Wilco - The Whole Love

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.

wilco (the album) is probably the only wilco album i don't really like. something super-generic about the overall sound.

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.

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.

heard "one wing" in a cvs last year and it made some kind of sense

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.

loving the love for a ghost is born, y'all

kicking television -- the live record -- is the last really awesome thing they've done

kicking television -- the live record -- is the last really awesome thing they've done

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.

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.

"Appalling snoozefest" = great title

I never heard kicking televisions, does nels go ham on it?

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.

I never heard kicking televisions, does nels go ham on it?

yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdTn0hXzVZU

damn that sounds hottttt

it's a good sign

hope most of the rest of the record, at least, is like that

Wilco are our Radiohead. Which is of course awesome NO TUFFGUY

LIKE A PLAID RADIOHEAD!!!!!!!!

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."

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/43606-watch-jeff-tweedy-play-a-new-wilco-song/

http://pitchfork.com/news/43893-wilco-to-stream-the-whole-love-for-24-hours/

They had free Wilco "The Whole Love" bookmarks at Barnes & Noble but not the CD....

had not heard abt the bookmarks, thx 4 the heads up

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.

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".

Now

http://wilcoworld.net/twlsplash/

Opening song sounds like 'I'm a redneck and I'm afraid of robots'

I like this. Didn't think I'd get to say that about another Wilco record.

Agreed. This is a good album.

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.

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.

Stream isn't working for me, just keeps saying "Loading Tracks", have tried about four times and it just sits there.

Wilco doesn't like you

Its not just me, tons of people now complaining on their Facebook page. Guessing it got overloaded?

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.

I'm listening to it fine here in the 3rd World.

glenn kotche and john stirratt are definitely the heroes of this record. the most interesting stuff here is rhythmic.

also tweedy seems to be writing hooks again.

I dig the pedal steel in Black Moon

Seems to be working now, I really like this. Although I haven't been as down on the last couple records as most of you guys seems to have been. The last one was definitely the worst yet, but still a handful of salvageable tunes. Very encouraging first listen.

Well, it crashed before I got to hear the final four songs, but I really liked what I heard!

i'm in the middle of listening to this now -- it might end up being their best studio record in seven years

it's probably more interesting than the last two, at least

i'm not listening on headphones, but i probably should be -- there are details here and there

this isn't prime wilco (a ghost is born, yankee hotel foxtrot, and summerteeth) good though

first few songs are shockingly great.

i don't hear more "hooks." i hear a tougher, more free-spirited, more confident rock record.

yeah, "art of almost" is their best opener since "at least that's what you said"

i don't really see this as a record filled with hooks either

the last record where that was the point was, like, summer teeth

fuckin autocorrect, summerteeth

as a record filled with hooks either

eh, my complaint with the post jay bennett records is that tweedy seemed to half-write the songs, subtracting the, you know, relatively rewarding choruses that are littered througout being there summerteeth and even yankee hotel foxtrot. for instance: wilco (the album) was a lot like summerteeth but minus all of the sharp songwriting, and this new one seems to regain some of that sharpness, to my ears