jethro

The only late night host that's absolutely awful is Leno, I can't watch that douchebag without wanting to kill myself. I didn't think their performance was awful but they rarely come out and nail a song on cue, and it's worse when it's a mellow beautiful song like What Light (and pretty much all of SBS). Their best performances are almost always on Conan. About liking SBS, I'm happier with it if I ditch the sleepy opener and closer, and of course Shake It Off. I did an edit of Shake It Off a while back that made me like it more but don't have it here and it's too much bother to do again. I

Fixed it for ya. /Jeff I wish they'd kept the original live arrangement for What Light, or maybe it's just that it sounds so pasteurized on the record in comparison to those few early live performances. Oh well. Not the worst choice (that would have been Shake It Off, lol at the people advocating that one) but it would have been nice to see them do a more uptempo song.

Yep. I suspect there's some sort of Wilcoboard divide centered around what bands you listened to prior to Wilco, like if you used to be a Replacements fan you're a lot less willing to put up with weaksauce Wilco than you are if you used to go listen to Phish or their ilk. Anyway I've read some stuff that Mitchum has written post-review (in a thread about the review on another board) and he's not a hater of the band, just disappointed like the rest of us.

In the process of getting this and some other records now. It'd be a whole lot cooler if they weren't 128kbps but I am sick of how much space all my old CDs take up. OK, playing now. This should have been on the record, awful decision by the Wilcoes.

Unfortunately, yeah. A rock song without a drum solo is like a pizza without an anvil.

5/5 This will not be the last negative SBS review, at least this one had some kind words thrown in here and there.

Urgh. I guess that's another thread though. Still, WTF. Do they hate having younger fans or something? Anyway... I guess this means pre-sales aren't doing all that well. The problem is that the people who are likely to see that letter are the ones who were going to buy it regardless. I'm obviously not a huge fan of the record but I'll still buy it on the iTunes store at least. I'm sick of accumulating plastic so am probably going to do that more often in any case.

Fixed. Well, I like LNGCA more than much of SBS but it's not like it's exactly super great either. What it does do is not be mid-tempo pleasantrock. It probably doesn't help that I followed a link from somewhere to some old Uncle Tupelo videos on the youtube. I was > Anyway I can see why this wasn't on the record, it reminds me a bit of Let Me Come Home. Thanks for posting it.

Haha, oh man. I bet there are some kids playing on your lawn, go get 'em!

Aww, just when I get through slagging off current Wilco this gets posted and makes me love them again. Thanks.

What would you call it? A broken up, pining after the one who left song? I happen to like Glenn a lot and think he's very good but you couldn't prove it by this record. Listen to the Nina Nastasia & Jim White record to see what a great drummer on a quiet record can sound like, though maybe you have more license to be creative when you're playing on a great record. Oh no you d'int, etc. Both reviews have merits, there are a few good songs and you could make an argument for a few of them on a Wilco greatest hits record but it's just not a great Wilco record (nor is it awful, it's just oh

If anything the music from these videos sounds a lot better to me than the tighter, more subdued album versions. There's a video for Hate It Here floating around, that's one of the better tracks on the record, if that one doesn't do it for you then there's no hope left, turn in your jacket.

Works for me, right-click, etc. Maybe the link is different now or something. Funny that they cut off the boring start of the song for the video, too bad that didn't carry over to the record. I guess in their defense it's not really all that much of the song and they do want people to actually buy it - playing the first minute of Shake It Off for people wouldn't be my idea of enticing them to do that. I prefer just to delete it altogether, problem solved.

Really? I got the leak in early July of 2001 (not through great connections or anything, I just happened to run across it online, viva la 56k!) and the track order and song mix was definitely the same as what was eventually released. I remember thinking the rip was bad because of that skip in the feedbacky bit at the end of IATTBYH. Even knowing it was written well before 9/11 I still connect it with that because that's what I was listening to pretty much non-stop at the time.

You can think it's a bunch of bullshit but that doesn't make it wrong. I suppose there are people who think SBS is the best Wilco record, there are probably people who get all weak-kneed when they hear It's Just That Simple too. That's a big part of the problem. I don't want to get into a song by song critique but I don't think any of those songs are among the highlights of the record and Impossible Germany is probably the most disappointing song on the record. I'm sure it'll be great live though... You're entitled to your opinion of course but SBS is about as experimental as a Big Ma

I can appreciate technical sophistication but that doesn't mean I want to listen to it. I can't think of too many Wilco fans who would rather listen to the album version compared to the live one and at some point you'd think Wilco would realize it and wonder why that is. Personally I think rock music is supposed to have an element of slop in it, the more the merrier. I'm not saying that Wilco needs to turn into the Black Lips but it'd be nice to see some rough edges like there used to be. If you've ever seen the King of the Hill with Bobby growing roses and the hippies at the head shop spo

Nooooo! Or maybe I mean Hrunnnh?! The idea that there are less "beautiful" versions of some of these songs rather than just pantherized outtakes makes me a little excited again. How many come with the pre-order? Lots? Sound quality is decent? I was just going to buy it on iTunes since I probably won't spend a lot of time listening to it but this could turn the tide. OK, I've seen it now, that's what I get for ignoring most threads on the wilcoboard. I wish Wilco on record sounded more like Wilco live, even LoftWilco is about 5x better than StudioWilco, and you know this will be great live. T

YAMF is one of the better songs on SBS but it's pretty much the sort of lyrical style you're dismissing in your post. Even the music is more throwbacky, so is it really a new song or was it pulled from a tape that Jeff had laying around like Hate It Here? I'm leaning towards old song. I don't want to give the impression I don't like AGIB, but in retrospect there isn't a lot of emotion there. It's detached in a medicating yourself kind of way. Listening to it now reminds me of that scene from Trainspotting where Rent Boy OD's. So now Jeff's off the drugs but the detachment is still kind of

This isn't really a new direction for Wilco though, this is like a throwback to Being There with the rock excised and some soft 70's mellow gold splooged on in place. I think at this point, with time providing some objectivity, I like some of it but won't ever love it like I did past Wilco records. Is that even a point of contention for anyone? I never got the impression that Wilco buried the vocals on any of their records, it just seems more prominent here because of the music being so weaksauce. Some people claim to like the new lyrics better, and maybe they even believe that now, but loo

I probably shouldn't respond but, fuck, how can you not. What a maroon.

That's what I thought when I saw this thread - that's the only Bob back on guitar that I'd care about - but of course like was pointed out, he's dead.

Yeah, that's such a great show. Here's an mp3. http://www.sendspace.com/file/d250nn It's cool but Hate It Here >> You're Really Gone, someone (IamJacks maybe?) posted a while back that Hate It Here was about as good as you could expect a refresh of that song to come out and I'd agree with that.

The parts that are good are very good, but the parts that aren't are pretty bad. I haven't listened to the official version of the song in a while but from what I remember it's it's like a pile of burning tires in the middle of what's otherwise a pretty smooth flowing record. Maybe it'll be great live (and it's kind of sad that they can't manage to translate how good they can be live onto the records, that's another post) but on the record? Yeah, kinda sucks.