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Chinese Apple

 

Unless you were to suggest Hell is Chrome, in which case I would agree.

 

But then I hear I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (the one recorded by a guy without a nicer rack than me), and I think this could be the best song.

 

Thoughts?

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Chinese Apple is divine for my money it's the best song Tweedy has ever written (at least without Jay). Perfect mix of lyrics, tune and arrangement, I love when the acoustic guitars build near the end of the song and then piano kicks in for the last part. I'll never get tired of listening to that first Loose Fur album.

 

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My Darling makes me cry.

 

Me too. :lol

 

More Like the Moon is fantastic. The drums on that song are beautiful, and it is so perfectly atmospherical. Cars Can't Escape was probably the single best song Jay and Jeff brought together. Aside from Poor Places, which is the best song on YHF that isn't one of the other songs.

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recently I gave a wilco-virgin friend of mine YHF to listen to and he said he was underwhelmed. Then I gave him Being There and was much more positive. It reminded me of how I grew to love YHF myself, rather than it hitting me all at once. To me it's a unified piece that can't justly be broken down into songs. Like if you take a chapter out of a book to anthologize it,the book can't be done justice.

 

Even a decade later, it's still growing on me.

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"Misunderstood" gives me shivers

 

Me too, but it's more an arrangement than a song. Imagine a solo version, kinda repetitive. I'm not sure that disqualifies it by any means.

 

What about YAMF, Wishful Thinking (that's my weepy song), Hummingbird, In a Future Age, How to Fight Loneliness.

 

Okay, I'm bad at calling one thing the best....

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I recently listened to a Jeff Tweedy interview from August '08 in which he stated that he considers Passenger Side the best song he's ever written. :stunned He also said he loves to play Handshake Drugs live, but Glenn doesn't because his part in that song is too simple.

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I Am Trying to Break Your Heart -- then Either Way...then Outta Site ...then Spiders....then Impossible Germany...then Less Than You Think....then, oh the list could go on and on. Oh, On and On and On...then Via Chicago... then Company in My Back... then Country Disappeared (and yes I know I'll take a verbal beating for giving such high marks to a song from W/TA, bring it on. Jeff hit it out of the ball park with this one at the Bowery.)

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Chinese Apple

 

Unless you were to suggest Hell is Chrome, in which case I would agree.

 

But then I hear I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (the one recorded by a guy without a nicer rack than me), and I think this could be the best song.

 

Thoughts?

 

They might be bigger...but there's no way they could be better. Manboobs are unfortunate at best. Girl boobs are fortunate at worst.

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I recently listened to a Jeff Tweedy interview from August '08 in which he stated that he considers Passenger Side the best song he's ever written. :stunned

 

Passenger Side is my all time favorite song. I wasn't going to post that because I thought I'd be laughed off this board, but it always just makes me happy as hell to listen to that song. It's the perfect evocation of a certain specific time in your life--the melody and the lyrics and the whole loose feel of the song mesh seamlessly for me. I request that one at every damn show, and I'm so glad they don't seem to get tired of playing it.

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Passenger Side is my all time favorite song. I wasn't going to post that because I thought I'd be laughed off this board, but it always just makes me happy as hell to listen to that song. It's the perfect evocation of a certain specific time in your life--the melody and the lyrics and the whole loose feel of the song mesh seamlessly for me. I request that one at every damn show, and I'm so glad they don't seem to get tired of playing it.

 

Passenger Side is up there for me too.

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