Album Rating: 3.0

'You Satellite' is one of the better songs here, I'd rather more of the rest matched its style than they'd dropped it for more o' the same. Side 2 minus Magnetized is pretty ho hum for me

Album Rating: 3.0

Also, Tweedy's Loose Fur partner in crime Jim O'Rourke dropped a twice as good album 'Simple Songs' a few months ago. There isn't one song here that can live with anything on that one, check it out

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I've never checked any Jim O'Rourke, been meaning to for a while.

Album Rating: 3.0

I don't know man - I think the 2nd half of this is way better than the first.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Still not understanding the really high praise this is getting. I mean I love Wilco to death and this album is very good, but in terms of initial reception, this is being considered almost as good as YHF which is just crazy. I doubt this will hold lasting interest the same way most other Wilco albums have.

Album Rating: 3.0

This was a 3 on first listen for me. Solid, but nothing special. I've grown to like the songwriting and the raw sound of it all a bit more with more listens. No way this touches YHF, but this is pretty good on its own terms.



Edit: Yeah after sitting with it more, actually sticking with a 3 on this. Not one of their more memorable albums, but decent.

Album Rating: 3.0

Jts - this was a 3 on my first listen and about 15 listens later it remains a 3, same score as Wilco (the album). Album is fine but don't hear what others are hearing beyond that. Yes it's got a fuzzy low end on most of the tracks, that really is the main difference

Album Rating: 3.0

Track ratings:

EKG - 3/5 (prob a 2.5 really but fun and gutsy opening in context)

More - 4/5 solid opener proper

RNG - 4/5 fun, prefer to Drummer from YHF

The Joke - 3/5 decent, but loses way a bit

You Satellite - 4/5 2nd best song, very War on Drugs yes

Taste the Ceiling - 2.5/5 most average Wilco song ever? Unspectacular

Pickled Ginger - 3.5/5 album's grower but not amazing

Where Do I Begin - 3.5/5 Jeff you've recorded this near exact song 10 times before only better

Cold Slope 2/5 -most filler of filler tracks...

King of You 2/5 -...and transitions into another slightly better one. Still, these would be average on a Loose Fur album let alone for Wilco

Magnetized - 4/5 best on the album, maybe their best ever closing song, lovely but not a world beater of a best album track



Context: 5/5 = jesus etc, at least that's what you said, etc

4.5/5 = ashes of American flags, war on war, she's a jar, etc

Nothing on here matches that quality

Album Rating: 4.0

So this was my first real listen to Wilco (apart from a passing listen to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot), and hmmm, what a pleasant surprise.

Album Rating: 3.0

Irving, check Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Album Rating: 4.0

yankee hotel foxtrot is incredible

Album Rating: 4.0

sowing, what do you think of yhf?

I see this in literally every comments section for every review for every Wilco album:

"This album is good, but it's not as good as _____, ______, or ______."

Album Rating: 3.0

SmileNerd - Wilco keep releasing albums that sound much the same and their best material is long behind them so it's going to come up in the reviews

wat

no two Wilco albums sound the same

Album Rating: 3.0

OoN - it's more like latter day Rolling Stones or Pearl Jam, the albums sound 'instantly familiar' and you'll start forgetting which songs are on which albums as every song sounds a bit like a previous song they've already done

Album Rating: 4.0

I really liked Cold Slope...

Album Rating: 4.0

summerteeth is better than YHF imo



also doofus plz one sunday morning is the best wilco closer by far

What about the Late Greats?
Im partial to Ghost anyway. Probably my fav of thiers. Though summerteeth and yhf are right there. The high marks on ghost are better to me, but its not as consistent so idk.

Album Rating: 4.0

actually my least favorite wilco album but i haven't listened to it in a while need to do that