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For the most part, I'll take live over studio because the quality of the performance tends to be better - and also I will take an acoustic setlist over anything anyday. But if the audio quality sucks for the live recordings, then I'll take studio over live.

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i'd love it if jeff does a few solo songs midway through the wilco set, like on the AM tour when he'd do Gun or Black Eye on his own

Absolutely! Neil Young has been doing that (off-and-on) for 35 years and it definitely works for him.

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I love the live stuff. The version of "Shot In The Arm" from Kicking Television is bliss!!!

I think that is the way music is meant to be heard, performed live. I get a whole new respect for a band if they have a solid live show.

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I love "Company In My Back" live. It blows the album version away.. Especially the version from Kicking TV.. I love the little Nels Cline guitar fills after "listen to my eyes". Brilliant..

 

this is a perfect example of how hearing a live version of a song i've never really liked can change my opinion drastically. now i love this song, whereas at first, i didn't much care for it.

 

i prefer live stuff, mostly, but i love albums too. sometimes i just feel like listening to a less-raw recording, which usually means not live.

 

and i'd love to see jeff do a little mini solo acoustic set in between wilco sets, but that would be a little different from neil young doing it. i mean, neil young is Neil Young and Crazyhorse. it's not Jeff Tweedy and Wilco. but it would be killer, and if the band was up for it, it would be great.

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With Nels and Glenn on board, the live versions of everthing are amazing. But, I still prefer the studio YHF to the live versions. The O'Rourke production and overall subtle sonic quality of those tracks cannot be matched live.

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I still prefer the studio YHF to the live versions. The O'Rourke production and overall subtle sonic quality of those tracks cannot be matched live.

 

i think i absolutely agree with this statement, but at the same time, i think the essence of a live performance cannot be beat.

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Wow, this is a tough issue. Personally, I think live vs. studio is apples and oranges. Each format presents new possibilities, advantages, and disadvantages. We also have to consider the differences between a live recording and being at the show. There is a world of difference.

 

As a part-time musician, I think I would be happy living my days in the studio because I am fickle about my sound. However, there is a rush that comes from live performance. Live Wilco provides an immediacy in their connection with the audience that is difficult to convey in any recorded medium, although they certainly create emotionally captivating records. Take "A Shot in the Arm," for example. I love listening to that song when it's just Tweedy and an acoustic as well as the Summerteeth demo version, the album version, and various live iterations. It's a great song, and ultimately it doesn't matter how the song is presented, I still connect with the music on that emotional level.

 

I'm grateful Wilco provides us with so many different ways through which we can connect with their music.

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I still prefer the studio YHF to the live versions. The O'Rourke production and overall subtle sonic quality of those tracks cannot be matched live.

I agree. Only with the YHF stuff though. I think the other albums come across better live.

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I agree. Only with the YHF stuff though. I think the other albums come across better live.

I agree as well. I am dying for a solid, rockin' bootleg of Pot Kettle Black. Although, the version of Poor Places on Kicking TV is really nice.

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I find myself listening to kicking TV more than anything else. AGIB was disappointing to me, but they rock it so hard live its like a whole new album.

 

I think jesus ect and via chicago are better in the studio version tho

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Personally, I think live vs. studio is apples and oranges. Each format presents new possibilities, advantages, and disadvantages. We also have to consider the differences between a live recording and being at the show. There is a world of difference.

 

Exactly.

 

The only case where I disagree is that I prefer the studio ITMWLY over all other versions. The lackadaisical tempo and lilt make it much, much better than its hurried live counterpart.

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i think its generally the tempo and tne of the studio albums that makes me listen to the live stuff more

 

its quite downbeat, dark and haunting, and Jeff saying he can't listen to old studio versions kinda compounds my point

 

Nels and Glenn are immense live and many dimensions to the sound, through little intricacies and new parts they through in that just make you gawp in amazement!!

 

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