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Sunday
Jul262009

Philco... will love you baby.

DateSunday, July 26, 2009 at 08:49AM

Things I talk about too much at this site: Joe Lansdale, George Saunders and that band from Chicago. To quote one of their songs, "I don't care anymore." Because Wilco will love you baby.

I am a total fan-boy with these guys I know. People ask me what I think of the new album. What the hell do you think I think? It's brilliant. But that is what I am probably going to always say.

Still, Spin magazine has already called it one of the best albums of 2009. So it ain't just me.

I was listening to the new album in the car yesterday and was really struck by "You and I." This is the Wilco experience for me - not really liking certain tracks the first few listens, and then they grow with subsequent listens, and then they explode with meaning. A friend of mine who likes the band says the same thing happens to him.

Anyway, "You and I" is one of those rarities. There are lots of love songs, break up songs, getting back together and splitting up again songs. Phil Collins wrote the best divorce album of all time, "Face Value" (Can you feel it in the air tonight). I get chills just remembering all the times I listened to that haunting album.

But the rarity of You and I is that it talks about a long term relationship. The lyrics are simple:

You and I
We might be strangers
How ever close we get sometimes
Its like we never met
But you and I
I think we can take it
All the good with the bad
Make something that no one else has, But
You and I
You and I
Me and You
What can we do
When the words we use
sometimes are misconstrued

Well I won't guess
Whats coming next
I can't ever tell you're
The deepest well
I've ever fallen into

Oh I don't wanna know
Oh I don't wanna know
Oh I don't need to know
Everything about you
Oh I don't wanna know
And you don't need to know
That much about me

You and I
We might be strangers
How ever close we get sometimes
Its like we never met
But you and I
I think we can take it
All the good with the bad
Make something that no one else has, But
You and I
You and I
You and I...

 

So many parts of this song resonate with me. When the words we use sometimes are misconstrued - and you are the deepest well I haver fallen into.. and we can take the good with the bad...and...and...and...

oh forget it. Just go buy the damn album. Now.

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