When You Wake Up Feeling POLL - ILM Artist Poll #115 - WILCO/JEFF TWEEDY (Voting extended until Sunday, Sept 25)

thank u poll for occasioning a deeper acquaintance btween me and the tweedy record, it is so dope

in an effort to comply with Indexed's request to submit a 3rd ballot, does anyone have anything approaching a comprehensive list of "side project" albums? Just considering Tweedy, I can think of

4 Uncle Tupelo
2 Loose Fur
2(?) Golden Smog
2 solo albums + "Tweedy"
Minus 5 - Down with Wilco

What am I missing? What other band members' stuff should I give a listen to? I know there are bands called On Fillmore and The Autumn Defense though I can't even remember which band members are in them. What's Nels Cline's other best stuff? I do want to revisit the Kotche solo records if I have time too

oh man warm is fantastic, why did everyone tell me this is boring

there are 4 jeff tweedy solo albums (though together at last is just acoustic versions of previously released songs)

The Autumn Defense is John Stiratt's Mellow Mafia-style side project.

with pat sansone, who was in it before he joined wilco

the b-side i ended up including in my ballot was "panthers." tbh as i get older i seem to only get more fond of the ghost is born material. has a sense of space (maybe the off-white psychic echo of a migraine?) that i can't say i've heard in any other record

record reminds me of the more ramshackle end of lindsey buckingham productions where every sonic element sounds faxed in from elsewhere. i love it

finally i think the alternate version of "hummingbird" is better than the album version but i feel like i understand why they went for the album arrangement, it's a welcome break in the tension

i do recall at the time that "less than you think" was widely interpreted as a sonic representation of tweedy's migraines

it's been confirmed by tweedy as well afaik

Listened to "Being There" for the first time in a while tonight and had so much fun.

the b-side i ended up including in my ballot was "panthers."

Same!

this was also my first brush with the golden smog catalog and another fine day was far and away my favorite. felt like a record i would've checked out of the library in the mid-2000s and privately fallen in love with and would've never had anybody to talk about it with

i did check out down with wilco from the library several times in the mid-2000s, i don't think i ever quite fell in love with it though. "the family gardener" remains a gem

revisiting cruel country before i submit my ballot and “the empty condor” is pink floyd wilco

cruel country isn't that different in sound from any of tweedy's solo albums, or even ode to joy, but the songs have stuck with me so much more

i think it’s pretty different from ode to joy, less of a pencil drawing more of a spirograph, especially in the adventurous middle

feels like it would be a v special record in literally any other band’s discog

The curse of being consistently good.

it has a similar sort of mood & atmosphere, just less intricate than ode to joy by virtue of being largely live takes rather than a studio construction

it seems like it'll sneak onto my albums ballot in fact

less of a pencil drawing more of a spirograph

feel like i just described the album art of each record here. regardless, well-chosen album art

i'm going to make my side projects ballot more interesting today so i'd like to second the request for cline and kotche recommendations. and are the autumn defense any good???????

assuming jay bennett's the palace at 4am counts, i'm def voting for it

I am by no means a Cline expert, haven't even come close to absorbing his whole discography, but I'd say that either Lovers or the Nels Cline Singers' Share the Wealth are great places to start. Can also recommend Instrumentals, The Giant Pin and BB&C, the one album he did with Tim Berne and Jim Black.

I'll second the recommendation of Kotche's Mobile, like that one a lot.

yeah took a quick glance at cline's discography and it is massive, and basically completely unfamiliar to me. thanks for the recs, jvc. have never heard bennett's solo record, will for sure check that one out now that the deadline's extended

Haven't even tried with most of Nels's stuff. Are the albums w/ Thurston Moore any good?

Very glad to see a second of Mobile! Would probably appeal more to non-Wilco fans, but I can't recommend it enough.

the b-side i ended up including in my ballot was "panthers." tbh as i get older i seem to only get more fond of the ghost is born material. has a sense of space (maybe the off-white psychic echo of a migraine?) that i can't say i've heard in any other record

I like "Panthers" a lot, I actually inserted it into the album (second track) within a week of listening to the deluxe edition.

less of a pencil drawing more of a spirograph... feel like i just described the album art of each record here. regardless, well-chosen album art

& Summer Teeth is the photo collage album with the same cover-filling shape as those two.

i think my mom would enjoy nels cline’s lovers (a compliment, my mom is cool and loves both trad jazz and wilco)

combo-contrarian/received wisdom opinion: the only dip in the catalog is wilco (the album) + the whole love; both, to different degrees, feel like wilco assembling a greatest hits out of new material, and no matter how much i listen to them i just can’t connect to them as, uh, wholes

first half of wilco and “one sunday morning” are still amazing

I have listened to ST twice, AGIB twice, SBS three times and CC once and feel lost as ever. I still need to replay a few others but getting there. This is fucking hard.

Ah i always felt like sky blue sky and Wilco (the album) were there low point for me and the whole love is where they got it back.

Still haven’t listened to cruel country yet cause I’ve been stuck with Warm on repeat.

The Whole Love is half Summerteeth-lite and half dreary and forgettable imo. Cruel Country sounds sounds considerably more vitalised. Best album in years

I don't know playing Sky Blue Sky has been the very best experience from this little project but I have always praised this album and has stood out even more for me this time around when comparing.

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it's such a beautiful record

a third of the whole love (the bookend epics) is a career highpoint but there's not a whole lot going for the rest of it - it's generally fine but it's kinda just a slightly better version of the wilco-by-numbers of wilco (the album) which is one of the least essential in their whole discography - "one wing" is nice and "bull black nova" is an ok mini-"spiders" but that's about it

definitely agree with brad that neither is really compelling as a whole

ok i need to mention that "deeper down" is fucking incredible

l might submit something for this— was thinking recently about how Wilco is the only teenage obsession that I am embarrassed by. Why is that? I should listen to the whole discography.

the Nels Cline Singers' Share the Wealth

yooooooo this rocks

ballot submitted

First proper listen to Warm and yeah, it's lovely. This is vague, but there's something about the later Wilco/Tweedy stuff wherein I sort of half-listen, letting it coalesce in the background - it's more of a totalising effect somehow, less of the statement of the earlier records (up to Ghost, I guess), sonically and lyrically.

Picking up lots of Beatles from Warm, but also plenty Bolan, oddly - partly in the harmonies (such as they are) but also in the way Tweedy's voice falls off or in at the end of a line.

I helped with modifying the date.

Tonight, finally listened to YFH again.

12 ballots submitted - as a reminder, voting has been extended a week but if possible to submit any sooner, I'd appreciate it.

you can expect most ballots to come in at the last minute, just how these things go

Am I late to learning that the Spotify song progress bar is a lightsaber for Star Wars?!

i guarantee if you put an album called star wars episode 20 empire of shit tomorrow it would have a lightsaber progress bar, spotify adds it to every “star wars” release

LMAO

will mixed ballots be accepted? i haven't had time to do a full re-listen so i'll prob only be able to rank 10 or so

Yes!

Just leave an extra space in your ballot, and I'll assume it's mixed.