Wilco - Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
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Free Music Review: I love this band
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a great live cd which showcases the amazing talent of the band.
The best song is "Ashes to the Amercian Flag" because it is dramatically different from the cd Yankee Foxtrot Hotel. The end of the song has stunning guitar solo from Nels Kline. "Misunderstood" is done in a very dramatic fashion and "Spiders/killsmoke" rocks the house down.
Most of the songs are off of their last 2 albums. THis seems to be a collection of different performances. My only knock on this cd is that I wish (since it was a double cd) that they would have included earlier works as well.
I cannot say enough good things about this band. They are excellent musicians, Tweedy is a masterful songwriter, there are aching vocals and the group pushes itself and takes chances.
Free Music Review: ladies and gentlemen the wilco experience
Hit: 4 Stars
I can't really give this album a full review. I am only writing this as a fan who has seen the band live and have to say that the act is excellent. Wilco is a special act because it is an intimate one. They suck you into their little world of beauty and cross-musical brilliance. They require an attentive audience, but one that enjoys the music as well. The only drawback is for someone who has not seen the band and only has a CD to fall back on. Otherwise, something like this is a great reminder of how fun rock and roll can be. The real thing is more like five stars.Free Music Review: Need a 48th opinion?
Hit: 4 Stars
I need there to be at least 48 reviews of this album so that I can sleep at night. That is all. Oh, and Wilco stirs an emotion within me similar to that of unicorn giggles.Free Music Review: How about a decent guitar solo?
Hit: 3 Stars
Count me among the big fans of Uncle Tupelo and Wilco's early work. I stayed with them through A Ghost is Born and even bought the two Loose Fur CDs, all of which have some great songs on them. But, more and more often, I find myself going back to Being There and Mermaid Avenue and, in the process, I've grown kind of numb to Wilco's new sound. I don't blame Tweedy for trying to innovate, but, to my ears, Wilco has reached a point where experimentation has gotten in the way of their music. This is evident in a number of places on Kicking Television.
I like parts of nearly every Wilco song, but a good portion of their new songs unravel into a complete unlistenable mess because, it seems, Tweedy feels the need to buck convention at every turn. "Spiders" is a perfect example of this. Another example is "Misunderstood." Hearing Tweedy scream "nothing" 35 times might be fun when you're drunk at a concert, but not everytime you listen in your living room. And I can't figure out why nearly every guitar solo with the new Wilco is either an indistiguishable wall of noise or a screechy mess. I am all for innovation, but just play the thing already!
Don't get me wrong, there are some great songs here. Not surprisingly, my favorites are "One on One" and "Airline to Heaven," both of which are more reminiscent of their earlier work. Also, their live sound is somehow much fuller than their studio work and most of their songs from Ghost sound better because of that. However, as a whole, Kicking Television is a bit frustrating for me.
Similar to how U2 experimented in the 90s with the uneven Zooropa and Pop, Wilco is willing to take a chance and I will give them some credit and slack for that. But after Blue Sky Blue, this Wilco fan will be hoping for more "Kingpin" and less "Kidsmoke."
Free Music Review: It's good, but..
Hit: 3 Stars
I agree with the reviewer who said that this CD is an accurate portrait of where the band is today, live. I saw them three times on the last tour, and have been a fan of the band since AM came out ten years ago.
However, I just don't know what the point of this latest CD is. Most of the songs aren't all that different from the studio versions (Compare that to, say, Radiohead's I Might Be Wrong). Moreover, Wilco is a far better studio band than live act these days. They don't pack the firepower of a great live show -- their best music's subtle, dependent on textures and contrast and nuance, and that's hard to get across in a live setting.
So what's the point? Is this nothing more than product, calculated to boost the band's sales revenues? Make a few bucks off the fan base? The CD is not bad, but it seems such a conservative move, marking time with a band that until recently was right on the cutting edge of creativity. In that sense, then, it's a disappointment.