I love the song with the violin, I wish more of the record sounded that vital.
― Josh, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dare, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! I am very 'deep' too. With my feelings of hetred towards Wico. What do you think is deep, then?
''Tweedy's voice sounds like Lennon's there in several songs. Wilco truly seem to be the American Beatles for me. Like the Beatles would have sounded after they broke up and if they would have been American. Amazing pop music. The tunes are very subtle and it always takes several listens to grasp them. And they seem so light.''
this is not good is it? They will beremembered by you as the 'American Beatles' but not as 'Wilco'. Nice!
― Julio Dsouza, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's anti-american but that's so easy really to attack america. What's the big deal?
― JUlio Desouza, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
only the corpse isn't going for it
― Melissa W, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
'if they aren't the american beatles, then who would be?' is a v. v. poor reason to think that there is an american beatles anyway. if you think about it you'll see that my comment had something to do with wilco's relationship with tradition, a tortured and overly self-conscious one that I just don't hear in the beatles (until the white album ha but it's a different matter there). this relationship comes through in the way tweedy's songs are written, too - I don't think I would think he had such a troubled relationship with tradition if he was a better songwriter, but he's not. (which sort of blows a lennon/mccartney - tweedy songwriting comparison, so, like, american beatles, what the fuck?)
also if he keeps kicking out people who can write better melodies than him...
Quite. The question as a larger one is a bit strange anyway. Who the hell cares if there is an American Beatles or not? Why bother? Leave that for the fetishists.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Or music journalists.
― Julio Desouza, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't think I'm being 'destructive', but you're probably a little sensitive about people hating on your music, which is understandable. I've been thinking about the lame lyrics on YHF for a while, so I'll try to write something about them soon. just for you.
― Josh, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― david h(owie), Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lyra in seattle, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
But this just shows that speculation on lyrics is useless at the end of the day. I'm english and I took that from an anti-american perspective (since sept 11th, also american foreig policy and so on).
That's why i restrict myself to sound itself (and the ound of the voice and how it interacts w/sound that the group makes) and from that perspective Wilco don't do enough for me.
― julio Desouza, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― david h(0wie), Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
but then you're trying to interpret lyrics and most reviewers do that to interpret what the 'artist' is thinking and that can lead to all sorts of shit that i read in record reviews.
I mean: Dylan is a poet you know? and that horse shit.
― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Clarke B., Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I dunno - it makes me feel warm fuzzy feelings.
It's hard for me to explain why I like abstract metaphor and symbolism when Bob Dylan or Stephen Malkmus does it, but why I don't like it when Jeff Tweedy does it. I think it's partly in the delivery, and partly in the sense of humor - or rather Tweedy's apparent lack of same.
The "experimental" noise on this record is totally pointless, it's not integrated with the songs - just pasted at the end. I don't like the vague lyrics either, especially since I heard that they don't actually mean much. For me that is the worst type of lyrics.
― Marc, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dare, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― david h(0wie), Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marc, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I interpret this statement as Anti-Art.
I saw Wilco live last week. I enjoyed the record before, but more so now. It didn't feel "experimental" before, but when I saw them perform "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" I saw Wilco experimenting. There are no genuinely radical ideas, but there are no inhibitions either. It is experimental pop, exactly.
― Keiko, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dyson, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link