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Much better this way. A 10-inch doesn't fit neatly with 45s or with LPs. Pearl Jam did a 10-inch one year for their holiday single and it sticks out of the collection like a sore thumb.

There seems to be a lot of consensus that "Livid" is a highlight of this EP. When I first heard it, I thought that it was too bad it hadn't been developed into a more fully realized song.

"Scary thighs"? Not cool.

My surmise is that he conscientiously tried several times over the weekend to file his reports, only to find that the site was down, and now that the site's back up, he's in Toronto for the next shows and not quite sure how to convert his reviews to metric. EDIT: I just realized that I totally misread this question. You're actually asking, "Why is he bbop?" That's beyond my ken.

Or, more likely, I'm just not nearly as musically astute as I like to pretend I am. (Either that or this is the first sign of the damage I've done to my hearing after 30 years of rock shows.)

I didn't notice any issues with the sound. On the one hand, I felt like they could have gone deeper. I thought they really leaned into the EPs, and I don't think of those songs as deep cuts necessarily. In fact, "Woodgrain" is probably the deepest cut from More Like the Moon and they didn't play that one. I was really hoping for more of the "played-fewer-than-five-times" songs, a la "Sunloathe" (which was played, and sounded gorgeous). And "Quiet Amplifier," a song that is not a favorite from an album that is not a favorite, was quite good in the live setting. Having se

Wilco. Wilco. Wilco will love me, baby.

Bear in mind that the announced times are subject to change. In 2022, they started fifteen minutes before the scheduled time on Friday night because they were trying to get the set in before a rainstorm that was expected to hit after 11 p.m.

Unless he's been trying to throw us off the scent of the real deep cuts...

I heard they're going to do a "Deepest Cuts" set in a secret location, with the set list consisting of only "Half Life" and "I Can't." ...But seriously, at some point, they need to play "I Might" followed by "I Can't." I think they're saving that combo for the Mixed Messages Tour.

You should have seen the 1957 and 1958 World Series.

In my continuing effort to share personal Wilco-related information that doesn't seem to be of interest to anyone else, I've gone back and figured out which songs I've never seen Wilco perform live. (Fortunately, I have my own records for many of these shows, so I don't have to completely rely on online sources that have mistakes, some of which I have fixed as I've come across them.) A few have never been performed live. Most have been performed fewer than five times. (Some I've seen Jeff perform solo.) The biggest chunk of the ones that have been played a decent number of times come from Ode

You mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4vWbuuRGCg

Your parents must have loved hearing their three-year-old screaming, "I'd like to thank you all for nothing!," not to mention singing about the cigarettes tasting so good.

I hate that tagline. We didn't "all commit" this crime. I never downloaded anything illegally, and neither did most Americans.

O.K., the original post got crickets so perhaps there's no interest in this kind of stuff (or maybe you were all just annoyed that it got posted four times for some reason), but I'll post something else here anyway and see if anyone likes it. The items attached below are from Wilco's show at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island on October 28, 1995, a year and a day before the release of Being There. This show started very late, at around 11 p.m. I know this because I watched the entire World Series game (in which the Atlanta Braves clinched the title with a 1-0 win o

The what not is always especially beautiful this time of year...

Well, contrary to the email they sent the other day, today I received a digital FOTF ticket for SSF.

I didn't have my reading glasses on when I saw this in the paper today and I totally missed the Wilco content.

They sent an email out to Friend of the Festival ticketholders that confirms that this is the record that is included as part of that package.

That's good to hear. I tried to say that I couldn't speak for XRT since I don't live in Chicago, and my comment is reflecting the rock stations in my market.

Wait, what?! Jeff actually said that about the "You Never Know" of 2024? The funny thing is, when I posted about "You Never Know" in the thread from Night One, they had already played it on Night Two and I didn't even realize it. I wrote the post, and then went and looked at the set list for Night Two. When I saw they had played "Meant to Be," I added a footnote to that effect to my post but didn't even notice "You Never Know" on the set list a few songs above it. Anyway, wow. I'm so excited at the prospect of this song returning to the repertoire that all I can say is "Synthesizer Patell!"

I'm hoping for mostly "album tracks" for the Deep Cuts set but, for what it's worth, the songs Jeff has been teasing on his Substack have been a mix of album tracks and non-album tracks. (I know these aren't necessarily the songs the band will end up playing in North Adams, but they are at least indicative of what Jeff has been practicing, and they have included "Message from Mid-Bar," "When the Roses Bloom Again" and "Bob Dylan's 49th Beard," among others.) Regarding the disappearance of "Meant to Be," it puts me in mind of the fact that "You Never Know" is the only Wilco song eve

Those guys hung out in my dorm when they were just Gus. (They changed their name after another band named Gus compained.) They played my college a few times circa 1993-97. Nice guys.

The other two songs are also from the same 10/27/04 show. By the way, if someone owns the vinyl version of Alpha Mike Foxtrot but does not own the CD version that has many more tracks, then they're not really a completist. (No judgment, just an observation.)