Vacant Horizon

Not entirely.....maybe he should consider joining the Eagles...

 

LouieB

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unlistenable.

This is going to be a great fall release season!

Steve Earle

Bruce Springsteen

Neil Young

Eagles (yes, i love 'em)

Krauss and Plant

Gillian Welch?

Spring hopefuls!

Drive By Truckers

Neil Young Archives

...?

I am really excited abou the fall!

c

I agree with the earlier post that the internet is here to stay and artists etc. need to use it to their advantage. for example, invest in their own download service at their website. if all artists were doing this, there would be no more 'record' companies.

the thought that artists aren't 'giving it their all' b/c no one's gonna buy is both sad and kind of ridiculous. hell, i write and work on songs all the time b/c i am compelled by the total aspect of creation. no one is prolly ever gonna hear my tunes, but i still create. if bands are putting out shitty music then it's shitty music that people wont buy. we download the album and if it sux we don't buy it. this is the cause of the loss of revenue with the companies. for decades music consumers have gotten screwed by buying an album assuming it would be good only to find that it blows and they are out $$. Again, that is the loss of revenue. 99% of the crap people download is stuff they would never buy in the first place. so it's really no loss from the internet.

c

this is not surprising-yet still infuriating. the only thing i have really been waiting for the last several years/decades is neil's archives. and here we go again with another set back. this was ready to roll in the late 80s. that turned into lucky 13. talk through out the entire 90s, and it was ready to go in 99. during the run up to csny looking forward, neil was doing interviews with the actual boxset in his hand talking about it. alas, what did we get-are you passionate? terrible album, yet listenable. so now we gots to wait till 08. don't count on winter. big releases only come in the spring and fall. archive I will not be out until next spring. maybe even june, like all the new ones coming out this year.

craig

That is awesome. Dave FM should play wilco. Have you ever heard them on there? They are totally their type of music. I don't listen to the radio much but on occasion when i do dave is one of the stations i check out.

 

Are they giving away any more tickets? I don;t think the show is sold out yet

i heard What Light on acoustic surise a few sundays ago. glad to see wilco fans from ATL.

You realize how ignorant you sound, right?

 

You certainly may feel this way about "mainstream" and "indie", but they are your personal tastes. There are plenty of mainstream bands that I find enjoyable, and plenty of indie bands that are awesome as well. lumping them all together and insulting them makes little to no sense.

 

But then again, you have a problem with facial hair on singers so....

jim's beard is pretty patchy and stringy, but I was referring to his mane of hair on his head. Looks like Counsin IT. My basic point is that I really wish there were more bands out there that were on par with Wilco, the songwriting, musicianship, production, etc.

You realize how ignorant you sound, right?

yet another self righteous indie-kid perpetuating his own delusion and denial by calling others ignorant.

This is wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to start. I thought MMJ was pretty decent until I saw them live in November of 2005 at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis. They have been my favorite band ever since. I can understand how his voice might not be for everybody, but I would be interested to hear what makes him "look like a complete tool on stage".

looking like a tool comes from the hair. it is just stupid to stand there looking like cousin it. i saw them once and was just embarrassed for jim james. (not to mention the ridiculous blow up ghost).

another citique. no guitar solos, just playing chords really loud. there's a place for that, but come on.

Tenn. Fire-unlistenable

At Dawn-okay, mostly forgetable

ISM-could've been great if shorter(golden, holiday, etc = good)

Z-this could have been amazing given the potential shown on ISM, but as is the way in indie-land sounding like shit gives cred. so they put out 10 crappy songs! and name the album Z? really? i mean, when are you people gonna demand that artists quit puttin' out crap much less quit buying it!! SBS is probably gonna be the only album I buy this year of new music. lets face it mainstream blows and indie is just unlistenable.

another band that could be amazing and save rock, but are marred by the special indie requirement that the singer must be really annoying-sing really high and off key, look like a complete tool on stage, etc. much like ryan adams. only his problem is that he puts too much mediocre material on his albums. he sings okay.

by the way, the problems with mmj that i mentioned above are what supposedly make them cool?!

seriously, what happened to rock? really! did punk really ruin it all?

Dear Mr. Tweedy,

 

I love that you have rebounded quite nicely from the YHF - AGIB years, with all that you dealth with in your personal life. Wilco has done an amazing job at collectively working together to record a beautiful album. I have been reading some of the recent press and well, can you please lay to rest the rehab thing? I applaud your sobriety but that is done and over with, and it appears to have been put behind you. You truly look very happy. There is no reason to rehash that period of your life over and over in the press.

 

the problem with this letter is that it is completly ill informed about sobriety. sobriety is an ongoing process, not a moment in time. if one is truley sober, then it is that person's number one priority before anything else. because if it isn't, as in tweedy's case, then you risk, or will, lose a whole lotta stuff as happened in the past. so...it's perfectly legit for tweedy to talk about rehab and sobriety. it is his life. if you don't like it, don't read it. not to mention the fact that all these interviews are exactly the same, nothing new under the sun-the YHF debacle, rehab, jay bennett. just enjoy the music.

IMO

i have tried several times to discern lossy vs. lossless. usually with very frustrating results. itunes songs that i have bought sound pretty good. it wasn't till i was aware of bit rates that i started to worry about it. so i did research and settled on 192 aac. lately i have been worried about not having an ipod forever, so have been using 192 mp3. i guess 256 is overkill in some cases, especially new music from mid 90s to now. all of that seems to have the same loudness to me. now, i have tried to put older stuff from the 70s in a less lossy or lossless format on my ipod and i just cant hear the difference. volume is still really low, i still have to adjust it. these different levels of loudness are pretty frustrating on shuffle. i know its not just about loudness, but clarity etc. i do think it is the source that determins all this stuff. YHF sounds great, to my ears, even at 160, where as Tonight's the Night still sounds like a 70s record at 320 or lossless.

oh well, ranting. more power to the audiofiles here. feedback?

clearly, you are the coolest.

clearly.

can anyone have a legitimate reply on this forum? damn, what a bunch of tools! most of the time it seems like this site is about who can match wits and who is the coolest.

albumbase actually has some good albums.

thoughts? i have used it to check stuff out i have some interest in and then purchase stuff i love. i figure folks here could join and upload some killer stuff.

c

Great song.

Here's an AAC file from the Martyrs show.

thanks so much-forgot to look on you site. awesome!

craig

Thanks friends-

craig

as far as i am concerned, TFA is one of the best albums of all time. awesome. LA and Don't Be Denied are two of my favorite neil tunes. not to mention, The Bridge, Journey Through the Past, and Love In Mind. Crosby and Nash are only on Last Dance. It is not on CD. The above post is completly wrong about that. look on albumbase.com.

rider

"time fades away" was reissued by reprise in 1999 on CD. this disk is a live album from the infamous 1973 tour. i think that it is a must have, but i am a diehard neil fan. if you want to hear examples of the tour go to Dime and you will find many shows....but none in my opinion with the sound quality of this disk. crosby and nash guest on a couple tracks. if i had to list my favorite neil albums the list would be as follows:

1. tonights the night

2.everybody knows this is nowhere

3.on the beach

4. after the gold rush

5. harvest

6.time fades away

7. comes a time

8. harvest moon

9. stars and bars

10. trans(just kidding)

 

spongebob

it's not on CD! it's part of the missing neil albums on disc.

thanks-

c

Always nice to see the boys get recognized for something.

 

I gotta be honest though, that Cornell show (while very good) to me is wayyyyyy overrated. It is amazingly clean and crisp sounding but for my money the shows in Boston and Buffalo that sandwich the 5-8 gig are much better. Also if you can check out the 5-11 and 5-12 shows. Parts of them are available on the deads web site in the tapers section, in mp3 format.

 

No offense at all to the famous Ithaca show but I never really figured out what all the fuss was about that one show. Check out as many of the other May 77 shows you can. There is some seriously sick jamming in later shows from that month.

coherent is the key word here. i think the band finally had an excellent mix in the monitors, donna was sitting back a bit, and they were just over keith. everything melded together. the sbd's of 77 and especially may so tight in this respect. i always picure myself sitting on stage looking up at bobby and garcia as they just play what the muses had already written. good stuff. fun to talk about. haven't done this for years!

Dew!!! And i love when phil's phat bass comes in on scarlet. also, minglewood is such a goofy opener!

great news.

c

of course they put a photo with the article that is out of date with the show. the show is 77 and photo is def 80. should have a photo with donna and keith. makes you wonder how much jouralists really know what they are writing about when you really know the subject.

c

yeah they made taht crap diving rain

yeah, driving rain was just terrible. it just amazes me how these artists keep churning out junk. and not just junk, but junk that takes a lot of work. lyrics, arrangements, instrumentation, recording, production-all for crap. it's like the last trey anastasio cds. you could tell lots of work went into it and it was complete shit. as well as the new son volt etc. i could go on.

I thought George Martin's son was the main producer on the Love project...I could be wrong on that, but I thought I read it somewhere. As for the 3rd Anthology track, Geoff Emerick said that they started working on it in '94 but never finished it. I'm guessing Jeff Lynne just stepped back in to help finish it off, since he participated in the earlier stages of the song. I'm happy it's going to see the light of day after all.

it was george martin and his son who did love. anyway, it makes sense that lynn is back to finish up. just wish martin had been involved a bit more with the anthologies. wonder what it would've sounded like.

on second thought, he really botched up some America records in the 70s with mucho overproduction.

who knows...at least glad its not bob rock or steve lillywhite or something horrendous like that!

I remember sometime before Anthology 3 came out that it would be considered to release a new song on there as well, but then they decided not to at the last minute. I seem to remember the surviving Beatles at that time saying that they didn't release another new song because they felt they had said all they had to say music-wise, or something to that effect. Instead, we got an instrumental introduction on Anthology 3 that had never been released. I'm wondering if this new track is the final one that was supposed to be released back in '96.

it is that extra track.

on a side note, i was pretty pissed to see george martin do the recen Love remix album b/c when the anthologies were coming together he was asked why he was not producing and he said b/c his hearing was bad. now 10 years later he is producing and remixing. why the hell isn't martin doing the production on this. although i like jeff lynn, everything he touches sounds like Full Moon Fever or Traveling Wiburys or even worse Eldorado!!!

c

May Interest Some

 

^^ Hit it ^^

pretty much all of this is complete junk. nice to have it all in one place. really hope this new album will leak soon and be good all the way through. he's got a masterpiece in him i think. cold roses could have been an amazing single record. the rest is just nothing special.

c