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What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014 Image
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  • Summary: The best-of collection features songs from Wilco's eight studio albums and two songs from the Mermaid Avenue albums with Billy Bragg.
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  • Record Label: Nonesuch
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Alternative Country-Rock
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You and I
You and I, we might be strangers However close we get sometimes, it's like we've never met But you and I, I think we can take it All the good with... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Dec 8, 2014
    90
    It’s one for the wider music aficionado too though, a fine opportunity to appreciate the best band of the past 20 years.
  2. 85
    The studio cuts from this era on What's Your 20? provide a reminder of the huge contribution that the late multi-instrumentalist (and Tweedy's occasional co-writer) Jay Bennett made to Wilco's gradual shift from sour-breathed earthiness to more experimental, sophisticated and unsettled sounds.
  3. Nov 19, 2014
    80
    This is most easily recommended to casual fans and folks looking for an introduction to the group's music.
  4. Nov 19, 2014
    80
    What’s Your 20? is for the neophytes--it’s a very reasonable place to start for future generations facing down Wilco’s full catalog on Spotify.
  5. Nov 19, 2014
    80
    A well-curated hits collection.
  6. Q Magazine
    Dec 8, 2014
    80
    At every stage the songwriting is relentlessly, almost effortlessly strong. [Jan 2015, p.139]
  7. Nov 19, 2014
    75
    The upside is that they remain a compelling and unpredictable outfit even two decades into their career, but the downside is that What’s Your 20 is more or less redundant. These songs all sound so much better on their respective albums.
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