled from the Czech Republic), I had a great time and met some great people. The Barcelona crowd was phenomenal, which really fired up the atmosphere, right from the start. The band was even tighter than I'd seen them before and the energy was incredible. The volume definitely went up considerably during the second encore so that Spiders was fairly mind-blowing. I was thrilled that In A Future Age got played after I requested it, but I'm

So, would I be right in thinking that you're still not totally over the UK tour cancellation. (sorry)

12 November

Not sure if this has already been posted, but e-mail from Wilcoworld confirms European Tour SBS Edition Bonus Disc: 1. Is that the Thanks I Get? 2. Let's Not Get Carried Away. 3. One True Vine. 4. Impossible Germany (live). 5. Hate it Here (live). The good news is that these tracks will be available for download for owners of the original release via Wilcoworld.

My favourite Floyd album. All killer - but the part when the mega-funky organ/bass/drums adult movie soundtrack combo kicks in (a staple of the earlier Floyd sound) on Echoes steals it for me.

Unrestricted.

I've never liked Radiohead much. However, anybody who lets me pay what I think their music may be worth (in advance of actually hearing it) will always arouse my interest. I paid 5 pounds for something I imagined might be well-produced and mildly innovative. Whilst In Rainbows is both of those things, musically it's the best thing I've heard in a long time. I think it's excellent. I'm not about to be transformed into a raving Radiohead fan, but for me at least, their strategy worked. I've also paid more in recent years for far inferior albums (so I suppose that means I owe Radiohead abou

Jeff has commented on this one and essentially (I think he said) it's about the state of denial and personally emerging from it. My own view is that in the first verse it's on a political and historical level (think 1930s) relating the past to the present (think religious fundamentalism). I read a review of SBS which was particularly scathing about its lyrical content and highlighted the second line of IG, "wherever you go, wherever you land" as the lamest example. However, in the context of the song, for me it's a devastating reference to certain cataclysmic events which took place in the

I hope Zeppelin watch that Kingpin clip before their November gig.

Yeah, but often people ask me why I'm so into Wilco, and sometimes it isn't so easy to distill it into something that's easy to understand. You nailed it!

Sweetheart-mine, extremely eloquently and accurately put. Thanks

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The first four seconds of Ashes of American Flags.

You've got it, haven't you!

Yeah, I'd forgotten about that (thankfully!). Didn't Neil Young come up with a similarly grim electronic experiment in the 80s??

I just think that Jeff's very comfortable with the current line-up and perhaps wants attention to focus a little bit more on the band as a whole. The musicians are eminently capable of producing innovative instrumental music and Jeff has said several times that he aspires to release more instrumentals (and has done with Loose Fur etc). If an instrumental album did emerge (and it is a slightly strange idea), marketing constraints would probably dictate that it didn't interrupt significantly the release of more conventional band output, ie an "interim" album. It would certainly be a way for W

I agree with Sarchi, although I'm still clinging to my somewhat bizarre theory that the next album may be instrumental (or at least feature several of them). That said, to hear just what you're after, the version of Hummingbird on the Wilco Book CD should suffice (and is excellent, by the way).