Wilco - Summerteeth
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Free Music Review: Majestic and downtrodden, low-key and spectacular
Hit: 5 Stars
An absolutely brilliant, perfect slice of pop music for the 1990s. This album possesses dense, complex, and beautiful production which sounds sometimes like quiet John Lennon, other times like sample-heavy hip-hop, and sometimes a strange stew in between - but yet never manages to blur the wonderful melodies contained in every song. Summer Teeth launches Wilco not just ahead of "competitors" like Son Volt but ahead of just about every other band on the planet.No, that's not hyperbole. Wilco has taken the commonly used device of happy-music-about-sad-stuff and upped the stakes - with exceedingly bright, Spectorian production recalling the Beach Boys and late-60s Beatles combined with exceedingly downbeat (yet multi-hued in its shades of gray) lyrics surpassing all but the best of the Smiths and the Cure. The result is an album which manages to suggest both silver linings in dark clouds and dark linings in silver clouds - often in the same song, lyric, or note.
Free Music Review: This is NOT Uncle Tupelo
Hit: 5 Stars
I was always kind of pissed off at Tweedy for going away from his Uncle Tupelo/Alt. Country roots. Especially when I first heard this album. But for a year, I would put it in and listen to it one time, and eventually it grew on me as a great album. I like just about every song on here. The overall tone seems to be about a relationship breakup. Did Tweedy and his wife break up? I hope not. Lots of great lyrics, especially in "A Shot in the Arm" ("Fell in love in the key of C" and "Ashtray says you were up all night"). I like the desperation in "How to Fight Loneliness", the perkiness of "Summer Teeth" and the song "Via Chicago". "ELT" (which stands for Every Little Thing) is my choice for best song to start out a mix CD. Overall, I think this is a great album, but I think you need to really be into all the influences from the Beach Boys, Beatles, and 60's and 70's radio rock to completely enjoy it.
Free Music Review: One of the best CD's I've heard in the last few years!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Every now and then you buy a CD and WHAM! you can't stop listening to it. Listen to this album all the way through then listen to it all the way through again. I believe it's a masterpiece. This is one of the best bands around right now. Yeah, "wall of sound" and all. I've late to discover Wilco, mainly through "Mermaid Avenue" (one of the best CD's from last year), then found "A.M." at a 1/2-priced store and fell in love with that CD. I just can't get enough of "SummerTeeth". Great melodies (with at first bizarre off-sounding insturmentation that actually falls in to place everytime) lyrics that make you ponder, a theme running through the whole thing (or is there?)..... I'll take Wilco as the sparse alt.country sound of "A.M." and the Beach Boys/Beatles/XTC influenced layered sound of "Summer Teeth". Keep on truckin'! See everybody at the concert in San Antonio with R.E.M.Free Music Review: A Stepping Stone
Hit: 5 Stars
Wilco has turned out yet another masterpiece with what has become an increasingly experimental weapon in it's musical arsenal: the Lennon/McCartney-like partnership of Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett. Though they split after the entire Yankee Hotel Foxtrot fiasco, both left their mark on this record.And why shouldn't they have? The fervor surrounding this record was enormous. Wilco had broken out of the gates with Being There, and then followed that with Mermaid Avenue, a project with Billy Bragg and Woody Guthrie.
People expecting a return of the "alt.country" legends were surprised to see a newer, sleaker form of Wilco emerge from the studio: Jay Bennett was making his mark with his mastery of production and sonic exploration. This album represents Wilco at a crossroads: "My Darlin'", written by Bennett and arranged by Tweedy represents what was happening: A full on partnership between to great musical minds.
Free Music Review: Another Great Recording
Hit: 5 Stars
The people who are complaining that this record sounds too much like ELO miss the point. ELO was, like Harry Nilsson (who is echoed on "Summerteeth")a band that wanted nothing more than to make the follow-up to "Sgt. Pepper." This is Wilco's Beatles album, which was inevitable. There hasn't been a decent band since 1969 that hasn't at some point tried to imitate John and Paul. Few have done it as well as Tweedy and Company. It's like student painters copying the Old Masters: sometimes, it's just a pendantic exercise; sometimes, it leads to Art. Wilco has fashioned a work of art. There is not a weak song on this record. The lyrics are uniformly strong, the musicianship is to Wilco's usual high standards. What more do you want?
This may not be "Being There," but "Behing There" is the record of the decade (either that, or Steve Earle's "El Corazon").