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Wow that's not an obvious one. Do you even like music? How about side one track one of Beethoven's fifth symphony?

Liking Nirvana means you don't like music? Generally there's a reason behind every cliche...

Some that come to mind (just ones that haven't been mentioned):

Antony & The Johnsons- Hope There's Someone

Beck- Sexx Laws

Belle & Sebastian- Stars of Track & Field

Blur- Boys & Girls

Bob Dylan- Lovesick

The Cure- In Between Days

Bonnie Prince Billy- A Minor Place

Elliott Smith- Speed Trials

The Flaming Lips- Race for the Prize

Jeff Buckley- Mojo Pin

Joanna Newsom- Ys

M.I.A.- Bamboo Banga

The National- Fake Empire

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Into My Arms

Nirvana- About a Girl (MTV Unplugged)

Pavement- Silent Kit

Pixies- Debaser

R.E.M.- Harbour Coat

Radiohead- Airbag

The Replacements- Hold My Life

Slint- Good Morning, Captain

The Smiths- A Rush and a Push and the Land That We Stand On is Ours

Sonic Youth- Teenage Riot

The Stone Roses- I Wanna Be Adored

Talking Heads- Born Under Punches

Tom Waits- Big in Japan

Uncle Tupelo- Gun

Wilco- Can't Stand It

This is tough...most of the music I listen to is pre-1980.

I am hoping for the new album asap, then next Dec-Jan-Feb some sort of winter residency so they can include the new album. The kicker for me would be some sort of epic 5 disc live box set release like a Hampton Comes Alive, with cool packaging, some useless stickers, you know the works Maybe a "best of residency" dvd too!!!

I've been wanting any kind of Wilco boxed set for a long time; a live one like that would kick ass.

If they wore the nudie suits, they might get kicked off the lawn. lol.

No, in all seriousness, it'd be totally cool...imagine a DVD "Wilco: Live at the White House"

I dunno..2009 is an album release year...Residencies are the type of thing they do on off years, you know?

They're going to need to be out and about touring and supporting Wilco VII.

Here's the problem with Billy Bragg saying this...

You don't record with Wilco, Wilco records with you.

The come into your house in the middle of the night, dressed in ski masks and abduct you, take you to the loft and record with you. Then they bonk you on the head and you wakeup back in your bed with your shoes tied together and your box of donuts missing.

That's rock n' roll.

Yeah, that memo gogo sent around warning us that votes for any of those albums would result in immediate tazing worked surprisingly well.

VC PROTOCOL 4 LIFE!

I must've missed the memo...a long with all that blow in Amsterdam.

Didn't know if this went here, but I've been writing songs since I was 12 years old.

I've suddenly lost all interest in my songs, and can't stand them, and haven't been able to write for a good 8 months now, and it's really dragging down my self-esteem a bit. Does anyone have any advice/ what they do when they can't write? Should I maybe just stop playing music?

He's got some valid criticisms, but Radiohead is still probably the greatest band in the world.

Except for the Jonas Brothers of course...

Neato, gang.

I've been actually considering putting info together on little things like this...music videos, singles, unreleased tracks into a web page...just don't have the web skills.

Sorry, but you're wrong.

I'm not wrong; it's my opinion based on what we know about the sessions. You've done nothing to refute me, just saying "You're wrong."

I'm sorry your debating skills never grew after Kindergarden, maybe you want to show me some examples of Billy Bragg taking the royalties he hoarded from the MA albums (which Wilco didn't recieve a red cent for according to interviews), and giving them away to the poor in a robin hood suit? Maybe you want to tell me that the scheduling a tour behind a band's back who's previous release had outsold anything Billy had done by 150k copies?

Maybe you want to tell me why he's still insisting on touring/ working with a band that has no interest in him? Every time he name drops Wilco, we take note here at the VC. It's Billy Bragg putting himself back in the front of our minds.

Either he's got serious social issues (can't take a hint), or he's a shameless self promoter, and an opportunist. I'm sorry if this contradicts the ideal version of Billy Bragg that you have.

this video has aired on MTV2 in the past.

Thank you sir.

Seems pretty authentic to me, given how much unused footage from the film is in it...has anyone else seen this? Maybe Sam just threw this together?

It's also worth noting the poster is of hispanic origin. Perhaps this video wasn't aired domestically?

You obviously have no understanding whatsoever of Mr. Bragg and the way he does things.

Meh...it's obvious Jeff doesn't want anything to do with a MA 3,4,5, and 17. Billy would do it all in a heart beat.

And don't give me that crap about him being socialist...Almost all of his moves as it relates to working with Wilco reek of shameless self-promotion and an attempt to cash in on a buck with an artist who is significantly more successful than he.

For the record I like Bragg's music a lot, but Jeff is right; Billy Bragg is full of shit. He spreads rumors and tall tales about stuff like tours, extra tracks, etc to drum up interest in himself due to his Wilco connection.

I was in the car a lot the past two days...

(Yes I can actually hear the difference on the Gold Discs.)

I was pleasantly surprised by the presence of Sam Cooke's Harlem Square Club (a classic, yes, but often forgotten on these kind of lists). And I'd never heard of The Wrens before.

True, Sam Cooke love is ALWAYS good.

The Wrens is heh...meh...kind of generic power pop to my ears; some people on the site really love it though.

I was also not surprised by the exclusion of classics like Sign o The Times, Hunky Dory, Nevermind, Funhouse, and basically anything that didn't hit sort of VC protocol.

There was some beef about the mixing. Wilco wanted a cohesive sounded record and Bragg told Bennett "you make your record, and I'll make mine, fucker." Also, Jeff thought it was kind of cheesy that Bragg wanted to do mostly political songs. I think that was because everyone knows he was political, and Jeff wanted to humanize Guthrie rather than treat him like cartoon character. (Those are my words) And the guys in Wilco pissed off Bragg because they wouldn't record while Simpsons was on. There's more, you should read the book.

Not that Wilco does it for the money, but it couldn't have helped that they supposedly never saw a single royalties check from a project that among it's 2 volumes sold over 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone.

Granted as Wilco says, they make most of their money off touring anyway, so I doubt any of the members made a stink.

Billy Bragg is just looking for a new Wilco co-release to knock him into a new tax bracket. It's kind of pathetic really.

Seems low.

I'd be sad if we lived in a world that I could only find 29 records I like better than Let it Be.

That's nothing. All I gots is the sheet music. When I go to Wilco shows, I can tell which SBS song is coming up by which instruments they pick up, then I run to the men's room, hide in a stall and and read staffs.

I'm sorry...nothing is topping this post.

For better or worse absolutely no surprises on the list... I of course disagree with a lot of it (Let it Be higher than Astral Weeks is fucking ridiculous) but whatever. This is the VC, I know what music tastes tend towards, and tend against, and really not a single album on there surprises me.

"Lover's Day" by TV on the Radio

"There She Goes My Beautiful World" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I Believe" by R.E.M.

Poor Places

 

It's my father's voice trailing off

Sailors sailing off in the morning

For the air-conditioned rooms

At the top of the stairs

 

His jaw's been broken

His bandage is wrapped too tight

His fangs have been pulled

And I really want to see you tonight

 

There's bourbon on the breath

Of the singer you love so much

He takes all his words from the books

That you don't read anyway

 

His jaw's been broken

His bandage is wrapped too tight

His fangs have been pulled

And I really want to see you tonight

 

Someone ties a bow

In my backyard to show me love

My voice is climbing walls

Smoking and I want love

 

My jaw's been broken

My heart is wrapped in ice

My fangs have been pulled

And I really want to see you tonight

 

And it makes no difference to me

How they cried all over overseas

When it's hot in the poor places tonight

I'm not going outside

 

They cried all over overseas

It makes no difference to me

When it's hot in the poor places tonight

I'm not going outside

 

It's hot in the poor places tonight

I'm not going outside

I'm not going outside

I'm not going outside

 

(Yankee...hotel...foxtrot)

That song keeps me from ever completing a Wilco mix cd...I can't leave it off because it's so good...but then...It makes the whole thing feel awkward without the transition to Reservations, which just feels like too much foxtrot. I try to keep my mixes very even.

I guess I could always go Poor Places > Spiders with the studio versions :-)

I got this and it makes me want to give Oh, Mercy another shot.

It's funny, cause Heroes fans are also bitching that Heroes season 3 sucks.

Did Heroes ruin Wilco, or did Wilco ruin Heroes?

P.S. is every Wilco song about relationships these days!?

I'm guessing these people don't have kids?

I don't have kids either; I just think it's a beautifully structured song.

I don't see how it's any cornier than a number of early Wilco lyrics.