Brian F.

After not listening to this for a few months, I've listened about five times over the past week and the album has held up well against my original very positive feelings about it. I still think "Sunlight Ends" is one of the five best songs they've ever done, and "A Bowl and a Pudding" is also way up there. And "Meant to Be" has taken on a special resonance for me since the album first came out.

Am I supposed to grade it on a curve? I think it's a mess.

This is so much better than the one they chose. I guess I'm in the minority here, but I think the one they chose is hideous. And it's going to look even more chaotic on the CD.

I don't see November 29 on that page. I see "later in 2024, exact date TBD" and a vague reference to items shipping "circa late November."

I just can't believe it never "dawned on me" that "She's a Jar" is about pickles. I've always understood it to mean "She's Slightly Open"...

In case anyone missed it: https://chicago.eater.com/2024/9/19/24249085/wilco-jeff-tweedy-daisies-pickle-partnership-collaboration-croissant The Instagram video is a hoot.

When/where did they announce November 29 for the EP?

This reminds me that the Bob Uecker line that's always referenced from Major League is, as in the title of this film, "Ju-ust a bit outside..." But the actual punchline of the joke, as far as I'm concerned, is rarely quoted. The whole line was, "Ju-ust a bit outside... Tried the corner and missed." "Tried the corner and missed" is the most underappreciated joke in film history.

I assume it will be like the Port Chester shows: three nights, no repeats, but two-hour sets.

I wish they would play the full "W.M.A." They haven't done that in a long time. Eddie just tacks part of it onto "Daughter" as a tag occasionally. It's as timely as ever, unfortunately, so it would make sense to play it more. The first time I saw them, they played "Blood" and Eddie smashed a hole in the stage with his mic stand during it and then climbed in.

Did you go last night, too? They played "Rats." I hope you saw it. I have actually been fortunate enough to have seen them perform every song from all twelve studio albums live (not including the few songs that have never been played live), with one exception ("Bugs," which has only ever been performed once). "Bugs" is not even a good song-- or even a real song, frankly-- but it irks me that it keeps me from being able to say I've seen them all, full stop. I've even seen all eleven songs from Dark Matter because I was in Vancouver on the second night of the tour for the first perfo

I'm so jealous, even though I saw them ten times earlier this year and will be seeing them two times at the end of the month. Enjoy!

Over the P.A. while shopping at Ralphs in Sherman Oaks this afternoon: "Can't Stand It." Heard while wearing my Wilco California state flag T-shirt.

We in the West were really lucky ("we were lucky...") that they played a lot of shows here when Cousin came out, and the shows heavily featured the new songs. I saw "Evicted" nine times, and I even got to see them play the "rarities" multiple times (although I missed the lone performance of "Ten Dead" and they still haven't played "A Bowl and a Pudding"). It was really great. The only problem was that only about five percent of the audience was familiar with the new songs, so people would sit down en masse any time they started playing a new song at a seated venue. Anyway, we've be

Music and vocals, or just music?

I love the Old 97's, and they're one of my most-seen acts, but they've been becoming less of a must-see for me because they seem to do the same thing tour after tour. This is the American Primitive Tour, supporting their brand-new album, but it looks like they're not playing more than three songs a night from the album. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the show.

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?)

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

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

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.

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.

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

"Gwendolyn," yesterday afternoon on the in-house music service at the Barnes & Noble in Calabasas, California.

This was in Boston? Where did they play?

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