RSJ
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So, album versions or DVD versions? I'm going with the DVD ones myself, thought the album was a bit too deconstructed.
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ReadySteadyJedi said:So, album versions or DVD versions? I'm going with the DVD ones myself, thought the album was a bit too deconstructed.
Squalch said:i find it really weird that wilco isnt bigger in ireland-what is not to like about em?
I don't know why you don't like those albums, but I don't buy into Being There and AM beng that good. Being There has its share of very good songs, but is often weighted down by the rock-out with a cowbell moments. Better as a single album, but of course. YHF and AGIB are where its at for me. In fact I think sometimes that A Ghost is Born is even better... especially Wishful Thinking. Such a classy tune. I love Kotche's drum riff after the chorus line.hugh said:I don't really get the big deal about Wilco. I bought Yankee Hotel a year ago or so and listened to it quite a lot. Liked the first song but the rest of it passed me by in a blur ..... also have Being There. Listened to it about 4 times and I still can't recall anything about it at all. They seem like the sort of band I would really like ... what's wrong with me?
They're more coherent, for want of a better word. They made a point of trying every different permutation for each song with the recording, and in the end went for what i would call very deconstructed versions, whereas on the DVD it's more sort of live versions - like kamera on the album is this brittle little ditty, whereas on the DVD it's a rock track, with tweedy almost headbanging at times.nlgbbbblth said:don't know enough about 'em. Only heard Summerteeth and it's good.
Dude opposite me on the train was listening to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot this morning. Had a hot American girlfriend who kept stretching her legs and kicking me.
what's different about the songs on the DVD?
How are they laid out?
i've listened to chelsea walls soundtrack. its certainly pretty cool but its not the sort of music you keep going back to, if you know what I mean. That song Where The Roses Bloom Again (a Mermaid Avenue outtake I think) is excellent tho.Squalch said:they recorded Mermaid Avenue in Dublin with Billy Bragg and I think they hada dreadful time so that might have put them off coming back here.
i got into them when i was watching a documentary about woody guthrie on bbc about 1998. it followed billy braggs journey from getting guthries notes to making and recording mermaid ave with wilco. by then end of it tweedy and bragg wouldnt talk to each other. amazing documentary. showed em recording in dublin and chicago.
anyone heard the chelsea walls soundtrack? it gives a good reference of where tweedy is coming from on everything after summerteeth.-which was like a rebirth for the band.
a ghost is born is born is brilliant because there are so few traces of the earlier stuff. "hell is chrome" and "muzzel of bees" are incredible even just for the sound of them. a band who keep digging deep-definitely dont judge em by am and being there![]()
i wish i could remember, but i was so awestruck at the time i don't think i even noticed...when he walked on, the place went apeshit - it was fantastic.Squalch said:and shit-what were they like with hudson-whatd he play?
man o man that must have been cool
coast to coast said:i've listened to chelsea walls soundtrack. its certainly pretty cool but its not the sort of music you keep going back to, if you know what I mean. That song Where The Roses Bloom Again (a Mermaid Avenue outtake I think) is excellent tho.
the stuff on kidsmoke is...well i kinda like it now becuase i know what it sounds like, and i like the scraggy tone but some of its quite shit! i much prefer the guitar wankology on muzzle of bees and at least thats what you said. it definitely fed into the guitar on AGIB alright. apparently Nels Cline said he wouldn't tour with them unless Jeff Tweedy promised played guitar like that!Squalch said:yeh know what you mean. i think all that guitar work on chlesea walls went back into songs like kidsmoke. where the roses bloom again is amazing.
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