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MAGNET Magazine's list of the five most overrated and five most underrated Wilco songs


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I have to say I disagree with a lot of things here....

 

First off, Hummingbird, IG, Via Chicago and Theoligans are some of my fav Wilco songs. Maybe because a large amount of my Wilco listening is live Wilco. Another thing, what is this assumption of VCers hating A.M.??? A.M. is tremendous stuff, maybe I'm the only one. And What Light is awful

 

Where we agree is in his under rated list, all those tunes (with the exception of Company in my back) are Wilco gems. My personal most overrated Wilco song, I'm the man who loves you

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my 10 cents.

 

Overrated:

 

A.M.: "Box Full of Letters"

Being There: "The Lonely One"

Mermaid Avenue 1: "California Stars"

Summerteeth: "How to Fight Loneliness"

Mermaid Avenue 2: "Airline to Heaven"

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: "I'm the Man Who Loves You"

A Ghost is Born: "The Late Greats"

Sky Blue Sky: "Walken"

Wilco 7: "Wilco, The Song" (Yes I already think this song is massively overhyped.)

 

Underrated:

 

A.M.: "It's Just That Simple"

Being There: "Say You Miss Me"

Mermaid Avenue: "Another Man's Done Gone"

Summerteeth: "My Darling"

MA2: "Someday Some Morning Sometime"

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: "Radio Cure"

A Ghost is Born: "Wishful Thinking"

Sky Blue Sky: "Leave Me Like You Found Me"

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Guest Hollinger.

01. Pot Kettle Black

02. Too Far Apart

03. Via Chicago

04. At Least That's What You Said

05. Radio Cure

06. California Stars

07. Misunderstood

08. You Are My Face

09. Cars Can't Escape

10. Poor Places

11. I'm Always In Love

12. Jesus, Etc.

13. Shouldn't Be Ashamed

14. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

15. Sunken Treasure

16. Ashed Of American Flags

17. A Shot In The Arm

18. A Magazine Called Sunset

19. Wishful Thinking

20. The Thanks I Get

21. Theologians

22. Pick Up The Change

23. Red Eyed And Blue

24. I'm The Man Who Loves You

25. Venus Stop The Train

26. ELT

27. Either Way

28. Kicking Television

29. At My Window Sad And Lonely

30. When The Roses Bloom Again

31. War On War

32. Forget The Flowers

33. Can't Stand It

34. Hell Is Chrome

35. Company In My Back

36. Let's Not Get Carried Away

37. Remember The Mountain Bed

38. I Got You (At The End Of The Century)

39. I Must Be High

40. My Darling

41. Not For The Season

42. Muzzle Of Bees

43. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

44. Hotel Arizona

45. Box Full Of Letters

46. Hummingbird

47. Airline To Heaven

48. The Late Greats

49. One By One

50. Side With The Seeds

51. It's Just That Simple

52. Reservations

53. She's A Jar

54. Should've Been In Love

55. How To Fight Loneliness

56. Hesitating Beauty

57. Please Be Patient With Me

58. Was I In Your Dreams

59. Heavy Metal Drummer

60. Hate It Here

61. Summerteeth

62. Someday Soon

63. Glad It's Over

64. Nothingsevergonnastandinmyway (Again)

65. Monday

66. Dreamer In My Dreams

67. Far, Far Away

68. Blood Of The Lamb

69. I'm A Wheel

70. Why Would You Wanna Live

71. Handshake Drugs

72. Impossible Germany

73. Say You Miss Me

74. Casino Queen

75. In A Future Age

76. When You Wake Up Feeling Old

77. Casino Queen

78. Blasting Fonda

79. That's Not The Issue

80. Walken

81. Alone

82. Hoodoo Voodoo

83. What's The World Got In Store

84. Secret Of The Sea

85. The Good Part

86. Shake It Off

87. Kamera

88. Passenger Side

89. We're Just Friends

90. Kingpin

91. The Lonely 1

92. Dash 7

93. Sky Blue Sky

94. What Light

95. Pieholden Suite

96. The High Heat

97. Blue Eyed Soul

98. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

99. Leave Me (Like You Found Me)

100. Just A Kid

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Sure to be an argument starter. A MAGNET writer picks the five most overrated and five most underrated Wilco songs: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/03/03/t...verunder-wilco/

 

Also recently posted was the in-depth (and somewhat controversial) 2002 MAGNET cover story on Wilco: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2002/06/01/w...s-and-villains/

 

wow. that was one of the top five most over-rated articles i have ever read. writing about music is like dancing about art, anyway, so hopefully people don't rely on this swill and the clowns at RS to make their decisions for them. my eyes hurt.

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I like Heavy Metal Drummer -- it just makes me happy. And I may be out of the loop, but don't know Bon Iver. And I do like Sun Volt -- I just can't listen to an album all the way through cos his voice annoys me after awhile. (Same thing with the White Stripes -- I like, uyt after awhile his voice gets to me, too.)

 

Oh well, everyone's entitled to his opinion.

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I have seen on tv all of the overrated ones except Via Chicago. So maybe that is the criteria to be overrated. Except when they do underrated, they talk about songs that "real" Wilco fans don't like (yet I've seen HMD & Box Full of Letters on tv). They're criteria is all fucked up. I should just stop coming back to this thread.

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