skybluesky, coming out in a couple months.

being streamed right now on their webpage, wilcoworld.net

very good, some of the great new concert songs from last tour are on it -
walkin
"maybe the sun will shine" - has been named "either way"
on and on and on

check it out

3/4/2007 12:16:28 AM

listening now. sounds great so far

3/4/2007 12:18:20 AM

fuck wilco

yankee hotel foxtrot was a shitty album no matter what anyone tells you

3/4/2007 12:22:07 AM

yhft was a good album, although i only really listen to 'i am trying to break your heart' and a few others off of it. summerteeth however is phenonmenal. also no one can say fuck wilco who has seen them live.

[Edited on March 4, 2007 at 12:27 AM. Reason : i am a dragonfly]

3/4/2007 12:25:00 AM

i hope it's better than the last

3/4/2007 12:37:00 AM

where'd it go?

3/4/2007 1:32:06 AM

the album cover is sick

3/4/2007 3:47:54 AM

you guys just dont understandy yhf. i cant say that i do either.

3/4/2007 3:53:51 AM

its a wonderful record

but its no "summerteeth", which pretty much summed up perfection as far as wilco goes

3/4/2007 4:17:56 AM

I love yhft. Great for doing art

3/4/2007 7:07:26 PM

Not a fan of Wilco.

That said, Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo are a couple of my favorites. IMO, both kick the hell out of Wilco

3/4/2007 7:20:33 PM

I've only heard three songs off this so far:

1.) The first song (Either Way) is a little too "adult contemporay" for my tastes. I think it'd be better without the boring drum beat.

2.) I love the second song (You Are My Face)-- gives me some hope for the rest of the album.

3.) Walken does absolutely nothing for me... I didn't like it the two times I heard it live, and I don't like the album version any more.

3/4/2007 11:12:29 PM

wilco is one band that i believe has gotten progressively better with each album. "a ghost is born" is pure bliss for me. i'll definitely have to check this one out.

3/4/2007 11:47:59 PM

son volt is better, as far as i'm concerned

3/4/2007 11:50:00 PM

burned a copy of this, drove an hour home for dinner, and an hour back and listened to the whole thing both ways.

"You are my face" has that great tweedy-on-ghost, neil young type guitar solo - choppy and kinda angry.
"hate it here" is fantastic, and impossible germany has great nels guitaring
walken>what light>on and on and on is a really strong ending to the whole record.

nels is gonna absolutely shred some of these songs live.

also, fuck the haters. You can like uncle tupelo all you want and, yep, tweedy is a prima donna whiny douche, but his collective discography (UT and Wilco) stands as one of the finest bodies of work since the start of the 1990s, and still continues here. AND he allows taping. every wilco album gets better with each listen. I'm positive that this one will, too. I think it feels a lot like it would have fit between Being there and summerteeth

The big question is this:
Why the hell is it spelled "walken"? Wasn't spelling kamera with a k enough?

[Edited on March 5, 2007 at 12:29 AM. Reason : spelling]

3/5/2007 12:28:25 AM

I love wilco, but I almost prefer tweedy's work with loose fur. Jim O'Rourke is genius.

3/5/2007 1:29:15 AM

glen kotche has apparently been replaced with a casio

nels cline saves this album

3/5/2007 10:50:54 AM

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"yankee hotel foxtrot was a shitty album no matter what anyone tells you"

oh man. you're so wrong. hah

3/5/2007 11:48:15 AM

i am officially disappointed by this album

3/8/2007 11:44:37 AM

i haven't heard this one yet, but i was disappointed by "a ghost is born" for a long time. now i love the shit out of it.

3/8/2007 11:49:50 AM

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"glen kotche has apparently been replaced with a casio"

I'm really glad someone else picked up on this also. His drumming has always been so solid. He's really in a league of his own. But, on this album, the drums just sound stale and under-utilized. The comparison to a casio is spot-on... particularly the first song. It's the same exact boring beat the entire song.

[Edited on March 8, 2007 at 1:55 PM. Reason : .]

3/8/2007 1:54:34 PM

im seeing double

[Edited on March 8, 2007 at 3:02 PM. Reason : !]

3/8/2007 3:01:27 PM

I would totally be gay for Nels Cline.

that being said I would rather listen to him do something other than play with Wilco.

3/8/2007 3:01:54 PM

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" His drumming has always been so solid. He's really in a league of his own. But, on this album, the drums just sound stale and under-utilized"

seriously

listening to the opening tracks of the three albums he's been a part of is a good comparison

he went from explosive and inovative to something probably written by one of tweedy's kids

3/8/2007 6:02:09 PM

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". . . and Cline is used for his capacity to rip and wail rather than his ear for texture and atmosphere. Case in point, the drowsy opener "Either Way" sleepwalks through a list of indecisive sentiments ("maybe you love me, maybe you don't") before breaking for a Cline solo that's straight-up Weather Channel Local on the 8s."

5/14/2007 11:48:44 PM

now appearing in lame vw commercials

6/20/2007 5:17:00 PM

i been listening to crunchy blacks new album lately

6/20/2007 5:26:24 PM

this album is so good.

6/20/2007 6:05:41 PM

I was never able to get into it... at all

PS: (WILCO fan since Being There, not YHF)

6/20/2007 6:27:36 PM

My favorite is A Ghost Is Born


(ps: wilco fan since Uncle Tupelo )

6/20/2007 6:47:24 PM

that's impossible!

6/20/2007 6:54:09 PM

I knew there was potential enough for two bands

6/20/2007 6:57:00 PM

seriously, wth is nels cline doing in wilco?

6/21/2007 12:48:44 AM

kicking ass?

6/21/2007 8:42:39 AM

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"now appearing in lame vw commercials"

Seriously, this album is a disappointment.

6/21/2007 4:16:32 PM

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"kicking ass?"

not on this album!

6/21/2007 4:48:57 PM

I like it, but its definitely not a "I'll listen to it here and there in the car" but its great for putting on while you are working around the house, fixing shit, etc.

6/21/2007 6:55:03 PM

i was disappointed .

6/21/2007 9:29:33 PM

ttt

2/26/2008 9:26:52 AM

Is this album still disappointing?

2/26/2008 10:13:20 AM

oh yeah... one or two good tracks max

2/26/2008 11:28:05 AM

yep. a couple of good songs. that's it. the title track is good definitely.

2/26/2008 5:06:42 PM

They're playing SNL this weekend

It'll be like watching a Volkswagen commercial LIVE

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"Is this album still disappointing?"

ya rly

2/26/2008 8:50:51 PM

I actually really like this album, and I play it all the time in my new VW

2/28/2008 10:42:44 AM

i dont get the hate.

2/28/2008 11:24:46 AM

I've never really enjoyed Wilco much (or much of their alt-country stuff) but I did like Impossible Germany and On On On... mostly for that vintage 70s sound they captured on those tracks.

2/28/2008 11:54:28 AM

i also like this album.

it is different, but that's allowed.

2/28/2008 12:53:42 PM

i started this thread, and defended this album when it leaked.

and I was drinking my own wilco kool-aid. This album sucks, and despite that fact, I was pumped about going to stay with friends in Charleston to see them tomorrow night.

and then they cancelled the fucking show to do SNL. ditching a sold-out concert to do SNL *feels* like selling out. i'm not yet sure if it is.

between that, VW commercials, how much SBS sucks, how much the music world seems to love it, and how tweedy acts on both "i am trying to break your heart" and in "Man in the Sand"... I'm fucking done with this band

2/28/2008 12:56:34 PM

^ i could never be done with this band. but only maybe because they are one of my favorite bands ever, and that is hard to give up no matter how much they sell out. and yes, ditching a sold out concert for SNL is pretty much selling out (imo).

i don't think skybluesky is GREAT (especially compared to their other albums) but it isn't THAT bad. i think it gets more hate than it deserves. a couple of songs are good. the whole thing is listenable (with the exception of 1 or 2 just really terrible tracks). but yes, not their best showing. not their best at all (but hey shit happens right).

finally i think part of my love for wilco comes from seeing them live. i just had a really really really amazing time at their show. it was after a ghost is born, so most stuff played was from yankee hotel and a ghost. although they did play some off of summerteeth which is one of my fav albums of all time (i don't know why, i just looove it). the show was great. however, i'm not sure if i'd enjoy a show that was dominated by skybluesky anyway...seems like it'd be really boring.

to summarize, yes i'd be pissed if i was supposed to go see them in charleston and they cancelled. because one that is dumb. and two charleston is fun. and three it probably would have been a good show despite skybluesky

ok i lied i wasn't done. i don't care about the VW commercials as much. i found it more annoying (and sell outish) that the flaming lips lent one of their songs to a dell commercial. DELL? esp how much the flaming lips rant about politics at their shows, it seems like they'd have a disdain for corporate america. but i guess a lot of dolla dolla bills y'all can change anyones mind.

[Edited on February 28, 2008 at 1:29 PM. Reason : .]

2/28/2008 1:24:46 PM

in my experience wilco live is pretty close to just listening the cd

2/28/2008 1:29:13 PM