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LOVE this album. I think it's their best since YHF. To me WTA and TWL are great albums, they are not classics, and I tend not to go to them too often anymore. this is one that I'll be going to for a long time. I really like that it is all new- usually by the time the album comes out I'm familar with 3/4's of the material because they've been playing it live- so cool to have it all fresh. Magnatize and Satelite are up there with the band's best material.

I was just reading the book Compass of Pleasure by David Linden which is about the pleasure centers of the brain and addiction. I was hardly expecting a brief discussion of tweedy. It was about how after he quit drugs he became addicted to running and ended up with two fractured legs.

Scored Wednesday and Friday tickets! Anyone else going? I think there may be some tix left for a couple of the shows. I've been waiting 11 years for this one.

I love the trifecta. Band song and album all in one called Wilco. They are now amongst the ranks of Black Sabbath and Bad Company.

Seems pretty easy to get tix on the general sale. I went for the 150 seats at around 10:10 and got row a, center left. There are still tix in all of the price ranges available.

I can only think of one band that has previously done this: Bad Company. Meaning, having a band name, album name and song name all in one. They haven't yet had an eponymous album, and now have Wilco the song. We can only hope that perhaps for the first time since 1973 we have this alignment.

Beeper King: "she said she was 16 but i could tell she was 22"

I am voting for him, but, that really was dumb. I hope this makes sense, but it felt like a dimestore version of something that should have been done brilliantly by Wycleff.

So, do you think the 5 nights will have completely different setlists (obviously with a few songs being repeated), or do you think it will have the basic core setlist and change a few songs night to night?

RIP. As embarrasing as it may be, his band was largely responsible for my love of rock n' roll.

Did anyone notice that this week one of the "issue highlights", which are essentially funny headlines that aren't linked to an actual story, said "Being Into Wilco Put On Resum

I requested It's Just That Simple. John should have his moment.

Wow. This could be one of the most important movies made in a very long time. Unfortunately, my feeling is that people will choose to focus on his glorification of France and Cuba as a way to discredit the primary message.

I don't want to be the one to rain on everybody's parade, but has it occured to you that it might be one of the tracks that has already leaked? Gee, that was fun.

Lawyer here chiming in. They technically could possibly charge him federally for violation of their civil rights, like they did against the Klan members that were found not guilty of the underlying murders in the 60's. It's not likely, but it could be argued that by denying them there right to live is a violation of their civil rights (right to live one's life is a basic civil right).