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Wilco - Being There

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Being There      Artist : Wilco      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $14.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1996-10-29      Studio : Reprise / Wea      Label : Reprise / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (90 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Being There      Something 4 Everyone      Rating:       I cant recomend this album enough, Its all very good. This was my first WILCO album and should be yours too if you dont have any yet. The first disk is the better one, no wait the 2nd is better oh i cant decide better go listen again. Jeff Tweedy is the most talented guy around today.     Customer Reviews for Being There Cd      Being There Lives up to its Reputation      Rating:      Being There by Wilco has been rightly praised by critics and fans alike since its release, but unlike many critically acclaimed albums, this one actually lives up to the hype and reputation. Well, "hype" may not be the right term, as Wilco still hasn't really broken wide into the mainstream of music, and may never do so. However, Being There is one of my favorite albums, because it is so listenable, so accessible, and mostly, the songs are just so darn good. They have plenty of songs on the edge of what some may call country music, but Wilco are able to take the best parts of the country sound while leaving the dregs behind. Great, sprawling album, fun to listen to, musically all over the place - easily 5 of 5 stars. Editorial Reviews for Being There Audio Cd      Amazon.com essential recording      Wilco's follow-up to A.M. impresses first with its size: 19 tunes fill the double-CD package, and the packaging unfolds like a larger-than-life 1970s-era gatefold album cover. But the love affair with the artwork is short-lived, fading as the music takes center stage, making plain the band's overwhelming stretch into innumerable styles. Jeff Tweedy's love of pop and the mechanics of making pop albums is clear almost immediately, as he and his cohort utilize the studio to create and manipulate undertows and snaky recorded elements throughout many of their tunes (a keyboard touch, a guitar's flair, a cymbal's unexpected crash). There are the plainspoken acoustic numbers, recalling Tweedy's tenure in Uncle Tupelo, and there are also unwinding swoops of tinted, guitar-heavy rock--one of which collapses into chromatic jabs at a piano only to resolve in silence on "Sunken Treasure." Oodles of influences fill Wilco's collective mind, and they're perfectly content to pile the trace elements atop each other and make scrambled pop perfection. --Andrew Bartlett