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This is what I thought too.

I decided to go ahead and check out the stream. After two listens, my most immediate reaction is that The Whole Love is the best record this lineup has made. I've been listening on headphones and have really enjoyed the dense, lush layers of sound. I think it's the best-produced and most solid set of songs I've heard from this incarnation of the band. I enjoy quite a bit from the last two records. SBS was my first "new" Wilco record. There were parts that grabbed me immediately and others that took time to grow. W(TA) didn't generate as passionate of a response, and took even more time to gr

I remember the the stream for SBS and W(TA) being set up just like the albums are on the website now. You can start the first track and it'll play right through, and you have the option to jump to any other song if you wish...

It is strange. I feel that I'm usually on the late end of receiving the updates, sometimes days after they've already been shared here.

TWL > W(TA)

Got the notice in an official Wilco HQ email. Mentioned hur and hur.

I love just about everything he's producing these days, whether it's from the usual sports angle or any other topic. Great writer. His music posts on his blog are great, actually. He did a piece a while back when the Darkness on the Edge of Town reissue was coming out that brought me to tears. I loved that line too.

Oh, I agree. I suppose I meant I'd try to slip away sometime during the 4-5 hours before the game and give it a listen in the car...but I'm not gonna be that guy.

Well now you all can hear it beginning tomorrow. Greetings and happy Labor Day weekend in the U.S., happy late summer to those of you in the rest of the world. We've got a few announcements and then we're gonna get out of here and fire up the grills for what could be the last time this summer as a world tour awaits. So with that in mind, (Glenn: a drumroll please) here is the next group of North American tour dates. Ticketing info will follow in a week or so. Nov. 29: Dallas TX Music Hall at Fair Park Dec. 1: Austin TX Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater Dec. 3: Kansas Cit

I just got the email. It's legit, and I'm a little sad that I'm gonna miss it. Will be tailgating all day tomorrow and will be overruled if I try to stream it then...

Screaming Cheetah Wheelies.

KC baby! Yes. Hope to take my older brother -- got him into the band about a year or so ago and he needs to pop his live Wilco cherry.

From a '97 Wilco bootleg when they're playing "ask Wilco 20 questions" on stage during a song -- Jay Bennett said in response to "worst band name" -- "Orange Wallet."

I won't reveal his choice, or his top 5, but thought it'd spark some dialogue... http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2011/09/best-band-name-ever.html

"Pot Kettle Black" in the shuffle at a pub in Manhattan, Kan.

MMJ plays Circuital live, in its entirety, with a few other favorites. KCRW session. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/31/140085443/kcrw-presents-my-morning-jacket

Bieber. Hmph. I hate that chick.

Agree 100%

I use mine on an Epiphone acoustic-electric, which has the 1/4" jack input on the end for a strap button. It's a bit of a challenge to get the strap to fit over that. It can be done, but it's not super secure. I'm working on fixing it...

I've got one in blue/green!

Sounds like just about every piece that was written about The Beatles when the remasters came out...

Does everyone think that? I think songs like "Either Way" and "What Light" are 100% straightforward = easy, mellow tracks. No dissonance, no squalling noise, no strange chords, nothing too risky. And not everything in Wilco has to have those attributes. I enjoy my Sky Blue-Vanilla Sky, and the more complex flavors of other records. Are the songs half-finished? Perhaps. Perhaps SBS could have benefited a bit more from less playing, "thinner" (read: less instrumentation) arrangements? It's a good one.

I think it was just as much of a risk for Wilco to make a more straightforward record than doing what many expected of them and make an "experimental" record, whatever the hell that overused term means. The results of SBS were mixed and its reception was mixed. In a sense, to me, it was much like one of the other Wilco records that consistently shows up at the bottom of people's lists -- A.M. -- in that the record was made by a group of guys trying to figure out the next step for the band and find some common ground, learning each other's style, taste, and approach to making music.

Yes, I know. I was making a joke that one song is considered "enough." That's probably the best whistle solo.