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View Poll Results: Best Album
AM 7 11.29%
Being There 6 9.68%
Summerteeth 4 6.45%
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 35 56.45%
A Ghost Is Born 6 9.68%
Sky Blue Sky 3 4.84%
Wilco (The Album) 1 1.61%
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Old 05-12-2008, 07:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Well, aside from the fact that I own every album they've released, I guess I don't know Wilco music. Way to spring one on me. Listening to reason? You haven't listened to anything I've said. You dodge all the points I make while I always address yours point by point. If anything you've got it backwards, as your not listening to my reasoning.
The great irony of this whole post is:

1. You don't explain the stylistic difference between I Am Trying to Break Your Heart and the Late Greats.

2. You still haven't addressed how the Late Greats is on "Yankee Foxtrot Hotel"

3. You also haven't addressed your inability as the great Wilco fan to explain why you couldn't even get the album title correct.

Good job being the one on the high road here and always addressing points!
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Old 05-12-2008, 08:01 PM   #2 (permalink)
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1. Their not all that different. Their both rock songs.
How are they rock songs?

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2. I explained this when I edited my post above. Read it.
Odd...seeing as you'd acknowledged my edit and had still said that...
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I guess you forgot to address points two and three. What a shocker.
I did address point two and I guess I can tear into you some more for point 3 if you want but I don't see a point.

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Why don't we try this in reverse for once and I get to ask you. How are they country songs?
They're almost folk tunes in their simplicity. I don't see how the songs are much different from some of the stuff Johnny Cash has done. They're very simple acoustic driven songs with no rock elements whatsoever.

Oh and as for Jesus, Etc. it's very country sounding, slowed-down and rootsy. It even has a steel guitar (at least on the live version) and violins, hardly very "rock" instruments.

Finally I'd like to add alternative-country-rock is kind of a stupid term because alt. country is basically country with non-country elements (i.e. rock or in cases like Okkervil River indie-folk) so Wilco having rock elements or being alternative-country-rock is basically the same thing. This is just you showing your typical analism when it comes to genre. None of the Wilco fans here (and there are some huge ones like sweet jane and hookers) have complained about this being here in fact they even think Wilco is alternatve country. You're being ridiculous.
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Both of those songs have a strong backbeat, something your always finding in rock. The singing sounds nothing like a country song. I hear no relation to Johnny Cash. Getting hung up on the acoustics again are we? Well since you keep bringing that up, what about this?
Nearly EVERY genre has a strong backbeat, it's not something you'll find only in rock. Vocalization is hardly a genre-strict thing anyway. Unless you're going to start running around claiming Southern Rock is country because of the accent. You've proved nothing about it being a rock song you've just pointed out two obviously things and tried to pin them down as genre descriptions.

Acoustic guitars are a very dominant thing in country music its what all those guys like Hank Williams and Johnny Cash played you know. I'd consider it an element of roots music because most folk artists just use an acoustic guitar and Wilco are extremely rootsy. They're slowed down and have plenty of elements of roots music, more so than they do rock elements and country music is roots music so...

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The violins aren't even that prominent in that song. Since when have violins been an instrument of choice in country? I agree it has a rooty sound to it, but it's not country.
I just said violins weren't very common in rock music not that they were a country element. Weren't you just bitching about my reading comprehension?

Maybe you should type up a definition of rock music, country music, alt-country, and alt-country rock because you seem to have different definitions for the genres then I've ever heard before. For instance I didn't know how someone sings was something to classify them on genre-wise. So it would be of a great help if you could just explain these genres to me since I'm so stupid compared to you oh great one.
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