here's an old post of mine: Rolling Nels Cline Thread
― markers, Monday, 19 May 2014 13:28 (ten years ago) link
basically, my assessment of their career is that am and being there have good songs but aren't in the same league as summerteeth, yankee hotel foxtrot, and a ghost is born. after that, everything that's come out since has been a step down from those three, and i'm not sure how i'd rate them next to the first two
― markers, Monday, 19 May 2014 13:30 (ten years ago) link
i think YHF is probably the best and most accomplished, but Summerteeth is my sentimental favourite and possibly the most fucked up in its own way.
― charlie h, Monday, 19 May 2014 13:36 (ten years ago) link
Not a terrible line-up. Some real surprises in there, actually.
http://solidsoundfestival.com/lineup/
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
Looks great
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
So there's a new free album called Star Wars:
http://wilcoworld.net/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 July 2015 23:25 (eight years ago) link
it's quite good
― flappy bird, Friday, 17 July 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
The title "Star Wars" has a nice ring to it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 July 2015 01:05 (eight years ago) link
That fuzz guitar on the first three or four tracks gets a little monotonous, but yeah that's nitpicking, and it's really good.
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 17 July 2015 01:38 (eight years ago) link
really, wow. was not expecting this, will have to give it a listen here soon.
― Bee OK, Friday, 17 July 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
downloading album from site, not sure what to expect from Wilco.
― Bee OK, Friday, 17 July 2015 02:46 (eight years ago) link
"you satellite" is a major jam
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 July 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
this is the first wilco record i've enjoyed in ages
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
me too. since... a ghost is born
― flappy bird, Friday, 17 July 2015 13:10 (eight years ago) link
sky blue sky was disappointing at the time but sounds good in retrospect/against their subsequent records
― flappy bird, Friday, 17 July 2015 13:11 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is really good
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
Wilco had been hinting at a full shift into a skronky pop outfit for a couple of albums, nice to hear them finally give in. Sounds very ... youthful? Good summer record regardless, looking forward to hearing stuff from it tonight. Love Greg Kot's take: "This is an album full of trap doors and trick turns."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 July 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
yah this is nice! very summer as you said.
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 July 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
the end jamming out on you satellite is great
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 July 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
ok i downloaded this... i am going to listen to it!wilco was prettay good when i saw them this week -- maybe a bit stadium rock-y for my tastes, but that is more my problem. they are certainly a deeply versatile and talented live band these days.
― tylerw, Friday, 17 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
I like this?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 17 July 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Would never pay for another album but will listen for free
― calstars, Friday, 17 July 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
haha, this is pretty good! i don't think i've deeply disliked any of the latter day wilco albums, but i haven't felt *excited* about any of them. this one sounds kind of exciting.
― tylerw, Friday, 17 July 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
Just noticed it's up on Spotify. Too lazy to unzip album downloads anymore.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 17 July 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
Wilco album that is
― calstars, Friday, 17 July 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
i appreciate the liberal use of flange
― flappy bird, Friday, 17 July 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
"magnetized" is one of the best wilco songs ever
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 17 July 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
yeah wow, that one is great
― tylerw, Friday, 17 July 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
My wife made me turn the album down a little. Take that, dad rock!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 July 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
Love the end of "Where Do I Begin" with the backwards drums and crazy guitar lead
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 17 July 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
Magnetized is nice but compared to the closing track of the previous album it's a trifle
My favourite on this is More, I think - awesome track
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Friday, 17 July 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
Last song has some Mercury Rev vibes.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 July 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
best album since Ghost, easy.
no boring stuff. yay
― PaulTMA, Friday, 17 July 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
First five tracks are all great, really - a little bit of coasting in the second half but it's a nice record yeah
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Friday, 17 July 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
A super welcome surprise after the last couple records. Btf, I liked The Whole Love but they were obviously trying really hard to deliver a Classic Wilco Album, and while it had experimental bits it lacked the genuine adventurousness of their best stuff.
Still not into Nels Cline - he's a little too "Rig Rundown" for me. Like, even when he's trying to be raw and loose it sounds like his guitar's going through at least a whole board of boutique pedals
Really feelin' "More...", "You Satellite" and "Magnetized"
― bunny slopes, Friday, 17 July 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
Killin' it on the 'Fork livestream right now.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 July 2015 02:13 (eight years ago) link
they totally had a mercury rev vibe for the first half of their set tonight. even tweedy was shredding. it ruled.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 18 July 2015 03:59 (eight years ago) link
That's funny, my first ever big concert was Mercury Rev opening for Wilco. I tired out halfway thru Wilco but Mercury Rev was magical, I remember Jonathan Donahue in a shiny magenta shirt.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 18 July 2015 05:47 (eight years ago) link
Thought Tweedy was kinda pushy and nevery in Mavis Staples doc footage where he decided he and his son would add instrumentation to late Pop Staples tapes, but back with Wilco I am kind of liking some of this new one.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 18 July 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
Glenn and Nels own this record.
― kwhitehead, Monday, 20 July 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Every album since YHF makes it more and more clear how essential Jay Bennett was to the band.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 20 July 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
was weird/sad that the cover of the chicago reader's pitchfork fest issue had bennett on it... http://media2.fdncms.com/chicago/imager/u/original/18327189/reader-pitchfork-2015-900.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 20 July 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
make that "ghost jay bennett"
― tylerw, Monday, 20 July 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
It's the Chicago Reader; I'm not surprised in the least.
― kwhitehead, Monday, 20 July 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's tasteless
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 20 July 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
is ariel pink being protested by two people holding signs with rabbits crossed out. the fuck is that
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 02:16 (eight years ago) link
also jfc @ jim derogatis with the mirror
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 02:17 (eight years ago) link
I'm a little surprised at the amount of pushback the band seems to have gotten for playing its new (less than 12 hour old) record in its entirety at Pitchfork. The last time I saw a band at Pitchfork do something surprising was maybe when the Thermals started their set with a handful of '90s alt-rock hits. I wish more bands everywhere would treat festival gigs as more than just another night and do something unique, unexpected or one-off. Boring is a fair criticism, but no Wilco set could have countered that criticism. But indulgent? Man, Panda Bear was indulgent *and* boring, and looked stupid in broad daylight, too. But hey, different strokes ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
playing the new one is the best thing i can imagine! i would've probably liked that better than the greatest hits set i saw last week.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
Glenn and Nels own the record? Exciting; best things about this band by far.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link