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my view on this cover is going to depend on how good the music is. if it all sounds like wilco (the song) did when i heard it, then my view will be that it's a shit cover trying to be too funny and failing. if the songs are good then i'll think it's like my feelings for a lot of those 60s and 70s 'weird covers' - in that they're good, because they don't take themselves seriously, and that's a good thing because the music is seriously good!

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my view on this cover is going to depend on how good the music is. if it all sounds like wilco (the song) did when i heard it, then my view will be that it's a shit cover trying to be too funny and failing. if the songs are good then i'll think it's like my feelings for a lot of those 60s and 70s 'weird covers' - in that they're good, because they don't take themselves seriously, and that's a good thing because the music is seriously good!

 

Did you not like Wilco (The Song)? That's my 'safety song' for this album, given that I didn't care too much for the first few live cuts I heard. Granted, the recordings were pretty poo-y, so I decided to hold off until the album. Either way, if the rest of the album sounds like W(TS), I'll be as happy as a camel with a hat on next to a party cake.

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my view on this cover is going to depend on how good the music is. if it all sounds like wilco (the song) did when i heard it, then my view will be that it's a shit cover trying to be too funny and failing. if the songs are good then i'll think it's like my feelings for a lot of those 60s and 70s 'weird covers' - in that they're good, because they don't take themselves seriously, and that's a good thing because the music is seriously good!

 

Considering that one of the songs is about a dude who just killed his girlfriend, I don't think you have to worry about all of the songs being silly like Wilco (The song)

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Did you not like Wilco (The Song)? That's my 'safety song' for this album, given that I didn't care too much for the first few live cuts I heard. Granted, the recordings were pretty poo-y, so I decided to hold off until the album. Either way, if the rest of the album sounds like W(TS), I'll be as happy as a camel with a hat on next to a party cake.

 

i like the chorus, but i don't really like the tone of it - it would be better if it was the same melody about something else. for a start it's not very funny, plus . . . i don't know . . . it's just not funny . . . and being self-referential is the death knell of good art; that too.

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This thread is hilarious. From the people trying to analyze the cover and give it some great deep meaning to the people going nuts on a guy because he doesn't like it. Funny stuff.

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This thread is hilarious. From the people trying to analyze the cover and give it some great deep meaning to the people going nuts on a guy because he doesn't like it. Funny stuff.

We never disappoint, do we. :lol

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it's not silly though, it's just a bad joke. silly things are funny.

 

I don't think of the song as silly all that much, though. I certainly think of it as fun, with a humorously-intended punchline, but I think the rest of the content is pretty serious. "Shit sucks sometimes, but Wilco will love you, baby!" Jeff could just say, "na-na-na" for three minutes, but the bad-ass guitar chug is what I like about the tune.

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So I go to Milwaukee for two days a few months ago, never been there before. Someone points me to Mader's, and I eat dinner there twice. And here it shows up on Wilco cover. Coincidence? I think not.

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