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    Rolling Stone Sneak Peak?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Hey all,

     

    Just stumbled across a sneak peak of the new Wilco record in what seems to be the current issue of Rolling Stone. Problem is, I don't have a RS membership and thus can't get access to the article. The link is below. Does somebody have a RS membership? Could you post the text of the article? And is this article even new? Has this been posted already?

     

    Thanks so much, folks.

     

    http://www.rollingstone.com/latestissue

    Your ranking of Wilco albums

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    1. A Ghost is Born

    2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

    3. Summerteeth

    4. Being There.

    5. Sky Blue Sky

    6. The Album

    7. AM

    8. KT

     

    Five and six flip-flop depending on the day. The real bitch of The Album is that even though I think it's a great offering and definitely one of the best of '09, it still ranks toward the bottom compared with all their other material. That's the sign of a great band, when a 'weaker' album is still good.

    What Could Have Been

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I just bought this song from the 7 Seven Worlds Collide collaboration, and I have to say I'm loving it. To me, it doesn't sound anything like WTA, which is odd because of the time of the recording and such. But anyway, great song. Great song.

    What's the consensus on Wilco (The Album)?

    in Just A Fan

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    Great: Wilco (The Song), One Wing, You Never Know, Country Disappeared, I'll Fight, Dark Neon, Jolly Banker

    Good: Deeper Down, BBN, You and I, Sonny Feeling, Everlasting Everything,

    Meh: Solitaire

     

    Verdict: Just as good if not better than SBS--which I love. Don't know why we're comparing it to AM, but I think there are tracks on WTA that stand up with some of the band's best work: Wilco (The Song), One Wing, I'll Fight.

    Let's Do This Right

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    In order of release:

     

     

    Should've Been in Love

    Dash 7

    Misunderstood

    Monday

    Sunken Treasure

    Dreamer in My Dreams

    I'm Always in Love

    Via Chicago

    Future Age

    I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

    Jesus, Etc

    Poor Places

    Hell is Chrome

    Theologians

    Impossible Germany

    Sky Blue Sky

    Hate it Here

    One Wing

    Country Disappeared

    I'll Fight

    What'S Your Favorite Line (Or Two) From W(Ta)?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    You sing to yourself the rising, falling melody that you could never read without the choir's lead.

     

    *

     

    When the cool light shakes you like a chandelier.

     

    *

     

    We once belonged to a bird.

     

    *

     

    Part of who we are we don't explore.

     

    *

     

    Every building built to the sky will fall, don't try and tell me my everlasting love is alive.

    R.E.M. vs Wilco

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I'm not sure how I feel about this comparison. I love REM. Love. But I'm not sure you can compare Wilco and REM.

     

    REM carved out a sound in the early 80's, a revolutionary sound that helped forge indie and college rock, and they kept pushing that sound, albeit with some varying degrees of style or influence, until really busted through in the early 1990's. Wilco though doesn't really have a sound. Sure you can call them alt-country pioneers. Sure you can call them baroque-pop kings. Americana infused noise, Kraut rock, Dad rock, whatever. Point being you know an REM song when you hear one. They do a few things and they do a few things very well, better than most bands. Wilco just has such a greater reach creatively. I always feel like they're moving forward, that Jeff Tweedy is always taking us in a new musical direction. I'm not sure the same could be said of Michael Stipe, save for maybe Accelerate.

     

    Anyway, long story short I think comparing these two bands is just too hard, and in thinking about it I don't know you can compare Wilco to any band currently working today. Thoughts?

    Wilco Rankings

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    My turn. This morning this is how I feel, but by this afternoon it could change. Point being I don't think Wilco's made a bad record. They've made different kinds of records, styles which I might not dig as much as others, but even so each record I think is ten times better than anything else you might hear today and thus puts each offering at the same level, so it's hard for me to put these in order.

     

    Wilco (The Album)

    Being There

    Summerteeth

    A Ghost is Born

    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

    Sky Blue Sky

    AM

    WTA on the radio

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    93.1 XRT in Chicago has been playing You Never Know non-stop. Seriously, they play it in the morning on my drive to work and in the evening on my way home, and though I don't have radio access during the day very often my guess is once during the lunch hour too. It's been really neat to hear them on the tube so much. It is their hometown station, but even so. Any Wilco radio love is welcome.

     

    Anyone else hoping a different cut off of WTA might have been the first single? I was really hoping for Wilco (The Song) or maybe Sunny Feeling. Maybe those will follow.

    Wilco (The Album) & American Central Dust

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I've heard both of these records. I've sat with them for a good amount of time--in the interest of full-disclosure, I have spent more time with WTA because I much prefer Tweedy over Farrar. And while the Son Volt boards will claim that their new record is better--a legitimate statement to make--and folks will most likely say that the Wilco record is better--another very legitimate statement to make--I've found that both of these records aren't so different after all. On the surface, their aesthetics, sure, these records are miles apart. But dig deeper and you'll find they cover similar ground: what each singer/songwriter and subsequent band is best at.

     

    Hear me out. Jay Farrar is the lone troubadour of the blue-collar, Midwestern experience. There's no doubting that. His lyrics are working class. They tackle more times than not big issues. He squeezes as many words as he can into a melody often with profound effect. Jeff Tweedy on the other hand, while grounded in a similar tradition as Farrar, is more of a loose-cannon. Since the incarnation of Wilco, he's taken us down different avenue after different avenue, fearless in his quest for forge new musical ground. His lyrics are often opaque. They deal with heart break, dysfunctional relationships, often containing clever and deft turns of phrases. His songs experiment with structure, with what a song can do/should do.

     

    With American Central Dust, Farrar is putting his best, weary, lonesome foot forward, singing about vacant downtowns and downsizing, about the workless and worthless, the redeemers and dreamers all cloistered in the American Midwest. The songs, musically speaking, are more times than not soft, easy going, even the rockers. Farrar mashes words together in such a fury that it almost exasperates the listener. Farrar is resting on his laurels here in the best way, and he does with a certain amount of grace, just enough to make the record sound wonderful but not enough for us to say he's really stagnating.

     

    WTA on the other hand keeps the listener guessing. The Best of Wilco should've been the title of the album, each track offering something for each Wilco fan clinging to a certain period of their career. Each track moves us into new ground. The lyrics, while not as obscure or perhaps thought-provoking as in previous efforts, are Tweedy-esque with a clever mangling of phrases. Most of the songs on the record play with the idea of the pop song form, of what you can do in three minutes, of what a three minute song should offer up. Whether pushing forward or falling back, Tweedy and Co. seem comfortable on this record. They seem to enjoy themselves, to have fun with the songs.

     

    Comfort. That's what both of these records have in common. Farrar and Tweedy are comfortable with the material. There is no inner tension laced within in the tracks. No agitation. At least not with themselves. Both of these records showcase each frontman doing what they do best respectively, what has transformed them from punk/country kids into the revered and respected musicians they are today.

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    ....and.....

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    So I know I'm going catch a lot of heat for this and rightfully so, but is there a way someone can PM me a link an MP3 version of it? I just don't know how to work all these rar files and such. I'm not very experience with all this. I would really appreciate it. Of maybe if someone could just tip me off to a place where such a file exists. I've searched the internet, at least to the extent of my ability, and have come up empty-handed. Just really wanting to hear the new record.

     

    Thanks folks

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