Does WILCO suck?

[grotty]

Originally posted by Bags:
  Never really had the opportunity to hear Wilco...I'm not going to buy it without listening first due to the controversy over which album to buy, etc. There are a lot of bands I've never heard
 Much to your disillusionment, I buy less and attend less than you think.

If you go to DBT - I'll bring that 'smart' Wilco mix - it'll make your toes curl.
 In a good way.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by marquee smith:
  Honestly, I don't think I've ever heard a GBV song before either.

http://gbv.com/sounds/echosmyron.mp3 - live
 http://gbv.com/sounds/Teenage_FBI.mp3
 http://gbv.com/sounds/BigSchool.mp3

[Barcelona]

Originally posted by econo:
  I disagree.  The first three songs on Ghost are some of my favorite Wilco songs recorded.
 
   

Originally posted by brennser:
 A Ghost Is Born is just pure shite though....

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Couldn't agree more. The first songs of this last album are excellent.
 
 Wiclo doesn't suck at all.

[Bags]

Originally posted by grotty:
 Wasn't this topic a joke?       And then why are we re-discussing this again on it?

That's the amazing thing about Wilco, I will say....
 
 GBV as well (which made it all the more fun to bring them up!)
 
 Thanks for the offer on the "smart" Wilco CD -- probably just what I need!  After reading your post in the DBT thread, I think I have to go to DBT...

[BookerT]

weird ... i love wilco but think that "at least that's what you said" is one of their worst songs ever. and that "hell is chrome" sounds like a crappy pink floyd song. as if there is any other kind. yeah, even counting "piper." the rest of the album is pretty great, tho. i mean, they'll never top "summerteeth," but whatever.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  yes. they do....thanks for asking.

i concur with the distinguished gentleman from the great white north.

Maybe I should rephrase:
 
 "Isn't it not the truth that WILCO doesn't suck?"

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by BookerT:
  a crappy pink floyd song. as if there is any other kind. yeah, even counting "piper."

now thats just crazy talk

[Guiny]

Originally posted by marquee smith:
 Honestly, I don't think I've ever heard a GBV song before either. [/QB]

Unfortunetely I have and can honestly say your not missing much.

[Jaguär]

I don't like Wilco but I like them a lot more than GBV.
 
 And Pink Floyd use to be great before the burn-outs adopted them.

[thirsty moore]

Might I add that Theologians is one hell of a song as well.

[cjdawson]

I am a big Wilco fan, but lately they have veered into Radiohead "My music doesn't need to be commercial, or interesting, or not make people want to slit their wrists if they don't just fall asleep while listening to it" territory. A Ghost Is Born just plain sucked, mainly because of the downright ARROGANCE of putting out something so dissonant and dull as a major release at this point in their career. Good for them on being 'experimental' but A Ghost Is Born didn't do anything particularly avant garde - it's sorta like an alt-country Sonic Youth album with all the life and energy completely drained out of it. If it was interesting in the least, I'd cut them a break, but they seem to be doing nothing more than trying to shake the 'johnny-come-lately' fans they picked up during Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and I think that sucks.

[dotdot]

Wilco rules.  A Ghost Is Born is excellent.  AM sucks.  Everything else is great.  A Ghost Is Born is not avant-garde, you're just reading too many irrelevant reviews.  They're my favorite current rock'n'roll band, and live, you just can't beat them.  I didn't get into them until YHF, and it wasn't because of the hype, it's just because that's what I wanted from them.  
 
 Jeff has always been into "avant-garde" music anyway, and nothing about A Ghost Is Born is "arrogant."  The only "difficult" track would be "Less Than You Think," but because of the noise at the end, people forget the first 3 minutes, which is a fantastic, sad little folk song.  I think A Ghost Is Born definitely requires patience and repeated listens at first, but what you'll discover is that there's nothing that different on it and the songs are incredible.  The only songs mentioned on this thread have been from the first half of the LP.  What about "The Late Greats"?  "Theologians"?  "Company In My Back"?  "I'm A Wheel"?  All very "accessible" and all very perfect.

[eilo97]

does wilco suck?  hmm.  NO.  they don't.