nothing'severgonnastandinmyway
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 22 January 2009 13:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
(again)
^^ yeah that's a total winner.
i'm gonna have to go with 'how to fight loneliness' though. a song that i forced myself to play on guitar and assume the emotional gravity of the song and impart it in my own way.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 22 January 2009 15:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
When You Wake Up Feeling Old
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 22 January 2009 15:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ah yes, back when Wilco we're good! This is actually a very difficult one. "Nothing'sever" is an obvious one, but then you've the title track to consider, "Can't Stand It", "We're Just Friends" et cetera et cetera. I'll have to mull.
― Freedom, Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
this is like being forced to choose between one's children!
nonetheless, i picked "she's a jar."
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
boring answer, but "can't stand it"
― Zeno, Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^legend has it that this was written in a day, at the label's insistence that there be a 'single'.
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
i dont know if i can do this.
― Booker van Permalink (Hunt3r), Thursday, 22 January 2009 17:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
How appalling -- to actually want to sell records you put up money for.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
shot in the arm
― Cooking From A Stovetop (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm Always In Love
― ablaeser, Friday, 23 January 2009 08:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
i think its shot in the arm
― Booker van Permalink (Hunt3r), Friday, 23 January 2009 15:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
"something in my veins, bloodier than blood."
― CarlosRamirez, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
Shot in the Arm for me too. Prob. one of my favorite tracks from the 90s ... This is still the best Wilco album for me, though I'm not a latter-day Wilco hater. This one is the best combination of the artiness and the kickass rock that they've done. Jay Bennett's finest hour, for sure! Kind of feel bad for that guy -- seems like this is as much his album as Tweedy's, but he's gotten such a bad rep from that movie.
― tylerw, Friday, 23 January 2009 15:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
I was a sucker for "Pieholden Suite" at the time so I'll go with that. Probably next would be "In A Future Age". I wouldn't have said this at the time but the second half of this one looks a lot better to me now than the first half. "Via Chicago" still sounds pretty great too.
― Euler, Friday, 23 January 2009 16:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
'via chicago' is epic! very unsettling too
agreed about the strength of the second half.
― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 24 January 2009 01:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
"She's a Jar". Easily the best Wilco album. The earlier ones were too country, while the noughties ones have been increasingly weird.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 02:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
i actually find this to be a more challenging record than YHF at times. in fact, a track like 'in a future age' seems to directly pre-empt what we hear on yankee.
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 02:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
i'm always in love.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 02:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
Geir, other than Impossible Germany, which is only 'weird' if long guitar solos are weird, how is Sky Blue Sky weirder than Summerteeth?
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 02:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah sorta seems to me that they've been pulling back from the "weird" since YHF ... "Ghost" has some "weirdness" (the 15 minute drone) but it's also got plenty of straight up folk rock ...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 04:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
"Via Chicago"
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 04:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
I like pretty much every song on this record but in the end I had to go with "She's a Jar."
"Candyfloss" is definitely the poppiest song they've ever done and I really love it.
― ColinO, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
how exactly did Bennett get the bad rep from the movie when Tweedy was the one being an asshole in it?
a shot in the arm for me too probably. like this album.
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
Well, I think he comes across as kind of hard to work with ... Tweedy, too, but Bennett's the one who got kicked out of the band.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
i was listening to "shot in the arm" with a mate a couple of weeks ago. he was saying "oh isn't this a nice, uplifting song". i was like "dude, he's pretty angry here if you care to listen a bit closer."
― charlie h, Saturday, 18 September 2010 11:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Compare this to Wilco (The Boring Album) and shudder.
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 18 September 2010 13:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
i've put off listening to the latest one. i will finally get round to it one of these days.
― charlie h, Saturday, 18 September 2010 14:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
This Sprint ad is on tv all the time now
The 60-second ad shows a chorus of 130 people using their EVO 4G LTE’s as virtual instruments to cover Wilco’s “I’m Always in Love.”
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, June 5, 2012 2:39 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 14:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
bizarre results for this one. "Via Chicago" is the worst song on the album. Although, then again, it is more in keeping with the style of their later, boring albums, which lots of people also love, so...
― Freedom, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Shot in the Arm" though also got 9 votes
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
― markers, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
ah curmudgeon already mentioned this i guess, but still. there's the ad!
― markers, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
Jeff Tweedy ain't no poet and he doesn't know it. So while I'm basically a pretty big fan of his band, Wilco songs that put lyrics first often make me wince. What's so great about the passive-aggressive bad dream of "Via Chicago"? Give me the title track of this album any day, another bad dream song saved by kaleidoscope arrangement, murmured delivery, and "it doesn't seem to mean anything". "ELT," meanwhile, envelops another passive-aggressive murder fantasy with juicy harmonies and the kind of insistent forward motion that "Via Chicago" steadfastly refuses. Two best songs on the album, for me. Wonder why they didn't get any votes - I guess preferring their uptempo stuff is atypical.
― do dat do dat do do dat dat dat (thewufs), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
i dunno, i think you answered your question -- "What's so great about the passive-aggressive bad dream of "Via Chicago"?" I always liked the way it was kind of answered back by the title track.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
wilco 1999-2004 was the best wilco y'all
― markers, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
I wonder if they're making more money from that Sprint ad using “I’m Always in Love," than they have from the entire sales of "Summerteeth." I think it's my fave Wilco album.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah, it's my fave. as good as the band tweedy has now is, jay bennett really rose to the occasion with this album. when it came out, i remember being a little shocked at how good it was!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's easily and by far the best wilco album. i like all the others too to differing degrees but this is a pop masterpiece. maybe people don't want their wilco to be a pop band.
― akm, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
Gotta agree with Markers, though I adore "Being There" as well. I prefer them channeling the Beach Boys rather than the Grateful Dead.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
if you told me in 1999 that 13 years later "I'm Always In Love" would be sung by 100 people in a smartphone ad, I would have said "excuse me, they call things 'smartphones' in the future?"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, June 5, 2012 4:22 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I love "Shot in the Arm". This album is great, yes. I did a double-take when I saw this commercial for the first time.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
wtf @ zero votes for the title track. ILM wilco fans be trippin
― Despite all my cheek, I am still just a freak on a leash (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:21 (11 months ago) Permalink