Friday, June 18, 2004
I'm on msnbc.com.
Well, sort of.
MSNBC pundit/Nation columnist Eric Alterman ran my thoughts on the latest Wilco album in today's Altercation, his daily web column.
The comments he ran are pretty much in line with this post of mine on here a few months ago, when the album was first leaked, and also were a cut and paste of another post of mine on RMAS the other day. Alterman had a run a review of the album by one of his readers the day before, which had a similar take to mine, and I wrote in to stress the absence-of-Jay-Bennett factor.
Speaking of Bennett, I picked up his most recent solo release, Bigger Than Blue, about 4-6 weeks ago. It wasn't as good as his first one, The Palace at 4AM, but it's not bad. Once again, he reworks a YHF Wilco outtake, this time the song known as "Cars Can't Escape" in the YHF sessions, but here titled "Reasons for You to Love Me", and yet another Woody Guthrie leftover from the Mermaid sessions, "Cajun Angel", is included. This AMG review preferred it to Palace.
And while staying in the world of music, I just snagged an advance of Dig It Up, the new Old 97's album and their first in three years, and first after Rhett Miller briefly went solo in 2002. Haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but on first listen it sounds like a retreat to their pre-Fight Songs days, i.e., more twang, less pop. Since Fight Songs was my favorite album of 1999, it's not a development I had particularly hoped for, but I'm going to give the album a chance.
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MSNBC pundit/Nation columnist Eric Alterman ran my thoughts on the latest Wilco album in today's Altercation, his daily web column.
The comments he ran are pretty much in line with this post of mine on here a few months ago, when the album was first leaked, and also were a cut and paste of another post of mine on RMAS the other day. Alterman had a run a review of the album by one of his readers the day before, which had a similar take to mine, and I wrote in to stress the absence-of-Jay-Bennett factor.
Speaking of Bennett, I picked up his most recent solo release, Bigger Than Blue, about 4-6 weeks ago. It wasn't as good as his first one, The Palace at 4AM, but it's not bad. Once again, he reworks a YHF Wilco outtake, this time the song known as "Cars Can't Escape" in the YHF sessions, but here titled "Reasons for You to Love Me", and yet another Woody Guthrie leftover from the Mermaid sessions, "Cajun Angel", is included. This AMG review preferred it to Palace.
And while staying in the world of music, I just snagged an advance of Dig It Up, the new Old 97's album and their first in three years, and first after Rhett Miller briefly went solo in 2002. Haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but on first listen it sounds like a retreat to their pre-Fight Songs days, i.e., more twang, less pop. Since Fight Songs was my favorite album of 1999, it's not a development I had particularly hoped for, but I'm going to give the album a chance.
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