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whoa-ho! where one finds NP on viachicago, one finds "share your music" on ateaseweb.

 

Yeah, those threads are a tremendous resource for downloaders. I'd recommend avoiding the rest of the boards, though, since it's basically an idiot farm used in the breeding of ad hominem attacks. Pretty lame place.

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Yeah, those threads are a tremendous resource for downloaders. I'd recommend avoiding the rest of the boards, though, since it's basically an idiot farm used in the breeding of ad hominem attacks. Pretty lame place.

 

 

Gee...kinda sounds like the internet

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Fuck, I wrote that original statement.

 

Please be kind to read the entire article, as I was defending Jeff Tweedy....

 

someone state the intention of Summerteeth was to sound "fake and plastic" and then I said..

 

As for the intention of sounding "fake" and "plastic", I hardly believe Jeff Tweedy was experimenting with electronic pop for the sake of revealing its emptyness.

 

 

sorry, I hate being quoted out of context, but I think that statement of Summerteeth's purpose of sounding "fake" and "platic" stupid and without merit. IMO.

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I like Summerteeth, it is literally in my top five favorite Wilco studio albums.

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I always thought it was a period when Jeff and Jay were popping pills and spending money the band didn't have on old mellotrons and synths and then they would stay up late twisting good honest folk tunes into the tortured end results

 

not really kidding either, that was my impression from the Kot book, interviews, etc . . .

You're not alone, that's pretty much exactly how I've always seen it too.

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someone state the intention of Summerteeth was to sound "fake and plastic" and then I said..

sorry, I hate being quoted out of context, but I think that statement of Summerteeth's purpose of sounding "fake" and "platic" stupid and without merit.

 

 

Whatever radiohead fan originally wrote that is a real creep, ya know, a real weirdo... paranoid android type...

 

Fake plastic watering can..................................................................... :dancing

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I have a question: what's so thrilling about Summerteeth, and those early albums? they're not bad, by any means, but masterpieces..? I can't think about anything in the sound of them that makes them any different from any 90's alt rock group.

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I have a question: what's so thrilling about Summerteeth, and those early albums? they're not bad, by any means, but masterpieces..? I can't think about anything in the sound of them that makes them any different from any 90's alt rock group.

Staying power. When's the last time anybody listened to the Gin Blossoms?

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I have a question: what's so thrilling about Summerteeth, and those early albums? they're not bad, by any means, but masterpieces..? I can't think about anything in the sound of them that makes them any different from any 90's alt rock group.

 

Shot in the Arm, both lyrically and musically, could wipe out a million Candleboxes and Sponges in a heartbeat. It blew my mind then and still does today. The album as a whole just had so many cool moments, not just via the production and from an instrumental standpoint, but I think it still holds some of Tweedy's finest lyrics.

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Shot in the Arm, both lyrically and musically, could wipe out a million Candleboxes and Sponges in a heartbeat. It blew my mind then and still does today. The album as a whole just had so many cool moments, not just via the production and from an instrumental standpoint, but I think it still holds some of Tweedy's finest lyrics.

 

 

 

Ihated it when it first came out.........I "got " Tweedy upon repeated listennings ........Rockaplast video kiiinda thru me over the edge.......

 

 

-Robert.

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> I have a question: what's so thrilling about Summerteeth, and those early albums?

 

uh, people have different tastes?

 

personally i got into the band when mermaid avenue came out cause it was their first exposure down here. i'd read reviews of AM and Being there beforehand but didnt hear anything. heard the "alt-country" on mermaid avenue and fell in love with them (california stars, to be exact)... nothing wrong with that

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On Summerteeth, Jeff Tweedy was experimenting with electronic pop for the sake of revealing its emptyness.

 

My answering observations:

 

1) It's Bennett who added the sophisticated parts, not Tweedy

2) "electro" is exaggerated, it's just keyboards stuff

3) I don't think they did that for revealing the emptiness of arrangements, they said in an interview that they had bought new instruments and were just happy using it

4) The arrangements of Summerteeth are anything but empty, since music is something that creates emotion and landscapes that resonate deeper in us than any kind of lyrics (and actually Tweedy's lyrics also mean to suggest sensations more than anything else)

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I have a question: what's so thrilling about Summerteeth, and those early albums? they're not bad, by any means, but masterpieces..? I can't think about anything in the sound of them that makes them any different from any 90's alt rock group.

If you think Summerteeth sounds no different from "any '90s alt rock group," you clearly were listening to some '90s alt rock groups I've never heard of.

 

Pardon me for saying so, but this is a really dumb question to post on a WILCO FORUM.

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If you think Summerteeth sounds no different from "any '90s alt rock group," you clearly were listening to some '90s alt rock groups I've never heard of.

 

Ditto.

 

I want to add that discovering Summerteeth was exactly like discovering Rubber Soul to me. The same happiness, the same wonder with melodies and good vibrations. That album is really rich. And Tweedy's voice reminded me of Lennon's one then. Actually just hearing Jeff sing is a joy, as he's perfectly in tune.

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My answering observations:

 

1) It's Bennett who added the sophisticated parts, not Tweedy

2) "electro" is exaggerated, it's just keyboards stuff

3) I don't think they did that for revealing the emptiness of arrangements, they said in an interview that they had bought new instruments and were just happy using it

4) The arrangements of Summerteeth are anything but empty, since music is something that creates emotion and landscapes that resonate deeper in us than any kind of lyrics (and actually Tweedy's lyrics also mean to suggest sensations more than anything else)

 

 

 

I never said that, actually no one ever said that.

 

Fuck the original poster for his ability to not be able to read a thread and start this.

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