>Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 23-Feb-99 Re: 50/90 by David
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>> Well, I agree you gotta pick a Tupelo--and Anodyne's awfully damn good; I
>> won't argue against it--but I'd go with Still Feel Gone myself.
>
>Wow. David, you're the first person I know of who agrees with me on
>that score. I still think Looking For a Way Out is Jay Farrar's finest
>song, and the album's held up well.
I favor Anodyne by just a notch over Still Feel Gone, but either one of
them would have made vastly more sense than Wilco's forthcoming
Summerteeth. I won't judge it too severely till I hear it in a format other
than Real Audio, but what I've heard so far sounds truly wretched (okay, I
guess that's kind of severe).
What bothered me about the 50/90 list, in addition to the tendency to pick
the wrong records from included artists that Lance pointed out, was its
utter predictability. Public Enemy, Portishead, Beck, Pavement, Yo La
Tengo...does the guy like any bands that aren't rock critics' darlings?
Sheesh.
--Amy
"Ain't no use in hanging around/Emptiness swallows its own path/I watch my
weakness go down easy/And I pray it won't last..." (The Damnations TX)
