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Beck's Second Album was One Foot in The Grave I believe and Nirvana's second was Insecticide???

Incesticide was a disc of rarities; though all of the songs predated Nevermind, the album came out the year after Nevermind hit.

Big Star - Radio City

Nirvana - Nevermind

The Clash - Give 'em Enough Rope

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Wilco - Being There

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love

Elvis Costello - This year's Model

Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory

The Band - The Band

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (s/t XXX record being the first)

Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II

Blur - Parklife

De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead

13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars!

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Beck - Odelay

 

not complete and it'll probably chance a few times, but for now this is it for me.

Parklife was Blur's 3rd; they had one before Modern Life is Rubbish.

This should be like a top 100 sophomore records so we could list more lol.

01. The Velvet Underground- VU & Nico (maybe my favorite album period.)

02. Television- Marquee Moon

03. R.E.M.- Murmur

04. The Clash- S/T

05. Elvis Costello- My Aim is True

06. The Band- Music From Big Pink

07. Sex Pistols- Nevermind The Bollocks

08. Jeff Buckley- Grace

09. Pavement- Slanted & Enchanted

10. The Flying Burrito Brothers- Gilded Palace of Sin

11. Gang of Four- Entertainment!

12. Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures

13. Massive Attack- Blue Lines

14. The Smiths- The Smiths

15. The Doors- The Doors

16. Nick Drake- Five Leaves Left

17. King Crimson- In The Court of The Crimson King (I'm too lazy to check if that was their debut)

18. Liz Phair- Exile in Guyville

19. The Strokes- Is This It?

20. The Beatles- Please Please Me

Surfer Rosa isn't really the Pixies debut so I didn't count it, but it'd be about #12 if you want to count that.

My personal favs:

01. Van Morrison- Astral Weeks

02. Nirvana- Nevermind

03. The Band- The Band

04. Elvis Costello- This Year's Model

05. Bob Dylan- The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

06. Lou Reed- Transformer

07. Pixies- Doolittle

08. Radiohead- The Bends

09. Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions

10. Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

11. The Velvet Underground- White Light/ White Heat

12. Gram Parsons- Return of the Grievous Angel

13. Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

14. Joy Division- Closer

15. My Bloody Valentine- Loveless

16. Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

17. The Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream

18. Sly & The Family Stone- Stand!

19. Nick Drake- Bryter Layter

20. Led Zeppelin- II

I had this dream I was a part of the 1999-2001 Wilco lineup...and Jeff, Jay and I were shopping for food; Jay says something like "Excuse me Jon, to quote myself, I don't think we have 1,000 dollars an hour to waste on cookies." and I said "To quote myself Jay, didn't Jeff fire you?" and Jeff started cracking up.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

you were talking so brave and so sweet,

giving me head on the unmade bed,

while the limousines wait in the street.

Those were the reasons and that was New York,

we were running for the money and the flesh.

And that was called love for the workers in song

probably still is for those of them left.

Ah but you got away, didn't you babe,

you just turned your back on the crowd,

you got away, I never once heard you say,

I need you, I don't need you,

I need you, I don't need you

and all of that jiving around.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

you were famous, your heart was a legend.

You told me again you preferred handsome men

but for me you would make an exception.

And clenching your fist for the ones like us

who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,

you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,

we are ugly but we have the music."

And then you got away, didn't you babe...

I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,

I can't keep track of each fallen robin.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

that's all, I don't even think of you that often.

It's pretentious quoting this song, but I have to sit down when I hear it... it just weakens me it's so beautiful... I even referred to it in a song of my own. hahaha.

I still think we'll get another live album this year....or who knows...maybe a rarities record? It's rare Wilco goes a year without putting out SOMETHING:

1995: A.M.

1996: Being There

1997: Nothing

1998: Mermaid Avenue

1999: Summer Teeth

2000: Mermaid Avenue II

2001: Was SUPPOSED to be the release date of YHF

2002: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2003: Down With Wilco + More Like the Moon EP

2004: A Ghost is Born + Wilco Book

2005: A Ghost is Born EP + Kicking Television

2006: Sunken Treasure Live in the Northwest

2007: Sky Blue Sky + Sky Blue Sky EP

2008 has to bring something to us; Wilco likes giving us stocking stuffers. We get music, they get money, and it holds us ravenous zealots off until the next studio album.

Some things I'd possibly like to see in 2008...

01. A Wilco live DVD: Please God; If John Mayer fans can have one, why can't we?

02. A Wilco live album: Preferably from the residency, but...

03. A Rarities boxed set: I don't know how many of these songs floated over to the next LP, but Kot seemed to suggest that Wilco averages 10 extra songs per record. The YHF demos seem to confirm this. This is speculative, but if only half of those 10 songs were unreleased or b-sides, they could still squeeze a decent 3 disc box out of it.

04. Extended editions: A.M., Being There, and Summer Teeth with bonus discs, liner notes from David Fricke and Greg Kot, and nice cardboard sleeves would be cool. I'd buy them all, and I'd be buying Summer Teeth for the 3rd time.

I'd expect Wilco 7 in the April- June range of either 2009 or 2010.

So I reset my playlists to have only one song by each artist...previously The Beatles and Dylan COMPLETELY Dominated the top so I said "Shit, Scott..." and reset all but the top played track for each artist..

My current top 25:

01. "A Day in The Life" by The Beatles

02. "I Want You" by Bob Dylan

03. "Chelsea Hotel No 2" by Leonard Cohen

04. "Metal Guru" by T. Rex

05. "All I Need" by Radiohead

06. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band

07. "Have You Seen Her Face?" by The Byrds

08. "Fly" by Nick Drake

09. "About a Girl" by Nirvana

10. "Whiteman (In Hammersmith Palais)" by The Clash

11. "New Monkey" by Elliott Smith

12. "Fake Palindromes" by Andrew Bird

13. "The Ballad of El Goodo" by Big Star

14. "Emily" Joanna Newsom

15. "Ambulance Blues" Neil Young

16. "There She Goes, My Beautiful World" Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

17. "Second Hand News" by Fleetwood Mac

18. "I Felt Your Shape" by The Microphones

19. "Jesus, Etc." by Wilco

20. "Life On Mars" by David Bowie

21. "Moonlight Mile" by The Rolling Stones

22. "I'm Not There" by Sonic Youth (Original by Bob Dylan)

23. "Saint Dominic's Preview" by Van Morrison

24. "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys

25. "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello

what's yours?

I'd really like to see a Residency Mixtape in lossless if at all possible.

Final Tally= 95 songs. Not bad gentlemen.

There were a few I was sad missed the cut; "Another Man's Done Gone", "Someday Some Morning, Sometime", "Venus Stopped The Train"....but they went above and beyond the "Songs from all 6 records" promise, with an aditional 14 songs.

Let's hope some of the ones that didn't make the residency get played this tour. It would be pant piss worthy if this year's tour compilation had 7-8 discs worth of songs.

Disc 1:

01. ELT

02. A Shot in The Arm

03. Side With The Seeds

04. You Are My Face

05. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

06. Pot Kettle Black

07. At Least That's What You Said

08. What's The World Got in Store

09. When The Roses Bloom Again

10. Airline To Heaven

11. Ashes of American Flags

12. Either Way

13. Jesus, Etc;

14. Too Far Apart

15. Can't Stand It

16. Sunken Treasure

Disc 2:

17. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

18. Misunderstood

19. Far Far Away

20. Why Would You Want To Live

21. Impossible Germany

22. Sky Blue Sky

23. Please Be Patient With Me

24. Cars Can't Escape

25. Hummingbird

26. Hate it Here

27. Walken

28. I'm The Man Who Loves You

29. Heavy Metal Drummer

30. Candyfloss

31. Outtasite (outtamind)

32. Someone Else's Song

Disc 3:

33. Hell is Chrome

34. Handshake Drugs

35. Muzzle of Bees

36. Via Chicago

37. Hotel Arizona

38. It's Just That Simple

39. When You Wake Up Feeling Old

40. Forget The Flowers

41. Dash-7

42. Christ For President

43. The Late Greats

44. Red-Eyed & Blue

45. I Got You (At The End of the Century)

46. A Magazine Called Sunset

47. Monday

48. Casino Queen

Disc 4:

49. Kingpin

50. Passenger Side

51. Dreamer in My Dreams

52. The Lonely 1

53. Hoodoo Voodoo

54. Blue Eyed Soul

55. Remember The Mountain Bed

56. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

57. Hesitating Beauty

58. That's Not The Issue

59. Wishful Thinking

60. We're Just Friends

61. Kamera

62. How To Fight Loneliness

63. Should've Been in Love

64. Pick Up The Change

Disc 5:

65. Theologians

66. She's A Jar

67. Say You Miss Me

68. Box Full of Letters

69. I'm Always In Love

70. My Darling

71. Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)

72. Outta Mind (Outtasite)

73. I Must Be High

74. Radio Cure

75. Leave Me (Like You Found Me)

76. Company in My Back

77. War on War

78. Shake it Off

79. Summer Teeth

80. In A Future Age

Disc 6:

81. Poor Places

82. Reservations

83. On And On And On

84. (Was I) in Your Dreams

85. Someday Soon

86. California Stars

87. The Thanks I Get

88. I'm A Wheel

89. One by One

90. Shouldn't Be Ashamed

91. Pieholden Suite

92. I Thought I Held You

93. What Light

94. Blood of The Lamb

95. Just a Kid

That'd be farkin' sweet.

obviously they'd have to sequence it a little better, but I just divided it into 6 discs based on the order in which the songs were played first.

I think an official release is likely.

It's an off year for Wilco; as in...no new CD coming out.

Every off year since 2000, they've put out SOMETHING. (Okay save 2001, excuse me...they didn't have a record contract then...)

How about they follow Radiohead's lead... a widely available double disc for retailers, and an online only deluxe edition for like 100 bucks w/ all 90 or so performed songs.

I re-fell in love with Wilco tonight.

It's like a renewing of wedding vows.

Yes. All 81 songs from the 6 albums plus the 12 or so from the MAs, and the various b-sides/ Uncle Tupelo/ Golden Smog songs they might do would be an awesome compilation.

Today so far:

The New Pornographers- Twin Cinema

In Progress: The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses

Reviving an oldie. . . .

 

Top 10

Harvest Moon

After the Gold Rush

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Ragged Glory

Harvest

Tonight's the Night

On the Beach

Rust Never Sleeps

American Stars 'n Bars

Time Fades Away

American Stars n' Bars

that's fucking hardcore.

Today:

Nirvana- 8-30-92, Reading, UK (bootleg)

Pixies- Doolittle

Bob Dylan- Various bootleg rarities

David Bowie- Station to Station

Neil Young- Tonight's the Night

Today:

P J Harvey- Rid of Me

Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs

Neil Young- After the Gold Rush

On deck:

David Bowie- Aladdin Sane

Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited

Gang of Four- Entertainment!

Nirvana- Nevermind

The Arcade Fire- Neon Bible

That's a pretty good list.

 

For me....

 

Radiohead - OK Computer 24 Bit Vinyl Rip

Holy sex wax. that sounds amazing.

I also listened to the following yesterday:

Nick Cave- Abbatoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus

Big Star-3rd/ Sister Lovers

Wilco- Sky Blue Sky

forgot them.

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

The wintergreen, the juniper

The cornflower and the chicory

All the words you said to me

Still vibrating in the air

The elm, the ash and the linden tree

The dark and deep, enchanted sea

The trembling moon and the stars unfurled

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes again

John Willmot penned his poetry

riddled with the pox

Nabakov wrote on index cards,

at a lectem, in his socks

St. John of the Cross did his best stuff

imprisoned in a box

And JohnnyThunders was half alive

when he wrote Chinese Rocks

Well, me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears

Me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears

Me, I'm lying here, for what seems years

I'm just lying on my bed with nothing in my head

Send that stuff on down to me

Send that stuff on down to me

Send that stuff on down to me

Send that stuff on down to me

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes again

Karl Marx squeezed his carbuncles

while writing Das Kapital

And Gaugin, he buggered off, man,

and went all tropical

While Philip Larkin stuck it out

in a library in Hull

And Dylan Thomas died drunk in

St. Vincent's hospital

I will kneel at your feet

I will lie at your door

I will rock you to sleep

I will roll on the floor

And I'll ask for nothing

Nothing in this life

I'll ask for nothing

Give me ever-lasting life

I just want to move the world

I just want to move the world

I just want to move the world

I just want to move

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes again

So if you got a trumpet, get on your feet,

brother, and blow it

If you've got a field, that don't yield,

well get up and hoe it

I look at you and you look at me and

deep in our hearts know it

That you weren't much of a muse,

but then I weren't much of a poet

I will be your slave

I will peel you grapes

Up on your pedestal

With your ivory and apes

With your book of ideas

With your alchemy

O Come on

Send that stuff on down to me

Send that stuff on down to me

Send that stuff on down to me

Send that stuff on down to me

Send that stuff on down to me

Send it all around the world

Cause here she comes, my beautiful girl

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes, my beautiful world

There she goes again

Favorite Neil songs hmmm:

01. "Ambulance Blues"- favorite song quote ever...you're all just pissing in the wind. I totally half-ripped this song off with one of my own...and I'd do it 100 times over. It really ranks up with the best closers ever ("A Day in the Life", "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", "Train in Vain" what have you...)

02. "Cowgirl in the Sand"- this song helped me get through a rough patch when someone I was really into got engaged...."Old enough now to change your name" still gets me.

03. "Cortez the Killer"- This song is just so fucking haunting...my body temp drops 4 degrees everytime I hear it.

04. "Thrasher"- This is my favorite Neil song lyrically. I think it's as good or at least nearly as good, as anything Dylan wrote.

05. "Helpless"- This song didn't hit me till I saw Last Waltz; then it was all over. Everything about this song is perfect. Just the right amount of everything. I still have a special spot in my heart for Last Waltz version, seeing Neil tear this song up with 6 more of my musical heroes (Joni, Robbie, Rick, Richard, Garth & Levon) is really great.

06. "Mellow My Mind"- I love when Neil goes high in the chorus; his voice is so ravaged and bonkers (a little off key) but so affecting "lonesome whistle on a rail road TRaaaaaaaaaack."

07. "Powderfinger"- This along with Thrasher are my two favorite Neil Young narratives. It's such a righteous piece of proto-grunge; great raucous performance, great lyric, great song.

08. "Like a Hurricane"- What can I say? Neil's so great that even his least praised 70s record has an undisputed classic.

09. "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere"- This song is a nice precursor to his softer rock sound, but still contains that great Crazy Horse bite.

10. "Harvest"- This is a little lightweight of a song, but what a gorgeous dreamy melody. I randomly burst out singing "Dream Up dream up let me fill your cup."

Today I listened to a veritable fuckload of music.

Sonic Youth- Sister

Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise

Pavement- Slanted & Enchanted

Pavement- Wowee Zowee!

Husker Du- Zen Arcade

Prince- Sign "O" The Times

Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Zuma

Love- Forever Changes

I'm probably winding down with some Joni Mitchell & then some Nick Drake.

Sleeps with angels-the 'tonight's the night of the 90s' and beyond!

craig

For being a huge Nirvana fan, it's surprising I never bought that album with the Cobain connection and all.

Neil has at least 10-15 essential records, depending on how hardcore of a music collector you are, and how hardcore of a Neil fan you become; I've yet to hear every single record, but of the ones I've heard, On The Beach is my favorite; Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush, Harvest, Tonight's the Night, Zuma, Rust Never Sleeps, Freedom and Ragged Glory are also essential. If you prefer Neil's so cal folk hippy side, you'll probably also like Comes a Time and Harvest Moon; if you're a Crazy Horse nut, you'll probably like Sleep with Angels and Mirrorball, though I admittedly haven't heard either.

Neil also has several live albums. the two Archive releases (Massey Hall & Fillmore East), Live Rust, and Arc Weld (one disc of bizzare noise and feedback, one of blistering concert performance) are all worth picking up.

I think Wilco is a much better band than they were in 1995, or even 1999. I'm not trying to take anything away from A.M., Being There or Summerteeth, all of which are great, but they became something more in the process of making YHF. Something able to deliver a much richer, more nuanced and more sublime experience. They went from being classifiable to transcending categorization. I'm kind of burned out on SBS for the time being, but when I was not, I liked it quite a bit.

I see it the opposite...I agree with A.M., Being There, Summer Teeth, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot being a progression, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot being an unclassifiable peak.

But the last two albums for me have been a backslide...the sound of a band who's peaked and really doesn't know what to do next. A Ghost is Born is still high quality, but Sky Blue Sky is no Summer Teeth or Being There, that's for damn sure.

Sky Blue Sky to me is like Wilco's Goathead Soup, Self-Portrait, Monster, Expirement Jet Trash No Star, Candy Apple Grey, or any number of albums that are just "okay" coming on the tail end of a series of masterpieces.

Tweedy is at his peak as a musician/ performer, I'll admit. His voice is less raspy than it used to be, and more dynamic. His guitar playing has improved a lot over the past 5 years too; but when you ask me what my 20 favorite Wilco songs are, you'll still get about 6 YHF songs, 6 Summer Teeth songs and various others. There is only maybe one song I'd consider for my top 20 on SBS, and that's "Impossible Germany".

Hopefully we'll have a new Wilco album by summer 2009.