What Light?

A Ghost is Born...............Wilco

Boxer...........The National

Alligator...........The National(hard to listen to one without the other)

Easy Tiger...........Ryan Adams(got a burned copy so I could compare to GP)

Neon Bible..............Arcade Fire(left for a while but as all great music it has returned)

wow, you're gonna make lots of friends here!

if stating the obvious makes me unpopular on here.................so be it.............but regardless I am entitled to say his album Easy Tiger is a blatant rip off of Gram Parsons as my opinion..............it is quite stupid that people would rather look at a posting style(which will never change and has been this way for over 10 years)..............than the actual content of the post.............which is quite valid no matter your opinion of Ryan Adams.............

actually, it's the periods. they really annoy me too.

my comments were very logically based with my knowledge of both Gram Parsons and this album after a few listens................I am not the only one who thinks this...............just because you got some hang up on this guy and cannot see that it is a poor rip off of an original...............I cannot help you..............you are too far gone..................it was just an analysis of the album.............in case you are too ignorant to understand..................that means everyone can post their opinion of an album in a thread...........even ones that do not agree or like it..............

And last, I really mean it about all the periods.

message boards=everyone entitled to their own opinion............*rolls out middle finger*..................here is mine of you.............oh yeah the periods stay.................

and I am saying this artist who cannot choose the style of music he would like to be categorized as with his chamelion assortment of albums...............should have left 70's country off his gimmick to do list of albums...............Gram deserves better.............Emmy H did half of the songs with Gram originally btw..............so the fact she is singing them again is hardly the same as what Ryan A does...........

but the thing is... it's just not funny. you are hardly the first person in the world to make "summer of '69" jokes about ryan adams.

 

secondly, i resent your presumption that i have never listened to gram or the fbb. i have plenty. he's no one trick pony.

1st if you had listened to them we would not be having this arguement about the blatant rip off easy tiger is......................2nd if he is no one trick pony...............then does he steal other's styles so blatant as he did Gram's?..............probably not something I would want to brag on his behalf about...............

so you don't like him, whatever. the important question is - are you finished making the (really old) bryan adams jokes?

thought I would throw that in there for some humor................no...........I had not heard him and could not really comment on his new album until this weekend...............and I hate to see artists rob styles so blatantly as he did here..............Gram P does not deserve that and Adams does not deserve credit on this album by being a thief...........just my opinion.............listen to a little Gram or Flying Burrito Brothers and you will never listen to Easy Tiger again..........I promise.............

No female bounces around on a drum kit any hotter than Meg.............

Listened to it this weekend for the first time over at a friend's house. ................I gotta say he is nothing more than a really bad Gram Parsons rip off.....................Only difference is................ Gram was a genius and was doing this 30 years ago as an original..................He should go back to "Summer of 69'" imo.............. and stay away from trying to sound like icons...............just my opinion as a rounded music fan.

I always thought his single..........."everything I do I do it for you," was amazing..............good to see he is still pumping out great tunes..........."summer of 69" is tough too..........

I thought it was funny...........

I think we need to put a limitation on the number of periods in your posts. How does 3 sound?

yeah that will happen................

Meg is gorgeous to watch..................

as a 30 something guy...............I only put Pearl Jam higher than Wilco...............to much history with PJ and the fact I have seen them 15 times live..............but being #2 on my music list is like being #1 on most.............

Coors(leaded in a Gold can)..................The Banquet Beer.................sad but all summer that is all I have drank...........not sure where this is all coming from..............

My all time fav hamburger..................nothing compares.......

Overrated.............Via Chicago

Underrated.............Reservations and Hummingbird

as a chi-town native and fan of The Smashing Pumpkins...............I went into this one knowing it would not be Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness good...............but that they were back with their sound was important to me.............songs one through 5 are money and great................and I got the target version so I got the acoustic strummed Zeitgeist as my bonus track.............which is also solid.............there are a few weak songs sure..............but the fact that they resemble the Machina days after being gone for 7 is enough for me..............I really like the album and give it a thumbs up and feel it is worthy of praise.............

This album has really grown on me.................it is everything the other albums before were all mixed up into one...........the blues of De Stijl................the rocking of Elephant...............the country sound of White Blood Cells..............the garage sound of The White Stripes and the strange insturment choices of Get Behind Me Satan...............it is their best album imo...............love Effect and Cause and Rag and Bone...........great stuff.......

A Ghost is Born...............Wilco

Boxer..............The National

Libertad..............Velvet Revolver

Icky Thump..............The White Stripes

Zeitgeist...............Smashing Pumpkins

Great song.............not my fav off the new one but a great one..........

This is their best album imo..............and I love them all.............

What Light? is my song off of SBS for sure...............love it!

For someone to so write off recovering addicts like it is something they do for attention as this original poster did...............is completely uncalled for.............an addict will always be an addict...........and maybe through talking and their music it allows them to continually fight off temptation and other demons..........it is a lifelong process.............one in which the fellow man should always show compassion!

Big Wilco fan and I was originally from Chicago..........have since moved elsewhere..........anyway..........the first time I heard this album I was kind of torn...........now after about 75 listens a few things stick out..............this is not their best but it is a very straight forward album as far as sound and lyrics...............something I think they needed to make at this time...........there is not a bad song on it imo and is very easy to listen to start to finish..............I give it 4.5/5 stars and my favorite song by far is "What Light?"...............something about it gets me everytime..............I got to say as I listen to all music today.............Wilco and obviously Tweedy is that there is such an honesty to his voice where the listener wants to believe every word sung and hang on every emotion..............that is why I keep coming back no matter the album or change in style.............that is one aspect that never changes and is sorely missed in modern music........