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Episode 149: Song Swap: On Judee Sill's 'The Kiss' and Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.'
Occasionally, JF and Phil do a song swap. Each host chooses a song he loves and shares it with the other, and then they record an episode on it. This time, JF chose to discuss "Jesus, Etc." from Wilco's 2001 album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and Phil picked Judee Sill's ethereal "The Kiss," from Heart Food (1973). It was in the zone of Time, in all its strangeness, that the two songs began to resonate with one another. Sill's song is a fated grasping at the eternal that is present even when it eludes us, and "Jesus, Etc." is a leap across time that captures, in jagged shards and signal bursts, the events of the day on which Wilco's album was scheduled to drop: September 11, 2001.
Support us on Patreon and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia.
Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue.
Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop
Find us on Discord
Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau!
REFERENCES
Judee Sill, “The Kiss”
James Elkins, Pictures and Tears
Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, “Surf’s Up”
Weird Studies, Episode 148 on “Twin Peaks”
Wilco, “Jesus Etc.”
Jeff Buckley, singer-songwriter
William Gibson, Forward to Dhalgren
L. E. J. Brouwer, Concept of “two-ity”
Dogen, Genjokoan
David Bowie, “Heroes”
Philip K. Dick, Valis
Weird Studies, Episode 147 “You Must Change Your Life”
Theodore Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
James Longley, Iraq in Fragments
Sam Jones, I am Trying to Break your Heart
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Occasionally, JF and Phil do a song swap. Each host chooses a song he loves and shares it with the other, and then they record an episode on it. This time, JF chose to discuss "Jesus, Etc." from Wilco's 2001 album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and Phil picked Judee Sill's ethereal "The Kiss," from Heart Food (1973). It was in the zone of Time, in all its strangeness, that the two songs began to resonate with one another. Sill's song is a fated grasping at the eternal that is present even when it eludes us, and "Jesus, Etc." is a leap across time that captures, in jagged shards and signal bursts, the events of the day on which Wilco's album was scheduled to drop: September 11, 2001.
Support us on Patreon and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia.
Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue.
Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop
Find us on Discord
Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau!
REFERENCES
Judee Sill, “The Kiss”
James Elkins, Pictures and Tears
Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, “Surf’s Up”
Weird Studies, Episode 148 on “Twin Peaks”
Wilco, “Jesus Etc.”
Jeff Buckley, singer-songwriter
William Gibson, Forward to Dhalgren
L. E. J. Brouwer, Concept of “two-ity”
Dogen, Genjokoan
David Bowie, “Heroes”
Philip K. Dick, Valis
Weird Studies, Episode 147 “You Must Change Your Life”
Theodore Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
James Longley, Iraq in Fragments
Sam Jones, I am Trying to Break your Heart
Number Stations
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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