Didn't realize the new one was free until I looked at this thread. Based on one go-through in the car, "You Satellite" definitely jumped out as my favourite. Tweedy sounds a lot like Lennon on "More."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
I would call this very good karma:
This message has arrived in your inbox because you downloaded Wilco's new album Star Wars. Thanks for that and we hope you're enjoying the new tunes.Now a bit of background... We consider ourselves lucky to be in the position to give you this music free of charge, but we do so knowing not every band, label or studio can do the same. Much of the “music business” relies on physical sales to keep the lights on and the mics up. Without that support, well, it gets tougher and tougher to make it all work.With that in mind, Wilco has put together a list of some of their favorite recent releases. We encourage you to explore it (and beyond) and yep, even march down to your neighborhood record shop and BUY. There’s a lot of great music out there, lets all try to support it. After all, it's the years of support (and purchases) of Wilco's music that allowed us to do what we did last week.Adron - Organismo Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine Empyrean Atlas - Inner Circle Eleventh Dream Day - Works for TomorrowFull of Hell, Merzbow - Full of Hell & Merzbow Game Theory - Real Nighttime Girlpool - Before the World Was Big Invisible Familiars - Disturbing Wildlife Landlady - Upright Behavior Luluc - Passerby Ned Doheny - Hard CandyParquet Courts - Content Nausea Richard Julian - Fleur de Lis Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Soused Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather William Tyler - Deseret Canyon Thanks for listening (and sometimes buying),- HQ
Now a bit of background... We consider ourselves lucky to be in the position to give you this music free of charge, but we do so knowing not every band, label or studio can do the same. Much of the “music business” relies on physical sales to keep the lights on and the mics up. Without that support, well, it gets tougher and tougher to make it all work.
With that in mind, Wilco has put together a list of some of their favorite recent releases. We encourage you to explore it (and beyond) and yep, even march down to your neighborhood record shop and BUY. There’s a lot of great music out there, lets all try to support it. After all, it's the years of support (and purchases) of Wilco's music that allowed us to do what we did last week.
Adron - Organismo Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine Empyrean Atlas - Inner Circle Eleventh Dream Day - Works for TomorrowFull of Hell, Merzbow - Full of Hell & Merzbow Game Theory - Real Nighttime Girlpool - Before the World Was Big Invisible Familiars - Disturbing Wildlife Landlady - Upright Behavior Luluc - Passerby Ned Doheny - Hard CandyParquet Courts - Content Nausea Richard Julian - Fleur de Lis Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Soused Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather William Tyler - Deseret Canyon Thanks for listening (and sometimes buying),
- HQ
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
Alright for William Tyler getting a mention!
― austinato (Austin), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link
Totally. I picked that up, the Luluc and the Empyrean Atlas, the latter two of which were totally unfamiliar to me but seemed cool enough.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 July 2015 02:42 (eight years ago) link
thats really cool
― just sayin, Thursday, 23 July 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
Game Theory!
― Blood On The Knobs, Thursday, 23 July 2015 05:50 (eight years ago) link
man, "magnetized." it's been a long time since a song like this made me feel like this
― soyrev, Thursday, 23 July 2015 07:11 (eight years ago) link
yeah just got that, very cool
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 July 2015 13:54 (eight years ago) link
I like the Empyrean Atlas too. I had to check if Nels Cline wasn´t playing guitar with them, it´s exactly the same sound and style (crying whales!)
― EvR, Saturday, 1 August 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
Played through their whole catalog earlier this week. AGIB has aged really well, and in fact the first half of Sky Blue Sky is some of their best stuff. Still not so crazy about its second half but everything up to "Side with the Seeds" is A+.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 1 August 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
i probably think "Hate It Here" is my favorite Wilco song.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 1 August 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/2016/07/wilco-new-album-schmilco-new-song-listen/
― willem, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
Nice.
― Austin, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
For a minute there I (accidentally) forgot Wilco existed. I never listened to the last record and not sure I can remember anything from the one before it (I liked it?), been a while since I saw them live or even seen any of them around. But the radio played "You Never Know" from "Wilco (The Album)" this morning, and it was pretty good! I should probably catch up on the last decade of Wilco, see how it sounds with clear ears.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
The Whole Love was the last one of theirs that I really liked across the board. Star Wars and Schmilco are kind of boring.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
xpI never liked them until their two most recent albums, which I think are terrific (I had this same convo w/you or someone else in the Dad Rock thread?)
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
last song on star wars is incredible but their album art is generally more exciting than their records now
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
they are a great live band at this point
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
agreed that "you never know" is a v good song. the problem with wilco (the album) is it's just kinda like "you never know" for 40 minutes
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
oh yeah they still rule live
i appreciate them mainly as a reliable source of income for nels cline at this point
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
last song on star wars is incredible Haha, that's the weak one (IMO)!
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
Star Wars is appealingly buzzy-sounding, particularly Random Name Generator. Schmilco didn't make much of an impression on me but I do like Someone To Lose
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
for some dumbass reason they split the opening track of star wars into two tracks - kept together it'd be one of their best songs (i also love the closer)
but these pale before the opener and closer of the whole love which are worth the entirety of wilco being a thing
― imago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
"Random Name Generator" and "The Joke Explained" are my primo back-to-back dad-rock jams
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
i am willing to fight anyone who denies that one sunday morning is the pinnacle of alt-country fyi (i mean, what else could be?)
― imago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
idk for me it's "gun" by uncle tupelo ymmv
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
sike i actually said that to fish for good alt-country
― imago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
lol i mean all i did was name another tweedy song (and "gun" is just kinda replacements cosplay so it was a cheeky response)
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
in terms of early jeff alt-countrier stuff i think this song is astonishing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbgsMhAjMJs
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
tweedy is the boss of this game tbh. linkous the holy spirit maybe
― imago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, September 4, 2018 11:23 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
waiting for the sun by the jayhawks?
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
pinetop seven will always be my favorites but they're probably a little too ornate to count as straight alt-country
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
with The Night's Bloom as his/their apex
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Pinetop Seven, while awesome, are sort of too esoteric. I think Jayhawks might be apex, or the first Son Volt. Wilco dropped the country stuff pretty fast.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
They dropped it by Summertooth, but AM is basically an Uncle Tupelo record there are still some choice alt-country cuts on Being There, like Someday Soon (one of my fav tracks on either disc), Far Far Away, and Kingpin
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
I love pretty much every Volebeats album but I wish their stuff was easier to find.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Kingpin is a goof, Far Far Away was less country per se and more a nod to the Dead, I think.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
I can't even believe this slander about Jay Farrar
Tweedy had great songs in Tupelo, but Farrar was the force imo
it's been twisted by the success of Wilco and the relative non-success of Farrar/Son Volt
if you want an alt-country album that Nels Cline is on, the best one is not by Wilco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_(album)
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
Faithless Street by Whiskeytown is really great though Ryan Adams turned into douche
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, September 4, 2018 12:38 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
kingpin isn't a goof. it may be goof-y, but it's not without merit. is a fun swamp-rock workout.
far, far away definitely screams alt-country to me, with the chugging, brushed drums and the pedal steel.
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
if you're gonna count sparklehorse as alt country (a stretch imo)
then you gotta give it to giant sand
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
xpost Oh, whoops, I was thinking of Forget the Flowers, that's totally Dead-y country.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
yeah agreed about Forget The Flowers (which has always reminded me of Dead Flowers too, not just because of the title). Someday Soon has echoes of the Dead in there too, but scans more country.
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Uncle Tupelo is pretty clearly one of the towering peaks of alt-country but i also agree on the Jayhawks. Wilco's first album has some nice cuts but at the time it seemed like Farrar was going to be the genius and Tweedy/Wilco would be forgettable. i think part of it tbh was Farrar's singing voice being very serious and "my god that man has things to say about life." and that first SV album is great, i was all-in on them that one time.
when i think alt-country now i also think about the classic Bloodshot compilations and early Neko Case (though she wasn't really mining the same territory, it was less "alt" than she is even now to an extent.
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
the relative non-success of Farrar/Son Volt
You know, considering how much I love the Tupe's four albums, I really have no excuse for not pursuing Farrar's post-Tupelo output. I mean, I discovered them like a lot of other people did in retrospect in the early 2000s when the initial remaster campaign and Wilcomania first hit. I recall being in the Great Basin microbrewery in downtown Sparks many years ago, just drinking Icky like it was water and getting really happy drunk, waiting for Feist to take the stage. Somebody played a song and it was a really great, Zuma-sounding atmospheric country rocker. I was kind of taken aback when somebody told me it was Son Volt, as I gad just assumed Son Volt to be Jay Farrar's "solo acoustic" project.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
*I had just assumed
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
Farrar is the Sonic Boom of alt country
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
I recall being in the Great Basin microbrewery in downtown Sparks many years ago, just drinking Icky like it was water
love it when austin posts take me back to nevada
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
I do what I can.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link