This is another post about Wilco. During my lunch break. Maybe this will encourage all you readers (the 2-3 of you out there) who keep thinking "What's a Wilco?" to find out.
Kicking Television is to Wilco as Under a Blood Red Sky is to U2
Early U2 sounds tinny to me. Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day, and I Will Follow are great songs, but they achieve "awesome" status on Under a Blood Red Sky where they sound fuller and more dynamic. Listening to "A Ghost is Born" by Wilco, I felt like the music was being stuffed into my speakers. It was weird. Not very dynamic. This explains why when I first listened to Kicking Television about 2 years ago, I thought, "I've never heard these songs! What album are they off of?" even though I had listened to Ghost. I don't think I would have ever been as obsessed with the Late Greats if I had not heard the Kicking Television version. More interestingly, the real version of Wilco surpassed the recorded live version. Thus, the greatest version of Spiders will only live in memory. This is also true of every song off of Kid A that I heard at a Radiohead concert. I still can't listen to the majority of Kid A, but in memory I hear them played in a less off-puting way.
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To be honest, it seems like every time you try to introduce me to a new band, I'd rather die than try it out. Most of the time, I've ended up thoroughly enjoying the music you suggest (example: Fifteen Years). There have been rare occasions when I've not been impressed (example: Paranoid Android), but really, with a track record like you have, I really should be giddy to immerse myself in Wilco. And yet, I'm not. I'll do my best, but no promises.
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