Post by ♥Mary♥ on Jun 22, 2004 13:15:23 GMT -5
Their new album is out today! 
It's called A Ghost Is Born.
You can go to their site and sample the whole thing. It's been streaming there for months. Leadman, Jeff Tweety, and the rest of the band believe in making their music accessible to fans on the internet directly through THEM, so they've put up the songs for us on their site (in a cool old "radio"), with hopes that we will support the band in music purchases somewhere along the line...
(I know I'll be off to the indie store later this afternoon to go purchase my egg, lol.)
www.wilcoworld.net/ghost/index.html
I like this new album quite a bit, but not nearly as much as their last mega-wonderful album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, or their double-disc slice of perfection known as Being There.
My most favorites so far:
Wishful Thinking (definitely my number 1), Company In My Back, Hummingbird, and Handshake Drugs.
Sean and I both think their song Theologians sounds like a Rolling Stone song. We like that one, too.
The only 'uggh' I have to comment on is the fact that Mr Tweety chose to express his ordeal in dealing with migraine headaches and the resulting addiction he had to painkillers by putting a painful feedback sound at the end of the song Less Than You Think... it's nearly 10 minutes long! It follows the music/lyric portion of the song which is really rather pretty and calm, and I enjoy THAT part, but after about 2 minutes of the feedback sound building up then steadying to what sounds like a monotone current of electricity wired through my brain, I have to get up and hit the ">>" button. I defy anyone to get through the entire length of it everytime they listen to the album (I did it once).
But then... maybe that was his point: He's showing us how easy we can turn it 'off'. He didn't have such an easy time turning his pain off.
So, I'm torn because it annoys the hell out of me, but then makes me think he's slightly genius for putting it in. LOL
Still, that complaint is very offset by an otherwise great collection of tunes here that are not quite as 'tightly connected' as any of their other albums, but still highly enjoyable. I mean, it's Wilco!
Any other Wilco fans still hanging around this place?
("the theory", are you still here?!)
It's called A Ghost Is Born.
You can go to their site and sample the whole thing. It's been streaming there for months. Leadman, Jeff Tweety, and the rest of the band believe in making their music accessible to fans on the internet directly through THEM, so they've put up the songs for us on their site (in a cool old "radio"), with hopes that we will support the band in music purchases somewhere along the line...
(I know I'll be off to the indie store later this afternoon to go purchase my egg, lol.)
www.wilcoworld.net/ghost/index.html
I like this new album quite a bit, but not nearly as much as their last mega-wonderful album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, or their double-disc slice of perfection known as Being There.
My most favorites so far:
Wishful Thinking (definitely my number 1), Company In My Back, Hummingbird, and Handshake Drugs.
Sean and I both think their song Theologians sounds like a Rolling Stone song. We like that one, too.
The only 'uggh' I have to comment on is the fact that Mr Tweety chose to express his ordeal in dealing with migraine headaches and the resulting addiction he had to painkillers by putting a painful feedback sound at the end of the song Less Than You Think... it's nearly 10 minutes long! It follows the music/lyric portion of the song which is really rather pretty and calm, and I enjoy THAT part, but after about 2 minutes of the feedback sound building up then steadying to what sounds like a monotone current of electricity wired through my brain, I have to get up and hit the ">>" button. I defy anyone to get through the entire length of it everytime they listen to the album (I did it once).
But then... maybe that was his point: He's showing us how easy we can turn it 'off'. He didn't have such an easy time turning his pain off.
So, I'm torn because it annoys the hell out of me, but then makes me think he's slightly genius for putting it in. LOL
Still, that complaint is very offset by an otherwise great collection of tunes here that are not quite as 'tightly connected' as any of their other albums, but still highly enjoyable. I mean, it's Wilco!
Any other Wilco fans still hanging around this place?
("the theory", are you still here?!)
