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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

Try listening to it backwards.

no & no & no

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

seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

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 sounds. And BT was the last time this was so solidly the case.

and i completely agree with kris about the BAitUSA connection as well...shake it off could be on either album and not sound out of place, a few of them could.

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...

easy kid, you'll shoot yer eye 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 all completely numb

let's hear it for guys like me

let's hear it for guys like me

let's hear it for guys, guys like me

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...

one can't objectively dislike something?

You may also note that I love Wilco. And I love every album. (not a.m. I don't love a.m.) And you can note that with all of my setlist bitching I am talking about their setlists, not their music.

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 the lacklusterness of this new album since before walken was even written, and this thread seems to fall right in with that.

If i've got chicago all wrong and they just really feel the need to share their opinion about their disapointment in the band they love, then i'm sorry for assuming their posts were trollish or less than authentic.

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 just frown upon Rogan because he was so agressive and I just don't know what his motive is? What does he have to prove, I mean I don't think if I took a seven day seminar on how to deliver a persuasive speech I could convince anyone that his version of the man show didn't totally suck! I think Joe Rogan is just trying to be Bill Hicks or something of that nature when he couldn't shine Bill Hicks shoes.

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 theivery after the usual methods of warning them didn't work and countless others who cruise along getting the laughs for a year or two until word gets around and then they're out. Getting away for long with being a hack is possible but lonely, but for a thief - it doesn't happen and you can't get away with it unless you are one of two things... already famous (famous thieves like robin williams, billy crystal, dennis miller, angel salazar) or if you're some executive's 'casting couch boy' (ned, dane cook, gary gullman, etc.)

Rogan was a pure stand up long before getting into TV (started in boston) and is after TV, richer than any comic under 60 out there - and as F*ck Yinz said - he's out there working every night for the art and fun of it - he doesn't need the work or exposure of this and while yes, he's certainly capitalizing on it through the video and his website, etc. I can assure you - the confrontation you see in that video is real as real can be and has happened to 'carlos' off camera many many times before this... i'm just saying that its not that special a thing - and its certainly no publicity stunt or attempt to be bill hicks. I'll tell you this - comics like Joe Rogan hold hicks a the place of respect that is frightening at times, its people like Dane Cook and Ned and dave russo that probably wouldn't know of billy's work at all if not for picking it over for bits they can cop.

and stuff like that confrontation happens in the working comedy clubs of the world every time a new crop of open mic'ers come up from the free rooms to start paid work and some thieving hack who was king of the open mic scene can't shake the junkie rush he gets from the laughs he's getting using someone else's shit. The pro comics won't stand for it - he gets warned privatly on a dozen or so differnt occasions, then the more public stuff starts...

the mysterious production of cupcakes.

I don't think I'd even be able to play guitar with Jeff. My fingers wouldn't work.

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.

Did Prince ever make any straight up blues records? He's a great guitarist who made pop music for the better part of a decade.

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 and she climbed off

so 6 kids down the street i am thinking automatically

thats 6 kids down, 6 kids down

i am an american aquarium peeping tom, peeping tom

i am an american aquarium peeping tom,

ah lookout go, lookout go

picking apples for the kings and queens

of thoughts i

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 assuming certain cultural knowledge.

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.