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I find your ideas fascinating and would like to subscribe to your podcast.

FWIW, at the time I was kind of expecting Jeff's LF songs (ie, Pretty Sparks, Wreckroom, etc) to be kind of a hint at what of what the next Wilco record would sound like--fairly mellow, but also kind of spastic and proggy. I guess I was half-right. Put the best parts of the BAITUSA together with the best of SBS and you'd have a killer record. As it is, the two we got are both pretty good also.

Not in my book.

Not that you guys need to hear about this, but all diet colas tend to give me, erm, "intestinal issues"...which really makes me wonder what the hell is in there because I otherwise have a stomach of steel. If I'm drinking soda, I go for the real stuff. I'd rather gain a few pounds and rot my teeth out of my head than the alternative...

I like Hey Chicken, but when I first heard it my first thought was that it was about Farrar. I'm 99% sure it isn't--or about JB either--at least I hope to hell not, because that would just be kind of sad. But that thought colored my interpretation of the song for a long time. Overall, I like the s/t better than BAITUSA, largely because I don't care for O'Rourke's songs on the latter. There's something jokey about that record I don't totally like. Some good stuff on there too, tho.

Ha! Well, I guess I have no room to talk here since bands like REM, The Cure, U2, etc--you know, kind of the defining bands of my generation--only in the last couple years have I finally given them a fair listen because back then they just seemed "too popular" to me. Not that I was exactly a music snob back then, since I was listening mostly to classic rock and jam bands, but a lot of kids were wearing t-shirts of the above mentioned bands around school and I always had an instinctive distrust of anything too popular. (although I like to think I've grown out of that...maybe) Looking back n

Given the fact the for the first half-decade or more of my Wilco fandom I didn't know another soul who had more than a passing familiarity with them, I really never thought of Wilco in a larger context of importance beyond whether or not I like a particular song/album/whatever. And, really, I still try to think of it that way as much as possible. It probably is somewhat harder now to be completely objective now that Wilco is more popular, or at least more visible on a cultural level. Its harder to hear the songs without thinking about how they are going to be received by critics or other fa

Its an occupational hazard of the whole genre-hopping thing. I tend to see that record as something of a genre-experiment and I just don't particularly care for that direction. After seeing Jeff play "Family Gardener" on the solo DVD I guess I can say that the songs themselves aren't necessarily bad, but I don't at all care for the overall sound of that record. But I'm not a very "pop" kind of guy. Pop is my drone, if that makes any sense.

Got my cd/tshirt on Friday, so all is good with the world. I actually didn't even unwrap it until this morning on the drive in to work, so I guess I wasn't chomping at the bit that much. Sounds great.

Listened to Dreamer In My Dreams over the weekend and realized that SBS could have benefited from a good coughing-solo or two.

Interesting take on it. I agree in a lot of places, so I'll just highlight a couple spots where I couldn't possibly disagree more: Wow. CalStars is cute, but imo I'm not sure there's another track anywhere in the Wilco canon that holds up to Mountain Bed. One of my favorites ever. (Secret of the Sea gets on my nerves, but I was never a fan of the band's power-pop phase) ..and its always fun to trot out the ol' warhorse: I almost never listen to it, beyond maybe a minute or two, but I love the fact that it is there simply because it is bizarre, especially when stretched out to cartooni

Updated buzzwords for use in Wilco reviews: rehab, krautrock, Henleyesque

Playing devil's advocate here, but if a band allows audio recording of a performance, what is it about video that crosses the line into the unacceptable category?

Hmm. The fact that everyone but me got confirmation emails is a little suspicious. I think I'll go check to see if my credit card has been charged...

I liked Roger & Me and that tv show he briefly had a long time ago. Somehow I have managed to not see any of his more recent/popular/controversial films.

Love the song, though it sometimes seems overused as background music for tv/movies. I can't place exactly which places I've heard it, so I'm not sure if that's a true statement about it being overplayed or if it just seems this way because I've seen Shrek 3000 times with my kids.

Mine's not here yet. I guess its mildly annoying, but its really not impacting me too much yet. I've "had" the album forever and haven't really had the urge to listen to it this week, anyway, so its not killing me. Just wondering where it is. Also, about the confirmation emails--did those only go out to the express-delivery people? I got nothing of the sort, but wouldn't really expect it since I don't have a tracking number or anything.

That is still an excellent idea.

I haven't received mine yet, but I didn't pay the $500 for express shipping, so I figure I won't see it until roughly mid-August.

Thanks for at least stating it as an opinion.

Agreed. But its hard sitting around every year just waiting for him to die.

Thank you.

Not even June yet and my O's are already fighting amongst themselves and the word on the street is that the manager is a dead man walking. Who on earth would want that job?

You'd think Wilco would employ more slide-guitar if he had metallic fingers.