Comments on: Soul cover of Wilco's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Longtime Wilco fan, and I says yes!

By: iamcantaloupe

iamcantaloupe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dunno why, but I keep getting flashes of Tim Roth when I watch this…

Yeah, now you can’t unsee it.

By: katieb

katieb — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh wow, I love this! I’m not gonna lie, I can’t get behind Wilco. I’ve heard the albums and seen them live and it just doesn’t do it for me, no matter how hard I try. This, however, is gravy!
What a good selection – thanks for posting this!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m too partial to the original to be impartial regarding the cover. But big props for the bridge.

By: BengArp

BengArp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As someone who loves soul and finds Wilco an immensely uninteresting band, I fully support this cover.

By: thebelgianpanda

thebelgianpanda — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is excellent, and another reason why I come to boingboing daily.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Big big Wilco fan and I love this! :)

Thx BB for a great punctuation point to the week! :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

they used the bridge from Wilco’s Theologians so that this has a bridge….and it works….wow

By: skeletoncityrepeater

skeletoncityrepeater — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The best covers differ from the original greatly, but still come out on top. This is really good. Not very original in terms of arrangement, but an amazing ‘period-piece’ recreation of a great song.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have lotsa respect for Wilco, but I can’t listen to depressing music, so I’ll take the party tune all day every day. FYI, Wilco gave the clip props on their Facebook page today.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I would just like to say thank you for this post. I’m not one who normally posts replies to a blog entry on a RSS feed, but I was so impressed by the sound, energy, originality, and overall vibe of this group that I bought the album. It’s was especially enjoyable to hear such a heartfelt and soulful take on an already exceptional song. You’ve made a fan of me, even if by proxy! ~E

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As someone who has never understood the cult of Wilco, the parts of the cover I like really seem to be tied down by the bland moroseness of whatever Wilco initially created. But I am in support of any and all neo-Soul/R&B. I find modern Indie music is so tedious and dour and "NPR-ish" (see comment on Wilco above) that I'm in support of anyone who brings life to the genre.

By: psulli

psulli — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is clean. One of the great things about Wilco is how different their live shows can be from their recordings. I think this pays a great tribute to that.

By: Wingo

Wingo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I guess I’d throw myself into the Love/Hate category as well. The cover version is fun and enjoyable – the band is great – but there is just something about the raw emotion of the original that can’t be beat.

Also – if you haven’t seen it, the Wilco documentary named after the song is absolutely fascinating.

By: fhamilton

fhamilton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a perfect cover. It completely re-imagines the entire song and does a stellar job of it. If I waned a “faithful” cover I might as well just listen to the original. I’ve often thought that covers are useless and uncreative endeavors, but this one makes it’s own artistic statement and does so in fine style. Excellent.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Beautifully executed travesty; does not work

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

you can mailorder this 7″ right now from http://www.chicago-independent.com

thanks for the support!

best,
-CID

By: dunnright

dunnright — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@1:21 Xeni?!?!

By: KKnox

KKnox — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As a Wilco fan, I love it and hate it at the same time. Does that make sense?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

no i am for this.
the fact that it works surprisingly well is all the more surprising!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

They are playing Brooklyn tonight at Southpaw actually.

By: seanomenon

seanomenon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! It’s a very faithful cover that sounds completely different from the original. Well done.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am the same way. It seems like it takes on a much… douchier(?) persona with an upbeat sound, but it’s definitely a neat cover, props to the band.

By: Bayou Maharajah

Bayou Maharajah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fully on board with this cover. Love the stark sadness of the original, but also dig how grafting the quasi-cryptic lyrics of the song onto a soul party jam results in a long-lost Swamp Dogg jam. (Listen to “Total Destruction to Your Mind” with its lyrics about “sitting on a cornflake/riding on a roller-skate” to see what I mean.)

By: tsm_sf

tsm_sf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Am I the only person who wants the singer to get a different haircut, or maybe put a hat on? Yes? I’ll show myself out.

By: pablodefendini

pablodefendini — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Holy smokes, this is awesome. As a Wilco and R&B fan, this hits me on all cylinders.

By: Baldhead

Baldhead — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

never cared for wilco, so never heard the original. SO this is awesome.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

as a wilco-lover, I also have mixed feelings about this. I’m used to bawling my eyes out over this tune, though. props for mixing in the bridge of ‘theologians’!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am not so sure that I can get behind this. I mean I love this song dearly, but I’m sitting here and the lyrics almost sound absurd when sang so upbeat. I want this song to be more brooding, and it seems to tear apart the feeling of the song. Still not as bad as Will Oldham’s Greatest Hits version of I am a Cinematographer, but odd, nonetheless.

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m right there with you.

There’s something especially powerful about “haunting” songs like this. When they’re covered (even in really clever, imaginative ways that I like) I find myself yearning for the original the second the melody or hook finds its way to the surface.

I feel the same way about kick-ass pianist Jason Moran’s version of Bjork’s Joga, for example.