Summerteeth
by Wilco

From Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/17/2013 04:55 | #65307 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I love this album. This was my first wilco record and I remember as a 14 year old St Louis music fan this album was a revelation! I was hooked! Yeah, just about every song is great! And the varied stylistic range of the tracks is super impressive. "How To Fight Loneliness" still gets me every time. The opener "Can't Stand It" while not a stand out track is a good energetic starter. "She's a Jar", "Via Chicago", "I'm Always In Love", "Shot In The Arm" and of course the Title track, and soooo much more on here are just downright masterful. It's hard to imagine how a band could too this... But they did with YHF, just barely.

From junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/26/2012 00:22 | #45360 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Wilco is really hitting their stride. They are producing thoughtful, creative, and deep messages blanketed by such lush and complex alt-country sounds. These guys are the Radiohead of alt-rock. Criminally underrated on BEA.

From buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/17/2016 19:31 | #173016 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I liked both A.M. and Being There back in the nineties, but it was Summerteeth that first led me to think that Wilco was something greater than a diminished, and warmed over, incarnation of the great Uncle Tupelo, the band that spawned them. Having replaced multi-instrumentalist Max Johnston with the organ fills and harmonies of the enormously talented Jay Bennett, the appropriately named Summerteeth finds Wilco in a sunnier mood, with an edge of danger that foretells the brilliantly experimental Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The strangely celebratory "ELT," following the menacing "Via Chicago," is the musical high point here, showcasing Jeff Tweedy's penchant for enigmatic yet oddly sincere sentiments.

From drivebytornado 03/02/2013 02:00 | #66598 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

The first Wilco album I bought was their third release, and was really the beginning of a period of transition for them. Their were certainly some signs of it on Being There, but this is when they changed from the definitive alternative country of their Uncle Tupelo roots, and started experimenting with new sounds, ala the Beatles in the Rubber Soul / Revolver era.

There's a long list of Wilco gems on this one, starting with "Can't Stand It" "She's a Jar" and "A shot in the arm" through "How to fight loneliness" and "Via Chicago."

From RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/15/2016 03:20 | #165990 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

With song ratings like these, something tells me there's a just a couple Wilco fans on the site.

Quality music, but I am not a Wilco fan. It just doesn't connect with me.

I guess I could have said greatest album ever and then get my comment marked as "helpful", but I like being honest :).