Wilco
Mermaid Avenue
Er...brilliant? Will that do?
Review Score:
(10/10)You don't - and I certainly wasn't - have to be a Bragg or Wilco fan to enjoy this. Diverse, but at the same time united by the Guthro theme, this is music making at its best. One of the best albums I have heard in years.
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- Every year we waste enough to feed the ones who starve...
- great
- ...
- A Great Tribute to the Great Woody Guthrie
- WOOO! Grab some friends and sing along!
- Wilco Fans Should Save Their Cash
- Is he getting soft?
- Nothing to add but agreement
- Not Woody...but Darn Close
- Welcome Guests
- Great album
- mesmerising
- best since blood on the tracks
- Whisper on
- Good Collaboration
- Now how about a DVD Audio version?
- A fitting tribute
- It doesn't get any better than this.
- A Wonderful Work
- this one is addictive
- Its about time
- Great CD!
- The Present Marries the Past, Hope for the Future!
- The Best Concept Album
- What an incredible CD!
- Order now!
- Masterful
- Wil-be nothing to Brag about in two for me.
- Not convinced.
- great fun
- Refreshing and Literate
- It is so beyond good
- Don't Miss Classic !
- Something for everyone
- Deserving of Ten Thousand Stars
- ultimate, brain blasting,attrocious album of next millenium
- The Way of the Sirens
- a must for everyone that appeciates music
- A joy, a lesson - it doesn't matter - listen and enjoy.
- They Pulled It Off!
- Do you know how hard it is to JUST ADD LYRICS to music?
- classic "alt.country"
- it's on the top of my list
- The best album in quite a long time.
- Without question the best album of 1998
- a really wonderful album
- Instant Classic
- as if you need to read another review
- Lovely to listen to
- Do you know how hard it is to JUST ADD MUSIC to lyrics?
- woody would be proud.
- Guthrie could not have been presented any better
- My favorite of last year's music
- Nothing short of a classic.
- Essential for any serious collection
- This CD made my ears bleed.
- the most inspiring collaboration ever
- good idea, just unconvincing
- good listen-once recording, never quite caught me
- An american classic
- Wow...
- An intersting approach to Guetherie's jovial lyricism
- Excellent music ... to timeless lyrics of Woody Guthrie
- .....
- Grammy Bound
- Eclectic and Fantastic
- boys done good
- Our Billy Has Done It Again
- One of the years best , a must have
- Way better than expected
- A Stunning Album
- Top Ten of 1998
- A Slow Burn Sure Thing
- Best of the year
- A must own cd.
- Real
- Quietly Perfect
- Easily, Definitely, Without a doubt the best CD of the year
- The power of Woody's words is the reason to buy the cd!
- One of the best albums I've ever heard
- Buy it! The best album in more than a dozen years
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- Channeling Woody into the Millenium!
- BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT
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- An album for forever
- Spooky, even in its joy.
- Finally something I can really enjoy
- Get it NOW
- Three months later, I can't put it down.
- Lyrics tell the story
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- One of the best in the last three years
- Fantastic match-Woody Guthrie's lyrics & Bragg/Wilco music!!
Wilco
Albums Song Lyrics
Mermaid Avenue
- Walt Whitman's Niece
- California Stars
- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
- Birds and Ships
- Hoodoo Voodoo
- She Came Along to Me
- At My Window Sad and Lonely
- Ingrid Bergman
- Christ for President
- I Guess I Planted
- One by One
- Eisler on the Go
- Hesitating Beauty
- Another Man's Done Gone
- The Unwelcome Guest
Sky Blue Sky
- Either Way
- You Are My Face
- Impossible Germany
- Sky Blue Sky
- Side With The Seeds
- Shake It Off
- Please Be Patient With Me
- Hate It Here
- Leave Me (Like You Found Me)
- Walken
- What Light
- On And On And On
A Ghost Is Born
- At Least That's What You Said
- Hell is Chrome
- Spiders (Kidsmoke)
- Muzzle of Bees
- Hummingbird
- Handshake Drugs
- Wishful Thinking
- Company in My Back
- I'm a Wheel
- Theologians
- Less Than You Think
- Late Greats
More Like The Moon
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- I am Trying to Break Your Heart
- Kamera
- Radio Cure
- War on War
- Jesus, etc.
- Ashes of American Flags
- Heavy Metal Drummer
- I'm the Man Who Loves You
- Pot Kettle Black
- Poor Places
- Reservations
Mermaid Avenue Volume II
- Airline to Heaven
- My Flying Saucer
- Feed of Man
- Hot Rod Hotel
- I Was Born
- Secret of the Sea
- Stetson Kennedy
- Remember the Mountain Bed
- Blood of the Lamb
- Against The Law
- All You Fascists
- Joe DiMaggio Done it Again
- Meanest Man
- Black Wind Blowing
- Someday Some Morning Sometime
Summerteeth
- Can't Stand It
- She's a Jar
- A Shot in the Arm
- We're Just Friends
- I'm Always in Love
- Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)
- Pieholden Suite
- How to Fight Loneliness
- Via Chicago
- ELT
- My Darling
- When You Wake Up Feeling Old
- Summer Teeth
- In a Future Age
- Candyfloss
Being There
- Misunderstood
- Far, Far Away
- Monday
- Outtasite (Outta Mind)
- Forget the Flowers
- Red-Eyed and Blue
- I Got You (At the End of the Century)
- What's the World Got in Store
- Hotel Arizona
- Say You Miss Me
- Sunken Treasure
- Someday Soon
- Outtamind (Outta Sight)
- Someone Else's Song
- Kingpin
- (Was I) In Your Dreams
- Why Would You Wanna Live
- The Lonely 1
- Dreamer in my Dreams
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