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Great melody, great lyric, great / interesting arrangement, great vocal, great little guitar outtro.

Rod did some stellar covers of Dylan tunes, i.e. Tomorrow is Such a Long Time, Mama You Been On My Mind, Only a Hobo. At the height of his powers, there was none better. And when he became a ridiculous disco-strutting assclown, there was none worse.

I kind of wonder if spiders suffer, and if there's anything going on in their little brains or are they essentially killing / eating / web-making / spawning little robots. I suppose if I knew the degree to which they experienced pain, suffering, and loss, I would take way more issue with killing them. But as it stands, killing a spider is essentially the same as killing a mosquito, a housefly or stepping on a dust mite and I'm fine with that. I'm relatively certain more evolved animals do suffer, some quite a bit more than others, and cows and pigs probably suffer quite a hell of a lot, bu

Rolling Stone gives it 5 stars: http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/29203523/review/29716114/my_dusty_road There are umpteen collections of the music of legendary folkie storyteller, agitator and Dylan role model Woody Guthrie, and almost all of them sound like they were recorded in a refrigerator box. But this one qualifies as genuine news. The back story is a crate-digger's wet dream: cardboard drums filled with pristine 78-rpm metal masters, given up for lost long ago, were found in the basement storage bin of a Brooklyn apartment belonging to an Italian lady who inherited them fr

Just in case you didn't have enough to spend your hard earned dollars on between the Beatles remasters, the Wilco vinyl reissues, 7 Worlds Collide and so on and so forth, along comes this: 54 of Woody's songs remastered from the original master tapes on 4 CDs, 6 never before released songs, 68-page booklet, postcards and doohickeys for $58.99.

Another great movie by the madcap genius known as Terry Gilliam. That logo alone creeps me out.

Yeah, I'll never grow tired of Every Night nor Maybe I'm Amazed.

I think a lot of music crits disagreed with you when the song came out, it was trounced at the time as was the Ram album. Personally, it's a whole lot of silliness, especially the various voices he does.

Hasn't Ryan Adams been known to get into some verbal sparring with his own fans on his own message board? What an echo chamber that must be.

At some point in my musical journeys, I came to the realization that even the silliest, most inane McCartney songs have great melodies. This was probably midway through 'Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey', when I stopped groaning at how unbelievably corny it was - and the good Lord knows that song is corny - and instead started singing along with it. Once you get past that, you can see the charms of even the weaker McCartney material.

If it were me, I think I'd be pretty uncomfortable having fans hand me tapes. Everything Jeff could say about the song could potentially get misconstrued. If he offers constructive criticism, it could be taken as a huge personal affront by an emotionally needy fan who is pinning their entire lives on how he responds. Genuine praise could be misinterpreted as being backhanded. No matter what Jeff says or does, it's probably never seen as enough by some people. On top of that, of course, there is the whole "You have my tape, therefore I have an excuse to hound you after every show about it to se

I had hoped he would have lived long enough to put a vote in on health care reform. I think he hoped so, too.

This really seems to bring out a love it or loathe it response from people. I'm eager to see it, but I'm prepared for the worst.

I had to take a German expressionist film class, and we watched that, but what really creeped me out was Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), which is a warped little mindfuck of a film that has had quite a lot of influence on the Tim Burtons and Guillermo del Toros of our time. Dark City (1998) is a creepy sci-fi classic that was clearly inspired by those insane German directors. Definitely one I wouldn't watch alone. Eraserhead (1977) is warped, creepy and bizarro-funny without feeling self-conscious like Lynch's latter films do to me.

John plays the nifty guitar solos on Get Back (you can see him playing it in the Let it Be rooftop scene) as well as the jazzy little guitar solo on Honey Pie, too, which I always loved. I highly recommend checking Beatlesongs out, it's a pretty definitive guide on who wrote what and who played on what based on interviews, etc. http://www.amazon.com/Beatlesongs-William-J-Dowlding/dp/0671682296 The Mark Lewisohn book, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions is also a must have: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Beatles-Recording-Sessions-1962-1970/dp/0600612074/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&

I think the article is supposed to be satirical in nature, sort of a sociological parody. If you've ever read or encountered the Official Preppy Handbook, this seems to be the kind of tone they are aiming for. EDIT: I only add this in case you took the whole premise seriously. If you were responding ironically yourself, then maybe I'm the one whose irony-meter needs to be adjusted.

Mature Third Eye Blind fans? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/14/PKED194UL6.DTL Or are they "revenge breeders"? http://www.philebrity.com/2009/08/24/the-philebrity-lexicon-revenge-breeding/ I never liked 3EB and I haven't produced any Dudelings yet, so I'm not sure where I fall.

I actually spent the last 20 hours making him this: Okay, maybe I bent the truth a little. Happy birthday occasional VC lurker. Hope it's a great one.

As true as that is, paying a modest $35 to the US Copyright office ( http://www.copyright.gov/register/ ) is something I would highly recommend for establishing a creation date for the work - otherwise you will be scrambling to prove you were the first one to come up with an idea.

A kick as in kicking television?

Jeff let Jay do whatever he wanted on Summerteeth, actually. He had free reign - ever take a look at the liner notes for Summerteeth? There are a zillion Bennett overdubs on all the tracks. The fracturing didn't occur between him and Jay on Summerteeth (I think they were pretty tight then), but between Jeff, Jay and the other guys. The Greg Kot book discusses this quite a bit, John and Ken kind of felt sidelined and marginalized by everything Jay was doing on the tracks. That's what Jeff is talking about I think when he says the band wasn't a cohesive unit. I think the only real conflicts ab

Looks like it was shot on a different day / time, Sam has switched instruments for example from a Hofner bass to an Omnichord.

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I half expected her to discuss how she first stumbled across Wilco while listening to Martha Stewart Living's Quiet Time.

I think above everything else, Tweedy isn't the kind of guy to sugarcoat or flat out lie about how he feels about a situation. He clearly has a lot of mixed emotions on Jay, and there seems to be some genuine sadness over his loss, as well as feelings that he made the right decision to part ways with him. I think most people who have been following his music over the years appreciate Tweedy's honesty and candor, and his statements on Bennett reflect how he really feels right now, not some prescripted statements eulogizing the guy.