Bonus Song Thursday - Wilco "Wilco (the Song)"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday and this week the B-Squad talks about Wilco's title track off their self-titled album! Along the way they talk about how comfortable (in a good way) the band has become in its own skin as well as what the Dad Rock of the 21st century might sound like. Along the way, they discuss their top 5 favorite Beatles albums (in honor of the recent Sgt Pepper 50th Anniversary), modern standards, and the return of Bill's band Small Planet Radio!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Tell me when we're recording.
0:01.6	We are rolling.
0:24.2	Hey, I'm Bill.
0:24.9	And I'm Brian.
0:28.8	And this is the Great Albums podcast, Bonus Song Thursday.
0:29.7	Bonus.
0:32.2	What were we just listened to right there, Brian? We were listening to Wilco the song from 2009's Wilco the album by Wilco the band. I was wondering if you were
0:43.2	going to say the band or not. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music
0:48.6	and talk about what makes it great, try to have the conversation around the music that fans do.
0:53.4	Then we follow it up with another episode where we take a single song, do a bit of a deep dive
0:59.1	into just that one song, and maybe a little bit later we'll also have some listener interactions
1:05.8	via email, Facebook, etc.
1:08.2	Excellent, excellent.
1:09.1	I love listener interactions.
1:11.5	It's my favorite part.
1:12.8	I know.
1:13.3	It's almost like the music is incidental to whatever else happens because I feel like
1:18.3	Thursday is where we let our hair down and get to chat with the fans for real.
1:24.1	Undo the belt one extra notch.
1:26.7	You know, just let it all hang out. Ah, yeah. All right. So let's get
1:30.4	talking about Woco a little bit because we chose this one because even before we hit record on this,
1:37.5	we were talking about how maybe we didn't really, or maybe we came down a little too hard on the
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