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Wishful Thinking and Everlasting Everything?


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I was shuffling Wilco songs this morning and Everlasting Everything came up.   Right after "don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie," my head expected to hear the chord from Wishful Thinking that bridges "thank my lucky stars" and the final "what would we be."

 

And then I was reading the lyrics to both songs and there are a fair number of similarities, not least of all "don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie," and the WT lines "fill up your mind with all it can know, don't forget that you body will let it all go," and of course, "what would we be without wishful thinking?"  

 

The sense of inevitability in EE and "no one has found how to unring the bell" in WT.

 

Then WT kind of wanders off into the woods with the dress and the trees and the knees, but there you go.

 

Anyway, I saw some musical and lyrical similarities in the two that I hadn't heard before.

 

Questions, comments, or smart remarks?

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Heh.  I never said I was crazy about Everlasting Everything (I assume that's the one you're talking about), but the similarities are there to me.  Like a hot fraternal twin and her uglier sister.

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Heh.  I never said I was crazy about Everlasting Everything (I assume that's the one you're talking about), but the similarities are there to me.  Like a hot fraternal twin and her uglier sister.

Hey, I once knew a girl who looked like Shania Twain when she was fresh, but her identical twin chose to look more like Mark Twain and drove a ragged pickup with a "Beyond Bitch" bumper sticker.

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Heh.  I never said I was crazy about Everlasting Everything (I assume that's the one you're talking about), but the similarities are there to me.  Like a hot fraternal twin and her uglier sister.

 

More like a hot chick and a shit she took. 

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I prefer "Leave Me" over "Shake it Off" or "Either Way." "Shake it Off" just never finds a groove, and "Either Way" sounds like something from a lite rock station. "Leave Me" isn't really memorable, but it's not terrible.

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This song saved my life once. True story. Listen for the high hat.

Somebody hear the music emanating from the elevator you were stuck in?

 

(I kid.  Will listen closer next time.)

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This song saved my life once. True story. Listen for the high hat.

 

Hearing parts of your story about your relationship to that song really made me re-contextualize it, and now I love it. I had been pretty lukewarm to it previously. When they opened with it on the Americanarama date I saw them play over the summer, it floored me. 

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I've always liked Either Way. It's Sky Blue Sky that got old quick for me (and What Light somewhat). I'd probably be okay with Leave Me Like You Found Me if it wasn't song #3 of the woe-is-me trifecta on SBS. Might have made a decent side track, but I can't hack it on that album.

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