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Dig it. Thanks.

Back to Uncle Tupelo, Punch Drunk...

"Hope I die before I get old"

I'm slightly nervous about this because it may confirm my worst fears--one of the greatest bands in rock should have retired long, long ago. But maybe they have another rock opera in them. Tommy? One of the best musical creations ever, next to Quadraphenia. Do you remember the mini-opera, A Quick One While He's Away? Brilliance.

My name is Ivor, and I'm an engine driver...

You're all forgiven!

In its entirety:

[i. Her Man's Been Gone]

Her man's been gone

For nearly a year

He was due home yesterday

But he ain't here

Her man's been gone

For nigh on a year

He was due home yesterday

But he ain't here

[iI. Crying Town]

Down your street your crying is a well-known sound

Your street is very well known, right here in town

Your town is very famous for the little girl

Whose cries can be heard all around the world

[iII. We Have A Remedy]

Fa la la la la la

Fa la la la la

Fa la la la la la

Fa la la la la

We have a remedy

You'll appreciate

No need to be so sad

He's only late

We'll bring you flowers and things

Help pass your time

We'll give him eagle's wings

Then he can fly to you

Fa la la la la la

Fa la la la la

Fa la la la la la

Fa la la la la

Fa la la la la la

Fa la la la la la

We have a remedy

Fa la la la la la la

We have a remedy

Fa la la la la la la

We have a remedy

Fa la la la la la la

We have a remedy

Fa la la la la la la

[spoken]

We have a remedy.

We have!

Little girl, why don't you stop your crying?

I'm gonna make you feel all right

[iV. Ivor The Engine Driver]

My name is Ivor

I'm an engine driver

I know him well

I know why you feel blue

Just 'cause he's late

Don't mean he'll never get through

He told me he loves you

He ain't no liar, I ain't either

So let's have a smile for an old engine driver

So let's have a smile for an old engine driver

Please take a sweet

Come take a walk with me

We'll sort it out

Back at my place, maybe

It'll come right

You ain't no fool, I ain't either

So why not be nice to an old engine driver?

Better be nice to an old engine driver

Better be nice to an old engine driver

[V. Soon Be Home]

We'll soon be home

We'll soon be home

We'll soon

We'll soon, soon, soon be home

We'll soon be home

We'll soon be home

We'll soon

We'll soon, soon, soon be home

Come on, old horse

Soon be home

Soon be home

Soon

We'll soon, soon, soon be home

We'll soon

We'll soon, soon, soon be home

We'll soon be home

Soon be home ...

[VI. You Are Forgiven]

Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang

Cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello

Cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello

Cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello

Cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello

I can't believe it

Do my eyes deceive me?

Am I back in your arms?

Away from all harm?

It's like a dream to be with you again

Can't believe that I'm with you again

I missed you and I must admit

I kissed a few and once did sit

On Ivor the Engine Driver's lap

And later with him, had a nap

You are forgiven, you are forgiven, you are forgiven ... [ad lib]

You are forgiven

I'm completely lost but will try to follow orders....

Please. No offense, but really seems to have run its course.

Steve Earle

A rehabilitated junkie? The gal who got me into Wilco in the first place is always pushing me to listen to Earle, and now Gram Parsons. What is it with drugs and alt country rock? (I know, another thread is all over this topic).

Will this thread ever end? Can we start a new one?

Thanks to whoever mentioned the KCRW live performance which is easily accessible on the web. JT gives a little background on the song then does a great version. Could this be a song from Civil War era? Doesn't matter, I love it and wish the solo version were back on Roadcase (not that I don't like Duluth show....).

I loved the Morrison song. Beautiful lyrics.

Back to the gutter....

Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,

They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.

They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.

Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.

But I would not feel so all alone,

Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone ya when you're walkin' 'long the street.

They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to keep your seat.

They'll stone ya when you're walkin' on the floor.

They'll stone ya when you're walkin' to the door.

But I would not feel so all alone,

Everybody must get stoned.

They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table.

They'll stone ya when you are young and able.

They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to make a buck.

They'll stone ya and then they'll say, "good luck."

Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone,

Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end.

Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again.

They'll stone you when you're riding in your car.

They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.

Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,

Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone.

They'll stone you when you are walking home.

They'll stone you and then say you are brave.

They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave.

But I would not feel so all alone,

Everybody must get stoned.

1. Cum

2. Crap

3. Piss

4. Snot

5. Blood

(not in any particular order)

First heard this from ric von schmidt. he lives in cambridge.

Rics a blues guitar player.

I met him one day on the green pastures of the harvard university.

Baby let me follow you down

Baby let me follow you down

Well Ill do anything in this godalmighty world

If you just let me follow you down.

Can I come home with you

Baby can I come home with you?

Yes Ill do anything in this godalmighty world

If you just let me come home with you.

Baby let me follow you down

Baby let me follow you down

Well Ill do anything in this godalmighty world

If you just let me follow you down.

Yes Ill do anything in this godalmighty world

If you just let me follow you down.

Love AGIB. Essential to AWATT.

Neil Young-like guitar on opening, ALTWYS rocks.

Hell is Chrome became a favorite after seeing it live.

Spiders...a masterpiece

Muzzle and Hummingbird are lovely and some of JT's best lyrics

Handshake, Wishful, and Company from the very first listen struck me as the best series of songs strung together since Abbey Road, and first two live transport to another freakin' plane

I'm a Wheel took a while but have come to enjoy its rambunctiousness

Theologians is particularly valued in my small world of study of religion

Less Than You Think I have to skip because it makes my head spin

The Late Greats is one of the best ending songs for any album

Listen to it everyday.

I'd give my [fill in the blank] to see any damn show, even if it did have a short setlist and some technical difficulties!!! You're all lucky to be there.

Thanks for the report which does ease the pain somewhat of not being there.....

Now if they'd put the rest of the Duluth show up on Roadcase!

Was that a religious experience???

Seems like more of a MySpace entry then something for the VCers.

Who the fuck cares?

Richard Pryor (catching fire)

Dan Akroyd (Fred Garvin)

Eddie Murphy (hey Norton)

John Cleese (funny walks)

Bob Saget (Aristocrats)

Honorable mention: Sarah Silverman (want to be sensitive to gender imbalance)

Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.!

Move y'self to go again

Cold water in the face

Brings you back to this awful place

Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too

Must get up an' learn those rules

Weather man and the crazy chief

One says sun and one says sleet

A.M., the F.M. the P.M. too

Churning out that boogaloo

Gets you up and gets you out

But how long can you keep it up?

Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony

So cheap and real phony

Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents

English pounds and Eskimo pence

You lot! What?

Don't stop! Give it all you got!

You lot! What?

Don't stop! Yeah!

Working for a rise, better my station

Take my baby to sophistication

She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice

Better work hard - I seen the price

Never mind that it's time for the bus

We got to work - an' you're one of us

Clocks go slow in a place of work

Minutes drag and the hours jerk

"When can I tell 'em wot I do?

In a second, maaan...oright Chuck!"

Wave bub-bub-bub-bye to the boss

It's our profit, it's his loss

But anyway lunch bells ring

Take one hour and do your thanng!

Cheeesboiger!

What do we have for entertainment?

Cops kickin' Gypsies on the pavement

Now the news - snap to attention!

The lunar landing of the dentist convention

Italian mobster shoots a lobster

Seafood restaurant gets out of hand

A car in the fridge

Or a fridge in the car?

Like cowboys do - in T.V. land

You lot! What? Don't stop. Huh?

So get back to work an' sweat some more

The sun will sink an' we'll get out the door

It's no good for man to work in cages

Hits the town, he drinks his wages

You're frettin', you're sweatin'

But did you notice you ain't gettin'?

Don't you ever stop long enough to start?

To take your car outta that gear

Don't you ever stop long enough to start?

To get your car outta that gear

Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels

Came to the checkout at the 7-11

Marx was skint - but he had sense

Engels lent him the necessary pence

What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!!

Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi

Went to the park to check on the game

But they was murdered by the other team

Who went on to win 50-nil

You can be true, you can be false

You be given the same reward

Socrates and Milhous Nixon

Both went the same way - through the kitchen

Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin

Who's more famous to the billion millions?

News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie

Oooohh...bub-bye

Magnificence!!

FUCKING LONG, INNIT?

That's my day job, about 8 months a year (though I have all of next year off to write).

Was it the cherry commentary that raised your suspicions? You should hear my lectures!

But about the original post--would you really describe it as a religious experience? That's intriguing and I wonder how many others would use religious language to convey the concert, or listening, experience with Wilco. I sure felt it in Asheville and Denver--nothing over the top, really, but something quite out of the ordinary and spiritual as well as simple musical pleasure. In my own history, the only other time I felt like drawing on religion to capture a concert experience was seeing the Boss in the early 80s (indeed, one of the papers I wrote in college that led me to believe a life in academia could be fulfilling was final paper I wrote in social psychology on Springsteen shows and religion). I'm not talking about believing JT is God, or that Wilco concerts are comparable to cult-like activity at Dead shows, but rather how Tweedy himself descibed it in various interviews (and quoted for a time in a VCer's signature)... something similar to what he said in recent radio interview:

Well the ideal musical experience is to forget who you are, and where you are, it

1. And the gray fountain spray of the great Milky Way would never let him die alone

2. I know I would die if I could come back new

3. You have to learn how to die if you want to want to be alive

4. And I will always die, I will always die, I will always die so you can remember me

5. I dreamed about killing you again last night and it felt alright to me

Top 5 death-related Wilco lyrics.

I haven't used the "cherry" metaphor since high school (long, long ago), but isn't it "pop a cherry" or something like that? I'm not sure a virgin gets her cherry "broken", though I could be wrong since, well, as I said, long, long ago....

I'll respond to the substance of this thread later this evening, after I down a few (not cherries!!).

He succeeded to a large degree, but eventually got left in the dust by any number of other artists.

 

LouieB

Amen, brother. This is not an album I returned to again and again. I recognize its brilliance and influence, but not something that has much more than historical value to me.

Let me be bold: We would not even be here if it wasn't for Pet Sounds. Paul knows it. Jeff knows it. Pete knows it. I think we can end this thread now.

no, it was from the mermaid avenue sessions. it didnt make the album cause it was found woody didnt actually write the lyrics.

 

nice tune...!

So who wrote it?

I only know the version that's up on roadcase from Mandel Hall. Can anyone provide me with other versions as mp3? And, I hate to admit it, but I don't know the history of this one. Did Jeff write this?

Thanks.

(I like the so called homeless dude look by the way, I have sported it for years...)

 

LouieB

Me too. In fact, I'm trying to emulate it in my own appearance, much to my wife's chagrin.

so you're into earthy uncompromising cathartic bands?

 

Nice way to put it. Yes. Any others that come to your mind, just as cathartic, just as uncompromising?