Whats your favorite Uncle Tupelo album??

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No Depression this week

― yaeger, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Still Feel Gone was my introduction, therefore my sentimental favorite....I think it improves on No Depression in most respects.

Overall, I think Anodyne was their strongest collection of songs.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

To borrow a Durstism, I'm in agreeance.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

March 16-20 is my favourite and probably always will be. That's all I have to add.

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweethearts of the Rodeo

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Anodyne pretty much ruins all the others with its maturity and span, even though I thought the others were genius when they came out. No Depression did sound shockingly unusual at the time.

Actually, I had a really bad reaction to March 16-20 when it came out, but it sounds pretty good now. I don't agree with the faction that says it's the best one.

― southern lights (southern lights), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I realize that people might take me to task for calling No Depression "shockingly unusual" - they will probably bring out a litany of earlier harder-edged country rock, beginning with Neil Young. I was well aware of it all - No Depression's 80s SST-punk influence still made it a different animal altogether.

― southern lights (southern lights), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i only know "no depression", its fucking ace. "whiskey bottle" oh yeah. come to think of it, i haven't listened to it in ages.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Still Feel Gone

oh and someone get J0hn D. some q-tips.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I live in the Boston area, and Rich Gilbert lives near here in Providence. He's famous for a lot of stuff - Zulus, plays w/Frank Black, etc., but in my mind he's the guy who played pedal steel on "Whiskey Bottle", which Lady Lurex calls out OTM. I've had several opportunities to speak/hang with Rich Gilbert, but I can't bring myself to because of that one steel part. I would be a blithering idiot about it, still in 2003.

The Uncle Tupelo reissues were the first reissues that made me feel really old. I'm going to start a thread about that.

― southern lights (southern lights), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

specifically j0hn d. said on some interpol thread:
"'highly-emotive' is generally my preferred side of the street"

i don't think still feel gone deserves your short shrift.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(ie, as opposed to your long shrift)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(farrar was never better than on SFG)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I could see not liking Tupelo, but they do not sound like the Byrds....esp. early stuff...Now, Meat Puppets fans could have reason to cry foul

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd have to go with Still Feel Gone. 'Searching For a Way Out' still chills me to the bone. A song about 'd boon'... what more do ya need. I agree that there is little or no Byrds comparison

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

On the "it was my introduction" tip - Anodyne is still tops for me, followed by No Depression.

But I still like Trace better than any Uncle Tupelo (or Wilco, for that matter) album.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Mar 16-20. They're all mildhit/mildmiss affairs for me, but Mar 16-20 has "Sandusky," which is one of the very few instrumentals I know I love.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think still feel gone deserves your short shrift

yeah I was just bringin' the hate - never could feel Uncle Tupelo at all, I can kind of enjoy them a little now but the first time I heard them I had a really emetic reaction - "Ugh! What the hell is this?" Esp. insofar as UT's version of emotive rings real hollow for me.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

:*(

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

What Helgeson said in his first post, verbatim.

What's interesting to me is to hear the evolution of Jeff Tweedy, from barely noticable sidekick on No Depression to Anodyne, where he runs off with the album and makes Farrar sound a little silly by comparison(not a difficult task, in retrospect). I think Jeff Tweedy peaked on Anodyne.

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I still like Being There by Wilco a whole lot and Summerteeth and Yankee somewhat depending on my mood, but I think you're right about Tweedy....New Madrid is the best thing he's ever done! also No Sense In Lovin'

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Anybody else think Jay Farrar is a spud?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't, his last album (the one with "feel free") is neat.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Still Feel Gone is my favorite, though Anondyne has warmed up to me in my old age. I still don't have the March record.

I'm wondering how many Missourians are going to pop up on this thread. Moo Moo Mizzou.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

man "slate" and "steal the crumbs" have to be two of the harshest band break up songs ever

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

ha yeah, that whole album always sounded to me like tweedy saying "hey let's work this out" and farrar saying "hell no."

― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)

chickamauga's where i been, solitude is where i'm bound

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:21 (fourteen years ago)

farrar's lead guitar on that album (i guess mainly on chickamauga and the long cut) is so good. one of the lamer things about his post-Tupelo career is that he barely ever plays lead.

― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:28 (fourteen years ago)

He did somewhat in Son Volt, at least in 1996. Saw them that summer, and Jay's closing solo on "Chickamauga" was fucking massive. They also did a cover of Cheap Trick's "Downed" which was exactly as mindblowing as you would think.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:04 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, whenever i saw son volt, the best parts were where jay cut loose on guitar...which wasn't all that often.

― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:18 (fourteen years ago)

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