Comments on: The Top 20 Jeff Tweedy Songs: Your Turn

By: scott

scott — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:38:08 +0000

1. Please Be Patient With Me

By: Lewis Denny

Lewis Denny — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:54:38 +0000

1. Black Eye 2. Hotel Arizona 3. New Madrid 4. Impossible Germany 5. Wait Up 6. Walk Where He Walked 7. Airline To Heaven 8. Company In My Back 9. Casino Queen 10. Too Far Apart 11. Radio King 12. The Long Cut 13. Jesus Etc. 14. Box Full Of Letters 15. Misunderstood 16. Blue Eyed Soul 17. Spiders (Kidsmoke) 18. We’ve Been Had 19. She’s A Jar 20. Lost Love

By: Keith Charles Dovoric

Keith Charles Dovoric — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:43:24 +0000

Runners-up:
21. Ashes of American Flags
22. Impossible Germany
23. Wishful Thinking
24. I’ll Fight
25. Monday

By: Keith_Charles_Dovoric

Keith_Charles_Dovoric — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:21:06 +0000

1. Via Chicago
2. A Shot in the Arm
3. War on War
4. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
5. Handshake Drugs
6. The Ruling Class
7. Company in My Back
8. Laminated Cat
9. Theologians
10. Forget the Flowers
11. Hell Is Chrome
12. Passenger Side
13. Poor Places
14. Sunken Treasure
15. Hate It Here
16. Country Disappeared
17. Reservations
18. You Are My Face
19. You Never Know
20. How To Fight Loneliness

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:41:50 +0000

Muzzle of Bees is a personal favorite, seems all but forgotten…only heard it the first time I saw them at Bonnarroo several years ago. I loved it then.

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:13:42 +0000

amazing list and comments
i found a few new songs and fell in love with wilco again today…..
not that i had ever fallen out.
i’ll try to find the chelsea walls soundtrack immediately.

By: mparallen

mparallen — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:11:42 +0000

21. Theologians

By: mparallen

mparallen — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:10:19 +0000

OK, I did not look at the lists above,yet, as I do not want them to color my list. This is a good question.

1. I am trying to break you heart
2. Misunderstood
3. Shot in the arm
4. I must be high
5. Impossible Germany
6. At least that’s what you said
7. Gun
8. Kamera
9. Ashes of american flags
10. Poor places
11. Bull black nova
12. New Madrid
13. Sunken treasure
14. Hotel Arizona
15. She’s a jar
16. Spiders
17. Acuff Rose
18. Wilco (the song)
19. We’ve been had
20. Handshake drugs

By: deanmarr

deanmarr — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:39:48 +0000

1. Pieholden suite
2. She’s a jar
3. Muzzle of bees
4. War on war
5. Misunderstood
6. You are my face
7. Via chicago
8. Hell is chrome
9. Jesus etc
10. Ashes of america
11. Impossible germany
12. Red eyed and blue
13. How do you fight the lonliness
14. Solitaire
15. Shot in the arm
16. Side with the seeds
17. Hummingbird
18. Radio cure
19. At least that’s what you said
20. Country disappered

By: heyward

heyward — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:35:49 +0000

I think the answer you get depends on the question you ask. Are we looking for the best song over all or the best written song lyrically? If it is the latter, I don’t know that Impossible Germany makes the list, if the former, it may be number 1.

that said, here is my list, based on lyrically excellence:

1. Radio Cure
2. Misunderstood
3. Ashes of America Flags
4. Handshake Drugs
5. Hummingbird
6. Via Chicago
7. Jesus Etc
8. That’s Not the Issue
9. Shot in the Arm
10. Box Full of Letters

And… Tweedy’s overall best crafted songs:

1. Via Chicago
2. Impossible Germany
3. Misunderstood
4. Heavy Metal Drummer
5. Kingpin
6. Shot in the Arm
7. Say You Miss Me
8. Gun
9. Reservations
10. I am trying to break your heart