Weekly Poll: Best Wilco Cover

These are songs that Wilco has covered, not the other way around. Nevertheless, I couldn’t not use this photo when I found it.

You may remember a few months ago when I posted 6 covers by and of Wilco. You may not. Either way, I recently stumbled onto some other excellent covers that Wilco has done, and felt I would be remiss (I’m pretty sure I’m using that correctly, right? I just remember my English teacher saying it a lot, and thought it worked well here)  not to share them with you all. Watch ‘em, love ‘em, hate ‘em, vote for ‘em below:

*Note: some of these may be repeats from the previous ‘covers’ post, but that’s because they were too good to pass up. Tweedy doing Single Ladies? C’mon!

Wilco  – Love And Mercy (Brian Wilson Cover)

Wilco - Any Major Dude Will Tell You (Steely Dan Cover)

Wilco - Color Me Impressed (The Replacements Cover)

Wilco – I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones Cover)

Wilco - We Will Rock You (Queen Cover)

Wilco - Burned (Buffalo Springfield Cover)

Wilco – Broken Arrow (Another Buffalo Springfield Cover)

Wilco - Thirteen – (Big Star Cover)

Wilco – I’m Only Sleeping (Beatles Cover)

Jeff Tweedy – All The Single Ladies (um, Beyonce cover)

Jeff Tweedy - Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead Cover)

Jeff Tweedy – Simple Twist of Fate (Bob Dylan Cover)

Wilco & Fleet Foxes – I Shall Be Released (The Band Cover)

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Weekly Poll: Best Glenn Kotche Performance?

More epic than the Star Wars poster? Yeah. I'd say so.

By request, here’s this week’s poll:

What is your favorite, hand-bleeding-est, groin-grabbing-est (sorry)  Glenn Kotche drum performance?

Check out the videos and vote below (or write in your own!):

Handshake Drugs

Hate it Here

Heavy Metal Drummer

Wilco (the song)

I’m a Wheel

 

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Weekly Poll: Best Fan Made Wilco Music Videos – Plus Last Week’s Results!

Wilco fans are weird; they like to make music videos and create polls.

Man, has it been a week already? I’ve been so busy finding weird Wilco-related things on the internet, I hadn’t noticed. I also bought a glow-in-the-dark Wilco yo-yo, just in case you’re curious. Anyway, there was no real clear winner of last week’s poll, “What’s Your Favorite Live Performance of a Wilco song?” which is not a bad thing. There were a few great write-in answers, citing performances like “Spiders (Greek Theater, Los Angeles Ghost is Born Tour))” and “Impossible Germany from Summerfest 2005, Milwaukee, WI” as favorite live moments from Wilco. That’s awesome; most of the greatest musical performances are not on YouTube (every time you say that, a wannabe hipster drops his neon-red Ray-Bans in the sewer next to the thrift shop).

The last few polls have been strictly “What’s Your Favorite Thing Wilco Did”- type questions, so this week I thought I’d try something a little different. Here are some music videos made by Wilco fans. For amateur videos, they’re all shockingly good. It would be a bit ridiculous to expect fan videos to be on-par with the Power-Rangers-esque (did I just coin a phrase?) official Outtasite (Outta Mind) rocking-while-skydiving video by the band, (which you can watch here – WARNING – Do Not Watch If You Are the Type of Person Who Gets Sentimental about the 90′s), but they’re all damn good.

However, this wouldn’t be America if we didn’t pick and choose our favorite things and send the things we don’t like tumbling down the wayside. Vote below!

Walken by suburbanmike

Billy Bragg and Wilco – Music Video – Animation by sonicpumpkin69

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (unofficial music video?) by toren737

At Least That’s What You Said by anothertupelo

Hummingbird by bfirenzi

Wilco Ashes of American Flags Music Video by DanielDayclan

Heavy Metal Drummer – by mapdpunk

Spiders (Kidsmoke) by localdirection

Kamera by jkretz6

Wishful Thinking by TomTerrific88

I also should note that if anyone has made a video that they would like considered for this poll, send them to Wilco News on Twitter: @WilcoNews.

(*Just learned a very valuable lesson about putting your email address on a website: don’t do it. Otherwise you’ll get bombarded with emails from people pretending to be 22 year old European women who need exactly $9300 to further their studies. Don’t do it.)

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Weekly Poll: What’s Your Favorite Live Performance of a Wilco Song?

Is it possible that the sheer awesomeness of Jeff Tweedy's jacket caused Chicago to brown-out? I'm gonna say definitely.

Here’s what happened. I came up with (what I thought was) a good idea for this week’s poll: “Best Use of a Wilco Song in a Movie or TV Show.” I thought it had a pretty cool, Academy Awards ring to it. There were also some excellent scenes and original songs I found that Wilco did for a surprisingly large number of films and TV shows.

I picked the 7 best from IMDb, and was about to find clips for all of them when suddenly my power shut off. I gave it a few minutes, then realized that it was not coming on anytime soon; the power to my entire neighborhood browned (crapped) out on a 100 degree day in July. The power came back after a few hours, but even after it did there was no internet for six hours. The internet eventually came back on, and I went back to looking up clips for the poll of the week, and I found that none of the clips existed anywhere on the internet.

So here we are. Instead of the original poll idea, I decided to make this week’s poll “Favorite Live Performance of a Wilco Song.” I know this may have been done to death, but hear me out. Each one of these clips is pretty great; if you haven’t seen any of them yet, prepare to have your mind blown. There’s even one from way back in 2005 at Farm Aid, where then State Senator Barack Obama introduces the band before going into a damn good version of “Airline to Heaven.” This is the perfect example of hipsters being able to claim they like Obama before he “sold out and got all commercial.”

I realize that there are other great live clips out there; probably many I didn’t even look at yet, so you can also write in a performance you think is worthy of this week’s highly coveted “most votes” prize. This week’s prize, like last week’s and the week before, is nothing, because you can’t give prizes to inanimate videos on the internet. Yet.

Sorry for rambling, here’s the videos:

Radio Cure

Impossible Germany

Jesus, Etc.

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Hummingbird

Monday (Balls-out version)

Airline to Heaven (Featuring Obama’s first big break!)

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Weekly Poll: Favorite Wilco Solo (guitar or otherwise)

What's your favorite Wilco solo? Mine's Tweedy's rendition of Green Grass and High Tides. No, it doesn't exist. Would be awesome though, right?

Big thanks to everyone who voted on last week’s poll! I thought about closing it from week to week, but then I realized that there really was no reason to do that.

If you still haven’t checked out last week’s poll (in which case, whatsamadda you?) you can still for vote for which Wilco album you believe is the most underrated. Yeah, it’s a weird question, but most of us Wilco fans are a little weird. So far, the results have been pretty overwhelmingly for Sky Blue Sky, which I cannot disagree with.

This week’s poll is requires a little more Wilco knowledge: What is your favorite solo (guitar or otherwise) in a Wilco song? It’s perfectly understandishable if you don’t know this off-hand, so I’ve posted the songs in question below. Sorry if the quality isn’t the greatest, but I found what I could. I also left a write-in spot, because I know some hipsters out there may know of some kind of crazy, underground, unreleased track that no one’s heard but you and your clerk at the Bodega, but it’s got a “sweet theramin solo,” and “killer bongos.” By the way, if that song exists, let me know. It sounds awesome.

Song 1: At Least That’s What You Said

Song 2: Impossible Germany

Song 3: Misunderstood

Song 4: Sunken Treasure

Song 5: Bull Black Nova

Song 6: Reservations

Song 7: Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Song 8: Side With the Seeds

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Weekly Poll: Which Wilco Album Do You Think is The Most Underrated?

Wilco fans could argue about which album is their favorite all day and all night long. Many do, in fact.

Scene: Wilco fans argue during downtime at Solid Sound Fest: 

90′s rock purist: “Anybody with a brain in their skull knows that Wilco peaked with Being There; I’m not into their whole ‘experimental,’ Yankee Hotel Foxtrot phase.”

Modern rock purist with a historian complex: “Is this even a question? Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was not just a revolutionary album, it was the revolutionary album of the new millennium. ‘Totes have it on vinyl; the original, mind you. And also, there’s no such thing as a ‘historian complex.’”

Wilco “deep cuts” purist:“How has no one mentioned A Ghost is Born yet? Okay, give Spiders (Kidsmoke) a chance; you’ll ‘get it’ after 3 listens!”

90′s Alt-Country Purist: “Y’all hipsters are clueless. I liked Wilco when they were just an offshoot of Uncle Tupelo; A.M. all the way!”

Guy that really likes Summerteeth: “Dude. Summerteeth.”

Whatever type of Wilco fan you are, now is the time to voice your opinion in this week’s poll:

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