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I am interested to see what the reaction to this movie is going to be - I am predicting the same polarizing effect that Moulin Rouge had - some will love it, some will hate it, some won't get it.

thank you

Anyone have a copy of this song from the Roadcase show? It is absolutely beautiful.

Please help me out.

Thanks.

I was wondering if anyone has recorded the rest of the Duluth show from Roadcase and if so, would they be willing link some mp3's of the songs. I know that supposedly Wilcoworld has not posted the entire show, but what they have posted, i'd love to get a copy.

Word on the street is that this winter there is going to be a new ipod where the entire front is a video screen and the menu buttons pop up on the screen.

if the video function is important to you, you may want to wait until Christmas time.

i've had my 3rd generation 40 GB ipod for 3 years now. it's just starting to give me issues (based on the amount i've used it, i'm assuming normal wear and tear).

i love my ipod - i can only speak on their behalf. i think you would be very happy if you got one.

Is she treating you differently since it all went down? I'm really curious about this. Has she changed to the point where you could honestly accuse her of trying to make you feel guilty? Or is it all in your head?

I don't mean to sound harsh, but my first reaction to your post was thinking how immature you sound. Are you really in love? It doesn't sound like it to me. It sounds like you were in lust and infactuated and in love with the idea of being in love. But based upon what you are feeling and experiencing right now, I am a little skeptical - I mean, how could real and true love be on such shaky ground that one horrible experience undermines it?

If you can't deal with the emotional stuff, you're screwed one way or another, because true love and lasting love is full of emotion. I think ultimately you're screwed, and I can't help but think it's nobody's fault but maybe your own. A part of me thinks you can't handle conflict or conflict resolution. Now that the relationship with more grounded in reality and not floating in the clouds, how content are you?

If you break up with her, you're going to hate yourself because you let her get away. If you stay with her, chances are you're not going to be able to shake these feelings. Either way, it sounds like the relationship has surpassed your carnal interest.

Maybe I'm wrong, and I really don't want to sound judgmental or preachy (although I'm sure I do and people will call me on it). Bottom line, you made an ass of yourself and it could'nt have been at a worst time. What a dream vacation and trip. To have it ruined so carelessly probably undermined some of what she thought about you prior to Vegas. She too is probably dealing with the reality that your relationship has come down from the mountaintop high. Can you two survive and even thrive in the real world of long-term relationships? Obviously, she got drunk too - but it sounds like for the most part you are in the blame for this situation.

What'cha gonna do?

so anyhow,

yesterday i was at the dentist office for nearly 3 hours and over the course of the visit 3 Wilco songs were played over the office speakers, Hummingbird, California Stars, and What's the World Got in Store. It was very surreal to Hear Hummingbird as they drilled into one of my front teeth.

I was wondering about everyone else ... where is the weirdest place you've heard Wilco's music played ... and you can't say a location where you or your friends played their music but rather an office, a business building, or something along those lines.

I wonder how this came across to Lance, Justin talking about homosexuality with such disregard - so soon after he publicly supported his former bandmate's coming out.

Seems weird to me.

I really liked him as an actor.

Very underrated. It's too bad.

I hope more people here chime in on him.

The show was fantastic. I brought a newbie and he really enjoyed the experience.

To me, What Light sounded fantastic as both an opener and as an acoustic number. He basically sang it the way he's played it with the band (same key, not higher or lower). If the new material is more carefree and straightforward, I think this should open the album.

The show was short and I was disappointed when he didn't come back for an encore with still 20 minutes before 11:00 p.m.

What an unique venue and experience - a solo acoustic outdoor amphitheatre with the lawn only 50 feet away. I liked that I could sit and still be only about 20 feet from him.

Walken sounded fantastic last night. I've heard the Living Room version and wasn't that impressed, but he really pulled it off. His guitar playing is underrated in my opinion.

To me, it really seems as though Jeff is intentionally incorporating a spiritual element to his shows more so than in the past. Perhaps I am reaching, but he opens with What Light? and also plays ... The Ruling Class, Theologians, Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down, In Christ There Is No East or West, and Airline to Heaven.

I am thankful that Jeff did a solo acoustic show in NC. I got to hear several songs that I never believed I'd witness being played live. I'd love for him to come back, but I'm not holding my breath.

A big shoutout to the venue for keeping the refreshments reasonable. I drove all the way from Charlotte, so no beer or wine, but you can't beat bottled water for $1. Classy.

It's funny to call the Black Eyed Peas sell-outs because that would indicate at some point they were artistically and musically legit. Many may disagree with me, but I have always found them to be an industry product in the same vein as the Backstreet Boys and In-Sync, though not to their extremes.

Did they ever have credibility in the community of musicians? I don't know.

Maybe I'm way off.

I can't wait for the next album. Personally, I think Jeff took the inward tortured lyrics as far as they could go for three straight albums - it's time to approach his lyrics from a different angle. Summerteeth - YHF - & then AGIB. That's quite a run. It makes me think of how John Wesley Harding was such a departure from Bringing It All Back Home - Highway 61 Revisited - & Blonde on Blonde. I find Jeff's lyrics to still be top notch, just not as cryptic. Much more straightforward and perhaps literal. To me, that's just as difficult - making straightforward and literal lyrics interesting and compelling, because often you are taking away some of the mystery or openendedness of the lyrics. This may be unrelated, but as a husband and parent, I also sense in myself moving away from some of the moodier music that I once pledge my tastes toward. I like the idea of being able to sing a Wilco album to my two daughters without editing or thinking I'm going to bum them out. I want Jeff to sing about being happy and I want us to all be able to sing about his happiness and our own. And judging from his track record, I doubt he'll stay in this mood for very long.

Plus, I can't to see how the entire album holds together as a cohesive piece of art versus individual songs we've only heard in a concert setting. I want to hear what Nels does in a studio with Wilco.

I hope What Light, Walken, Impossible Germany, & the Good Part make the next album. I don't yet know what to think of Let's Fight & On and On and On. However, if AGIB is any indicator, the best is yet to come.

I remember when I first heard Theologians at Jeff's acoustic show, I wasn't too impressed ... ditto with Company In My Back. Both made radical leaps when they showed up in finished form on the album. When Wilco played Muzzle of Bees in the spring of '04, I also thought it had promised but certainly was far from being excellent. The album version is leaps and bounds better in my opinion. This may be heresy here, but I thought the early version of Hummingbird was musically stagnant and uninteresting. The transformation the music took in the studio completely blew me away. Hell Is Chrome is probably tied with Theologians as my favorite cut from that album, and I don't think they played it once before the album was released (correct me if I'm wrong). So there are still plenty of aces up their sleeves. And of course, I didn't recognize Spiders (Kidsmoke) from all the concert versions I had gotten accustomed to and would have never predicted the metamorphis it experienced.

So I'm licking my fingers to see what genius transformation occurs between now and when the album comes out. I'm also silently making predictions of what might not make it on the proper album that was played live beforehand (aka, Kicking Television, Words, Panthers). So maybe some of what some of us consider weaker efforts may not make it on the album (maybe Wilco tires of it before it ever lays down a proper studio track).

I can't imagine Dylan without John Wesley Harding or Nashville Skyline. If that's the direction Wilco is taking ... I'll follow.

1. Automatic For The People

2. New Adventures in Hi-Fi

3. Life's Rich Pageant

what existing software or programs do you need for it to actually work?

Stan, the soundboard man, isn't allowing SBD feeds until the new material is released.

 

So, there are none.

I'm talking about the webcast that is now archived on the Roadcase. Has anyone recorded it off their website, and if so, can you share an mp3 copy of it?

I really love Paul Simon. I think he's one of the greatest lyricists of all-time. That being said, his recent shows (including his reunion tour with Art) have been pretty boring to me. I find that all the songs have been slowed down to the point that a lot of them lose some of the momentum. Nevertheless, that's a small complaint for a man in his twilight years as a performer.

hello,

i was wondering if anyone had a copy of the deloof show that is being posted on Wilco's roadcase? i have the audience recording, but i'd love to have a copy of the soundboard as well. i understand that it has not all been posted yet, and perhaps someone is waiting for it to all be made available before they torrent it, but I'm actually looking just for an mp3 copy right now of what is being posted.

Can anyone help me out?

thanks.

I like AGIB a lot. I still listen mostly to the live concerts, but I appreciate the subtle nuances of the studio versions. They tend to be quieter and more delicate, where the live versions are more aggresive.

That said, I'm currently listening to other stuff. I over listened to Wilco - I need some distance.

Going to Jeff's solo show in Raleigh, so I want to wet my appetite for that.

Is anyone going to make a Matrix mix with the audience recording as well?

No can do dude: http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?act...unce&f=24&id=12

Someone can alway PM me a link and not post it in the forum

if anyone cares to YSI, drop me a line - i might be able to help out any golden smogless persons...

I would be grateful if someone could post a YSI link.

These lists are so annoying. No one's a bigger Wilco fan than me, but I guarantee that even Jeff would think this list is preposterous. You would put Jeff Tweedy ahead of the guy who wrote Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let it Be, Long and Winding Road, I Saw Her Standing There, etc. etc. etc.? Seriously?

 

Not to mention - Brian Wilson? Mick Jagger? Really?

 

Also, this is a list of living songwriters - so no John Lennon.

If you reread my post, you may catch that I was talking about putting Paul Simon above Paul McCartney, not Jeff Tweedy. My intentions more than anything was a shout-out to Paul Simon, not to elevate Jeff or diminish Paul McCartney. And, I'm no expert on the Beatles, but how many lyrics are undisputably (or is it indisputably?) only Paul McCartney's words. I tend to put them together for the Beatles catalog. Consequently, I would have difficulty putting Paul McCartney in the top five unless it was alongside his Beatles writing partner. That's all I was saying.

Once again, in terms of chart position, I was talking about Paul Simon, not Jeff Tweedy. I personally can't argue the reputations of either Brian Wilson or Mick Jagger or their place in history. With that, however, I've always thought of Brian Wilson in terms of music genius, not strictly songwriting. Mick, I'm not that big of a Rolling Stones fan, so I couldn't give a balanced opinion of his merits. Needless to say, the Stones' place in history assures him a place in front of Jeff at this point no matter how much I love Jeff or how little I listen to the Stones.

And you are right about the living songwriters part - I was going by the spirit of the law, not the letter of the law.

Considering that Jeff is the youngest artist on that list, I think it speaks volumes to how the readers of Paste view his musical contributions and legacy. I mean, I've always thought Jeff was one of the best songwriters of his generation and was slowly making his mark with the all-time elite club, but to have so many others think the same thing - well, that's comforting. I may switch the order a bit here and there (and maybe add one or two others), but I really have no qualms about the other people on this list. They all deserve to be in the top 25.

I'm glad that Paul Simon was high on the list. His last few albums have not been earthshattering, but they've been consistently good and he always amazes me with his lyrics and rhyme schemes. I personally would have put him above Paul McCartney, but how can you argue with putting one of the two Beatles above him? Incidently, I'd only put Paul in the top five with John Lennon. It is their collaborations that rank near the top.

BTW, can anyone post the editors' list?