craigwinn
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I agree that "Everyone Hides" is a lot like "Someone to Lose" and "RNG" etc. but the ending is terrific.
I'm looking forward to hearing the album. Based on the seven songs I heard in Antwerp last week, the drumming is really unusual and great.
The Riff magazine review is hard to believe. He compares "Everyone Hides" and "White Wooden Cross" to "Jesus, Etc" which seems like a weak comparison at best. So, when the rest of the review is full of comparisons, It becomes hard to believe they are not as poor.
That said, someone of the Facebook group declared "Everyone Hides' the worst song to ever come out of Wilco and promptly sold their tickets for the upcoming tour. I think it was shocking to me because there is an "Everything Hides" on nearly every Wilco album:
"Summerteeth", "Kamera", "I'm A Wheel", "Just A Kid", "Sonny Feeling", "I Might", "Random Name Generator", and "Someone to Lose".
I felt like they had never listened to Wilco before if they didn't see this song coming.
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Always nice to see the set lists here.
I saw a photo posted on the FB page; they had Locator on the list as first encore, but dropped it. The 10:30 curfew at AB is hard AF.
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Tickets obtained for both nights in Brussels
Hoping there'll be a new album right before that tour starts...
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Thanks for posting. I was there and your description pretty much captures it! I'm an American living in Belgium who always cringes when people shout out stuff during shows (though a lot of times they are Flemish, not American
). Highlights for me: I'm Always in Love, Bull Black Nova, Impossible Germany (given new life without Nels' solo!), Please Tell My Brother.
This may have been JT's first solo show in Belgium, but he did play Leuven a few years ago with the Tweedy band -- a show that included a solo acoustic set.
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I'll Fight
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PM'd you.
Maybe this is inappropriate, but could anyone PM a link to Together at Last and Mermaid Ave Vol 3? I bought those vinyls this summer to round out the collection and due to the lack of DL card I can't get them on my ipod. Again, I apologize if this is inappropriate but I have a hard time justifying paying for an album twice!
Same here, just got my Together at Last vinyl, and am very excited! I listen to vinyl all the time, especially Wilco and Tweedy records -- which are so rewarding on vinyl. But I also like to have on my iPod. If anyone has a link I'd appreciate it...
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Speaking as a fellow 50-year-old, I second that emotion!
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Perhaps all it means is Jeff was planning on doing something like this for a while and finally got these recordings "together at last"
Or got himself "together at last"
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Couldn't watch the above link, due to 'country's restrictions.' Look forward to it.
But I did watch the below 2002 Jools Holland performance - John kicks some butt on this track.
Too bad about the geoblocking.
Yeah, that's a great performance from 2002.
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Really nice performance of "Random Name Generator" here:
I love the guitar freakout at the end.
This was from the Tuesday night preview show on BBC. I'm hoping they did another song and it'll be on tomorrow night when the full show airs.
Oh and I'm so ready for tonight and tomorrow night's Brussels shows!
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And another review in the Wall Street Journal....
http://www.wsj.com/articles/schmilco-by-wilco-review-somber-sepia-toned-tunes-1473803967
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In case not posted yet, a review in .... the Financial Times!
Not very well written but 4/5 stars.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6e9197a4-7494-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a.html
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That was terrific!
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I'm loving Normal American Kids as well - the music, lyrics, tone - a great simple, yet powerful, album opener.
Normal American Kids is now one of my favorite Wilco songs. I think it's perfect.
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And Shrug and Destroy.
So, the album is actually 1/6 waltzes!
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My first thought after my first Schmilco listen, "Whew, no waltzes."
Except for "Normal American Kids"?
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I second this emotion
I haven't commented yet on the album, because I've been too busy being just gobsmacked by the thing. I'll pay it the highest compliment I can....it is a worthy addition to the Wilco canon.
This album has such depth and maturity to it, but by maturity I mean nothing in the direction of that goddawful "dad rock" label. I mean maturity in the sense that when an artist (artists) have really hit their stride, and found a place in their artistic career where they've learned to kind of get out of the way and let their creativity flow without interference, you get some of the very best that any form of art can offer. This has that kind of maturity. Different songs keep breaking over me like waves, so if you asked me from one hour to the next what my favorite song was, you'd get a lot of different answers. I don't think there's a song on the album that doesn't sweep me up in its mood.
Some of Jeff's finest, and truest, and most poignant lyrics are here, and there's wonderful range, from confessional to sly to outright smartass. I just love it.
The art seems so fitting, because this band is electrified...connected all all wavelengths. (Let's not force me to explain my understanding of electricity and wavelengths and such, though, because we'll all just go away so confused. You get my general drift, right?)Bravo, Wilco, I'm so schmilco'd!
Also, I managed to offer "gum" to both my daughter and son, with satisfying gasps/yelps in result, and was able to repulse their efforts to give me "gum" as well.
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Yeah, two albums in a row that pitchfork hasn't shit on. A 7 from them is like a B+ in one of my other professor's classes.
"A Ghost Is Born" got a 6.6...
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I know it's only the 8th but has anyone received their Frocksteady EU shipment yet? Went for the big bundle with book, tee, cd and vinyl. Can't wait to get my hands on it!
I got my green vinyl LP (no bundle) on Monday via Frocksteady. I had been sent the download link on Friday! But one of my coworkers ordered on the same day as I did and still hasn't received his...
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I really like "Deeper Down"
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Am I the only one who thinks the chorus of Someone to Lose has a major Big Star vibe? When the guitar kicks in it reminds me of In the Street. The whole first side of this album is perfect. Not to say the second side isn't great as well. It just hasn't been as immediate as the first side.
Yeah I definitely get a Big Star vibe off of that song.
Also the bass line on that and on Locator both remind me of Can't Stand It.
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I just got it officially, via Frocksteady, the EU Wilco store. They sent me the download link, and told me the LP is on its way to me.
I haven't listened yet, but the record is out there now, legally, for some.
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This sums it up pretty well. It's nice to hear some tonal variety and space in the mix...