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100The band turns each song up to 11 and lets its rabid hometown fans provide thousand-strong backing vocals. It'll make you want to yell "Woooh!" too.
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100Not since Grateful Dead's Europe '72 has there been a live double album in which intimacy and expansiveness, guitar mess and piano reflection commingle this sweetly. [Dec 2005, p.107]
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There's no denying this is the sound of a band at its onstage peak. [18 Nov 2005, p.135]
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A vivid document not only of how far Wilco has come, but also of how distinct its vision has been all along. [Dec 2005, p.112]
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90One of America's greatest bands has never sounded better. [19 Nov 2005]
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While it's no surprise that the YHF songs sound better live, it's surprising how much better Ghost songs like "Company In My Back" and "The Late Greats" sound with the addition of some synthesizer accents and thicker guitars.
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It embraces both Tweedy's classicism and his refusal to settle for the familiar. [20 Nov 2005]
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83So this is what A Ghost Is Born is supposed to sound like.
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80"Kicking Television" documents a band on fire and a frontman in clarion clear voice.
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Captures a band at the height of their creative powers. [#12, p.95]
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80In this live setting, fascinatingly, the brutality to which the songs are subjected only serves to underscore their poignancy. [Dec 2005, p.100]
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80Sounds like a greatest hits set. [Dec 2005, p.156]
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Kicking Television is the best sort of live album -- a recording that doesn't merely retread a band's back catalog, but puts their songs in a new perspective.
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80Live albums rarely come equipped with such a strong pulse. [Jan 2006, p.124]
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If you love guitar histrionics, Live in Chicago is a white-hot keeper.
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Kicking Television is consistent, professional, and unapologetically inclusive. It's also a uniformly strong testament from one of rock's most endearing acts, capable of producing both heady noise jams and shameless lighter-wavers.
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When the band truly comes together, there's a lightness of touch and a winning intimacy.
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70A worthy snapshot of a band at its peak. [Dec 2005, p.104]
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Both a love letter to Wilco's dedicated fans and a definitive live statement from America's foremost rock impressionists. [3 Nov 2005, p.88]
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70With smart sequencing and good production, the album documents one of rock's most engaging acts in the manner they deserve.
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