Wilco - Summerteeth (w/ guest Jim Laczkowski)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome back podcaster and musician Jim Laczkowski (nowplayingnetwork.net and gardenonatrampoline.com) to discuss Wilco's foray into lush indie pop, Summerteeth (1999, Reprise). Jim talks about checking out the band after reading a favorable review from critic Greg Kot. Then Bill, Brian, and Jim discuss Wilco's evolution within their career, Jay Bennett's influence on the sound of the band, how the album maybe hit at the wrong time - namely, a time when Creed was blowing up the charts, how Jeff Tweedy is 'da bomb,' typical mid-Western Chicago guys shaving their heads and wearing dresses (y'know, like Billy Corgan), a lot about what we think Schmilco should sound like, the obvious influence of Sesame Street, Ken Coomer's welcome contributions as a great drummer, some great-but-extraneous tracks at the end, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.6	1999's Summer Teeth by Wilco.
0:28.7	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:32.8	We try to have a conversation around the music that fans do.
0:38.4	And then we get to a track-by-track review in which we talk about the things we love and think about when listening to the album.
0:40.4	Ooh, I like that.
0:42.3	I like that.
0:43.2	We are not going to be doing this conversation alone, Brian.
0:46.1	No, no.
0:46.5	We've brought back fellow musician, fellow podcaster, Jim Laszkowski to the program.
0:54.7	And a favorite Chicagoian.
0:57.7	Yeah, he actually Skyped in with us,
0:59.6	but you might notice that sound quality is pretty decent
1:02.5	because he's going to send us his file
1:04.2	because he's a podcaster himself.
1:06.5	So he knows his way around the...
1:08.5	Way around the old mixing desk.
1:10.1	Yeah, yeah.
1:10.8	So he's going to sound nice and good when he joins us in a few minutes.
1:15.3	He's part of the Now Playing Network, and he also is in a band that you're going to hear him
1:20.4	talk about.
1:21.3	It is called Garden on a trampoline, which you can abbreviate into the word goat.
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