I was hoping to get into wilco, I was wondering if anyone had any albums or songs that they would recommend to me, thanks...

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Get "Being There" first. If you like that, get "Summerteeth" next, followed by "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot". Everything after that is pretty much just variations on those 3 albums. Don't bother with their first album, "A.M.". unless you really wanna be core.

Good call W_Z I've been listening to the first disc of being there for about an hour, and I'm really impressed, I'm liking don't forget the flowers, and hotel Arizona, and a few others...thanks.

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If you enjoy Being There - Check out Uncle Tupelo.

Early 90's alt country led by Tweedy and Son Volt's Farrar.

A Ghost Is Born is Wilco's best studio output. The guitar work on Muzzle of Bees, At Least That's What You Said, etc... is good for Wilco. Previous work with Bennett (rip) now done with Nels Cline is night and day. Yankee is the epitome of Wilco.

If you like forget the flowers check out That's Not The Issue on AM. Rarely played because of the banjo but saw Andrew B come out and do a version with them during the homestand. AM, Summerteeth, and Being There are still very heavily alt country flavored. Which if the Old 97's Son Volt etc... are up your alley take the tour.

And if folkishness is your genre check out the Mermaid Avenue compilations with Billy Bragg. Woody Guthrie's relatives found scores of lyrics in storage written during some of his latter years during stints in asylums and hospitals. The Guthrie estate turned it over to Tweedy and Bragg to lay down some tracks. Very well done. These works are often featured in Tweedy solo shows/tours.

the mermaid avenue efforts to me were up and down. most of wilco's stuff was good; wasn't really into bragg's.

you'll never convince me that "being there" isn't wilco's greatest album.

Not a bad song on A.M., W_Z. Disagree there.
I don't have ghost is born or sky blue sky, so to the original poster -
This would be a nice setlist for me.

1. I Must Be High
2. Hotel Arizona
3. Heavy Metal Drummer
4. ELT
5. Sunken Treasure
6. Radio Cure
7. Monday
8. I Am trying To break your heart
9. Box Full Of Letters
10. California Stars
11. She's A Jar
12. A Shot Int he arm
13. always in love
14. can't stand it
15 sunken treasure
16. in a future age
17. via chicago
18. i'm the man that loves you.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

i never said it was bad, i would just not recommend it to a newbie wilco fan (why i said 'if you really wanna be core'). it's just a collection of songs, really. there are some decent ones on there. but if you're looking at the whole discography, i'd say go with the others.

same with blur; if anyone was interested in getting into them, i'd say don't bother with "leisure". unless...you...really wanna be core.

No, you didn't say it was bad, you just said "don't bother".
Let me know when Green Day tickets go on sale for the UC show.

ETA- I bring up the Green Day because you were just talking about how much you miss old GD, and how
you feel they are biting off more than they can chew. In a way, I feel the same way about Wilco. A.M. and
Being There were both musically and lyrically straightforward. He (Tweedy) started getting weird around Summerteeth
and has basically stopped being fun to listen to since YHF. Ever since Billie Joe became a serious artiste, it just isn't fun to me anymore.
So in a roundabout way, that's why I mentioned GD at the UC in a thread that had nothing to do with GD.

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I decided to just get all the albums including AM. Didn't really like any of the songs on that one, but maybe I'll appreciate it in a few years. I probably shouldn't have listened to all their songs at once, because it's hard to distinguish one album from another now. But I'm glad I did, because I found a lot of great songs...

here is my 'top rated' list in no specific order (it's actually very similar to shirtless drivers) :

When you wake up feeling old
Why would you wanna live?
I must be high
Monday
Someday soon
At least that's what you said
Handshake Drugs
Company in my back
Theologians
Either way
Side with the seeds
Can't stand it
A shot in the arm
I'm always in love
Noting'severgonnastandinmyway
ELT
My Darling
I am trying to break your heart
Kamera
Heavy metal Drummer
She's a jar
Jesus, Ect.

Shirtless, get A Ghost is Born, you wont be disappointed...

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Yankee Foxtrot Hotel because it's a great album and the last one with Jay Bennett. Jeff Tweedy's "The Thanks I Get" is a great song to start with.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

"being there" will always be a personal favorite.

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Explorer glitched and I lost a really huge post about seasonal music associations and Wilco enjoyment in relation to the soggy greyness of March. Motherfuck. Oh and I said something about how "Monday" was a bumper on the Mac show last Friday and I pretty much geeked out because that's my favorite Being There track though pace W_Z I can't say that's their best album considering the two masterpieces that followed it.

God, long post. I always admonish these whiners by telling them to compose their posts in Notepad and it happened to me. Fuck it.

Oh hey, did anyone get a chance to listen to The Visitor, Jim O'Rourke's new solo album? It basically sounds like a longform instrumental Wilco, not as noise-laden as Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but maybe a little closer to the work he did with Tweedy on the Loose Fur albums.

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i liked "yankee" but after that, i've said this...everything from them has just sounded like remnants of "being there", "summerteeth" and "yankee". i guess that will happen as those albums defined that group.

but i have a huge sentimental pull toward "being there" that blinds me to the other albums at times. i love that album.

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Suckers is right up my alley there with the Gram Parsons love. And the only Being There I recognize is the underrated Peter Sellers classic

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love that movie, too, csfmb guy.

Id recommend that if you listen to Wilco, dont post anymore in the hockey sections.

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Why are Wilco and the Blackhawks mutually exclusive? Why, heck, the Hawks did some sort of Wilco promotion earlier this season. I love Wilco and the Hawks and I'm not afraid of you.

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I went to Madison this weekend and caught Wilco at the Overture Center, which is Madison's symphony hall. Oh. My. God. Best show I've been to in a while.
And as far as recomendations go, they closed with Hoodoo Voodoo. That's a song that is WAY better live than the studio version.

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"Tubby? Oh yes, Tubby."

YFH was always my favorite. I'm the man that loves you is an awesome little song.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I've been to the Overture Center. It's really really nice. I remember a few angry letters in one of the newspapers about how it ruined the integrity of whatever used to be in that complex, but I think it's a fine place.

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XRT destroyed any chance I had to like Wilco.


and jeff tweedy is a huge douchebag.

RPB I love your signature.

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"Tubby? Oh yes, Tubby."

most musicians are.

Trudat but I didnt sit thru a movie about all of them Trip McNealy =Legend

After a few years of a lot of wilco music, I have come to the decision that my favorite album is A Ghost is Born

Its got the soft accustic melodies with Muzzle of Bees and Hell is Chrome with the as well as some nice rock mixes with Theologians, Handshake Drugs, and I'm a Wheel. A nice mix of everything and a great flow to the album, A nice chill-out album, whatever the hell that means...

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I really like Wilco ( the album ), but I have only heard that one, YHF and A Ghost is Born.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Wilco (The Album) is just the poor man's Sky Blue Sky, an album I love. Some people call it "dad rock," I call it rock-solid musicianship and songwriting.

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