Wilco - Summerteeth
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Free Music Review: Summer Teeth, Some Are Gums
Hit: 5 Stars
Summer Teeth is a celebration of pop music. Jeff Tweedy wears his influences proudly on his right sleeve while still hiding something up his left. Great music like this sometimes takes a while to fully digest. As a curious admirer of Uncle Tupelo I watched Tweedy reinvent himself from pissed off cowpoke to a full fledged Burt Bacharach in ripped flannel.. This album is what "Pet Sounds" could have been. It rides the ghost of Brian Wilson and picks up cosmic, musical hitchhikers like Arther Lee , Elvis Costello and a healthy dose of the Beatles. Alternately sweet and angry "Teeth" pulls you in with warm hooks and sunny soundscapes. Once inside Tweedy lays his soul bare while simutaneuosly exposing ours. Its timeless, classic and a welcome reminder of what music could be in these depressing one hit wonder times. My advice is to be patient. Not many people have been immediately blown away by the album but it grows on you like a Christmas sweater. Wilco is well on its way to becoming the Great American rock-n-roll band. Buy the album and enjoy the ride.Free Music Review: Great CD...as in best of the decade list great.
Hit: 5 Stars
I have been going to see Wilco and Son Volt live ever since they first started to tour. Those of you who have seen them--can you imagine having seen Uncle Tupelo? Amzing that these two bands were once ONE. I fall on the side of those touting this albums ingenuity..there is so much THERE there. As far as the disparagers, well, I guess I was wondering when the split between Son Volt and Wilco would come. Personally, I like both, but for very different reasons. What really is the reason to like so many bands that play the same music? Wilco is brave enough to do something all its own--and thier excitement and attitude on stage is contagious..they are creating new molds for bands, and fans, of roots/folk rock (or whatever) and is stretching the limits of what rock and roll really is. They are definitely a fans' band. I like what a friend of mine did at a Son Volt show recently. He has grown irritated with all the drowsy posing, and the lack of a UT tune or two, and started yelling out: "Just play 'Gun' so we can go home!" Heh. Take that Jay.Free Music Review: THIS MACHINE KILLS PURISTS!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you want a rehash of everything that rehashed, exploited and beaten to and beyond death in the dearth of the all-too-precious alt.country "movement", go buy Jay Farrar's latest ode to monotony and derivative songwriting. Jeff Tweedy and Wilco have songs with depth, aural influences that vary without apology and the courage to disappoint those too busy posturing to open their ears to this marvelous album. Son Volt and the rest of the Bloodshot zombies are country in the same sense that Billy Joel considers himself rhythm and blues. Wilco is one of the few bands to emerge from the "genre" that writes songs that capture the current spirit of America rather than their deluded and idealized version of what that spirit once was. The "country" in "country music" is not the close-minded, purist place imagined in the minds of those who wear their "twang" on their shoulder, it is our country today and Wilco has created a near-perfect ode for an America growing a little too old for elitist posturing.Free Music Review: THIS MACHINE KILLS PURISTS!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you want a rehash of everything exploited and beaten to and beyond death in the dearth of the all-too-precious alt.country "movement", go buy Jay Farrar's latest ode to monotony and derivative songwriting. Jeff Tweedy and Wilco have songs with depth, aural influences that vary without apology and the courage to disappoint those too busy posturing to open their ears to this marvelous album. Son Volt and the rest of the Bloodshot zombies are country in the same sense that Billy Joel considers himself rhythm and blues. Wilco is one of the few bands to emerge from the "genre" that writes songs that capture the current spirit of America rather than their deluded and idealized version of what that spirit once was. The "country" in "country music" is not the close-minded, purist place imagined in the minds of those who wear their "twang" on their shoulder, it is our country today and Wilco has created a near-perfect ode for an America growing a little too old for elitist posturing.Free Music Review: On new record, Wilco evolves into true pop.
Hit: 5 Stars
Wilco's third album "Summer Teeth" should come with a warning for fans wanting to hear the sounds of the so called alt-country scene Wilco helped to create. The album stays true to its influences, but moves ahead into a sound which defies its earlier recordings by forging a lush combination of classic Beach Boy's harmonies with synthesizers and hard rocking arrangements. Principal songwriter Jeff Tweedy no longer sings of "Casino Queens" but of the newfound family life he longs for while on the road. The songs "She's a Jar" and "Via Chicago" test the very limits of political correctness, as love songs and frustrated unconscious thoughts wrapped as one. "Always in Love" has the good time, rocking feel of a Creedence song mixed with the pop mentality of the Beatles . The song, like the others on the record, including two "hidden" tracks, leaves the alt-country movement screaming "traitors" and the pop rock community with a gem of an album.