Wilco - The Whole Love

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this album is really good, which is surprising as ive never really liked any of their post-YHF stuff which i found boring and meandering. this is the wilco sound i missed listening to.

Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Saturday, 16 March 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link

It's because they started doing power pop again. They were good at that. Wish they would do more of it

'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Saturday, 16 March 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link

I wish they will do more of One Sunday Morning.

Van Horn Street, Saturday, 16 March 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link

^^^this

c'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas le beurre (imago), Saturday, 16 March 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link

i wish Jim O'rourke will rejoin them

nostormo, Saturday, 16 March 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link

This is their best album since YHF.

they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 March 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

It's because they started doing power pop again

its not just power pop though, the mellow songs really hit the spot. "whole love" and "one sunday morning" make a great ending to the album.

Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link

eight years pass...

if someone told me this was their favorite wilco record i'd be like yeah that's legit

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link

the title track is SO good

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link

it's my favorite post-YHF one at least

ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link

Not my favourite Wilco record, but the bookends are probably my two favourite Wilco songs. I don't think they could ever top One Sunday Morning

imago, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link

They're the well-publicised tracks though. I wonder how the tracks in between hold up

imago, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 22:39 (two years ago) link

the bookend epics are fantastic yeah, some of their very best. the rest is a step in the right direction generally - it's nice to hear them in a more power-pop mood again - but a bit inconsistent.

just realised what "born alone" reminds me of is the horse race music from ocarina of time of all things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am6FTMRa_M4

ufo, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 22:47 (two years ago) link

my second favorite wilco album. besides the consensus highlights, i've always really liked "black moon." eerie david crosby-esque mood on that one. really good.

get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link

This is probably my favorite album from their current/latter day line-up. It really feels underrated. I already said this in another thread, but xxxp "One Sunday Morning" is indeed amazing, and the more I think about it, the more impressive it seems: a low-key song (not a jam or improvisation) that goes on for twelve minutes. It has ONE real hook, a very simple and modest melody, and yet it's more than enough to carry the whole thing.

birdistheword, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link

Still can't remember how the four gentle songs that appear every other song in the middle go, despite being at a show where a fight broke out during Red Rising Lung

PaulTMA, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 01:26 (two years ago) link

DAD FIGHT!

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link


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