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Remember listening to "Puff the Magic Dragon" when I was little kid - not realising just how subversive it really was. Sad loss.

On the same theme - anybody else here go crazy when they're looking up recent Wilco clips on YouTube and have to plough through about 300 vidoes of '767 landing at Narita Airport in crosswind', 'Airbus A380 flightdeck Toronto Pearson Itl' and other such nerdom? WTF is that about anyway?

Glenn Kotche and Pat Sansone are collaborating with Radiohead's Phil Selway on his first solo album currently being recorded in Radiohead's Oxford studio, according to this article: http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=115&csid2=844&fid1=41140 Assume this follows on from their work together on the recent '7 Worlds Collide' project.

Read the thread - but still love the album. I must be listening the wrong way.

Love it. And yes, Country Disappeared is my favourite cut - maybe one of my all-time favourite Wilco songs.

Thanks for the heads-up Jeremy. And good to see they've fixed the miss-spelling of John's name in the final cover art - found here: http://www.frenz.com/neilfinn/

Review in today's edition of the Daily Telegraph (UK). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/live-music-reviews/6016957/Neil-Finns-7-Worlds-Collide-at-Dingwalls-review.html Nice review and everything - except for this line " two of the less celebrated members of Wilco (drummer Glenn Kotche and bassist John Stirrat)". WTF! wash your mouth out sir... =========================================================== Neil Finn's 7 Worlds Collide at Dingwalls, review Members of Wilco and Radiohead joined Neil Finn of Crowded House on stage in one of the most inspiring gigs of the year. Ratin

I posted this already in another thread - but should really have been posted here: You Never Know has just hit number 1 in the US AAA radio charts according to Mediabase - outplaying Kings of Leon, Greenday and Coldplay. So there is some justice in the world: http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/insideradio/charts.asp?format=10&showyear=y&dpt=n

You Never Know has just hit number 1 in the US AAA radio charts according to Mediabase - outplaying Kings of Leon, Greenday and Coldplay. So there is some justice in the world: http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/insideradio/charts.asp?format=10&showyear=y&dpt=n

Nice work.

Article in today's Rolling Stone gives the full tracklisting and who plays what. Release date in the US Sept 29: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/07/29/neil-finn-recruits-wilco-radiohead-members-for-7-worlds-collides-the-sun-came-out/ Anyone for a drum-off between Glenn and Phil Selway? (track 11 disc 2 - 3 Worlds Collide – Glenn Kotche & Phil Selway drums, percussion )

Here's a couple being serenaded with 'Jesus etc' at their recent wedding. Cheesy version - but cute:

The universe with hands unseen I was cold as gasoline

Synthesizer Patel :

Album of the Month in the latest copy of Uncut. http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/wilco/reviews/13295 Jeff Tweedy’s declaration of peace. Then tragedy ensues Review by John Mulvey Four out of five stars It is May 2009, and Jeff Tweedy has just streamed the seventh Wilco album on his band’s website. For perhaps the first time in Wilco’s complicated 15-year history, there is a palpable air of contentment to proceedings. The band lineup has remained miraculously unchanged, and there doesn’t appear to have been, as has become tradition, a radical creative rethink. Instead, Wilco (the albu

Here's an excellent little review that appeared in this weekend's edition of the Sydney Morning Herald by their resident rock critic Bernard Zuel: Anxiety Gives Way to Optimism Wilco Wilco (The Album) Reviewed by Bernard Zuel Happy Jeff Tweedy. Happy Wilco. Should we be worried? Musically, the first six Wilco albums did not have a repeat switch as the band, whose only two consistent members have been signer and writers Jeff Tweedy and bass player John Stiratt, moved from alt-country through pop to art-rock and then a kind of US pastoral-rock. Emotionally though, there was one co

Very positive review in DOA: http://www.adequacy.net/2009/07/wilco-wilco-the-album/ Wilco - Wilco (The Album) July 2, 2009 by Bryan Sanchez The strength in Wilco’s music was always their successful ability to re-create themselves with every new album. There were the country stylings of A.M., the double album, role reversal of Being There, sharpening their pop leanings with Summerteeth, the experimentation on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the furthering of styles and diversity on A Ghost is Born and the live setting, laid-back feel of Sky Blue Sky. It’s hard to really pin-point a band’s cata

Wilco (The Album) A Ghost is Born Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Sky Blue Sky Being There Summerteeth AM

The Village Voice weigh in. I think it's safe to say that Mike Powell is not a fan of Wilco (or mid-western white folks for that matter): http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-01/music/wilco-the-review/1 Wilco: The Review Music for white people to relax to, and what's wrong with that? By Mike Powell Tuesday, June 30th 2009 at 1:26pm "Wilco" is a five-letter word for the quiet slaughter of all that is elemental, passionate, and reverentially stupid about rock 'n' roll. Try finding a vein on a Wilco album. Oh, Wilco: middle-aged Midwesterners with stubble and suit jackets. Precise instrumen

http://www.kentucky.com/lexgo/music/story/846967.html Critic's pick: Wilco, 'Wilco (the album)' By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer You could have fun all summer just with the title of Wilco's seventh studio album, especially seeing how the leadoff track of Wilco (the album) is Wilco (the song). Both are about as whimsical as Jeff Tweedy and company have ever revealed themselves to be on a recording. Luckily, the music inside is just as inviting and summery. It could be argued that Wilco (the album) is the band's first record that doesn't take a defining step forward. As usual, it wr

From The Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/30/listening-station-wilco-solidifies-second-era/ By Adam Mazmanian This is not news to anyone who follows such matters, but jazz guitarist Nels Cline saved Wilco. At the time Mr. Cline joined the band, as a touring member a few years before recording the 2007 album "Sky Blue Sky," Jeff Tweedy's durable alternative- country outfit did not particularly seem in need of saving. Indeed, the first evidence of their collaboration was not particularly promising. The studio album was marred by an impulse toward schmaltz and a

From Austin 360: http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/06/29/cd_review_wilco.html By Joe Gross | Monday, June 29, 2009 Wilco (the Album)’ (Nonesuch) B+ Jeff Tweedy’s career thrives on twists. He changes up like a major-league pitcher, sometimes slow (there wasn’t too much aesthetic space between the end of Uncle Tupelo and the beginning of Wilco), sometimes faster (the transition from “Being There” to “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” was quite a leap). “Wilco (the Album)” (which opens with “Wilco (the Song)”) is the former and probably the better for it

And here's another four out of five stars from The Times (UK): http://nonesuch.com/journal/times-uk-4-stars-for-wilcos-new-album-a-definitive-work-2009-06-29 Wilco (The Album) Reviewed by Peter Paphides 4 out of 5 starts The demons that have tormented Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy are in abeyance — and in the freshly vacated space are several of the most emotionally generous songs of the singer’s life. Solitaire is an unflinching examination of darker times, shot with gratitude at their passing. The bittersweet You Never Know could be a lost George Harrison number, while I’ll Fight is a love s

From The Sunday Times (UK): http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article6576785.ece Wilco: Wilco (The Album) Dan Cairns Four out of five stars A band whose more fanatical followers sometimes seem happiest when disappointed by a new album (“Dude, this is so not as good as Summerteeth”, etc, etc), the Americans arrive at album seven with their latest line-up intact (no mean feat in Wilco land), their last release, the underrated Sky Blue Sky, deemed not the one to beat, but a record to improve on, and the recent tragic death of their origina