Comments on: Wilco: Wilco (The Album) / Nonesuch http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/06/25/wilco-wilco-the-album-nonesuch/ New Jersey's Oldest Music Alt-Weekly Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:59:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Eric http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/06/25/wilco-wilco-the-album-nonesuch/#comment-290 Eric Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:50:34 +0000 http://www.theaquarian.com/aq/?p=11018#comment-290 I don't really feel like dismantling the entire review, but I would like to comment on one thing: Wilco naming an album Wilco (The Album) and opening with a song called "Wilco (The Song)" that contains the lyrics, "Wilco... Wilco... Wilco will love you," isn't something to try to overlook. It's something to note. It's an incredibly funny stab at self-referential meta-humor. It's rather brilliant. Were you looking for some way to take that seriously? There's a camel wearing a hat on the cover, for God's sake. I don’t really feel like dismantling the entire review, but I would like to comment on one thing:

Wilco naming an album Wilco (The Album) and opening with a song called “Wilco (The Song)” that contains the lyrics, “Wilco… Wilco… Wilco will love you,” isn’t something to try to overlook. It’s something to note. It’s an incredibly funny stab at self-referential meta-humor. It’s rather brilliant. Were you looking for some way to take that seriously? There’s a camel wearing a hat on the cover, for God’s sake.

]]> By: Peter Schwartz http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/06/25/wilco-wilco-the-album-nonesuch/#comment-292 Peter Schwartz Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:52:42 +0000 http://www.theaquarian.com/aq/?p=11018#comment-292 Times (UK): Four Stars for Wilco's New Album; "A Definitive Work" The Observer says it's "undeniably lovely." The Sunday Express gives it a perfect five stars calling it "an album of delicate, compact pop so perfect that the moment it ends you’ll want to play it again." The Times gives it four stars, calling it "a definitive work" for the band, with "several of the most emotionally generous songs of [Tweedy's] life." The Independent: Five Stars for the "Magnificent" New Wilco Album NPR states: "[T]he new Wilco record is all about a great band playing great original music on an album filled with great songs." The Independent gives a perfect five stars to the "magnificent" album, which finds Wilco "at the peak of its powers." BBC says the band's latest features "some of their most charming pop rock ensemble playing" and asks, "Best live band? How about plain old best band in the world right now?" The Evening Standard gives the album four stars, with its "carefully crafted, deceptively gentle songs, whose beauty reveals itself by stealth." Times (UK): Four Stars for Wilco’s New Album; “A Definitive Work”
The Observer says it’s “undeniably lovely.”
The Sunday Express gives it a perfect five stars calling it “an album of delicate, compact pop so perfect that the moment it ends you’ll want to play it again.”
The Times gives it four stars, calling it “a definitive work” for the band, with “several of the most emotionally generous songs of [Tweedy's] life.”
The Independent: Five Stars for the “Magnificent” New Wilco Album
NPR states: “[T]he new Wilco record is all about a great band playing great original music on an album filled with great songs.”
The Independent gives a perfect five stars to the “magnificent” album, which finds Wilco “at the peak of its powers.”
BBC says the band’s latest features “some of their most charming pop rock ensemble playing” and asks, “Best live band? How about plain old best band in the world right now?”
The Evening Standard gives the album four stars, with its “carefully crafted, deceptively gentle songs, whose beauty reveals itself by stealth.”

]]> By: Peter Schwartz http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/06/25/wilco-wilco-the-album-nonesuch/#comment-291 Peter Schwartz Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:52:03 +0000 http://www.theaquarian.com/aq/?p=11018#comment-291 Another "journalist" ripping apart a new Wilco album after a couple of listens. Within a year or so the very same albums are considered classics. Started with their first album 15 years ago and guys like you are still falling into the same old trap. Just mark my word. Another “journalist” ripping apart a new Wilco album after a couple of listens. Within a year or so the very same albums are considered classics. Started with their first album 15 years ago and guys like you are still falling into the same old trap. Just mark my word.

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