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This made my day. Thank you, sir.

I always thought they'd have an interesting take on Electric Warrior. I know Jeff is (or at least was at one point) a T. Rex fan.

My first impression of Wilco (The Album) was reactionary to Sky Blue Sky, I think; the fact that I found SBS to be something of a one song album (Impossible Germany still blows my mind in a relaxing way) made Wilco (The Album) shine a little too brightly at first, and it consumed my musical life for a good 2 months. I mean, what wasn't to like? it was Wilco making highly engaging melodic music, like they'd made on Summerteeth. Then I started to realize that it wasn't quite the return to form that I thought it was. The album is great, but it definitely has a bit of a "on the shoulders of gi

I wasn't alive 27 years ago :-( I got my first exposure to The Violent Femmes at sleep away camp in middle school; the counselors had a band and they always played "Blister in the Sun." I want to say I finally bought the album in college. Great record. Will probably spin it later. Thanks for bring it up.

About time.

Wilco and consensus generally don't go together. With the exception of Foxtrot (which it's safe to say, almost everyone loves) every album they've released over the past 10 years has people who hate and love it within the fanbase.

Never cared for Hell is Chrome. Not huge on Muzzle of Bees either; great song, but #5!??! I don't even know if it's my number 5 on AGIB. Spiders and Wishful Thinking are two choices I prefer to those songs. And of course, A Shot in The Arm is a classic.

Basically, Wilco (The Album) is like R.E.M.'s Accelerate; It's not a full return to form, but it's a vast improvement over their previous record.

Wilco (The Boxed Set)

Wilco vs. R.E.M. for me: 01. R.E.M.- Automatic For The People 02. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 03. R.E.M.- Murmur 04. Wilco- Summerteeth 05. R.E.M.- Reckoning 06. R.E.M.- Document 07. R.E.M.- Life's Rich Pageant 08. Wilco- A Ghost is Born 09. Wilco- Being There 10. R.E.M.- Green 11. Wilco- Wilco (The Album) 12. R.E.M.- New Adventures in Hi-Fi 13. R.E.M.- Fables of Reconstruction 14. R.E.M.- Accelerate 15. R.E.M.- Out of Time 16. R.E.M.- Up 17. Wilco- Sky Blue Sky 18. R.E.M.- Monster 19. R.E.M.- Reveal 20. Wilco- A.M. 21. R.E.M.- Around The Sun

Nick Cave is probably in my top 5 favorite active songwriters. The man is amazing. Abbatoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus is a masterpiece, and The Boatman's Call is a dark horse for my favorite album period.

Am I the only person who doesn't see the purpose of this tour? It'd be one thing if Doolittle was a double album, but shelling out dough to see them perform a 39 minute album is pretty silly to me. I'd rather just see them do a normal set. Hell, last time I saw them, they played about 80% of Doolittle anyway.

Live Through This is the best album "written" by someone who's never actually written a song.

01. Jesus Etc 02. IATTBYH 03. Via Chicago 04. Poor Places 05. She's a Jar 06. Misunderstood 07. Spiders (Kidsmoke) 08. Sunken Treasure 09. Remember the Mountain Bed 10. Laminated Cat 11. A Shot in The Arm 12. Wishful Thinking 13. Ashes of American Flags 14. Reservations 15. Can't Stand It 16. I'm Always in Love 17. Impossible Germany 18. Bull Black Nova 19. New Madrid 20. A Magazine Called Sunset

My Personal top 20: 01. Jesus, Etc 02. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart 03. Via Chicago 04. Poor Places 05. She's a Jar 06. Misunderstood 07. Remember The Mountain Bed 08. Spiders (Kidsmoke) 09. Sunken Treasure 10. A Shot in The Arm 11. Laminated Cat 12. Wishful Thinking 13. Ashes of American Flags 14. Reservations 15. Can't Stand It 16. I'm Always in Love 17. Impossible Germany 18. Bull Black Nova 19. New Madrid 20. A Magazine Called Sunset

To me personally, the instrumental shift was kind of a cop out. I'm not fond of that part of the song at all. I've never been a huge fan of Wilco roots-rawkin it, as I think they have much more interesting tools in their repetoire than that. On the second point, I agree with you whole heartedly. The point of a message board is to disect and discuss the music of an artist thoroughly; not just to rank the albums in order of release and post pictures of your toddlers in Wilco t-shirts. If someone thinks it's lame to discuss the merits of Wilco's various albums, they probably shouldn't post h

I don't think it's a starship album; I just think it's a very slight album among some of the best albums of the past 20 years.

I don't see this at all. I feel like every Wilco album from 1996-2004, including the MAs, are head and shoulders above it.

The album to me is a great set of melodies, and an enjoyable album. Sky Blue Sky was neither of these, chosing instead to pepper half formed songs with wanky guitar. Contextually, yeah it's something they've done before, but that doesn't make the material any less strong.

With the exception of "Impossible Germany", every song on SBS had something I didn't like about it. For example "You are My Face" starts out beautiful before degenerating into a "RAWK" stomp. It goes from this beautiful whispery ballad to an awful Phish jam. Prior to SBS, Wilco always had interesting ways to accentuate a whispery ballad, and interesting ways to change them up. Songs like "Wishful Thinking" and "She's a Jar" were handled with much more grace.

I'm not getting why people aren't liking certain tracks. Country Disappeared especially, feels like a long lost classic from the early 70s. I could totally hear The Band or Gram Parsons singing that. Solitaire is pure Simon and Garfunkel, and Everlasting I haven't quite been able to pinpoint, but it's down right majestic. While I'll admit that it's not the most original album, W(TA) wears great influences on it's sleeve; and let's be honest, that's been a part of Wilco since Being There. There have always been songs that were conscious nods to the classics that inspired Tweedy. I don't see w

Still so much better than SBS.

Well, Wilco has never really been a rock the fuck out band to me anyway. I've always felt their strongest suit was their slower tunes. But I felt like SBS was kind of Doobie Brothers where as previous Wilco ballads ressembled Big Star, 1967 Beatles, 1969 Velvet Underground, or After The Gold Rush era Neil Young.

Summerteeth was my first Wilco album, and will always be on some level my favorite tied with YHF. Those were the first two Wilco albums I heard, and nothing else they did before or did after has hit me quite as hard as those two. My favorite song of all time is Strawberry Fields Forever, so I guess it's natural that I'd favor Summerteeth over other Wilco albums.

I'll give them ratings out of 5. Usually any two albums with the same rating flip flop. Studio Albums: 01. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot- ***** (Probably the best album of the 21st Century. Just brilliant) 02. Summerteeth- ***** (The definition of a perfect pop album; amazing lyrics, amazing melodies, great arrangements.) 03. A Ghost is Born- **** 1/2 (Not perfect imo, but still, few Wilco albums capture a mood as well as AGIB.) 04. Being There- **** 1/2 (has a few clunkers, but rarely has an album been made that better summed up american rock n' roll.) 05. Wilco (The Album)- **** (if this was thei