Pieholden Suite

[rrnate]

This song has grown on me so much over the years. It's really great.

 

One thing that bothers me...those horns on the Summerteeth version are definetely some JB Keyboards. Maybe I'm being picky, but real horns would sound a lot better, IMO.

 

The recent solo-versions of this song are rad too.

 

In fact, I've never heard a bad version of it.

 

Summerteeth is funny, in that when it came out, I really liked the first half of the album, and was so-so on the 2nd half, and now it's kind of flipped for me. That 2nd half has the growers. (Also - While I think it's a little sub-par, "In A Future Age" (along with "Someday, Some Morning, Somtime (musically)) points to where Wilco went next, which is sort of interesting, at least to me...).

 

--nt--

 

PS - I guess this is my first post. I thought I'd posted before, but when I tried, I discovered I hadn't.

[deepseacatfish]

This song has grown on me so much over the years. It's really great.

 

One thing that bothers me...those horns on the Summerteeth version are definetely some JB Keyboards. Maybe I'm being picky, but real horns would sound a lot better, IMO.

I took a look at the liner notes and there is a real trumpet in there, but yeah, I think they (or at least Jay) was definitely going for the Mellotron horns effect.

[viatroy]

Much like My Darling, which is a Jay's song.

 

 

perhaps the only Wilco song I don't like.

[jhc]

perhaps the only Wilco song I don't like.

 

you have to listen to the version on the "rare YHF studio banter" outtake to fully appreciate that one

[Mr. Heartbreak]

you have to listen to the version on the "rare YHF studio banter" outtake to fully appreciate that one

That thing was classic. Do you have a link to that or mp3?

[froggie]

perhaps the only Wilco song I don't like.

 

 

what do you think of the version on the summerteeth demos?

different vocal

[aricandover]

 

what do you think of the version on the summerteeth demos?

different vocal

 

 

I pretty much love all versions of this song.

[gogo]

That thing was classic. Do you have a link to that or mp3?

Rare YHF Studio Banter

[froggie]

I pretty much love all versions of this song.

 

me too

[shoesgetcold]

The Hulkster had "I am a real American"

 

The Macho Man had "Pomp and Circumstance"

 

I would use the Pieholden instrumental

[aricandover]

the Hulkster "stole" that theme from Windham and Rotunda. he originally used "Eye of the Tiger"

[martynep]

Nice song. I like the rehearsal version from IATBYH.

The studio version is nice too.

The closing instrumental (horns) on the studio version has a little Burt Bachurach sound to it.

I'd like to see it on the next "Best of Dionne Warwick & Burt Bachurach"

 

Seriously, Pieholden Suite and More Like The Moon are two of Tweedy's finest.

(IMO)

Indeed.

 

I also think the sequence from Pieholden through Loneliness to Via Chicago is sublime and if I could only take 3 tracks to a desert island, it would be these.