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Ahem, thanks! Like here, eh? Wilco Gets Serious It is one of those cherished musical events in life when you hear an album for the first time and it sounds perfect, like the album you’ve always been waiting for the artist to make, if you were able to imagine it in the first place. The last year has been kind, with the release of the Decemberists The King is Dead, Gillian Welch’s The Harrow & The Harvest, P.J. Harvey’s Let England Shake and now the latest release from Wilco, The Whole Love. Wilco fans have been in a bit of a holding pattern lately. Wilco (the Album) was not crit

No Depression blog reviews: http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/wilco-gets-serious http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/review-wilco-the-whole-love

Pure genius, this band was!

No way, their arrangements are way too tight to be a jam band.

This... They all look so excited. Nels looks like he's ready to be an extra in 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'

nice!

and that is one amazing Tom Waits album. I didn't realize that was 16 years in for him.

No Depression blog said: The last year has been kind, with the release of the Decemberists’ ‘The King is Dead’, Gillian Welch’s ‘The Harrow & The Harvest’ ... Well, it was kind to me.

Ouch~! (from both Jeff and me)

I agree, how can people be so judgmental after such a sort time. Oh, I forgot, look at history. Maybe later we can parse it all based on the past musical history. But for now, just shut up and listen ok, talk about it too, it wouldn't be a chat board if we all sat around and said it's great. but I do think it's great....

Art of Almost is the best opener I've heard on an album in a very long time.

I agree, and I was there. It did seem somewhat stale, after several attending several Pacific NW shows in the past. I say this as a long term fan, but maybe after 9 bands total that day, it was getting late (and cold!) and they were just the usual awesome. and yes, I'm way late in checking this thread out. My favorite band of the day was the Old 97s., followed by Sharon Jones. The Decemberists did a stellar set, but it was too short

I do think a clean shaven Tweedy with blue glasses would go a long ways toward ruining one's enjoyment of anything post Tupelo.

yes, in theory, but I also heard in that interview that he was an economic advisor to Bush during the tax cuts, financial deregulation, and war initiation that got us into this mess in the first place. Granted, he wasn't making all those decisions, but if you listen to the interview, he sure did punt when that subject came up, with a claim of not having any control over that. I can't say that gave me much confidence in his credibility.

Agreed wholeheartedly. I would really like to see him on trial for his crimes, which is by far the preferred option. But short of that, if he's killing his own people with impunity, the second option is better that a continuation of that. That's all, I meant, less blood not more.

Agreed wholeheartedly. I would really like to see him on trial for his crimes, which is by far the preferred option. But short of that, if he's killing his own people with impunity, the second option is better that a continuation of that. That's all, I meant, less blood not more.

Thanks, I feel better already....

Gadhafi still needs to pay the piper for Lockerbie as well. I hope to see him in the Hague sooner rather than later. Or unable to travel there due to reasons related to mortality.

Then why have I been paying thousands of dollars into social security over the last 3+ decades? Isn't it reasonable to expect a return on that 'investment'? I tell you what, it sucks being on the tail end of the baby boom. I'll get some crumbs, and it probably sucks more being younger than the tail end of the baby boom, because crumbs are probably too much to expect for your payments. This is all about greed, really. Especially our very high paid teachers who clearly do better than wall street crooks. But seriously, I have major issues with tenure and the difficulty in getting rid of b

I'm not worried, the Decemberists play before Wilco, so it will be a perfect transition. Is this really true? I have a chance to see Rodrigo Y Gabriela followed by the Decemberists, followed by Wilco in one show, and at the Gorge no less. That's a lineup made in heaven for my tastes. Every time I've seen the Decemberists (even before they were known much outside of the northwest), they've been really good live.

Today's New York Times shows The King Is Dead as the #1 album for last week. Love 'um or not, it's hard to deny the shock of a band like this having the number one album in the country. As for me, I now believe that this is the best Decemberists album ever. That opinion was formed over several full listens, a revisit to the back catalog including Tarkio, and contemplation of the 4 live shows I've been to. It's not earth shattering, but it is highly enjoyable.

Chicago is a city that works, and gets things done when it comes to civic projects. I live in a city that doesn't function very well. Everything here is done by consensus, which means not a helluva lot gets done. We finally got our first light rail line, and it's only part of a line. Woo hoo, Portland Oregon, our little sister to the south, has five or thereabouts. We paid car taxes for several years to build a monorail system, and then it was never built. never got a refund for my taxes paid, nor did anyone. A draconian mayor has been the standard for Chicago for years, and it works.

What a nice change in direction, and with Peter, Gillian, and David Rawlings to help! I have been a fan for awhile, but Hazards of Love got no lovin from me. This takes me back to Meloy's Tarkio days, which have always been my favorite songs by him, with the earlier Decemberists albums also well loved.

a cover of one of the funkiest post-Beatles McCartney songs ever? I read this set list and was stunned. What an amazing selection of tunes~!

I'll be at the Chicago show as well, while spending what looks to be lovely Labor Day weather in that fair city. That will be three CH shows, and then I'm done! So far the first two were very different shows, so it will be interesting to see what the House of Blues show is like. Both of the shows I saw were also cut short by curfews. I assume that will not be an issue at HOB?!?