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Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

MyMorningPearlsMyMorningPearls Posts: 73
edited November 2008 in Other Music
i've been a wilco fan for a while now. got this album shortly after it's release. since then it's been one of, if not my least favorite wilco album. i'm glad i didn't give up on it. within the past two days it's become far and away my favorite from them. might even crack my top 20 of all time whatever that is. maybe i'm just giddy cause i finally just "got it" and i'm overreacting with my statements. but wow! brilliant. who else agrees? it is truely a work of art.
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  • walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,613
    MyMorningPearls wrote:
    i've been a wilco fan for a while now. got this album shortly after it's release. since then it's been one of, if not my least favorite wilco album. i'm glad i didn't give up on it. within the past two days it's become far and away my favorite from them. might even crack my top 20 of all time whatever that is. maybe i'm just giddy cause i finally just "got it" and i'm overreacting with my statements. but wow! brilliant. who else agrees? it is truely a work of art.

    Love it, for so many reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that Nels Cline is THE MAN on this record.

    My favorites are "Sky Blue Sky," "Impossible Germany," and "On and On and On," but what the hell, they're all good.

    The only song I don't love is "Hate it Here"...mostly because I'm not a big fan of the lyrics on that one.
    Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ

    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
  • r1versr1vers Posts: 244
    yes yes yes to the last post

    everyone always cites hate it here as their favorite or at least one of them, but it doesn't do much for me. on and on and on & impossible germany & walken & side with the seeds are all great.
    "Last time I think we played that song here was like, a long time ago, and there was a bonfire in the back and people were like throwing each other into it...very exciting days but a huge fucking relief that that's not how it is tonight..." Ed Irvine Night 1 2003, after Deep
  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Not really a huge Wilco fan but I do like this song quite a bit. Favorites are Either Way, Impossible Germany, and On and On and On.

    Oh and You Are My Face is sweet.
    Happiness is only real when shared
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    great songs, brilliant album.
  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    You Are My Face and Impossible Germany are two of the best songs they've written. I'm most impressed with the way the Sky Blue Sky songs translate live. To me, it's a lot like Pearl Jam's self titled in that sense.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Great album, hasn't gotten tired for me yet. Impossible Germany, as others have said, is a standout track. I've always thought Walken was one that the Jerry Garcia band could have played, it's got a great solo Jerry vibe to it.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • ZosoZoso Posts: 6,425
    I've become a big wilco fan lately and have to say I didn't love this album when it came out but grew on me I i like it now.. fav track have to say is either way and side with the seeds but I would still pick yankee and ghost is born over sky blue sky.
    I'm just flying around the other side of the world to say I love you

    Sha la la la i'm in love with a jersey girl

    I love you forever and forever :)

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  • oktacomaoktacoma Posts: 335
    It's good enough for now...
  • oktacomaoktacoma Posts: 335
    Zoso wrote:
    I've become a big wilco fan lately and have to say I didn't love this album when it came out but grew on me I i like it now.. fav track have to say is either way and side with the seeds but I would still pick yankee and ghost is born over sky blue sky.
    Great album...but yes, I still think YHF is one of the best albums ever made...by anyone.
  • Strangest TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    MyMorningPearls wrote:
    i've been a wilco fan for a while now. got this album shortly after it's release. since then it's been one of, if not my least favorite wilco album. i'm glad i didn't give up on it. within the past two days it's become far and away my favorite from them. might even crack my top 20 of all time whatever that is. maybe i'm just giddy cause i finally just "got it" and i'm overreacting with my statements. but wow! brilliant. who else agrees? it is truely a work of art.

    Yes, Yes me too!!! I've been listening to this album lately and wondered why I wrote it off earlier. I finally gave in and bought the vinyl and man, that's made all the difference. Sky Blue Sky is now amongst my fav Wilco albums probably just a little behind Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

    YHF could be one of my all time favorites
    the Minions
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,498
    Great record, which I like much more than Ghost

    Side with the seeds, on an on, and either way are my favs

    Shake it off is my dog on that record

    great live band and they should not be missed
  • alpittalpitt Posts: 91
    Hate it Here is great and I will defend it to my grave. Though I really enjoy some of the quieter songs on SBS, like Please Be Patient With Me which is just...awesome.
    "I'm an ideas man Michael, I think I proved that with F*ck Mountain" -GOB
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    You are My Face
    Side With Seeds
    Impossible Germany

    I love how so many of the songs just kind of ease you into the song and then jam towards the end.

    It is the ultimate sunday album. i just put it on and ease into my day. Great album but still not my fav by them though.
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