wilco

[Chris_H_2]

Yeah wreckroom solo would probably be like a different song

he actually wrote it on guitar (like hummingbird), so i'd be interested in hearing how it originally sounded.

[Chris_H_2]

you can make personal requests of the artist? is he coming to your house?

he auctions off a private, living-room show every year to benefit letters for santa. it's capped at 30 people, and each gets a request. after badgering him for like 6 years straight, i finally got him to play nothing up my sleeve (he refused to acknowledge the song existed for like the first 4 years).

[tragabigzanda]

[Chris_H_2]

Chris did you hear his recent interview on the Tape Op podcast? It’s great.

i did not. do you have a link? i'm pretty bored at work right now, and i should be working but . . . you know . . .

[tragabigzanda]

[bune]

you can make personal requests of the artist? is he coming to your house?

he auctions off a private, living-room show every year to benefit letters for santa. it's capped at 30 people, and each gets a request. after badgering him for like 6 years straight, i finally got him to play nothing up my sleeve (he refused to acknowledge the song existed for like the first 4 years).

that's pretty cool, thanks.

him, every year: "this fucking guy..."

[Chris_H_2]

so after the show on saturday i got to talk to jeff for a bit, making light of the fact that he once again skipped my request -- wanted by loose fur. he said that he doesn't quite know how to play that song, and that it's a jim o'rourke song that jim made him sing when they recorded it. this led into a broader conversation about loose fur. jeff said that they laid down tracks for the new loose fur album about 2 years ago when jeff was in japan. the process since has been excruciatingly deliberate, with jeff and jim trading ideas over email for the last 2 years. he said he's not sure when the album will be out -- said could be this year or in 5 years.

wilco also has a collaboration album coming out in january. he played one song from it (i can't remember what it was).

[bune]

That's pretty cool, thanks.

[washing machine]

Awesome. Thanks, Chris

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Strat]

did you ask him why he's so bored with himself

[bune]

Also when did he find the time to portray a little girl on His Dark Materials.

[verb_to_trust]

Nothing excites me more than two dudes grinding out an album via email over the course of several years. I bet it's a creative masterpiece.

[tragabigzanda]

[Chris_H_2]

Is there a better Wilco B-side/outtake than Panthers?

What are “Cars Can’t Escape,” “Magazine Called Sunset,” or “One True Vine?”

[tragabigzanda]

[verb_to_trust]

Cars Can't Escape is THE Wilco B side. I'll also nominate Venus Stopped the Train.

[Mike]

Are we including Candyfloss? I love that one

[Chris_H_2]

Cars Can't Escape is THE Wilco B side. I'll also nominate Venus Stopped the Train.

Venus Stop the Train is my all-time favorite Jay Bennett contribution. Sadly, it's something they'll probably never release or play live. (and what Jay Bennett and Ed Burch did to it later doesn't count).

[verb_to_trust]

Is it Stop or Stopped?

Bennetts tunes really allowed Jeff to deliver the kind of vocal melodies that would get under your skin.