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Free Music Notes for Chelsea Walls
Free Music Review: Tweedy Does it Again!
Hit: 5 Stars
Not only is this film good, but the soundtrack explodes in Low-Fi sweet sensational sound. This is a great piece of work by Wilco's frontman Jeff Tweedy. His instrumental tracks often remind me of other work done by equally great bands like Mogwai, Tortoise, etc. If you liked Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at all, you will enjoy this album. It has songs by Wilco and Tweedy by himself. It also has an Indie-Version of The Lonely One from an earlier Wilco CD. This is well defined Indie-Rock Album with a very subtle juice of Jazz.
There's some very nice work on this Soundtrack.
Free Music Review: beautiful, atmospheric, haunting
Hit: 5 Stars
I didn't think so much of the movie (pretentious, unrealized, with some good turns) but, boy, this is one heck of a soundtrack. Beautiful haunting melodies, that wonderful Jimmy Scott cover of Lennon's Jealous Guy. Tweedy Tweedy Tweedy. The music haunts my conciousness all the time. Great for driving. Great for yoga.Free Music Review: Basically the first Jeff Tweedy solo album
Hit: 4 Stars
This is basically the first Jeff Tweedy solo album, although someday, who knows, I hope not, he might fire John Stirratt from Wilco (the only original Wilco member besides Jeff) and we'll discover Wilco was a Jeff Tweedy solo project all along.
The instrumental tracks on this album are very good, and feature good, jabbing guitar from Jeff Tweedy, and good, experimental percussion from Glenn Kotche, Wilco's outstanding drummer and percussionist.
"Promising" is wonderful Wilco song, downtempo, and "When the Roses Bloom Again" is a good outtake from the Billy Bragg and Wilco "Mermaid Avenue" sessions.
"Jealous Guy" is a John Lennon cover sung in a high, raspy voice by Jimmy Scott, and doesn't do much for me other than interrupt the flow of the album.
"The Lonely One" a cover of Wilco song, covered by actors Robert Sean Leonard & Steve Zahn is a sad, simple version of that song, made sadder if you've seen the movie this soundtrack is for and know the fate of the character singing it.
"Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling" is another nice guitar/vocals cover by Robert Sean Leonard and fits the feel of the rest of the album.
Overall, the instrumentals and "Promising" are the best tracks, and make this album worth owning for any Wilco fanatics out there. I like the soundtrack better than the movie it's from, and find it more interesting.
Free Music Review: It's Tweedy, It's Good, Very Good
Hit: 4 Stars
I have not seen the movie, but bought this album simply on the strength of Jeff Tweedy's reputation as a gifted, daring and innovative musician. I was not disappointed!9 of the 12 tracks aqre Tweedy penned, most of them instrumentals performed by Tweedy and Glenn Kotche. Several of them are truly mesmorizing, including the "Opening Titles", with guitar-distorts all over, "Frank's Dream", "The Wallman" and, best of all, the 11 min. "Finale" with it's haunting guitar riff and overlaying piano playing.
There are 2 tracks attributed to Wilco: the "new" track "Promising" sounds like Tweedy solo, and the other one "When The Roses Bloom Again" is from the Mermaid Avenue sessions with Billy Brag, quite beautiful actually.
As with many movie soundtracks, this is a "mood album", and I find it very engaging, altough it's probably not for everyone.
Free Music Review: pretty ding dang good
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a great CD even if youre not a Wilco/Uncle Tupelo/Alt country completist. The songs are all good, from the "weird" stuff by Tweedy down to the haunting beautiful WIlco track to the non-Tweedy stuff on here...If yopure reading this review you should probably own this or at least give it a listen, even if the movie didn't work for ya.
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