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I think the best and simplest way to dictate the design of the next album is this way:

Wilco should book an arena and sell tickets to every single VC member. They should set up a stage in the round with 6 chairs in a circle facing the audience -us.

Wilco comes out and sits there for 2 hours quietly. VC members spend 2 hours telepathically shooting ideas to the band.

Once the 2 hours are up the band leaves and heads directly to the Loft.

As soon as the album comes out we should meet in a thread and see who got to the band first and hard.

If I yell encore from here do you think they will hear me?

Only if the band was shot up with Liquid Karma.

(it's a Southland Tales reference that probably no one will get)

Not me. Explain please.

The band had I think 3 options to download a track that didn't fit onto Wilco (The Album)

It was an old Woody Guthrie lyric that they added music to in the times of our current banking crisis.

1. Donate some amount to a charity

2. Download the song for free and promise to pay later

3. Download the song for free and live with the guilt forever

The Jolly Banker

Yes, please!!!! And go back and sell downloads for older shows so I could get some of them!

I've always thought bands should do something like this and have proceeds go to charities.

I'm sure we all remember The Jolly Banker thing from this past spring?

Damn I thought that this was supposed to start at 4ish EST.

Mr and Mrs Matt (the Z) look to be lucky. How many folks were there?? How was the crowd reaction?

He's actually going to use his likeness to take over for Hobbes the cat in Calvin And Hobbes. Calvin And Dobbs. The Sunday newspaper cartoon is the real place to indoctrinate the youth of our country. If they actually read newspapers.

Oh, and you don't want to know how he gets rid of Hobbes.

may is the rumor for the east coast

Thanks! I've actually seen fake dates on their message board.

Coincidentally, after I listened to Backspacer Saturday night I put on FlashFoward on my dvr. The first thing that I heard is The End. Very strange at the time.

First time I saw Glenn Beck I thought it was a backstage professional wrestling interview.

Sorry. Didn't know it mattered if I used caps or not. Should we start a poll?

No I was only kidding. But at a certain point it became all caps. Did it start for Sky Blue Sky?

I finally sat down to read the Graphic Novel for Southland Tales. It is the 1st 3 chapters of the story. The film consists of chapters 4-6. It was always planned this way and I'm not sure how many people went out to buy this. Ultimately, it was gamble that didn't pay off financially.

I loved the film and thought I understood mostly everything.

This has helped a lot to clarify some things. The richness and the depth of the story here reminds me of Watchmen.

For those that are unfamiliar, Southland Tales was the follow up to Donnie Darko for director Richard Kelly. His third film The Box is in theaters now.

I think it's fair to suggest that the Beastie Boys were known for little else than Licensed To Ill by the end of the '80s. Their pre-LTI past was really unearthed in the early/mid '90s when their stock rose again thanks to Check Your Head and Ill Communication (the Some Old Bullshit compilation from '94, which packaged their debut EP Pollywog Stew with the "Cookie Puss" single, reflected fans' interest in learning more about these guys who were supposed to have been burnout jokes yet were suddenly the avatars of cool). When the LTI followup Paul's Boutique was released, the '80s had five months left to live. And 99.9% of their supposed fanbase wrote it off anyway - hard to imagine now, since PB holds such a lofty position in pop culture, but it failed bigtime when it came out and nobody really expected to hear from them again. Paul's Boutique was not blaring from dorm rooms in the '80s. And I'm still not sure Licensed To Ill was, either. Maybe.

So, sure, hardcore fans knew about "Cookie Puss" and "Egg Raid On Mojo" in the '80s, but the Beastie Boys were certainly not considered a 'college band' along with the likes of the Meat Puppets and REM.

Of course, this thread is about personal preference, and perception. I voted for REM and I wasn't even in college in the '80s. But in 1987, REM made me wish I was in college. If you consider the Beastie Boys your favorite '80s college band, then I stand aside. I just like talking about the Beastie Boys.

What I'd love to know is how did I miss this yesterday in the thread?!

Sir Stewart, are you in another dimension new galaxy intergalactic planetary?

I'm surprised Throwing Copper didn't make the list.

That was beautiful.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-5-2009/the-11-3-project

Did you see an episode of The Daily Show last week where Jon Stewart did a spot on impression of Beck? I think it was the day after he fell ill with appendicitis.

Now, you are just taking the piss.

I'm taking the mickey.

This has got to be one of the best live dvds that I've ever seen. The crowd is beyond into it same goes for the band. Usually on live dvds I feel like the artist holds back so that when you see them and they're much better you're really surprised.

I don't recall if I posted this in here before, but I heard What Light and Airline To Heaven at my local Uno's in Nashua, NH two Wednesdays in a row at the same exact time. 12:30a.m.

Definitely satellite radio. Or a sign from God.

Queen's Flash Theme is way better than anything Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, or Tom Waits have ever put out.

Smashing Pumpkins are an amazing live band.

Jeff Tweedy, Billy Corgan, Robert Smith, and Jack White could make the best supergroup and last forever.

"Metric's early stuff is much better than the current record." is usually spoken with a supernatural idea that people now know who Metric are including the person with whom you are speaking with.

You take part in the Hipster Olympics.

By the way...what a little tart Taylor Swift is..

LouieB

It's odd but I'll tell this story anyways. A real good friend of mine (into death metal & Tool/NIN) took his niece to see Taylor in Boston in July. I guess she opened up for one of those dime-a-dozen country guys. Not sure who. But he said one thing that stuck with me that almost frightened him to make this statement: "Taylor Swift is going to be huge. Huge. The next big act." I asked him why he would think that. You know what evidence did he gather from that show to make him make such a statement. He told me "She sold every single piece of merchandise before (....) came out. I tried to buy my niece a shirt or something. Nothing. People were going more crazy for her than (....)." Of course, it's entirely possible that the supply that they had was minimal.

Anyways, I would like for Wilco to put out a country album. Solely for the purpose of coming here to see people's opinions.

WILCO is a great band that is at their best when they are moving forward and breaking conventions. This is why WTA is their least inspiring to date. It is a rehash of WILCO from the past 15 years. A "country album" would be a move back to Anodyne, A.M., and Being There. All GREAT albums and some of my favorite recorded work, but I would suspect that the band would prefer to move forward and not backward. What about that "Dirty Soul Record" Jeff was talking about in interviews prior to SBS? That is a record I would love to hear....something in the vain of The Thanks I Get...but funkier and with horns.

-Spongebob

 

 

p.s.-I know that Anodyne is a U.T. record. Edited to keep away super fans.

This really should spawn a thread about Wilco VS. WILCO

Going out in public dressed like this.

You prefer this over cancer sticks.