You never know how much of an impact music from previous decades can have on a band’s collective psyche.  Such is the case for Wilco in their song “You Never Know”. George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” is channeled gorgeously through the uplifting and layered brilliance of this track.  Wilco is a band that continues to push the limits of reflection.  They emphasize the importance of the past while crafting something much more original and polished.  It seems that they serve to reinvigorate what has already blossomed, and this is absolutely necessary.  Thank them for that.  

This track, with its playful piano and upbeat percussion, breathes with a blissful fulfillment.  The chord progressions are majorly inspiring and especially pleasing to the carefully attentive musician.  The bass line indulges itself in perfection underneath the heavenly layers of electric, fuzzy guitar (especially in the solo, which is reminiscent of Harrison’s fuzz on All Things Must Pass).  It encourages the rest of the song to bop along happily as it does.  George Harrison and the Chiffons would be proud to hear this piece because it especially captures not only their chord structure and feeling, but their sense of higher being - of omnipotence.  There’s not one flaw to be found in this angelic track.  

The lyrical themes are just as carefree as the music.  As a matter of fact, the sense of attained peace and acceptance we feel in the song is echoed during the chorus’s repeated line - “I don’t care anymore”.  It’s viscerally stunning how open and influential the song feels, though we’ve heard its message before from distant relatives.  History repeats itself not only through forgetfulness and ill humanity, but through tradition and beauty as well.  Give this track more than one listen - It deserves your full attention.

Listen to “You Never Know” here.