some of the worst lyrics going. i can't stress enough what a bad writer of lyrics tweedy is. and yet, not crap.

as a person who has only heard YHF and AGIB, i think Wilco is a mighty fine band.

i say Not Crap, no waffles.

Not Crap.

I could never get into Uncle Tupelo.

A.M. is a mostly terrible album with a coupla' bars of nice stuff.

Being There is exactly what it wants to be, and I quite like it.

Summer Teeth never did it for me, but it's not bad.

I think Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is a fine record, and I like it very much.

I've not heard the new one at all, as of yet. I'll give it a try one of these days.

This band makes mostly pleasing rock music, to these ears.

Angus Jung wrote:I. Am Trying. To Say You're Crap.

I own Summerteeth (great.) YHF (Jim o'rourke's prod. makes me happy!) and A ghost is born (so-so).
This boards high and mighty tastes are just to good for ol' Tweedy.
These records are not terrible by any means.
Oh, that quote from angus was sheer genius. Salut!

I just saw this band on the campus of UNC. I don't own any of their albums, but I just really wanted to hear "Spiders (Kidsmoke)." They played it, sure enough, but they watered it down! Wack. Instead of miles and miles of harsh, atonal figures that yielded this huge melodic riff, as on the studio album and the live album, Tweedy played pleasant melodic riffs with relatively little noise. And before the last riff-chorus, where he is meant to stab a dozen times at this one note until it collapses into the riff, he was silent during the buildup except for a one-note pickup leading into the chorus. Wilco, that was my favorite moment of your recorded output, and you phoned it in. Crap.

Glenn Kotche is the best guy in the band. The best part of going to a pop music performance can be seeing a drummer who is clearly a badass in spite of the pedestrian music he is playing. Trad grip all the way. Great, complex fills without being a showboat.
Jeff Tweedy was OK at music and good at friendliness. He's not a bad guitarist.
John Stirratt was disappointing; I thought he'd play out a bit more.
Mikael Jorgenson was reliable but uncreative on the piano.
Nels Cline was great whenever he played lead or lap steel, which was not often enough.
Pat Sansone was great on the keyboards and entertaining on the guitar.

They played two encores. It was the second night of a two-night stand and both were sellouts. The people loved the concert. I enjoyed 60% of the songs. The rest were boring. I'm glad I went (lucky last-minute free ticket) but I wouldn't have paid the $28.

What Wilco stuff did Nels Cline play on??

-edit- nevermind... allmusic is my friend....

now i'm wondering if i saw them with nels cline. hot shit. i've just recently gotten into him

thebookofkevin wrote:now i'm wondering if i saw them with nels cline. hot shit. i've just recently gotten into him

related thread.

and Not Crap.

Assholes who wear sandals like wilco
Fucking boring CRAP.
Once I was DJing at a shitty bar in the ukrainian village and this scuzzy dude kept trying to talk to me and bother me while I was playing my records. I eventually yelled at him to get the fuck away from me.
He went and told on me and I got fired for yelling at a dude in Wilco so fuck Wilco.

i've tried to listen to these guys a few times... they just don't do anything for me. it's the internal (and likely external) soundtrack of a bearded wxrt disc jockey having sex. no thanks.