wilco

Alright for William Tyler getting a mention!

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.

thats really cool

Game Theory!

man, "magnetized." it's been a long time since a song like this made me feel like this

yeah just got that, very cool

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.

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!)

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+.

i probably think "Hate It Here" is my favorite Wilco song.

http://www.spin.com/2016/07/wilco-new-album-schmilco-new-song-listen/

Nice.

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.

The Whole Love was the last one of theirs that I really liked across the board. Star Wars and Schmilco are kind of boring.

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I 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?)

last song on star wars is incredible but their album art is generally more exciting than their records now

they are a great live band at this point

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

oh yeah they still rule live

i appreciate them mainly as a reliable source of income for nels cline at this point

last song on star wars is incredible

Haha, that's the weak one (IMO)!

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

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

"Random Name Generator" and "The Joke Explained" are my primo back-to-back dad-rock jams

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?)

idk for me it's "gun" by uncle tupelo ymmv

sike i actually said that to fish for good alt-country

lol i mean all i did was name another tweedy song (and "gun" is just kinda replacements cosplay so it was a cheeky response)

in terms of early jeff alt-countrier stuff i think this song is astonishing

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

tweedy is the boss of this game tbh. linkous the holy spirit maybe

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, September 4, 2018 11:23 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

waiting for the sun by the jayhawks?

pinetop seven will always be my favorites but they're probably a little too ornate to count as straight alt-country

with The Night's Bloom as his/their apex

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.

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

I love pretty much every Volebeats album but I wish their stuff was easier to find.

Kingpin is a goof, Far Far Away was less country per se and more a nod to the Dead, I think.

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)

Faithless Street by Whiskeytown is really great though Ryan Adams turned into douche

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, 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.

if you're gonna count sparklehorse as alt country (a stretch imo)

then you gotta give it to giant sand

xpost Oh, whoops, I was thinking of Forget the Flowers, that's totally Dead-y country.

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.

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.

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.

*I had just assumed

Farrar is the Sonic Boom of alt country

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

I do what I can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LklxmPb-J9w

Revisiting Schmilco this morning has reaffirmed its greatness... you guys are missing out if you're sleeping on this album!

She gave her body to science
So I'm not sure what's in her place
Maybe roses or Tanqueray