Re: New Waterboys & Wilco
Reg
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Yes, there is a version that comes with a full length dvd which has them playing 8 of the 12 new songs live in their studio and interviews. I think it's a great package.
"Do you find yourself really taken with any of the songs, though? I mean transported..."
Well, I really love track two, "You are My Face", and I guess I'd call that the one that has hit me the hardest so far. I like all the songs though and I did find the record really easy to get into. It was not a Yankee Hotel Foxtrot thing for me where I sat transfixed until the end of the record and then went "Oh my god that was great"...I'll admit that...they are not pushing or reaching on this record they are just being a band and playing songs and I think if you are a band like Wilco that's a pretty damn good thing. I really don't think you can make a Yankee Hotel Foxtrot every time out. A record like that or a Triage (since we are on the Baerwald board) seem like they happen during this huge burst of creativity and the combination of the people around and how everyone is feeling and I don't know maybe how the stars align in the night sky while it's being made create an environment for something like that to be born. I think that what can happen is we fall in love with these bands or songwriters and then sort of expect the same kind of stuff from them again and again and they are just following their muse where ever it leads and it might not track back through that same forest or over that same mountain again. If they are a great band, musician, or songwriter it won't matter because they'll always take us somewhere good. We start in a city by the sea looking out at the ocean, call it Boomtown, then we wander along a river in a forest, Bedtime Stories forest, then we emerge from the forest to scale the heights of Triage mountain...and the view is amazing...from there we can see far off in the distance and we know we need to keep going so it's down off the mountain to wander through the valley of NFU. The whole trip is good and we may miss the mountain or the sea but we're going places and it can be beautiful sometimes...and in reality we can always play those songs again...so with Sky Blue Sky we might lay in the fields, feel the grass between our toes, watch the clouds roll by, listen to the birds and look back over our shoulder at Yankee Hotel Foxtrot mountain but the sun is shining and we are there...and that's the beautiful thing about music, it makes you very aware you are here now...ahh...the long version of saying, yes, I'm transported...
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
Reg
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Yes, there is a version that comes with a full length dvd which has them playing 8 of the 12 new songs live in their studio and interviews. I think it's a great package.
"Do you find yourself really taken with any of the songs, though? I mean transported..."
Well, I really love track two, "You are My Face", and I guess I'd call that the one that has hit me the hardest so far. I like all the songs though and I did find the record really easy to get into. It was not a Yankee Hotel Foxtrot thing for me where I sat transfixed until the end of the record and then went "Oh my god that was great"...I'll admit that...they are not pushing or reaching on this record they are just being a band and playing songs and I think if you are a band like Wilco that's a pretty damn good thing. I really don't think you can make a Yankee Hotel Foxtrot every time out. A record like that or a Triage (since we are on the Baerwald board) seem like they happen during this huge burst of creativity and the combination of the people around and how everyone is feeling and I don't know maybe how the stars align in the night sky while it's being made create an environment for something like that to be born. I think that what can happen is we fall in love with these bands or songwriters and then sort of expect the same kind of stuff from them again and again and they are just following their muse where ever it leads and it might not track back through that same forest or over that same mountain again. If they are a great band, musician, or songwriter it won't matter because they'll always take us somewhere good. We start in a city by the sea looking out at the ocean, call it Boomtown, then we wander along a river in a forest, Bedtime Stories forest, then we emerge from the forest to scale the heights of Triage mountain...and the view is amazing...from there we can see far off in the distance and we know we need to keep going so it's down off the mountain to wander through the valley of NFU. The whole trip is good and we may miss the mountain or the sea but we're going places and it can be beautiful sometimes...and in reality we can always play those songs again...so with Sky Blue Sky we might lay in the fields, feel the grass between our toes, watch the clouds roll by, listen to the birds and look back over our shoulder at Yankee Hotel Foxtrot mountain but the sun is shining and we are there...and that's the beautiful thing about music, it makes you very aware you are here now...ahh...the long version of saying, yes, I'm transported...
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
