Your ranking of Wilco albums

[Chinese Apple]

Wilco has released a total of eight albums. Below are the eight, listed in chronological order, each followed by their ranking in terms of album sales. (Please note that in the age of downloading single tracks, album sales may not mean much, but are provided here for anecdotal reference.)

 

Please rank them in order of your personal preference.

 

1) A.M. (1995) --> #6

2) Being There (1996) --> #3

3) Summerteeth (1999) --> #5

4) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) --> #1

5) A Ghost is Born (2004) --> #2

6) Kicking Television (2005) --> #7

7) Sky Blue Sky (2007) -- #4

8) Wilco (The Album) (2009)--> #8

[Chinese Apple]

Here's my ranking

 

1) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2) Sky Blue Sky

3) Summerteeth

4) A Ghost is Born

5) Being There

6) Wilco (The Album)

7) A.M.

8) Kicking Television

 

Choosing a favorite Wilco album is like being asked to choose a favorite child. On different days I might favor one slightly more than the others, but I love each of them in their own unique way.

[Guest Runaway Jim]

1 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2 Being There

3 Summerteeth

4 A Ghost is Born

5 AM

6 Sky Blue Sky

7 Wilco (the album)

 

1-3 move around a bit in the order. 4-7 are pretty set in stone.

[Wild Frank]

1) A Ghost Is Born

2) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

3) Sky Blue Sky

4) Summerteeth

5) Being There

6) Kicking Television

7) Wilco (The Album)

8) AM

[cryptique]

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2. Being There

3. Summerteeth

4. Sky Blue Sky

5. A.M.

6. A Ghost Is Born

7. Wilco (The Album)

 

1 & 2 swap places on occasion, as do 3 & 4. The bottom three are firm.

[Winston Legthigh]

1. Being There

2. A Ghost is Born

3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4. A.M.

5. Sky Blue Sky

6. Summerteeth

7. The Album

[remphish1]

1. Being There

2. Summerteeth

3. Yankee

4. AM

5. Sky Blue

6. Ghost

7. Wilco

[watch me fall]

What, no smart ass remarks yet? It's like I don't even know this board anymore.

[bleedorange]

Are Being There's sales numbers boosted by the fact that it's a double album? Don't they count one sale as two, essentially?

[cryptique]

What, no smart ass remarks yet? It's like I don't even know this board anymore.

AM

BT

ST

YHF

AGIB

SBS

W(TA)

 

Feel better?

[isadorah]

What, no smart ass remarks yet? It's like I don't even know this board anymore.

 

 

I was going to post one, but then thought there would be backlash...'who are you? isadorah, its like we don't even know you anymore,' since i made some smart ass comments yesterday in another thread that got attributed to someone else.

 

 

my smart ass contribution

[Kevan]

1. Ghost

2. Yankee

3. Sky Blue Sky

4. Being There

5. Summerteeth

(can't believe my own list, summerteeth 5th? but they're all so good!)

6. W(ta)

7. AM

[KramkonG]

1. Being There

2. A Ghost is Born

3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4. Summerteeth

5. Sky Blue Sky

6. A.M.

7. The Album

[IATTBYB]

1. YHF

2. aGIB

3. BT

4. AM

5. KT

6. ST

7. W(ta)

8. SBS

[Dude]

Yeah, I guess it's been all of like three weeks since the last album ranking thread.

[Jesusetc84]

01. Summerteeth

02. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

03. A Ghost is Born

04. Being There

05. Wilco (The Album)

06. Sky Blue Sky

07. A.M.

[Chinese Apple]

Yeah, I guess it's been all of like three weeks since the last album ranking thread.

 

I am a sporadic participant on the forum; shoulda done a search of topics first. Oops.

 

But the poll graphic is informative, no? Especially juxtaposed against actual album sales figures, as a comparison of the fan forum against "real world" consumers.

[dthedust]

summerteeth

yhf

ghost is born

sky blue sky

being there

wta

am

[Maggie]

I'm pretty sure my list has changed slightly since the last time I participated in one of these threads.

 

A Ghost is Born

Summerteeth

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Being There

AM

Sky Blue Sky

Wilco (the album)

[Dude]

I am a sporadic participant on the forum; shoulda done a search of topics first. Oops.

 

But the poll graphic is informative, no? Especially juxtaposed against actual album sales figures, as a comparison of the fan forum against "real world" consumers.

 

Yeah, the album ranking is a long-running joke on here. Don't mind me.

[Nobody Girl]

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2. Summerteeth

3. Being There

4. A Ghost Is Born

5. Sky Blue Sky

6. AM

7. Wilco (The Album)

 

2 and 3 often flip-flop, and the gap between 4-6 is not that big.

[Excitable Boy]

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2. Summerteeth

3. A Ghost is Born

4. Sky Blue Sky

5. Being There

6. Wilco (The album)

7. AM

 

(Putting Being There at 5th just feels shameful to me, but I still love it to death)

[froggie]

BT

ST

MM1

SBS

MM2

W(TA)

AM

YHF

AGIB

[peteboiler]

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (and when I first heard it, I hated it - go figure)

2. Summerteeth

3. A Ghost is Born

4. Being There

5. Sky Blue Sky

6. Wilco (the album)

7. Kicking Television

8. AM

[wilconut]

1. A Ghost is Born

2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

3. Summerteeth

4. Being There.

5. Sky Blue Sky

6. The Album

7. AM

8. KT

 

Five and six flip-flop depending on the day. The real bitch of The Album is that even though I think it's a great offering and definitely one of the best of '09, it still ranks toward the bottom compared with all their other material. That's the sign of a great band, when a 'weaker' album is still good.