Blur are the Woo-Hoo! guys from FIFA '98! Strange as it may seem, I have never heard that song on the radio.
Yeah that might be their biggest song. I imagine it got airplay on alternative rock stations but I don’t do radio enough to know. They were bigger in England than here for sure.
I don’t dislike Wilco, but I don’t like them either. For me, the songs aren’t strong enough, or consistent enough. Wouldn’t make my top 50 bands for sure, maybe not my top 100.
Just looked through my iTunes. They aren’t even top 5 for W bands (Waterboys, Who, White Stripes, Wussy, Whiskeytown)
holy shit, there’s some good stuff there https://thehardtimes.net/blog/uh-oh...he-data-about-your-emo-phase-to-the-russians/ and, regarding my Pittsburgh homies Anti Flag https://thehardtimes.net/music/anti...g-in-set-to-make-sure-people-still-listening/
Until I registered here, I didn't know who Wilco was. My White friends can't razz me about musical tastes- they're pretty much the same as theirs save the really COUNTRY country stuff and the Black gospel/blues stuff they don't know.
I think the first time I heard Jesus, etc., it was a cover on local radio by some African American lady that I’ve never been able to find. I probably did find it, but it likely didn’t strike me the same. I was quite moved. It was years later that I came to know it as a Wilco song. I should add, I started my 2yr “Mormon sabbatical” right before 9/11, and also through the beginning of the Iraq War, or War on Terror. I missed a lot of stuff.
As mentioned, alternative radio. Which leads to a tangent. It's one I've told before but the post about alternative radio got me thinking. There was a radio station I loved growing up called 89x. It was based out of Windsor Canada, across the Detroit River and you'd have to switch to 88.7 to get it. I could get it up in my little town nearly an hour away. It played a lot of alternative music, think Beck, Blur, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Deftones, an Eminem song every now and then. But also a plenty of Canadian groups like Our Lady Peace, Tragically Hip, Barenaked Ladies. Canadian rules were a station had to play a certain amount of Canadian content. If you grew up in Detroit and somebody asked you what kind of music you listened to, if you said you liked 89x stuff, people knew right away what that meant. I loved that station and listened to it a lot up until college. But as I got older, my tastes started to diverge elsewhere. Sadly, it's now a country station, and even though I don't listen to commercial radio unless it's sports, it sucks losing it but I still have the memories. I had this as a sticker, and would probably put it on my climbing helmet as it's an obvious Detroit thing.
I know. I’ve tried, I really have. Keep in mind—I’m someone who prefers Loaded to Velvet Underground & Nico.
For me it’s their third album. Which did happen to be their first that I heard, but it never lost its status as my favorite.
FWLIIW-- I started appreciating Wilco around the time of "Blue Sky Blue" because Bob Weir was sitting in with them a lot. And 12 or 14 months later I stopped; I realized that whenever I put them on, I quickly got bored and took them off and put something else on. I cannot explain it at all, never had that happen with anyone else; closest cases I can compare it to are realizing that everybody else I knew liked Led Zeppelin, but I actually didn't, and several good albums that got burned by saturation airplay, like "Every Picture Tells a Story" or "Bored In the USA." But to be so quickly attracted and then quickly not, that really is not anything that has happened with me before or since.
See, I don't find that odd at all, but perhaps it's because I find Nico's "singing" a bit grating. But the former.....IMHO, Son Volt is like if you put Uncle Tupelo in a time capsule or suspended animation so it would stop evolving. Not to say I dislike them---seen them live at least 2 or 3 times. But Wilco is like Radiohead---never content with stasis.