Search the Sky Blue

[lizish]

a certain UT geek pointed out that combining The Search with SBS would be make a great record. Personally I haven't listened to each enough to pick favourites and duds.

 

But here are the ground rules - Choose roughly an equal number of songs from each and post a track listing. You have a limit of 12 tracks.

 

to 'Search the Sky Blue' (or whatever other name you want to come up with) from a reformed Uncle Tupelo

[TheMaker]

I was thinking about this very exercise just the other day. Years ago, the last time Wilco and Son Volt released albums in the same year, I made an "A.M. Trace" compilation just for the sheer fun of it. While it sounded basically like an Uncle Tupelo album, I think the juxtaposition between Jay and Jeff's work is a lot less complementary today than it was back in '95. The Search and SBS are both frigging excellent, but they don't sound too much alike. That said, I think my copy of "Sky Blue Search" would look something like this, based not necessarily on my favourite songs from each disc, but rather what I think would sound best as a single set:

 

1. Slow Hearse

2. The Picture

3. You Are My Face

4. Circadian Rhythm

5. Impossible Germany

6. The Search

7. Sky Blue Sky

 

(Wow, I just realized that these albums having title tracks is a first for both Wilco and SV)

 

8. Methamphetamine

9. Please Be Patient

10. L-Train

11. I Hate It Here

12. Highway and Cigarettes

13. What Light

14. On and On and On

[Lodestar]

(Wow, I just realized that these albums having title tracks is a first for both Wilco and SV)

 

"Summer Teeth" doesn't count?

[Beltmann]

Or Kicking Television?

[TheMaker]

I'm just pedantic enough to sit around wondering why the album is called Summerteeth while the song is "Summer Teeth."

 

And I don't really think of live albums as a part of any artist's canon, but I guess ya got me there.

[Beltmann]

I'm just pedantic enough to sit around wondering why the album is called Summerteeth while the song is "Summer Teeth."

It's clearly a foreshadow of the cryptic qualities that would soon inform YHF.

 

And I don't really think of live albums as a part of any artist's canon, but I guess ya got me there.

Nah, I pretty much agree.

[peqger]

And I don't really think of live albums as a part of any artist's canon, but I guess ya got me there.

Unless it's previously unreleased material, like Neil Young's Time Fades Away, right?

[TheMaker]

F'SHO.

 

I wish more people had Neil's gumption. There aren't enough live albums of new songs in the world.

[welch79]

I was thinking about this very exercise just the other day. Years ago, the last time Wilco and Son Volt released albums in the same year, I made an "A.M. Trace" compilation just for the sheer fun of it. While it sounded basically like an Uncle Tupelo album, I think the juxtaposition between Jay and Jeff's work is a lot less complementary today than it was back in '95. The Search and SBS are both frigging excellent, but they don't sound too much alike. That said, I think my copy of "Sky Blue Search" would look something like this, based not necessarily on my favourite songs from each disc, but rather what I think would sound best as a single set:

 

1. Slow Hearse

2. The Picture

3. You Are My Face

4. Circadian Rhythm

5. Impossible Germany

6. The Search

7. Sky Blue Sky

 

(Wow, I just realized that these albums having title tracks is a first for both Wilco and SV)

 

8. Methamphetamine

9. Please Be Patient

10. L-Train

11. I Hate It Here

12. Highway and Cigarettes

13. What Light

14. On and On and On

weird. i was just now listening to an uncle tupelo playlist and thought how much i liked the contrast b/w jay and jeff on the same album.

 

this seems like a hit, themaker. i just made this playlist and will give it a try.