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

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

Is anyone else obsessed with "That's Not The Issue"? Maybe my favorite of the early country songs. Love the shuffle rhythm and the interplay of banjo and electric guitar. A simple but effective lyric, too.

voted!

5 albums was a tough cut off, found it harder than the tracks (not that that was easy either!)

Someone will have to figure out if One Sunday Morning is for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend or Girlfriend, because we have votes for both.

Also, we have votes for both Outta Mind (Outta Sight) and Outtasite (Outta Mind). There was some discussion upthread about combining these votes...thoughts from the group?

don't see any reason not to combine them at all

they're the same song, arranged differently. i think combining makes sense

the vast majority of the ranked section of my ballot is gonna be from the big 3, and i am ok with it

when I started this i thought it was going to be easy. there are so many songs...

I'm getting there though

There *are* so many songs! We only have 12 ballots, many of which are partial, and over 130 different songs have received a vote.

hey indexed did my ballot go thru? I see that you had 12 before and after i submitted.

yup, didn't see that gman59 had submitted

Voted

ah oops yes I did submit. thank you!

Just a few days left, and we could definitely use a few more ballots, especially for Poll #3, though I know that might be the hardest for folks to feel comfortable participating in. Thanks to those who have already voted. Has been a big help in prepping images.

(Almost) Last Call. I know many of you are off-ILM on weekends. Would love to get a few more ballots. Thanks to the couple of folks who have submitted in the last 24 hours!

Voted! Ridiculously hard. That strange feeling in trying to rearrange things that many of the tracks are so part of the sorry self I carry around with me every day that I scarce recognise the titles.

Still planning to submit!

lol k, did it

Voted!

Submitted a lean but mean ballot.

just voted, went with my gut!

Got a bunch of ballots yesterday - many thanks to the procrastinators and all who voted.

My work week looks absolutely brutal so will likely save the roll out for next week. If anyone wants to submit a late ballot, let me know, and I'll see what's possible based on image work.

I know I was one of those requesting the additional time, but I had a variety of life events pop up this week that mean I'm not able to pull together a ballot. Sorry about that. Really looking forward to the roll out though!

Tracks voting is absolutely closed but if you or anyone else wants to submit an Albums or Side Projects ballot before the end of this week, go for it. Very easy for me to update those in advance of next week's roll out.

The anticipation is killing me.

ratings for selected lines in Shot in the Arm:

The ashtray says you were up all night (10/10)

We fell in love in the key of C (9)
We walked along down by the sea (1)

Please rate “I know you don’t talk much but you’re such a good talker“ from outta sight outta mind

Also, I can’t honestly say that this is a true misheard lyric, but having grown up in Albany New York, whenever tweedy sings “you followed me down the neck to D“, I like to sing it as “you followed me down to Schenectady“

realizing i never posted my (mixed) ballot!

Tracks
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
I’m Always In Love
Misunderstood
Poor Places
Impossible Germany
Hotel Arizona
Ashes Of American Flags
Summer Teeth
(Was I) In Your Dreams
ELT
A Shot In The Arm
Wait Up
Sunken Treasure
Hate It Here
Pot Kettle Black
I Got You (At The End of the Century)
Via Chicago
When You Wake Up Feeling Old
Someday Soon
Nothing’severgonnastandinmywayagain
Random Number Generator

Forget The Flowers
Muzzle Of Bees
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
Kingpin
Jesus, Etc
Heavy Metal Drummer
I’m The Man WHo Loves You
Handshake Drugs
The Joke Explained
Someone To Lose
California Stars
At Least That’s What You Said
Theologians
Acuff Rose
Either Way
One Sunday Morning
Art Of Almost
New Madrid
Watch Me Fall

Albums
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Summerteeth
Being There
Star Wars
Sky Blue Sky

Also, I can’t honestly say that this is a true misheard lyric, but having grown up in Albany New York, whenever tweedy sings “you followed me down the neck to D“, I like to sing it as “you followed me down to Schenectady“

this is so bizarre that i hesitate to bring it up, but: did you read or hear about Schenectady recently, in relation to Wilco? because -- i know this sounds completely fake and just feel free to ignore it -- last night i went to bed at about 7:30pm. i woke back up at midnight and was wide awake, in bed, for several hours. during that time, i had Shot in the Arm in my head. it was annoying. i put on some other music (Languoria) but I couldn't get it out of my head. "We fell in love, in the key of C" (cool timpani part), then the "...we walked along down the sea" part that i don't like so much, then the rest of it, the sliding down the neck to D, and then once again the sea. but then - I SWEAR IT! - i was rhyming "Schenectady" in there. "we walked along...to sche-nec-tad-y...", and i was even thinking to myself "why do I know his town?". i lived in brooklyn for a couple years, i went to grad school in upstate, my ex's family has a home out there, etc. but Schenectady is not a town i ever think about, and i had absolutely no idea how to spell it.

so why do YOU sing it that way? is there something out there in the world that is causing us to introduce "Schenectady" in there?

the first place i looked was this thread, as well as the voting thread. but i don't think it was on ilx - i did a search for "Schenectady" and it hasn't come up for months. then i looked on genius.com, because i had been peeping the lyrics there along with the scholarly annotations. but no. i don't think so.

to wrap this up i would like to rate “you followed me down to Schenectady“ as 10/10 and canon; true wilco heads will dream it to life

did you read or hear about Schenectady recently, in relation to Wilco

and

so why do YOU sing it that way? is there something out there in the world that is causing us to introduce "Schenectady" in there?

ok ignore these questions as you very clearly mentioned that you grew up nearby, lol.

i don't know how to express how strange this is (to me) and also how little it matters in the grand scheme of things

on an entirely different note, has anyone seen "Where are you, Jay Bennett"? it's up in full on youtube, at the moment. i admit that i skipped through much of the formative years stuff and just went straight to the wilco portion. it is a very bitter movie because some of the people left behind have an obvious chip on their shoulder, but it's also revealing in some ways.

That misheard lyric has never occurred to me -- I always liked the "followed me down the neck to D" line as I believe it's sung while Tweedy plays a D -- but I know the town from the film of the same name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York

I’m adding this “mishearing“ to my internal canon because I love it too and otherwise co-sign Karl’s ratings