Sir Stewart

FWIW, Cliff Richard has a song titled "I'm The Lonely One", and Tweedy does sing "I play your song just to hear you say that you, you're the lonely one..."

You have never been at a party/pub while a Beatles album was playing, even in the background? I highy doubt that.

From your story alone I'd guess the object of the song is a guy.

Great thread.

The correct answer is 'Company In My Back'.

that's a wuss move Oh.

The Spaghetti Incident? title is a reference to the Manson murders, I thought.

Reported. I suggest others do the same if they've had enough of this poster.

What if Hitler is the messenger?

Nicely formatted poll.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

This is probably it for me: 1. A Ghost Is Born 3. Summerteeth 4. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 5. Being There 6. The Whole Love 7. A.M. 8. Wilco (The Album) I think my criteria boils down to "Which album, when I hit play or drop the needle on, gets me the most excited about what is about to happen?" In that regard, YHF and BT are at a disadvantage thanks to familiarity.

Anyone figure out the origin (authentic or not) of the train (assuming) calls on Capitol City? I hear "Huntingdon" and "Riverton" and maybe "Brooklyn"... Penn Station, perhaps.

Not as problematic as all of Wilco (the Album), but yeah.

"Less Than You Think" is a tough one because although I've enjoyed the whole thing on many occasions (including seeing it live at the Residency and one time sitting alone in my car on a rainy night), I sometimes wish the actual song, (the first three to four minutes, which is one of the most beautiful and emotional songs Wilco's ever recorded) stood on its own, away from the 'drone'. But only sometimes.

That is awesome indeed.

"It's the Midwestern post-rock version of the scene in Field of Dreams where Kevin Costner says, "Dad? You wanna have a catch?" Puke. Wow, that whole review is bad. When did Rolling Stone get so sloppy?

I've listened once to the extended version, and I wasn't moved. In fact, I found myself thinking "Not over, still?" for the first time. I'm also deeply disappointed that the sub-par Sometimes It Happens follows it (and that Whole Love does not precede it). I realize they thought they needed a 'fix' to have the album fill four sides, but messing with the sequencing like that was not the way to go (really, how do you put a song - any song - after One Sunday Morning? It's ridiculous). I'll be playing the CD a lot more than the vinyl, which is a shame, because the vinyl sounds better.

Man, having Sometimes It Happens follow One Sunday Morning, along with shifting the sequencing to place Whole Love before Capitol City, really fucks with my enjoyment of the vinyl. What a terrible solution to the fitting-four-sides issue. The true tracklisting is the CD version.

I forget how this song goes.

Or - it could be told from the point of view of a completely made-up character that was created by Tweedy, a character inspired at least in part by that real-life conversation he had with the boyfriend of the song's title. This is how making stuff works.

Will check that out at home - thank you! Gah, link goes to mediafire's homepage...

This is a show called Talk Stoop.

Anyone else find it ironic that Stipe says "A wise man once said--'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave'" in his statement?