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View Poll Results: Best Album
AM 7 11.29%
Being There 6 9.68%
Summerteeth 4 6.45%
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 35 56.45%
A Ghost Is Born 6 9.68%
Sky Blue Sky 3 4.84%
Wilco (The Album) 1 1.61%
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Old 01-25-2010, 09:58 AM   #71 (permalink)
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Really? I thought "Sky Blue Sky" was superior to the Wilco album. I don't think it was their greatest achievement, but I thought it was a great way for them to introduce their listeners to the new lineup. The album really let each individual band member show their colors; "Wilco (the album)" seemed, at least to me, to show the current lineup settling in a bit more. The new album had some real gems, though, and the album starts off with a string of four great tracks.
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Old 01-25-2010, 03:23 PM   #72 (permalink)
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Really? I thought "Sky Blue Sky" was superior to the Wilco album. I don't think it was their greatest achievement, but I thought it was a great way for them to introduce their listeners to the new lineup. The album really let each individual band member show their colors; "Wilco (the album)" seemed, at least to me, to show the current lineup settling in a bit more. The new album had some real gems, though, and the album starts off with a string of four great tracks.
I definitely won't go so far as to say Sky Blue Sky was superior to their other releases, but it's far from being a terrible album, especially considering how everyone tends to blather about how great Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which is easily Wilco's most overrated album.I agree that Sky Blue Sky places much more of an emphasis on individual musicianship. It is definitely a departure from their dominate style, which is why I think it's so underappreciated. Impossible Germany alone makes it a worthwhile album.
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It's not that it's different that's the problem, it's just plain boring. I constantly find my mind wandering throughout the album. Even the highlights of the album, songs like Impossible Germany, I would consider just album tracks on their other albums. And for the record, my favorite album is probably Being There, not YHF.
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Can't believe there's been no votes for Summerteeth and as many for AM as for Being There.
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Old 03-04-2010, 05:14 AM   #75 (permalink)
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Man thought this thread would be bit more active, such a great band. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot for me. Just a brilliant album, Cant belive Reprise rejected it! One of the few bands that make what I would describe as beautiful music.

Am sure you have made your compo and either hugged it out or dismissed your mate. But did you ad - At least that's what you said ? Surely upon hearing those guitars kick in he would have been converted instantly. Did the man come around?
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Old 03-10-2010, 09:19 AM   #76 (permalink)
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I'm about to go check out their new s/t. I've been listening to Sky Blue Sky lately and I really do think it's a fantastic massively underappreciated album...not to sound like a broken record or anything.
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I'm about to go check out their new s/t. I've been listening to Sky Blue Sky lately and I really do think it's a fantastic massively underappreciated album...not to sound like a broken record or anything.
But considering how good A Ghost Is Born was, it was horribly disappointing to hear them regress like that to the Being There sound. Plus the songwriting wasn't 100% up to par.
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But considering how good A Ghost Is Born was, it was horribly disappointing to hear them regress like that to the Being There sound. Plus the songwriting wasn't 100% up to par.

I was very familiar with A Ghost is Born, which is an amazing album, when Sky Blue Sky came out, and my initial impression of Sky Blue Sky was that it showed a dramatic upturn in musical maturity with a greater emphasis on individual and collective musicianship. In a nutshell, notwithstanding the fact that it's a much different album than A Ghost is Born or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, It is an album that doesn't try desperately hard to recreate their own sound or accommodate listeners expectations. It's a very genuine, albeit slow and minimalist album, and I see it as one where the band really relaxed and became more cohesive as a group. Yes there is much less of catchy upbeat tunes and a lot of other elements that have defined them as a band, but I think that's what I really found so refreshing about it.
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What'd you make of Wilco(The Album) then? I find it to be hugely enjoyable on it's own terms.
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What'd you make of Wilco(The Album) then? I find it to be hugely enjoyable on it's own terms.
Just listened to it for the first time last night, and Am deeply disappointed by it, especially considering all the hype thats surrounded it.
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