Here are the two new Wilco tunes

[Gobias Industries]

I must be the only person who has reservations about these. It'll probably clear up soon, but for now I'm slightly unimpressed.

[lamradio]

I must be the only person who has reservations about these. It'll probably clear up soon, but for now I'm slightly unimpressed.

 

One Wing is amazing. It does sort of sound like Interpol at the beginning, and thats not a bad thing at all.

 

The other one not so much, but still pretty catchy.

[uncool2pillow]

When I saw Wilco at Val Air Ballroom in 2006, they played Walken and On and On. It was pretty clear that the next album was going to sound different from the previous one. Didn't get that sense w/ these 2 tracks. Kind of follow the SBS mold of mellow songs. One Wing has a great intensity at the end. I love what Nels adds in that regard!

 

Thanks for posting.

[Sir Stewart]

'One Wing' might be 'You Are My Face' good.

[you ever seen a ghost?]

thanks! these are great! anybody try to transcribe the lyrics yet?

 

-justin

[tedrock]

I just transcribed the lyrics to One Wing from the version played at the Anchorage show.

(if that is what it is called).

This songs feels VERY Radiohead to me... the solos

 

We once belonged to a bird

Who cast it's shadow on this world

You were the best thing

And I was the curse

I did my best not to make things worse

for you

 

But is it true

I always knew this would be our fate

This is what happens when we separate

This happens to all dead weight eventually

 

We may as well be made of stone

We can't be phoned (?or "foam"?

One way we'll never fight dear

Neither yours nor mine I fear

 

One wing

we'll never ever fight dear

Neither yours nor mine I feel

We can only wave goodbye

 

One wing

we'll never ever fight dear

neither yours nor mine I feel

we can only wave goodbye

Bye Bye

[tedrock]

Sunny Feeling lyrics - also from the Anchorage show

Not sure of the word 'heighty' and 'I could never find out' - otherwise pretty sure of the rest.

 

 

 

Sunny Feeling

 

I was on my way home

from high school

I was stuck at the crossing

I dug in for a duel

 

Well at the last moment

I slammed on the brakes

My life split in two directions

Two separate fates

 

Got on the last flight

into rotterdam

couldn't hit the runway

so it took off again

 

"Aw no need to worry,"

the captain cut in,

"the winds are less heighty,

over in Berlin."

 

You know I won't be there for you,

So this is all I know is true,

Your darkest days are good for you,

The darkest night is nothing new

 

I could nearly answer

for myself

Is my life a cancer

or anybody else?

 

I could never find out

I could never say

I now realize

or nearly change my ways.

 

A sunny feeling is taken away (4 x)

 

I was on my way home

from high school

I was stuck at the crossing

Where the kids are still cruel

Oh, the kids are still cruel

 

The sunny feeling is taken away (4 x)

[kimcatch22]

tedrock, I like your name. My best friend is a guy named Ted and you better believe he rocks!

 

Oh yeah, thanks for the tunes and lyrics!

[ryann7739]

I pray to God these get played at Lolla and Cary.

[blindgonzo]

'One Wing' might be 'You Are My Face' good.

 

 

Thanks for the tunes! I am getting into Sunny Feeling too.

[u2roolz]

I posted these comments about the 2 new songs in After The Show.....I want to put them here to see if anyone feels the same. I like anyone I guess hates to keep on saying "oh this reminds me of this so ... blah blah...."....... but I guess it's a good thing to hear influences in music. It's just natural.

 

 

 

"First impression :

 

One Wing - beginning guitar parts reminded me of The Cure(not sure which era). But than I went through my iPod and I realized it actually reminded me more of Interpol's Hands Away on Turn On The Bright Lights. I love the guitar sounds and lyrics and the ending is just amazing. Like nothing Wilco has done before.

 

Sunny Feeling - like people have been saying dark lyrics with an upbeat jaunty melody. I love it because it's a great tune and sounds fantastic and it helps that it's completely different to One Wing. Actually, after a few listens it sounds like a distant cousin to Walken.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Kristofor

 

PS Enjoy Folks !"

[ryann7739]

I like Sunny Feeling more I think, though One Wing is stellar.

[MeDave]

if nothing changes this will make 3 straight albums with songs containing the name of a city in- or the state of germany.

 

just observing.

[zkits]

One wing reminded me of the hook in Losing My Religion by REM.

[Halsey12]

I must be the only person who has reservations about these. It'll probably clear up soon, but for now I'm slightly unimpressed.

 

I didn't get through either of the songs. Lots of skipping around.

[Guest Alan]

'One Wing' might be 'You Are My Face' good.

YAMF is like a top 5 wilco song. lets not get out of hand here.

 

my thoughts on One Wing:

 

It sounds like it could have fit on Sky Blue Sky, which is a little disappointing if this is a newly written song. the lyrics are kinda meh, and the guitar solo freak out thing at the end just sort of feels tacked on. it doesn't really serve the song.

[Sir Stewart]

YAMF is like a top 5 wilco song. lets not get out of hand here.

Good point.

[Guest Alan]

the more i listen to One Wing, the more i like it though.

[you ever seen a ghost?]

i think both of these songs sound like SBS material actually.

 

-justin

[entropy]

i think both of these songs sound like SBS material actually.

 

yes, but with guitar squiggles.

 

i don't mean for that to sound as condescending as it does.

[radiokills]

i think both of these songs sound like SBS material actually.

 

-justin

 

 

i agree, and because of this i was somewhat depressed.

[Kalle]

One Wing - Sounds like in the same vain as Impossible Germany, I feel it still needs some work with the arrangement etc, Nels' solo is cool but I feel it's too much of the same old same old shredding vibrato stuff freak out stuff.

 

Sunny Feeling - Has potential to be a fun pop number, I don't like the falsetto thing in the verses and I still feel there could be more to it. I'm sure we'll hear these evolve quite a bit over the next year or so and these probably gave a far better impression live as I found with all of the SBS material.

[TheMaker]

I don't really know about either of these. I mean, Sunny Feeling is great, but guys, you've already written Walken, and while fun, it's not quite a fantastic song. No need to do it again.

 

One Wing is a bit of an improvement. Kind of a slow burner, I guess. I really like the melody (that bassline is wonderful) and the first little crescendo at the two-minute mark. I feel like I've sat through the "song-ending guitar breakdown" a thousand times before, though. Not every song has to end with Nels unleashing a flurry of notes. Nels all pointing his Fender at the audience, all, "Here, guys - NOTES! NOTES FOR ALL!" Me all shielding my face, like, "PTOO, dude, easy-! Watch the eyes!"

 

Anyway. I was a bit bored by both songs. Here's hoping they push themselves outside of SBS outtake territory sooner rather than later. I hate how disinterested in this band I've been since the damned Volvo ads (or whatever the fuck they were).

[hawthorne]

the songs are good. nothing i have not heard from wilco before. i don't think they are anything to get too excited about, really.

[the carlos]

'One Wing' might be 'You Are My Face' good.

I said something very similar to L. last night.