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More like top 20 than top 5.

Slow Train Coming

Blood on the Tracks

Blond on Blond

Oh Mercy

Bringing it all Back Home

Just to start...

Is all well? I don't think so....

Randolph Drummer

One of the first albums I bought as a youngster....but not one of their best.

I thought they were dead...John Doe? Exene? That X?

To be honest, I think it was the alcohol and cotton balls that made that album.

Still watching this show in Germany, and the small crowd is just sitting there.....Wow, Jay really can't sing a good back-up vocal, can he? Too many cigarettes, I think.

Hell is Chrome and Handshake Drugs seemed especially inspired at this show, if memory serves me.

I just put on dvd my brother-in-law gave me: German Hotel Kamera, and am watching 7/9/99, Rockpalast, Loreley, Germany, and am absolutely certain the current line-up rolls over Jay and company. I think by YHF Jay had given all he could and though integral to Wilco evolution, there's no comparison between line-ups now.

My three cents.

You've heard it all before....

Point zero: MA1, which someone gave me in Jan. 2004. After a few listenings, went AWATT and have not put on any other music since then. Really, this Jan. will be two year anniversary for me to be in this delusional state. From Mermaid I went to A.M., then went simultaneously backward and forward in time: Anodyne, then BT, then March, then Summerteeth, then Still Feel Gone, then YHF, No Depression, finally AGIB. By that time I discovered other Tweedy related music, including GS and LF, but also began listening to the Jayhawks (just got Hollywood Town Hall). AWATT is really ATATT, but the former has a nice ring to it, so I

woah, what happened to all wilco all the time?

AWATT does not completely define who I am and what I do...yet. At this point still find other avenues for entertainment and escape, including reading when I have the chance!

My Flying Saucer.

Finally, summer reading begins: Bob Dylan, Chronicles; Larson, Devil in the White City. Started and loving the Dylan!

Just want to let all of you know we're talking about you in JAF, if you don't know already.

Isn't it odd that the "old timers" (been on the board years, with thousands of posts) choose not to disclose much or anything about themselves? Primarily newbies who seem willing to do so here.... Why is that? These kinds of posts must come in cycles so likely grows tiring for them....

LouieB we DO want to know!

Stardog, why all the sarcasm?

Veterans of VC who are you, really?

Sometimes Most of the time means...

 

Most of the time

Oh yes, one of my favorites from Dylan.

Does anyone listen to Roxy Music anymore?

Now the party's over

I'm so tired

Then I see you coming

Out of nowhere

Much communication in a motion

Without conversation or a notion

Avalon

When the samba takes you

Out of nowhere

And the background's fading

Out of focus

Yes the picture's changing

Every moment

And your destination

You don't know it

Avalon

When you bossanova

There's no holding

Would you have me dancing

Out of nowhere

Avalon ...

I think it should be said that not only would the Fabs NOT made Pepper,but their legacy as countercultural icons wouldn't have happened if a certain Mr. Zimmerman hadn't turned them on to the joys of cannabis

Scott

And without the joys of cannabis, no counterculture at all--and certainly more than half of this list would disappear, leaving only.... Sinatra, the Spice Girls, and a few other nontokers.

Schweet, indeed!

Thanks for posting.

This makes me realize I am a fair weather fan....I love the current lineup of Wilco, but dang if listening to this show didn't make me miss Jay and question whether things were better back then.

My thoughts exactly--listening now and I'm loving this and recognize that Jay was a great contribution to the band. That said, however, I'm still a huge fan of Wilco post-Jay. Yes, me too, "a fair weather fan."

In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown

On the silver paper of the wrapper

There's a dapper little man

And he wears a wax moustache

That he twists with nicotine fingers

As he drops his cigarette ash

And someone comes and sweeps it up

And then he doffs his cap

And there's a rat in someone's bedroom

And they're shutting someone's trap

And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces

And the doors swing back and forward, from the past into the present

And the bedside crucifixion turns from wood to phosphorescent.

And they're moving problem families from the South up to the North,

Mother's crying over some soft soap opera divorce,

And you say you didn't do it, but you know you did of course,

And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces.

It's like shouting in a matchbox, filled with plasterboard and hope,

Like a picture of Prince William in the arms of John the Pope.

There's a world of good intentions, and pity in their eyes,

The sedated homes of England, are theirs to vandalize.

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,

And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.

And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

You're the twinkle in your daddy's eye, a name you spray and scribble,

You made the girls all turn their heads, and in turn they made you miserable.

To be the heir apparent, to the kingdom of the invisible.

So you knock the kids about a bit, because they've got your name,

And you knock the kids about a bit, until they feel the same.

And they feel like knocking down the little palaces.

No one else hated Hoodoo Vodoo the first time through? Curious to hear so many saying Summerteeth, which immediately struck me as brilliant in a Beatles, Beach Boys, Costello kind of way--except for one song.

Why don't you decide for everyone else?

Blue Earth, again!

Jay - Jeff = 0

The Who, the Ramones, and Prince should be much higher on list of influential albums, IMO.

The Spiced Girls changed music?

I got sunburned and its hot as hell in LA at the moment (no air conditioning)

Which beach? Or were you by the pool?

You don't know hot. Hotlanta, with the mosquitos, is hell.