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    Next Super Bowl Halftime act????

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Bll Callahan or Lambchop, please.

    As much as you love this idea, it just will not work out. The audience of the Super Bowl came to watch a football game. And while they may love Bill Callahan and Lambchop, their music will ruin mood and tempo of the spectacle and idea of the event. This is why you are not an NFL event coordinator.

     

    Who doesn't like Madonna? She played three classic songs. Nothing dreadful about it. The addition of Cirque du Soleil was nice, too.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG2KMkQLZmI

    Music and Give Me All Your Love was absolutely dreadful. As for Vogue and Like A Prayer, even though I don't like them, they weren't dreadful renditions and I could understand why people would like those songs.

    Pitchfork review - iTunes session

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    So this is the thread where if someone disagrees or judges your favorite band, you reveal your opinion and defend it even though there's no attack on your opinion? If you read the The Whole Love review, the writer only complained about the inconsistency. Besides, the scores are just an arbitrary guide. If you converted the 100 point system [just move that decimal over to the right] to stars system, you guys would not be complaining at all. Wilco (The Album) would receive 3.5 to 4 stars out of 5. Rolling Stone's initial score doesn't draw as much ire as Pitchfork when they only gave Yankee Hotel Foxtrot a 4 out of 5.

     

     

     

    They had to engage in their usual backlash against an artist they'd been praising for a few years.

    What the hell are you talking about? Seriously, back up this backlash of yours.

     

     

     

    They really never give them their due on that site do they?

    Never? Let's run through the praise Pitchfork has thrown into Wilco's lap.

     

    Being There and Summerteeth in top 100 albums of 1990s.

    Via Chicago at 74 in top 100 tracks of 1990s.

    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in top 10 albums of 2000s.

    Handshake Drugs in top 500 while I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Poor Places, and Jesus, Etc. are in the top 100 tracks of 2000s.

    Constant tour and news coverage with hints of approval and amusement.

    Positive tour reviews.

    Positive video reviews.

     

    Man, Pitchfork just hates Wilco. I mean, if they didn't put their whole discography in that top 100 tracks list, they must really have something against them. All of these songs are like perfect, and no one, I mean, no one, can disagree, ever. They're just wrong.

    Albums of the year 2011

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    i'm catching up on some albums now that i've some downtime. one i'm catching up on is tv on the radio, and i'm liking it. two others that haven't gotten any love on this thread yet that i think may be worthy are beirut's and m83's. both are pretty solid, i'm discovering, spin after spin. the m83 is particularly interesting.

    I thought TV On The Radio made a good album, but not quite great. M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is very good: it's like a giant John Hughes tribute.

    Albums of the year 2011

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    i don't get mumford.

    I am in perfect congruence with you. They just seem to swell with emotion and earnestness at every perfect and calculated arc. It's like they're desperately trying to empathize with you with every vague event. They can make all the music they want, but they really are a label's act trying to make money by pandering emotionally as widely as possible. There is no beauty; it's just Splenda.

    Sunken Treasure!

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    doesnt the full band do it with harmonica sometimes?? i dont know which version i like better

    There's the Jeff Tweedy-solo harmonica based version.

    There's the harmonica-based band version that's not as noisy nor anti-solo-y as the album version that's on Being There version.

    Then there's the one where it sounds like a noisy rock song that you'll find on Being There, modified with Nels' blessing. It's got some pretty, uh, titanic and trench diving moments.

     

    I'm definitely a bigger fan of the version closest to Being There, the latter.

    Top Ten Ways to Give Wilco a Shot in the Arm

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    You have to remember they're still promoting their newest album. They're still adjust setlists. They're learning to lean less on Spiders, I'm A Wheel, and I'm The Man Who Loves You.

     

    1. Nels fits fine. Pat has moments to shine. Same with Michael (turn up the damn volume for him during A Shot In The Arm). Glenn has some moments to shine too. Wilco have already stated that they're attempting to pool together different influences into one sound.

     

    2. Noise jam is fine. In fact, it's beautiful and perfect. If you don't understand the reason it's there, then don't mess with it. There's several great reasons they kept the sample there including the alienation, disconnection, numbness, and apathy. They've done it without the noise jam before, and it's just not the same. I mean, just come out and say you don't like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. No one will hate you: we accept and embrace all opinions.

     

    3. Older songs see new harmonies and different arrangements from albums already. There's Sunken Treasure, Kingpin, I'm Always In Love,Poor Places doesn't even sample Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Theologians (has seen several minute changes), details abstained, and lets not forget about a constant change in equipment. What's not there is equally as important as what is there.

     

    4. I wouldn't mind seeing that. But this is not a valid complaint, but rather a wish.

     

    I don't think Wilco needs a reboot. I haven't seen a valid reason to suggest they've grown stale. If anything, they need to vary their setlist a lot more once again. But they usually do this after the first year of promotion of an album.

    Your top 3-5 of 2011

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Everything about this album is awesome - including the cover (http://lpwtf.tumblr....autifully-bored). I hadn't paid much attention to Destroyer since This Night, so Kaputt really blew my mind. "Whoa, how did we get from there to here?" I played it nonstop for months.

     

    One perk of living in Vancouver is (sometimes) understanding what Dan Bejar is singing about.

    Yeah, I'm quite enamored with Kaputt as well. It's so gorgeous. But, I get the feeling that most of ViaChicago loves Kaputt as much as they love Beth/Rest.

     

    As for how Destroyer got to this point musically, we may never know since this is still a radical departure from their last album, Trouble In Dreams. Destroyer released Bay Of Pigs, the last song, on an EP a year earlier, and that's when I had to look at Destroyer again.

     

    Kaputt certainly deserves more love.

    Your top 3-5 of 2011

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I guess it's time for me to revive this thread since I was the one to complain about it. Let us usher the end of 2011 into the present, 14 days early!

     

    05 Drake - Take Care

    04 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

    03 Weeknd, The - House Of Balloons

    02 Destroyer - Kaputt

    01 James Blake - James Blake

     

    I sure do wish we weren't limited to top 5. :/

    Now Playing: December 2011

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I think the song itself is OK - and there is a very nice solo piano version floating around. But to my ears, the version on the album sounds like bad 1980's adult contemporary rock that would be found on the Miami Vice soundtrack or a Lionel Richie album. I just don't care for the cheesy keyboards, the sax solo, the guitar sound. Given how much I like every other song he has put out as Bon Iver, this song just seems out of place and doesn't work for me.

    I don't see a problem with it: the tracklisting really works well, wandering from Calgary to Lisbon, OH. Both of those transition pretty well and invoke that weird sort of nostalgia. And yes, it does remind me of a Lionel Richie album, but that's not such an awful. Even the short-sighted kids didn't understand that Grouper is just Enya. I guess I now understand why people seemed to dislike and or hate Destroyer's Kaputt.

     

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    Now Playing: December 2011

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    When I saw Bon Iver several months ago Beth/Rest got one of the louder crowd responses.

    At first I thought people were being sarcastic but then I realized they weren't ...

    I don't understand. Why do people dislike Beth/Rest? You will have to clarify. I'm truly on the opposite side of the fence, and don't know why there seems to be such a knee-jerk reaction.

     

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    The Black Keys - El Camino

     

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    Tom Waits - Bad As Me

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