Wilco Takeover on PasteMagazine.com

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So, PasteMagazine.com is doing a Wilco Takeover today, with all Wilco content all day...

 

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It's no secret that Paste kind of has a thing for the band Wilco. Each of the three studio albums they've released since we started our magazine has ended up on our year-end Top 10 lists. We've put Jeff Tweedy on our cover once, and featured the band countless times both in the magazine and on the website. What else can we do to profess a love that began way back in the Uncle Tupelo days before the great Tweedy/Farrar split? Well, we can give them the whole website in honor of Wilco (the album), which gets its release today.

 

So welcome to Wilco (The Takeover). Today on PasteMagazine.com, you'll find a stream and a review of the new album. But you'll also find a poll of the best Wilco album of all time, our review of Wilco (The Gas Station), a list of the great parentheses in music history, a look at Tweedy's son's blog, a brief history of number stations like the one sampled on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, our favorite nonsensical Wilco lyrics, and a remembrance of that show in Missouri where the crazy dude got punched in the face on stage by Tweedy ("I just wanted a hug!"). And we'll update the site tonight with interviews with guitarist Nels Cline and bassist John Stirrat.

 

 

• Stream: Wilco (the album)
  
• Review: Wilco (the album)
  
• Poll: What is Wilco's best album to date?
  
• A (Brief) Tour Through the History of Musical Parentheses
  
• Review: Ashes of American Flags DVD
  
• At Least That's What [We] Said: A Look Back at Paste's Coverage of All Things Wilco
  
• News: Wilco iPhone App Available for (Free) Download
  
• Review: Wilco (The Gas Station)
  
• Five of Our Favorite Nonsensical Wilco Lyrics
  
• I Was There the Night That Guy Got Punched by Jeff Tweedy in Missouri
  
• What We've Learned From Spencer Tweedy's Blog About Spencer Tweedy's Dad
  
• Album Names and Cold-War Games: A History of the Numbers Station
  

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Ugh. I've always liked Paste as a magazine that honors good music, especially good songwriting, without the pretension that inflicts Pitchfork and Rolling Stone (in different ways, of course). But man, the writing is always SOOOO bad. That review of W(TA) is one of the worst I've read. It actually seems like they cut and pasted many other reviewers takes of the new album from the many reviews written over the past month, and so said nothing new and was incoherent nevertheless. And I get it that the Son Volt vs Wilco comparisons are especially unavoidable when they share a release date, but still trying to compare the songwriting merits of each after so many years and evolutions is really pointless, IMHO. And finally, especially now that he has tragically passed, can we please stop wishing Mr Bennett were back in Wilco? Like, hasn't it been 8 years and 3 excellent albums since, and we're still talking about it?!

 

End of rant.