100 favourite songs: #29: "She's A Jar" - Wilco

It’s something to do with the way in which Jeff Tweedy sings his words (tender, weary, sad) and the accents provided by the sung-spoken harmonies, and something to do with the transistor radio strings as they sweep and shiver in their nostalgic waves, and something to do with the interplay of the various keyboard parts, bass, drums and swooping harmonica throughout, and something more to do with how all of that makes me feel (sorta sad and happy all at once, but it’s something beyond that, too), but mainly it’s that “She’s A Jar” gets me and I don’t know how or why — it just does.