;_;
― markers, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
did any other ilxors go to the festival thing? i think it would be nice to go eventually
― markers, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
Overall the festival is super yuppie/white (SHOCKER) but extremely well run and a great time. It's inside a beautiful contemporary art museum, they truck in a great sound system/setup and it's very relaxed/mellow. Everyone is very affable and you make friends throughout the day. Highlights besides Wilco were Purling Hiss, Sic Alps, Thurston Moore/Nels Cline, Jamie Lidell, Darin Gray and Syl Johnson. All the extraneous stuff (art/photo exhibits, comedy, films, etc.) was very enjoyable too. Bonus was good, reasonably priced food and beer (Lagunitas bottles for $5.00), the staff is extremely friendly and there is almost no security/bouncer presence. Wilco dudes and other musicians just stroll around all day. ATP for cool dads and aging hippies, no doubt.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
:D
"Thurston Moore/Nels Cline" \(^o^)/
never realized it was INSIDE a building a tbh -- that's rad
― markers, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah Thurston and Nels Cline sounds v v v awesome, would watch.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
They hadn't played as a strict duo in 13 years, they did a full hour. Complete scree fest, driving the dads away in hoards. Lovely, lovely time.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
I love "I Love My Label", and that's a good/faithful cover.
― Let me tell you something about that song. (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
out 9/27 - http://pitchfork.com/news/43034-wilco-announce-new-album-fall-tour/
― markers, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
song for jane smiley's boyfriend?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.anti.com/catalog/view/180/The_Whole_Love
― markers, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
The Whole Love is a veritable sonic stew, showcasing Wilco’s far-reaching musical prowess (multiple guitars, keyboards, synthesizers and percussion plus Mellotron, strings, loops and more) perfectly accompanying Jeff Tweedy’s provocative and insightful lyrics. The Whole Love opens with the seven-minute “Art of Almost” and concludes with the twelve-minute “One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend).” In between: 10 adventurous tunes (each clocking in at four minutes or less) including the current single, “I Might” which was released this past weekend at the band’s Solid Sound Festival.
― markers, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
This sounds promising actually! They owe us a great record after the appalling snoozefest that was the last one.
― Frogbs Day Afternoon (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
i really hope it's good -- i think i'm going to try to avoid reading stuff about the record until release day
― markers, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
"Appalling snoozefest" is a little strong, but definitely was amongst their weakest efforts. "Bull Black Nova" is still an awesome song.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
"provocative" AND "insightful"!
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Jon, yeah I know, but I'm someone who deeply treasures YHF, A Ghost is Born (!). Liked Sky Blue Sky as in very pleasant, but Wilco (the album) was such a huge let-down after the three that preceded it.
― Frogbs Day Afternoon (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
wilco (the album) is probably the only wilco album i don't really like. something super-generic about the overall sound.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it was a big letdown, for sure. I've just managed to come around on a handful of songs, enough that I can't dimiss the whole thing.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
heard "one wing" in a cvs last year and it made some kind of sense
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
I got off the Wilco boat after A Ghost Is Born (by far my favorite Wilco album). The last three albums were not my bag at all, except for digging "Impossible Germany." But I'm really liking the new single, and I'm holding a lot of hope for the new one. They kinda owe us a ripsnorter, what with how great the band is.
― Brooker T Buckingham, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
loving the love for a ghost is born, y'all
kicking television -- the live record -- is the last really awesome thing they've done
― markers, Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
OTM
Not really sure how that band (that played on Kicking Television) made two snoozers in quick succession.
I would love for the new one to be a return to form...especially intrigued by the super long songs.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, SBS and the S/T were intensely forgettable BUT the live band has continued to be amazing throughout; some of my favourite live material ever recorded - by anyone - came off the Sky Blue Sky tour.
― DJ Smoove Groothe (staggerlee), Sunday, 3 July 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
"Appalling snoozefest" = great title
― you've got great robot conflict (Eazy), Sunday, 3 July 2011 06:44 (twelve years ago) link
I never heard kicking televisions, does nels go ham on it?
― the beta banned (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 July 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get the Nils love, honestly. I've seen the band a bazillion times, both before and since his addition, and frankly don't hear him bringing much to the table in this context. I mean, he's a good player, but I wish he was more Quine-y or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 July 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
yes.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 4 July 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdTn0hXzVZU
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
damn that sounds hottttt
― are you ready for a thing called prog? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
it's a good sign
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
hope most of the rest of the record, at least, is like that
Wilco are our Radiohead. Which is of course awesome NO TUFFGUY
― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
LIKE A PLAID RADIOHEAD!!!!!!!!
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
upthread i posted this quote from the spin article i linked to in the first post itt:
Tweedy is being modest. One new song, "Art of Almost," has an experimental feel, like 2009's "Bull Black Nova" and 2004's "Spiders (Kidsmoke)." It's a seven-minute, two-parter that starts as a free-form jam, punctuated with burbling synths, mellotrons, and tribal drums. It swells into a punk-ish coda, with virtuosic, fuzzed-out guitar shredding courtesy of Cline, the band's secret weapon. Tweedy says the inspiration for the track came from Neil Young. "It's a sort of atmospheric song you might hear on Tonight's the Night," he says. "I don't know what happened to that song, to be honest. It just sort of morphed over time into something that's a lot more interesting to us now."
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.pitchfork.com/news/43606-watch-jeff-tweedy-play-a-new-wilco-song/
― markers, Monday, 22 August 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/43893-wilco-to-stream-the-whole-love-for-24-hours/
― markers, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
They had free Wilco "The Whole Love" bookmarks at Barnes & Noble but not the CD....
― Lee547 (Lee626), Friday, 2 September 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
had not heard abt the bookmarks, thx 4 the heads up
― markers, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
Who really consider Nels Cline the band's "secret weapon?" What kind of secret is Nels Cline? If anything, Tweedy's skronky guitar playing is the band's secret weapon. Or Stirratt's melodic playing and backing vocals. Or Kotche, who has been doing much more with less lately. Or even the other guys, so secret I don't really know what they do. But Cline? That's like calling John McLaughlin the Mahavishnu Orchestra's secret weapon or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 3 September 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
The back of the bookmark says "go to www.bn.com/wilco to see exclusive video and hear a preview of music from The Whole Love - CD & Limited Edition Deluxe CD - available 27th of September". The video is of "I Love My Label" and you can stream "I Might".
― Lee547 (Lee626), Saturday, 3 September 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
Now
http://wilcoworld.net/twlsplash/
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 3 September 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Opening song sounds like 'I'm a redneck and I'm afraid of robots'
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 3 September 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
I like this. Didn't think I'd get to say that about another Wilco record.
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Agreed. This is a good album.
― Benjamin-, Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
It's a good album but it didn't make me feel like buying it. Hell, it's only a first listen. Let's see.
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, good point. I just finished my first listen. Perhaps I'm just pleased that I don't hate it. I'll give it another shot tonight.
― Benjamin-, Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Stream isn't working for me, just keeps saying "Loading Tracks", have tried about four times and it just sits there.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
Wilco doesn't like you
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Its not just me, tons of people now complaining on their Facebook page. Guessing it got overloaded?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
Yep, they just posted a message on Facebook "Server overloaded - thanks for your patience - we'll get it back up."
Not a big deal, just kind of amazes me that in 2011 people still really don't have a handle on how to anticipate the traffic a big announcement or whatever will bring.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link