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It could almost fit on "Sky Blue Sky"

It does, its called "Impossible Germany", I really feel that the early part of the song is crying out for the strings in jesus, etc. and have it build up to the back and forth between nels and jeff.... i really like impossible germany but i dont get into it until the end. When I hear jesus, etc. I jump right in, I wish impossible germany had that.

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Jesus, Etc was, in fact, the last song written for the album. Notice how different the vibe is from the rest of the album. It could almost fit on "Sky Blue Sky"

 

 

I think Jesus, etc. fits in quite well with the vibe of YHF. How is it different from the casual, mellow songs of Kamera

or Pot Kettle Black, and Ashes of American Flags?

 

This is easily one of my favorite Wilco songs, due to the combination of the lyrics and the strings. At first, I thought I was

listening to a Steely Dan song. Oh how wrong I was.

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"Jesus Etc." was the first song on YHF when I first heard the leak. I remember it was a Wends. and I was working on math homework, but took a break to put the cd-r in the cd player that used to live in the den. When the strings kicked in I stopped my homework and sat there and just listened, like intensely listened, for the enitre song... I think that's the moment Wilco became me favorite band...

 

sorry for going vastly off-topic...

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This is easily one of my favorite Wilco songs, due to the combination of the lyrics and the strings. At first, I thought I was

listening to a Steely Dan song. Oh how wrong I was.

 

Me too. Is it my imagination or have the live versions lately sounded much differently than they used to? The string parts seem to have given way to more synth. which is pretty disappointing. Maybe someday they'll perform it with an orchestra, that would kick ass!

 

BTW, Dan rules!

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Me too. Is it my imagination or have the live versions lately sounded much differently than they used to? The string parts seem to have given way to more synth. which is pretty disappointing. Maybe someday they'll perform it with an orchestra, that would kick ass!

 

BTW, Dan rules!

 

 

I'm a *huge* fan of the Hammond Organ (one of the many reasons I love Wilco) so it doesn't bother me so much, but it does alter the mood of the song. The live versions of "Jesus, etc." mostly bug me because of the crowd sing-along. Never in a million years would I have guessed that it would become one of those songs.

 

Someone out there much smarter than me must know this, but didn't they play a version with strings on either Leno or Letterman? I think it's somewhere out there in the ether.

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"Jesus Etc." was the first song on YHF when I first heard the leak. I remember it was a Wends. and I was working on math homework, but took a break to put the cd-r in the cd player that used to live in the den. When the strings kicked in I stopped my homework and sat there and just listened, like intensely listened, for the enitre song... I think that's the moment Wilco became me favorite band...

Really? I got the leak in early July of 2001 (not through great connections or anything, I just happened to run across it online, viva la 56k!) and the track order and song mix was definitely the same as what was eventually released. I remember thinking the rip was bad because of that skip in the feedbacky bit at the end of IATTBYH.

 

Even knowing it was written well before 9/11 I still connect it with that because that's what I was listening to pretty much non-stop at the time.

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That song is the prime example I use whenever I hear of someone trying to find the "definitive" meaning of a song's lyrics. Even if you manage to discover somehow exactly what was in the writer's head when it was written, it doesn't mean much, because the meaning will absolutely change later.

 

Whatever the phrase "tall buildings shake" meant when Jeff wrote it, it means something utterly different now.

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That song is the prime example I use whenever I hear of someone trying to find the "definitive" meaning of a song's lyrics. Even if you manage to discover somehow exactly what was in the writer's head when it was written, it doesn't mean much, because the meaning will absolutely change later.

 

Whatever the phrase "tall buildings shake" meant when Jeff wrote it, it means something utterly different now.

 

 

Jay Bennett wrote the chorus to the song.

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Jay Bennett wrote the chorus to the song.

 

I have heard and read that Jeff and Jay wrote that song in that age old method of "I have a chorus, you've got a verse - let's put it together" but I had never confirmed who wrote which. Not meaning to doubt you in any way, but I'm just curious - where did you find out that Jay wrote the chorus? I would say that the song definitely sounds a lot like him in the chords and structure overall.

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I'm pretty sure there are a few articles where it comes up and JB mentions the collaboration as being their/one of their last (and that Tweedy played drums on a demo or something). As far as I know, the verses are Tweedy and chorus is Bennett, and they combined them. Also in the interview Bennett mentions that the song was titled Jesus, Don't Cry but he was lazy and labeled a cd of it "Jesus, etc."

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