Do you like Wilco?

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

They're one of my favorite bands who will never change my life or anyone else's. They're the band that comes up to you out of nowhere and says, "Hey there. I've been thinking that I might want to rock your world. But then again maybe not. But maybe I do. Let me think about it some more. I'll go mow my lawn and come back to you. Wait for me." It's a sloppy, reticent, undeservedly cocky and more than a little silly approach that explains why a lot people think they're boring and why I think they're cute. The rhythm section seems to take perverse pride in its anonymity, but they put a lot of pretty jangly noises up front, and I like pretty jangly noises. They're not purists in the production booth, both a pretty good thing (YHF)and pretty bad thing (A Ghost is Born). I like the songwriting. I like how Tweedy hangs lines together, how he evokes a world of angst filled patio bar-b-ques and convenience store dandies and bullshit sidewalk philosophers who are slightly too hip for their aluminum siding but not by much. It's a little condescending, but it can't afford to be too condescending. And from their last album, I really liked "Bull Black Nova," which might be the best thing they've ever done, and probably ever will do and to which nothing I wrote above applies.

I want tyler's images to pop up as auto-signatures whenever i post; mods help pls?

anyone going to the wilco solid sound fest at mass moca? i'm not a wilco fan but its just up the road from me and there are other people i like there.

MUSIC

WILCO

Mavis Staples

The Nels Cline Singers

The Autumn Defense

Avi Buffalo

Sir Richard Bishop

The Books

Brenda

Deep Blue Organ Trio

Mountain Man

On Fillmore

Pronto

Vetiver

Numero Group – DJ’s

COMEDY
Todd Barry

Hannibal Buress

John Mulaney

Kristen Schaal

PERFORMANCE
Bread and Puppet Theatre

Story Pirates

ART & EXHIBITS
Glenn Kotche – Interactive Drumheads

Nels Cline – Solid Sound Stompbox

Pat Sansone – Polaroid Photo Exhibit

WILCO – Poster Exhibit

http://solidsoundfestival.com/

you know, mainly richard bishop and vetiver, but it might be fun.

That sounds like fun. mass moca is a beautiful place.

sounds like a blast tbh. would go if i still lived in boston.

Google Maps sez 3 hour drive from where I live in MA

but, yeah, if you live closer, go, for obvious reasons

even regardless of the lineup, i wish there were more festivals like this (ie not in a giant fucking field, with the sun frying your skin).

i looooovvvvveeeee wilco. and i don't even love "dad rock," as a rule.

i was just saying to my wife it was a bummer that we missed the recent wilco concert in south florida. i spotted it just after we bought tickets for rodrigo y gabriella, who were playing the night before at the same venue. now regret not seeing both.

as much as I don't love Wilco's last two studio records, I fuckin adore them live. i've seen them three times in the past six years and it was never not worth it

oh btw i loooooooovvvvvveeeeee sky blue sky, still.