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Wilco is lame to, like 99.99999% of teenagers.

 

Wilco's my favorite musical thing ever, and teenagers naturally try to share their favorite musical thing ever with their peers.

 

I have given up on this. 99.9999% of teenagers don't get Wilco. I haven't found ANYONE else my age who even sort of likes them.

 

I have yet to decide what this means...

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I'm a teenager and a bunch of my friends enjoy Wilco... but I can see where they are coming from. The stereotypical teenager listens to rap/pop music all the time and are not too receptive of the mid-tempo rock.

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Lots of adults don't get (or know about) Wilco. So what?? There are plenty of groups that teens don't like. I suppose Wilco is as good a target as any, but really....

 

LouieB

 

 

it's a joke. from a humor newspaper. and in a way it seems to be poking fun at the people who ARE caught hanging out at Wilco shows (hence the reason teens aren't). you're giving them more material.

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Wilco was pretty cool when I was in college, but so were Courtney Love, UB40, and Ace of Base.

 

I just want college kids doing whatever they want to do and if that is not listening to Wilco, good for them. I still would take it over my current lifestyle of doing nothing I want to do and listening to Wilco.

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it's a joke. from a humor newspaper. and in a way it seems to be poking fun at the people who ARE caught hanging out at Wilco shows (hence the reason teens aren't). you're giving them more material.

I know it is s joke. Just not all that funny, but then again the Onion writers are probably Wilco fans.

 

LouieB

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it's a joke. from a humor newspaper. and in a way it seems to be poking fun at the people who ARE caught hanging out at Wilco shows (hence the reason teens aren't). you're giving them more material.

 

What Wilco fans find funny:

 

Inserting “you highly messed up freak” into a board thread 38%.

 

Anything involving cats 11%.

 

"Rank the Wilco albums" 51%

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nah, SirS is right. This is a warmed over "dad rock" joke. The Onion is better than that.

I read a Sunday Washington Post feature on the Onion's staff. It is a meager existence; certainly not the cush job of Mad or Weekly World News legend. A lot of their slacker bits appear self-parody -- which means they have a broad audience!

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nah, SirS is right. This is a warmed over "dad rock" joke. The Onion is better than that.

 

The Onion is better than that, but let's be honest - The Onion misses on far more jokes than they hit on. This is a miss.

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I'm just confused by the video game titles getting in the way of the punchlines. Not very Onion-y. I don't give a shit about Wilco being the butt of jokes, because funny is funny. And this is not really funny.

 

"I've been hearing a lot about Wilco lately, did someone leave NPR on?" however, was pretty good.

 

--Mike

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I got this on my Facebook wall the other day from a girl I grew up with:

 

Diane XXXXXXX realizes many of you will disagree with me (and that's prefectly ok), but Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie make me want to stab out my eardrums with an icepick.

 

I de-friended her immediately.

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Well, she has a good point about Death Cab.

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