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Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone Audio CD

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Uncle Tupelo Band: Uncle Tupelo
Title: Still Feel Gone
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Release Date: 2003-04-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Gun 2: Looking For A Way Out 3: Fall Down Easy 4: Nothing 5: Still Be Around 6: Watch Me Fall 7: Punch Drunk 8: Postcard 9: D. Boon 10: True To Life 11: Cold Shoulder 12: Discarded 13: If That's Alright 14: Sauget Wind (Bonus Track) 15: I Wanna Destroy You (Bonus Track) 16: Watch Me Fall (Demo) (Bonus Track) 17: Looking For A Way Out (Demo) (Bonus Track) 18: If That's Alright (Demo) (Bonus Track)

The roadmap for country-punk
This band did more to chart the course for the original alt-country genre than anyone save for a few (The Jayhawks and the Old 97s, for example). It's fitting that the graphics inside the reissues of the Uncle Tupelo albums contain pictures of maps. This is my favorite of their albums, a raw, passionate set of exceptional songs that paint a picture of Midwestern isolation and loneliness on the road. From the pleading "Still Be Around" to the raging "Gun," the band covers a full emotional range while never sounding like anything but themselves. It's as much a tribute to the Minutemen as to the Carter Family. Although this band had two more fantastic albums left to go, you can already hear Jeff Tweedy beginning to develop his own songwriting style which would morph and change as he came into his own with Wilco. More than a historical document, this disc is a true classic which stands the test of time.


What about the extra tracks?
That's the case with STILL FEEL GONE for me. Often it seems like the first cd you ever get by a band, the one that makes you a fan, that'll often be your favorite, for nostalgic reasons if nothing else. Even though ANODYNE is more mature and impressive, and NO DEPRESSION is more intense, somehow this is still my favorite.

It's a bit of a sluggish mess, though, sonically! I wonder if anyone who has this remastered version can talk about a) any changes in the sound and b) the quality of the bonus tracks.

[If you're curious about Uncle Tupelo and don't have any of their albums, get their "greatest hits" collection for starters. They only have 4 real albums, though. Note that "March 16-20" is a VERY acoustic album, the others all mix acoustic and electric instruments. ].


Complete Album


It's a little less from the gut than 'No Depression' but not yet overly cerebral. There are only a couple songs on this album that verge on ordinary; the rest come together into a complete, albeit short, listening experience. It rocks at times and is moody at others and evokes a sense of desperation and defiance. For some reason, while very different, it reminds me of the Stone's Sticky Fingers (but this may be a stretch).


still feel gone, indeed...
the only missing cd i had was 'still feel gone' (i got into the band just as they were breaking up), and now i have it. a month or so ago, a buddy burned me a copy of some UT bootleg from the mid 90s (it's unofficially called 'Last Call') and though i had most of the songs, it came across as a revelation. the buddy who burned me the live cd said 'y'know, that band never should have broken up. those two guys brought out the best in each other, and while there are some good wilco and son volt songs, those first three albums were the high water mark. ' alas, after listening to this, and going into the back catalogue to hear anodyne and march 17-21, 1992, i sadly must agree. these guys were BEYOND great; the best thing that american music produced since Gram's Flying Burrito Brothers. . . what fine, fine music.


Uncle Tupelo's best work - Still Feel Gone

thrown back at how well the songs work and feel.
at first listen to this remastered disc I was amazed.
this is by far the most consistent album of all the UT releases.
I highly recommend this one!

A period of transition, as one reviewer says, Not quite!
These boys wanted it and they got it. The musicianship is all there. You can't miss it!
It really shows just how well practiced these songs were and they come across that way.

I've heard these tracks in different ways and they all work just the way great songs should.

A universal arsenal of classic alt-country with a touch of sin.


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