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For Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy -- a member of alt-country founding fathers Uncle Tupelo -- being one of the leading lights of the No Depression movement just wasn't enough. After one album, A.M., that picked up where Tupelo left off, Tweedy stepped back to rethink his musical direction and turned more directly toward rock. The result is Being There, a raucous, sprawling double-disc set that pumps some new life into rock's hoariest of concepts, the "on-the-road" album. Songs like the horn-driven "Monday," the soulful "Say You Miss Me," and the slow-igniting "Hotel Arizona" find Tweedy sleeping alone, making lots of long-distance calls home, and swearing that rock 'n' roll's quotidian madness won't change him even as you listen to how much it has. Elsewhere, the band blasts through the pumping "I Got You (At the End of the Century)," performs two versions of "Outtasite (Outta Mind) -- first as a Replacements-style rocker, then as a Beach Boys-fashioned pop song -- and offers "The Lonely 1," a string-laden ode that proves Tweedy hasn't forgotten what it's like to be on the other side of the spotlight.
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TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Misunderstood 6:27
2 Far, Far Away 3:20
3 Monday 3:33
4 Outtasite (Outta Mind) 2:33
5 Forget the Flowers 2:46
6 Red-Eyed and Blue 2:44
7 I Got You (At the End of the Century) 3:56
8 What's the World Got in Store 3:09
9 Hotel Arizona 3:37
10 Say You Miss Me 4:07
Disc 2
1 Sunken Treasure 6:51
2 Someday Soon 2:33
3 Outta Mind (Outta Sight) 3:19
4 Someone Else's Song 3:20
5 Kingpin 5:17
6 (Was I) in Your Dreams 3:31
7 Why Would You Wanna Live 4:16
8 The Lonely 1 4:44
9 Dreamer in My Dreams 6:44
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