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I respect that opinion. However, it occurred to me that if you "hardly listened to Summerteeth at all," you may not have listened to it enough times to let such a layered album unwrap itself for your ears. Me, I have the opposite problem -- I've listened to ST too much (thanks, wife).

 

I like the songs as have heard them live and in acoustic form from several downloads but I just don;t like the production on the album itself which for me is a shame.....

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Sometimes I feel like listening to AM

Sometimes I feel like listening to Being There

Sometimes I feel like listening to Summerteeth

Sometimes I feel like listening to YHF

Sometimes I feel like listening to AGIB

Sometimes I feel like listening to SBS

Sometimes I feel like listening to The Monkees

 

It is not wrong, it is not right, it just is.

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AM is a perfect album from beginning to end. every damn song is good. you dummies are high.

 

whats his face that plays guitar saves it for sure. every lick is perfect.

 

I'd love to hear the current line-up re-record it their way....

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I go through phases where I get tired of bands, and Wilco is no exception. I'm coming off about 6 months of totally ignoring Wilco. Whenever this happens, Summerteeth is the record that always brings me back. But I love AM too, and YHF and BT also.

 

BT, ST, and YHF are one the strongest album triumvirates by any band ever.

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Hi Lou, why have you this man in your avatar? Just curious

It is Bill Ayers mug shot from 1968....not a musician for a change...it is sort of a post election fuck you to the McCain Palin ticket....

 

LouieT

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I like the songs as have heard them live and in acoustic form from several downloads but I just don;t like the production on the album itself which for me is a shame.....

 

Agreed. The production sounds yucky. I don't just blame the pro tools, it's the way that it was used and mixed. Especially the first track... yuck.

 

Otherwise I think the album contains five or six of Wilco's best songs. Nonetheless, AM is the only album below it in my Wilco scale of awesome. A mixed bag indeed.

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Didn't know where to put this...but I chose this.

 

AMG upgraded a couple of albums to 5 star, and Summer Teeth became one of only 4 rock albums since 1998 to get 5 stars from them (and I think one of only like 7 albums period.)

 

 

As a HUGE fan of the album, it was nice to see it get some of the praise that's usually reserved for YHF.

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Didn't know where to put this...but I chose this.

 

AMG upgraded a couple of albums to 5 star, and Summer Teeth became one of only 4 rock albums since 1998 to get 5 stars from them (and I think one of only like 7 albums period.)

 

 

As a HUGE fan of the album, it was nice to see it get some of the praise that's usually reserved for YHF.

 

It was about time! I always thought Summerteeth was Wilco's true masterpiece, and never changed of mind.

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Agreed. The production sounds yucky. I don't just blame the pro tools, it's the way that it was used and mixed. Especially the first track... yuck.

 

Otherwise I think the album contains five or six of Wilco's best songs. Nonetheless, AM is the only album below it in my Wilco scale of awesome. A mixed bag indeed.

 

 

Seriously? I think melodically and arrangement wise, it's one of wilco's most consistent albums, if not the most. There's no song on Summerteeth that doesn't knock my socks off.

If I did my personal top 20 Wilco songs, it'd include about 8 songs from YHF, 6 from Summerteeth and 6 from the other records.

 

Of course, I never gave a shit about Country before getting into Wilco, so I have no problem with Summerteeth's arrangements; in fact they're a lot more in tune with what I listen to outside of Wilco (Beatles, Beach Boys, Zombies, Late Velvet Underground, early 80s Elvis Costello) then are most of Wilco's records.

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I do concur.........what would an alternate Wilco universe look like had he said....."Yes"??

 

 

 

-Robert

Oh man. You just made my head explode.

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