Kicking Television: Live In Chicago (4-LP 180g Box Set)


Artist: Wilco

Label: Nonesuch

Price: $68.95

Year: 2011
Format: Vinyl - Audiophile

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Remastered for Vinyl by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Studios and Pressed on 180g LP at Germany's Best Pressing Plant

Vinyl Box Set Features 8 Exclusive Songs Not Included on Double CD Version - Includes Commemorative Poster and Gorgeous Booklet With Photos and Liner Notes

Recorded over the course of a four-night span from May 4-7, 2005 at the intimate Vic Theatre in the band's hometown of Chicago, Wilco's Kicking Television is one of the best live albums you will ever have the pleasure of experiencing. Coming after the release of A Ghost Is Born, the run of concerts display the sextet's peerless chemistry as well as the virtuosic talents of guitarist Nels Cline, who was yet to play on a Wilco studio album. This incredible document gives full credence to why Wilco is often referred to as the best rock band in America. You haven't heard Wilco until you've heard what they sound like live.

Drawing from early and mid-period records as well as featuring a handful of Woody Guthrie covers and rarities, Kicking Television functions as a blueprint of what it feels like to be at a life-altering Wilco concert. The band's seamless blend of rock, Americana, blues, folk, country, and artful noise resides at a musical epicenter that perfectly balances traditional and modern sounds. A bevy of instruments; mallets, brushes, treated guitars, exotic percussion devices; complement the group's standard set-up and lead to a courageous mixture of blissful melody, poignant emotion, and passionate expressiveness that improve upon the studio versions of the material. This is music-making of the highest level, and the detailed sonics put each member's contributions to the whole in clear focus.

Cline's plaid textures, fluid notes, shaved chords, and ear for the exotic improve upon the band's roots base, and allow leader Jeff Tweedy to stretch his vocals and carry on with his own guitar work. Cline also assists percussion impresario Glenn Kotche, who raps and rattles out beats, fills, rolls, and chimes from a fully loaded kit, and keyboardist/pianist Mikael Jourgensen, who, with the rhythm section, ensures that the songs’ pace is true and the structures properly decorated. Trust us when we tell you that Kicking Television is a monumental live album.

Available for a limited time on this gorgeous 180g 4LP box set, which features 8 previously unreleased tracks ("Another Man's Done Gone," "How to Fight Loneliness," "Theologians," "Kamera," "Just A Kid," "Monday," "Outtasite (Out of Mind)," "I'm a Wheel") not available on the CD edition as well as a poster and large booklet. Due to the expert remastering by Bob Ludwig and meticulous vinyl pressing at RTI, the music sounds unbelievably lively, dynamic, spacious and warm.

TRACKS
Side 1
1. Misunderstood
2. Company in My Back
3. The Late Greats
4. Hell is Chrome

Side 2
5. Handshake Drugs
6. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
7. Shot in the Arm

Side 3
1. At Least That's What You Said
2. Wishful Thinking
3. Jesus, Etc.
4. I'm the Man Who Loves You

Side 4
5. Kicking Television
6. Via Chicago
7. Hummingbird
8. Muzzle of Bees

Side 5
1. One by One
2. Airline to Heaven
3. Radio Cure
4. Ashes of American Flags

Side 6
5. Heavy Metal Drummer
6. Poor Places
7. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Side 7
1. Comment
2. Another Man's Done Gone*
3. How to Fight Loneliness*
4. Theologians*

Side 8
5. Kamera*
6. Just a Kid*
7. Monday*
8. Outtasite (Outta Mind)*
9. I'm a Wheel*

* Unreleased Bonus Cuts for LP Box Set

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