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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 9:55 pm Posts: 13819 Location: An office full of assholes
verb_to_trust wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
Star Wars is the best thing the band has put out since A Ghost Is Born, and it’s not even close.
What a crazy statement. Trag is right that Schmilco is better but you are both wrong because Sky Blue Sky has bangers, even if it is a bit top heavy.
I remember how pumped I was for SBS, seeing as how it was going to be Nels Cline's first Wilco studio album. And I also remember how incredibly disappointed I was when it came out. I knew going in that Impossible Germany was going to be on it; they had been playing it live for a good year before the album. But outside of that and Side with the Seeds (a Top 10 Wilco song for me), every other song was super mediocre and overdone. Jeff Tweedy pigeonholed every one to fit a Nels Cline solo or incorporate some aspect of him in the sound. And for that reason, none of the songs really sounded sincere or spontaneous.
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Counterpoint: Sky Blue Sky is the most direct, clear-eyed record they’ve ever written; it’s also the most classic rock album they’ve done by a wide margin.
Schmilco is a sleeper masterpiece. Headphones add a lot. There’s a TON of great textural stuff going on that doesn’t jump out immediately. Quiet compositions, a lighthearted feel, and fun textures...It’s like their own J.J. Cale record.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 9:55 pm Posts: 13819 Location: An office full of assholes
tragabigzanda wrote:
Counterpoint: Sky Blue Sky is the most direct, clear-eyed record they’ve ever written; it’s also the most classic rock album they’ve done by a wide margin.
SBS reminds me of what a lot of people found/find so off putting about My Morning Jacket's Evil Urges. Over produced. Complicated. A band trying way too hard to be something that they're really not. Tweedy even acknowledged during one our living room concerts that in hindsight the band was really struggling to find its sound from SBS through the Whole Love and tried too many different things, which is what led to the stripped down (direct and clear-eyed) SBS.
Nels joining the band really seemed to be the dividing line. It's been 15 years and they are still trying to figure out how to be a band with him. There have been a few high points (SBS, Schmilco, Star Wars) but downright clunkers like the last record too. Tweedy needs a foil like Jay was. The band as it's constructed now sucks each other's sucks too much.
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