Wilco Band • Page 8

Not horrible, they have the top 5 right even if not in perfect order imo. Lot of bones to pick with the bottom half.

 

ran through the discog, feeling chaotic
1. Ghost is Born
2. YHF
3. Summerteeth
4. Star Wars
5. Sky Blue Sky
6. Being There
7. Wilco
8. Cruel Country
9. AM
10. Ode to Joy
11. Schmilco
12. The Whole Love

 

star wars that high is chaotic but i respect it

 

i love how short and loud the songs are, jeff was feeling extra skronky that year

 

A lot there I disagree w haha, but primarily being there out of the top 4 and whole love last feel crazy to me. My second favorite and the best of the post ghost records, respectively imo

 

whole love is propped up by two incredible tracks, a lot of their worst songs are also on it. schmilco was last for me for a while but it's more consistent. people keep mentioning the being there placement to me, as if 6th for one of my favorite bands ever with a dozen records is a bad thing lol

 

i would put whole love pretty close to last also

 

I’ve got a buddy who RIDES for schmilco. I always found the self titled kind of boring honestly and yeah whole love isn’t it

 

To each their own, I suppose. I don't think there's much bad on TWL at all (Open Mind and Standing O the only real duds for me) and it's a relative outlier in the second half of their discog for me in that a significant portion of it is legitimately memorable. 2 great songs and a lot of fluff would describe most of their 2010s output for me.

YHF
Being There
Summerteeth
A Ghost is Born
AM
The Whole Love
Cruel Country
Wilco the Album
Star Wars
Sky Blue Sky
Ode to Joy
Schmilco

I know I'm in the minority on SBS, but I will never understand its critical reevaluation. There's a handful of excellent moments, but I find it borderline unlistenable outside of 4 songs or so.

 

i listen to schmilco all the time, nice morning record

 

camel record has soooooo many great gems

 

It does, and it's probably pretty underrated as a whole. Feel like it got a lot of shit at the time for being the clear "wilco is now in the career band phase of their career" line in the sand, but that feels like a silly thing to knock it for in 2023.

 

YHF will always be their best. The production is impeccable.

 

also unlike most "legacy acts" they're oddly more prolific now than they've ever been, hardly resting on their laurels at all

 

the re-release of a ghost is born is great, loving the alternate takes up on streaming

hoping they add the fundamentals tracks eventually ugh

 

probably the worst pitchfork hot take, corrected. top 3 wilco record at absolute worst, maybe top 2

 

Handshake Drugs alone deserves a 10

 

top 1

 

to be fair and 6.6 in 2004 is basically a 10. 9.4 is just adjusting for Condé Nast inflation

 

They gave YHF a 10 I think only two years prior

 

YHF is my favorite record of all time but even I can’t REALLY argue with this take

 

AGIB is a rushmore record for me haha and YHF is still probably top 10-20