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Elliott Smith's is my favourite Thirteen. Please Be Patient With Me has very Elliott Smith style chords I think.

Did someone say there were mp3 versions of the tracsk from Shake It Off. I really liked the versions of the title track and Impossible Germany on it. I just got mine sent from Musictoday. Disappointed with how long it took and that there is no bonus content.... but the second part is BONUS stuff so I can't be too demanding. But I really shoulda just bought in Tower the day it came out. Coulda got the two and half weeks earlier and cheaper. So anyway, like above - is there Wilco / Via Chicago group on slsk?

thanx..

Shit sorry! Didn't see anything, which I thought was odd. Perhaps I shoulda searched. "D'oh".... I believe is the correct expression.

I wasn't at home to see this last night wsa at a gig (BTTLS!)... did anyone do a fancy record job? Please say someone did! Last time I watched Later I wanted to see Joanna Newsom but I fell asleep during Travis cos they were so boring... thankfully someone lashed that one up on the internet. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps a brother out.

enjoyable song! i always liked it, possibly not the right vibe for the album. thanks for posting it. i could've bought the record more than two weeks ago, but for some reason I ordered from the Wilco store... won't be making that mistake again!

Got an email saying it was sent on Friday. I could have bought it last Friday in Tower records but I got the impression the DVD version would only be available in certain American indie. Stores I shouldn't have come to this conclusion arguably, but seeing as I ordered the record, they could at the very least sent it on the day it was released in America. Also, you can't get the vinyl in Ireland yet I don't think. Tried three places for it (that usually have vinyl) - both Tower and Road said not in yet, don't where it is, should be here soon and CityDiscs said it was sold out, but I'm not sur

I'd like to thank my pre-order personally for not arriving, and not even being sent until a week after it was available. Thanks guys!

I thought that when I saw it (having read Jeff's explanation) then I said to myself...... too anal. Its still fucking deadly. They don't have the vinyl in road as of today... I assume not in Tower either. Still no sign of my copy from the Wilco website either. If I preordered, surely they could've pre-sent it!

I;d seriously love my preordered album to fucking arrive at this stage!

That is such a good post - all the things you quoted. Last things first - the popmatters quote is exactly what I've thought and what I've done. Initially I was a bit sketch on this album but the more I listen, the more I want to listen. And track by track its breaking me down. Initially I was so underwhelmed by some tracks and just not into otehr but now I'm starting to love each one. One other thing I can say is that I'm a littel suprised that they (Pitchfork, that is) didn't put two and two together for this between the Jeff Tweedy interview and the review of his band's album: the main p

Also... Glenn's percussion and the imagery of the lyrics, chambers of chains, red plastic mouths.... ohh man what a song.

It was in Tower, but not in HMV, strangely. Tower didn't have the vinyl (given Mr Tweedy's recommendation for that format) though, he said probably next week for that. Now I just have to wait for my preorder to come through from America... that DVD better be deadly!

Its not ironic to love Dancing Queen. Its excellent. About a billion times better than Casino Queen.

For starters, Pitchfork gave Yankee Hotel Foxtrot a 10.0 rating - I'd imagine that got a lot of people into their music myself included. And listen, I know hipsters can be loathsomely annoying, but your snobbery is pathetic.

Less Than You Think, but with just the drone looping on and on forever instead of dying out..... No really, if you wanna play her stuff you know she's gonna hear at the concert that'd help her get into the concert. She can become familiar with the bac catalogue once she's fallen in love with them, but put stuff on she'll hear at the concert, so she can enjoy it with a bit of familiarity. Thats my advice. Do the "uLTIMATE mIX tAPE eVA!" at later date.

glad there's some pitchfork love on here. most people seem to hate it because one of their reviewers said something mean about their favourite band, or madea joke about them and now can't stand them... yet still takes their reviews so seriously. i bought YHF cos of pitchfork, along with loads and loads of opther great albums like Michigan, The Meadowlands, You Forgot It In People, The Body The Blood The Machine, Friend Opportunity to name a few off the top of my head.

damn. my immediate reaction was to make that joke.

I agree with some things in this, but especially the bit in bold, which I only noticed once I read it. I've always thought the bluesy rockers need to do something very interesting to make them stand out. I think I like Love and Theft more than you tho. I think that album is fantastic bar the opening track. But, you know your shit and you said what you said very well also. Deserves props Oh and one thing - yeh his voice is fairly ragged and fucked, but man what can you do... sorry his life got in the way of his vocal chords? Its passable live and fine for the recordings.

Fucking amazing. Absolutely intense crowd. I know nothing about harp playing, but I would guess that she's pretty much a virtuoso as well as being a phenomenal song-writer and artist in general. Played with a small band of drummer/harp/tambora or banjo. Played new arrangements of Milk-Eyed Mender material and of Ys (compared to the albums that is) very folky and intense. Brilliant gig. I recommend seeing her on this tour in Europe if you can still get tickets.

Why would he say they're performing at Electric Picnic if they were playing at Oxegen? I fucking severly hope its not Oxegen cos I'm not going to that (not by a long shot) and it makes 50 times more sense for them to play EP, where there's a small chance people might listen to them and enjoy them.

In terms of finding out a bit about the gestation of the albums up to YHF, is Greg Kot's book any good? Or is one of those one day books where you learn about 10 facts but mostly know the entire story already (like most music books!)?

In fairness its not like you couldn't make up a very similar sentence about Thom Yorke's lyrics (regard the Tweedy-NPR stoner love-in jam band connotations!) They're both very good songwriters but I prefer Wilco and Tweedy. Yorke seems so disillusioned by writing a normal song... theres a very apt Elliott Smith quote about this when he's talking about songwriting "It'd be a drag if you have to battle conventions all the time." Then he says "you can make conventions work for you" or something like that. I see where he's coming from - Radiohead had a fucking huge drag making Kid A. And when did

I think they were trying to make really sweet music with really dark/confusing/obscure/image-heavy, non-trad. wilco lyrics... not that i want ot sum it up in one glib sentence or anything but i don't think he was trying to show how hollow it was, just create some tension between things that seem to be pulling in different directions. frankly, i'm not sure how over the top is supposed to be or whether it's just a bit dated at this stage, cos i didn't listen to it when it came out and in comparison with the previous (the rootsy but still fleetingly experimental Being There) it is quite a leap. F

yeh but we're not allowed to tell anyone.