I'm a Wheel

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  Seven Songs for the Week #75 - 11th Sept 24

  Jason Carty

  I bought every Wilco album up until the sixth, Sky Blue Sky. After that I just fell off the Wilco wagon. It’s partially due to streaming - I realised I wasn’t listening to the Wilco albums that I owned, and more albums they put out, the more I thought when I can always listen to them on streaming, and then you just find yourself not listening to Wilco at all. I went back to this earlier this week. First of all, it suffers from CD bloat, the album is too long really. Two of the 12 tracks account for 25 minutes of the album's 67 minute running time. One of them, Spiders, is a good Krautrock work out, and worthy of its 10 minute time. The other, Less Than You Think, is 15 minutes long, the vast majority of which is an ambient noise designed to be (a rather accurate) recreation of a migraine headache. A worthy experiment, but not something designed for a repeated listening pleasure. Maybe if this album was coming out today, this track would be sidelined as a standalone streaming-only single in order to show their experimental bona fides. The majority of Wilco albums ever since have managed to hover about the 40 minute mark.

  Anyways, when I was listening to this song this week I realised it has the little guitar motif from Godley & Creme. And here we are.