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Thanks for the advice. I'll most definitely buy a ticket and just play it by ear. Chances are I'll be able to go. I even got the okay from my wife already. I saw The Shins at the Palladium this year. It's a pretty nice venue with ample room to walk around the main floor area. Certainly not as nice or as close as Will Rogers, but it will do.

My wife will be 8 months pregnant at the time of the Dallas show. Would it be too risky to go, especially since the venue is about 30 minutes from our house? I don't think I could do it.

I understand the difference between Wilco and MTV. But if, by chance, Wilco appeared on Unplugged, what difference would that make to Wilco? Does that make their music bad all of a sudden? After talking to my wife's 17-year-old cousin about music last week, I wish there was more exposure for good bands through these outlets.

Why not? What difference would it make?

Those Volkswagen ads are really paying off.

They played it in Stuttgart, Germany, too. By the way, that's one of the best recordings of a live show I have heard in a while.

Uh, thanks, but I wasn't the one that said SBS made Summerteeth irrelevant, nor was I even attempting to compare the two. (In fact, comparing any Wilco album to another is kind of a fruitless exercise.) However, if you want to go that route, I would take a lot of songs on SBS over We're Just Friends, Pieholden Suite, and most of the latter half of ST. And I enjoy the understated beauty of Either Way a lot more than the mess that is Can't Stand It. But I agree with that last sentence up there.

As great of an album as Summerteeth is, it's still one of the last ones I reach for when I listen to Wilco. It's too bloated, inconsistent, and suffers from the worst leadoff track on any Wilco album. Those are all relative terms to other Wilco albums, of course. A lot of the individual songs are standouts, though, including I'm Always in Love.

I caught that ad for the first time today, too...while watching the Travel Channel and a show on Vegas cheaters. It had no effect on me whatsoever. In the same vein, I could have sworn I heard an Andrew Bird song on a Marriott commercial. Can anyone confirm this, or did it just sound similar?

Allow me to join the chorus of those that haven't been able to get into this song. After listening to this album over the last couple of months, this is the one song that I'm always tempted to skip. It doesn't really seem to fit. It kind of stops the album dead in its tracks before it picks up again with "Walken." So, it isn't much of a surprise to me that it is the one song that hasn't been played yet. It's also a little frustrating, because "The Thanks I Get" is a far better song and would have worked great in that spot. This is all my opinion, of course.

These city curfews suck. It almost makes me glad that I didn't spring for a plane ticket for this show. Almost.

Isn't marketing somewhat important, though? I mean, if it hadn't been for that radio ad a few weeks ago, I wouldn't have known to go get myself a new lemon pie from Whataburger. And, man, it was tasty. Nothing dishonest there.

I'm surprised no one else has explicitly championed this statement. There's almost more of a sellout to get a song played on a mainstream radio station. Why would this be considered better than having your song play over a commercial? Is it because the actual money and/or collusion involved is harder to see? Getting the music out in the open is the most important thing, and there are just different avenues for it in 2007 than there were 20 or 30 years ago. Without trying to rehash the same arguments over and over again, I fail to see why this option (especially now) cheapens anything abo

It looks like he's combining the two threads on the subject.

If this is the same one that I got off Dime a couple of days ago, then it sounds absolutely fantastic! Was that a small venue?

Which leads off Still Feel Gone, right? It's amazing what copy editors on a newspaper desk can miss. Especially for a non-sports or news story that probably wasn't turned in close to deadline.

I'm not sure the David Foster Wallace quote applies here. He's talking about the type of art created in this current era. The songs given to VW were in no way artistically compromised for that purpose. They existed before the commercial and will exist far beyond it. You choosing to devalue the art for the sole reason of being in a commercial misses the point of its existence, and you allow yourself to be influenced by it, which seems far removed from the principle you put forward. Plus, that quote reeks of elitism. There are constant examples of literature, film, art, photography, even

Information I did not know, thanks. I thought this was just for The Thanks I Get. I can't say that that doesn't raise my eyebrows a little. But it still doesn't take anything away from the music for me. Unless these ads are shown during every commercial break of live sporting events, I'll never see them anyway (and even then it's questionable).

This has definitely been an amusing thread. Thanks to everyone. I think the argument that the band has to make a living rings a little hollow, because there are many avenues where they can earn money besides selling a song for a commercial. That being said, however, I personally see a big difference in a band like U2 establishing one of their hits to be used as the backbone of an entire ad campaign, complete with their own special edition and more expensive red and black iPod, and a band like Wilco allowing an unreleased B-side to be used as essentially background music for a single car ad

Such an underrated movie.

Seriously?

Yes.

I'm hoping for an appearance by "Shake it Off"

As a graduate of law school myself, I would have to say that finding an LP you've been coveting in a used record store wins out every time.

A little surprised to only see 4 SBS songs so far. EDIT: I mean 5.