Robby

I beleive this CNN video is in another thread.

I still like to know where the concert footage came from.

Where is the concert footage for this interview coming from?

It looks awesome.

Reservations makes me think of standing on a dock in a cold foggy morning - listening to the tugboats & fishing boats bang up against the dock - while expressing some very beautiful words to someone you love. Sort of a morning after from the madness of the night before as felt in Poor Places. Kind of like the end of a movie. Then the noise at the end reminds me a leaving a theatre after listening to a film or concert and finally the ringing sound in your ears as you walk out back into world.. Sorry to wax poetic - too many beers tonight.

Funny this thread should come up as I have done this for all the Wilco albums as well as Uncle Tupelo albums. The Mermaid Avenue albums sound great together with just the songs Jeff sang. On some of the other albums I substituted alternate versions, B-sides or just songs from other albums. Loose Fur's Laminated Cat is a great opener for my version of A Ghost is Born. Anyways, here's my version of Being There:

- Misunderstood

- Monday

- Outta Mind (Outtasite)

- Forget the Flowers

- Red-Eyed and Blue

- I Got You (At the End of the Century)

- Say You Miss Me

- (Was I) In Your Dreams

- Sunken Treasure

- Kingpin

- The Lonely 1

- Dreamer in My Dreams

Paperclip holder as a maraca - love it!

Here's hoping they do another unplugged segment in their concerts again like they did in those "An Evening With Wilco" shows. These new songs really lend themselves to being done acoustically.

John's bass playing was beautiful.

It's also amazing how Jeff has gotten so comfortable in front of a camera - compare this to when they did I'm Always in Love in the Sam Jones film.

I was playing a rip of this song from the stream thru my home stereo (as opposed to the computer speakers) - my wife walks in the front door and starts singing: "Bang, bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down on her head..."

It's funny how people hear different things in this song - I don't share her opinion, if anything It seems closer to When I'm Sixty-Four.

But actually I hear more of Paul McCartney in the song Whole Love.

What I like more about Capitol City is the 60's supermarket keyboards in this song - reminds me of Donald Fagen's Walk Between the Raindrops. I also like the little boy pout in Jeff's voice when he sings: "Anyways the phones are all broken.."

Like I said, funny how we hear different things.

 

 

Wow, that whole review is bad. When did Rolling Stone get so sloppy?

mid-to-late seventies...

Has Phish released a DVD of their performance of Exile On Main Street? I know there was a fan(s) shot version of the concert that was circulating and it was called Exile On Multi-cam. While the fan shot was astonishingly good, you can obviously see the concert being professionally shot. I think it was released in some theatres as Phish 3D. I don't really care about 3D but I would love to buy a DVD of them doing this album - for the 5.1 sound alone!

What I love about YHF is that while, almost every song on the album can be enjoyed individually, the album demands to be listened to in it's entirety.

When you take the time to sit down and listen to the entire album, you come away from it feeling like, Wow, I really experienced something, like you had been to a concert.

I grew up with albums that were better listened to as a complete piece: Thick As A Brick, Dark Side Of The Moon, Brain Salad Surgery,etc.

In 2001 it became so easy just to go onto Napster (or whatever) and download a single song, forget about the rest of the album, it's just filler, it sucks.

So when YHF came out, it was like, yeah you can just listen to the songs you want, but if you listen to the whole album you're gonna come away with a more enjoyable experience than if you just listened to the songs you liked the most on the album.

Sorry if I didn't explain that very well..

Ok, you gave up drinking, smoking & drugs, have two teenage kids, and no credit card debit... how is it you look slimmer now (or at least for the SPIN magazine cover in 2009) than you did 10 years before that? I mean is it Weight Watchers? Jennie Craig? Bowflex? binge/purge? What? Sorry, I guess that's more than one question...

We could use a handful of wheel and a day off and a bruised road

A fixed bayonet through the great southwest to forget her

Actually that whole song could be my favorite Wilco lyric, but my favorite changes often too.

This sounds like a song Wings would have done back in the 70's - Helen Wheels or Hi, Hi, Hi - something along those lines. I don't mean I don't like it, but the song just reminds me of Paul McCartney.

I could base my whole existence upon the cherry strands of your gold hair.

He cried out, "I fear what waits for you".

Outside I look lived in.

I'm sorry, I have been really holding back in saying anything on this site about the new album. I have come to realize that my initial impressions about Wilco aren't always lasting ones. That's one of the main reasons I really like Wilco. They are an accquired taste that cannot immediately be absorbed and judged in one listening. However, their music usually stays with you for several years and becomes more appreciated over time.

All that being said, the Art Of Almost sounds like an '80's Genesis song to me and I don't mean that in a good way. It was jaw dropping to hear this song compared to IATTBYH. I think Nels has been unfairly criticized on this board, but I believe this song is a good example of him literally saving the song at it's closing.

Sorry to be negative, I really like other songs on this album, but this is not one of them.

I guess they are too young to have heard Steppenwolf's live version of "Monster". Probably not a fair comparison to "Misunderstood", but it was the first time I ever heard a band do something like this.

Have you seen the magazine cover? They made him look like he should be selling Dos Equis beer..

Something like.."I don't play big acoustic guitars often, but when I do, I play Bob.."

1974 / Civic Arena / Pittsburgh: Emerson Lake & Palmer - they opened with Hoedown

Avatar notwithstanding, "Own It" sounds like something John Lennon might have done as an outtake during the "Rock "N Roll" album... Love it!

I would disagree as well. Listen to Fortunate Son on CCR's 1970 Oakland Concert album and then listen to Fortunate Son as covered (live) by Bob Seger. I know you'll probably say is unfair to compare a band doing one of their own as opposed to someone covering the same song live, but I distinctly remember my jaw dropping with disgust when driving to work one morning and hearing Bob Seger's version on the radio. Just the difference alone in the drumming by Doug Clifford as opposed to the Silver Bullet's drummer was enough to make you cringe. I just guess I feel it's a good example of the musical difference you would hear between a full blown CCR reunion and seeing John Fogerty with a back-up band.

It's supposedly dad rock, they are going to bundle a robe and slippers.

A Wilco Snuggie, perhaps?

Funny,but I guess I thought the dBpm site would be up before the pending release of the new album would be announced.

Still says "coming soon".

Maybe they're busy burning discs and slapping labels on on them.....

Parts of this remind me of Elvis Costello and The Attractions circa 1977-80, but that's just my opinion.

Don't mean this in a bad way either, I really like it!