Wilco - Impossible Germany

[bacmaj7]

are people really talking about germany and world war II in relation to this song? if so you have a mental handicap that i regret. good lord, it's just a song about what a country is capable of becoming, what a person is capable of becoming.

[wardlawsg1]

hey i heard the melody at the the beginning of this song for another song anyone know what that is.

[TravisHY]

Um how do play the intro to this tune?  :-)

[gb836]

this sounds like a variation on tom wait's "big in japan"

[namniekib]

Great song.NIce harmonies between guitars.

[ajewboy]

Oh yes, what an impossible country germany is!

[arielhe]

why not nazi germany go to the hell?

[ArkkAngel2006]

Arielhe, Hitler was a very bad representation of Germany. Germans aren't like that anymore. Basically they are just like everyone else So dont judge a country on their past deeds

[kadeef]

because wilco are not such an asshole like you.

fuck you.

i am an german an d not proud of my country. i hate our past.

but i hate people like you even more.

not every german is a nazi, you stupid fucker.

free your mind...

[DrRottweiler]

I am a german, too.

Proud to be one but not proud of this history.

Americans and germans are really similar

[KimJongSick]

Heh, the best part is that nobody realizes that Hitler was actually Austrian, and they ARE douchebags like that over there. Hell, their president? Former high-ranking SS officer.

[machinshin969]

Be proud of your past. The german people understood that they were right in wwI, and as an American i'm ashamed that the country i live in didn't choose to help our brethren in Europe. As for WWII, the world had to know it was coming when they screwed germany so hard at the end of the first one.

[alpinepnc]

wtf does this song have to do with Germany? germany and japan are just metaphors for star-crossed lovers...its got nothing to do with the countries themselves

[HediLamarr]

Nowadays it´s not the germans that talk about patriotism all the time...

[bpfsband]

Great comment below me... Well put.

Black Patterns From Saturn

[pekoe67]

maybe this song will convince 'entertainment'

conglomerates that there's a market for 'not shitty' music.

[supersonyk]

ya oigo los oooohh y los yeahhs en la Riviera!antes,durante y después del solo...me juego un cubata

[injest42]

It was Tweedy's solo on Spiders, he played all the solos on AGIB. Nels didn't join the band until the following tour.

[hitty85]

seriously wilco make a bad album .......seriously i dare u........

[dodigermain]

Oh please, look somewhere else to tag an album as bad.. maybe just a matter of huge expectations after two of the best albums of the decade??.. There are at least half of the songs, included this one, that are simply brilliant, and I dare you here :-)

[yughshamesh]

oh my god dodigermain, please read hitty85's comment. It's called sarcasm. It's also called, now you look like a fool

[dodigermain]

It's also called learn manners, jerk.

What's the need in insulting people around, who you wanna lecture?

It's just that the quality of Wilco's lat album is highly debated, if you haven't noticed, and I was just placing position on a band I love.

Stop it here, you'd get a point.

[rodeo76]

Are you sure that's not Jay Bennett on the solo?

[mjkowols]

that's definitely Nels. This is a song of their newest album (Sky Blue Sky) and Jay has unfortunately been gone since right before Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out.

[rodeo76]

Sorry, I was trying to be sarcastic.

[5Keown]

Unfortunately? Nu-uh, thank god he's gone.

[xskinyx]

it sounds like nels cline's style. i think tweedys style is more like hell is chrome.

[PinkPopRockOutbreak]

I love this song!!!!!!!!!

[wjww1166]

anybody who thinks tweedy plays lead on this song is a dumbass. its nels cline all the way.

[PinkPopRockOutbreak]

It's tweedy

[wjww1166]

how can you even think that?

[MNHJUZ]

Did Tweedy play solos on "Spiders(Kidsmoke)"?

[lukeduke2525]

watched the dvd from the album, it was awesome. the whole album is really allman bros, this song just has one of the best solos.

[NorthWriter]

Tweedy is really underrated as a lead guitarist, too (if you didn't know, he plays the bulk of the guitar solo here). He's sloppy, but he's got some really interesting phrasing in the way he solos. I really dig it. It's more feel than technique with him.

[NorthWriter]

Actually, I could be mistaken...but on the album, the soloing style sounded like Tweedy.

[cloycebox]

It's hard to tell from the video quality, but it's Nels Cline playing the lead part of the solo with Tweedy and Sansone providing some additional guitar shadings. Listen to all the bent notes in the solo -- Nels' Jazzmaster has a tremolo and Tweedy's Les Paul doesn't, so it has to be Nels. You're right though, when Tweedy does play lead guitar he's usually very effective.

[jake05785]

That's pure Nels soloing. It's 100% Jazzmaster, and the rythym is that barking hollow body SG thing Tweedy has been playing.

[AndyAxel]

Cloycebox is right - Cline starts the solo around 2:45 or so and Tweedy joins in doing that unison-Allman-Brothers jam with Sansone at around 4:11. You can really see this up close if you watch the special edition DVD which comes with Sky Blue Sky.

[elliottquent]

This is the coolist Steely Dan inspired stuff to come out in a long while. Wilco still rules everything.

[Leonard5555]

chords are something like Em Am C G (not in sequence)and some other ones too. I'm not really digging their stuff but I really like this song. What other songs do they have like this, I mean less vocals and more guitar?

[purplehaze551]

cool vid, does anyone have the chords to this? I have quite got it right on, ive worked out the dual guitar riff if anyone wants it, so if u have the chords post them up

[Thmoliv]

This song is brilliant. Nels Cline is great! Being such a virtuose, I think he tends to be quite economic. He knows when not to play.

And, I don't know why, I just love the name of the song.

[modestrob12]

all i have to say is Nels Cline...

[Alexizephyrmage9]

Nels Cline is good but sometimes he overplays in parts where he should just be quiet and let the silence cut through

[modestrob12]

Well live yeah, but Impossible Germany on CD he is pretty good at comping with the rest of the band, but live i find it ok just to change the whole thing almost.

[naturalmistic83]

whatever, he is like the purist example of minimalist guitar playing.