Central Scrutinizer

Can you blow off someone who already blows?

They have their own sound but that sound is a result of influence and frame of reference. Two people can have the exact same musical influence, but they each hear something different within it. Everyone learns music by emulating ("Teach me 'Stairway to Heaven' "). From their you take your technique and tricks and you apply your own spin in the blender. One man's "chop" is another man's "puree."

I agree with the connotations. But this album -- while not pop -- certainly has the ingredients to be a crossover into mainstream "popular" attention. Reprise final has the singles they tried to eke out from Summerteeth. BBN will keep some people at a distance, but I can see their rep getting them into what arguably is the pop realm.

If you've loved every other album that Wilco has done other than AM, does that mean you loved BT, YHF and SBS, but not ST, AGIB and W(TA)?

Wow. ... wow. These seem rather elaborate. And expensive. Discwasher has always worked pretty well for me -- and they're available at Best Buy.

Actually, chord-wise, it sounds like My Sweet Lord upside down. If you break up most of their songs -- or most songs for that matter -- you'll find snippets of other songs, other artists, passages, runs, figures, leads from other songs. A mosaic of experienced music because that's where the artist is coming from and that's where the listener's coming from. You recognize something that's similiar based on your experience. Simple scales, a limited range of instruments, millions of artists over the years. You do what you can do.

The only music plagiarism I've ever accused Wilco of was copying the theme from Sesame Street for "Outtamind (Outta Site). (the music, not the lyrics -- imagine messed up kids singing "Outtamind (Outta Site)" to the Sesame Street theme. It's like an anti-Barney song).

"... he explained to police officers arriving at the scene ..."

I saw that mentioned recently and can't believe it. Was that documented somewhere from a band member? What does that provide for the Bennett vs. Cline debate?

A typical case, whom we shall refer to as Mr A, although his real name is this: Voice Over: (and CAPTION) ARTHUR JACKSON 32A MILTON AVENUE, HOUNSLOW, MIDDLESEX.

I think the ultimate Wilco joke would be to cobble together enough songs -- not releasing "extras" -- and trumpet a new album, send around promos and two months after it leaks, release the real album (with the extras as, well, extras).

... so pop in "She's a Jar."

I picked up one of his stick ideas from his web site -- cut a superball in half and run a skewer through it, you drag it over the drumhead and it makes this haunting moan.

I think John Stirratt has a take on his harmonies that has been as much of Wilco's sound as anything else. He is the perfect counterpoint to Tweedy -- when backing vocals are needed. I wouldn't change a thing in that regards. They've expanded upon it when need be for the sound (Summerteeth, and with a few of the new tracks).

From a sound engineering standpoint, I would love to know how they Kotche got the cymbal effect he did on Leave Me Like You Found Me on SBS and at the beginning of Deeper Down, where he's lightly hitting the ride but there's like immediate decay of the cymbal ring. I've tried to get it by touching the cymbal, but it deadens it too much. amazing stuff.

On SBS it had to be a conscious effort to include that "hiss." Because it still had to be digitally mastered.

Pre-order sez single disk.

Wow. I found Waldo.

With/without tracking problems?

GREAT FIRST POST!

Nah, I thought about that before posting, and I think there's a flow to BT and the way some songs interrelate. Can't offer an example, but it goes back to a "feel" on first listen. Even when tracks attempt to begin or end disjointed (Why Would You Want to Live) there's always at least a natural flow of tempo. I think there's "logic" to the tracking of W(TA), but it's more of necessity. For instance, Glenn Kotche could have farted the drum part for You and I and people would have smiled and welcomed the song, simply because of the release from the tension of BBN. Listening to that song on it'