Wilco's New Song: The Five Kinds Of Reviews For 'I Might'

Wilco's New Song: The Five Kinds Of Reviews For "I Might"

By Dan Moore Mon., Jun. 27 2011 at 10:04 AM

There's a new Wilco song out, and every music-blogger in America who discovered indie music via Yankee Hotel Foxtrot about ten years ago has already prepared to react. I have done my best to save you a little time by writing every possible review of this track, "I Might," you might encounter on the internet.

Before that: Listen to it! It's really good, like most of the songs Wilco has released since people began arguing about them in the form of internet capsule reviews!

1. DisappointedA Ghost Is Born fan with Dad-Rock issues. Hey Dad! How do you like Wilco's latest, "I Might," a piece of Dad Rock so Dad Rock-y that Jeff Tweedy's primary influence appears to have been that scene in I Love Lucy where Ricky Ricardo realizes he's become a dad while he's wearing makeup as racially insensitive in 2011 as my dad can sometimes be!? Wilco's latest is like if your dad had an acoustic guitar and he whispered things about being a dad into your ear instead of running out on my mom first chance he got after her deeply introspective avant-garde rock album failed to consolidate the commercial gains she made after 2001's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot! If you listen to it a mustache will grow on your face spontaneously and tickle my goddam ear like some kind of creep!

2. Disappointed A.M. fan with Son Volt issues. "I Might" is a delightful old-time tune and perhaps Wilco's best since Jeff Tweedy hailed me one evening at a Belleville juke joint round one in the morning. "Hoss," he said, "Come here, as I reckon I have something for you."

I should have known then what something was amiss, but I went up to old Jeff and it was then what he stabbed me right in the front with a hot knife and left me to rot on the hard ground. Last thing I saw as I's bleeding out was Jay Bennett, diddling some upper-middle-class melodies on a rainbow-colored keytar. Next week, why, I reckon Summerteeth came out and everything was different.

3. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart pre-orderer with Comeback Album issues in 2011. Well we all know that Wilco (the Album) wasn't Wilco's best album, but "I Might" looks like the band's best work ever! Even better than "Jesus, Etc.," which I can send you, if you haven't heard it before. I have it on my computer, back in Marina City.

3a. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart pre-orderer with Comeback Album issues in 2009. Well we all know that Sky Blue Sky wasn't Wilco's best album, but "You Never Know" and "Wilco (the Song)" look like the band's best work ever! Even better than "Heavy Metal Drummer," which is the song that inspired me to become a heavy metal drummer and then develop a deep and real nostalgia about that time in my life!

3b. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart pre-orderer with Comeback Album issues in 2004. No, guys, I totally love "Spiders (Kidsmoke)," it's just I don't know if I like ten minute robot-jamz as much as I do "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart," which is the song that inspired me to try to break your heart.

4. Wilco fan with Summerteeth issues. Look, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is good, I totally agree, it's just not as good as Summerteeth, which I knew about way before everyone else in my dorm even had Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

5. 18-year-old who wasn't in college when Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out and doesn't quite get why all his older co-bloggers are freaking out about it, with mp3 blog issues. Latest from old people who don't know how great v-neck t-shirts are. There's a guitar in it but I don't know.

Tags:

dad rock, I might, wilco, yankee hotel foxtrot

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Sunnydaymassacre

Just listened to the stream on their site. It's a great album. I've been a longtime fan(since '96). I was disappointed with (The Album). It just felt tired. I think Tweedy and company did it right this time. 'Standing O' is the only one that didn't jump out at me. 'One Sunday Morning' is perfect, as is 'Art of Almost'. Perfect mix of experimentation and country sparseness. Looking forward to hearing these songs played live in December at the Chicago Civic Opera House.

Adam Stevenson

Love the song. Also love the two other ones I've heard from the album, especially, "Born Alone". This is an HYSTERICAL post, btw - for longtime Wilco fans like myself and a couple of my friends - and spells out exactly why the band can be frustrating for some (hint: they tend to change and grow instead of writing the same record every year. Hint: that's a good thing). But for people who AREN'T longtime Wilco fans, it won't make much sense. I, and my two friends who've read it appreciate it very much, and we laughed heartily. Thanks. lol

Philip Klineburger

i'm going to make a comment here and join the ranks of idiots

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Fred

Ya know what I'm bored with?I know you don't care, but I'm gonna tell you anyway...I'm bored with people who listen to a song that isn't exactly what they like and then slam it as boring. If it's so boring, why are YOU the one still talking about them? Better yet, why not tell us what you think ISN"T boring?That would be a little bit more positive, although not as positive as making some non-boring music yourself. Fat chance.

EdCreampuff

I love how positive YOUR post is. I don't know why I'm even dignifying it with response, but here's a few bands that have been 'non-boring' lately: Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Kurt Vile and My Morning Jacket.

Adam Stevenson

According to YOU those bands have been 'non-boring lately'? Yes. According to others? No. I know plenty of people who find Fleet Foxes unbearably tedious and find that every song sounds exactly the same; and that My Morning Jacket has completely fallen into jam-band tedium. I know others who disagree. I think the reason many people here are having a problem with the way you're presenting your opinion is that you're presenting it in a rather insulting way - and presenting your opinion as if it's objective fact. And then when people react to you negatively because of that, you attack them for reacting negatively. See how this works? It's a cycle. Try to sound a bit more like you're offering your opinion rather than insulting people who listen to things you don't personally like, and you might get a more positive reaction from others - but then, from the sound of your responses, it sounds as if you don't really care that much. That's fine. By the way, see my response to the 'dick' thing up there; I wasn't intending on calling you a 'dick' personally, just people who insult others who don't like what they do.

Drop Dead Fred(1991)

I'll take 'Passive aggressive Wilco superfan disappointed that not everyone likes his favorite band' for $100 please. you know what's boring? People who claim to want to hear a dissenting opinion. And don't go asking what we think isn't boring--the list is long, tiring, and doesn't have 'Wilco' or 'Jeff Tweedy's nutsac' anywhere on it, so I don't think you'd be into it.

EdCreampuff

Thanks for that, Fred. I didn't mean to ruffle feathers and get college-kid-style-open-mindedness lecture. Yikes, I feel like I'm back in my old dorm room. Thanks for the lesson, professor, my world view was so myopic but I can see clearly now. So basically you're shocked that I'm shocked that anyone listens to these guys anymore. Makes so much sense. I think I'm entitled to an opinion without being berated for disagreeing with the majority.

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EdCreampuff

Hmmm... I think it's just plain boring and I'm shocked that anyone is still talking about these guys.

Adam Stevenson

Hi. With respect, man, you should never be "shocked" when people are talking about things that you personally don't like. You see, there are a great many people in the world - billions, in fact - and we all tend to have differing opinions. You'll find, I'm assuming, one day, that not much in this world is objective, and that not much beyond the two feet in front of you has much to do with you at all; and one day you'll learn, through experience, that that's a comforting (rather than alienating) thought. Wilco sells out every single show they play. Every one. I'm sure there are bands that you like that I would hate, or think are "boring"; the difference - and this has a lot to do with growing up - is that you try not to be a dick about differing with someone's opinion about music they like. Fair enough? Cool.

EdCreampuff

You claim to reply with respect and then call me a dick later in the post. Nicely done. So maybe you shouldn't be a dick about calling me out for being a dick about differing with someone's opinion? Sense the theme? And, by the way, I didn't say that I found it boring and therefore everyone else should. I also didn't say that no one should talk about Wilco. I simply said I found the song boring and was shocked that there's still talk about these guys. Sorry that was so offensive, I guess I've got a lot of growing up to do.

Adam Stevenson

Apologies if I was misunderstood, man - I was intending to imply the royal "you", not 'you', as in yourself. I meant to imply "you" as 'people' shouldn't be a 'dicks' when they don't like something and others do.