WILCO,"A Ghost is Born"

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So this feels like a step back from the last one.Lots of great spiky guitar & a closing 5 minute noise drone but somehow it feels more conventional.Can't quite get my head around the songs.Maybe it's the pacing.Favorite tracks Spiders,Handshake Drugs,At Least Thats What You Said.What do you think?

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"more conventional"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"At Least..." sounds pretty good - some pretty righteous guitar playing - but i'm feeling a bit 'meh' so far

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

if i was some sort of supercomputer in a spider-man comic this is the "rhymes with orange" device you would use to cause me to meltdown so as not to reveal peter parker's identity

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay granted Wilco are not exactly an experimental band or anything but they have tweaked their sound as much as anybody over the last 3 albums.Maybe it's only the songs arrangements but in the music scene they operate in it stands as radically daring

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"they have tweaked their sound as much as anybody" = pretty sure this is bullshit.

In the music scene they operate in John Tesh would be seen as radically daring.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

that john tesh has gotten a free pass from pazz & jop voters for too long

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

*shakes fist and mutters*

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

the question is when jeff tweedy will start dating linda evans

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

b-b-but john tesh IS radically daring!!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

holy, i thought you said "racially daring" for a second there!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

also look: he has a fan club

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

(x-post)Oh well he's definitely that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

can i just start posting pictures of linda evans?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.scorpiofiles.com/dynasty/linda/evans17.jpg

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

K-ROWR!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i cant believe my life has gone to such shit in the last 24-7 that this is actually bringing me joy

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Wilco haters of the world unite & take over!!!Funny thing is you're right.But i still like them.And in my defense how many of you are going to the Gladtree Free Music Festival in April.?!!! I just think it's okay to "rock out" as well as "freak out".So dial down the hip quotient & leave this thread for those of us who actually care.Even though the whole John Tesh thing is a hoot!

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate mods AND rockers, dude.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Which leaves????

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dear

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

And actually i guess the whole music festival will be more of a hippie thing.Well if hippies liked improv noise

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

you know the more i read your responses the more i like you!Still sounds like you had a bad day

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

'hell is chrome' is dope although it reminds me of the beatles.

― russignon, Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

should we start another thread actually about the album now or do you guys need a little more time to burn steam off in this one?

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 25 March 2004 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder if evan can stick around long enough to see another one of strongo's "bad days"

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

join us tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i hope the cover of this album has the band running away from a bunch of fake-looking ghosts, scooby-doo style!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps from...?:

http://www.scorpiofiles.com/dynasty/linda/evans17.jpg

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

she's kind of enormous, isn't she?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

she's got the body of a linebacker and the head of a goddess

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

What kind of prep school did you go to Jess where the linebackers had racks like that?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)

texas

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all the crap they pump into the Rio Grande that does it, I guess.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

it's inevitable, innit?

http://members.aol.com/dubplatestyle/mase.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

and he's saying that linda evan's got the two biggest knockers he's ever seen on a texas linebacker

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The album is one step too far away from Summerteeth for me. By which it seems to float around without being even remotely memorable. Not unpleasant, obviously, but I can't see this one being universally loved like YHF. (Which I now only like 8 out of the 11 songs of, but I like them a lot still)

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"universally loved"

(though the universe IS much bigger than ILE)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, obviously there's some exaggeration there. If people are honest with this record, it won't go near the top of P&J. (not that I care about P&J, mind..)

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

if i was some sort of supercomputer in a spider-man comic this is the "rhymes with orange" device you would use to cause me to meltdown so as not to reveal peter parker's identity

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The loss of Jay Bennett is obvious, huge, and does not make Jeff Tweedy a songwriter.

― don weiner, Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't want to bring up the Jay Bennett thing but yeah where's the hooks?

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Thursday, 25 March 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

well, Tweedy-man did say we could expect more Krautrock, so I guess that translates to fewer hooks. Not that I would ever say anything bad about Wilco, ever

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the first wilco i've heard, ever, and i'm enjoying it. nels cline should have lots of room to tear shit up live.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone hear the last Autumn Defense LP, Circles? It's pretty great. As an ex-Wilco fanatic, I think they've kinda blown since Summerteeth.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Company in my Back" is great, as is "Muzzle of Bees." The rest sort of angers me but I love the lyrics. Agree on Bennett's loss being very noticeable. Is Nels on this record?

― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I am excited for this, after really liking the "More Like the Moon" E.P. -- were those songs written with Bennett? I never knew he was the one responsible for the catchier parts (if you only know him through the documentary, he comes off like the bad guy -- or at least, the worst of the bad guys).
Is the version of "Handshake Drugs" the same one as on the E.P.?

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

And, just to reassure everyone that I am still hip enough to be an ilm-er, despite liking Wilco:
http://www.scorpiofiles.com/dynasty/linda/evans8.jpg

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to hear this. glen is the most amazing drummer in pop music.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

it's definitely not yhf part 2, and handshake drugs was better on the ep; but wishful thinking is stuck in my head.

― arg piret, Friday, 26 March 2004 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Bit underwhelming on first listen.

Are these MP3's the final / fully mixed album?

― Mil, Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay I'm sick of hearing you guys trash this album, now where the hell do I get the mp3s?

― dgwee, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I've given up all hope of hipness. I might as well grow a Tweedy-style scraggly beard now. No amount of Linda Evans pics or a hookup with Howie Day can redeem me

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate mods AND rockers, dude.

strongo in being a teddy boy shocker!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

A promo of Jay Farrar's new live album showed up today and I was listening to it thinking that songsmithing has never exactly been a strong suit of the Uncle Tupelites. I've always kinda liked Farrar's voice, which is more than I can say for Tweedy, but both of them have averaged about 2 decent tunes an album for the last 15 years. (With the always honorable exception of Mermaid Avenue.) Tweedy covers up his tunelessness by being arty. Farrar doesn't cover it up at all.

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Tweedy peaked on Anodyne. For him "more conventional" might be a good thing.

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know yet about the album. I've listened to it countless times, and Im having a hell of a time putting my finger on what I think about it. I agree it could use some more hooks, but the songs themselves-as in their structures-are really amazing. While they don't sound radically cool or innovative like I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, they seem to stick. Less than you think sounds like an American classic that tweedy happened to stumble accross and clean up with some heavy production. All the songs are molds for potentially amazing tunes. I think they're amazing now, they just need the little things. Like the bell part in radio cure or the guitar riff in Ashes of the American Flag. Wishful thinking sounds like the most complete of the songs, along with Hell is Chrome. Some of the catchier songs-company at my back, hummingbird-need something added to them to make them age better than they are now. I was wondering if anyone has figured out the whole "concept" or "story" being told in this album. As far as conventional songwriting goes, this subtly pushes things forward for the band, but lacks the ability of YHF to cripple the listener in musical bliss.

― Odelay!, Thursday, 1 April 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of the negative sentiment expressed above reflects how I felt after a few listens; now that I've had a few more, the album is really starting to grow on me, and there's no doubt the music is as subtle, complex and ultimately rewarding as anything Wilco has done. Sorry, but I don't buy the "Bennett is missed" line; I loved Jay as much as the next guy, but Tweedy has always been the man.

Keep listening, and you'll find that Muzzle of Bees, Company in My Back, and Theologians are as good as anything Tweedy's done. I'm a Wheel and Hummingbird are the most accessible tunes and sound great at first listen. Spiders? I like it, but obviously it's going to piss some people off.

BTW, It's all on Limewire except for a couple of tunes.

― Boulder Boy, Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Agreed that its a grower. By no means a masterpiece but there's a handful of songs ("Theologians," "Hummingbirds," "Company In My Back," "Wishful Thinking") that are really great. The last song annoys the crap out of me though - no one buys Wilco records to hear 'drones.' If I wanted rhBand I'd pull out an rhBand record for chrissakes. In Tweedy's hands these kind of 'experiments' seem so tourist-y.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 4 April 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, the funny thing is as my uber-Wilco-fan friends find this release disappointing, I'm suddenly more interested than I have any right to be.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 April 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

where can i get a listen of the new album. Since as far as i know it comes out 6/22?

― T.S, Monday, 5 April 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The album is really mature. I think if we just continue listening to it, it'll definitely grow on us. With "Californication" (by the RHCP), I didn't like it for a year and a half, but eventually it grew on me and I loved it. So far, I really love "At least that's what you said" and "Theologians" the most.

― Scott Schauland, Sunday, 11 April 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard "I'm a wheel" at a Jeff Tweedy solo concert in early 2003, where the rest of Wilco joined him at the end of the show, and I've been waiting for a recording of it. I think this album's got to soak into you, like a movie that makes you think and you turn it over in your head for awhile. So far my favorites are "Hell is Chrome," "I'm a Wheel" "humming bird" and "late greats."

― N. Dunleavey, Monday, 12 April 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone bashing this album is obviously too hip for even themselves...i would love to hear what they would sound like if they made an album. i would be first in line to review it and offer up my criticism.

― blow me please, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, that is the only possible explanation for not appreciating the genius of jeff tweedy! blow me please, this may come as a shock to you, but not everyone enjoys stripped-down, stretched-out, melody-free crazy horse impersonations.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

enjoyment is so over.

― dumbplatestyle, Monday, 12 April 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I fear that if I tried to let this album soak into me I would turn into Geir Hongro and start harping on about melody and whatever.

Scott P is OTM.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 12 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I am rather new to the "I Love..." world, and I must say how happy I am that I check this site out on a regular basis. Having a discussion about Wilco mutate into posted pix of Linda Evans is wicked sweet. This is true rock criticism. Hell, I actually find her kind of sexy in an '80s L.A. coke bitch kind of way. I'd lift her dress up in the back of the coat room any day.

― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha good to see you here Justin - welcome!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

fascinating songs that i get something new out of with each listen. can't say anything bad about where this bad is going. cheers to them (Jeff Tweedy) for taking a daring turn with each album. his knew book is the bomb too.

― mizton castillo, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

To those of you who say this record is shite, listen to it about 20 more times and then say it's shite. Because it's good. Mofo good. Even Spiders. "Hell is Chrome" and "I'm a Wheel" are brilliant, and some others might be as well. I just have to listen more and more. It's better than you think. Trust me.

― Craig Gushin, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm diggin' it. There are plenty of hooks (it is in no way a predictable LP). 'Theologians' definitely has a Plastic Ono Band vibe, and that's fine by me.

― Spoon Fed, Saturday, 17 April 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a wonderful, inventive CD...so far I'm not thinking it's as good as Yankee Hotel, but I like it. To the haters...people were booing Dylan when he went electric, and the Beatles when they did Sgt. Peppers, and Neil Young pretty much every time he put out an album.

John Tesh sucks, punk music sucks, and Creed/Pearl Jam/Any of those genre of the same band dressed differently sucks. Dig it.

― johncarmtichel, Saturday, 17 April 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, as for Spiders and Less Than You Think, I agree the drones are annoying. I'm betting they're the work of Glenn Kotche though...listen to his solo CDs, and they're NOTHING BUT such noises. Sucks hard.

― johncarmitchel, Saturday, 17 April 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

You're really not doing yourself any favours.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 17 April 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i still don't like the albums pre YHF so that tells you where i'm coming from to some extent.

i think it's a weird combination of songs. sometimes it's pop-rock, sometimes it's neil young, somtimes it's can, sometimes it's drone electronics. it certainly doesn't make for a smooth flow across the whole album and that's a real flaw.

everyone above seemed to think that less... with it's 10 mins of crackle was the last track but "the late greats" comes incongruently at track 12 after that.

― phil turnbull (philT), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Click here to check out my revision of the LP.

Also, "I'm a Wheel" is not awesome.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Listening to this now and I realize all the best things about this album have nothing to do with Jeff Tweedy. Not that this should be surprising, but I'm just sick to death of this guy being called "weird" and forward thinking and the savior of integrity and shit. I mean, the drumming is nice, O'Rourke plays some great parts, some nice use of varied instumentation, etc. It does seem like someone finally taught Tweedy how to end a song. But the lyrics don't do anything for me, nor does his delivery. I guess there's something to getting a group together...

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 23 September 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Spiders (Kidsmoke)" is easily one of the finest songs I'll hear all year.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

CRAZY HORSE DOING MOTORIK WTF AHHHHHH!!!!!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I"m a WHeel reminds me of DEVO but with better production amd less synth action.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Wilco, "A Yawn Escapes"

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

This album isn't talked about enough. It's probably my favorite album of all time. The chaos of the guitar playing in "At Least That's What You Said," the haunted minimalism of "Hell is Chrome," the transcendent guitar solo in Theologians, the lyrics, the mood, O'Rourke's incredible production! The list goes on forever. Does anyone else really treasure this record?

― three handclaps, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Not as much as the live album. I'm ambivalent about Wilco in general, but the live stuff is dynamite.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

During my Kosmische kick, I had to revisit this album, and at the moment it sounds like Wilco's best. Sounds like they're not trying too hard, just following their muse and geeky interests, understated tunes that are pretty damn original.

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

i'd say that it's close to being my 2nd least favourite of theirs

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 02:10 (seventeen years ago)

At the time, I was underwhelmed. But after reading this thread, I've been thinking to myself: Theologians, Spiders/Kidsmoke (which I actually listened to, on more than one occasion, on a private beach in Michigan), Hell is Chrome, Muzzle of Bees, Company on My Back, At Least That's What You Said, I'm a Wheel, Handshake Drugs.. That's eight prize winners on one album. Maybe b/c it was such a bricolage, especially compared to the quasi-concept-album aesthetic unity of YHF, that it seemed inferior b/c it wasn't trying to be some profound gesture. In the end, I think those 8 track trump most of YHF, thus making it their second best album, after Being There, of course. Especially the second disc.

― Pillbox, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 03:29 (seventeen years ago)

This album is good.

― I know, right?, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 12:42 (seventeen years ago)

i'd say that it's close to being my 2nd least favourite of theirs

so it's your 3rd least favorite? or your least favorite? please clarify.

― res, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

yeah I listen to this very infrequently. the albums that bookend it are so much better

― akm, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

"spiders (kidsmoke)", "muzzle of bees", "handshake drugs" and (NO, REALLY) "less than you think" are all fabulous, fabulous creations. ESPECIALLY "handshake drugs". the rest i don't particularly care for.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 23:53 (seventeen years ago)

Late Greats also pleasing.

― wilter, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 23:55 (seventeen years ago)

actually you have a fantastic point, although a good half of its effectiveness comes as a result of the previous 12 minutes. love the organ/tacked piano sounds (even if the tacked piano is a reprise of "LTYT").

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

the albums that bookend it are so much better

RONG

― stephen, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

not really a fan of this album either, Sky Blue Sky is so much better. this is one of the last few albums i bought from Aron's in Hollywood, a few days before it was actually released, maybe that is the reason it closed down. this album had too many long songs with few tracks that garbed me like other Wilco albums did.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 02:46 (seventeen years ago)

res, it's probably my 2nd least favourite if i weigh everything up. AM is definitely the at the very bottom, and 'a ghost is born' is probably marginally weaker than 'sky blue sky'.

― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 06:43 (seventeen years ago)

Lots of great individual songs but as a whole it somehow feels dour and unappealing.

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 07:26 (seventeen years ago)

Company On My Back is one of Wilco's best songs. This is better than SBS but not as good as YHF.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 08:01 (seventeen years ago)

Not heard AM, but for me their albums go...

YHF>>AGIB>>BT>>ST>>SBS.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 08:01 (seventeen years ago)

I'm listening to this album RIGHT NOW, epic

it's a winner based on the lyric 'once in Germany someone said NEIN' alone

― asey, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 11:03 (seventeen years ago)

lyrically, a ghost is born is often pretty clever. particularly on the likes of 'handshake drugs' and 'company in my back'.

musically speaking this record is also thrilling at times. the guitar work on 'at least that's what you said' is pretty breathtaking, while 'theologians' is blissful pop with a well-structured climax.

my problem with this record is the cohesion that it lacks. sometimes the songwriting is yearning to channel indie-rock's more challenging and ambitious sensibilities, and at other times it's more relaxed and gentle with less focus on being actively complex. the dynamic doesn't really sit too well with me, and obviously 'spiders (kidsmoke)' and the pointless 'less than you think' waste way too much time.

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 13 June 2008 04:33 (seventeen years ago)

i like the noisy neil youngist guitar playing scattered throughout and there are some great tracks on here, but i just don't get a lot of these songs. muzzle of bees sounds like jim o'rourke wrote it (thumbs down), the album vers. of spiders (kidsmoke) is predictable and conservative when compared to the way they had been playing it live, and the drone section of less than you think is completely dull and non-engaging, tweedy said it was supposed to simulate the rise of a migraine. i've never had a migraine but i would imagine they aren't nearly as boring and wishy-washy as that. i want to feel the pain

― 6335, Friday, 13 June 2008 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

how to unring the bell, it's just as well

― markers, Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:05 (fourteen years ago)

"hummingbird", "at least", and "wishful thinking" are still some of my favorite songs to listen to post-breakup

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 13:00 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

It's a goddamn crime that no Friday Night Lights nerd has made a YouTube clip of the S2 E1 portions with the "Muzzle of Bees" soundtracking, especially since it seems like one of the bigger moments of the show's entire run. Brilliant soundtracking imo.

― *:? (CompuPost), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 01:22 (thirteen years ago)

a guy played Theologians at a party the other day. Right in the middle of a big UKG trip down memory lane. It got turned off and then he went to his room and played it on his guitar.

― owenf, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:06 (thirteen years ago)

"Goddamn it, why no easy access, Tweeeeeedy??" from I'm really fucking drunk and can't pull the jewel case of Wilco's "A Ghost Is Born" out of the cardboard sleeve is still one of my favorite ILX moments of all time.

― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 13:26 (thirteen years ago)

This Sprint ad is on tv all the time now

The 60-second ad shows a chorus of 130 people using their EVO 4G LTE’s as virtual instruments to cover Wilco’s “I’m Always in Love.”

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 14:39 (thirteen years ago)

I know its from Summerteeth

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 14:41 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSl0vU5gwGs

― markers, Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:49 (thirteen years ago)

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