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Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 4:15 pm

washing machine wrote:Last day of a brutal stretch of days at work and home. Wilco (The Song) is just the push I need to get some work done before hitting the road for a couple of days. Not my favorite album in their catalog, but I'll probably just let this one play and see what reveals itself this time around.

It’s an awesome album. I think it loses a little steam in the final stretch, but not to an off putting degree.

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 4:34 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:
washing machine wrote:Last day of a brutal stretch of days at work and home. Wilco (The Song) is just the push I need to get some work done before hitting the road for a couple of days. Not my favorite album in their catalog, but I'll probably just let this one play and see what reveals itself this time around.

It’s an awesome album. I think it loses a little steam in the final stretch, but not to an off putting degree.

I think the last time I re-listened I also liked it better than I remembered. I'm liking it a lot right now. This feels like the Wilco album where the current lineup really learned how to play with each other.

Come on children, you're acting like children. Every generation thinks it's the end of the world...

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 4:42 pm

Tweedy did an interview a couple years ago where he said that album was really inspired by their touring setup. He said that’s why the drums were so loud, because they were used to hearing them loud on stage and wanted to capture that energy. It absolutely rocks harder than something like Star Wars, despite the latter having more “rock songs.”

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 4:45 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:Tweedy did an interview a couple years ago where he said that album was really inspired by their touring setup. He said that’s why the drums were so loud, because they were used to hearing them loud on stage and wanted to capture that energy. It absolutely rocks harder than something like Star Wars, despite the latter having more “rock songs.”

That's interesting. Never thought about how the drum sound worked on here but that makes a ton of sense now.

I love this quote re: "Country Disappeared". Reveals so much about his impressionistic songwriting.

There are images in that song I wanted to convey without a lot of commentary or opinion. I just wanted to look at, say, a foreclosure auction in an impressionistic and beautiful way. I wanted to look at a devastated city from above, as if it’s art, and not really trying to relate too many thoughts about it at all. That’s what it is for me — a series of images. I see them, I think of them when I sing it, and that’s what gives me satisfaction. I know the title seems to be provocative for a lot of people, wondering which country I’m talking about — the red country or the blue country, which one disappeared? That’s not really where the song was coming from.

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 4:48 pm

Hadn’t seen that before. Awesome quote. I love that song.

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 4:55 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:Hadn’t seen that before. Awesome quote. I love that song.

https://archive.ph/XZdMD

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 5:13 pm

I want to listen but don’t even know how to listen to mp3s anymore

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 5:16 pm

bodysnatcher wrote:I want to listen but don’t even know how to listen to mp3s anymore

Yeah same. I can wait.

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 5:24 pm

Guys all it requires is 45 minutes of your time to input the songs to iTunes then put them in your phone

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 5:26 pm

I don’t have my personal computer

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 5:38 pm

and I don't have iTunes.

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 5:59 pm

I was making a joke about how long it takes to put songs on your phone

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 6:13 pm

I don't have the 45 minutes necessary to try and get your jokes, trag.

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 6:19 pm

Wow!

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 6:29 pm

I, too, was making a joke by referencing your previous joke.

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 6:34 pm

I don’t have the 45 brain cells necessary to make sense of RM

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 6:39 pm

I wasn’t joking I haven’t put a mp3 on my phone in half a decade

Re: wilco

Mon May 23, 2022 6:43 pm

I still use iTunes for leaks and the occasional Bandcamp or fan-made project. Binaural Deluxe, baby!

Re: wilco

Tue May 24, 2022 12:18 am

bodysnatcher wrote:I wasn’t joking I haven’t put a mp3 on my phone in half a decade


same. i think the album would have to be 6 months from release before i'd try and figure out how to download it early.

Re: wilco

Tue May 24, 2022 12:45 am

I realized I can stream it per song from a Google drive folder
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