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no, no, no. this stuff is very important. I have always felt that initial impressions make a lasting impact on the music. My first impression is cover art my second is album title and then the first note of song 1. For example I always felt AGIB was trying too hard to be experimental (if I could come up with a complaint) I believe my impression came from the stupid/pretenious album title. I can't even tell if i'm being serious.

Yeah they are reclusive little buggers. I usually find at least one Folkways album in any decent used record store, but hands down, the best collection I have ever seen was in a record store in Chicago around 2003 (don't remember the name of store of course). They had a ton of New Lost City Ramblers and a few Woody Guthrie records. I picked up Bound For Glory and Songs of the Depression that day. Anyway, cool place and reasonably priced. Ebay has a decent amount usually available also. I just wish I was in to this back when all the public library's let go of their vinyl. Damn can you im

On the website they have all the original artwork posted under folkways records. Most titles also have downloads of original liner note booklets.

Amazing! There are about 50 people on this board who are in bands and want to use this title.

Is this the same guy who did the Wilco Over/Under? I'll tell you, I got enjoyment out of that list and I enjoyed this one also. I like his style, it is off the cuff and reminds me of rants I would go on in college about Matchbox 20 or something like that worshipped by my roommates. His Trapezoid 11 band name is spot on (cmon admit it this guy if funny). All of that being said, wasn't on board in the early 80's (i was 5) and never really got into REM until mid 90's (at their height). I still think that UP is super undervalued. "At My Most Beautiful" is astonishing (even if it is blatant B

Well, I'm a Folkways collector (the vinyl variety) and I just recently revisited the Smithsonian Folkways website. The whole spirit of Mo Asch (founder of the label) was too never let the some 2000 titles to ever go out of print. Well you can go on the website and get digital downloads of alot of the albums for I Tunes prices. Anyway, cool site. My rule of thumb when at a record store. If I see a folkways record I buy it. (Even a Pete Seeger one)

Thanks for pointing this out. Caused me to look up the meaning of Conscript (yes poor vocabulary) Anyway, sounds good to me. Basing any opinion off of something read in Rolling Stone would be a scary in and of itself.

No opinion on the new album, not a huge fan of this band because of one main reason and that is Colin Meloy's over the top singing. (it just grates on me and I can't help that type of thing). However I read his book in the 33 1/3 series about the Replacements Let It Be and I enjoyed that read. Singing voice has always been the one thing in music I can't work around. It either feels ok to me or it doesn't and that type of voice just doesn't for me.

The perfect example of how the wrong type of marketing can ruin a band. At the core, great songs, great lead singer, great great great. They willingly (i think) allowed themselves to become genre driven, image driven, prostituted out to the point where people immediately chuckle now when they are mentioned. Kind of sad.

www.aquariumdrunkard.com little write up on the blog

If your issues relate to going through week long obsessions with a musician that leads to your searching your local record shops for anything of theirs on vinyl in some weird compulsive fashion and then going to wikipedia and other internet sources for any information you can find on the musician and then you try to get your wife to equally get into the musician by playing/and or watching DVD's about the musician during your week of obsessiveness. You might even go the musicians website and think about buying a t shirt. yeah, I think you are alone and I think you have it bad.

Heard It Through The Grapevine (CCR) so long, so boring, every time it comes on I think to myself that I just can't do it, I can't.

Anything but this, please!

The Last Time I Saw You, You Were Dressed In White, You Looked Like An Angel, I Fell In Love That Night (if they wanted to get more pretentious than they already are sometimes)

explosions in the sky All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

Since we are all here waiting in suspense for any new album news. Why don't we calm our antsy pants with a game of who can come the closest to the album title. The winner will get nothing more than praise and a attaboy or attagirl but it will feel good. I predict the new Wilco record will be titled: Wilco Loves You! (exclimation included for sure) my second pick is: Wilco Criss Cross Applesauce

The glass half empty people on this particular thread crack me up. If the worse case scenario is an album that sounds like AM, then we all really need more to worry about. Maybe I'm a glass half empty person for being annoyed by those worried about another safe SBS album and ignoring those who actually are excited about the new record that we all still have not heard.

It is like Neil got caught between a Dylan like Bootleg series and this huge archives project, but it is stupid none the less. those who are hardcore and are going to shelve out the money have already purchased Massey and Fillmore. Does anyone know someone who refused to get these upon their release waiting for the Archives? Anyway, I'm looking forward to Vol. 2 with homegrown and chrome dreams and all of that, but we are now talking as if Vol 1 is really going to happen. Bottom line Neil runs the risk of releasing this to a big round of "Who freaking cares?" And that will be his or his

This is kind of mind boggling. For the price and size of the set, why not release every album recorded during this time frame and then a few records full of all the unreleased stuff. Having a mono copy of some song does little for me. I think Neil struggles to see that the normal hard core Neil Young fan loves the music and not necessarily the audio aspect (I could be wrong on this). The Buff Springfield Box was weighted down by this mono/stereo stuff. Anyway, the song selection and the reason for specific songs/versions seems largely arbitrary. The real benefit of this set will most lik

I was wrong, I must have been in a weird space, this album is beautiful

The one with Smoke Rings In The Dark

this helped on a Monday! Thank you!

I always get upset by today's country (nashville country) because country music at it's purest form is my favorite kind of music. Listening to the Carter Family, Hank, Merle or old Folkways records reminds me of what this music can be and everything is isn't today. And it is sad that mainstream doesn't even try to advance it as an artform. But I take comfort in owning country music that has been made in the last 20 years that has advanced the tradition. Everything from UT's Anodyne to BPB Sings Palace Music remind me that the ball can keep on rolling. With the exception of one Gary Allan