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... miss my ex-wife.

As far as punk rock break-up songs go, it's hard to beat these 3 songs by Jawbreaker, all from the 24 Hour Revenge Therapy album: "Do You Still Hate Me?" "Jinx Removing" (a flat-out heart-breaking tune) "In Sadding Around" Don't tell me I'm the only Jawbreaker fan here!!! I know the lyrics are ridiculously naive and simplistic, but there's something about Beatnik Filmstars' "Tearing Apart My World" that always tugged at my heart-strings.

Saw this in a Billboard.com story about that "She and Him" thingie. I'm not really looking forward to "She and Him," but news of a new solo album makes me cream my jeans. Billboard says... Meanwhile, Ward is finishing an album of his own, due later this year via Merge. "It's too early to say how [the new record] going to be different from my other ones," he says. "It will involve a lot of the same folks playing on it. I'd say the songs are somewhere in the same ballpark as my other songs."

1. Windfall 2. Live Free 3. Tear Stained Eye 4. Route 5. Ten Second News 6. Drown 7. Loose String 8. Out of the Picture 9. Catching on 10. Too Early 11. Mystifies Me Sorry...

"Please Tell My Brother" is a beauty! However, my favorite song on that album is Louris' "Until You Came Along." I'm not a Jayhawks fan, but that is one hell of a great ltune.

I too am looking forward to seeing them live. I've never seen 'em, cuz I too became a fan only recently, but I have a bunch of their live shows on CD. Lately they've been finishing their sets with the fantastic "Love Has Found Me Somehow," complete with a hilarious spoken-word bit from Will smack dab in the middle of the insanely catchy tune. I hope he continues doing that "toaster dance" schtick on the upcoming tour. There's a video of it on YouTube. Funny stuff!

So M. Ward isn't in the new band after all, eh? Goddamn it...

Since there are some fellow Centro-matic fans here, I thought I'd share these recent posts from Mark Hedman on the C-m message board regarding the upcoming C-m/SSG double CD. I haven't been this excited about an upcoming CD in years. Mark writes: The album was turned in to be mastered and sequenced last week and is hopefully en route to manufacturing. Matt really worked his butt off with these two disks in trying to get them ready before 2008, as we narrowed the 30 tracks down to 23 (11 Centro-matic and 12 South San Gabriel). Artwork is still being finalized, but I can tell you that Alch

1. Dylan- "Love and Theft" 2. Centro-matic- All the Falsest Hearts Can Try 3. Centro-matic- Distance and Clime 4. Centro-matic- Fort Recovery 5. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 6. Centro-matic- Love You Just the Same 7. My Morning Jacket- At Dawn 8. My Morning Jacket- It Still Moves 9. Okkervil River- Stage Names 10. Mendoza Line- Fortune

Anytime (Jim's best vocal performance???) Lowdown Phone Went West

Did anyone here see the recent Son Volt shows in which Centro-matic's Will Johnson filled in on drums? I would've loved to have seen that.

Who in Wilco was going through a divorce while AGIB was recorded? And you're saying that Mascis was going through a divorce while Where You Been was recorded?

Thought I'd revive this thread. What '08 releases are y'all anticipating? Besides what's already been mentioned, My Morning Jacket and Lucero are supposed to have albums out next year. What else???

The Wedding Present, Atlanta, GA, 1996 I met David Gedge before the show and told him I had just gotten dumped (how appropriate for a TWP concert, right?). I told him I had the extra ticket on me. Gedge asked if he could see the ticket and then asked what the girl's name was. I gave him the ticket and told him her name. Gedge wrote "Where are you, Jody?," signed his name, and handed me back the ticket. A few days later I bumped into Jody and gave her the signed ticket. She wasn't amused.

Mendoza Line- 30 Year Low

It gets loneliest at night. Down at the liquor store. Beneath the neon sky. Our moonlight. Six A.M., the floor comes alive with lice. The pan's dried up so tight. With hardened beans. We're hungry. So I lean on you sometimes. Just to see you're still there. Your feet can't take the weight of one. Much less two. We hit concrete. How were we born into this mess? I know I painted you a prettier picture, baby. But we were run out on a rail. Fell from the wagon to the night train. I kissed the bottle. I should've been kissing you. You wake up to an empty night. With tears for two. Cigarettes

Dharma Bums Crackerbash Pond Sicko Caustic Resin (I'm in a Pacific Northwest sort of mood today.)

I bought the Tour Edition online as an early Christmas present for myself. Got it in the mail a few days ago. So now I have two copies of SBS-- the Deluxe Edition and the Tour Edition. What do y'all think of the bonus EP? I'm loving "One True Vine" and "Let's Not Get Carried Away," and liking "Is That the Thanks I Get?" (it's strange hearing that song while not watching a Volkswagen commercial). The live tunes are ok, but nothing mind-blowing. All 3 of those outtakes should've been on SBS, in my humble opinion. Do y'all agree? I wonder if we'll ever get an official rarities/outtakes album...

I'm surprised Richard Thompson's Sweet Warrior hasn't been getting any love around here.

Has this collaboration been confirmed? If it's official, when are they recording/releasing stuff? Has anyone heard anything about M. Ward doing any other recording? He's one of my all-time favorite artists, and I'm wondering what he's up to these days. A new M. Ward solo CD would be a godsend.

I hear ya! I'm not quite ready to agree that Uncle Bob has lost it, but my level of fandom has dropped a notch in the last few years. I still slavelishly buy everything he releases on CD (I no longer have an LP player that actually works, so I don't buy the vinyl-only stuff), but that's just out of habit. I've been a fan since 1993, and it's hard to stop buying his stuff. I hope he stops collaborating solely with Todd Tobias and starts recording with a real band again, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm getting the feeling that he's putting more time and effort into his artwork than his songwr

You do know that Cinder Block's husband was the guitarist for Tilt, right? Does anybody remember Scherzo? Now there's a long-lost, criminally-underrated Lookout! band!!! They had a heavy Fugazi/Ignition/Soul Side influence, but they definitely fit in with that goofy Berkeley, Gilman Street scene too. I had both of their albums on cassette back in the day. Goddam, I miss that band.

Robert Pollard's 2007 stuff hasn't been getting any love from y'all. Is there any love for... Bob Pollard- Coast to Coast Carpet of Love Bob Pollard- Standard Gargoyle Decisions Takeovers- Bad Football Circus Devils- Sgt. Disco various artists- Crickets Guided by Voices- Live at Austin City Limits Bob Pollard- Silverfish Trivia EP Acid Ranch- The Great Houdini Wasn't So Great Bob Pollard- Meet the King (Asshole pt. 2) What do y'all think of the stuff he released this year??? 2008 should be another great year for Uncle Bob: solo mini-CD in January, another Psycho and the Birds full-length

Saw these guys (and gal) in concert in Tampa back in 1993 or 94. Great show by a great band. They gave me a hard time for buying a Play Cell cassette from them instead of vinyl. I also bought a t-shirt from them. "Crying Jag" is still one of my favorite punk song ever. I still love a lot of those old Lookout! bands from the late 80sarly 90s, especially Crimpshrine. That stuff has aged well in my opinion.

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