Man, Wilco are a great band.
Also: I think I kind of already knew this on some level, but listening to Kicking Television has made me realise that what I've really always wanted with Wilco songs was to hear them done with the really warm, satisfyingly fuzzy and crunching guitars that, one way or another, they so often seem to deny us on record - it's a great moment when they slide in underneath set opener "Misunderstood", and they bring a new joy to cuts like "The Late Greats" and "Handshake Drugs" (that last being a definite highlight). And generally, too, a lot of these songs come more to life live than they do in their lp versions, especially the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born cuts (which is just as well, as the 23-song setlist is heavily weighted towards those last two studio albums). Very, very good.
