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This should be fodder for an interesting discussion. The list so far:

 

#20 - The Long Cut - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-20-the-long-cut/

#19 - That's Not the Issue - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-19-thats-not-the-issue/

#18 - Promising - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-18-promising/

#17 - She's a Jar - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-17-shes-a-jar/

#16 - I Can't Keep From Talking - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-16-i-cant-keep-from-talking/

#15 - Impossible Germany - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-15-impossible-germany/

#14 - Wilco (the Song) - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-14-wilco-the-song/

#13 - Gun - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-13-gun/

#12 - Sunken Treasure - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-12-sunken-treasure/

#11 - Laminated Cat aka Not For the Season - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-11-laminated-cat/

#10 - Remember the Mountain Bed - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-10-remember-the-mountain-bed/

#9 - Please Tell My Brother - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-9-please-tell-my-brother/

#8 - Jesus, etc. - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-8-jesus-etc/

#7 - Heavy Metal Drummer - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-7-heavy-metal-drummer/

#6 - New Madrid - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-6-new-madrid/

#5 - Hummingbird - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-5-hummingbird/

#4 - A Shot in the Arm - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-4-a-shot-in-the-arm/

#3 - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-3-i-am-trying-to-break-your-heart/

#2 - Ashes of American Flags - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/08/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-2-ashes-of-american-flags/

#1 - Misunderstood - http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/08/the-top-20-jeff-tweedy-songs-1-misunderstood/

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Off the top of my head...

 

Muzzle of Bees

Poor Places

Chinese Apple

Jesus, etc.

Wait Up

Sunken Treasure

She's A Jar

Laminated Cat

New Madrid

Misunderstood

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Hummingbird

We've Been Had

How To Fight Loneliness

Please Tell My Brother

Wreckroom

Wanted

Far Far Away

Ashes of American Flags

Reservations

 

--Mike

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it's cool this guy is a tweedy fan but ...

 

those are ridiculous choices. if they are ranking them in order of importance in tweedy's career, i can definitely see the long cut being pretty significant... and maybe even it's just that simple. but promising doesn't deserve to be there. if they are ranking them in terms of music/lyrics, i don't think any of those are even close to his later works (ie muzzle of bees, i am trying to break your heart).

 

unless this guy is just listing is favorite 20 songs. in which case that makes sense.

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it's cool this guy is a tweedy fan but ...

 

those are ridiculous choices. if they are ranking them in order of importance in tweedy's career, i can definitely see the long cut being pretty significant... and maybe even it's just that simple. but promising doesn't deserve to be there. if they are ranking them in terms of music/lyrics, i don't think any of those are even close to his later works (ie muzzle of bees, i am trying to break your heart).

 

unless this guy is just listing is favorite 20 songs. in which case that makes sense.

 

its just that simple is not, and (I'm 100% certain) will not be on the list.

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Oh, well now, isn't this a fun idea....here's my quick stab (not ranked)

 

Black Eye

Acuff-Rose

Blue-Eyed Soul

Misunderstood

Far, Far Away

Red-Eyed and Blue

Sunken Treasure

Someone Else's Song

She's a Jar

Summer Teeth

Family Gardener

Long Time Ago

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Radio Cure

Ashes of American Flags

Jesus, Etc

Poor Places

Hell Is Chrome

Muzzle of Bees

One Wing

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Not in order, but #1 overall for me is "Gun"

 

1. Gun

2. Radio King

3. Long Cut

4. Please Tell My Brother

5. New Madrid

6. Misunderstood

7. Too Far Apart

8. I Got You

9. Far Far Away

10. Bull Black Nova

11. Spiders

12. Theologians

13. Summer Teeth

14. Long Time Ago

15. Not For The Season

16. Via Chicago

17. War on War

18. Pot Kettle Balck

19. I Can't Keep From Talking

20. Sunken Treasure

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Guest Francis X. Hummel

Not sure which songs qualify (Mermaid songs?) but this would be my list of the best JT songs that he's been a part of the writing.

 

20 That's Not the Issue

19 Acuff-Rose

18 Ashes of American Flags

17 Not For the Season

16 At My Window Sad and Lonely

15 Outtasite (Outta Mind)

14 New Madrid

13 Airline to Heaven

12 A Shot in the Arm

11 Cars Can't Escape

10 Misunderstood

9 I'm Always in Love

8 Gun

7 Remember the Mountain Bed

6 Sunken Treasure

5 I am Trying to Break Your Heart

4 At Least That's What You Said

3 Jesus, etc.

2 Pot Kettle Black

1 Muzzle of Bees

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Not sure which songs qualify (Mermaid songs?)

 

I'd like to think Mermaid Songs wouldn't qualify. He's 100% written/co-written enough good lyrics that I don't think any of his musical contributions on the Mermaid songs would make up for that, proportionally, if that makes sense.

 

That being said, what strikes me as weirder than the song selections so far are the key lyrics the other has chosen. For none of those songs would I have chosen those couplets as key lyrics - and not in a "why didn't I think of that?" sort of way, but in a "god, that's asinine" sort of way.

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what strikes me as weirder than the song selections so far are the key lyrics the other has chosen. For none of those songs would I have chosen those couplets as key lyrics - and not in a "why didn't I think of that?" sort of way, but in a "god, that's asinine" sort of way.

 

Plus, they got She's A Jar wrong: "Key lyric: “She says forever, to light a fuse, we could use a day off, and a handful of wheel, however you might feel, tonight is real.”

How could they leave out "and a bruised road" - one of Tweedy's single best lines ever.

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does anyone else find the piecemeal way they are doling this out really annoying? i really want to read the list and their comments, but i don't want to go to this website 20 times for 20 days to read them all.

 

-justin

 

Annoying like a fox. Traffic traffic traffic.

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In no particular order:

 

Poor Places

Reservations

Gun

Dash 7

Outta Mind Outta Sight

The Lonely 1

Misunderstood

Sunken Treasure

Summerteeth

She's a Jar

Shot in the Arm

Via Chicago

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

Ashes of American Flags

When You Wake Up Feeling Old

The Late Greats

Muzzle of Bees

Please Be Patient with Me

Impossible Germany

I Got You (at the end of the Century)

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