Wilco-Summerteeth (1999)


 

Artist: Wilco

Title: Summerteeth

Label: Reprise

Format: CD

Cat #:9 47282-2

Year of Release: 1999

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999

Listed Condition VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 5/25/24

Sell Price:$2.95

Discogs Last Sold:5/24/24 NM/NM $5.43

Low: $0.77

Median: $3.00

Average: $3.24

High: $7.67

Current low price: $0.95

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 64

Have/Want:1727/94

Where Sold: Clarks Hill, SC

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought: sometime in 1999 used can't remember if store or internet

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Wilco has been an established mainstay featuring Jeff Tweedy for so long I forgot that the period I bought in real time essentially had featured Jay Bennett as well as Tweedy before Jim O'Rourke replaced him a "celebrity" partner in the band.  Bennett was summarily dismissed after Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and the I'm Trying To Break Your Heart film helped make Wilco bigger than they were.  I started to ignore them around that point although I've seen them here and there once opening for Dylan in Hoboken outside and a couple years ago for free at United Palace uptown.  The summer after Summerteeth was released, I saw them with Bennett at the Roskilde festival in Denmark.  There is some footage up in Germany the week after that.

Summerteeth the album I'm certain I played once and filed away, which is pretty much what I did with every Wilco album I ever bought.  The only song that totally stood out for me was "A Shot In The Arm" which is repeated at the end of the CD in an alternate version.  Somehow this and the Beach Boys-style "Candyfloss" are considered bonus tracks with a 22 second space to separate them from the rest of the album. Shot is the song they play live the most from the album so maybe that's how I know it.  Most of the rest of the album gets live treatment so track for track it is pretty strong.  I guess the opener "Can't Stand It" had an air of familiarity to it as well before I got to the second and third listens for this writeup.

As far as the standout tracks on repeat listens, "Via Chicago" with it's dour balladry is probably my favorite.  He's coming home Via Chicago.   "I'm Always In Love" has a Beach Boys meet Fountains of Wayne (ugh) sound that works for the song.  "Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)" coming right after that does the same sort of thing with organ instead of the annoying keyboard sound popular in the late '90's.  "Pieholden Suite" sounds like a nick of Beach Boys "Surfer Girl."  "ELT" has "Every Little Thing" as it's chorus repeated ad infinitum.  The title track has a space between the words Summer and Teeth as well as bird sound effects.

It's just a dream he keeps having


FOR FURTHER REVIEW

A Ghost Is Born (2004)

A.M. (1995)


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