Wilco - Summerteeth
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Free Music Review: Summerteeth Great -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -- Fabulous
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't know how many times you have to say the title of the cd you are ostensibly reviewing to get past the Amazon censor-bot. So here goes. Summerteeth is great album. Boy, I love Summerteeth. But what I really want is a forum to post a review of Wilco's newest and even better work Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. "What were they thinkin' when they said it wouldn't sell." YHF is the album of the year, and it isn't even released. But don't worry Tweedy, even those of us who have it promise to buy it if someone will actually sell it. YHF again displays Tweedy's substantial gift for melody and the high standards he sets for himself. Not content to close his melodic phrases conventionally, he demands more of himself and the listener as he spins melody in beautiful, unexpected directions. Some of the songs are breathtaking experiments that WORK you silly record execs. And as Wilco demonstrated on Summerteeth, they understand the concept of text painting -- creating sonic landscape that is appropriate to the lyric and emotion of the song. Clearly the people at Reprise didn't get that. YHF is great beginning to end. It's only weaknesses are the purer pop efforts like War on War and Heavy Metal Drummer. Catchy as they are, they don't grow on the listener like the other material. Listen to YHF if you can get it, and buy it if someone gets smart enough to sell it. Oh yeah, Summerteeth is pretty darn good too!Free Music Review: ok, you'll like summer teeth if...
Hit: 5 Stars
This disc is so across the board, you truly can't really pin it down to a certain group of people's tastes. so i guess i'll try to pin it down.if you're a fan of the beatles/the beach boys/the kinks/the byrds/any good 1960s pop band: you'll like SUMMER TEETH's melodic, catchy, hook side, sort of experimental side. Familiar sounds might be 12 string electric on hook heavy "can't stand it" and the great pop of "nothingsevergonnastandinmyway(again)" and mellotron on the previous mentioned along with "she's a jar" and "my darling" (with beatles and beach boys influences clearly evident) and backward piano on "how to fight loneliness". also, note the timpani on "a shot in the arm".
if you're a fan of elvis costello/devo/80's pop: you'll like SUMMER TEETH's use of angular song forms and synths on songs like "a shot in the arm", "im always in love" and "elt".
if you're a fan of beck/radio/experimental 90's stuff: you'll like all the previously mentioned songs have the element of the computer's effect on music today. almost all the songs on here sound like they were ran through protools. which they probably were.
if you're a fan of britney spears/nsync/shaggy: um...you NEED SUMMER TEETH :)
all these "if you likes" sort of have a common denominator: they're all sort of an influence, by each other and together. well, not the last one. A HEADPHONE RECORD ALL OVER THE PLACE - A 90s "REVOLVER".
Free Music Review: How did Amazon.com Overlook this album in its 99 poll!
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all, this album sits up there in the top 5 with the Flaming Lips! How dare Amazon ignores this pop masterpiece! Anyways, this album is gorgeous, breathtaking, dark, light, up, down...you name it. This is real pop. An hour rollercoaster through the mind of this decades greatest songwriter, Jeff Tweedy. The conductor credits on this ride should go to his cohorts John, Jay and Ken. Jay Bennet is the most important player in this lineup and possibly one of the greatest sidekicks a songwriter could wish for. His musical language brings to the pallet many colors Tweedy could dream but not accomplish yet with his earlier work. For those who think the boys sold-out on this album, grow up. Musical-Maturity should not be defined as selling out people. "Summer Teeth" sits on a parallel level compared to "Being There" and Jeff's earlier work with Tupelo and Bragg in terms of artistic brilliance. All their albums represent the diversity in influences that this band of artists feeds off of. We are blessed to have a rock band, let alone an American one in 1999, who give, give, give, rock, rock, rock, and roll, roll, roll. The best band of the decade, hands down. Jeff Tweedy is an American Classic. Thank you boys for your timeless music. (That includes Leroy too!)Free Music Review: whatever.
Hit: 5 Stars
that's my message to those of you who don't think this record is up to snuff or bash it because there are beach boys harmonies. whatever. go listen to yourself cry, it sounds better to your ears perhaps. "summer teeth" is a sweet, smart love-letter to rock n' roll, no irony, no ska, no hootie and the blowfish. there are songs that i can't stop humming and others i don't want to listen to any more times for fear of burning out on them. what i like best about wilco is that these are smart guys, good musicians to boot, who create perfect melodies and harmonies that are unique but still in the rock n' roll framework. actually, it's not a framework, but a window and they choose to open it and let in so many different sounds. what i hate is knowing that like every other of my favorite bands they'll succumb like every other band i've liked to various fates. maybe they're not, though, because there's a maturity about their work that might keep them in the game and making fresh new music for years to come. in many ways "summer teeth" is an extension of "being there"'s classic rock made fresh again format, and in others, a lot of others I should add, it's a new track for these guys to ride and i plan to be along for them.Free Music Review: Tweedy tips his hat to the Beach Boys & Kinks and scores
Hit: 5 Stars
It is nice to see a talented artist dabble in new sounds. Tweedy started to do this on his last Wilco recording but, this time, he has "thrown caution to the wind" and "hit the mark". "Can't Stand it", A Shot in the Arm", "ELT" etc. all demonstrate that Jeff and his band don't really want to be put into the "Americana" box and that they are not afraid to pay tribute to the KINKS and the BEACH BOYS at the risk of losing the their clique-like Americana audience who are now bemoaning Wilco's departure from their "rootsy" sound. The truth is that their roots are in both American and British music that does include "POP" music.It was an eye opener to attend a session at SBSW and listen to Steve Earle's promoter extol the virtues of Steve's new Bluegrass(?) Cd and Kelley Willis' new release while bemoaning the new commercial direction of Wilco. All that I could think was: Which of these recordings are really commercial and which are really good art?? In my opinion, Wilco has been more faithful to their art. To borrow a hackneyed if not overused expression: "ART KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES!!"