Beltmann

Can't agree more! Sorry to hear about your misadventures, Jesse. Hopefully your daughter will remember the joys of Wilco live and forget all the grief.

The '77 movie is definitely the first one. You are clearly dating a lunatic.

Picked up the CD today... just started listening now. I loved the last album, and this sounds pretty great so far.

Nice! That collection was great fun to scroll through. (I own four of the featured shirts.)

That was a fantastic episode--I've never forgotten it. That version of "Handshake Drugs" still, to this day, remains among my favorites.

As always, huge thanks!!!

Between this place and Facebook, tonight was like the old days of VC listening parties. Thanks, people!

"Blasting Fonda" would be somethin'. I remember going to a Tweedy solo show once about 10 years ago, and had three or four chestnuts in the back of my mind as wishful thinking. He played all of 'em, including "Fonda." (I don't remember the others, except for "Dash 7.")

Yep. My wife suggested we go as an anniversary gift to ourselves. In related news, my wife is awesome.

Oh, I gotta request it for Chicago...

Funny... some of us were saying the same thing on Facebook. I've never warmed to "Impossible Germany," despite my deep admiration for its nuance and technique. "Laminated Cat" is probably top five for me. I remember acquiring one of the DVD Project discs about 10 years ago, and just watching this song over and over and over...

Agreed. Fantastic.

Summerteeth is getting heavy representation--which means I'm happy.

Maybe that's it. If so, it was substantially louder on the broadcast.

Have they been doing it that way live for awhile? They definitely did not play it that way the last time I saw the band.

Diggin' the space-rock version of "One Sunday Morning."

Same here. I love that tune as much as ever; part of it is nostalgia, I suppose, but that's a perfectly valid reason to love something.

This is excellent to hear, and if the finished documentary materializes, I'll be giddy as a schoolboy. Still, I'm trying not to get too enthused; as we've seen before, these things don't always work out. We still haven't seen much of the footage recorded by Sam Jones at the Vic in Chicago in May 2005. Since the band wasn't happy with the results, the planned documentary was scrapped (the shows were eventually released as the Kicking Television live album). Does anyone know whether the band commissioned a Solid Sound documentary, or was approached by an external filmmaker?

What would we be without wishful thinking... All the hard work paid off!

Video of the Daft Punk cover: [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425cohPGmnM[/media]

The bidding process is already wide open. Anyone can make a bid, or put together a group to make a large bid. If there have been repeat winners, it's only because those groups have been determined to repeatedly make competitive bids; there's nothing preventing new groups from making similarly competitive bids. As Wilco Me pointed out, it's not easy to organize a winning bid, which accounts for why an "established" group might have a likelier chance at success--it's a little like having an infrastructure that provides an advantage, yes, but no guarantees.

I live in Wisconsin as well, and what strikes me is how the far-right majority is pretty transparent and brazen about what they are doing--they aren't even attempting to appear centrist or fair-minded. I keep saying that it feels like we're living inside of an Onion article.

Love it. May I ask who designed it?

Thanks!

I do the same thing, and had the same reaction to Trouble at first. But, like everything by these guys, the tracks have slowly started to emerge. The National have a strange affinity for subverting their own melodies, relying on subtle traces that gradually rise to the fore. I'm not sure I will like Trouble as much as the previous three records--so far, it seems unlikely--but it's still one of my favorite albums of the year.