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i agree with some of things said here, especially about some tracks not doing anything special off the platform of a steady song. i love what light as a song but not this recording. that said i listened to the YHF demos back to back with this.... and I know they're only demos but some of this album really makes you realise how much wilco has grown. its strange that you can criticise a band for non being completely consistent in their brilliance, but they are the high standards we set for our ourselves with wilco...

Hmmm, I wouldn't say I love it but maybe you can't blame him. People should bare this interview in mind when they slag Pitchfork for being self-obsessed or attempting to be hyper-intellectual... cos some parts of this interview are a bit like "Man, come on, stop trying to talk about yourself!" Some very interesting things Jeff mentions all the same that I felt already about his health and the fact that Hate It Here is ironic.

i look forward to trying this. i had worked out much of the song in CGDGCD, but found it some small parts quite awkward so maybe its not right.

Yeh they're great. I also really love in the middle of On and On and On, which initially seems like a heartfelt if pretty simple song comes these lines: You can

Its not sport, was my point, that I made, perhaps a wee bit too obliquely.

I know its not a funny song, but parts of it are jokingly light-hearted to cover up the melancholy like the line "What am I gonna do, what am I gonna do, what am I gonna when I run out of shirts to fold?!?" Its ironically funny, cos its not meant to be funny at all. I have to go to work! Dammit.

I'd really love to hear this line-up of the band do some kind of version of Radio King in the vein of this album. All three guitars hammering on the intro in shifting harmonies, turning it into a sweet soul ballad... dunno why I thought that. Further thoughts after further listens. I reckon the real CD will spring a bit of vitality into some tracks, but I still think one are two are slumps in the album which is unusual for a Wilco album. Also I cannot help but feel that if they were going to put something with a light-hearted feel on it like Hate It Here or Walken, that The Thanks I Get woul

i reckon jim plays nearly everything in open g. theres a video of a guy playing the workplace on an acoustic and its spot on...not mention quite tricky. the workplace and the start of a very tentative tab for good times, along the lines that everything jim does is by and large in open g, except (off the top of my head) little island walking is in CGDGCD (which Sonic Youth used also whilst Jim was in teh band, though I don't know if there's a connection, as Pavement used something similar too) Good Times Gmaj7 D/F# D|-----4-4------2----------------2---- B|-----0-0------0-3------3

it very much is a mellow album alright. i can see how some would think too mellow, but i mean, it seems obvious to me that that was what they were going for. all in all, i prefer AGIB, but I prefer that to many many albums.

Its certainly changed in my perception from first listen... I love the first three tracks but the title track is so boring in comparison with things they've done in the past. For the most part I don't think they've gotten any worse as song writers but I'm not blown away by the way they did the songs sometimes. The versions or What Light where he sings it in a higher key are much better than the one on the album for me. On and On and On and On is fucking brilliant, way better than I ever imagined. Anyway, I wouldn't be suprised if the next Wilco album is another reaction to this back in a

he was just filling up space until they could start wailing on geetars.

Go here!

its nothing new, its been done as long as i can remember.

I agree with that review so so so much. Nail accurately smashed on the head. Well done sir.

Its a good album and Wilco are still a phenomenal band, and to be quite honest, its a step that isn't entirely unexpected - that is, to make quite a "straight" record. Its very relaxed and based solely around the 6 guys playing through the songs. I was shocked by A Ghost Is Born went so mad at times, and love love loved it. In retrospect its such a logical step on from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, in the same way as Wish You Were Here follows from Dark Side Of The Moon (I'm sure someone here will hate that reference! but its what I always use when thinking of bands with consecutive classics) but

would someone be nice enough to send me a pm... 10pm CST = four in the morning for me, didn't hear it and the stream is closed? thanks in advance.

Ah we'll see. "Once in Germany someone said 'nein' " is pretty hilarious, so I wouldn't be worried.

ginandcigarettes thats fucking ace.

It'd be way more interesting if he knew what was actually doing rather than just saying "running them through a gauntlet of effects"... I mean maybe Glenn wouldn't tell, but it wouldn't hurt to have a bit or detail - not that a want to copy or anything! But if you're writing a book about a band, the more interesting detail the better, rather than vague kinda clich

Sorry, but could someone repost the song? It has expired on yousendit. Thanks!

yeh. or on a side project with scott mccaughey or something. there's no reason to believe it must be a wilco song cos jeff tweedy did it. and wilco did it on tv... by the way i didn't think that version on Conan was great. A bit too smooth.

I'm not this sceptical. Also I thought AGIB was fucking ace. Couldn't decide whether it or YHF is better...

Its funny... I've been thinking this aswell, the trainwreck possibilities I mean. When I first listened to the AGIB tracks (live versions I mean) I was completely hooked. Not on these ones. Not worried about that however because Wilco is a band thats always changing, so the songs may sound better in a studio or whatever... That said, its not that I don't like the new songs but when they said we're gonna make a record like Being There I thought "Eh, haven't you already made a record like Being There...i.e. Being There." On the other hand part of me thinks, "Great, another unexpected decisi

Where is thrat thread gone where somebody put up all the new songs in a zip file. I've heard nothing except for On and On and On and Walken.... someone show me the light!