Music CD - Wilco: Summerteeth

	Music CD: Summerteeth Artist: Wilco List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $7.81 Your Save: $ 4.17 ( 35% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Can't Stand it 2. She's A Jar 3. A Shot In The Arm 4. We're Just Friends 5. I'm Always In Love 6. Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Agian) 7. Pieholden Suite 8. How To Fight Loneliness 9. Via Chicago 10. ELT 11. My Darling 12. When You Wake Up Feeling Old 13. Summer Teeth 14. In A Future Age 15. Bonus Track 16. Bonus Track 17. Bonus Track
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093624728221 Label: Reprise / Wea Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: 1999 Publisher: Reprise / Wea Release Date: 1999-03-09 Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent album from an excellent band. Comment: Rarely do you own an album where you like every track. Maybe those days are gone. But this album certainly fits that description for me. This is an amazing album. Customer Rating: Summary: Where's Wilco? Comment: There were maybe 2 or 3 tracks on this CD that were even close to "good". The remainder was like Herman's Hermits meets the Beatles meets Moody Blues and ran the gambit from bubble-gum to downright sappy. A true multi-layered, overproduced effort with none of the small studio-jam feel of, say, "AM" or "Being There". Bring Back Wilco! Customer Rating: Summary: It's a bit... Meh. Comment: In my opinion Summerteeth is overrated. In it, Wilco's music has changed from something unique and beautiful into average pop music. I prefer Yankee Hotel Foxtrot far better than this. Many of the songs are the type that have a melody which is hardly memorable. Also, the sound quality isn't that good. While it is better than other popular albums, it sounds too trebly and the levels are a bit too high. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot beats this in every single way in my opinion. Customer Rating: Summary: 4.5 Stars: My Favorite Wilco Album Comment: It might not be Wilco's best album (many would argue Yankee Hotel is), but Summer Teeth is my favorite by the band. As far as the musical arrangements go, it's their most keyboard-heavy release. It has piano, organ, harpsichord, and Magical Mystery Tour-like synthesizers. It also has banjo, strings, horns, harmonica, and bells. No whistles, though. Unlike the band's last two albums, "A Ghost is Born" and "Sky Blue Sky," it has no extended guitar solos. And throughout, there's very little dissonance. Here, Wilco is more influences by the Beatles and solo Lennon material than--as they would be on Yankee Hotel--Radiohead. The songwriting is among the band's best. Highlight's include "She's a Jar" "Shot in the Arm" (containing the great line, "The ashtray says, you've been up all night") and "Via Chicago." Wilco strikes an interesting balance here between warm musical arrangements and sometimes disturbing lyrics such as "She begs me not to hit her" ("She's a Jar") and "Dreamed about killing you again last night and it felt alright to me." ("Via Chicago"). A well-paced album that stands up to repeat listening. Customer Rating: Summary: Ridiculously Overrated Comment: I got this when it was originally released and just listened to it again recently. It isn't particularly good or bad - and certainly not in the league of "Being There". This was the point just as Tweedy was gaining the reputation that even his flatulence was regarded as "genius". More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Wilco's de facto frontman, Jeff Tweedy, sports a colorful past, one where he wrote paint-peelers dedicated to late Minutemen founder D. Boon as a member of the feted (and maybe fated) Uncle Tupelo and where he dolefully crooned Woody Guthrie lyrics on 1998's Mermaid Avenue. But Wilco's Summer Teeth shows hardly a tatter of Tweedy's herky-jerky postpunk intensity or the agrarian rootsiness that so often came in the past from him. Instead this layered album spreads its digits far into guitar-heavy Britpop, with full-group backing vocals carrying bouncy choruses and synths whistling over the melodies. The tunes sound like a crosshatch of orchestral plans and an execution drawing on Alex Chilton and Big Star, the Kinks, and, only distantly, Wilco's debut, A.M. "We're Just Friends" and "Via Chicago" stand as harmonized twists on ballad formulas, the latter recalling Mermaid Avenue's "California Stars" with the opening line, "I dreamed about killing you again last night / And it felt all right to me." So it's not always uplifting or cheery, but it's got dozens of surprises in a mere 15 songs. --Andrew Bartlett