Wilco - The Whole Love

[cobl04]

Just listening to Misunderstood right now as I put off homework. Never heard a Wilco song. It's pretty good. It's kind of like Pavement.

 

[LemonMelon]

Also, slightly weaker songs in general, but if you want a more upbeat set of songs, here's a selection of some of their fun tracks:

I Must Be High
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
Monday
I'm Always In Love
Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (again)
ELT
I'm The Man Who Loves You
I'm A Wheel
Wilco (The Song)
I Might

 

[cobl04]

That cover he did of I Got To Feeling is seriously extremely funny.

 

[iron yuppie]

Let's do this.

Misunderstood
Sunken Treasure
A Shot In The Arm
Via Chicago
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Heavy Metal Drummer
Poor Places
At Least That's What You Said
Muzzle of Bees
Handshake Drugs
Impossible Germany
Bull Black Nova
One Sunday Morning

These songs fucking rule, and you should enjoy listening to them.

Thanks, LM. I knew that you would bite on this invitation.

 

[Lancemc]

Sunken Treasure might be the greatest song INTHEHISTORYOFMANKIND.

 

[powerhour24]

IV dinky listened once, but I'm disappointed after the potential of the lead single. It opens great and finishes strong but the middle just didn't stand out for me. I'll be giving it another try this weekend though, sometimes Wilco is among my favorite bands so I'm not giving up.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Let's do this.

Misunderstood
Sunken Treasure
A Shot In The Arm
Via Chicago
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Heavy Metal Drummer
Poor Places
At Least That's What You Said
Muzzle of Bees
Handshake Drugs
Impossible Germany
Bull Black Nova
One Sunday Morning

These songs fucking rule, and you should enjoy listening to them.

I'm not a huge fan of A Shot in the Arm but I know it's popular. Add Far, Far Away and you've got it covered.

 

[corianderstem]

I love A Shot in the Arm solely for the line "we fell in love, in the key of C."

Nothingsevergonna.... is one of my favorite songs of theirs. I don't care if it's slight. It's awesome.

I've come to understand the awesomeness of Being There over the past year or so.

Looking forward to listening to the new one today. I heard one of the tracks at Starbucks yesterday morning and really liked it.

 

[LemonMelon]

I am beginning to feel that Summerteeth is underrated. If it's not one of your top two, you're underrating it.

 

[angelordevil]

I realize musical taste is subjective, but I'm pretty sure The Whole Love is the best album of past five years. At least.

I'm also convinced that I have to the band live. Soon:

Late Show Video - Wilco - CBS.com

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Also, slightly weaker songs in general, but if you want a more upbeat set of songs, here's a selection of some of their fun tracks:

I Must Be High
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
Monday
I'm Always In Love
Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (again)
ELT
I'm The Man Who Loves You
I'm A Wheel
Wilco (The Song)
I Might

"The Late Greats," son.

 

[LemonMelon]

Meh. Being There has like three better that I didn't include. I've never heard The Late Greats out of context, but it's always a disappointing closer.

End the album just before the 12 minute radiator solo and you've got yourself a better record.

 

[bono_212]

You know what's a pretty great album? This one.

It just feels really classic, in spite of being brand new. I like that aspect, it doesn't sound like everything else released these days, just sounds like a plain, great, rock album. That's pretty refreshing. I didn't really catch the names of songs I loved, but oh the closer is super super pretty.

 

[LemonMelon]

I heard Black Moon tonight and got chills realizing this is probably something I will be listening to regularly decades from now. I haven't felt that way about new Wilco music in a long time.

The Whole Love just keeps getting better.

 

[joyfulgirl]

I've finally been able to give this some attention this week, just listening in the car running around town. I am happy to report that I really like it! I haven't liked many of their pop songs since Summerteeth and, again, the ones on The Whole Love are the least interesting songs to me. But it's still the best Wilco record since A Ghost is Born. Black Moon is just gorgeous. And I don't see getting sick of that One Sunday Morning riff any time soon.

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

Don´t mean to bump an old thread pointlessly, but I just got into Wilco and it´s because of this performance that no one seems to have mentioned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZAKTCeE70Y

The Whole Love is one of my favorite albums in a long time.

 

[gump]

These guys are my setlist heroes. I saw the first and third of the consecutive shows in Brooklyn and New York and got to hear 46 different songs in completely different sets, including an AM/Being There/Summerteeth dominated set on the second night (these songs sound great next to the new album, by the way). Even after seeing a lot of their shows, there is no other band I would take live over Wilco.

Spoiler

Brooklyn - 07/23

Dawned On Me
War On War
I Might
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Muzzle of Bees
Born Alone
You Are My Face
Impossible Germany
Sunken Treasure
I'm Always In Love
Jesus, Etc.
Handshake Drugs
Whole Love
Box Full Of Letters
Hate It Here
Heavy Metal Drummer
I'm the Man Who Loves You
A Shot in the Arm

Encore:
Poor Places
Art Of Almost
Standing O
California Stars

Encore 2:
The Late Greats
Red-Eyed and Blue >
I Got You
Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
I'm A Wheel

New York, 07/25


One Sunday Morning>
Art Of Almost
I Might
At Least That's What You Said
She's A Jar
Kamera
Can't Stand It
Too Far Apart
What's The World Got In Store
Impossible Germany
Born Alone
Capitol City>
Laminated Cat (aka Not For The Season) (electric arrangement)
Summer Teeth
Whole Love
Theologians>
I'm The Man Who Loves You
Dawned On Me
A Shot in the Arm

Encore 1
Passenger Side
Casino Queen
Candyfloss
Hesitating Beauty
A Magazine Called Sunset
Kicking Television

Encore 2
The Late Greats
Dreamer In My Dreams
The Lonely 1

 

[joyfulgirl]

Pretty much my sentiments after seeing both Red Rocks shows last month. Although there are bands I would put first (U2, Radiohead & Sigur Ros come to mind right away), I was so happy to rekindle my love affair with Wilco this summer. I told a friend the next day that I'd just heard like 50 different Wilco songs at Red Rocks, though I didn't actually count.

By the way, gump, the epic 2nd Red Rocks show is downloadable from Wilco World, though not for free.

The Wilco Store - Wilco Roadcase Roadcase 001 / June 23, 2012 / Red Rocks Amphitheatre

 

[gump]

Thanks. I should probably download this Red Rocks show, such a great set. I might wait until there's confirmation as to whether any of the Brooklyn/New York shows will be on the roadcase, I'd like to have one of those. It seems that nyctaper.com was at the Terminal 5 show, so there may be a bootleg anyways.

It's almost a toss-up between Wilco and Radiohead for me, but I give an edge to Wilco because of the diversity of their setlists. U2 is still great on an emotional level, but I feel less and less the need to see more than one or two of shows every tour.

 

[agentorange]

Awesome pair of sets, gump.

The set I got in May scared me - it had such an emphasis on the fluffy 20% of their catalog. I love sugar pop more than most, but it was disturbing that night. It felt like they were playing their most immediately catchy songs in an attempt to win new fans. I'm glad to see they're still digging deep.

 

[No spoken words]

I'm in here to say that this album is my favorite album since High Violet. I adore it and keep coming back to it again and again. It's gorgeous, and its bookends alone would make it a great album.

Now I'm leaving this thread, but, my words will echo for eternity.

 

[LemonMelon]

Now I'm leaving this thread, but, my words will echo for eternity.

As does everything we do in life.

Which has terrifying implications.

Somewhere, in the infinite expanse of eternity, Muldfeld can be heard extolling Battlestar Galactica. Forever.

 

[LemonMelon]

Also, the Whole Love is awesome.

 

[No spoken words]

^Those

 

[gump]

its bookends alone would make it a great album.

Those bookends are really gorgeous. My favorite part of their recent shows as well, especially Sunday Morning. That simple acoustic guitar riff is just so good.

Spoiler

welcome back

 

[gump]

By the way, there is a very good bootleg of their July 25 show, which had a great set (Hesitating Beauty, anyone?). And it's done with the band's permission, so it's all legal:

A few hours after this post appears on the site, the entire NYCTaper crew will drive four hours up to Cooperstown to see Wilco again at the Ommegang Brewery. The reason why we will travel so far is essentially encapsulated in this recording. On Wednesday, we all saw Wilco at Terminal 5, and the band once again reminded us about why we’ll make sacrifices as fans to see them live. The meme of all the Wilco reviews on nyctaper (and there are a lot) is that this band is extremely good to its fans. The long sets, interesting song selections, lengthy encores and full dedication to the performance positions Wilco as the preeminent live band around today, and for the better part of the last two decades. On Wednesday, we were treated to a “deep cut” setlist where songs were performed that we haven’t seen very often or at all since the 1990s. “What’s The World Got in Store” is probably the rarest of the tracks — a song from the first record of the two-lp 1996 album Being There. We are streaming it below, along with “Passenger Side”, another early era nugget that has seen infrequent plays in recent years. The final treat was a heartfelt final encore (the 9th encore song) of “The Lonely 1″, another Being There song and one that I’m not sure that I’ve ever actually seen live. Its these kinds of treats that keep us coming back. I’m sure Cooperstown will yield the same kind of satisfaction.

Wilco: July 25, 2012 Terminal 5 – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Streaming Songs | nyctaper

 

[joyfulgirl]

Nice! I gotta hear it.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Those bookends are really gorgeous. My favorite part of their recent shows as well, especially Sunday Morning. That simple acoustic guitar riff is just so good.

Spoiler

welcome back

I really hope we get One Sunday Morning in Santa Fe. I read that apparently the song was seeded in Santa Fe, over a meal Tweedy had with Jane Smiley's boyfriend who told Tweedy that story about his father. I think it's one of the finest things Tweedy has ever written and was breathtaking when they walked out onstage at Red Rocks and opened the show with it. All of Red Rocks was silent, I swear.

Oh, and NSW in a Wilco thread, saying the right things.

 

[No spoken words]

 

[LemonMelon]

I'm listening to this right now for the hundredth time.

That opening duo is fucking intense in and in your face, a great FUCK YOU to everyone (Laz) calling them lame dad rock. Black Moon reminds me of the most haunting and beautiful Neil Young ballads.