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Toxa 04.23.2007 03:29 PM

new WILCO album
 
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

Quote:

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

Quote:

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

Quote:

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...:D

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

Quote:

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

Quote:

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.


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