Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

this recent rash of kidsmoke:

"a ghost is born" is the gem of the Wilco catalog. The record sounds like a John Lennon/Neil Young duet album with lead guitar by Robert Fripp, arrangements by "Ziggy"-era Bowie, and production by Ric Ocasek or Todd Rundgren. I am so ashamed of my pre-listening skepticism (after reading some backpacker on viachicago.org saying he wasn't feeling it and that the songs were weak). Later for that! This jam "Kidsmoke" is like Gary Numan's "Cars" meets Neil Young's "Down By the River" meets Velvet Underground's... more info

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 last decade. Problem is that if they had turned this album instead of YHF, I am not sure that anyone would really be complaining all that mcuh.

A Ghost is Born reminds me of the inferior B-Side Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album. While I am not one of those Alt-Country Snobs that wishes Wilco would do alt-country again or pine for the... more info

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.

Okay, forget that Wilco is one of (if not the) most innovative rock (yes, rock) bands that exists today..."Ghost" is simply a very brave and very, very amazing album that any band would sell its soul to even have conceived of, let alone create. What Wilco accomplishes on this album, even more so than YHF, is emotion - hard, raw emotion without allowing the incredible... more info

Tracks:

1. At Least That's What You Said
2. Hell Is Chrome
3. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
4. Muzzle of Bees
5. Hummingbird
6. Handshake Drugs
7. Wishful Thinking
8. Company in My Back
9. I'm a Wheel
10. Theologians
11. Less Than You Think
12. Late Greats

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