Mermaid Ave box set

[manshank]

I love Little White Cottage

[Tokyo Fan]

I've just been listening to the Palace at 4 a.m. which has two more Bennett songs from that same Bragg-Wilco Guthrie collaboration: "No Church Tonite" and "Little White Cottage". As these have, in fact, been released (however down on the totem pole) I guess they wouldn't belong on the "unreleased" 3 cd. But it would be interesting to know if Bragg and Wilco recorded a version of these two songs.

[calexico]

This is the level of idiocy you are dealing with :

Plus, his voice always seemed like just some dude.



Also, the reviewer goes straight to Mermaid Avenue as a touchstone. Lazy.


Thirdly, it's The Onion. A once funny online endeavour whose target audience now is something called a "hipster" and what Americans generally refer to as "douchbags".

Make of that what you will.

[BoogieMan]

Wilco and Billy Bragg play on the same festival in Sweden this summer

[dcarter]

The AV club is as chipper & insightful as an IBS support group, but this comment wins the day:

"Left to right, this is like the evolution of the modern-rocker-turned-hippie."
-EIDan

I chuckled at that one but guffawed at this one:
"ghidorah 22 comments
Jay Farrar: The most boring man in music

TRUE? FALSE?

I think he's very boring."

[dcarter]

I see that Shuck Owens left a comment using an alias:

"Neckbeard the Philatelist 1 comment
Get the Wilco ratio down to zero, and I'll check this out."

You're confusing me with Mr. Carson, amigo. My alias would share:

"Get the Bragg ratio down to zero, and I'll check this out."

True. I wasn't thinking how the 3rd disc has Bennett-era Wilco rather than the current line-up. When will we hear from dear Bill?

[ShuckOwens]

The AV club is as chipper & insightful as an IBS support group, but this comment wins the day:

"Left to right, this is like the evolution of the modern-rocker-turned-hippie."
-EIDan

[ShuckOwens]

I see that Shuck Owens left a comment using an alias:

"Neckbeard the Philatelist 1 comment
Get the Wilco ratio down to zero, and I'll check this out."

You're confusing me with Mr. Carson, amigo. My alias would share:

"Get the Bragg ratio down to zero, and I'll check this out."

[Lawrence Fan]

I love the comments at AV Club. There were some hoots there yesterday about New Multitudes.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/jay-farr ... -ne,69895/

Pretty harsh on the Jayfers.

[Tokyo Fan]

I can just imagine Bragg foaming at the mouth if he were to see the order of artists (Wilco before Bragg). But the thing that always irks me is that Jay Bennett seems to have disappeared from memory. According to "Learning How to Die", it was Bennett who was keen on doing the Guthrie project (after Bragg approached Wilco). Tweedy didn't want to do it! J.B. wrote the music for California Stars and a couple of the other songs (but being the needy person he was, and generous, he included Tweedy on the credit...but look at the original two volumes. It clearly shows the "order" with Bennett (when he wrote the major portion, and Tweedy, when he wrote the major portion..which really does not seem right if you look at Wikipedia entry and see that the order has been switched now to always show Tweedy first).

End of rant.

[gdavis5446]

I love the comments at AV Club. There were some hoots there yesterday about New Multitudes.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/jay-farr ... -ne,69895/

[dcarter]

I see that Shuck Owens left a comment using an alias:

"Neckbeard the Philatelist 1 comment
Get the Wilco ratio down to zero, and I'll check this out."

[gdavis5446]

Thankfully you will be able to just buy the 3rd cd/unreleased stuff.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/exclusiv ... -fo,70084/