Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Time: 8 AM and 5 PM
Song: Impossible Germany
Artist: Wilco
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on the way to work and home from work.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/6L0BBPYeWnaQJeDa0ox0IA?si=f8d1e8015cd545fa
This was the bookend song of my day. It started as I turned onto Graham Street, the last little jog of my morning drive before reaching Galena Avenue and the office, and then the song finished as I pulled from our parking lot onto Galena Avenue this afternoon.
I bought the “Sky Blue Sky” CD sometime in the mid-to-late 2000s, and I always think about It as the album that was playing during the early parts of our marriage. I have a distinct memory of sitting in our old living room with this on, I might have been playing PlayStation, maybe just hanging out and reading, mainly I was still learning about what it meant to be a husband.
I didn’t know Wilco when I bought this CD, and don’t think I knew any of the songs on it. I had just heard the name Wilco a lot, and thought I should give it a try. I was starting a new phase of my life, why not do it with a new sounding music?
I wouldn’t say that I fell in love with Wilco with this album. I liked it, but love would have been a stronger word than I would have used then. Same could go with this song.
Yet, there was something there. So, it made it into my rotation.
The music is bit understated at times. Other times I don’t really understand it. I mean, I really like “Impossible Germany” but I still don’t “get” the lyrics fully. I always want to assume it’s something with the World War II, but there’s little context for that. Maybe something with the two Axis powers now being two strongholds of democracy. That seems like it could feel impossible.
Yet, I like this song. I like the long guitar solo at the end. The words get in my head, the tone resides there, echoing softly.
It’s a slow burning love for this song and band. One that conjures memories of an important time in my life.
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