Synthesizer Patel

I've gotta pick this up asap. I'm not a massive fan, but I certainly like them enough to buy the album, I've got an mp3 copy of it, but for some reason I've only played it once - although I did like it that one time.

wow, that was a bad review, my head hurts. i've got a feeling the cokemachine review is going to be the norm for a lot of those kinds of websites (some people will say they are just contrary hipsters for this, no doubt). i'm predicting a 3.4 from pitchfork for starters. is it a backlash or is the album just not very good, you decide!

yeah, i think he thinks we don't sing and dance enough or something - not showing the band enough love. that's why i used to like going to see wilco when they played smaller venues - cos the people generally were there to hear the music, those days are gone now though; oh and we can't help it if it's more comfortable to stand with our arms crossed!

'i'll fight' is this album's 'you are my face' in that it's head and shoulders above the other songs on offer. the only down side about it is that when i listen to it i often end up thinking about how the album would have been great if all the songs had been as good as this, and if it wasn't on there maybe i could enjoy the other songs a bit more. was this one of the songs that wasn't played live before recording? i don't keep up with that sort of thing, but if it was then maybe the band should take this approach to all the songs on the next album - cos it's so much fresher sounding than th

stand up and dance at a classical concert then if that is the only way to enjoy live music. talking about movie theatres a good analogy is that it is obviously ok to laugh out loud in a movie theatre - maybe even stand up and cheer at the end - but, if you're laughing and standing up and cheering at the end of Schindler's List then it's not really the done thing. to me indie/soft rock/etc... music is sitting down and listening music - if i want to dance i'll go to a club where the people playing the music are kind enough to actually play something you can dance to. stick wilco on in a club (

i remember having to jump up and down no matter what, when i was younger, due to going to heavy metal shows. and it was horrible. i felt like i was going to die most of the time. the only way out used to be to crowd surf your way to the front, for a few minutes break, and then jump back into the crowd for some more punishment. i almost get it at those kinds of shows, but stuff like wilco or most indie bands really don't warrant that kind of behaviour, and they're just not funky/danceable/whatever-the-word is to dance to properly. if you look at the people's faces you can see in their eyes - "

see i'd say no to both singing and 'dancing' (let's call it dancing, although it's really just moving around until you're occassionally in time with the beat). do it if you are good at it, by all means. if you're not, then don't do it. my experience is that it is impossible to dance well to wilco or that type of thing, and i've never heard anyone sing in tune, but if it is some kind of a band with a beat capable of dancing to and you're not going to just jump up and down then go right ahead. by the way, question for anyone that does it: is the jumping up and down some kind of endurance test or

Wouldn't that mean you still like half of 'You Never Know'? I think the instrumentation on that song is the best on the whole album. Maybe there is room for improvement, like you say, but it's a breathe of fresh air from most of the other songs.

proper slasher movies (ie. the good ones) are actually moral tales, with very standard sets of rules - like fairytales in that sense. often the woman wins in the end, and it is the promiscuous that die.

I feel sorry for the Car - it didn't ask to get caught up in all this violence. I think the Car represents the child in this relationship, actually - or the breaking up of the Beatles - one or the other. Many Cars are in abusive relationships too - their owners get drunk and crash them all the time. Who's thinking about the Cars, people!

cool - he should give it all away for free online. he said he doesn't mind if nobody buys it, after all. crikey there is some serious treble on the high instruments (tambourine & hi hat) - what's that all about?

Company In My Back Poor Places (YHF Demo version - if I'm allowed that?) Jesus Etc I really toyed with putting I'll Fight on that list, cos it's brilliant, but I haven't had a chance to see if it'll be as good over a long period of time.

i'm saying nothing. (shit i've said something now, ... damn, i'm still doing it!)

I actually think he's writing better. But, I think the music has gone down hill. As others have said, I think he needs Jim O'Rourke or someone like that that gives the band an extra level in the arrangement/production side of things. Not Jay Bennett, although he certainly performed a similar role.

It's on my copy of the rip and to me it sounds like a fuck-up with whoever ripped it. For a start it sounds above the rest of the mix - if it is supposed to be there it sounds like digital rather than vinyl crackle.

I'd say he's a worse judge actually, seeing as how he's the person doing the art. Otherwise I'd have gotten straight A's at school for what I personally thought about my work.

I don't get why Jeff Tweedy needs to be messed up in the head to record music that is experimental. It seemed to be the stock answer when Sky Blue Sky came out and people said it wasn't very adventurous that, "it's nice to see that Jeff is happy now," like only sad artists write music as accomplished as Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Or that by saying you wished it was more adventurous, that you're wishing Jeff still had his problems, cos that's the only way he'd make music of the standard he made in the past. I want Jeff Tweedy to be happy and make happy music which pushes the band as much as Yankee H

Other than that one guitar part in You Never Know I can't hear anything that makes me think of The Beatles on this album. The only other time I've ever thought about The Beatles when listening to Wilco is listening to Hate It Here in the middle eight of that song. After Analogman pointing out the Captain & Tennille song in the main album review thread - I'm starting to think all their recent upbeat songs sound like that.

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yeah i read it. i've already sent a warrant out for his arrest. don't have nightmares kids.

well there you go then. it really sounds like a current Jeff Tweedy melody, and Wilco tune. I never really thought about it before.

some of the funniest modern leaks are the last Deerhunter album - cos the lead singer fucked up and left a file of it on his sendspace account, or something; and also Joanna Newsom's album Ys leaking because Pitchfork left a copy on their server by a mistake. I'd say 4 months or more is an early leak, not this. Also didn't Animal Collective call for Strawberry Jam to be leaked because a couple of the tracks leaked, and they wanted the album to be heard as a whole?