greyhippo

An attempt at the ridiculous...

 

WTA is perhaps the Bill Clinton to SBS's Bush Sr., it is ultimately an improvement, but not quite the full scale change people probably wanted, and not quite up to par with the really great presidents or albums past Geogre Washington (which would be Being There), Abraham Lincoln (Summerteeth), FDR (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) or JFK (A Ghost is Born). Furthering this analogy Loose Fur One would be RFK, it should have been a president or a Wilco album, but sadly isn't, and Trace could only be Richard Nixon.

 

--Mike

I love that analogy and would agree entirely

Black Bull Nova is the stand out on WTA by a country mile and wouldn't be out of place on YHF. Impossible Germany was the stand out on SBS but TBH the whole album left me underwhelmed and more than a little disappointed. I personally yearn for a return to the YHF sound but it's not my band so as long as the guys are still happy and loving what they're doing (and the lives shows still sound like they kick ass, though I've not been to one for a few years) then all is good with the world.

But WTA for me in this vote.

I haven't been round here in a long while and was just passing through looking for info on the new album when I saw this thread. Shocked and stunned and deeply saddened. A tragedy for anyone so young to die so needlessly. There is no reason for anyone to be judgmental, what good does it do? My thoughts are with his family and friends.