While Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born established Wilco's reputation as one of America's most interesting and imaginative rock bands, both albums were the product of a band in flux, and this was particularly evident to those who saw the group on-stage after the release of YHF. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot may have blazed new sonic trails for Wilco, but the departure of Jay Bennett in the latter stages of its production left the band with an audible hole when they played the new material on-stage, and while multi ...
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While Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born established Wilco's reputation as one of America's most interesting and imaginative rock bands, both albums were the product of a band in flux, and this was particularly evident to those who saw the group on-stage after the release of YHF. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot may have blazed new sonic trails for Wilco, but the departure of Jay Bennett in the latter stages of its production left the band with an audible hole when they played the new material on-stage, and while multi-instrumentalist Leroy Bach may have been a technically skilled player, he looked and sounded like a cold fish in concert, unwittingly emphasizing the cooler surfaces of Wilco's new music and negating much of the passion of Jeff Tweedy's songs. However, by the time Wilco hit the road following the release of A Ghost Is Born, the group's latest round of personnel shakeups had the unexpected but welcome effect of spawning one of the group's best lineups to date; after Bach amicably left Wilco, the addition of keyboard and guitar man Pat Sansone and especially visionary guitarist Nels Cline gave the band players whose energy and passion matched their technical skill, and suddenly the band was playing its challenging new material with the same sweaty force Tweedy and company conjured up in the band's earlier days. Thankfully, Tweedy had the good sense to document the prowess of Wilco's latest incarnation on-stage, and Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, recorded during four shows at the Windy City's Vic Theater, offers a welcome second perspective on the band's more recent work. With the exception of two numbers from Wilco's collaborative albums with Billy Bragg (in which they set Woody Guthrie's poems to music), Kicking Television focuses exclusively on their "post-alt-country" work, but while many of the songs featured here sounded cool and mannered in the studio, here they gain new muscle and force, not to mention a great deal of enthusiasm, and while tunes like "Ashes of American Flags" and "Handshake Drugs" are never going to be crowd-pleasers in the manner of "Casino Queen," the élan of this band in full flight shows that the fun has been put back in Wilco, albeit in a different and more angular form. Nels Cline's guitar is especially bracing in this context, and his marriage of melodic weight and joyous dissonance fits these songs while expanding on their strengths at the same time. And the title cut thankfully proves that Wilco still can (and still does) rock on out. Kicking Television is the best sort of live album -- a recording that doesn't merely retread a band's back catalog, but puts their songs in a new perspective, and in this case these performances reveal that one great band has actually been getting better. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Good/Very Good. Wear to cover edges, 2 disks like mint: TracklistPositionTitle/CreditsDuration1- By [Contains Lyrics By]-Peter LaughnerWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy6: 081-2Company In My BackWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy3: 431-3The Late GreatsWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy2: 421-4Hell Is ChromeWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy, Mikael Jorgensen4: 551-5Handshake DrugsWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy6: 241-6I Am Trying To Break Your HeartWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy6: 031-7Shot In The ArmWritten-By-Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt4: 511-8At Least That's What You SaidWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy5: 171-9Wishful ThinkingWritten-By-Glenn Kotche, Jeff Tweedy4: 261-10Jesus, Etc. Lyrics By-Jeff TweedyMusic By-Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy4: 001-11I'm The Man Who Loves YouLyrics By-Jeff TweedyMusic By-Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy3: 581-12Kicking TelevisionWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy3: 002-1Via ChicagoWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy5: 152-2HummingbirdWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy3: 192-3Muzzle Of BeesWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy4: 492-4One By OneLyrics By-Woody GuthrieMusic By-Jeff Tweedy3: 252-5Airline To HeavenLyrics By-Woody GuthrieMusic By-Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy4: 412-6Radio CureLyrics By-Jeff TweedyMusic By-Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy4: 412-7Ashes Of American FlagsLyrics By-Jeff TweedyMusic By-Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy6: 042-8Heavy Metal DrummerWritten-By-Jeff Tweedy3: 212-9Poor PlacesWritten-By-Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy5: 312-10Spiders (Kidsmoke)Written-By-Jeff Tweedy11: 172-11Comment (If All Men Are Truly Brothers)Written-By-Charles Wright, Yusef Rahman6: 12Companies, etc. This Listing Includes The True PHOTO of the book as a picture is worth 1, 000 words., Please email me if you need to see more pictures! orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.
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