November 20, 2005 | Posted by David B. at 2:53 PM

Thank you all for nothing at all

wilcoThere's been a lot of positive press about the new Wilco live album Kicking Television: Live In Chicago. The sort of reasoning in these reviews has to do with how A Ghost Is Born lacked the intimacy of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and how the live versions of its songs give them much-needed energy and warmth. These songs, actually, sound a little redundant.
What sound better on Kicking Television are their earlier songs, especially the ones from Being There and Summer Teeth that sound great with a live band.

Wilco - Misunderstood.

Though it annoyed me on first listen, I love the broken record ending.
I saw Jeff Tweedy play solo a few weeks ago, and it was great. What was obvious from the show was how much he loved the songs, and how good the songs are. The best thing about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the songs themselves, with the amazing production acting as really effective window dressing.

Though Wilco sheds the window dressing on Kicking Television, the songs remain, and the audience rightly eats it up.

Of course, you can buy Kicking Television all over the goddamn place, but you can always start with the band's website.

Comments

I just wanted to say thank you for sharing all this music. You've got a really great site here and it's a high point of my day to check in and see what's new-- so thanks!

I really like Wilco, and another one of my favorites was from a few weeks back: Ca Plane Pour Moi; I'm learning French so it's fun to pick out the words I recognize in such a fun, peppy song.

Posted by: janna at November 20, 2005 4:40 PM

love the band but am not to keen on the audience "sing-along" at the end of misunderstood.

Posted by: satisfied '75 at November 20, 2005 7:48 PM

I was listening to this CD set and I kept thinking, "man, that's some incredible and subtle guitar work in there", so I looked at the packaging and --- NELS CLINE! He's one of those incredible, prolific free/jazz players whose work with Mike Watt and his own Trio are reward enough -- but to have him playing with Wilco, it's just magic. There's too much warmth here for your average robot, but humans can dig it.

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