uhfr Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 I was listening to "Sunken Treasure" in my car and my Wilco-newbie girlfriend freaked out a little bit. "This sounds exactly like Jets To Brazil!"She was totally right. Check this out: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 It's the other way around.Jets to Brazil sounds exactly like Wilco. Your post reads like you are saying Wilco is 'stealing' their sound from Jets to Brazil.Perfecting Loneliness came out in 2002. Being There came out in 1996. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Actually, I don't think this sounds very much like Wilco. I do see some similarities but the lyrics are kind of boring, the vocalist sounds sort of like Conor Oberst, and the song seems to just meander. But still, my hat's off to your girlfriend for recognizing a band with even superficial similarities to Wilco. I almost never hear anything that I can compare them to. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uhfr Posted December 23, 2013 Author Share Posted December 23, 2013 Cornbread, totally, not trying to say Wilco ripped JTB off. And WM -- the melody, chord progression, even the song changes are almost identical. The lyrics to the JTB song aren't the same but the "sound" is certainly nearly identical to Sunken Treasure. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
choo-choo-charlie Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 I really think we're making a stretch here. I'm not hearing how this and "Sunken Treasure" are "almost identical." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Cornbread, totally, not trying to say Wilco ripped JTB off. And WM -- the melody, chord progression, even the song changes are almost identical. The lyrics to the JTB song aren't the same but the "sound" is certainly nearly identical to Sunken Treasure. To fully belabor the point...Unless Jeff has a time machine, it is not possible for Jeff to have heard this song when he was writing and recording Sunken Treasure. To really wail on the dead horse...2002 is six years after 1996. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cam Jones Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Actually, I don't think this sounds very much like Wilco. I do see some similarities but the lyrics are kind of boring, the vocalist sounds sort of like Conor Oberst, and the song seems to just meander. BITE YOUR TONGUE BOY. This man is my McCartney. I love this mans lyrics. Jets is "emo music" but without the winey voice and more clever lyrics. I only think the opening is similar to Sunken Treasure. But it isn't exactly super original anyway. It just works and sounds nice. Anyways. JTB and all of Blake Schwarzenbach's stuff is super influential to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Yeah Blake Schwarzenbach has about nothing in common with Oberst vocally. That was probably not the best introduction to JTB if you've never heard them. Orange Rhyming Dictionary is on my top 20 rock albums list. Give this a spin, it's much better and doesn't rob the chord progression from "Sunken Treasure": Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cam Jones Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Orange Rhyming Dictionary is an amazing record too. Perfecting Loneliness has some great great songs and is their most interesting and best sounding record, I think. They only had three records and they all are great Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 I can hear similarities in the chord changes for sure. I mean how many times has a D chord been used in pop music with that rhythm in that time signature. probably too many to count. Definitely hear how somebody could make that assumption comparing the two. Hell, if I had heard that song without clicking this thread I would say most likely, "wow that sounds like Sunken Treasure"... rip off, not really, because if you wanna be technical about it everything is a rip off of something in some way or another. I think it's a nice song, and I think it's not right to write it off completely as "not good" just because it's very similar to something everyone of us has an affinity for. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ripthisjoint908 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 I like Jets to Brazil and I like Jawbreaker. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caliber66 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 To fully belabor the point...Unless Jeff has a time machine, it is not possible for Jeff to have heard this song when he was writing and recording Sunken Treasure. To really wail on the dead horse...2002 is six years after 1996.He understood your point and agreed with it in the previous post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ction Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 In other Blake Schwarzenbach news, "Kiss the Bottle" has been my favorite song since I bought the Mission District 7" box set in '92 or '93 (I'm too old to remember now). It sounds nothing like Wilco. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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