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    Pitchfork Review of AMF & WY20

    in Just A Fan

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    What's most interesting to me is the praise given to AGIB - a record regularly dismissed by the folks at Pitchfork - particularly with regards to Jeff's lead guitar work. Reviews of follow-up records even went so far as to point out how AGIB is Wilco's most difficult record.

     

    AMF/What's your 20 review

     

    Later on, Bennett’s ouster would lead Tweedy to flex his lead-guitar muscle on the brilliant A Ghost Is Born. And it’s this middle period filled with personnel switches and personal tumult—Summerteeth, Foxtrot, and Ghost—that still stands as their greatest work ... Tweedy’s stunning distorted guitar work—oddly one of the band’s most underutilized assets ... The sheer emotional audacity of these solos cannot be overstated; 21st-century rock guitar does not get better than this ... After figuring out how to get the most out of abstracting his lyrics and arrangements on Foxtrot, Tweedy did himself one better by eliminating language altogether on large swaths of Ghost, replacing it with six-string bursts that said just as much, if not more.

     

     

    Original review of AGIB:

     

    But more than anything, Jeff Tweedy confirms the fear I've held since I was exposed to most of this new material last year during Wilco's tour-closing show: He now revels in extended guitar solos. Five of Ghost's first six songs dissolve into noisy fretboard fingerings, and it's no coincidence that this first half of the album is where most of the weaknesses lie. As a Neil Young fan, I'm no anti-soloist, but for an artist as lyrically and vocally gifted as Tweedy to resort to expressing emotions through age-old bombast and pyrotechnics, something must be gumming up the songwriting works. Three of these shut-up-and-play guitar sections come in songs so sleepy and hazy ("At Least That's What You Said", "Muzzle of Bees", "Hell Is Chrome") that they practically invite idle speculation about Tweedy's prehab pill regimen. Sluggish and flat, they're the opposite of the idea-packed YHF material, with the affected quirks that fill out the arrangements unable to dispel the overall grogginess.

    I'll assume different authors?

    The Pearl Jam Thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I hate to write this, but good grief this new Pearl Jam album is disappointing. I hung with them until the Self-Titled album but with that, Backspacer, and now this mess  I think I'm done. They are now as boring as all the crappy bands that came out emulating them. Again, I'm a long-time fan but I can't get over how simply bland this album is. I don't know exactly what the issue is but I think they need to get in a room and listen to "No Code" about 50 times for some musical inspiration. "Binaural" and "Riot Act" are like avant-garde masterpieces compared to this stuff.

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I can't honestly think of one show that ws "bad," top to bottom, save for (possibly) my last one at Giant's in '95. There were always good things out of mediocre shows, even.

     

    I always think about the last shows at Soldier Field in '95. Jerry was completely gone for 99% of them but then he pulled off that Visions of Johanna (7-8) and the So Many Roads (7-9). Two of the best vocals I've ever heard him do. So bittersweet.......

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I wouldn't actually say I have ever written off an entire era of Dead, but my "go-to" stuff is mainly from '69 to about '83. If someone directs me to an outstanding performance, I'll check it out, but I won't sit down and listen to an entire show from towards the end. It just really, really bums me out, 'cause I loved ol' Jer. Maybe I'm just a pussy. :lol

     

    Owning hundreds of shows in various formats, my favorite thing to do now is go the their main Archive.org page and select "shows on this day in history" and just randomly play stuff from the shows that pop up. They had good shows and bad, but there are always gems to be had in each show in each year. Amazing band.....no doubt.

    Am I the last to know that The Replacements are playing shows?

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Just....wow!

     

    Setlist: The Replacements, Riot Fest, Toronto, ON, Canada

    1. “Takin’ a Ride”
    2. “I’m in Trouble”
    3. “Favorite Thing”
    4. “Hanging Downtown”
    5. “Color Me Impressed”
    6. “Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out”
    7. “Kiss Me On the Bus”
    8. “Androgynous”
    9. “Achin’ to Be”
    10. “I Will Dare”
    11. “Love You ‘Til Friday” (w/ Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene”)
    12. “Merry Go Round”
    13. “Wake Up”
    14. “Borstal Breakout” (Sham 69 cover)
    15. “Little Mascara”
    16. “Left of the Dial”
    17. “Alex Chilton”
    18. “Swingin Party” (“Special request from our friend Slim back home”)
    19. “Can’t Hardly Wait”
    20. “Bastards of Young”

    21. “Everything is Coming Up Roses” (From ‘Songs For Slim’ EP)
    22. “IOU”

    My Morning Jacket...

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

     I'm interested in MMJ fans' thoughts--do you think I'm off base?

     

    I really don't think they sound like any other band at all. I couldn't think of one to compare them to at all to be honest. They are obviously "classic rock" (Zeppelin,The Band) influenced, but Jim James does his own thing that I feel is totally unique. I described his solo album as a mash up of Bowie and Hall and Oats but even that is a felling he evokes more then an actual sound.

    AmericanaramA 20-Farm Bureau Live At Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach, VA 7/24/13

    in After The Show

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    Typical Dylan, in some ways -- or maybe I'm unfairly judging -- to save a collaboration that a lot of people would love to see for a mid-week show in the most generic of sheds that didn't even open up its lawn section because too few people showed up (around 4,000, I heard, though I bet it was considerably less by the time Dylan went on).

     

     

    Do you honestly think they pay attention and make setlists according to ticket sales or even location? I doubt Bob knows what city he's in most nights ;-)

    The Band

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Arranged by Allen Toussaint if memory serves me.  Also this album was not well received on release either.  Its a good one though. Do find the CD release (which is also pretty cheap I bet) because the Dylan material is interesting. 

     

    LouieB

     

    Right about the Toussaint. Was it really not well received? I just can't believe that....its so good!

    The Grateful Dead

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    My thinking is that they will wait until after the theater showing (August 1?), and then start marketing it for home release. Psyched to learn this, exactly what I was hoping for when they announced the theater showing. I've had what circulates of SD for many years, first on VHS, will be very glad to get a professional release. What a field trip, what a performance!

     

    I just pray it has the Bird Song as a bonus. That's by far my favorite version and to have it on video would be mindblowing.

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