Kevin Davis wrote:I started "Star Wars" but didn't make it far before falling asleep (not the album's fault). Tonight.
Gave this another go tonight, with greater success this time. This is easily the Wilco record that sticks with me least -- which isn't to say it's the one I enjoy least necessarily, just that much of it feels transient and ill-defined in a way that their other records never were (a few of the songs on the back half have demo-like qualities, like Bonnie 'Prince' Billy songs from "Superwolf," with multiple guitars chugging along as though there are bass and drums hammering away on the bottom, only there aren't). Conceptually, it reminds me of the Paul Weller album "Wake Up the Nation" -- a kind of lo-fi, mechanical sounding collection of songs that moves quickly from one thing to the next without much fanfare, but in a patchwork-like fashion that becomes increasingly attractive as more squares are stitched on. It's noisy and moderately experimental, but slight and not particularly demanding, and as such perhaps the one Wilco record I respond to with interest rather than feeling.
The thing that elevates it is context -- first its release model, off-the-cuff and in-the-moment like the record itself, and second the fact that it was followed up with a fuller, sturdier collection of songs barely a year later. Had "Star Wars" lingered too long as "the new Wilco album," I think it might have fallen victim to "Backspacer" syndrome, where a minor, somewhat anomalous work eventually comes to represent an extended period of creative inactivity, lessening the impact of the work by essentially asking it to carry a load that it can't. "Star Wars" sounds like a momentary indulgence, and "Schmilco" kind of bears out that it was -- and the two albums complement each other like no other two albums in their catalog do.
Re: wilco
Posted: Thu November 29, 2018 10:35 am
by LetMeSleep
Jeff Tweedy on WTF Marc Maron this week.
Re: wilco
Posted: Thu November 29, 2018 3:40 pm
by verb_to_trust
LetMeSleep wrote:Jeff Tweedy on WTF Marc Maron this week.
Listening now. Tweedy is talking about how he likes to eat vegan. Hes not doing it right apparently.
Re: wilco
Posted: Thu November 29, 2018 4:11 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: wilco
Posted: Thu November 29, 2018 4:17 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: wilco
Posted: Thu November 29, 2018 5:03 pm
by verb_to_trust
Yeah what a quack. Reminds me of the Metallica guy who got fired during Some Kind Of Monster because he wanted to basically be in the band and go on the road with them.
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 6:58 pm
by verb_to_trust
WARM is pretty good
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 7:02 pm
by Chris_H_2
tragabigzanda wrote:It makes me very happy that they're spending a good 5-10 minutes talking about Jim O'Rourke
I’ve spent the past 5 years in the living room shows to get Tweedy to play Wanted by Loose Fur, but he refuses because he’s intimated. This year we have a classically trained pianist in attendance that will play with him on songs. I think this may be the year.
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 7:06 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 7:11 pm
by Chris_H_2
tragabigzanda wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:It makes me very happy that they're spending a good 5-10 minutes talking about Jim O'Rourke
I’ve spent the past 5 years in the living room shows to get Tweedy to play Wanted by Loose Fur, but he refuses because he’s intimated. This year we have a classically trained pianist in attendance that will play with him on songs. I think this may be the year.
did you go the one maron attended?
I don’t know who Maron is. If you meant moron, that could be anyone here (including me).
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 9:32 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 10:42 pm
by Chris_H_2
tragabigzanda wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:It makes me very happy that they're spending a good 5-10 minutes talking about Jim O'Rourke
I’ve spent the past 5 years in the living room shows to get Tweedy to play Wanted by Loose Fur, but he refuses because he’s intimated. This year we have a classically trained pianist in attendance that will play with him on songs. I think this may be the year.
did you go the one maron attended?
I don’t know who Maron is. If you meant moron, that could be anyone here (including me).
it's not showing up for me
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 11:08 pm
by verb_to_trust
I have pretty much given up posting images on RM. I think there is a secret code.
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 11:24 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
verb_to_trust wrote:I have pretty much given up posting images on RM. I think there is a secret code.
*posts bro pic*
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 11:47 pm
by verb_to_trust
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote:I have pretty much given up posting images on RM. I think there is a secret code.
*posts bro pic*
Where are you sitting at the Stones show Spike?
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 11:50 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
verb_to_trust wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote:I have pretty much given up posting images on RM. I think there is a secret code.
*posts bro pic*
Where are you sitting at the Stones show Spike?
on your mom's face
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri November 30, 2018 11:52 pm
by Jorge
Just make sure you're linking directly to an image (from a site that allows hotlinking). It looks like Trag tried to use the IMG code to link to a Google Image Search result.
Re: wilco
Posted: Sat December 01, 2018 12:22 am
by tragabigzanda
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri December 07, 2018 12:15 am
by tragabigzanda
Re: wilco
Posted: Fri December 07, 2018 12:42 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
for as much as i love wilco i’ve never bothered to listen to solo tweedy
