WILCO - BEING THERE

1 Misunderstood
2 Forget the Flowers
3 I Got You (At the End of the Century)
4 Red Eyed and Blue
5 Was I in Your Dreams
6 Dreamer in My Dreams
7 Lonely One
8 Why Would You Wanna Live
9 Kingpin
10 Someone Else's Song
11 Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
12 Someday Soon
13 Sunken Treasure
14 Say You Miss Me
15 Hotel Arizona
16 What's the World Got in Store
17 Far Far Away
18 Monday
1 Dreamer in My Dreams

1 Misunderstood
2 Far, Far Away
3 Monday
4 Outtasite
5 Forget the Flowers
6 Red-Eyed and Blue
7 I Got You
8 What's the World Got in Store
9 Hotel Arizona
10 Say You Miss Me
11 Sunken Treasure
12 Someday Soon
13 Outta Mind
14 Someone Else's Song
15 Kingpin
16 (Was I) in Your Dreams
17 Why Would You Wanna Live
18 The Lonely 1
19 Dreamer in My Dreams

Double 180-gram vinyl LP set with CD. "Being There" is Wilco's second effort, and it's a masterful collection rightly carrying forward the magic of their debut. Singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy seems fascinated by the prospect of tracing back their genre's beginnings. There's 19 ambitious songs here: "Misunderstood" is a powerful love affair with psychedelia; "I Got You (At the End of the Century" is power pop; "Someone Else's Song" seems influenced by The Beatles, while "Monday" is tangy R&B. Even given these influences, though, the record remarkably manages to avoid clichés. Tradition is packed with twists and turns here, and the critical reaction to the album-The Independent compared it to The Rolling Stones' "Exile On The Main Street"-was favorable, and justified in being so.