# Anyone else a Wilco fan? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958 "2003-11-24T05:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/1 "2003-11-24T05:37:55Z")
I confess…I jumped on to the Wilco bandwagon rather late. My first exposure to them was _Mermaid Avenue_, which was recorded with Billy Bragg. Since then, though…I haven’t been able to get enough. I’ve bought _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_, _Summer Teeth_, and _Being There_, and all three kick serious ass. Wilco strikes me as being a fairly unknown band, with a core of die-hard fans. So…'fess up. Who else here likes Wilco? ---
**Author:** ![Hydrocortisone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@Hydrocortisone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hydrocortisone)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/2 "2003-11-24T05:39:28Z")
I like Wilco. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/3 "2003-11-24T05:51:28Z")
I _reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaalllly_ like Wilco. I came to them in a roundabout way - I bought _Being There_ when I was seventeen because of the ubiquitous “Outta Site (Outta Mind)” single that was being played on music TV, and liked maybe only two or three other songs on the album because the rest was, horror of horrors, country and folk music. I returned to it when I bought _Summerteeth_ (the first album I’d ever bought solely because of critical buzz) and realized how great it really was. Since then I’ve picked up _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_ and _A.M._ _YHF_ is probably my favorite - it’s probably the most perfectly-paced album I’ve heard in a long time - though _Summerteeth_ has some amazingly gorgeous, ambitious songs too. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/4 "2003-11-24T06:02:23Z")
Check out this other thread on alt-country music, where Wilco comes up a lot: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=224974](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=224974) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/5 "2003-11-24T06:20:11Z")
Big **Wilco** fan here as well. I first heard them on the _Mermaid Avenue_ CD’s. Loved them, and when _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_ came out, I bought it and loved it too. I must confess that some of their earlier stuff doesn’t do much to me. I like a handful of tracks off of “Being There” and “Summerteeth”, but overall I don’t like either album as much as YHF or the Mermaid Avenue sessions. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/6 "2003-11-29T04:27:26Z")
I saw a 20-second ad for them on TV one time so I downloaded a couple tracks. Liked what I heard so I bought _YHF_. I was real bummed out when ally my CDs were stolen in April and that was one of them. :sigh: I smashed a camera I wanna know why To my eye deciding which lies i have been hiding Which echoes belong I’m counting on a heart I know by heart to walk me through this war Memories distort ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/7 "2003-11-29T06:33:31Z")
I listen to the song “California Stars” over and over and over…it’s hypnotic. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/8 "2003-11-29T07:27:10Z")
you should check out the documentary, “I am trying to break your heart,” available on DVD with some cool live perfs ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/9 "2003-11-29T13:21:51Z")
Me! If you like Wilco, take a look at the magazine No Depression. [http://www.nodepression.net/](http://www.nodepression.net/) The name ‘No Depression’ comes from an Uncle Tupelo song. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/10 "2003-11-29T14:50:39Z")
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is incredibly overrated. It’s not a _bad_ album, but it really didn’t do anything for me. ---
**Author:** ![pung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pung)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/11 "2003-11-29T15:10:57Z")
I saw Wilco live in Toronto a few months ago. The fellas had some serious endurance, they played through all of YHF (I think) and then a bunch of songs from Being There, Summer Teeth as well as some new stuff. Great show, best I’d seen in a long while. ---
**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/12 "2003-11-29T15:17:58Z")
If you like Wilco you should go back to Uncle Tupelo where Jeff got his start. ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/13 "2003-11-29T16:20:47Z")
My old girlfriend and I had a mutual obsession with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot back in the summer of 2002, when we spent two weeks in Turkey. I associate so many great memories with that album. Watching my drunken girlfriend dance on a table in the nude back at the hotel to Heavy Metal Drummer, _“playing Kiss covers beautiful and stoned,”_ and knocking the ashtray into my lap. Renting a dusty jeep and driving out in to the sun scorched Turkish wilderness on search for ancient Roman ruins, with YHF blaring from a battered boombox held together with tape. So maybe it’s because I associate YHF with such great memories, that I don’t think it’s overrated at all. It certanly hasn’t held up to repeated listenings as well as many other, lesser acclaimed albums from 2002. But still, it’s just a superb summery pop album that I can revisit every time I want, and relive days when everything was perfect and simple. I can’t wait for their next album. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/14 "2003-11-29T19:08:33Z")
I think they’re fantastic. I’m a newcomer to their music who jumped on the _YHF_ bandwagon when the internet controversy over _YHF_ being dropped by their label was still raging. After reading about this situation on a few blogs, I made a point of downloading the tracks, made freely available by **Wilco** on their website, to see what all the fuss was about. I was immediately blown away by their pop sensibilities and couldn’t fathom the record label’s claims that it was too “experimental” or “avant-garde” for mainstream release. Utter hogwash. So, in flagrant violation of RIAA claims that internet downloads destroy music sales, I rushed out to buy _YHF_ when it finally received a proper CD release and, over the next couple of months, I purchased _A.M._, _Being There_ and _Summerteeth_, all of which I thoroughly enjoy. I’ve recently branched out to albums by **Uncle Tupelo** , **Son Volt** and **Minus 5’s** _Down With Wilco_. In the near future I’d like to pick up **Wilco’s** collaboration with **Billy Bragg** on _Mermaid Avenue Vols I and II_. After this, I’m afraid I’m going to have to wait for some new releases :(. Man, it’s a good thing that more great bands don’t release free music. I’d probably go broke. ---
**Author:** ![Hydrocortisone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@Hydrocortisone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hydrocortisone)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/15 "2003-11-29T20:01:43Z")
> [@](#): > > The name ‘No Depression’ comes from an Uncle Tupelo song. Which is a cover of the Carter Family song. Which is actually a traditional American folk song. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/16 "2003-11-29T20:48:51Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Hodge \* > \*\* In the near future I’d like to pick up **Wilco’s** collaboration with **Billy Bragg** on Mermaid Avenue Vols I and II_\* I own both of these. In my opinion (even though this isn’t **IMHO** ), _Mermaid Avenue Vol I_ is better. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/17 "2003-11-29T20:53:32Z")
I agree that Vol I is better, but both are great CD’s. I think it’s my favorite work of Wilco’s (love “California Stars”), and it’s certainly my favorite work of Billy Bragg’s. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/18 "2003-11-29T20:59:52Z")
Am I the only one who thought this thread was about old Sierra adventure games? ---
**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/19 "2003-11-29T21:49:18Z")
Hodge: You don’t have to wait for a new Wilco release. Try picking up some of the CD’s by the other half of UT, Son Volt. Trace is excellent. Also, Jay Farrar (who was the SV frontman) has a couple of solo efforts out, the best is Sebastapol. ---
**Author:** ![Hydrocortisone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@Hydrocortisone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hydrocortisone)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958/20 "2003-11-29T22:05:46Z")
> [@](#): > > I can’t wait for their next album. Why not download their new EP. [http://www.wilcoweb.com/ep/fromcd.html](http://www.wilcoweb.com/ep/fromcd.html) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-a-wilco-fan/214958.md?page=2)