Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue Demos
Chicago IL, 1998
Studio Demos
CDR>EAC>WAV>FLAC
01 She Came Along to Me
02 All You Fascists
03 Agin'st the Law
04 Agin'st the Law
05 When the Roses Bloom Again
06 California Stars
07 Hesitating Beauty
08 Greenback Dollar
09 My Flying Saucer
10 Hoodoo Voodoo
11 Ain't Gonna Grieve My Lord No More
12 Give Me a Nail
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Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos 2001
01 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
02 Ashes of American Flags
03 I'm The Man Who Loves You
04 Magazine Called Sunset
05 Reservations
06 Kamera
07 Not For the Season
08 Alone
09 Nothing Up My Sleeve
10 Venus Stop the Train
11 Rhythm
12 Poor Places
13 Won't Let You Down
14 Heavy Metal Drummer
15 Instrumental 1
16 Instrumental 2
17 Instrumental 2 (alternate)
18 Kamera (alternate)
19 Magazine Called Sunset (alternate)
20 Alone (alternate)
21 Not For the Season (alternate)
The so-called "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos" -- actually consisting of both true demos and completed-but-discarded studio tracks from the YHF sessions -- have been called "the great lost Wilco album." In fact, it sometimes seems that these recordings have inspired as much fawning praise from critics as the officially-released album.
The tracks fall into two basic categories. First, there are early, sometimes radically different versions of songs that ended up on the record. Indeed, fans who aren't wild about the sonic experimentation on YHF can find more straightforward renditions of some of the songs here.
Second, and even more stunning, are the songs that didn't make the cut at all, a number of them as good as just about anything in the Wilco catalog. It's not hard to guess why pop gems like "Magazine Called Sunset," "Alone" and "Nothing Up My Sleeve," all of which would have been right at home on Summerteeth, didn't fit in with what Tweedy was trying to accomplish with YHF, but that doesn't make them any less wonderful. "Not For The Season" is terrific, too, and was a longtime staple of Wilco's live set (they still bust it out on occasion), but it didn't make the grade either, perhaps because Tweedy had other plans for the song. (It ended up, sapped of most of its passion, as "Laminated Cat" on the first album by Tweedy's Loose Fur side project.) And "Will Not Let You Down" sounds like Wilco brought Exile-era Keith Richards in as a ringer one day -- it's rollicking fun, even if it had no natural place on YHF.
Yet, the omission of two of these songs from YHF defies explanation. "Cars Can't Escape" is one of Wilco's loveliest ballads, and although the band gave it away online to anyone who purchased YHF, and even toss it into their live setlist every now and then, they have never treated it as much more than a throw-away. It's been added to this collection.
But if these recordings do comprise some sort of alternate-universe classic, then "Venus Stop The Train" is THE great lost Wilco track. Achingly beautiful and hauntingly produced, it would have been an absolute highlight of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and consistent in every way with the sound and ethos of that classic record. Instead, it has never been released, or performed live. Not even once. Until that far-off day when a career-spanning Wilco box set sees the light of day, this is the only way you'll ever hear this positively gorgeous song.
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2 comments:
Hard to know what to think about these sessions. Mr Bragg may be a 4*4 SUV driving, politician canoodling, BBC middle class 'folkie' in residence, but Wilco's presence saves these recordings and the genius of Woody shines thru, as it always does.
Big thanks as always
Thanks! Been hoping these would turn up sometime!
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