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    Cool If Wilco Plays R.E.M Song

    in Just A Fan

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    Here's some words from Scott McCaughey, praise for Wilco from a very early date as 1997:

     

     

    What music is giving you hope right now?

     

    (...) Oh, the band that's giving me the most hope right now is Wilco. They made a really uncompromising record [being There], and they've gotten more and more popular. They play totally uncompromising live shows that sound like a band at its peak. You go see 'em, and two times out of three, they just rock like crazy, then play some quiet country songs, then play feedback for five minutes, then do a Ramones song or a Replacements song or a Bowie song. They're just all over the place, and it totally reminds me of when you'd catch the Replacements on a really good night. Wilco does that maybe 75 percent of the time, whereas with The Replacements, it was maybe one out of five if you were lucky. [Laughs.] They're really giving me hope, because people are going to see 'em. And all the people who are going to see them who got into them because they're this country-rock band, well, they're not. They play some country music, but they're just a fucking rock 'n' roll band that kicks butt over everybody right now. They put out a really weird, fucked-up record, but the songs are brilliant, and they play amazingly well together, and people are kind of going for it. And that's really encouraging to me, because to me, they're a band that's kind of like the Fellows have always been, and it's nice to see that they can play to a thousand people in a night or whatever, instead of a couple hundred. So when they're really huge pop stars about a year from now, they'll take the Fellows on tour with them. And everybody'll hate us. [Laughs.] http://www.avclub.co...ccaughey,13474/

     

    Incredible how time flies, this was 1997 when he said "(they) sound like a band at its peak" and that they'll be "huge pop stars about a year from now".

    Cool If Wilco Plays R.E.M Song

    in Just A Fan

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    There are many ties between R.E.M. and Wilco over the years

     

    This just made me think of something I was reading a few days ago. The wikipedia entry for Uncle Tupelo, March 16–20, 1992, describes with some detail the collaboration between Tupelo and Peter Buck. It says, for instance:

     

    (...) drummer Mike Heidorn announced that he intended to leave the band for personal reasons. However, Heidorn wanted to work with Peter Buck, so he agreed to postpone his departure until after the March 16–20, 1992 recording sessions.

     

    The band stayed at Peter Buck's house while in Athens, Georgia to record the album. Buck offered to host the band for free, so that the US$13,500 budget allotted by Rockville could be spent exclusively to pay the fees of the recording studio and audio engineers

     

    It also says that,

     

    March 16–20, 1992 sold more copies than their first two albums, No Depression and Still Feel Gone, combined.

     

    I think that this success was, partly, the result of Peter Buck's participation. Buck has produced the records of many other bands, has played guitar in them, has even arranged and written entire songs, to that point that some have the impression that Buck "Has been in every album that every band has made".

     

    Just a few months ago Peter Buck was quoted by a magazine saying that when Nirvana visited Athens, early in their career, he housed them at his place. I was reminded of this while I was reading that wikipedia article. It's incredible his contribution to rock music.

    Death of the CD

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I recently bought on amazon.com the cassette of R.E.M. ~ New Adventures in Hi Fi. Apparently the Vinyl edition of this is out of print, so the cassette was the other memorabilia I could own, I could afford, of that album, which happens to be a masterpiece of the Warner era.

     

    Most of the cassettes available today are remaining (surviving) stock of the pre-CD and the early CD era, there's actually very little manufacturing of "new" cassettes.

     

    Also, I think that manufacturers can charge a premium on cassettes (just like they do on vinyl products) since they are aimed at a collector's market rather than the general population who is more likely to just buy a CD they can easily play everywhere. On the other hand, cassettes and especially vinyl, need a dedicated area/space of listening and have little mobility -the walkman being an exception.

    So, Smashing Pumpkins have a new record?

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Last time I read they were working on this, it seems as though the stuff had been in preparation for a couple of years now, and most of the songs were already available through their site.

     

    It was like some sort of two volume album, very ambitious, and Corgan would work on several versions of the songs. It's been a while since I read this, I-m in a hurry now but later in the day I'll try to locate that info I read.

     

    I hope it's a good album anyway, unfortunately it may as well be their last.

     

    The last Corgan interview I read he was in Chicago for some live shows but he was the only remaining member of the band, accompanied by some other folks.

     

    In that interview he discussed his ageing (he's in his forties) and mentioned how he had achieved maturity over the years.

     

    He also said the entire Smashing Pumpkins is to be re-released, I'm especially looking forward to the commemorative issue of Mellon Collie.

    Death of the CD

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    To add to the pessimism, Google has just announced a music service to compete with the likes of tunes and amazon, though the scope of the project seems limited at the time (lack of a rich catalog, Android-dependency). However, since Google is a technology powerhouse I wouldn't rule them out completely, the service is in its infancy and unfortunately not available outside of the U.S.

     

     

    http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/11/17/idINIndia-60572820111117

    Death of the CD

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I think the last stronghold of CD sales is the car stereo. At least here customers to whom I have talked, cite the ability to play music while driving, the key reason why they buy CDs.

     

    I personally stopped listening to CDs in the car, I just plug-in the iPod. However, I still buy physical CDs of the artists that I like, though I rarely "listen" to the CD itself, I seldom play the disc.

    It's Christmas time!!!

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    The time is approaching, I enjoy this time of the year, but for the most mundane reasons (its commercial aspect, the cold weather and snow when and where available).

     

    Not until very recently I realised that Christmas does not have the universality that television and movies pretend. What I mean is, two thirds of the world population don't celebrate it, while in the Southern Hemisphere it's summer.

     

    Anyway, I must confess a penchant for Holiday music. The number one track of Christmas, in my opinion, is Johann Pachelbel's Canon. I especially like George Winston's version, I'm talking of this:

     

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    For ten years now I have played this CD every winter. During a time I paid piano lessons to learn how to play the Canon. I didn't succeed, for various reasons I'm not going to mention. Even in times when it's not Christmas I listen to this CD. After doing some google research I found that the Canon is also popular in weddings?

     

    The other great track of Christmas is called Greensleeves. Here I don't have a definitive version yet, although I'm still looking for it.

     

    The third place goes to O Come Emmanuel. In 1997, a long time ago indeed, a bunch of 'Gothic' bands reunited to produce a Christmas album by the name of Excelsys, they made a version of O Come Emmanuel that I liked at the time.

    Old Town School compilation to include Tweedy track

    in Just A Fan

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    It's been announced by the A.V. Club that Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music is to release, December 13, a 127-song retrospective that includes a Jeff Tweedy track.

     

    The song is “Three is The Magic Number", recorded back in February 2002.

     

    For a complete list of the tracks and participating artists, see here: http://www.oldtownsc...LiveFromTOC.pdf

     

    To view the A.V. Club story follow this other link: http://www.avclub.co...-great-p,64986/

    Iowa workshop readying guitar for Jeff Tweedy

    in Just A Fan

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    A music blogger in the Des Moines chapter of metromix.com has posted today that a BiLT guitar is being custom-built for Jeff Tweedy.

     

    "The goal is to have this instrument ready in time to give the singer-songwriter before Wilco's Dec. 4 show at the Val Air Ballroom", wrote Joe Lawler.

     

    Find the blog post here: http://desmoines.met...2910899/content

     

    And here is the site of the guitar's atelier: http://www.thelutherieshop.com/

    "more influences than we know what to do with..."

    in Just A Fan

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    I've been reading the wikipedia entry for Uncle Tupelo / March 16–20, 1992, it says that "Jeff Tweedy's lyrics were strongly influenced by Nick Drake's 1972 album Pink Moon". I am going to give a listen to this Drake album tonight, I'm intrigued.

     

    The story about the making of the album is actually very interesting, I wish there was a much comprehensive book documenting this project.

    R.E.M. 1980-2011??

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I've decided not to continue posting in this thread. I see it was created to pay homage to the band, I'm moving on to other topics, artists, to preserve the spirit of the thread. I still feel uneasy about the situation anyway. Apologies.

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