Ranglin

Well said. I think it's an example of maybe not going back to the roots, but a band settling in, not really taking great risks, but making a solid album. Impossible German may be the best ever, and live! Oh yeah....And did someone say they didn't think Tweedy has much to say on this? Really? Are listening to the lyrics? Maybe the words are a little more straight forward but this album is filled with heart and soul. It's just another step forward in a stellar career!

You'd probably have to ask Tweedy that question, because he's the one making comments about lame audiences. Or you could probably ask the vast majority of rock bands playing live music in small or large venues. Enthusiasm-ie standing, maybe dancing, maybe giving a hoop here and there, singing a few words (please keep this to a minimum), etc. feeds the people on stage, it's just how it is. Wilco and many bands love playing in the midwest and south because the audiences are so vibrant. If somone wants to sit down for a show and is enjoying it, then fine, enjoy, but please don't have a pro

my apologies...you have some interesting points, I just think it's a great album bottom line. Take care...

definately kidding with "suck ass". But since I said it, I'll take it...

agib is definately an album which takes several listenings to appreciate I think and then boom it hits. To me, SBS is immediately appealing and continues to grow the more I listen to it. Always the one to stir a pot, I say for those of you who rip the record, you suck ass.

it's breathtakingly pathetic how some of you (perhaps those who jumped on during Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) think that Sky Blue Sky is an inferior album and a step back. Here's a band who has explored new sounds and has taken huge risks on Yankee and A Ghost...and have simply come back to the beautful roots of where they began. And, in those simple songs there's some really great exploring. This album is about taking the moment, what you feel, what your experience is at a given time, how the given circumstances of life our shaping your world and putting all of this into a really fantastic album,

I wouldn't have a problem with your mom sitting either, but hopefully if I'm sitting right in front of her I can stand up the entire show.

Sir, the problem is when you have an entire audience sitting down for a show. Jeff Tweedy hates that crap and often comments during shows about unenthusiastic audiences. Bands love energy, they feed on it and many times use it to inspire great performances. What rock band wants to play in front of a sitting audience? IT IS ABOUT YOU SIR! IT'S ABOUT US AS FANS! So I say, if you want to sit, then fine, but please don't mind if I shake my ass in front of your face all night along, singing to the band, throwing my arms up, jumping up and down, and obstructing your view, because if you ask me

Much better than Sky Blue Sky? I'm sorry you don't appreciate a really great album more, there's real beauty in simplicity. I've seen Wilco in Chicago, New York, and now L.A. over the last ten years, and they're better than ever. Unfortunately, the L.A. crowd sucked. If you want to sit down for an entire Wilco show, do me a favor, stay home and watch PBS and discuss the benefits of comunism with your psuedo intellectual snobbish hipster urbanite dirt bag friends. And please, don't ever ask me to sit down because when I'm feeling the music I gosta move! Again, this band is stellar and I c