bags
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 01:58 PM UTC
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That does it. Wilco and GBV are in a dead heat as the bands most mentioned here. Though Wilco has more debate over its merits and which era of Wilco is best, I'd wager (though it's close).
Sailor Ripley
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 02:16 PM UTC
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I ask the same question about GBV.
ggw
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 02:18 PM UTC
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The Minutemen rule
Rhett Miller
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 02:21 PM UTC
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I wonder if the writer realizes that Uncle Tupelo did a song about D.Boon. Hootie didn't do a song about D. Boon. They're more likely to do a song about Tiger Woods or Greg Norman.
ggw
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 06:41 PM UTC
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More masturbatory metaphorical musings on Wilco Ghost rewards the listener with fits and spells of cohesion and beauty bursting from unassuming setups. Revelatory nuggets are hidden within the record's tranquil crevices much like a legion of proverbial needles in the haystack. Like the fuzzy first hour spent waking up, these moments offer Wilco the opportunity to excavate secrets from a foundation of muted and dissonant tones.
skeeter
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 06:56 PM UTC
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Please tell me that's a joke. They can't be serious.
Mobius
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 07:05 PM UTC
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Wow. Give that guy a box of kleenex. 2-ply.
ggw
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 07:11 PM UTC
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Ray Carney, writing specifically about cinema in his book The Films of John Cassavetes, made intuitive observations on the creations of the ambitious artist: "[They] can only teach us new understandings by forcibly denying us old ones, and that can be bewildering. They can only freshen and quicken our responses by altering our habitual modes of perception, and that can be disorienting". This idea can be directly applied to what we're required to do as listeners with Ghost: refine our sensibilities, restructure our expectations, and wholly cleanse an existing palette for a new experience. The refusal to grow stagnant with rehashed complacency is what keeps Wilco meaningful; Ghost is yet another manifestation of this ideal, albeit in an entirely different form. "I'm a wheel," Tweedy squeals in the record's final third, "I will turn on you". This is an apt summation of what Ghost does: it turns on you, rotating at will, inciting you to focus as its wheel goes round and round.
thirsty moore
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 07:43 PM UTC
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This guy's too easy to make fun of.
The hazy atmospheric fluttering of Tweedy's nimble fingers on the fretboard envelop the listener's ears and comfort the soul.
twangirl
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 08:12 PM UTC
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so this guy is writing his master's thesis on Wilco?
ggw
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Re: What's So Great About Wilco?
July 20, 2004 at 08:43 PM UTC
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
This guy's too easy to make fun of.
The hazy atmospheric fluttering of Tweedy's nimble fingers on the fretboard envelop the listener's ears and comfort the soul.
What he really wanted to say was:
Dear Penthouse Forum,
The hazy atmospheric fluttering of Tweedy's nimble fingers on my 'fretboard' enveloped this listener's desire and comforted my burning loins.