Down With Wilco:The Minus 5

Artist: The Minus 5

Date Released: 2003

Label: Yep Roc

Produced By: Scott McCaughey & Jeff Tweedy

Tracklisting:
 * 1) The Days Of Wine And Booze
 * 2) Retrieval Of You
 * 3) That's Not The Way That It's Done
 * 4) The Town That Lost Its Groove Supply
 * 5) Daggers Drawn
 * 6) Where Will You Go?
 * 7) Life Left Him There
 * 8) The Family Gardener
 * 9) The Old Plantation
 * 10) What I Don't Believe
 * 11) View From Below
 * 12) I'm Not Bitter
 * 13) Dear Employer (The Reason I Quit)
 * 14) Lyrical Stance (I've Got A)
 * 15) Formerly Hail Centurion
 * 16) One More Bottle To Go
 * 17) Something Or Nothing
 * 18) The Days Of Wine And Booze

(Tracks 14-18 only available on the LP version.) Review: If you haven't noticed, The Minus 5 have really hit their stride and on this album, The Minus 5 have been joined by Wilco (hence the name). The songs are almost all written by Scott McCaughey, though, so Wilco fans were a little disappointed if they were expecting a new Wilco record. (Luckily, The Minus 5 are much better than Wilco, so...) Jeff Tweedy co-wrote some of the songs and sang "The Family Gardener". Like ''Let The War Against Music Begin's "Got You", "Retrieval Of You" is a great, great supergreat song that would make the album worth buying even if it weren't for all the other great songs (like the old Young Fresh Fellows rarity re-recorded, "I'm Not Bitter"). Thanks to the Wilco connection, this album is the easiest to find, and a dandy place to start. The LP has a bunch of bonus tracks, though most of them were put out on the At The Organ EP. - Rev. Syung Myung Me