new WILCO album

Toxa · 04.23.2007, 03:29 PM

what do ya think?
I like it! Alot of really good songs. "Impossible Germany" is my favorite. "Side with the Seeds" is a close second.

lungfish · 04.23.2007, 04:47 PM

its a good album but Wilco have the potential to do so much better.
AGIB isn't even my fav album but the songs on there seem so much better than most of these new tracks. fuller and packed with an instant musical uppercut.
my favorite song is You Are My Face.
the only song, more so than Impossible Germany actually, that I think is up to par with their recent and even older songs.
it sounds like a marriage between She's A Jar (the verses) and At Least That's What You Said (at 1:30)

3:21 - 3:25 on Impossible Germany is incredibly beautiful. such a little moment but so sweet and sad. and then they all come in and.. yeah. goodness.

but who knows. maybe I'll come home one day feeling bummy and I'll put this on and it'll all make sense but I want to be excited a bit more next time.

good album for sure though.

ps - i'm pissed the Hammerstein show sold out so quickly. godDAMN. haha.

k-krack · 04.23.2007, 04:58 PM

Oh man...A.M. is such a shit album.
I bought it hoping it would be like..the few Wilco songs I'd heard (like, Kicking TElevision, and some stuff from A Ghost is Born)... no such luck... fucking crap album.

noumenal · 04.23.2007, 05:02 PM

It comes out on May 15 in the USA, right? Did you guys download it or what? No judgment, just wondering....

noumenal · 04.23.2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by k-krack

Oh man...A.M. is such a shit album.
I bought it hoping it would be like..the few Wilco songs I'd heard (like, Kicking TElevision, and some stuff from A Ghost is Born)... no such luck... fucking crap album.

Why would you start off with A.M.?

lungfish · 04.23.2007, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by noumenal

It comes out on May 15 in the USA, right? Did you guys download it or what? No judgment, just wondering....

i heard it awhile back when they streamed it on their website.

Toxa · 04.23.2007, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by noumenal

It comes out on May 15 in the USA, right? Did you guys download it or what? No judgment, just wondering....

yep. shame on me, but long waiting pissing me off... promo's were in the internet on 03/03 so...

Toxa · 04.23.2007, 05:14 PM

I think an ideal start for a Wilco newbie would be Yankee Hotel Foxtrot... at least I started to love them since this record.

lungfish · 04.23.2007, 05:43 PM

yeah.
watching "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" before listening to "YHF" would totally ideal as well.

Everyneurotic · 04.23.2007, 06:44 PM

i just did a review of it, the songs are ok, nothing extraordinary, but the guitar work?! amazing!!! get it just for that.

RdTv · 04.23.2007, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

i just did a review of it, the songs are ok, nothing extraordinary, but the guitar work?! amazing!!! get it just for that.

Funny that you mention that.....

I was listening to this album time and time again and all I could discern was ''Wow, Nels Cline has to be bored.''

cellscape · 04.24.2007, 09:07 AM

I've had the album a couple months and listened to it for about two days when I first got it. Its not that its bad, just dull. Maybe I need to let it grow on me but I was a little dissapointed. The last "Loose Fur" blows it away and that's just a side project. Plus Wilco toured like four full times and multiple festival circuits on "Ghost is born." After such a gap as well as consistently good albums in the past for the most part, I expected a bit more.

Everyneurotic · 04.24.2007, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by RdTv

Funny that you mention that.....

I was listening to this album time and time again and all I could discern was ''Wow, Nels Cline has to be bored.''

i like the interaction he has with jeff, and i like that he's not overplaying.

the album in general is so laidback it's almost boring, i too expected more but it's a solid release.

dazedcola · 04.24.2007, 01:35 PM

so none of the more interesting experimenting on a ghost is born and yankee hotel foxtrot is on this record?

AllHandsOnTheBigOne · 04.24.2007, 04:08 PM

I've given YHF a listen, but it was a huge disappointment after all the hype I heard about it. Some ambient electronics at the end of a song does not = experimental.

noumenal · 04.24.2007, 04:55 PM

YHF is not experimental, of course. Wilco are about the tunes you know, songs. You might say it was experimental FOR WILCO, but whatever. Experimental is a dead term regarding music, as far as I'm concerned. Anyway.

I just downloaded the new album from a blog. I like it just fine so far. I'm sure it will make me happy cruising around without air conditioning this summer.

04.23.2007, 03:29 PM	#1
Toxa 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Evil Empire Posts: 848	what do ya think? I like it! Alot of really good songs. "Impossible Germany" is my favorite. "Side with the Seeds" is a close second.
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04.23.2007, 04:47 PM	#2
lungfish bad moon rising Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: nyc Posts: 236	its a good album but Wilco have the potential to do so much better. AGIB isn't even my fav album but the songs on there seem so much better than most of these new tracks. fuller and packed with an instant musical uppercut. my favorite song is You Are My Face. the only song, more so than Impossible Germany actually, that I think is up to par with their recent and even older songs. it sounds like a marriage between She's A Jar (the verses) and At Least That's What You Said (at 1:30) 3:21 - 3:25 on Impossible Germany is incredibly beautiful. such a little moment but so sweet and sad. and then they all come in and.. yeah. goodness. but who knows. maybe I'll come home one day feeling bummy and I'll put this on and it'll all make sense but I want to be excited a bit more next time. good album for sure though. ps - i'm pissed the Hammerstein show sold out so quickly. godDAMN. haha.
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04.23.2007, 04:58 PM	#3
k-krack invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: On Posts: 7,380	Oh man...A.M. is such a shit album. I bought it hoping it would be like..the few Wilco songs I'd heard (like, Kicking TElevision, and some stuff from A Ghost is Born)... no such luck... fucking crap album. __________________ sandwich klub 4 men. Danny is a C.H.U.D.
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04.23.2007, 05:02 PM	#4
noumenal expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,855	It comes out on May 15 in the USA, right? Did you guys download it or what? No judgment, just wondering....
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04.23.2007, 05:14 PM	#8
Toxa 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Evil Empire Posts: 848	I think an ideal start for a Wilco newbie would be Yankee Hotel Foxtrot... at least I started to love them since this record.
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04.23.2007, 05:43 PM	#9
lungfish bad moon rising Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: nyc Posts: 236	yeah. watching "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" before listening to "YHF" would totally ideal as well.
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04.23.2007, 06:44 PM	#10
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	i just did a review of it, the songs are ok, nothing extraordinary, but the guitar work?! amazing!!! get it just for that. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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04.24.2007, 09:07 AM	#12
cellscape little trouble girl Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 76	I've had the album a couple months and listened to it for about two days when I first got it. Its not that its bad, just dull. Maybe I need to let it grow on me but I was a little dissapointed. The last "Loose Fur" blows it away and that's just a side project. Plus Wilco toured like four full times and multiple festival circuits on "Ghost is born." After such a gap as well as consistently good albums in the past for the most part, I expected a bit more.
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04.24.2007, 01:35 PM	#14
dazedcola the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,075	so none of the more interesting experimenting on a ghost is born and yankee hotel foxtrot is on this record? __________________ "I said I didnt mean to take up all your sweet time Ill give it right back one of these days If I dont meet you no more in this world then uh Ill meet ya on the next one And dont be late " -Jimi Hendrix ...And me just another dream theory, lost inside your eye "when my mind's uncertain my body decides what it will do to get through the hell of the night as I trip on the ocean that leads through your eyes well my eyes can't wait til they finally see through you"
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04.24.2007, 04:08 PM	#15
AllHandsOnTheBigOne children of satan Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Where? Posts: 378	I've given YHF a listen, but it was a huge disappointment after all the hype I heard about it. Some ambient electronics at the end of a song does not = experimental. __________________ Boys go to jupiter to get more stupider Girls go to mars, become rock stars
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04.24.2007, 04:55 PM	#16
noumenal expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,855	YHF is not experimental, of course. Wilco are about the tunes you know, songs. You might say it was experimental FOR WILCO, but whatever. Experimental is a dead term regarding music, as far as I'm concerned. Anyway. I just downloaded the new album from a blog. I like it just fine so far. I'm sure it will make me happy cruising around without air conditioning this summer.
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