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i love lots of phrases and songs on the disc, but SwS particularly stands out to me as beautiful in terms of imagery and sentiment. Tires type black Where the blacktop cracks Weeds spark through Dark green enough to be blue When the mysteries we believe in Aren

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not to sound like a wiseass, but not only is it true, but they have already done/are doing all of this:

it reiterates what a few of you have said, but my thought was that it resembles being there not so much in sound or style but in the fact that its really the first time since then that it sounds like a band playing songs together just doing what they do and doing it well without a lot of conscious direction or disection going on. AGIB was the transistional move in this direction but it didn't sound like the style they were going for was 100% set yet... ST and YHF as brilliant as they were sound like musicians creating pieces of music not so much the playing of songs in as organic a way as this

I know this was done midway through last year with 'Fight' being the newest on it - has anyone done it again - sort of a collection of everything new in total? would be cool to have in advance of the album coming out...

Guys like me We don't know how it feels Absentee even closing the deal But every player there's a payoff in the final reel But never with guys like me Cause guys like me We look good at the gate But you'll agree with the odds on the slate and put your money on a bonafide heavyweight and take it off guys like me take it off guys like me We pull you close but never really looking warm but feeling chilly you'll describe us as impassioned when it's just a front we've fashioned Cause guys like me We all vow to become clear and free of the fife and the drum and block the circulation til we're

daniel lanois doing an atmospheric slide guitar riddled Radio Cure chris whitley doing a gritty slide guitar riddled i am trying to break your heart david baerwald doing muzzle of bees

and Rubin era Cash doing a stark and haunting Ashes of American Flags. shuuuuudder.

and, i always used to think that since its the love child of exile anyhow i'd love to hear the exile era stones redo the entirety of being there. (keith taking lead vocals on say you miss me) and yes, The Band would be a natural for a lot of the material on agib or sbs. violator era depeche mode>spiders tom waits doing lets not get carried away morphine doing ELT

its an obvious choice but i'd love to hear late 80s era REM do some - Mike Mills and Michael Stipe harmonizing on late greats or a green style mandolin/accordian soaked version of more like the moon...

sigh, i'm not saying anyone can or can't like anything or that any opinion is anything other than a valid personal opinion. I'm saying that if someone has 56 posts, 55 of which are slagging or complaining about some aspect of wilco's performance or activity, then said person is less likely to be a person who i look at as being here sharing an honest personal opinion, but moreso sound like someone fufilling some agenda to get a rise/reaction out of people. i'm coming from the perspective that it seems a lot of the same people who complain a lot about setlists have also been prophesising t

Not that it matters to his credibility - but if you go look at "chicago's" older posts they are all nothing but setlist bitching and 'oh i wish wilco were more like ____ " type stuff, so whether or not he has heard the disc, i'm not taking his opinion as particularly objective.

i know i come off high and mighty here sometimes, but this is actually something i know something about. i've worked at nick's comedy stop in boston for 23 years and trust me... the clique of working comics (usually not the most popular, but the ones who are out there every night working and writing and scraping by) DO NOT ABIDE comics who continually steal other peoples shit (whether said shit is funny, not funny, observational or not) I personally know of at least 2 comics in boston over the years who've been put into the hospital by the beatdown they received after not laying off the

the mysterious production of cupcakes.

mine didn't.

i have to say that this was the experience of a lifetime and that i cannot begin to express my thanks to EVERYONE in the group, & to Susan and Jeff, for doing all that went into making the experience SO amazing for all involved. and yes, jeff was playing around with walk on for a few during the pee break - definitely not a performance of the song, just a bit of riffing and running through but still great to hear.

favorite travel books: the alchemist - paolo coehlo sidharta - hesse milroy the magician - paul thereaux to a god unknown - steinbeck dharma bums - keroac or on the even lighter side - anything by kurt vonnegut jr.

but the "pop music" prince made for the better part of that decade includes some of the best pop music of the time and a couple of all time classics (culturally speaking). the crap mayer turns out (guitar skills perhaps aside) is some of the most forgettable-elevator-music-in-waiting ever shoved down america's throats. imho.

I know the request for this is pretty old, but its still noplace online and i just had to figure it out for my own purposes... so here.. She was a corduroy cuttoff girl with everybody looks and her kisses crack boo(?) She kissed crack boo oh she tasted like mountain dew, marachino cherries and she had to go soon, said she had to go soon ah I could only find hogan(?) heights surgical choice, electronic tights thats the radio cure, radio cure. Had cameras in her screamin blinds Candy played people i love to fight ritalin minds she could touch the outside of every boy that she climbed on

dave mathews, steven biko, nelson mandella, etc. i got 26 of em with no help at all. 3 of the ones i missed i should have got (12,20,33) the sports ones i'd never have got without help. its interesting to think of how the perspective of a 'test' can influence the outcome - test critics (ie. the act, sat, etc.) are always talking about how the references in the tests are biased against low income and urban kids (ie. yacht:aft :: automobile: ) etc. but without seeing it its easy to dismiss at times - funny to be on the other side of being 'less intelligent' on a test based on it as

i like this one too... http://cgi.ebay.com/WILCO-Hess-Truck-Lot-1...1QQcmdZViewItem

thank you very much sir! i'm looking forward to it.

finally saw this today. wow, what a great movie. A bit more of the 'real world' story and less of the fairy tale than i expected (and some scenes were brutal) but an amazing piece of filmmaking. great stuff.

small dark movie by greg brown is a good one.