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Fixed it for you.

Gah! This your/you're thing is plaguing American Songwriter.

Yeah, people really hate that song. I can see how the melody may alienate people, but I think the lyrics are excellent: Sunlight angles on A wooden floor at dawn A ceiling fan is on Chopping up my dreams I dig it.

Hey, it's worth a shot, but I think the request thing is one of the "perks" of being the first 20 or 30 in line.

I haven't visited the list since about #12, but his commentary on Hummingbird is just awful. They "emerged from their cocoon"? And Tweedy "can't keep still when he sings it, often breaking out the dance moves, like a hummingbird himself"? I think those could more aptly be described as his I'm-a-guitar-player-without-my-guitar-what-do-I-do? moves. Either way, his write-ups each day say almost nothing about the songs. I do like Hummingbird a lot, though. The lyrics, rhythm, arrangement, and especially the en masse singalongs at live shows. That's one of my favorite tracks to listen to fr

Damn, 3 hours? I bet it felt like five. (I JEST!) Yep, I'm totally with you: "It would [be] nice if they [had] more time." Always.

Sir Stewart disarms people around here all the time. It's fantastic.

I have never really liked this song, and I can't articulate specifically why. I guess the melody just doesn't do it for me.

Sounds like a great show, and two hours is a really long festival set. Even when they headlined Saturday night of Lolla last year, they only got an hour and a half. But why leave the stage and play the obligatory encore game when they can stick to it and get in at least one additional song with the time they save? You DID see an encore, there just wasn't an unnecessary break before it.

I posted the link, and I missed it, too! It's nice to see it made a setlist. Now I can hold out hope that it will be on the setlist of a show I attend.

I'm assuming no regular posters were at the show or kept track of the setlist. Have you searched anywhere else for it? A quick Google search and I found it quite easily. http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/poplife/2009/07/24/wilco-at-10000-lakes-fest/

They don't carry SPIN at the local Target, Walmart, or Waldenbooks. W(tf)?

Hey Andrew. It seems like you picked an excellent show to make your first Wilco (only) show. This is a great place to feed your obsession interest. Welcome!

I think she was qualifying her love for it, saying if you're a GA fan, you may NOT like the Wex.

I know. It's hard to imagine, isn't it? However, I've enjoyed myself at shows at both venues, so the "sound thing" probably means more to others than to me. I wish some of these dates had been this summer, before it's back to the classroom. I don't foresee this being an approved field trip.

I'm curious to see what other spots they'll hit in the Midwest, but a GA floor (assuming...) show in St. Paul would be hard to miss.

I haven't been to Roy Wilkins since seeing the Crowes there in the mid-90s, but it was said in another thread that the sound there is worse than at Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee. That is shocking.

What an odd thing to find on iTunes! You can listen to the song (and his others) on lala.com. This probably goes unsaid, but it's terrible. However, if you're curious about the rest of the lyrics, they're along these lines: "Jeff Tweedy You're a rock and roll genius Jeff Tweedy You're the mastermind behind Wilco And Wilco is the best band in the world Wilco is what Radiohead wishes it could be if it wasn't so computerized and icy." ...then the Billy Bragg and record company/album lines referenced in the original post as well as an "I wonder if the record company did that on purpose to

Actually, the signs really were scary. They said the would take your camera and destroy your memory card, a chance no one wanted to take, of course. The irony is that once Wilco took the stage, there wasn't a red security shirt to be seen up front. (Evidence of such: two-time stage diver, two "surprise guests" on CA Stars, people in front of the rail on the far end of the stage, etc.) Of course, once the show was over, security was back in full force: "OutSIDE people! Let's go! Unless you're buying something, you need to leave!"

It had to be Kicking Television, the planned closer that was replaced with I'm A Wheel. According to Wilco Base, KTV hasn't been played since May of '05. I would have loved to have heard KT; however, I have an unabashed love of "I'm A Wheel" as a closer. It's far and away my favorite way to end a night. Yes. I was reminded of that at the Pabst this spring. I love that theatre, but I love GA more. Also, a missed "Detroit-ish" mic moment last night: "Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!"

Wow. What a show, with so many highlights. Of course the chance to participate on CA Stars was...surreal. After HMD, Jeff and John had an exchange, and I assumed they were calling an audible based on crowd energy. Then John walked to the front of the stage, in front of the monitors, and said to me, "Do you want to come up and sing CA Stars with us?" Uhhhhmmmm.... I was stupefied and utterly frozen until John kindly helped me process by saying, "Can you step under the barrier?" (which was just a chest-high metal bar). He worked his way down the little line of us in front (although some

I like the appearance of "I'm Always In Love" recently.

Not to mention where the lyric falls in the song.

I'm A Wheel as a closer--I love that.

Shit.