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If Tokyo wins, it will be their second Olympics--their first Summer Games was in 1964. Not that this is stopping London from re-hosting in 2012, but Chicago's (and Rio and Madrid's) compelling case that they have never had the opportunity to host the games should hopefully give them an edge over Tokyo, all other things being equal.

I think this album is way more about texture / atmosphere than it is about melody. This is the same band that split an album up into four discs meant to be played simultaneously. If you're awareness of this band stretches back earlier than the Soft Bulletin, this album won't necessarily come as a complete shock. If anything, even if you completely dislike the direction they went with, you can at least appreciate their willingness to change things up a bit.

Giving the Chicago political machine the Olympics will be like giving the keys to a brand new Bugatti Veyron ($1.7 mil, over 1000 horsepower, 253mph top speed) to a 14-year-old kid and telling him to take it around the block a few times. Part of me would be thrilled it have it. I mean, how else over the next 8+ years are we in Chicago going to see great athletes at the top of their game performing at their best?

What JossAck is doing with Is This It, I've always done with Nevermind. That's generally considered a top ten OF ALL TIME record, and in my opinion it's got a ton of filler (once you wade past the four singles), has a few songs that wouldn't even make decent Wilco b-sides, and has spawned countless shitty Nirvana imitators to make horrible albums that never did anything good for music, and if anything Nevermind made rock (at least, commercial radio rock) flatulent and boring. (Which is pretty ironic, given that it was allegedly the album that saved rock from being flatulent and boring.) I

You guys also had the Streets in the '00s, but yeah, '90s also had Verve, Blur, Pulp & Oasis. I don't really get the Arctic Monkeys, but even they have their fans.

There is only one half Brit act at #6, the rest of the top ten are all Americans and Canadians. Why do the British hate their own music so much?

He also couldn't quite remember the title of the "last song on W(TA)" - someone else chimed in with Everlasting.

Nice. Is Spiders the leadoff track?

Here's the cover: There's a Wilco song on the bundled CD, not sure which one.

No disrespect to the original poster, but this seems closer to the ranking according to what I've read: 1) White Stripes, White Blood Cells 2) Bob Dylan, Love and Theft 3) Wilco, A Ghost is Born 4) Brian Wilson, Smile 5) The Strokes, This Is It 6) Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand 7) Arcade Fire, Funeral 8) Bob Dylan, Modern Times 9) Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker 10) Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes ... 15) Radiohead, In Rainbows 25) Radiohead, Kid A 35) Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 38) Ryan Adams, Gold 134) Radiohead, HTTT 138) Wilco, Sky Blue Sky Seeing AGIB tower over so many other albums

Once you realize that the red-eye is due to the fact that all the Wilco guys and XRT staff are actually aliens from the planet Xebngoz, it's all good.

A stream of the interview plus photos is here: http://www.93xrt.com/xrt-artist-wilco/2015700

The Pianist is damn near perfect in my eyes. Once he completed wrap on that, I was fine with the cops slapping the cuffs on him.

It's right off the Blue Line train - Racine stop: http://www.transitchicago.com/travel_information/station.aspx?StopId=117 You've gotta ride the CTA, if only so you can hum Far Far Away to yourself while you're doing it. Also, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than cabs and there are stops within a block or two of most hotels downtown.

The Pitchfork review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13512-the-sun-came-out/ Basically what I expected. Interestingly enough it's a tenth of a point more than what they gave AGIB.

It looks like the 2xLP is coming out October 27th and will go for $24.99: http://www.musicdirect.com/product/86190 You can also order it here, which says it will ship on or before release date which it lists as being today: http://www.insound.com/7_Worlds_Collide_The_Sun_Came_Out__PRE-ORDER_LP/productmain/p/INS64237/ Don't know when local shops are stocking this but I imagine they will be. EDIT: I'm not entirely certain these are legitimate listings - I would call the vendors directly and make sure it isn't a misprint. EDIT #2 - Barnes and Noble is listing it, also with the October

I'm really liking this album so far. It's challenging, but I don't think it's completely devoid of good melodies. They are just buried a bit. That said, it may be 4-6 songs too long.

Do you think Feiss was stoned or was she on "allergy meds" as she claimed? It says a lot about our current generation that this is the sort of thing we have to occupy our brain cells with.

That's more like it.

Pussy. You gotta man up and own it, consequences be damned.

Here's another article. I'm not a conspiracy theorist on most things, but given the circumstances leading up to his death and his notoriously ruthless manager, I'm open to the possibility he was murdered. The Mystery Behind Hendrix's Death http://www.thewrap.com/blog-entry/mystery-behind-hendrixs-death_7330 By David Comfort Published: September 17, 2009 James Marshall Hendrix, hailed as “the greatest guitarist who ever lived,” died September 18, 1970. On the thirty-ninth anniversary of his passing, the tragedy remains a mystery. Or does it? Like many short-lived rock icons -- John Le

I remember hearing about Jeff asking people after a show what their VC aliases were. I haven't bothered bringing up VC to him, because there are a zillion things I'd rather chat with him about during the tiny windows of opportunity I've had to meet him. I mentioned it to John once years and years ago and he was absolutely and unequivocally not a fan of this place. It's not a real head-scratcher as to why given how rude and disrespectful some people are.