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Dag, remember when CDs used to be way more expensive here than in the US? Times have changed.

Neither can I. I've been listening to the 320 kps leak as opposed to the web rip I captured myself, but I haven't noticed an appreciable difference in quality from one upgrade to the next. Ehn. It sounds beautiful and has ever since the band streamed it. I sometimes wonder if most people who download music for their PC just have a shit audio system hooked up to their rig...

This thread is over, guys. I mean, a lawyer's opinion on the subject of music far outweighs any of our own.

It reminds me more of Kill the Moonlight than Gimme Fiction, so I'll second that. Mind you, I adored Gimme Fiction like the Beast and Dragon (ha ha ho ho ah), so take that with a grain of salt. There are hooks everywhere on this thing, but The Underdog is maybe the catchiest thing I've heard since Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna dropped.

To be fair, ChooChoo showed remarkably poor netiquette by blowing the Sopranos like he did (no offense, man, I just calls 'em the way I sees 'em). I know more people who watch this show on DVD than TV, and as a simple courtesy I'd never go around blabbing that kind of stuff in random places.

This might sound ridiculous, but I don't think I could ever trust anybody who professes a hatred for Tom Waits. Not in any capacity. For real.

You know what I love most about this DVD? Seriously, "What Light." I know some people are probably sick of the bitching I've done about this song since last summer, but I honestly don't think I've ever witnessed a finer Wilco performance, ever, either live or on videotape. It's so warm and beautiful that I wish the album version had a fraction of the life it fairly pulses with in this film. Dude, Sunrise. You're in a big city - walk in and buy if off the shelf for $18! That's how much I paid for mine.

$18.99 at the Canadian chain Sunrise for the deluxe; two bucks cheaper if you've got a discount card. They only had two copies at my local outlet and they were both deluxe, so I don't know what the regular goes for there. Probably $13 or so, based on the going rate for other new releases. As an aside, how fucking depressing is it that the only non-used record store in a city of 80,000 has only two copies of a new Wilco album? Very, I should think.

Me toooo. The pisser is that I can't watch the DVD at the mo' because of tech issues on my end. Blah.

I think it'd probably work better than "Shake It Off." It's still a lurching beast of a song, it's just a little screechier (and better).

I still can't believe that some people, like, actually prefer AGIB to SBS. I find that baffling.

There's no other way to say this: that review kicks fucking ass. Metivier does an excellent job of heading off lazy critics/listeners like Pitchfork's Rob Mitchum in his opening paragraphs by reminding readers that SBS should be judged on its own merits, not any one specific set of expectations, and his thoughts on Tweedy's newfound lyrical prowess are very similar to mine.

This almost reads like a Bizarro World review of SBS. Seriously.

Well, as a single, I agree that it's a pretty odd choice, as I was expecting "Goodnight Rose" or something similarly rockin' (but not in that cheesy Rock 'n' Roll way - I'm looking daggers at you, "Halloween Head"). I think it's one of the nicest laid-back tracks Adams has done, though, and that's pretty much his forte.

Do we do spoiler warnings in this thread? If so, earmuffs on... In true Sopranos fashion, they nailed the set up and then fumbled like nobody's business in the final stretch. I think we all knew Christopher's days were numbered, but this felt pretty hollow to me. Anyway, the hackneyed peyote-in-the-desert crap was misled at best (and terrible at worst), but I liked that T's culpability in Chris's death kept it from being a squandered opportunity.

Indispensible, and on par with the rest of the so-called Ditch Trilogy. The piano songs are some of Neil's best, if not his very best.

And shitty! I kid. OR DO I. I actually think Halloween Head is atrocious. Maybe it's the exception that proves the rule, I don't know. Two and Goodnight Rose are flat out amazing.

This is a really, really beautiful piece of music. "Venus Stopped the Train," you officially have competition in the realm of "favourite Wilco piano song." Huge thanks to the uploader/linker.

Being There is the band's best record in my book, no contest. The Johnny Come Latelies don't seem to appreciate it, I've noticed, and that's more than all right by me. It's sort of the Wilco record that separates the men from the boys in my eyes; not coincidentally, it's also the purest distillation of Tweedy's songwriting abilities. There's all kinds of strains - Brian Wilson studio pop supported by stacks of harmonies, rollicking melodic rockers that recall the Stones at their peak, stunning fingerpicked country songs, and the very beginnings of the experimental styles the band would begin t

The Wilco MP3 Emporium is a different website, I think. This is ViaChicago.

I wonder when the detractors will begin to bring up songs like "Side With the Seeds" and "Shake It Off" when assailing the "banal" lyrics of the new album. Oh, that's right - doing so would obliterate their whole argument. Ha!

Not really. The British music press has been in sharp decline for a few decades now. They're too busy celebrating complete garbage that happens to sell really well and be homegrown to even take notice of the, uh, good bands out there. It's pretty sad. (That isn't to say that there are no good British bands; there are plenty, but few are really tearing shit up creatively at the present time.)

Wow, can I ask why? That was definitely one of Altman's hits (let's be frank, he had his fair share of misses), and I thought it was a wonderful movie to end his storied career with.

Ewww! Don't be grody. Seriously, though, Chan has maybe a fraction of Feist's range. And I'm not saying that just because I'm a fan of the latter and not the former. But I guess it helps.

As much adoration as I have for Shaun of the Dead, I thought this blew it clean and clear out of the water. It had its way with basically all of the mores of action movies and it did so with such style and intuition that as a film, never mind a comedy, it's one of the most impressive movies I've seen in a dog's age. The fact that it's the flat-out funniest flick I've seen in a decade is just gravy. "You have a mustache." "I know."