Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Ave poll

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this was just reished on vinyl, prompted me to pick it up and replace my battered cd copy. probs the wilco project i've listen to the most over the years.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
"California Stars" (Tweedy / Bennett)	26
"Walt Whitman's Niece" (Bragg)	4
"Ingrid Bergman" (Bragg)	4
"Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key" (Bragg)	3
"At My Window Sad and Lonely" (Tweedy)	2
"I Guess I Planted" (Bragg)	1
"Another Man's Done Gone" (Bragg)	1
"Christ for President" (Bragg)	1
"One by One" (Tweedy)	1
"Hesitating Beauty" (Tweedy)	0
"Eisler on the Go" (Bragg)	0
"Birds and Ships" ft Natalie Merchant (Bragg)	0
"She Came Along to Me" (Bragg / Tweedy / Bennett)	0
"Hoodoo Voodoo" (Tweedy / Bennett / Bragg / John Stirratt / Ken Coomer / Harris)	0
"The Unwelcome Guest" (Bragg)	0

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago)

this is a good album for which I've no time anymore but I loved "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key."

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago)

"california stars" is such a gorgeous track

― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago)

^^^ this

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago)

Another one for '...Minor Key'

― Mule, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago)

California Stars, easy. Still my favorite thing they ever did.

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago)

I haven't listened to Wilco in years California Stars really is a beautiful song.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago)

the whole story of this album is pretty interesting. Wilco apparently did not like working with Bragg at all.

Which makes me wonder what, if anything, Bragg contributed to "California Stars."

― Multiple Miggs (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago)

figured "California Stars" would run this, and with good cause, so I voted for "Walt Whitman's Niece," which gets the jaunty Band sound just right and throws off a bunch of solid double entendres. "Another Man's Done Gone" is also gorgeous

― Euler, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago)

A great, great album. "California Stars" and "At My Window Sad & Lonely" tied at the top for me, so I'm voting for the underdog.

― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago)

'the unwelcome guest' might be my pick, but idk. i think bragg's work on here is a bit better than wilco's.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago)

I don't really listen to Wilco but I heard this and "California Stars" is just so so nice.

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago)

I really is. I've been singing it in my head since my last post.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago)

"california stars" is pretty undeniable, yeah...
might prefer vol. 2 of this series though!

― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago)

"california stars" is pretty undeniable, yeah...

Haha, I came here to post this EXACT phrase!

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago)

'at my window sad and lonely' is my fave wilco here but voted for 'i guess i planted'. great album.

― balls, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 02:11 (eleven years ago)

Voted Christ for President!! I like goofy WG I guess.

― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 02:23 (eleven years ago)

"California Stars" in a walk

But "Remember The Mountain Bed," the lone great track on the second volume, is better than all of these

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago)

oh man, "remember the mountain bed".

― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 03:58 (eleven years ago)

Ingrid Bergman is the real keeper.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 05:39 (eleven years ago)

ingrid bergman seconded. one of my all-time fave songs whose title is a person and which is about that person (which is one of my all-time fave song types).

― i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 08:57 (eleven years ago)

jesus christ for president on the island of stromboli

― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago)

the whole story of this album is pretty interesting. Wilco apparently did not like working with Bragg at all.

What is the story here?

― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago)

Tweedy didn't like working with somebody he couldn't fire.

― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago)

well i coulda seen that one a-comin

― marcos, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago)

ain't nobody who can poll like me

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago)

no votes for hesitating (aggravating) beauty?! i applaud that song for being exactly the same as lulu walls (probably others!) only with different words. why reinvent the wheel?

― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago)

still the only listenable Wilco album

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

California Stars... the only Wilco song in my book.

― Poliopolice, Friday, 20 February 2015 21:21 (ten years ago)

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2015/02/song-premiere-bob-seger---california-stars.html

― tylerw, Friday, 20 February 2015 21:27 (ten years ago)

Hmm. Horns and backup singers, yet somehow this is not completely embarrassing.

― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Friday, 20 February 2015 23:02 (ten years ago)

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