Post here if you went to Wilco at Irving Plaza tonight

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I haven't heard the new one yet, and I'm not much of a Wilco fan either, but O'Rourke tells me there's a 15 minute track that's right up my alley, so I am at least curious...

Wilco's okay. I liked YHF and some of what I've heard on A Ghost is Born. And actually, I was a big fan of "Box Full of Letters" when it was played on WXRT in the summer of 1995, and I was a 16-year-old file clerk at an insurance company who drove 20 minutes to work on frontage roads and listened to the radio. I've heard Being There and Summerteeth and parts of Mermaid Avenue in passing, simply because I went to college with humanities majors in the late nineties, but none of these really did anything for me. (Probably because they'd moved away from their country affectations but hadn't yet discovered the lovely ramshackle virtues of YHF [not so much "experimental" as everybody'd have you believe {I'm just as sick of the "OMG AVANT-POP MASTERPIECE P&J #1!" as much as everyone else} so much as a greater interest in sonic texture; Kotche's drumming adds a lot] -- they just sorta seemed boring in that mid-period, is all.)

Ah y'know...more of the same stuff you'd probably disapprove of. In terms of new stuff, I quite like the Secret Machines (who certainly don't sound particularly new). Bits of this and that, plus tons of the usual stuff.

A-ha! So I did!