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With each record, they've turned a corner, and as they did, some people got off and others got on. This time, the road they turned onto brought them a few blocks from home - closest to where they started (in my opinion). For those who got in the car... around YHF and AGIB, it's been fun, but I'm sticking around. And I can see where this record might bring back some of fans that got out a few records ago.

Peace.

Great work, Bob!

Haven't spent as much time listening to the lyrics yet. i'm getting there.

But the song the some have mentioned as sappy...Hate It Here...I can relate to it.

As a divorced guy, the song hit me. I was that guy a few years ago.

But I can see alot of other reviews not liking this album too.

I'm guessing that they probably won't know how to react to it. How many bands in 2007 (in the age of MP3s)still make album oriented records?

I'd like to point out that you can be a big fan of soul music and not necessarily think this album is a particularly great example of it.

Point taken. Stylistically...for any band to change it's stripes, it takes guts. Sometimes the risk pays off and sometimes it doesn't. In this case, I think they did a good job. They've got the chops and I think the pulled it off. Also, I think... they like the challenge. It keeps them interested.

After reading through several pages of less filling and tastes great comments... I can across this...

it's like the anti mainstream indie record. I dig that it has a 70's vibe.

...which speaks to me.

And I bet some of you are right about Pitchfork comments. Most indie folks will likely scoff this type of a record and I bet... JT is smiling about that. Being There had a similar initial reaction. They've always been about turning the corner and re-inventing themselves. Well they've done it again. Bands like Wilco are visionaires - leaders not followers. I'm not worried. The others will catch up eventually.

I can sortof understand why most...don't appreciate soul music or music with this type of groove. Largely, it's been a black art form and I guessing most of us here in this forum aren't black. Admittedly, I'm not all that familar with soul music. But unlike a lot of rock and punk, there's real emotion and feeling in there.

Another point, with the current line up the musicanship has never been better. They sound like a band rather than a Pro Tools experiment and I like that.

That all said, I like the record but I'm still digesting.

I'd love a PM to a link.

Leave me... almost sounds like a Autumn Defense song.

what the @#$% was that in Hate IT Here. This track is awesome!!

I have a new fave!

Hate it Here...mother of mary and joesph!! Man that really grooves!!

Anyone else notice Jeffs voice like cracking in Side With THe Seeds and Shake It Off?

Perhaps this is the Being There comparison that JT's made... There are imperfections in there and they haven't been editted (overdubbed) out.

Side w/ the Seeds ...wow!!

SBS has a Far, Far Away vibe to it

the solo in IG ...as cool as the other side of the pillow

my brothers and sisters

Either way is playing...

10 min and counting

and neither the sbs page or the roadcase page have changed.

QUOTE(Walken @ Mar 3 2007, 08:07 PM)

 

where's the player gonna be? On the SBS page, Roadcase?

 

I was wondering that. Says later "this afternoon" ...

I'm betting on the sbs link.

Out of curiosity, where in Bloomington did they play? I'm there now, and I was there about a year before that show.

The Axis Ballroom.

Kalle...you're preaching to the choir, my man.

They really are the best band in the world.

That's right.

SBS isn't supposed to come out for another 2.5 months and they're streaming it tonight!!

why didn't they leave it like that?

Stirratt said it sound too much like U2.... After hearing the version posted by Kalle (with the bass more pronounced) I can sort of see (hear) it. In the older versions that I've heard, the bass wasn't as upfront.

I'm tired of reading about these "dad rock" or "cardigan rock" references. No one stays 20 years old forever! Most of us grow up and acquire tastes for new things. Our energy levels tend to drop off a bit. To suggest that a band of 30 somethings (some pushing 40) should..."stretch the spandex" and play fast and loud music is absurd.

mmmm... we'll never know when songs were actually written...but YHF was recorded in 2000 and early 2001. I recall going to my local record store in the summer of 2001 (yes... my five year old (soon to be six) was a few months old at that time) and I heard that the then new Wilco record was delayed (i.e., the Reprise fiasco happened). I'd imagine that JT and the band kept writing and working on songs throughout all that - especially after Bennett left in the summer of 2001.

I saw Spiders performed in Bloomington, IN about two weeks before YHF was released (spring 2002). It sounded nothing like the krautrock version we now know. JT's guitar was drenched in reverb. Aside form Spiders, I don't recall hearing any AGIB songs (solo or w/ the band) before then. I could be mistaken.

All this mastered/mixed stuff...to clarify... I know knowing about either process. That said, I recall reading an interview/article about a year ago when we first heard about the band recording the follow up to AGIB and KT... JT said something about the band literally sitting around a circle, playing, & recording w/ no....mixing board, etc. Comments made by others here suggest that these songs don't sound mastered. Given comments made in past interviews, could this be true? (i.e., where they intentionally left that way?) We know that ST and YHF were somewhat studio experiments. The Kot book suggests that BT was recorded in a similar fashion (press record and play). Could SBS have been record in the same fashion? Perhaps this is what JT was refering to in the SBS and BT reference?

At any rate the new songs sound great, and yes, I read too many articles about the band.

Peace.