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What bands or artist do you like more than Wilco?


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Gonna give The Who some love here, been my fav since '82, co-favorite band with R.E.M. for the last 20 years. If you are not familiar, track down a copy of Live at Leeds, Who's Next and Quadrophenia. No better Rock 'n Roll has been made.

 

Others I probably like more than Wilco are Brian Wilson/Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Beatles, The Band, the Stones altough right now, except for the Dead, I probably listen to Wilco more than any of the above.

 

Acts that Wilco have gone by on my favorites list would be Joe Jackson (by a nose) Little Feat, Steely Dan, Bowie, Genesis, Zevon, Stevie Wonder, The Kinks/

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Jandek

 

awesome avatar, btw.

 

 

i saw Jandek a few years ago and wished that he had played a different set (or shorter). still like some of his records quite a bit though.

 

 

this question is impossible for me to answer, as i likely have far too many to list (and that's not a knock on Wilco, who I think are a great band, I just have loads of bands I enjoy mightily).

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Live the only other bands I've seen in the last few years that are on the same plane are:

 

Crowded House

 

Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3

 

Eels

 

(an evasive answer I suppose)

 

 

 

In the historical record, Wilco hasn't topped the Beatles, the Kinks, or Beethoven for me. Not yet anyway.

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The Beatles, The Clash and Ozzy-era Black Sabbath, and that is about it. Wilco now is as loved by me as Pink Floyd and Gabriel-era Genesis, as well as Zeppelin and Bomb Squad-era Public Enemy.

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Wilco's run from Being There to A Ghost is Born might be one of my favorite stretches any band as ever had.

 

 

this.

 

Wilco and Dylan pass the no. 1 spot back and forth these days. Back in my college years The Velvet Underground held the number one spot for a stunning 5 or 6 years. (Why don't they have a font that looks like Kasey Kasem's voice sounds?)

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I agree with the tiering of favorites.

 

Tier One --- Springsteen, Wilco, U2,DBT

Tier One a --- Dylan, Young, RAdiohead, Alejandro Escovedo (Pearl Jam and Ryan Adams have moved in and out through the years)

 

However, I find that I connect with Wilco more than any other band. I like all of the above bands. I OBSESS over Wilco and Springsteen

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I would say none, but that's because the question is framed as "what bands or artist do you like more than Wilco." Wilco will always be my favorite band ever, being my first love when it comes to music. But I quite obviously acknowledge the presence of "better" artists out there, and so given a composite measure of "how good I think they are" and "how much I love them" you'd probably get this:

 

1. The Beatles

2. Bob Dylan

3. The Band

4. Wilco

5. Pavement

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Tier !

 

Wilco, Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, The Band, Zepplin, Neil Young,REM, X............

 

 

New(er)

The Hold Steady, Nada Surf, Fountains of Wayne, Fleet Voxes, New Pornographers........

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Tier !

 

Wilco, Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, The Band, Zepplin, Neil Young,REM, X............

 

 

New(er)

The Hold Steady, Nada Surf, Fountains of Wayne, Fleet Voxes, New Pornographers........

 

I didn't include the Beatles on my list because they transcend everything for me

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I didn't include the Beatles on my list because they transcend everything for me

I feel this way about Dylan. He is so far ahead of everyone else that I don't even bother to mention him in these type of threads. I don't even listen to him that much these days but for influence and sheer body of work he is light-years ahead of everyone else (even The Beatles).

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awesome avatar, btw.

 

 

i saw Jandek a few years ago and wished that he had played a different set (or shorter). still like some of his records quite a bit though.

 

 

this question is impossible for me to answer, as i likely have far too many to list (and that's not a knock on Wilco, who I think are a great band, I just have loads of bands I enjoy mightily).

 

I saw him last year in Chapel Hill with my mother-in-law.

It was one of the most intense things I've ever seen.

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I didn't include the Beatles on my list because they transcend everything for me

 

Yeah, I automatically exclude the Beatles from this kind of list, too. I don't know what to do with the Beatles. Saying that the Beatles are a favorite is like saying I enjoy breathing.

 

I do believe that Bob Dylan is the only reasonable alternative you can make to the Beatles as "greatest rock artist ever." But I don't have the same issues comparing Dylan to others. He's more of an acquired taste, and his cultural influence isn't as ridiculously pervasive as the Beatles' was. To steal from that old Robin Williams line (that he probably stole from someone else), the Beatles are in my DNA. Bob Dylan isn't.

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I saw him last year in Chapel Hill with my mother-in-law.

It was one of the most intense things I've ever seen.

 

I heard that show was great. I've seen him in Chicago and Grinnel - can't wait to see him again. He's probably just below Wilco for me, parallel to the Silver Jews at the moment.

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