Thats Me Beefing

I'm in the same spot. Lyrically, "Citizens" is right up my alley, but sonically the song doesn't grab me. "White Wooden Cross" and "One and a Half Stars," on the other hand, are album highlights for me.

That's funny White Wooden Cross and One and a Half Stars are the two that took the longest to grab me, I thought they were pretty mediocre on the first few listens. After seeing them both live now, I definitely love One and a Half Stars, and I like WWC more but it's still probably my least favorite on the album, it's just super basic imo 

Yeah I actually wasn’t big on One and a half stars or White wooden cross beforehand but hearing them live and two feet in front of me gave me a new appreciation for them. And the rest of the songs I loved already, and were effing amazing, obviously.

I might have one or two out of order but it was def these songs

An empty corner

Before us

One and a half stars

Everyone hides

White wooden cross

Love is everywhere

Hold me anyway

SummerTeeth

Holy moly. That was a religious experience. I was right up front. I never go to these things where you get in a line crazy early or get first row anything, nor do I have any autographs of anyone. But now I have Ode To Joy and AGIB vinyls both autographed and I got to briefly talk to Jeff and the rest of the guys. Still processing all of this.

I saw that, luckily I ordered the vinyl/wristband thing yesterday right when I found out. It appears on the website that the wristband is just for "priority admission" and the record signing, but from what I hear from someone who called up there, you're pretty much not getting in at all if you don't have a wristband. 

I'm actually going to type out the names since the abbreviations are making me have to think too much

A Ghost is Born

Sky Blue Sky

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Ode to Joy

Star Wars

Summerteeth

The Whole Love

Being There

Schmilco

Wilco (The Album)

AM

If Kicking Television counted I'd put it at Number 2 under AGIB. Freaking love that record 

Me!! Bought a wristband (priority entry over the non-payers if I read it correctly). Saw Jeff there solo - it’s tiny. Should be cool beans for sure.

I'm going today after work to pick up the vinyl and wristband. The shop opens at noon on Sunday. I haven't been there since they moved locations, so I haven't seen the size, but I'm gonna try to get the skinny on what I need to do to be as close to the stage as humanly possible. 

Anybody going to this? I've lived in Nashville for over ten years now, I've gone to see the band live at the Ryman every year they've come through for the past five years or so. I just found out today they are playing in-store at Grimey's and my brain almost exploded. It's free so I expect it's going to be crazy packed, and I've never gone to anything there with what I expect will be such a huge crowd. I'm going to stop by tomorrow to see if I can find out any tips that will help me ensure I'm not in the back of the room or anything. I'm totally prepared to go very early and wait. Also they are signing records

Well now after some time to digest I can say I love this album. The only songs that haven't really grabbed me are One and a Half Stars and White Wooden Cross, theres just nothing very exciting going on with those, to my ears at least. We Were Lucky is one that I thought wasn't super great on the first couple listens but it's become one of my favorites now. The two singles are fantastic and get stuck in my head all the time. And the first two tracks are just spectacular...they kind of outshine the rest of the album imo but not too too much. 

I've def listened to the first half way more than the second at this point, due to starting the album over on car rides and whatnot. So the second half I haven't digested as much as the first. But man I love, love love Bright Leaves and Before Us. They sound like they are kicking off what could potentially be one of my favorite albums next to AGIB and SBS, but at the moment I'm not sure because I need to digest the rest a bit more. I didn't really vibe Quiet Amplifier at first but every time I hear it now I hear new things, and I'm starting to like it a lot. Everyone Hides it's just another killer Wilco pop song like Dawned on Me or Someone to Lose, I dig it a lot. The rest of the tunes still need more listens to have any opinion on them. This is definitely one of the more cohesive albums they've done in a long time. The overall mood feels the same all the way through, rather than a collection of different atmospheres it feels like one consistent atmosphere, and it's an unsettling one at times much like YHF and AGIB and I love that. I really hope more of the latter half of the songs start to grab me like the first half has.

Oh and I have to give a shoutout to the lyrics on the first two tracks. This is such a great example of writing something so simple, that feels so powerful, which is hard to land without being kind of cheesy at times. Somehow we're bright leaves you and I, underneath the old snow, being set free by the winter rain, and I know it'll never change. That is so simple, and so beautiful. It reminds me of Roger Waters describing "Breathe, breathe in the air" and how it's the kind of line you may just toss in the trash because it's so plain and simplistic. But when you have the right music, and it evokes the right feeling, it becomes something great. I can't wait to see these tunes live in Nashville...in a week and a half! Psyched. 

Just finished my first listen. I immediately know this is one that's going to take awhile to digest because of what's going on...which is exciting because the last few albums didn't hit me that way. I liked them almost immediately. This is giving me more AGIB vibes with the mood and the sounds that are going on. It's a weird place to be in where like...I'm disappointed i didn't connect to it straight away, but psyched that my favorite albums never get me on the first listen. So I'm hoping it's going to take that turn with a few more.

Does anyone know where to get mp3's of this set? I found the podcast where they aired it but i'd love to have it in my music library the sound is fantastic

The girl he called entitled was actually a different girl that wouldn't put away her cell phone during Kingpin. The one with the iPad didn't put up a fight like the cell phone girl did. Last year and this year combined, 4 shows at the Ryman, I still need to see At Least That's What You Said, Either Way, Sky Blue Sky, Pieholden Suite, Can't Stand It, Hoodoo Voodoo, Sunken Treasure, Theologians, Company in My Back....okay I think that's it. But in all honesty I can't believe how amazing these two setlists were this week. 

You know I was in the balcony near the guy that Jeff was yelling at for saying "fuck you", and the guy actually didn't say fuck you, he said something that could be misinterpreted as fuck you from a distance but I'm not sure what it was. Kinda felt bad for the guy but then again it's not bad to have the story that Jeff said fuck you and called you an asshole

The girl with the iPad aside, the other thing I couldn't believe is the one girl with the cell phone during Kingpin. Jeff asked her to put it away and she fought him for a good two minutes. He had to explain that he was trying to summon some rocking that cannot be summoned with her holding a phone in his face. The whole crowd boo'ed her and eventually she put it away, followed by Jeff asking, "entitled much?" 

I could not have asked for a better two shows. Went to both at the Ryman last year and there were probably, oh, 6 or so repeat songs. This time, absolutely none. After the first night we were talking about what we wanted to hear in night two including Poor Places, Seeds, Hell is Chrome (!!!! one of my favorites, didn't get to hear it last year), Kingpin. Spiders, We got them all. Amazing. 

I definitely liked the closer in night one better. The Misunderstood singalong almost brought tears to my eyes it was so touching and emotional to hear Jeff play one of his songs at the Ryman completely unplugged, letting us experience his music the way they used to at the grand ole opry. Night two was awesome at the end as well, but Misunderstood just does it for me. 

I'm sure there are people out there who don't much like Sunken Treasure or Poor Places

Is Poor Places a commonly disliked song? The version on Kicking Television is probably one of my favorite recordings they have ever done. Theres something brilliant about that song, it's so simple but just...perfect.

I freakin love Walken. I'm in the minority though SBS is my favorite album. I love every song on WTA except Everlasting Everything. Granted all the songs are kind of stand alone, the album doesn't flow anywhere near as nicely as well...anything before it. I would shit if they played Country Disappeared at a show I was attending. I'll cross my fingers for the new jersey americanarama date I'm going to. Yeah, not gonna happen.

I could argue the case for newer Wilco all day, I absolutely love the stuff I listen to them almost every day...I check this board almost every day to see whats going on even though I don't post all that much. I just saw them last year 2 nights in a row in Nashville at the Ryman which is a small intimate venue and it was an orgasmic experience. I guess I'm in the minority here because I loved the last two albums and I think AGIB and SBS are the greatest records they have ever done...I'm curious the people here that long for the older stuff, do they mean the more alt country style Wilco? Or is YHF considered older stuff too?

To me there is an obvious line that was crossed from Summerteeth to YHF that brought the band into a whole new space. I'm just speculating, but is YHF the album that started things going downhill for you? It would make sense to me because it does almost seem like 2 seperate bands from then on, but on the other hand I thought that Yankee was the most popular album amoungst the fans so it doesn't really compute.

It seems to me that Wilco went on a journey from alt country to experimental alt country to some experimental rock I have no word for with YHF and AGIB, and then SBS was an attempt at just stripped down rock (a brilliantly successful attempt imo) and then the last 2 albums seem like a fusion of that experimental style and the old alt country stuff, and I dig it as well. There is nothing I love more than seeing a band evolve the way they have it fascinates me. Radiohead is another favorite of mine and they give me that same satisfaction. Nothing would disappoint me more than seeing Wilco start playing straight Being There style tunes, even though it's one of my favorite albums. It's the ride, the changes that keep me listening and wanting more.

hot damn nels is on point on impossible germany in that video....one of the best ive seen for sure

oh and before someone rips me about loving AGIB and complaining about the ambient sound thing on YHF, I know that Less Than You Think is nothing but noise....It is what it is. I just think that some of those YHF songs were a little overdone after hearing the live versions of them now. Like Poor Places for example, when I hear that live I'm thinking "thats the way that song was meant to be" just opinion...don't hate

I just don't get the notion, shared & espoused by plenty here, that from "Being There" through maybe "A Ghost Is Born" is Wilco's peak, & that there was some kind of drop off in quality after that.

Thats not what I meant at all sorry I was trying to keep it reasonably short...I just had a feeling that Jeff was reaching for some kind of different sound that culminated with AGIB thats all..and thats just a guess. And i don't mean the songwriting...I mean what the songs eventually become. It's hard to even explain but I mean Summerteeth had great songs on it, with little hints of something different, special, unique. And YHF kind of went all out and they ended up with a brilliant record but just a tad overkill on the ambient sounds and whatnot. AGIB just seems like the perfect blend of this sound they were striving towards and Jeff's songs. But as for a drop in quality after that, noooo way. It just seemed like the end of an era, certainly not a peak. SBS is probably my favorite album, I have a hard time deciding between it and AGIB. It's completely different and wonderful in the sense that you would think they would continue this route they were taking but they just did a straight up rock record and completely blew me away. And I have no complaints about the second half, I'm suprised so many people do.

Am I alone in preferring new Wilco to old Wilco? It seems like most of the time I read this board alot of people are judging the newer material on how good it is compared to the older stuff. The only gripe I have about WTA is that it broke the pattern of every album being better than the last. Call me crazy, I know you will...Thats just my opinion though. SBS a AGIB are two of my favorite albums ever, from any band, hands down. The evolution of Wilco's music fascinates me. It seems like Jeff was reaching for something every album he put and he got closer and closer and it culminated in AGIB, then after that he had reached that sound and had his new band all together and decided to strip everything down to basics, maybe because of his confidence in this new group he had who knows. But the result was amazing SBS is beautifully done I love the songs (okay, leave me like you found me, meh) but other than that I think they are all great songs, and I loveeee the production.

The tracks on Wilco the Album just don't blend together the way they have on the previous albums theres a certain emotion going on all throughout YHF, AGIB, SBS that are all unique in their own way. WTA is more like Wilco (The Random Collection of Songs) I don't hate on it though, I like all of the songs except the last one, which is not an unpopular opinion I see. But what is probably unpopular is my strong belief in AGIB and SBS being their best work. Is there anyone out there who can back me on that?

thanks for watching everyone... thats me on the keys im actually the drummer in our group but i fool around with guitar sometimes and i just started learning piano a few months ago. i'm not very good it took me like an hour to record this without screwing up. my friend on guitar there was probably getting pretty annoyed. i thought it came out okay though i kind of sound like i know what i'm doing

My bandmate and I just recorded this video of us doing a Wilco cover. I thought I'd share it with my fellow Wilco fans. I was surprised that there aren't many covers of this song on YouTube...one of my favorites

Well my position of Sky Blue Sky seems to be an unpopular one. Truthfully depending on the week I sometimes consider it number one. A.M is a good album but really...I think it would be crazy to put it anywhere but last. I just don't think they had even tapped into the unique-ness that makes me love Wilco. There are great songs on A.M. but in my opinion the thing that makes Wilco special to me started with Being There

A Ghost is Born

Sky Blue Sky

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Summerteeth

Whole Love

Being There

Wilco (the album)

A.M.

The Whole Love at K-Mart in Nashville...multiple songs. They were playing that night so I guess they were paying their respects?