At 11:53 PM -0500 on 3/24/99, Bob Burns/Big In Iowa wrote:
Is anybody else as tired as I am of hearing about how Wilco never
settles into one specific style?
No, and I'm still even more open to wondering why they don't do any of
them well.
So what! If Wilco recorded a Polka
record it would
Bob,
Well, I said I wasn't going to break down Wilco's new record
piece by piece. Obviously you didn't feel the same way about my message.
Bob Burns
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Bob Soron wrote:
I swore Jeff Tweedy would never get another cent of my money. So far,
I've succeeded, no small feat in the town he lives in. (I didn't know
he was opening for Patti Smith, I swear. We only saw a song and a
half.) If his experimentation tickles you, you're ahead of the
At 2:46 AM -0500 on 3/25/99, Bob Burns/Big In Iowa wrote:
Bob,
Well, I said I wasn't going to break down Wilco's new record
piece by piece. Obviously you didn't feel the same way about my message.
Bob,
It was late and I couldn't sleep. But hey, y'gotta watch out with that
polka stuff.
At 12:00 PM -0600 on 3/25/99, William F. Silvers wrote:
Bob Soron wrote:
I swore Jeff Tweedy would never get another cent of my money. So far,
I've succeeded, no small feat in the town he lives in. (I didn't know
he was opening for Patti Smith, I swear. We only saw a song and a
half.) If
The thread,
to me, comes down to, how far can a band drift from its original sound
before it just starts to drive those original fans away? Wilco's a
great example and timely enough to be worth discussing. As I said in
that penultimate sentence quoted above, if some fans like the
Bob Soron wrote:
At 12:00 PM -0600 on 3/25/99, William F. Silvers wrote:
Bob Soron wrote:
I swore Jeff Tweedy would never get another cent of my money. So far,
I've succeeded, no small feat in the town he lives in. (I didn't know
he was opening for Patti Smith, I swear. We only saw
At 2:18 PM -0600 on 3/25/99, William F. Silvers wrote:
Bob Soron wrote:
Well, now, I don't want to turn this into Postcard, but I think this is
a useful distinction: I don't hate Tweedy, I hate his work.
Point taken. I was guilty of imprecision there.
A fine point it is, but like I say,
Lowell Kaufman wrote:
I like Wilco, particularly live. I like Summer Teeth a little, but I'm
not that enamored by it because while he's being more poppy, perhaps more
accessible to sell more records (Wilco may sell alot for an "alt-country"
band, but they don't sell that many records in
Lowell Kaufman wrote:
I like Wilco, particularly live. I like Summer Teeth a little, but I'm
not that enamored by it because while he's being more poppy, perhaps more
accessible to sell more records (Wilco may sell alot for an "alt-country"
band, but they don't sell that many records in
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