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1.) Muzzle of Bees 2.) War on War 3.) Chinese Apple 4.) Remember the Mountain Bed 5.) Poor Places 6.) Gun 7.) She's A Jar 8.) Jesus, etc. 9.) Not For The Season/Laminated Cat 10.) One By One 11.) Sunken Treasure 12.) I Am Trying To Break Your Heart 13.) Diamond Claw 14.) Venus Stopped The Train 15.) Pieholden Suite 16.) Watch Me Fall 17.) Ashes of American Flags 18.) Hummingbird 19.) Wreckroom 20.) Someday Some Morning Sometime --Mike

I say eligible, Jeff got credited for the lyrics when Jay released his version on Bigger Than Blue. --Mike

Wilco has an "arranged by" credit on this song, I'm saying it's fair game. Good choice, friend. Thanks for the lists folks. If you're list is not in order please specify like Nudie did that all songs should be counted equally. --Mike

Panthers just got a blurb. --Mike

Edit: All final lists due by Friday, August 28th. As many of you may know American songwriter has been excruciatingly unveiling their list of the twenty best Tweedy songs over the past couple of weeks, you can read all about here: Top 20 Jeff Tweedy Songs Thread. The list has been frustratingly inconsistent, and I was thinking perhaps rather than ripping the American Songwriter guys with yet another post. I'd just try to do it better. So, over the next few weeks, I invite all of you to share lists of your top 20 Tweedy songs. In a few weeks, I'll compile the lists, and complete a master ta

Shit, I forgot Watching the Wheels, I have a feeling I am going to be doing that a lot while looking at these lists. How Do You Sleep actually might be my least favorite Beatles solo song(1). In fact I'd speculate Speed Racer likes Leave Me Like You Found Me more than I like How Do You Sleep? I guess I like McCartney too much to ever feel anything but uncomfortable while listening to it, but it's just so bitter and unpleasant. Setting hate mail to music is a tricky slope and I don't feel like Lennon really pulled off there. --Mike 1.) I haven't heard a lot of Ringo's stuff, and there

Owen's only supposed to be in it for a cameo, I think his only line in the movie might be in the trailer, unless they expanded the part. I am excited to hear his voice as well, I hope he and Wes write the next WA film together again. Noah Baumbach co-wrote this script with Wes, I am pretty sure they finished writing it before Darjeeling happened. --Mike

Clooney. Meryl Strep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Jarvis Cocker doing music, count me in. --Mike

Wonderful thread idea, here's my list. 1. Every Night-McCartney 2. All Things Must Pass- Harrison 3. #9 Dream-Lennon 4. Look at Me-Lennon 5. Isn't a Pity-Harrison 6. Maybe I'm Amazed- McCartney 7. Nobody Told Me- Lennon 8. God-Lennon 9. Crackerbox Palace-Harrison 10. Back Seat of My Car-McCartney And eleven: Jet-McCartney (and here's a bonus link to Jellyfish covering Jet Linda McCartney! --Mike

Looks like there's been some confusion on this matter of late, but we are at VC are all about clarity and harpsichords. So may this always guide you well: AM BT ST YHF AGIB SBS W(TA) --Mike

Billy Bragg looks enthralled to be there. --Mike

Their 1999 performance was one of the first things I listened to the night Jay's passing became public. That and the 2002 show were pretty good, looking forward to this one. --Mike

It is, thanks for posting. Okay here's my very distorted and unnecessarily personalized view of the I'm Always in Love two guitars are obsolete argument. I base this on having listened to too many bootlegs. In the spring of 1999, I'm Always in Love was played with both Jay and Leroy on keyboards and Jay playing the main synth riff. The main problem with this version is (to me) at least, the synth riff sounded terrible. They didn't just use the setting they had on the album, and instead the main riff was played by this high pitched buzzy thing that was quite distracting. By the time th

You can't have two headcases on one team, unless you want to become the Portland Jail Blazers. As long as Randy Moss is a Pat, they'll stay away from Vick. --Mike

Does Trace count? --Mike

I think the best songs on Sky Blue Sky fit alongside the tracks on Loose Fur's Born Again in the USA a little better than with the tracks on WTA. WTA has some flaws, but I think for the most parts the songs are already there on that album. I think a better producer (for some reason Dave Fridmann immediately came to mind), a better mix, and maybe one more really great song as a closer to knock out Everlasting, and I could love that album without hesitation. As for Born Again in the Sky Blue Sky, of course I'll provide you with a tracklist. I have decided that Jim O'Rourke's songs on USA are i

I'd have given him at least that for breaking my 13-year-old heart by leading Virginia Tech to a last second game-winning field goal in the 1999 WVU-Va. Tech game. Edit: Bad Newz Kennelz was obviously horrible too. This spring my childhood dog died in my arms at 16, it was excruciatingly sad. In July we adopted a new puppy named Jack, who has essentially increased my general happiness to very high levels. Essentially I think what Vick did was unconscionable. It's tough seeing any athlete break the law, but there was a brutality and to this point uniqueness to this case. No it's not worse th

Sugarcube by Yo La Tengo. --Mike

Well it's so good as I have been listening to it, I have been pondering packing my bags and heading over to Via Hoboken. Typically eclectic set from the band, lot of great Ira guitar parts, some amazing string arrangements and 60's Motown-style duet between Ira and Georgia. Then there's the epic three songs in 35 minutes closing tracks. Further solidifies their position as the "Holy Spirit" in the Trinity of American Art Rock Bands, The Velvets being God, and The Talking Heads Jesus. --Mike

It leaked, it can be found easily via a google blog search. --Mike

Awesome. --Mike

I've also heard him say the songs were like talking about your problems in the Grand Canyon. --Mike

I know exactly what you mean. That part and the piano break that comes right after it is my favorite few seconds of the entire album. --Mike

Studio, and for me it's not even close. My favorite live versions of the YHF songs are either from the short-lived Bennett/Kotche tour or the Jorgensten/Bach lineup in 2002-2003. The six-piece's arrangements of the material are kind of hit (Ashes of American Flags) or miss (I'm The Man Who Loves You-- I think they play it too fast now and Pat's awful funk keyboards almost ruin the song) for me. The demos are great to listen to, but I really feel the definitive versions of all those songs are the versions on Yankee. --Mike

I think Summerteeth sounds wonderful. The multiple layers put into each song always seemed to be the point to me, Tweedy wanted the layers of ornate arrangements to contrast the lyrics, which can be quite unsettling. To me it's supposed to sound a little overcooked, that was the idea, and in the same way that Woody Allen's constant third wall breaking in Annie Hall almost enhances the reality of the film for me, Bennett's layering enhances the power of the songs on the album. Sometimes it borders on going a little too far (in Annie Hall it's the Snow White scene, in Summerteeth it's that synth