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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Brian F.
    I really love both Cruel Country and Cousin, especially compared to Schmilco and Ode to Joy, and my understanding is that the former albums were both products of collaboration more so than the latter two (former/latter referring to my preceding sentence, not the release dates of the albums), so I'm not sure I get the pre- and post-Star Wars demarcation. I actually think Star Wars-Schmilco-Ode to Joy is the low point of the band's catalog, regardless of how those albums came together. If I were ranking the albums, those would probably be Nos. 11, 12 and 13, with a big gap between whatever No. 1
  5. Brian F.
    To each their own: I think "A Bowl and a Pudding" is the second-best track on Cousin, behind "Sunlight Ends," and I rank both at the high end of Wilco's catalog. "Sunlight Ends" might be one of my five favorite Wilco songs, and "A Bowl and a Pudding" might be in the top 20 or 25. I was about to push back against the "since way back when" comment by bringing up Jar of Flies or Broken, just to name two outstanding EPs of recent vintage off the top of my head, only to realize that both of these are at least thirty years old and thus both qualify as "way back when." This made me feel r
  6. Brian F.
    Customizing the sleeve is a feature? I wish I had realized that. I left mine blank since waiting in line to do arts-and-crafts seemed like not the best use of my time. Thirty bucks for a 17-minute EP in a plain brown sleeve is a ridiculous price, regardless of the "limited" nature of the pressing or the color of the vinyl. I'm not sure why white vinyl is something I'm supposed to covet. It makes the dark streaks that were on the record when I pulled it out of the sleeve really stand out.
  7. Brian F.
    I watched Man in the Sand the other day for the first time in probably over 20 years, and I was also listening to some of the outtakes on the Being There box, and one of the things that struck me is how much the timbre-- "is it timbre or is it 'tambre'?"-- of Jeff's voice has changed. It was so deep both when he spoke and when he sang in those days. Think of "I Thought I Held You" or "Dash 7" (tape manipulation on the latter notwithstanding). (It was also funny to watch the documentary and see skinny Jeff and chubby John.) Does anyone else hear "Paperback Writer" in the riff for "H
  8. Brian F.
    Before the storm abruptly ended things on Sunday, Pat said during the Autumn Defense's set that they were working on a new album, and they played two songs that should be on it, but he did not suggest that it is done.
  9. Brian F.
    The poster was the same as the one on sale at the merch booth, as far as I could tell, but it was signed by all six Wilcos. There was apparently a pop-up performance by Nels in the lounge on Saturday afternoon, but I missed it even though it was mentioned in the email they sent us. I think that if I had known where the lounge was on Friday-- by the time I went looking for it, it was closed-- and if I had gone there when the evacuation order was issued on Sunday-- when I asked if I could go there, I was told by someone from MassMOCA (incorrectly, apparently) that I had to either lea
  10. Brian F.
    Mine has some dark streaks on it, but it plays fine. The record vendors at Solid Sound really took advantage of their exclusive with that $30-plus-tax price point for a six-song, 17-minute EP in a plain brown sleeve. Wilcoworld is selling it for $20. I got it as part of my Friend of the Festival package, so depending on how you account for the value of the other items that came as part of it, I arguably paid about $150 for it. I think the premium for a FotF package over a regular three-day pass was $200, but the only other thing in the package that I definitely would have purchased
  11. Brian F.
    I wonder whether the Largo shows having been delayed to mid-April this year will factor into whether he does his usual late-December/early-January Largo run. I hope not.
  12. Brian F.
    So now that the Chautauqua show is done, we're in a rare moment where there are no publicly announced Wilco or Jeff Tweedy shows on the calendar in the near or medium-term future. Jeff has a couple of "in-conversation" dates at the Evanston Folk Festival in September, and then he's booked to perform on a cruise to the Caribbean next February/March. That's it. I assume he's going to have his other hip taken care of soon and then will need time for rehab and recovery. Supposedly, the new Tweedy band album is close to done. Are we expecting that to come out in the fall with shows in support of it
  13. Brian F.
    "Cruel Country" sans "I Am My Mother"! Cats and dogs living together!
  14. Brian F.
    My CDs and LPs are shelved alphabetically by artist and chronologically within artist, so any time an artist deviates from the standard size of a CD or LP, I end up making the Sideshow Bob stepping-on-rakes noise. I'm looking at you, Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball or, more recently, Green Day's Saviors.
  15. Brian F.
    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.
  16. Brian F.
    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.
  17. Brian F.
    "Scary thighs"? Not cool.
  18. Brian F.
    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.
  19. Brian F.
    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.)
  20. Brian F.
    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
  21. Brian F.
    Wilco. Wilco. Wilco will love me, baby.
  22. Brian F.
    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.
  23. Brian F.
    Unless he's been trying to throw us off the scent of the real deep cuts...
  24. Brian F.
    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.
  25. Brian F.
    You should have seen the 1957 and 1958 World Series.
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