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This was great and I’m gathering that you made this and you are chocolateminotaur which is odd.
The first Wilco song was way more pretty and not as sparse as Television but still the guitar lead links them together (so says Tricia).
This Wilco album sounds pretty damn good but it does strike me as odd, folks using mid70′s sounds for the 07.
Also I think, I mean Tricia thinks, the second Wilco song sounds like Rod Stewart not the Band.
Anyway this was great waking up drinking coffee getting ready for the train music.
Oh, which schoolhouse rock song was that, I can’t remember? (Tricia thought it was Peanuts).
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I’m with Tricia on the lead line resembling Television, but otherwise that’s a stretch. Oh and K, the second tune is being compared to the Eagles, not The Band. And other than a passing vocal simlarity, I’m not hearing the Eagles in there.
In fact, I’m assuming this whole thing is a joke, because all the references are fairly thin.
Mind you, the influences Wilco have are evident none the less. Check out the last album and try not to think of Can or Neil Young at times.
Jeff Tweezy never claimed to be burning any trails, did he?
At least they’ve got Nels Cline at their disposal. That guy is good stuff.
Yeah this is pretty dead on. The whole record sounded like a Steely Dan impersonation to me, but this is a much more precise fisking. I think it’s just the keyboards that keep triggering my Steely Dan receptors.
And, I don’t so much mind that the record’s derivative. It’s the fact that it’s not very good that’s been bugging me. Very few hooks, a lot of lazy lyrics, and too much Nels Cline by far.
Actually, that’s The Eagles in the video and not The Band.
The Schoolhouse Rock bit is “Figure Eight,” which gets funkier later in the song as they start singing through the multiplication table. For some reason that one wasn’t as popular as some of the others (like “Conjunction Junction”), so I rarely saw it. Too bad, because it was one of my favorites.
I actually like the album. I don’t think it sounds very much like Steely Dan (and I don’t mind Steely Dan), except maybe the middle-aged dude lyrical tone. I also don’t think the lyrics (most of them, at least) are lazy. They just aren’t as oblique as on previous albums. Some of the lyrics on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot were the result of an exquisite corpse game Wilco played on their tour bus. You can only do that so many times before the joke gets old.
And the Nels Cline bits are the best parts of the album, though I think some of the solos are Tweedy’s.
Nels sounded great on Kicking Television. Enough that I was looking forward to this record quite a bit. And I do like the end of the record (beginning with “Leave Me Like You Found Me”. But the first 2/3 just sounds like nothing’s going on. And Nels is everywhere. His playing is pretty distinct from Tweedy’s, and it’s admirable. But there are a lot more solos than songcraft.
On the other hand, it took me a while to warm up to A Ghost Is Born. I’m trying to like it. It is not taking so far.
Well I must say, I’ve never mistook the Eagles for the Band before. And double bad on my part because now I remember that you did something with the Hotel California cover too.
It was the bearded singing drummer that threw me off of course.
I remember “Figure Eight,” good one. School House Rock rocked.
This video post was great. I’d like to see more of this type stuff. I’ve been meaning to do a purely audio post.