Shakespeare In The Alley

Yup. All pretty good songs too. My favorite band is called Super Furry Animals, so I obviously like my musicians to have a sense of humor. Goofy is a terrible way to describe injecting a bit of humor in music, but nothing needs to be serious all the time.

So, just curious, do you ever enjoy non-serious (or what some might call "goofy"?) music?

I'm aware, yes. Pretty neat though.

So is it the lyrics in Holdin' On that people aren't digging? Musically I think it's a pretty neat soul throwback. Would've thought that'd go over real well here.

But what does any of that have to do with expressing negative feelings about a band you still love, and why that's so terrible to have happen?

Merging two discussions here, I can't stand the Radiohead forum on atease because there's no discussion, just endless fanboy masturbation. This place has discussion, which is the whole point of a board. Not sure why so many people are opposed to that idea.

I've never heavily posted in a Radiohead section of that board. I dig the band, but the last place I'd want to discuss their music is a place filled with superfans. The best Radiohead discussions I've seen on atease are in the non-Radiohead music forum. Because that band's not perfect, and the super fans can't seem to accept that. A Radiohead discussion in the non-Radiohead forum will be honest, even if you have to wade through some trolling. But if you want a totally non-jokey environment, the music forum has plenty of solid threads that are 100% on topic about great music.

Pop songs are basically the best things in the world if done right, so I'm not hating at all. Even songs like Spiders, I don't believe that Jeff didn't write that with melodies/other pop forms in mind.

As a 21 year old dude with school work I don't want to do, atease is my place to be. I won't deny that a lot of it sucks though. The rabid Radiohead fans there are just embarrassing. Music forum's good though. But you might wanna avoid the 1,000 page Radiohead thread if moronic jokes aren't your thing.

There's very little in the Wilco catalogue that I wouldn't consider a pop song. That's what Tweedy writes.

Seven minute pop songs exist.

But Ghost is a pop album, just like any other Wilco album.

So that means high ticket prices work out to the benefit of cash strapped fans and this thread is rendered moot.

Playing Mwng would be an easy way to shake such a bad reputation.

Is it better to piss and moan about an upcoming Wilco album or to piss and moan about how other people react to news of an upcoming Wilco album?

New song's out, on their facebook. Holdin' On To Black Metal. Love it. Jim falsetto haters might as well ignore it completely.

That was awesome.

This. I love when musicians show they don't take themselves seriously all the time.

All but 2/3 of those Foo Fighters covers are already released (on singles and whatnot) though. Apparently they're giving out a CD now with a subscription to Q. But I don't see it getting a regular release. A covers album of pretty well-known artists isn't gonna be a huge moneymaker for the band itself anyway.

If you haven't seen the video for A Touch Sensitive, check it out. It's on the Rings DVD. Really cool animation. That song is a Stooges sample, by the way. Speaking of sampling, that reminds me that there's a lot SFA's done that I'd love to see Wilco mess around with. Their careers have a good number of parallels, so hopefully Wilco has a DD/LY of their own coming soon. That album is way too refreshing to be any band's 9th.

Neil Young

DBT acoustic in-store at Plan 9 in Charlottesville about an hour ago. Ray's Automatic Weapon, Pulaski, Everybody Needs Love, Cartoon Gold, Dancing Ricky and Mercy Buckets.

I was at the Highline and Rockwood shows too. Both fantastic. And I'll be seeing Gruff solo in DC this May. He's my favorite songwriter, now or ever, and I feel privileged to get to see him twice in a year. Such a fascinating personality too. I'm pretty used to the genius musician=total asshole thing, but no one (famous or otherwise) has ever had a bad thing to say about Gruff. And the band's lineup essentially never changing since they started is a good indication of that. I like to think Gruff and the Furries will go down as a Kinks-esque band to Radiohead's (or whichever big "britpop" ba