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- Hate It Here and Shake It off sound like Loose Fur

 

Sonically I'm hearing Loose Fur all over this record, and yeah, that's a good thing.

 

I'm getting a "Southern Man" vibe from the solo on YAMF

 

 

 

- Hate It Here and Shake It off sound like Loose Fur

 

Sonically I'm hearing Loose Fur all over this record, and yeah, that's a good thing.

 

I'm getting a "Southern Man" vibe from the solo on YAMF

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Is it just me or is there a Big Star influence on this record?

 

Yeah man I hear it. Especially on Walken, it sounds like a rck and roll romp done Big Star style. IMO anyway, lol.

 

I've listened through it about 4 times now and I love it. You can hear so many different influences. Anybody get a Bob Dylan "Blood On The Tracks" vibe from "What Light"?

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I agree with Sir Stewart and a whole bunch of others that the CD is suspiciously good. :shifty Will I even be listening to it by the time it comes out... ?

 

I would have enjoyed it a little bit more if it started with a stronger song like Side with Seeds. It would have been nice to have that quick drum intro. A little, 'and we're off'. But it doesn't really matter.

 

The song Shake It Off however is one of the ugliest and most beautiful songs they have ever recorded. It really showcases how tight their sound is as a band right now.

 

And last but not least. The people who want more AM and Being There... Why would a band force themselves to write and perform ridiculously simple songs? It would be like putting Jimi Hendrix on rhythm guitar. I'm thinking with the song writing skill Jeff Tweedy has obtained over the years, he could probably pump out a AM type CD in a few weeks.

 

Eh. :rock

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And last but not least. The people who want more AM and Being There... Why would a band force themselves to write and perform ridiculously simple songs?

 

not all the stuff on those albums is simple.. its more the straight forward sound, and some of us like that.

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Got SBS thanks to a PM yesterday, took it out in the car on a long journey last night.

 

I think it's superb.

 

It's the sound of a band extremely comfortable with each other, not under any pressure, happy in their skin and delivering what an album should be in my opinion - a record of who they are and the noise thay want to make at this particular time.

 

The next record may take us off into more avant-garde territory or it might be gentle and acoustic. Who knows. Wilco is the greatest band working in music today and has never rested on laurels or reached a plateau or churned out the same record over and over (hello Coldplay....)

 

We are lucky to be along for the ride.

 

Thanks boys. I love the new record. It will make for some fantastic gigs. I may grow my hair.

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SBS is my number two album of '07...just behind Two Cow Garage, and just beating out Ryan Adams. While I like the Son Volt release it's no better than 18. I have the Arcade Fire no higher than 4 right now, but watch for my full list later in the week.

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There's really not a moment on the whole dang think that I don't like.

While that's great and all, I can't automatically give it the raves it probably deserves, since it's the first Wilco album that's grown on me this quickly. Makes me a little :brow

 

i am in complete agreement on this.

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Jay Bennett is "McCartney To Tweedy's Lennin!!"

-Robert

 

That'd make would make Ghost Tweedy's "Plastic Ono Band", the heartwrenching album of intense reflection he made as his first statement after losing his songwriting partner. That sounds about right actually. And eventually time showed us that Lennon could write great songs without McCartney, but overall he was a hell of lot more consistent with Paul around. Same thing could be happening here, too. And countining this analogy out even further, we're due for Jay's "Band on the Run."

 

--Mike

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not to drag this out, but i wanna talk about this

 

i loved the direction the band was taking with kicking television, and sky blue sky seems like a complete turn around

 

thoughts?

 

one's live and one's studio?

 

some of the SBS tracks when they were played last year had a KT feel to them

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I hope I'm not being a pain (oh God been living in England too long!) but I missed the stream because it was in the middle of the night here and didn't get the email till the next morning. Would anyone please send me SBS or tell me how I can hear it at this point? I can handle FLAC or any other kind of files.

 

Sue

 

anellony@yahoo.com

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and me too...pretty difficult to catch up with when you're in London.

greg.heinimann@googlemail.com

 

I hope I'm not being a pain (oh God been living in England too long!) but I missed the stream because it was in the middle of the night here and didn't get the email till the next morning. Would anyone please send me SBS or tell me how I can hear it at this point? I can handle FLAC or any other kind of files.

 

Sue

 

anellony@yahoo.com

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Very true.

But then, McCartney also released this song 10 years ago on "Flaming Pie". It was called "Souvenir" and he sang it masterfully. Remember it ?

 

 

 

"souvenir" is a great song. i wish mccartney got as much credit and recognition for his more recent work as he deserves. maybe someday wilco/tweedy will have the same problem of living up to a couple of decades of brilliance. upon a few listens, i have to say that this music just "speaks" to me, for lack of a better way to put it. each new wilco album has drastic changes, new sounds, themes and vibes, but also seems to keep a little bit of what came before, while adding more elemets. this album is like "beauty rock" or something. it's truly an ALBUM, and not a bunch of songs (as all of wilco's albums have been). it's a complete thought, filled in with beauty, sadness, soul and white boy funk. and i mean that in a good way. while there is not a classic "rocker" on this album, it seem like it wouldn't make sense or coherently fit with the rest of the songs. even a song like "the ruling class" (one of my favorite songs last year) would have taken the album's vibe into a different direction. SBS is what it is -- a permanent record of where wilco was in 2006, and the only word i can use to describe it is "beautiful." i keep trusting tweedy to take me along on his journey, and he has yet to ever let me down. a lot of detours, surprises and unexpected moments, but that's what makes going along for the ride so special. tweedy is THE artist of his generation, and this album, in which he continues to follow his heart and his instincts regardless of whether or not it is the "right" move for him and wilco at any particular juncture, only continues to prove that point to me.

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