Littlebear Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Released respectively in March and May 1999, these two albums share important sonic landscapes, especially with a big use of keyboards. The Flaming Lips were more arty and experimental at it, though - and I know Wilco was listening to the Flaming Lips after that, and they made the more experimental Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - an influence? Also, to me, The Flaming Lips and Wilco may have been influenced by Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs from 1998. What do you think? Anyway, I liked that 1999 year a lot. I discovered then four of my favorite records ever: Summerteeth, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Ron Sexsmith's Whereabouts, and John Cunningham's Homeless House. He added on a side note. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jesusetc84 Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Released respectively in March and May 1999, these two albums share important sonic landscapes, especially with a big use of keyboards. The Flaming Lips were more arty and experimental at it, though - and I know Wilco was listening to the Flaming Lips after that, and they made the more experimental Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - an influence? Also, to me, The Flaming Lips and Wilco may have been influenced by Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs from 1998. What do you think? Anyway, I liked that 1999 year a lot. I discovered then four of my favorite records ever: Summerteeth, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Ron Sexsmith's Whereabouts, and John Cunningham's Homeless House. He added on a side note. I always thought Summerteeth had better songwriting, but The Soft Bulletin was as you said, an artier production. They're similar in some aspects, definitely. The Soft Bulletin has a Pink Floyd element that Summerteeth doesn't, and Summerteeth has a folk element that The Lips didn't have. And yes, Deserter's Songs seems to have influenced both records; digging further back you can also see influence from XTC's Skylarking, Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything?, Psychedelic era Beatles, and yes, Pet Sounds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dondoboy Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 They both have great covers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
explodo Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 1999 was a very good year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nodep5 Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 I never quite got the SummerTeeth cover. Is it a body with a moon head? Or is it a person blowing a huge bubble? I like the cover and it is unlike any other simplisitic style Wilco album cover, but I never quite understood. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sunshine Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 yea -- and what the hell are summer teeth anyway? the opposite of winter teeth? I have the same teeth all year round. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 I never quite got the SummerTeeth cover. Is it a body with a moon head? Or is it a person blowing a huge bubble? I like the cover and it is unlike any other simplisitic style Wilco album cover, but I never quite understood. it's a person blowing a huge bubble Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 yea -- and what the hell are summer teeth anyway? the opposite of winter teeth? I have the same teeth all year round. it's from an old (and not very funny) joke. I've got summer teeth -- some are, some aren't Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moe_Syzlak Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Hmm... I think I was better off not knowing either of those things. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Hmm... I think I was better off not knowing either of those things. Me too, album cover-wise. Damn, I could never quite figure it out, but I didn't care to, either. Damn damn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moe_Syzlak Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Summerteeth's album cover always reminded me of this: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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mpolak21 Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 I listened to both of these records a lot when I was an undergrad. These days I haven't really been that compelled to listen to the post-Ronald Jones Flaming Lips very often, but Summerteeth still gets a monthly spin. I got both it and YHF within a few weeks of each other in 2002, and it was the first Wilco album I ever heard. It pretty much blew my mind and rendered half of my CD collection irrelevant so I am quite fond of that record. --Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 this reminds me AGIB: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Springteeth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Calexico Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Both of those albums and Deserter's Songs were on heavy rotation for me for that year. I was at sea for most of it and those discs got a fair roadtesting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yankee Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 it's from an old (and not very funny) joke. I heard it was something like, I've got summer teeth. Some are this way, some are that way. (As in crooked.) Both of those are great albums. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mahinty Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Curiously, both bands went on to release, what I consider to be, their best albums in the same year: 2002. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot & Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (yes, I know YHF was finished and available online in 2001 – but that’s a technicality as far as I’m concerned.) 2002 was a bit of a watershed year for me for music. I really had my ears open by this time. Beck’s best record, “Sea Change” was also released that same year. I also discovered UK indie singer-songwriter, Badly Drawn Boy, that year (thanks to his soundtrack work on “About a Boy”), which set me off down the path to discovering his brilliant debut “The Hour of the Bewilderbeast” from 2000. All of these records have been with me pretty solidly since, and are almost always in my Top 10 lists. It was a pretty encouraging start to the new millennium. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yankee Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Curiously, both bands went on to release, what I consider to be, their best albums in the same year: 2002. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot & Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Two of my all time favorite albums. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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