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Re: Yes, The new Wilco DOES NOT Suck, in my opinion

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In Reply to: Yes, The new Wilco Sucks posted by joel on August 22, 2002 at 20:53:46:

The thing is, if you were expecting another AM, Being There or another Uncle Tupelo album, it would indeed suck. Tweedy and Stirrat have just moved in a more experimental path- expanding on where they stopped with Summer Teeth. I think YHF is a brilliant album. If you don't dig that one, don't get the new Flaming Lips CD- it, too, is beautiful experimental pop.
Wilco won the war between Farrar and Tweedy on who would releasr the best post-Tupelo material in my opinion. Trace, from Son Volt, had big promise, but the rest of Farrar's material has not grown. The reason I love YHF so much is that it is not one dimensional rawk. It ebbs and flows.
I realize it is just an opinion, but I would hope that people wouldn't just read you guy's reveiws and stop there. I wish if people were going to pan something they would give it more of a description than just it sucks. If I read a review that the new Radiohead sucked, I might not give it a listen; if I read the same review, but the review stated that the new Radiohead sucked because it was orchestral pop and not more tortured electronic beeping, I might be interested, because I dig orchestral, cinematic pop.

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Re: Yes, The new Wilco DOES NOT Suck, in my opinion - Joel 21:12:11 08/26/02 (0)
Summer Teeth was a brilliant CD. The Flaming Lips (Yoshimi in particular) is beautiful experimental pop and flows well. YHF is ugly experimental pop and does not flow. Tweedy tried to hard to put an electronic edge, to the detriment of the music.
Sometimes brief reviews work - YHF does suck, it is noise. Don't waste your good money on it if you are an alt-country fan. Fans of the last two Radiohead CD's (also noise) will eat this up.
Re: Yes, The new Wilco DOES NOT Suck, in my opinion - RAYDOG 13:24:04 08/23/02 (1)
OK, the YHF sucks because it's uninteresting, unmusical, egotistical drivel. It's discordant for the sake of being difficult. If you are out of ideals, you release crap and tell everyone it's art. Being art, if someone doesn't like it, it must be over their head. Kind of like watching a McNally play. The more he can get the word "fuck" in it, the more "serious" the play is considered to be. Music should entertain, enlighten, educate, make you emote. YHF just makes me reach for the "off" button. Back in the 60's, someone made a movie about a fly walking around on a naked woman. 45 minutes of a fly just walking around on a naked woman. It was a huge success with the "art" crowd. YFH reminds me of that movie. Better?

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- Re: Yes, The new Wilco DOES NOT Suck, in my opinion - WJMIII 20:32:14 08/23/02 (0)
  while I respect your opinion, I do not agree with it
  to each his/her own, right?

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