Wilco - Summerteeth
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Free Music Notes for Summerteeth
Free Music Review: Excellent album from an excellent band.
Hit: 5 Stars
Rarely do you own an album where you like every track. Maybe those days are gone. But this album certainly fits that description for me. This is an amazing album.Free Music Review: Where's Wilco?
Hit: 2 Stars
There were maybe 2 or 3 tracks on this CD that were even close to "good". The remainder was like Herman's Hermits meets the Beatles meets Moody Blues and ran the gambit from bubble-gum to downright sappy. A true multi-layered, overproduced effort with none of the small studio-jam feel of, say, "AM" or "Being There". Bring Back Wilco!Free Music Review: It's a bit... Meh.
Hit: 3 Stars
In my opinion Summerteeth is overrated. In it, Wilco's music has changed from something unique and beautiful into average pop music. I prefer Yankee Hotel Foxtrot far better than this. Many of the songs are the type that have a melody which is hardly memorable.
Also, the sound quality isn't that good. While it is better than other popular albums, it sounds too trebly and the levels are a bit too high.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot beats this in every single way in my opinion.
Free Music Review: 4.5 Stars: My Favorite Wilco Album
Hit: 5 Stars
It might not be Wilco's best album (many would argue Yankee Hotel is), but Summer Teeth is my favorite by the band. As far as the musical arrangements go, it's their most keyboard-heavy release. It has piano, organ, harpsichord, and Magical Mystery Tour-like synthesizers. It also has banjo, strings, horns, harmonica, and bells. No whistles, though. Unlike the band's last two albums, "A Ghost is Born" and "Sky Blue Sky," it has no extended guitar solos. And throughout, there's very little dissonance. Here, Wilco is more influences by the Beatles and solo Lennon material than--as they would be on Yankee Hotel--Radiohead.
The songwriting is among the band's best. Highlight's include "She's a Jar" "Shot in the Arm" (containing the great line, "The ashtray says, you've been up all night") and "Via Chicago." Wilco strikes an interesting balance here between warm musical arrangements and sometimes disturbing lyrics such as "She begs me not to hit her" ("She's a Jar") and "Dreamed about killing you again last night and it felt alright to me." ("Via Chicago"). A well-paced album that stands up to repeat listening.
Free Music Review: Ridiculously Overrated
Hit: 3 Stars
I got this when it was originally released and just listened to it again recently. It isn't particularly good or bad - and certainly not in the league of "Being There". This was the point just as Tweedy was gaining the reputation that even his flatulence was regarded as "genius".