Being There

4/10 - Just kind of fell flat for me. It never made me bob my head, move, rewind, or anything. It just was there and it ended and that was it.

Wilco is one of those bands I feel like I *should* be into but just never quite manage to fully vibe with for some reason, and at an hour and seventeen minutes this was a bit of a slog. That said. Bonus points for the CTA mention

Another album that could use a 2.5 rating. It grew on me, but I'm not sure it quite warrants a 3.

As with any double album, one must always ask if it warrants such an extensive length. To Wilco's credit, this album never felt like it dragged, but it also lacked cohesion and definitely felt like they simply couldn't figure out which direction to take, and so just threw all of them on here.

I just think I have little appetite for country rock. At least, the way Wilco does it. It all feels like it’s been done before. Blues, but more annoying (and I’m not a massive fan of blues). It sounds competently made, but it’s too long and too uninteresting. The last track in particular made me angry with its overindulgence. The Rod Stewart impersonator singing lead coughs when things wind down, and you think it’s over, and then somehow they do another few verses. And then it ends. And then, it keeps fucking going with the band just dicking around. Ugh.

Ugh.

Wilco have always been on the periphery of my indie rock radar. When I hear a track by themon a playlist I like what hear, but haven't listened to a full album before. I enjoyed it, and it got 2 playthroughs while I was doing other things, but now I can't remember which tracks were best. And that probably sums up Wilco for me. 3 stars.

I didn't know them at all. Ifound this pretty bland, and a long album to boot. My attention was wandering whilst listening. I checked to see how far I was through it, and was surprised I was only on track 4. It wasn't horrible, but it certainly wasn't memorable Rounded down to a 2.

No fav song

This is another album that could have benefited from being 30-minutes or so shorter. “Misunderstood,” and, “Kingpin,” (among a few others) were great tracks. But the fillers were so humdrum that I had to refer back to the playlist a bunch of times to remember what I liked.

Another day, another double LP that could've easily been 20-30 minutes shorter. But there are plenty of highlights here that I really enjoyed; if they'd cut it down and taken away the likes of 'Monday', 'Outtasite (Outta Mind)' or 'I Got You (At The End Of The Century)', I'd never have known what I was missing. It's all a little more alt-country than my usual taste would prefer and much like I discovered on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Jeff Tweedy and his gang have a tendency to draw songs out with long intros, repeated refrains and experimental codas. I don't mind it, but it does give the feeling of unnecessary bloat at times. At some point (most likely when I'm no longer trying to complete this challenge), I'll have a go through the full Wilco discography. I already know it will demand a little patience but I'm also sure I'll quite enjoy it.

I wasn’t bad. Definitely a little too long to listen in one sitting. The pacing of the album could have been better. All of the slow songs were near the end of the album but they should have been dispersed throughout the whole piece. I did put this in my library.

Jamais écouté avant. Si Being There n'est clairement pas la claque qu'a été Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, c'est une nouvelle super découverte pour moi signée Wilco. Certes, musicalement, il n'invente rien, et assume même ouvertement son côté rétro, mais bon signe, malgré sa longueur, il ne semble jamais tourner en rond, se répéter ou tourner au pastiche un peu vain. Grâce aux compositions impeccables de Jeff Tweedy, et sa capacité à explorer toutes les potentialités de son country rock alternatif, chaque morceau est une nouvelle découverte, pas toujours incroyable, mais jamais pathétique non plus. Respect, sur un double album, c'est pas si facile... Top : Outtasite (Outta Mind) Flop : Kingpin

i've been giving out so many low scores lately... but seriously... when this album started i wanted to give it a 3. it was just some chill, alt-country kinda stuff, not really my thing but i could probably just leave it on and not mind it at all. but... then it kept going. and going. and going. and by the end of the album i was sick of it. way too long. so unfortunately i have to drop it down to a 2. and the lyrics to "Somebody Else's Song" just reminded me why I would rather be listening to anything else... "I keep on singin' Your eyes, they just roll It sounds like someone else's song From a long time ago". p.s: i listened to their other album Sky Blue Sky and i liked that one a lot more than this one. so i don't think i necessarily dislike Wilco, but this album didn't do anything for me.

Try as I have over the years, Jeff Tweedy (solo, with Wilco or with Jay Farrar in Uncle Tupelo) does nothing for me. Some decent songs. But on balance, it sounds derivative and unoriginal. Not a "must hear" record.

I’d give this 3.5 if I could. A solid alt album, but nothing here blew me away.

Tenía poca expectativa pero no estuvo mal. Por momentos me hizo acordar a Paul/Wings. Un poco largo el disco para mi gusto.

I did not like the opening of the album and so far on the first track I really don't vibe with the vocal tone 🙃 I really like the direction of the songs and the dynamic variations but I hate the tones, not just the vocal tone but the guitar tone and the cymbal sound and ugh this is painful The more acoustic/traditional country sounding songs I am much more a fan of. Still not the biggest fan of the vocals but I think it's a Rhodes doing a lead line over an acoustic guitar with a harmonica and it's gorgeous The vocals are just too processed for my taste I wish I heard more of the raw voice rather than the effects on the vocals Man the tones are all over the place, some I really like and others I cannot stand, each song almost feels like it's the same artist but from a different album Are there elements of the doors in here? There's so many fun ideas but I feel like they are all jumbled and not coherent. It's as if there's a phenomenal album hidden in the marble here but they didn't finish all the finer details when carving away, it was album shaped enough and they left it. There is more consistency as the album goes on the 2nd half feels a lot stronger to me. But it's still a little all over the place, just like these notes and my thoughts on it. There's such Lovley moments and fun (sometimes cliche) ideas but then there are moments I just can't stand, or the cool moment is intercut with a melody or vocal that clashes. The vocals is so lovely when it's raw, it's want and inviting and the slightly off notes make it feel more real, gah! Why wasn't the vocal treated like this across the album?

I quite enjoyed the opener Misunderstood and thought we were headed for great things but a couple of decent moments aside, I found the rest of it quite run of the mill and overall, just way too long! There was a late reprieve with closer, Dreamer in my Dreams and honestly, just these 2 songs 6 minute pluse songs plus a couple of the others would have made for a very good EP, perhaps even a decent album, but as it is, it's not winning me over.

meh, noto cosas interesantes pero tendría q volver a escucharlo para definir si es algo que realmente me interesaría más o así está bien valorado, 6/10

Interesting stuff I enjoyed

not to be insufferable but this is genuinely so great

This is much better than Yankee Foxtrot. That alt-country label applies more to this album. There were a couple of great tracks. Sunken Treasure sounded great to start and got totally derailed after a couple of minutes. What's the world got in store was probably the best track. Someday Soon also a good one.

I don't know if there is going to be a Wilco album that I dislike, but this won't be my favorite. It doesn't need to be 19 songs but for the length it passed quickly. 7/10

Heilt ait album, litt seigt å komme gjennom fordi d va egt ein del kjedelige sanger

This one was new to me. Very nice album. Perfect for a walk in autumn. I like it a lot. (Listened to it on Apple Music)

Useless

I was truly got into Wilco's music, but I had a friend in high school who was quite possibly the biggest Wilco fan there was. Hearing this album stirs fond memories from 2010-11, of the two of us driving aimlessly around our liminal suburban town in his shitty 90-something Jeep, hotboxing and playing a litany of artists that would go on to shape my musical taste in the years to come - Childish Gambino, TOOL, Bag Raiders, and of course Wilco. Nostalgia aside, the music is a beautiful tapestry of the Americana genre, and provides a clear glimpse into what became known as "alt-country".

The more I hear from this band, the more I absolutely adore them. Hadn't heard this one before, but way glad I have now!

A bit on the short side for a double album but still long enough to feel like a bit of a slog. Some songs were pretty good, others I could take or leave.

why haven't I yet taken the time to listen to another Wilco album? loved the country bits

Jeff Tweedy may very well Elvis Costello with a twangy guitar. I never noticed it until I've heard a lot of Costello. I've always been a fan of Wilco I've only heard one of their Live albums & a few singles. Technically, I've heard them live. I just didn't see them with my peepers. I worked a music festival and my job was to guard a small foot bridge while Wilco was playing. I worked the night shift that night. I heard em just fine I just wasn't anywhere remotely close to the stage. A Random hippie gave me a handful of weed that night. This suffers from double album bloat. I don't mind it. It's just too much of it. Tweedy is a good songwriter who surrounds himself with great musicians. I feel like I should mention Uncle Tulepo, Tweedy's band before Wilco. It is an important alt country band. It's split created Wilco & Son Volt.

Chiqui tapiaaaaa

8 / 10

Meh. Too melancholy for me.

Chill musikk men ganske kjedelig. Fint om man vil sovne i bilen. Men, likevel en fin vibe, brå låter. 3 av 5.

Pretty solid album, about what I expected from Wilco after only hearing a handful of their songs before. Probably about a 3.5, not quite a 4 for me.

There are some good tracks but the record mostly falls flat... and don't get me started on its length 😵‍💫

Tänään tällainen musa ei lähde ollenkaan ansaitsemallaan tavalla, pistää nukuttamaan. Voi olla, että yksin järven rannalla kuulokkeista kuunneltuna olisi ihan toisenlainen tunnelma. Eli ihan fiilisalbumi ja hyvä sellainen. 3/5

Love Wilco. This is roughly my 10th favorite album of theirs (if you count Mermaid Ave 1 & 2), but it's still four stars for me. A lot of the songs on here have been honed to a sharp point over the years and become linchpins of their lives shows, so going back and listening the original recordings can be underwhelming. I still don't like What's the World Got in Store, which sounds like a 9th grader wrote it, and my favorite song here is the simple and beautiful Someone Else's Song.

We liked this one. Will listen again. Not as well known as Hotel Yankee Foxtrot, but still good. Perhaps slightly too long.

Wow wow WOW how could I have slept on this, it's nothing but great from the first second to the last. Superb songwriting and the voice is just impeccable for this emotional genre.

It was ok for a wilco record. I'm more a fan of Yankee hotel foxtrot

Not for me.

Not on Apple Music. Rating based on other album.

Damn close to giving this a 5. I think I'll be conservative, but there's really so much to love here. Always so impressive when you can basically bat 1.000 on a double album. Lots of different genres, all extremely strong, and all uniquely Wilco. At times it's simple, and there's not too much here that's truly unbelievable, but for what it is, it's so freaking good. Solid 9/10, liked it more than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Too short!

It’s fine, just a tad too long

not so bad

Not amazing, but a good listen.

great time, loved focusing on the drums w this album. great!

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Pleasant and easy to listen to, but nothing really grabbed me.

I’ve never really listened to Wilco so I do have to say…started off not so great. But then pulled me back in. It is a long album so it’s not one I can say I would listen again real soon but I’ll keep it in my rotation and a few songs stuck out more and did make it to my playlist. Some albums you can just listen to all three way through anytime but others, you have to be in that state of mind to “feel” and listen. This is one of those albums.

The definition of making it look easy. Neither simple nor straightforward, these songs still somehow fel like they've always been around. Jeff self-consciously sets his sparkly cowboy hat in the ring for contention among rock music's great double albums, and pulls it off. Songs about being in a country rock band, on the road, away from home, trying to hold on... somehow Wilco has always had an indie or alt halo, but they're heirs to all the stadium-packing country rockers of the seventies. Huge album, still very sweet and special, great band.

Never my favourite genre but Wilco do it better than most.

Glad Wilco came up during the first snaps of fall. it's a long and winding album, but a joy to listen to

2.5 - decent

Wilco is best when they are slow and brooding. Going full country is when I tune out. And Wilco is one of my faves.

Too country, too long. I’ve heard better from Wilco

Pretty darn solid

a really pleasant surprise. I enjoyed this a lot, except for the whistling, had to skip that, theres really no need to publicly record your filthy habit. It was a bit long and a bit too much banjo for an excellent listen but overall very good.

Had its moments. Too long to get much pleasure from unfortunately. Too much bland in with the good stuff. This could have easily been two separate releases. The second disc was the better of the two.

Good album! My physics teacher told me to listen to them one time and i get why!

Strangely enough I liked it!

Ass

I like this album - lots of fun and varied rock. Based on the reviews I expected this to feel long but it really flew by for me.

un album muy largo pero muy lindo y muy sentido, con canciones que pegan, otras que aburren y alguna que otra más divertidita. Es un set de canciones variadas, siento que sería un buen CD para tener en casa. 8/10

Best Wilco album?

Nice 90s alt rock with a lot of different stylistics.

Country-influenced rock? Makes me think of Don McLean or Bob Seger, but with less musical talent. Sort of like a band that might be playing at an art fair and you hear them and think, "Wow, they are much better than I expected." You sit down and listen for a while and all is good, but you never even think about looking for one of their albums...

What am I supposed to be getting out of this? Over an hour of Jeff Tweedys whinging, great - love it. I don't get the hype.

SO LONG. It's inoffensive for the most part, but bro let's fucking WRAP IT UP

Overall liked it. Some songs are a bit too im a white man and i have feelings for my taste but overall liked the mood

Ok dude. Why are we in the hunger games. What are we doing. What is this. Lots of distortion. Kinda emo as hell actually. It was going so well then it wasn't. Wow. Ok lets hear this then. Wait hold on I can rock with this. He's got me. I appreciate it. Okay now we're singing me a lullaby?? Thanks ig. A little unsettling maybe. Hotel in Arizona. There are many I'm sure. Hmm I don't like this. Why are we suddenly getting ballads? I don't particularly miss u unfortunately. This is just truly unremarkable. It has very little direction and cohesion, it's just songs and music slapped together into an album. Why, I don't know. Why do I have to listen to it, I know even less. I wanna be your kingpin living in pekin?? Really?? Holy shit I don't care. My god. Favourite: Far, Far Away Least favourite: Sunken Treasure

Good. Will play on accident while working.

Comfortably soothing '90s indie with less highs and more runtime than their other album from the future on this list, but it's still a promising start

I've gotta get into Wilco more. This was a really solid and emotional project from the band and featured a really nice rock focused sound that really pairs well with the subject matter as the styles shift between hard and soft rock respectively. Quite a nice listen for sure, excited to see what else they've got to offer.

Love the composition and blend of alt country!

I mean, it's certainly music. And I'm sure it is someone's taste, but its not mine. Which is odd the more I think about it, because I can hear plenty of similarities to artists I regularly listen to. I'm not sure why Wilco doesn't do it for me. Something to ponder, I guess. Final decision, its certainly not bad music, it just doesn't keep my attention in the slightest.

Absolutely floored to hear Someone Else's Song and recognize it from a song in Team Fortress 2 lmao

Westerny folky rock music, a couple gems and a decent number that ground on me a bit.

I made fun of them initially because they’re a millennial, $15 burger, IPA band on face value, but this album is pretty good. Great guitar work and I found myself jamming out. Feels ahead of its time though it defines the boom-clap-millennial music

Give me my sad boy country music any day. What’s good/bad about this particular album is it is an over an hour long. Plenty of time to ruminate on my mistakes: past, current, and future. Maybe not the most musically exploratory, but plenty of space to chew on some thoughts.

Praying for my brother Luke.

Crying in my cube with my cowboy hat on! Happy belated bday, Billy Boy--I blame you for this--you and your sad boy country music. I call myself a Wilco fan, but I'd never listened to this entirely. The sound of a band FINDING their sound. Cool how noisy it is--why did Wilco ever sell their distortion pedals? And imagine if YHF had more pedal steel like this!

Coole Gitarre und roughe production. Aber viel zu lang

Quite a long record with a couple of standout tracks. While many of the tracks sounded quite pleasant, I feel like there wasn't much distinction in them. Favourite Track(s): Misunderstood. Forget the Flowers, Why Would You Wanna Live Least Favourite Track(s): Someone Else's Song

A bit too long, not my fave Wilco but very Wilco

Need to listen to more Wilco do feel like I’m missing something

Sad indie rock: country edition. Honestly pretty great.

Shrug

Wilco certainly have a sound, a good sound, a sound that draws from punk, country, & Americana - in this sense, they're continuous w/ the legacy that The Replacements laid down - & they're a band I'm happy exist. Whate'er they lack in invention & fascination, they make up for w/ sincerity, w/ power & w/ pretty songwriting. 'What's the world got in store for you / What's the world got in store for you, now.' In the end, they're one of those bands you say are a 'good band,' & that's pretty much that. 76 mins of Wilco is much tho, & the length of a double album for a second release is asking a lot. It isn't that there's a bad song on this record, but the hour-long Summerteeth has better, more memorable tracks, e.g., 'Via Chicago.' Even so, it's 'good.'

Early Wilco is great, and they only get better.

Admittedly, Wilco has flown under my radar for a long time, but this was a pretty great listen. And super dynamic for a band that I'd previously thought made the same song over and over again. You'll get your typical sad country tunes here and there, like the opener 'Misunderstood', 'Say You Miss Me', or the pretty great and sad late-album, string-backed ballad 'The Lonely 1'. But there was a surprising amount of great explosive country-rockers here; 'Outtasite' (my favourite, and much better than the second disc version) and 'I Got You' were keepers. The second disc was nowhere near as great as the first, and the pretty one-note lyrics of this thing really start to show by then; their angst and sort of circular nature were maybe my least favourite aspects of the album. Regardless, though, it was consistently enjoyable, diverse, yet oddly cohesive, which is the highest accolade a double album can really get.

As alt indie country rock folk goes this must be up there as one of the better from that pile of music. Its just not really my thing. Not bad in any way just not that impactful for me. Like this is a long album. Almost 20 tracks. And out of the 20 I got 2 saves. 10% is kinda abysmal numbers wise. Thats my main issue. It kept me decently engaged over the course of 80 minutes. Just not fully engaged the whole time. I just plucked the few tracks out of a big pile and im happy with that. Kingpin has a very fun funk angle. The bass is grooving and the organ is perfect. Killer song. And the sad song the lonely 1 just hits me in soem kinda way. Its not the lyrics or anything like that. Just the vibes hit well. But thats it. And thats my biggest gripe. It has moments but not enough to push this to great territory. Just good

Wilco struggles to find a sound that is worth listening to, which is surprising given how much energy generally comes from country rock. Far to much of this album is boring/uninteresting and almost sleepy - this did not need to be a 2 CD album. There are moments where the fun energy comes through, but it's too fleeting to hold onto, especially when those moments are surrounded by a lot of wholly skippable material

Dette er ei plate som passar meg godt. Skeiv og rufsete nok til å aldri bli for fin, og samstundes med flust av fine låtar. Ein god lytt.

Wilcos nest eller tredje beste album i min bok. Etter suverene Summerteeth og kanskje Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Alle låtene her er bra, men det blir kanskje litt mye om man skal innta hele albumet i en omgang. Sånn sett er nok dette et album som gjør seg bedre på vinyl, hvor man får fler naturlige pauser. Uansett, dette er bra! 8/10

Held nok Yankee hotel foxtrot og Sky blue sky (og Summerteeth? Usikker, lenge sidan eg har høyrt) høgare, men denne er no heller ikkje så verst. Ein stad midt mellom køntrirocken som var og det meir ambisiøse som skulle koma. Og i ei kledeleg rufsete utgåve av line-up’en. Stiligast når dei vågar seg utpå litt (opningssporet og Sunken treasure til dømes) men forsåvidt også der Tweedy ikkje prøver på anna enn å skriva ein så flott song som mogleg (Far, far away og The lonely 1). 7/10