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Paging Dr Wilco: Get the defibrillators and save this album


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I like the record, but I fail to see what's daring about it... sounds like 70s fm radio.

 

Because the easy thing to do would have been to make an album full of songs like Spiders and I am trying break yours heart, but instead they did something else, something that everyone seems to think is necessary to point out like it surprises them in their reviews.

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It is so fucking fun to read people react to unflattering Wilco reviews. Someone get me some popcorn.

 

 

who, for a magazine etc, publishes their opinion based off first impressions? can you imagine how many earth-shattering records would have absolutely "sucked" if this smarmy bitch spouted her opinion with less than one complete spin? How can you knock a Wilco song :30 in?
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I hate reviews that hate albums because the album being reviewed does not sound like a band's previous album.

 

Seriously, reviewers should know this is Wilco. They don't do the same thing twice. I mean I love AGIB and the rest of their albums just as much, but I don't want them to make the same album twice.

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Seriously, reviewers should know this is Wilco. They don't do the same thing twice. I mean I love AGIB and the rest of their albums just as much, but I don't want them to make the same album twice.

Definitely. There's few things more disgusting to me than to just continuing to regurgitate the same proven formula over & over again. The difference between art & entertainment, imo.

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In general, I've noticed that there has been a historical divide between British and American tastes. This kinda reminds me of when Dylan came to England with The Band, and then everyone wanted him to be there a little folk god, but he wouldn't play down to them. They were to preoccupied in pretentious notions of "selling out." Wilco has made a daring album and thats evident by the fact that every review mentions how it doesn't sound like YHF or Ghost. This makes it just as challenging as anything they have ever done.

 

Yeah, apart from the fact that he got booed at Newport first, and then also got booed at Forest Hills. Oh, and the same thing happened in Australia before he went to Britain. So, apart from that . . .

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she lost me at "dougie" howser. :thumbup

 

it's called fact-checking. look into it.

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