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| | Double revision - The Boston Globe |
 | | Mention the double live album and a host of '70s-era images flash to mind, none very pleasant: prog-rock bands with 20-minute drum solos, side-length instrumentals, ''Frampton Comes Alive." Following such indiscretions, the double live album became a symbol of the era's overindulgence, the untrammeled will to absurdity that represented pre-punk rock music's fatal bloat. |
 | | With the double live album evolving into a hybridized future set to include both CDs and DVDs, it is fitting that Wilco, itself a hybrid group (part country and part alternative, part avant-garde and part commercial) should step up as the format's flag bearer. |
 | | The double live album, at its best simultaneously grandiose and intimate, demands such variety, and wherever the format heads in the future, it will retain the interest of fans and critics only by following the template laid out by Wilco. |
| www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2006/01/15/double_revision (1184 words) |
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