Shelley, a character in the web comic strip Scary Go Round, reviews the top twenty albums as selected by the strip's creator, John Allison. (As the site warns, "Shelley is not a musicologist." Maybe not, but she's a hoot.) Here's Shelley's writeup of Number 11 (my favorite album of the year), Wilco's A Ghost is Born
Wilco is a band for people who think they are intellectuals about music, the Wilco man is always unhappy so his songs start very quietly in order that people don't wake up with a start. It is all for nothing because halfway through someone will play a guitar solo with a chairleg.
Which is exactly why I like it.
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