Well said Bryan!  I've been back visiting Wisconsin
(Go Packers!) and reading Audities on my phone. I've
been waiting to get back to a full-on keyboard to
voice my opinion on Gabe's new self-appointed
cop-of-the-list position...but you did it for me.

Anyone who wants to come to Gabe's defense just
remember - He started it. NO ONE rips on Wilco around
me! I'm already sick of the back-stabbing,
mud-slinging, dirty politics of the primary
campaigns...do we really need it here? Are you so
scared of the new Wilco album, that you need to start
a smear campaign or try to "bully" people into not
voting for it? Hopefully, this will backfire on you
and people who didn't care before will "check it out"
to see what all the commotion is about.

That said: It's not their best album (Yankee Hotel
Foxtrot) - It's not their poppiest album (Summerteeth)
- It is much better than "A Ghost is Born" - It is
pretty mellow (in a laid-back 70's California kind of
way) and takes a little bit more time to unfold. Fans
of Josh Rouse's "1972" should like this one a lot.
Wilco are great because they never tread water and
repeat themselves from album-to-album. "Sky Blue Sky"
isn't my favorite album of the year, but it's in my
Top 5 or 10. 

Dear Gabe,

I prefer to use the year-end list to discover new
music...Those unheralded gems that flew under my radar
(Dogs Die In Hot Cars is one that immediately comes to
mind). I don't need my musical tastes validated by the
over-all position my individual choices achieve - I
already know what I like.

- Dan FrankE

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From: "Bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net>

I'm a man and I like rock n' roll, and I also like
Wilco and a lot of
 wimpy stuff.

If you were speaking like this to me in a bar, I would
probably either
 invite you
outside to have a little further "discussion."

Why don't you go FCC OFF!? Or better yet, leave this
list and go find
 yourself
another where you can go be manly with other folks who
want to be manly
together?

Bryan


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