wilco

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Do you have a large Muzak collection Lenny?

i don't know what you're referencing

Boring as shit background music made for department stores. How big is your collection of it?

as big as your wife

[verb_to_trust]

I have a normal sized wife but converted to Muzak records that would actually be a huge amount. That War on Drugs record is terrible.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I have a normal sized wife but converted to Muzak records that would actually be a huge amount. That War on Drugs record is terrible.

i'm more of a twin peaks guy, tbh

[Strat]

I have a normal sized wife but converted to Muzak records that would actually be a huge amount. That War on Drugs record is terrible.

Cool

[Strat]

Verb I’m sorry I offended you regarding Jeff tweedys tefent output.

[Blaine Ryan]

Listened to Schmilco while out running errands this morning and I still really, really like that album.

I can understand thinking it's kind of slight, but the acoustic aesthetic really works for me, and the songwriting is razor sharp. A lot of tasteful playing throughout, too -- Nels is a bit underutilized, perhaps, but when he's there he's fucking there.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Listened to Schmilco while out running errands this morning and I still really, really like that album.

I can understand thinking it's kind of slight, but the acoustic aesthetic really works for me, and the songwriting is razor sharp. A lot of tasteful playing throughout, too -- Nels is a bit underutilized, perhaps, but when he's there he's fucking there.

welcome to rm, blaine

[Blaine Ryan]

Listened to Schmilco while out running errands this morning and I still really, really like that album.

I can understand thinking it's kind of slight, but the acoustic aesthetic really works for me, and the songwriting is razor sharp. A lot of tasteful playing throughout, too -- Nels is a bit underutilized, perhaps, but when he's there he's fucking there.

welcome to rm, blaine

Thanks, Lenny!

I've been here a while, mostly as a lurker. But I'm trying to start posting more.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Listened to Schmilco while out running errands this morning and I still really, really like that album.

I can understand thinking it's kind of slight, but the acoustic aesthetic really works for me, and the songwriting is razor sharp. A lot of tasteful playing throughout, too -- Nels is a bit underutilized, perhaps, but when he's there he's fucking there.

welcome to rm, blaine

Thanks, Lenny!

I've been here a while, mostly as a lurker. But I'm trying to start posting more.

whatever you do avoid general discussion

[bune]

Listened to Schmilco while out running errands this morning and I still really, really like that album.

I can understand thinking it's kind of slight, but the acoustic aesthetic really works for me, and the songwriting is razor sharp. A lot of tasteful playing throughout, too -- Nels is a bit underutilized, perhaps, but when he's there he's fucking there.

welcome to rm, blaine

Thanks, Lenny!

I've been here a while, mostly as a lurker. But I'm trying to start posting more.

whatever you do avoid general discussion

[Blaine Ryan]

Listened to Schmilco while out running errands this morning and I still really, really like that album.

I can understand thinking it's kind of slight, but the acoustic aesthetic really works for me, and the songwriting is razor sharp. A lot of tasteful playing throughout, too -- Nels is a bit underutilized, perhaps, but when he's there he's fucking there.

welcome to rm, blaine

Thanks, Lenny!

I've been here a while, mostly as a lurker. But I'm trying to start posting more.

whatever you do avoid general discussion

Haha. Noted.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Listened to Schmilco while out running errands this morning and I still really, really like that album.

I can understand thinking it's kind of slight, but the acoustic aesthetic really works for me, and the songwriting is razor sharp. A lot of tasteful playing throughout, too -- Nels is a bit underutilized, perhaps, but when he's there he's fucking there.

welcome to rm, blaine

Thanks, Lenny!

I've been here a while, mostly as a lurker. But I'm trying to start posting more.

whatever you do avoid general discussion

Haha. Noted.

jk come join us...we need new blood

[Jorge]

Yeah, why the heck would you guys discourage new people from joining GD?!?!?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Yeah, why the heck would you guys discourage new people from joining GD?!?!?

i was joking, bune was serious...he’s unstable

[bune]

Some would say the most unstable.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Some would say the most unstable.

go back to therapy

[bune]

You're not wrong.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

You're not wrong.

i should too

[Hatfield]

Do you have a large Muzak collection Lenny?

i don't know what you're referencing

Boring as shit background music made for department stores. How big is your collection of it?

Verb, I have trusted your musical judgement, from an online distance, for years. You are wrong about the War on Drugs. I'd keep trying and I am sure it will hit you.

For Schmilco, I've given it four solid listens, perfect situations, right head space and I keep coming away with the feeling that if I didn't love Wilco, I would never touch this thing again. It is subpar. However, Star Wars keeps hitting me in the right place. I love that record.

Also, I read Tweedy's book and if you are on the fence, go pick it up. I had a great time just hanging out with him while he told stories.

I was just reading an interview with him for his book and it mentioned that he was first approached with Dylan's lyrics for the Basement Tapes stuff. He recorded a lot of those songs. Any of you insider freaks know where to hear that or do they have it locked down?

Along with the Wilco spin-offs and Tweedy’s production gigs (Mavis Staples, Richard Thompson), it even has its own lost albums. Greenberg recalls a time when Tweedy was asked to write music for a set of unrecorded Bob Dylan lyrics—a project which, without Tweedy’s involvement, became the New Basement Tapes.

But before that happened, Greenberg remembers, “Jeff was so inspired by these Dylan lyrics that were shared with him that, over the course of two days, he wrote and recorded an album’s worth of songs using and drawing from the Dylan lyrics.” The producers went in a different direction with the project. “It’s a very special group of songs and recordings that we revisit from time to time and we are still knocked out by it all,” says Greenberg.

[guestT]

They passed on Tweedy for that horrific "New Basement Tapes" project with Elvis Costello and Yimmy Yames? Madness.