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[Thrillho]

I think I'm in the minority in that I think Sky Blue Sky is Wilco's finest album. It's understated and restrained a few moments aside, and there's not a single song on it that I don't like. I just think it's a beautiful piece of work. I realise a lot of people expected crazier stuff when Nels Cline was involved, but... oh well.

Anyway, Wilco are one of my favourite bands and this was a short gap for a new album by their standards so I was excited.

But I hate this album.

No matter how much I listen to it, it doesn't make an impression on me. I like 'One Wing,' and I think there's one or two others but I can't even NAME them because it leaves me completely cold.

Am I the only one who thinks this album's wank?

[Cernunnos]

Well, the first track is fun, and it just kinda slopes down from there. Why they bothered to have Feist sing on that mediocre song is inexplicable too. It's a definite improvement on Sky Blue Sky, though, which was saccharine, boring, complacent, and uneventful dad rock.

I can't understand how anyone who has heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or A Ghost is Born could think Sky Blue Sky is the kind of music Wilco should make.

[michaelicious]

Feist and mediocrity go together pretty well. Oooooh. Just jokes Feist don't get mad at me please.

[valley_parade]

Well, the first track is fun, and it just kinda slopes down from there. Why they bothered to have Feist sing on that mediocre song is inexplicable too. It's a definite improvement on Sky Blue Sky, though, which was saccharine, boring, complacent, and uneventful dad rock.

I can't understand how anyone who has heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or A Ghost is Born could think Sky Blue Sky is the kind of music Wilco should make.

I said it in another thread, and I'll say it again here: For the life of me, I do not enjoy A Ghost Is Born.

It still doesn't get better than Summerteeth, imo.

[Thrillho]

I can't understand how anyone who has heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or A Ghost is Born could think Sky Blue Sky is the kind of music Wilco should make.

How can anyone who's heard OK Computer think that Kid A is the kind of music Radiohead should make? They're just different kinds of albums made by a band with a great deal of versatility.

I'm a fan of country music and Sky Blue Sky was a pretty straightforward country album, with songs on it that I liked. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is too wrapped up in its own mythology and trash noise, quite apart from having a truly horrible closing track, while Ghost Is Born has a good sixteen minutes of its run time sucked up by 'Less Than You Think.' On Sky Blue Sky there's not a single song I want to skip when I listen to it. It's understated and lovely.

[Johnny C]

How can anyone who's heard OK Computer think that Kid A is the kind of music Radiohead should make? They're just different kinds of albums made by a band with a great deal of versatility.

except kid a is an incredible forward-thinking record and sky blue sky sounds like a post-reunion eagles record

[valley_parade]

I like that Sky Blue Sky reminds me of the Eagles.

[Jughead5267]

While I am a fan, and I atleast somewhat enjoy all of their albums, it is hard to beat Fat Jeff Tweedy from a few years back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHnEMdXN_FU