SeattleC
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Once again even Supergrass recgonizes the greatness of THE RUTLES
Pure genius, this band was!
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No way, their arrangements are way too tight to be a jam band.
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This...
They all look so excited. Nels looks like he's ready to be an extra in 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'
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It sounds as if they have put every Wilco record into a soda can crusher and then tried to pull the can back out straight. I'm always in love.
nice!
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Tom Waits Rain Dogs.
and that is one amazing Tom Waits album. I didn't realize that was 16 years in for him.
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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.
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Which actually portends well for us Wilco fans, as he won't be limited to writing about one middle-aged balding guy with an expanding waistline.
Ouch~! (from both Jeff and me)
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I think you need to listen to the album a little bit more before making such generalizations. I think a lot of the songs that you think are boring, are really great folk songs.
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....
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Art of Almost is the best opener I've heard on an album in a very long time.
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At the show. They went on late on the final night of a four day festival. Many people had gone. It had rained two hours earlier. So the energy level was low. The show itself was fine. Very standard these days. Tweedy said they hadn't practiced. All he meant, I thought, was that they were only prepared to play the usual stuff, which they did. They are a great band, but the usual stuff, for all its greatness, is getting somewhat stale (if you've seen them a bunch of times, which I have). When are we going to hear the new songs?
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
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I do think a clean shaven Tweedy with blue glasses would go a long ways toward ruining one's enjoyment of anything post Tupelo.
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Just heard INDIANA gov. Mitch Daniels on NPR this morning talking about the issues in his state and his thought processes behind it all. And, I have to say, the guy makes sense. I don't agree with a lot of what he said, but at least he comes off as sane and knowledgeable about the issues. This is a guy that I would listen to. This appears to be a guy that seems to be open to reasonable debate. Whether he is or not, is another matter. But I can see this guy making a serious run at the presidency in '12. And, as a lifelong Democrat (and child of the labor unions), I am willing to hear him out. There are actual ideas there.
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.
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Easy, folks. Blood isn't healthy to thirst for, especially if you want to put yourself on a higher moral plain than Gaddafi.
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.
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Easy, folks. Blood isn't healthy to thirst for, especially if you want to put yourself on a higher moral plain than Gaddafi.
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.
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Thanks, I feel better already....
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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.
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Anyone my age who is depending on social security being around for retirement is a fool. Like any other expense in life, retirement should be something you budget for, and you shouldn't depend on any outside help. Anything you should happen to get will be an orange-slice garnish to the main course.
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 bad teachers. But financially, teachers aren't getting that good of a deal, and yet they've agreed to accept the financial changes Walker is looking for. Still, he won't move an inch on his end on the collective bargaining issue. I tried to call him to discuss places to visit when he goes to California on the Koch brothers nickel after wining this battle, but for some reason he didn't take my call. I guess he's gotten more cautious.
And another rant: I still don't understand why the deficit hawks seem to have absolutely no problem with unnecessary expensive wars.
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I think Wilco would be an awesome closer, but I understand your sentiments, it reminded me of the Woodstock in '94, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers played a smoking set that had the crowd pumped, then Peter Gabriel came out to close the weekend, now personally I love Gabriel, however looking around at the crowd I could see I was in the clear minority, tons of people flocked to the exits, and most of the rest spent their time during his set packing up, it was a bit a of a let down.
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.
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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.
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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. Sir Rahm seems to be right in this mold. The Daley dynasty is a tough act to follow.
As for the Tweedy show, you pay your money and you take your chance.....or you don't.
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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.
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You forgot the attempt at Monkberry Moon Delight, which I will have to learn to play myself, now.
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~!
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Sunday in Chicago and Tuesday in Milwaukee for me - I'm looking forward to it!
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?!?
Official reviews of The Whole Love
in Just A Fan
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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 critically acclaimed by diehard Wilco fans. But it was fun. Just look at the cover art of the camel on the deck near Mader’s classic German restaurant in Milwaukee, with the birthday hats and cake. Also, who would have the nerve to put Wilco (the Song) on an album? I’ll give them credit for that, and understood the farcical nature of it after seeing them debut it on Stephen Colbert, when the lines ‘Wilco love you baby’ became ‘Stephen loves you baby’. There were some fine moments. Black Bull Nova was as intense of a song as Jeff Tweedy has ever written.
This album is different, and is bound to get more critical acclaim from fans and the media alike. I love how many diverse musical roots come together in it. I hear influences from recent collaborations with Mavis Staples and Neil Finn, as well as many threads reaching back to earlier Wilco and Uncle Tupelo. I was reminded several times of the sounds of Summerteeth, which was released more than 10 years ago. It also is the most Beatlesque album they’ve ever made. Listen to the guitar riffs on the dramatic finish to 'Born Alone', for example, that reminded me of the end of 'I Am the Walrus'. 'The Whole Love' reaches from those early roots to songs you perhaps couldn’t imagine them doing before, including the opener, ‘Art of Almost’.
‘Art of Almost’ may surpass ‘At Least that’s What You Said’ as the best start to Wilco album. That’s a tough call, as those who share my love for the latter will understand. On 'Art of Almost', the techno beat that comes in early might make some long term fans worried, but they won’t be by the end of the song. By then, with sounds ranging from vintage moog flourishes to guitar god guitar shredding, I was loving the messy breakdown nature of it all. Listen to John Stirratt’s bass on this song, and you’ll wonder what school he attended lately, as I’ve never heard him sound like this. He really shines on this album, with his lines on the next song, ‘I Might’, a high point of the album. I kept thinking of Paul McCartney’s forward bass on Revolver and Rubber Soul.
An album that opens so well also closes well, with ‘One Sunday Morning’. This is the song that I would want Jeff Tweedy write, if I could imagine it in the first place. It ties it all together, beyond just this album, going back to his roots. Everyone I’ve talked to who has heard this song brings it down to one word: “beautiful”. It’s the shortest twelve minute song I’ve ever heard, and I wanted to start it right back over from the beginning as soon as it ended.
As for the other 10 songs in between, there is an ocean of sound and verse that awaits you. Have fun with it.