kidsmoke

I said to my son earlier tonight as we listened, "Did he just say 'mini-mart'?" So thank you for confirming that.

We're sorry.

Alissa, then a kindergartener, warbled that song when new as, "Tall buildings shake, horses escape, singing sad sad songs". I'll never be able to hear Jesus Etc without an image of sad, frightened horses bolting out of a building flitting briefly through my brain.

Hollinger, I think the last line in this verse: "High at the wheel Of a bull black Nova And I'm sorry as a setting sun This can't be undone Can't be outgrown" is "can't be outrun"

Housecat? She's right, you know. We should rename ourselves Via Velcro. Or maybe Via Bungee Cord.

Wait, did I somehow miss this? And miss such a rich excuse to send you away to Banned Camp? Hmm, well, since at Via Chicago we don't recognize a "statute of limitations" (such a silly idea! ) I guess I could always give you a retroactive time out....hmmm. These administrative decisions are so brain-taxing! I'll have to give this serious contemplation. Don't want to be overly harsh, yet it sends the wrong message to just let Mike misquote people....! (gears turn within kidsmoke's skull) Oh, I know what! To get back on topic, this whole album is, to quote a delicious turn of phrase, "an a

In Wilco the Song, I hear this verse a bit differently: "There's so many wars that just can't be won, oh-oh-ohhh Even if all the battles begun, oh-oh-ohhh This is an hour of arms open wide A sonic shoulder for you to cry on" I think it's "This is an aural arms-open-wide" Thanks everybody for your lyrical assistance!

Welcome to Via Chicago!

I second this notion. Also, I'm surprised at the lukewarm response to Country Disappeared! I'm pretty smitten with it, myself. Tweedy does some of his prettiest singing ever on this album. John & Pat too.

I agreed with a lot of what you said, nodep, but you lost me with this sentence: "Wilco is a rock band who is admittedly not in their peak but still very worth it." I think they are very much at their peak.

The tension in Bull Black Nova just builds and builds until you know that thing is gonna blow up, and you can hardly stand waiting for the explosion!

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Every good vibe is winging its way straight to you, Jen.

Who, me? I'm right here, buried up to my earballs in up-too-loud-or-is-there-such-a-thing-? "Bull Black Nova" Ok, I'm not good at the erudite dissection of a new album, note for note and influence for influence. I react to good music more like...well, this, as I emailed a friend: "I'm so damned happy right now....they really have outdone themselves! The thing is gorgeous, fresh, wistful, brazen,hopeful, happy, finger-snappingly-feet-gotta-dance wonderfulness. My head is gonna be lost in this music for a very long time." Holy damn this is terrific. I love that Jeff's voice is mixed far f

Good suggestion, Wendy, and I know WilcoWorld will help folks get satisfaction on this, so let them know if you've had a problem. They aren't looking to deprive any one of the perks they were meant to get. I'm sure they'll help.

Ok, somebody's gotta say it, and it jolly well oughta be the fool who begun this ridiculous thread (um, me ): this thread has only the thinnest and most existential of connections to Wilco, and as such really doesn't belong in Just A Fan. I'm moving myself over to Tongue Tied Lightning.

Ok, well. kidsmoke is genuinely touched by this. Since I was musing in here about things that are jolly I have realized that there are many jolly things I have haplessly forgotten, so see this thread: http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=39802 Which gives vent to more things which are jolly. Perhaps not as jolly as today's bankers, but jolly nonetheless. All I know is, I can't get this tune out of my head!

Ok, well, it's startling how many jolly things there really are, when you start to think of it! I began when I named the big three, Santa Claus, bankers, and the Green Giant, all inspired by Wilco's beautiful new "Jolly Banker"....... ....but later realized I had utterly neglected: Jolly Joes (candy) Jolly Roger (pirate flag!) and a Jolly Good Fellow, which is pretty much what we all hope we are What other Jollies do you live by? Oh, and while Woody Guthrie, and for that matter Jeff Tweedy, probably won't forgive your lapse, I personally forgive you for singing, "I'm a Jolly Rancher,

You didn't think I was disparaging the song, did you? Because I love the song & it's been humming in my brain all day long. I was just being silly.

Come around, Oceanman, we miss you! I hope your day is unfolding just as it should, with much happiness! I give you oceancake! Have a wonderful day and year!

You know, I was thinking: now there are three jolly things: Santa Claus, bankers, and the Green Giant. Hey, it's been a slow brain day.

I really really like it. It has a warm familiarity to it, something that Wilco has always done so well. And Guthrie lives on! Also, (I'm sorry in advance) the Feist mention of her playing a Garden Weasel (hmmm) forces me to recount upon you all the joke about Edward Scissorhands and his poor twin brother, Edward Gardenweaselfeet. That's all, that's the entire joke. Hey, I didn't say it was a good joke!

I like Gary Jules too.

I don't remember them ever saying that. But of course I miss a lot. Still, I don't think so.

No, a day after he got it I collected up all the stuffing from all over the living room, pushed it all back into the toy, trimmed off all the torn up "mustard" and "relish", and re-sewed the toy shut in at least 4 places. Now I've given the toy back to him. Why do you think we hurried up and took some pictures, silly? I give it two days, tops. PS - I dare ya to look at this footage while tripping!