It's been "Jesus, Etc." for me since the day I heard it (circa summer of '04), but I've been appreciating "Sunken Treasure" more and more lately.

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no idea who this wilco guy is.

update : ok, a different generation. get it, carry on.

Box Full of Letters.

Ashes of American Flags.

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"Via Chicago" might be my favorite....

Handshake Drugs

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

The shortest one

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Same here

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

I'm gonna go with "When You Wake Up Feeling Old" or "Whole Love".

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Communists are just people who are terrible at capitalism.

At Least That's What You Said has really grown on me.

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Does "California Stars" count?

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"Impossible Germany"

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

"When You Wake Up Feeling Old" is definitely my favorite off Summerteeth.

I've been listening to Being There more than I have in years and finally understanding why people put it ahead of the following two albums (I won't go that far). The organ part on "Hotel Arizona" really hits me, dunno why.

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What a guitar solo at the end.

Tough one.
As amazing as Nels Cline is, Jay Bennett was better.
I think ELT might be my favorite, because it sounds like a Titanic Love Affair song.
I agree with everyone on the Impossible Germany solo, even though I don't exactly love the song.
In A Future Age, Art Of Almost and Radio Cure are faves as well. I've got most of their stuff, and I like 'em a lot.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

The live version of the solo in Hotel Arizona is up there with Impossible Germany. Please @ me.

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I want to like them....I really do, but their songs just don't stay with me. Someone gave me YHF...I listened and really enjoyed it, but not a single song stayed with me.

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I don't really get what seems to be the popular- or at least most critics'- opinion that Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the band's masterwork. Tweedy is a premium songwriter, but the songs have been subordinated to noodling and weird noises in the Nels Cline era. To me, the band began peaking with Being There and Summerteeth is the perfect distillation of their best possible work. Whole Love was a return to a more straight forward approach, though not quite at the same level as the two aforementioned records. But I guess if you like cacophony and self-indulgent wankery, the Cline-Kotche era is for you.

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Communists are just people who are terrible at capitalism.

There's not that much cacophony on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, at least not where it counts. "Jesus, Etc.," the best song, is free from it, as is "Kamera." "Poor Places" and "I'm the Man Who Loves You" descend into noise, but it works there, especially on "Poor Places" where it's sort of the climax of the album and the rest of the song is so beautiful. The end of "Reservations" is tedious, but what can you do but skip to another song prematurely?

A Ghost Is Born, now that's wankery.

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