Uncle Tupelo - Graveyard Shift

[IwanttoliveinParis]

Amazing how seasoned and mature they sounded from day one. They've old souls. This was the third UT song I ever heard. My friend played the 89/93 Anthology for me and I immediately fell in love with this song.

[shlomonew]

fuck youtube 4 those adds!

[evilthesaurus]

they're so cute at 3:19! look how young they are... aw.....

[tacozzrgood15]

@mkerwin I don't believe Jeff and Jay are on good terms. Wilco and Son Volt are likely the closest we'll have to UT anymore.

[DamonAlbarnFan]

What year did they form?

[heypress]

@DamonAlbarnFan 87 I guess

[Kento617]

@DamonAlbarnFan 1987. They formed around the same time as Nirvana. Though they are different they do share similar qualities in their punk influences they put in their music. I think they were trying to compare Uncle Tupelo as the "Next Nirvana" which they didn't like. I don't even think Nirvana was thinking they'll be "The Next Nirvana" lol I hope this helped you in any kind of way. =)

[mharrin5507]

honest dudes



[scottymacIII]

what a life a mess can be...

[mkerwin1]

Jeff: call Jay.

Jay: call Jeff.

We need your music again. Can everyone post this on every UT video?

Thank You from your very passionate fans. Requested on 6/17/11.

[gabriellelouise]

Great pix!

[ForeverYoung58]

Uncle Tupelo was truly Country and Punk's love child. I was hooked the moment this opening cut from No Depression came roaring out of my speakers. They were an awesome band, especially for being so young. Although Tweedy and Farrar went on to make good and sometimes great music with their separate bands, it's a shame that they couldn't hold Uncle Tupelo together.

[MyNameIsKhodorkovsky]

@ForeverYoung58 While I am a big UT fan, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is more than enough reason to be thankful the band dissolved. One of the greatest albums ever, and I don't see how UT ever could have made it...

[corkscrewfoley]

@ForeverYoung58 Have you heard of the band X? From their first record, they had managed to insert country while delivering some of the best punk songs out there.

[truffleshuffl]

@corkscrewfoley can ya name some songs so i can check em out?

[Lancealotbob]

@truffleshuffl Look up X -"We're Desperate"

Also look up a band called The Knitters. It's X with Dave Alvin doing acoustic country punk.

[TheBishMighty]

@corkscrewfoley Definitely agree with you on X combining country and punk. The Gun Club were also another great one from the LA scene who mixed country and punk together and were a great influence on later artists. Their first three records are stunning.

[swampdodger33]

magic

[sunwestdata]

these are my buddies from belleville west high school! i took some of these pics at ciceros in st louis...the shots with that nasty steel pole on the side of the stage.

[jaybowcott]

amazing album.. got into these dudes about a year ago after being huge into wilco for a few years.. glad I did, Jay and Jeff did great work together!

[DobrePytanie]

Guitar sounds a little bit like Jimmy Page at the beginning

[alphamongrel]

One of the saddest and most dissapointing break-ups in music, as far as I'm concerned.

[Cenotaph205]

these guys from the mid-west are more country than god damn toby keith and are up there with some of the legends, for sure. 

[yamon98]

so this is what people mean when they say 'country music is good'

[gogurttogo]

If only Wilco Fantasy Camp included Jay Farrar....

[1LoWu]

UNCLE TUPELO was GREAT band!1 of my favorite of all time!

[wasabihansen]

why people call this an alternative country band? i don't think they are, i think they're mainstream country, alternative is like blitzen trapper or beck

[mwells219]

@wasabihansen careful your hipster is showing. it's called alternative country because it is alternative to the mainstrem country that is produced by nashville and is either more experimental or harkens back more to country music pre 1960's.

[wasabihansen]

@mwells219 well, i honestly hear them as any mainstreem country band, they're not like that bands i mentioned or okkervil river or something like that... bands that make country sound in a very different way

[turok4lyfe]

@wasabihansen Because they are from central illinois is where the "country" is derived.

[wasabihansen]

@turok4lyfe yeah, so why calling them alternative?

[wid85]

@wasabihansen

I think its because they included a bunch of influences that hadn't been included in much country music previously, such as the alt. harcore music of Minutemen, etc. It's not traditional country after all, and never garnered that much mainstream appeal. They were also aligned with the broader 'alternative' music scene in the US of the time in terms of giging, influence, distribution, etc.

[wasabihansen]

@wid85 well i think so, but i think that beck and blitzen trapper are more -alternative- country

[weatherboxlisp]

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

[ncbeach22]

Love this band.

[seaotteR79]

That's more like it.

[tagg125]

I listen to this in my car everyday

[MarcoEsquand0las]

@tagg125

uncle tupelo is the best driving music

[tagg125]

No one named Jay ever gets along with Jeff lol

[oaxakitajux]

La segunda mejor banda de country alternativo... la primera es Wilco.

[wasabihansen]

@oaxakitajux tú crees?, yo sinceramente pondría a blitzen trapper, the gaslight anthem u okkervil river en 1°, pero bueno, es cuestión de gusto, aunque el mejor músico alt-country, siempre será BECK!!

[lobot666]

I remember seeing U.T. at Slim's in SF in 92'. I think they opened with Graveyard Shift and ended with a cover of ZZ Top's 'Heard it on the X'. Tweedy was playing a P-Bass and a shredded early 70's SVT rig and Farrar had an SG. That was a damn good show!

[oldhacks]

we knew him . he was nobody. now hes on the cover of spin. lame

[Tunnelof]

Love this band fantastic

[suuperdoopur]

I get all jumpy when i listen to this song it just has tht energy

[al3x515]

Farrar and Tweedy are both amazing.

Tupalo wouldn't have been half as good without them both.

[benyayvilla]

Agreed

[oddmanout1792]

techinically they would be 1/3 as good

[ailahusky]

@al3x515 Unless you liked listening to unaccompanied drums ;)

[joestrummer2007]

@al3x515 Yeah they would've actually been exactly 1/3 of the band they were...

[shan128]

I love this song. Makes me break the furniture in the house, though. Be careful!

[JoyGrenade]

Farrar > Tweedy

[elpoo]

LMFAO YOU IDIOT

[JoyGrenade]

Whatever, dude.

[elpoo]

farts>farrar

[wolfiesocrates]

My favorite band of all time. Country music for people who read.

[wukester]

good music for anything that's relavent

[MunchyMcNipples]

@wolfiesocrates I hear ya, todays country music is like watching wrestling,