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| Author: | crosscheck [ Mon May 25, 2009 1:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Recomendations for wilco albums/songs |
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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| Author: | W_Z [ Mon May 25, 2009 1:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Recomendations for wilco albums/songs |
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. |
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| Author: | crosscheck [ Mon May 25, 2009 3:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Recomendations for wilco albums/songs |
W_Z wrote: 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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| Author: | CWS05nuts [ Mon May 25, 2009 4:50 pm ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | CWS05nuts [ Mon May 25, 2009 4:59 pm ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | W_Z [ Mon May 25, 2009 9:09 pm ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | shirtless driver [ Mon May 25, 2009 10:46 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | W_Z [ Tue May 26, 2009 6:51 am ] |
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shirtless driver wrote: Not a bad song on A.M., W_Z. Disagree there. 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. 
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| Author: | shirtless driver [ Wed May 27, 2009 12:11 am ] |
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W_Z wrote: shirtless driver wrote: Not a bad song on A.M., W_Z. Disagree there. 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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| Author: | crosscheck [ Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:26 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | Mini Ditka [ Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:42 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | W_Z [ Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:57 pm ] |
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"being there" will always be a personal favorite. |
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| Author: | suckers playground [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:05 am ] |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:19 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | W_Z [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:38 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | suckers playground [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:31 pm ] |
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| Author: | CSFMB Guy [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:54 am ] |
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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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| Author: | W_Z [ Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:33 pm ] |
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love that movie, too, csfmb guy. |
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| Author: | Puckhead [ Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:56 pm ] |
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Id recommend that if you listen to Wilco, dont post anymore in the hockey sections. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:37 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | Bulldog Scott [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:12 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | FavreFan [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:29 pm ] |
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YFH was always my favorite. I'm the man that loves you is an awesome little song. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:52 pm ] |
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Bulldog Scott wrote: 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. 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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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:03 pm ] |
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XRT destroyed any chance I had to like Wilco. and jeff tweedy is a huge douchebag. |
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| Author: | Bulldog Scott [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:21 pm ] |
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RPB I love your signature. |
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| Author: | W_Z [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:27 pm ] |
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rogers park bryan wrote: and jeff tweedy is a huge douchebag. most musicians are. |
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:57 pm ] |
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W_Z wrote: rogers park bryan wrote: and jeff tweedy is a huge douchebag. most musicians are. Trudat but I didnt sit thru a movie about all of them Bulldog Scott wrote: RPB, I love your signature Trip McNealy  =Legend
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| Author: | crosscheck [ Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:49 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | T-Bone [ Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:49 am ] |
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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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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:13 pm ] |
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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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