Jeff Tweedy — Sunken Treasure
share
tweet
(no lyrics available)
Comments (30)add comment
Ya know, it is possible to mike a live singer so that the crowd's idiotic hootin', hollerin', and yammerin' is way in the background, where it belongs. . . .
Excelsior wrote:
Yeah, but you'd probably rip them too.
Thanks for making something, Jeff.
Pick any random busker on the street and they're probably a hundred times more talented - and more deserving to be heard - than this bozo. 
Yeah, but you'd probably rip them too.
Thanks for making something, Jeff.
Kinda out of context plucked out of a live set, but still wonderful— Jeff Tweedy all alone on stage belting out a beautifully heartfelt song!!
Hmmm...is that Jay Bennett posting as Excelsior below me? He sounds spurned and irrelevant.
Hmmm...is that Jay Bennett posting as Excelsior below me? He sounds spurned and irrelevant.
Wow. Jeff Tweedy hits rock bottom and keeps on diggin'. I didn't know it was possible to loathe this guy's music any more than I already did. Pick any random busker on the street and they're probably a hundred times more talented - and more deserving to be heard - than this bozo.
Get up in front of a live audience and show me something better than this performance. I'm not even a fan of this kind of singer/songwriter stuff, but that is a really brilliant performance.
Yikes.
This is a really really good song by a very talented artist, but he really butchered this version.
"There is a sunken treasure rumored to be wrapped inside my ribs in a sea made of ink."
It's sad and amazing that he could screw such a good song up. (And it's HIS song for peets sake.)
The original version off of Being There is excellent.
Maybe you had to be there.
Laptopdog wrote:
I'll be soooooooooooooooooooooo glaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad when this sooooooooooooooong is oooooooooooooooover.
harmonica solo:
Fwheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
You forgot the random "whooooo! whoooo! whoooo!" from the audience. Otherwise, spot on. This song sucks, but what more can you expect from Jeff Tweedy?
Good.
Wow, people paid money to see this. Horrid.
That end felt uncomfortably awkward....
Theeeeeeeeeee siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinger prooooooooooolooooooooooooooooooooooooongs eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy woooooooooooooooooooord heeeeeeeeeeeeee siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingsssssssssss...
zipper wrote:
so bad that it makes the baby jesus cry
HAhahahahahahaha!!!!!! you got that right- sheesh.
Might sound better sung in Harris.
Kristi wrote:
)
Afraid I have to agree. The harmonica was way bad on this one. 
I'm convinced that that is the way that the harmonica has become expected to sound and it has its own place. See Neil Young and I think it works here. However, I do think that the big problem that I have with it on this tune is that it is just way too loud or prominent in the mix. Besides that one point where it is eye-bleedingly loud, I quite like the rest of the tune.
just my $0.02 (Canadian... worth more now )
so bad that it makes the baby jesus cry
wmstadler wrote:
Yet ANOTHER artist who can't play the harmonica but thinks he can. It sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard. Had to turn the volumn way down.
Afraid I have to agree. The harmonica was way bad on this one.
cobalt789 wrote:
I love the audience in this live recording...not intruding...but still there. Very cool cut.
They didn't intrude because they had to be stoned to get through this set.
Yet ANOTHER artist who can't play the harmonica but thinks he can. It sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard. Had to turn the volumn way down.
cobalt789 wrote:
I love the audience in this live recording...not intruding...but still there. Very cool cut.
I love it when the audience drowns out the caterwaling 'performer'.
well, that was thoroughly bad.
Pretty boring...this style might work for a really strong vocalist, but not this chap
I'm starting to think that Bill really likes Wilco and Uncle Tuplo.
He's in right hand heaven.
woot! woot! ...Tweedy is one pleasant SOB to listen ain't he! ...Luv'n it! 
I winder if he's ever listened to the Bob or the Boss?
TJOpootertoot wrote:
a treasure alright, revealed!
Awesome.
I kinda had the music on in the background and went, "Hey...is that the acoustic version of Sunken Treasure?"
Quite lovely and powerful in the way it ebbs and flows.
Totally wrapped! a treasure alright, revealed!
Any relation?
7.
Awesome.
I kinda had the music on in the background and went, "Hey...is that the acoustic version of Sunken Treasure?"
Quite lovely and powerful in the way it ebbs and flows.
Tweedy's just totally INSIDE the song.
There's rows and rows of houses
With windows painted blue
With the light from a TV
Running parallel to you
But there is no sunken treasure
Rumored to be
Wrapped inside my ribs
In a sea black with ink
I am so
Out of tune
With you
I am so out of tune
With you
If I had a mountain
I'd try to fold it over
If I had a boat (probably roll over)
You know I'd probably roll over (leave it on the shore)
And I leave it on the shore (leave it for somebody)
I'd leave it for somebody
Surely there's somebody
Who needs it more than me
I am so
Out of tune
With you
I am so out of tune
With you
For all the leaves will burn
In autumn fires and then return
For all the fires we burn
All will return
Music is my savior
I was maimed by rock and roll
I was maimed by rock and roll
I was tamed by rock and roll
I got my name from rock and roll