Significant longplayers from yesteryear
29 October 2026
Band: WILCO
Who: Singer-songwriter
Jeff Tweedy‘s combo.
Active: Since 1994 / 11 LPs so far
Album: BEING THERE, 2nd LP, a double one.
Released: 29 October 1996 – 30 years ago today.
Despite its release as a double album, Being There was sold at a single album price as a result of a deal between lead singer Jeff Tweedy and the band’s label Reprise Records.
Tweedy: “I was a later bloomer. I was in my thirties before I even came to terms with
the idea that I was making a living as a recording artist. I was in a punk band for a long
time and thought it was my life.
I was a bass player in a band making fifty dollars a night, paying eighty dollars a month
in rent, making indie records and not getting paid for them, and having this naive sense
f well-being that I would always do this and never have much more responsibility than
that.
I went from that to being a dad and a major-label recording artist who had
the pressure of supporting a family and also making something I felt good
about artistically.”
Pitchfork said: “‘Being There’ flirts with cynicism, but really the mood
is sober, world-weary, adult. Wilco massively improved as both a band
and as songwriters, but the two-disc set is really nothing more than
a marketing scheme.”
Singles.
– OUTTASITE (OUTTA MIND) –
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