Wilco's Best

Nowhere Man
Nowhere Man Posts: 345
edited January 2011 in Other Music
I've been really digging them as of late especially and was curious to what everyone else would rate as some of their favorite Wilco songs (maybe 5) and also favorite album. They are just so diverse and I would bet there is a good variety of answers for this thread. Here mine in no order:

1. Heavy Metal Drummer
2. Misunderstood
3. Via Chicago
4. Kingpin
5. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Album: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Great question!

    I'm going with Sky Blue Sky for my album, and my 5 favorite jams are:

    1. Impossible Germany
    2. Jesus Etc.
    3. Everlasting Everything
    4. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
    5. You and I

    I also want to say that Wilco (The Album) kicks major league ass. I didn't like it initially, but now I can't get enough.
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    You've picked some good ones...I'll add
    Handshake drugs
    Jesus etc
    Kamera
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • sawyerjam
    sawyerjam Posts: 140
    Ashes Of American Flags,How To Fight Loneliness,Hate It Here,Bull Black Nova,Sunken Treasure. Good call on Impossible Germany Fenway. Nels rips it up on that one.
  • greenmanny
    greenmanny Posts: 766
    I really like "Casino Queen" from AM, but I really like southern rock. Also, "Pot Kettle Black" (one of my favorites.)
  • Sambo Baggins
    Sambo Baggins Posts: 203
    wilco has grown on me. I really Handshake drugs, Spiders, California Stars (Billy Bragg / Woodie Guthrie)
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  • killmoretrout
    killmoretrout Burque, NM Posts: 162
    Nels Cline's solo on "Impossible Germany" is one of my favorite rock guitar solos. Ever.

    As for albums, agreed that "Sky Blue Sky" & "Wilco (the album)" are awesome, but do get "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot". BrilliantBrilliantBrilliant album.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

    Best tracks (IMO)
    Heavy Metal Drummer
    I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
    Via Chicago
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    Wilco has so many great songs. It's hard to choose.

    I will say that Yankee Hotel foxtrot and summer teeth are the two fave albums of theirs; you really can't go wrong with any wilco album though.

    I'm the man who loves you
    she's a jar
    heavy metal drummer
    what light
    california stars( I think Billy Brag co wrote this one maybe it's a cover song??)
    Via Chicogo
    Bull black nova
    on and on and on

    to name a few.
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  • craigb
    craigb Posts: 806
    Songs:

    1. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
    2. Heavy Metal Drummer
    3. Pick Up the Change
    4. I'm the Man Who Loves You
    5. I Must Be High


    Best album:
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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  • craigb
    craigb Posts: 806
    greenmanny wrote:
    I really like "Casino Queen" from AM, but I really like southern rock. Also, "Pot Kettle Black" (one of my favorites.)

    Dude, AM's an underrated record. I actually think that alot of the songs on that album stand with their very best work.
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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    red mos wrote:
    Wilco has so many great songs. It's hard to choose.

    I will say that Yankee Hotel foxtrot and summer teeth are the two fave albums of theirs; you really can't go wrong with any wilco album though.

    I'm the man who loves you
    she's a jar
    heavy metal drummer
    what light
    california stars( I think Billy Brag co wrote this one maybe it's a cover song??)
    Via Chicogo
    Bull black nova
    on and on and on

    to name a few.

    California Stars was from the Mermaid Avenue album. All of the songs were written by Woody Guthrie, but I think Wilco was the first band to actually record it. Maybe others have played it since. There's also some beautiful songs by Natalie Merchant on these albums that we play for our little ones. (There's a Part I and II). Also Billy Bragg sings on many of the songs.

    As far as my favorite Wilco songs, that is so hard for me. I was thinking about this the other day and was stumped. I kept re-doing my list. But I'll list five of my very favorites.

    Via Chicago
    At Least That's What You'd Said
    Spiders (Kidsmoke)
    Misunderstood
    Impossible Germany
  • kiljoythemerciful
    kiljoythemerciful Posts: 549
    gabers wrote:
    California Stars was from the Mermaid Avenue album. All of the songs were written by Woody Guthrie, but I think Wilco was the first band to actually record it. Maybe others have played it since. There's also some beautiful songs by Natalie Merchant on these albums that we play for our little ones. (There's a Part I and II). Also Billy Bragg sings on many of the songs.

    As far as my favorite Wilco songs, that is so hard for me. I was thinking about this the other day and was stumped. I kept re-doing my list. But I'll list five of my very favorites.

    Via Chicago
    At Least That's What You'd Said
    Spiders (Kidsmoke)
    Misunderstood
    Impossible Germany

    Mermaid Avenue was a collective project between Billy Bragg & Wilco and they took lyrics (poetry) that Guthrie never completed music to. Billy Bragg and Wilco then wrote original music to go with the words. I believe part of the lore with Guthrie's lyrics was that Bob Dylan was once asked to or wanted to write music for them, but was unable for one reason or another.

    Task at hand...

    Being There is easily (well sometimes Summerteeth) my favorite Wilco.

    Songs - Why would you wanna live, Sunken Treasure, How to Fight Loneliness, She's a Jar, I'm Trying to Break Your Heart

    Needless to say I haven't been too pumped by their last couple releases. Though I do really like to see the current lineup live, the studio has not been kind to them.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Wilco(The Album) is the only one that I really dig, but Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is growing on me. I've listened to quite a bit, but nothin's grabbed me. Just stickin YHF in the car cd player, it's already grown on me after a few times through.
  • spnoone
    spnoone Posts: 633
    1)pieholden suite 2)hummingbird 3)misunderstood 4)passenger side 5)hate it here. summerteeth is usually my favorite but sometimes i convince myself its being there. i don't count live albums, or kicking television would win in a landslide, that's the one i go back to most often.
  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    Bull Black Nova
    Via Chicago
    Can't Stand It
    I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
    Reservations
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  • greenmanny
    greenmanny Posts: 766
    craigb wrote:
    greenmanny wrote:
    I really like "Casino Queen" from AM, but I really like southern rock. Also, "Pot Kettle Black" (one of my favorites.)

    Dude, AM's an underrated record. I actually think that alot of the songs on that album stand with their very best work.

    +1. So many songs on that album are great. "Passenger Side" is an awesome song.
  • Zoso
    Zoso Posts: 6,425
    can't think of a bad wilco album or song.. tweedy is genius.
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  • Nowhere Man
    Nowhere Man Posts: 345
    Was curious if there are any Wilco b-sides? Are they worth checking out?
  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    jesus, this thread is 2 pages long and only one mention of At least thats what you said? That guitar solo is life affirming. And what about Solitaire? the guitar riff is gorgeous? How about Sunken Treasure, and its breakdown about how music is the reason Jeff Tweady exists? Mirrors my own view of music to the t.
  • BH304897
    BH304897 Posts: 137
    Best Album - A Ghost is Born

    Songs
    1) Spiders (Kidsmoke)
    2) Impossible Germany
    3) Shot in the Arm
    4) Kamera
    5) Hate it Here

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