Jump to content

Sparky speaks

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    1,332

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Sparky speaks

    I Prefer AM to Summerteeth

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    AM is SOOOO underated on here. I can listen to it over and over. Hardly listened to Summerteeth at all.

     

     

    I agree with your sentiment about AM........Those who have followed Wilco from the beginning probably agree......That album got me hooked.......I also think Being There and SBS are right up there too......I think it is a generational thing.......I prefer the twangy Wilco over the noise of the albums in the middle of their catalog......

    The Colbert Report

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Good thing I have a DVR, since Tom Wolfe is giving a lecture at my school Thursday night. It's been a nice week of unexpected Wilco appearances, hasn't it? This, plus their appearance in Madison next weekend, plus the Rochester and Baltimore shows. Silly me for thinking they'd drop off the radar after the summer tour.

     

     

    It will be replayed Friday a couple of times and it will be on his website also.......Check TV schedule.......

    All-time favorite Wilco tracks

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    At the current time........

     

    Pot Kettle Black

     

    Impossible Germany

     

    Red Eye and Blue---I Got You

     

    Walken

     

    Thanks I Get

     

     

    Any of the following could crack top 5 depending on my mood.......

     

    Hummingbird

     

    Casino Queen

     

    Hate It Here

     

    Misunderstood

    21st Century Protest Songs

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    From wikipedia....

     

    Twenty-first century

     

    [edit] The Iraq War and the Revival of the Protest Song

    Neil Young, pictured here on the CSNY "Freedom Of Speech Tour '06", has returned to the front of the protest music scene with his album Living With War

    Neil Young, pictured here on the CSNY "Freedom Of Speech Tour '06", has returned to the front of the protest music scene with his album Living With War

     

    After the 90s the protest song found renewed popularity in the Western World after the turn of the century as a result of 9/11 in America, and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in the Middle East, with America's president George W. Bush facing the majority of the criticism. Many famous protest singers of yesteryear, such as Neil Young, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, and Bruce Springsteen, have returned to the public eye with new protest songs for the new war. Young approached the theme with his song, "Let's Impeach the President" - a stinging rebuke against President George W. Bush and the War in Iraq - as well as Living With War, an album of anti-Bush and anti-War protest songs. Smith has written two new songs indicting American and Israeli foreign policy - "Qana", about the Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese village of Qana, and "Without Chains", about the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay.

     

    R.E.M., who had been known for their politically charged material in the 1980s, also returned to increasingly political subject matter since the advent of the Iraq War. For example "Final Straw" (2003) is a politically-charged song, reminiscent in tone of "World Leader Pretend" on Green. The version on their Around the Sun album is a remix of the original , which was made available as a free download on March 25, 2003 from the band's website. The song was written as a protest of the U.S. government's actions in the Iraq War.

     

    Tom Waits has also covered increasingly political subject matter since the advent of the Iraq war, with "The Day After Tomorrow". In this song Waits adopts the persona of a soldier writing home that he is disillusioned with war and is thankful to be leaving. The song does not mention the Iraq war specifically, and, as Tom Moon writes, "it could be the voice of a Civil War soldier singing a lonesome late-night dirge." Waits himself does describe the song as something of an "elliptical" protest song about the Iraqi invasion, however.[43] Thom Jurek describes "The Day After Tomorrow" as "one of the most insightful and understated anti-war songs to have been written in decades. It contains not a hint of banality or sentiment in its folksy articulation."[44] Waits' recent output has not only addressed the Iraqi war, as his "Road To Peace" deals explicitly with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Middle East in general.

     

    Bruce Springsteen has also been vocal in his condemnation of the Bush government, among other issues of social commentary. In 2000 he released "American Skin (41 Shots)" about tensions between immigrants in America and the police force, and of the police shooting of Amadou Diallo in particular. For singing about this event, albeit without mentioning Diallo's name, Springsteen was denounced by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in New York who called for the song to be blacklisted and by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani amongst others.[45] In the aftermath of 9/11 Springsteen released The Rising, which exhibited his reflections on the tragedy and America's reaction to it. In 2006 he released We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a collection of 13 covers of protest songs made popular by Pete Seeger, which highlighted how these older protest songs remained relevant to the troubles of the modern America. An extended version of the album included the track "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" in which Springsteen actually rewrote the lyrics of the original to directly address the issue of Hurricane Katrina. His 2007 long-player, Magic, continues Springsteen's tradition of protest song-writing, with a number of songs which continue to question and attack America's role in the Iraqi war. "Last to Die", with its chorus of "Who'll be the last to die for a mistake.... Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break," is believed to have been inspired by Senator-to-be John Kerry's 1971 testimony to the US Senate, in which he asked "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"[46][47] "Gypsy Biker" deals with the homecoming of a US Soldier killed in action in Iraq, and Springsteen has said that "Livin' in the Future" references extraordinary rendition and illegal wiretapping.[47] "Long Walk Home" is an account of the narrator's sense that those people living at home "he thought he knew, whose ideals he had something in common with, are like strangers." The recurring lyric "it

    One Song

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    AFTER THE GOLDRUSH

    Well, I dreamed I saw the knights

    In armor coming,

    Saying something about a queen.

    There were peasants singing and

    Drummers drumming

    And the archer split the tree.

    There was a fanfare blowing

    To the sun

    That was floating on the breeze.

    Look at Mother Nature on the run

    In the nineteen seventies.

    Look at Mother Nature on the run

    In the nineteen seventies.

     

    I was lying in a burned out basement

    With the full moon in my eyes.

    I was hoping for replacement

    When the sun burst thru the sky.

    There was a band playing in my head

    And I felt like getting high.

    I was thinking about what a

    Friend had said

    I was hoping it was a lie.

    Thinking about what a

    Friend had said

    I was hoping it was a lie.

     

    Well, I dreamed I saw the silver

    Space ships flying

    In the yellow haze of the sun,

    There were children crying

    And colors flying

    All around the chosen ones.

    All in a dream, all in a dream

    The loading had begun.

    They were flying Mother Nature's

    Silver seed to a new home in the sun.

    Flying Mother Nature's

    Silver seed to a new home.

    Billboard says...

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    AM and SBS are two of my favorite Wilco albums.....Give me a few more songs like Box Full of Letters, Casino Queen, Pick Up the Change, Should've Been in Love, Passenger Side, Impossible Germany, Hate It Here, Walken, Side With the Seeds, SBS any day......I admit I like songs with less noise.......AGIB took along time for me to get into......If it wasn't for some of Jeff's solo versions of some of those songs I still might not like it......Some songs actually give me a headache, which I understand Jeff wanted to accomplish with a few of those songs.....I'll gladly take son of SBS.......

    Fantastic Wilco shows

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I walked out of Tanglewood thinking that it was probably one of the best concerts I had ever seen by anyone and I've been going to them since 1973.........It didn't quite beat McCartney at MSG in"89" but it was right up there for me......Great seats helped.......Saw Petty from the 2nd row a few years back and that one ranks up there too so if the Tanglewood show was that good in my view of things I would guess it would have to be one of their best shows......Does that make sense? CSNY in "02" rounds out my top four by the way.......And for the hell of it number five was Oasis at the Tweeter Center in Mass. in "05".....I'm sure no one cares.......

    My First Time...

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    The first time I listened to Wilco was right after AM came out.....The family was taking a vacation trip to Atlanta to visit friends and relatives and I listened to it several times in the car on the way down and home from Connecticut....Loved it.....Also bought a couple of Uncle Tupelo CDs in South Carolina on that trip as well......That AM CD brings back fine memories whenever I listen to it.....

    Opening for Neil?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Any definite word on the Worcester show yet? (Is Wilco opening?)........Listed on Neil's site not Wilco's.......Word of pre-sale date?.......Kind of need to know before MSG pre-sale......Worcester a better option for me.....Any help from Wilco insiders out there?

×
×
  • Create New...