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  1. Brian F.
    I've watched approximately the last 40 seasons of the Knicks and, I'm sorry to say, it hasn't always been that rewarding. Oh, wait, you meant The Knick... (I'm having deja vu-- have I made this joke here before?)
  2. Brian F.
    Setlist.fm is unreliable, especially for the early years of Wilco so, even if you could do that, I would have to do a show-by-show audit. In the course of making my spreadsheet, I found a few errors and omissions on that site (and on Wilcobase, which may be where Setlist is getting its info from for the early years). I was able to fix the errors on Setlist, but can't fix them on Wilcobase. There are a lot of sets on Setlist that show "Outta Mind (Outta Sight)" where it should be "Outtasite (Outta Mind)." There was a show in November 1997 listed as Jeff solo at the Middle East Downstairs in Cam
  3. Brian F.
    We have a winner! The run of shows in the fall of 2021 coming out of the pandemic where they opened with this every night gave it a booster, so to speak, that allowed it to remain ahead of "California Stars" for the time being. The top ten are: A Shot in the Arm California Stars Impossible Germany Jesus, etc. I'm the Man Who Loves You Hummingbird Outtasite (Outta Mind) I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Misunderstood I Got You (At the End of the Century) And just for fun, here are the 56 songs that I've o
  4. Brian F.
    Excellent guess, but I'm happy to say that "California Stars" is second-- happy because it would depress me if that song, which I dread hearing, were first. I do think "California Stars" is destined to become number one, though. If you count Jeff solo performances, it has to be the runaway leader.
  5. Brian F.
    That is tied for fifth, which is not bad considering that my first time seeing it was July 3, 2000, meaning that there are quite a few songs that had a five-year head-start on it (although many of those songs became relative rarities as the composition of the band changed). The song that's in third place, "Impossible Germany," actually didn't debut until 2007 but has made up for lost time.
  6. Brian F.
    Postscript: They played four of the songs I listed above at Solid Sound. I'm still left with 20 or 21 album tracks that I've never seen them play live (I can't say for sure whether I've seen "Outta Mind (Outta Sight), including two that have never been played live. (This is strictly looking at Wilco shows; I've seen Jeff do solo versions of a bunch of these songs but have not undertaken to catalog Jeff's solo shows yet.) With the addition of several non-album tracks that I saw for the first time at Solid Sound, I have now seen Wilco perform 199 different songs, counting
  7. Brian F.
    "Gwendolyn," yesterday afternoon on the in-house music service at the Barnes & Noble in Calabasas, California.
  8. Brian F.
    This was in Boston? Where did they play?
  9. Brian F.
    I'm not looking for any artist to make the same kind of music they did thirty years ago, but I could point to Pearl Jam as a bunch of guys in their 50s and 60s who just released a pretty fantastic album that stands up with anything else they've done. The album has gotten strong reviews from critics and even spawned two number one songs at rock radio, which no Pearl Jam album before had done. Even Pearl Jam fans seem to really like it, which is saying something since a lot of them seem to only want to relive 1992-98. I actually think there are a number of aging rock bands that are still making
  10. Brian F.
    For those who are unaware, or who are not Starship Casual subscribers, a first draft of "Ice Cream" was shared on the Substack page way back in October 2021: https://jefftweedy.substack.com/p/ice-cream-1st-draft (Also attached below as mp3 for those who cannot access the Substack page.) Ice Cream (1st draft).mp3
  11. Brian F.
    Cool. I've always enjoyed them.
  12. Brian F.
    Do you know how many people follow them on Facebook/are in the Facebook group/whatever the proper phrasing is? (I'm not on Facebook.)
  13. Brian F.
    Neither of these things mean anything to me. The "limited edition" thing is artificial-- before too long, they're going to release it in a more widely available edition that will have the same songs sounding exactly the same. And I don't really care what color it is. It's a gimmick. Obviously, other people feel differently and that's why they jack up the price.
  14. Brian F.
    It's funny how, in a sample size of just four or five posters, we run the gamut of opinions on the relative merits of Wilco's last several releases.
  15. Brian F.
    I'm paying extra to do their work for them? I really got fleeced then, since I didn't bother with the customization. Then again, I didn't pay thirty dollars. I paid an unknowable price as part of the FotF package.
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