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A Ghost Is Born [Enhanced]

~ Wilco (Artist)
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (149 customer reviews)
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The infectious twang and pop hooks of Wilco's former efforts may be fading fast, but A Ghost Is Born is still a rewarding effort that demands repeated listening. The group's fifth album extends upon the experimentalism of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot with angular, blues-soaked guitar riffs ("At Least That's What You Said," "Hell Is Chrome"), a handful of sparse, yet catchy tunes (smack dab in the middle of the disc) that will surely keep college radio stations smiling, and a lengthy track that descends into mere static ("Less Than You Think"). Frontman Jeff Tweedy's songwriting continues to evolve: "Hummingbird" is a dreamy Randy Newman-styled love song; "The Late Greats" is a sly ode to the world of pop tacked onto the end of the album (as if using such a fun song on this understated disc was an afterthought). Meanwhile, producer extraordinaire Jim O'Rourke manages to make the most complicated arrangements here sound minimalist and laid-back. All told, it's another great addition to the Wilco canon. --Jason Verlinde

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2.0 out of 5 stars Works Great as a Coaster!, Nov 14 2005
By Brent Wittmeier "bwittmeier" (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
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Despite what some diehard fans say, A Ghost is Born is not a great record. I think it could have been, but the production value and performances cannot keep the songs afloat.

There are three things which make me hit the stop button:

1) The droning/dead space in Less than You Think --- it didn't fit on the Beatles White Album, why try it here? This isn't "sonic landscaping" like on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, it's just inconsiderate.

2) Questionable Lyrics: E.g. I'm A Wheel -- "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9, once in Germany someone said 'nein'!" This is by far the STUPIDEST LYRIC IN HISTORY, and every time I hear it, I vow not to buy the next Wilco CD.

3) Electric Guitar Overload: 5 minutes of jarring electric guitar solos per song is a little much, and is especially heavy at the beginning of the album. There isn't much sonic texture to these moments, feedback excluded.

4) Pace: I can dig slow and understated pieces, but these should be at the back end of the album. This may be some "concept" or "inversion of expectations" that I don't quite get, but I like to settle into 20 minutes of solid material before yielding to experimentation.

I'm not hearkening back for an earlier Wilco, but it'd be nice if the songs were center stage. The best stuff is buried so deep in dung that you don't even want to start digging.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Very good, but madenly uneven...hence the 3 stars, Jun 2 2005
By B. Keith (Windsor, Ontario) - See all my reviews
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The extended drone of the song "Less than you think" is soooo annoying that I rarely listen to this disc anymore...Yeah, yeah, there is a skip button, but I don't use it on great discs, as even the songs I am not crazy about tend to be "growers"... Instead, Wilco, on "Less than you think" experiment in self indulgent crap that they appear to judge as "progressive" or "meaningful"... I am as open to interesting extended instrumental experiments as most alternative music fans, BUT this was wayyyyyy over the top...

I am afraid Wilco and Tweedy have lost their way... self-indulgence of this type is always a BIG NEON SIGN of that...

Cheers.
PS> Oh yeah, much of the rest of the CD IS VERY GOOD, if not quite up to Summerteeth or Yankee Foxtrot...

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2.0 out of 5 stars Critically Oversold!, Mar 13 2005
By Martin Screech (Nanaimo, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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The critical popularity of this disc is rather mystifying. Its inclusion on many of the "best of" lists of 2004 is even stranger. All in all it's just rather dull and badly executed. Tweedy sounds like he is trying to emulate the sort of guitar attack that Neil Young adopts with Crazy Horse, but his playing is underwhelming. He tries to make use of the volume, and the feedback, but it escapes him, and just sounds amateurish.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad, But Not Jay Farrar
While this album is decent, and represents a welcome return to the concept of melody, Jeff Tweedy is still parked firmly in the back seat when it comes to writing and creating... Read more
Published on Aug 3 2004 by Darius Nafine

5.0 out of 5 stars what are you people thinking?!
This is not going to be so much a cd review as it is a rebuttal to all those who write reviews for this site...including you, Amazon.com. Read more
Published on Jul 19 2004 by jtwool

4.0 out of 5 stars Okay, this is the Wilco cd I've waited for
I came to Wilco as a fan of the 90's band, Son Volt (and if you haven't heard of them, you are in for treat). Read more
Published on Jul 18 2004 by Janis Hall

2.0 out of 5 stars Great Music to Fall Asleep to
We have all heard the story before and you will hear it again, about a band that hit it big by being spurned by their record company over what was one of the better albums of the... Read more
Published on Jul 18 2004

4.0 out of 5 stars "Ghost" haunts
Wilco has abandoned some of the poppier elements in "A Ghost is Born," leaving a smooth, mellow, minimalist stretch of poignant indie-rock. Read more
Published on Jul 18 2004 by E. A Solinas

3.0 out of 5 stars A More Unfocused Wilco
The first time I heard Wilco was when a friend recommended Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to me. I had heard some positive buzz surrounding its release so I decided to pick it up. Read more
Published on Jul 17 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars It's Just Rock N Roll....
It's hard to find many positive reviews of "A Ghost Is Born" that don't ramble on forever about the "artistic" value of the "sonic deconstruction"... Read more
Published on Jul 16 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars Unevenness is most apparent aspect...
Following the back-to-back masterpieces of 1999's Summer Teeth and the critically-acclaimed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco seems to have retreated from the path of innovation and... Read more
Published on Jul 16 2004 by Jason M. Tyson

4.0 out of 5 stars How I Came To Be Friends With A Ghost Is Born
The first time I hear the new Wilco record, I'm not really listening. I'm reading, and I'm out on the porch and there is an excess of ambient street noise, and cicadas, and... Read more
Published on Jul 16 2004 by Lauren M. Ball

4.0 out of 5 stars Transitional and Lovely
It disappoints me that every single person on here seems intent on comparing this album to "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Read more
Published on Jul 16 2004 by XTRMNTR

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