Originally posted by FragileKidA:
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Originally posted by outis:
*** Wilco:
I bought this for my wife for Christmas. She loves it and it's really grown on me. Yes, it's "Dad-Rock" as some critics have written and not breaking any "new" ground, but that's not so awful. It's damn good. Tweedy's vocals are in really fine form & the guitar work from the new guy is superb. It prolly should have been anywhere between 15 and 40, depending on my mood and how much my wife is influencing me on any given day. ;-)
This might sound bad but it does surprise me how much chicks love that album. Don’t get me wrong, I love Wilco and everything Jeff Tweedy and they have done (the stuff with Bragg, Uncle Tupelo, the Minus 5 album, etc.) but their new one isn’t anything special. You mentioned anywhere between 15-40 and I had it somewhere in my 30-40 range, I think. And that’s where I believe that it belongs, it really isn’t anything other than some solid easy-going music. And yes, Tweedy’s voice has never sounded better but the band—as a whole—has definitely sounded better.
I guess it’s just interesting because the girl I was with didn’t really like much of the stuff I had by them, she would hear it when I played it in my house or in the car but she never seemed to really enjoy it.
Sky Blue Sky was the first one she ever asked to borrow so she could hear it on her own and she did really fall in love with it. It was perplexing to me and when I asked her to make a “mock top albums of the year,” she said it would have been her #1.