Do you like Wilco?

Yes, I like Wilco.

I used to. But hearing/seeing a video of "What Light" on the jumbotron while waiting for the Inaugural weekend Lincoln Memorial concert to start has me convinced that they have become a dull un-pop jam band.

I really like a couple of their albums, and still believe Ghost is the best thing they ever did (and likely ever will do).

No.

Answer: Are you fucking me?

I met a woman once who named her dog after Wilco. I made a mental note never to interact with her again.

loooooool that was supposed to say "Are you fucking KIDDING me?"

Yeah yeah yeah...

yes.

"passenger side" is a great song about having a DWI

i really need to get "Ghost Is Born"
but yeah i love AM, being there, summerteeth still a lot...yankee didn't really hold up that well for me....

i almost suspect, IN SOME CASES, late-2000's wilco hate is the vestigial hangover of some half-remembered rolling stone best-of list from six years ago that will eventually dissipate as people go back and listen again to Ghost and SBS and the rest.

AM was hit or miss for me, wouldn't sell it or anything. loved BT at the time; slightly less now. like Summerteeth. liked the wilco songs on MMA I & II. lost interest around yhf.

xp "again"

srry, will give you credite for yr big, allcaps "IN SOME CASES"

I have to say I resisted them for a long time- living in Chicago, it's sort of like too much to also listen to Wilco. Its like reading "Devil in the White City" on the CTA. And the boring people and middlebrow radio dj's of Chicago are just nuts for Wilco. But that's a stupid reason to avoid them, plus I ran out of music, and I gave in. So now I think they're great. Especially, She's a Jar, Jesus etc, and Handshake Drugs.

― jsimp, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 9:09 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I used to have a similar opinion to jsimp. Fuckin hated these guys. and yeah, largely due to the lunkhead north-side beer garden lunkhead idiocy of the whole think. But quite frankly I never even liked Uncle Tupelo back in the day. And then I remember when 'A.M.' came out and "Xrt" used to cane that ridic "Passenger Side" track, where Tweedy's all oh yeah dude I am totally ROLLING ANOTHER NUMBER. just sounded so fucking weak. ain't no Neil Young.

but then a couple things happened. Friend had a free extra ticket to one of the Vic shows that ended up on that 'Television' live CD or whatever its called. so I went. and I enjoyed myself. Seeing Nils Cline live was a revelation ( his first stint with the group .. he of course not on 'Ghost is Born' which those shows were supporting.) Also closing that show with the great Charles Wright cover did buy my respect

then 'Sky Blue Sky' came out and random samples trickled over to me .. random tracks where I heard some Cline guitar that appealed and perked my ears up .. then finally stumbling upon them guesting on 'Prairie Home Companion' (i am a fan) where they fucking ripped and i heard the ghost of my guy Cipollina in Cline's liquid flow.

Stumbled into a store a couple weeks later, noticed the 2lp of SBS on the wall, and bought it, fuck it. Really kinda fell in love with it. Still hate Tweedy's voice a lot of the time but the band is swell. Like Tweedy when he does Lennon on 'Hate It Here' and Lowell on 'Walken'. I dig the band.

but yeah, fuck the north side.

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 10:50 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark

This is pretty much my deal with Wilco. Resisted a while due to the North side beer garden crowd/knee jerk reaction to the Rolling Stone idolatry. At the moment I think they're a good band with some great songs, I think they're excellent musicians and I admire their integrity and willingness to deconstruct their sound. But honestly, I never listen to them - there are always a hundred bands I'd rather listen to, and I think YHF is overrated. I like them as they become more experimental and less alt-country, although I like a lot of their early stuff too.

I like Wilco a lot, sometimes have loved them. I could do without the dirgy songs on YHF, but love the shit of "Kamera" esp. A Ghost Is Born was awesomer yet. It's funny to me that this is a band a lot of people have strong opinions about (e.g. the existence of this thread), because while they do a lot for me, I don't see them as representing any greater movement or whatever that compels one to have a view on them.

Rahm Emanuel does:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/03/in_concert_wilco.html

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/WilcoStrathmore-6.jpg

sitting with all the white people!

hmm .. really good set-list for that Wilco show. no "Sonny Feeling" tho :(

i love the idea of Rahm rocking out to "Bull Black Nova"

what a fucking awful band

Hahahaha I thought you were a Wilco stan ksh? Or are you dropping your April Fools a day late?

yeah Glenn Kotche, Nels Cline, and Pat Sansone are "awful"

rip ksh

jon: just a lil' trolling :-)

jeff tweedy all staring at his computer, a single tear on his cheek

all writin a concept album about a man, walking alone down the KS Highway

*jagged guitar solo*

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was the peak for experimental rock music

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: pee-pee in modern music

my life would have been so much more worthwhile if YHF had beat Kid A in P4k's decade poll

I like the chorus of one of their new(er) songs - "I don't care anymore". It's a good lesson for some people as well

"You Never Know"

from last year's Wilco (the album)

the "George Harrison" song

Eh, Wilco is up there with George Harrison solo for me. I don't listen to much of either but comparing a top 10 songs for both artists would put them on the same level for me. Who came first is unimportant

think Stormy was just pointing out that a lot of critics were calling "You Never Know" Wilco's aping G.H. song

yeah I LOVE "You Never Know". but they were obviously being a little cheeky with it

no one under 30 in that picture

the audience at a Wilco show ranges from, like, 10 to 60. but, yeah, a large part of the audience is probably late twenties to late thirties.

unlike, say, Dirty Projectors, where the entire audience seemed to be 18-20 year olds

no one under 30 in that band

no one under 30 in this thread

Who cares? Dad-rock is awesome.

http://www.grandprofile.com/Myspace_Comments/Family_Comments/Father_Comments/images/You-Rock-Dad.gif

i think Pat Sansone is 15

he kinda looks it!

http://i.mp3lizard.com/musictrksw/Fathern%20Rock.jpg

http://www.miracosta.edu/home/edonze/dadandbaby.jpg

http://www.irongreasesuckinmachine.com/Quickstart/ImageLib/dad_and_john_2.PNG

they look like they're having fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhdI2bZLSK8