this is the thread where we talk about how much better Uncle Tupelo was than Wilco

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seriously, most days im sure that Tupelo was thousands of times more worthy than Wilco or Son Volt or solo projects will ever be.

anyone agree with me?

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 3 January 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

I'll go so far to say that Anodyne is the best thing I've heard either of them do. Trace and Summerteeth are both pretty good, though.

― steve hise, Monday, 3 January 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

Summerteeth pwns all. Deal.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 3 January 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

good god man do you want to attract the people from altcountrytab.com

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 3 January 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Boring Boring Boring bands, both of'em.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I really can't work out if I hate Wilco or if I quite like them. That song "Jesus etc" winds me up as much as it makes me smile. Same with the most of YHF. The whole album is just frustrating - plain as fuck songs made interesting with cool effects and sounds. Cringeworthy emo-style lyrics that if you ignore them don't really matter too much yet I can't get enough of the wailing guitar refrain on track 6.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I really like that Jay Farrar album that came out 3-4 years ago.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

miccio otm. that one son volt hit was pretty great too.

― blount, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

I loved Uncle Tupelo and have liked parts of both of Farrar and Tweedy's projects, but I haven't been able to get into Summerteeth at all.

I'd much rather listen to the first two Tupelo records when they did those really fast Minutemen style country songs. Tweedy was a really good bassist.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Every time I think of either of these bands I keep thinking how shitty it is that the band Ken Coomer was in before Uncle Tupelo never went anywhere.

Apparently someone else agrees with me out there, so I don't have to go into great detail about Clockhammer.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

I really like that Jay Farrar album that came out 3-4 years ago.

You mean that one that he keeps releasing over and over again with a different title?

I really do miss UT, though.

― Pleasant Plains ///, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

no way, this had virtually none of that crazy horse thing he had going for a while, it was a lot of mellotron, jon wurster, ballads... pretty much a departure from the son volt stuff. hold on, i've got it right over there....

it's called sebastapol (which was stupid of me to forget because it's a city about two hours north of here)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

the solo farrar stuff is pretty great.

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

I own one Jayhawks album, so I think I've got this corner of the musical world covered.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

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