Contributing just cuz -
I'm not 100 p.cent sure that one "has to" pick a Tupelo on such a list - sure,
there's a wide-ranging infl. on the subgenres we discuss here, but much of the
rest of that list was justified by the waves sent out that reached a broader
mass than that. And some of what gets called a Tupelo influence is equally an
X-Gram Parsons-Replacements-etc list of common predecessors. Tho some of the
list equally unjustified or unjustifiably missed. But then again the title (50
reasons it's been a great decade) suggests a personal-taste element - and as Ms.
Cheryl says, the whole idea is somewhere in the crap zone in the end. Still I
enjoyed the read (tho mind you I fall somewhere in the critic category, if not
as far in as the weaselly Weiss among others - I no longer get many advancers -
few of all the discs everybody's talking about this week for instance).
But on UT - I would go along with David & Carl Z. on Still Feel Gone, tho
Anodyne's an undoubtedly more influential album. The dynamic range and lyrical
unconventions, the sudden switches in texture make SFG Tupelo's art-rock album,
to my ears, and I think in emotional range the most interesting thing Farrar was
to do until Straightaways. (How's that for a contrarian position?)
Carl W.
