Song · Wilco
“Misunderstood” by Wilco
From the album Being There (1996)
“Misunderstood” by Wilco appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2009 and 2024. It was first released in 1996 on the album Being There. Its best result is #387 on The Best Opening Tracks of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,920 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Misunderstood" comes from Being There, the second Wilco album, released by Reprise in October 1996 as a double album that sold for the price of a single one, thanks to a deal Jeff Tweedy struck with the label. Tweedy wrote the song on his own, words and music, Chris Shepard mixed it, and the band produced the record themselves.
Being There took its name from the 1979 film and pushed Tweedy's writing somewhere more surreal and inward-looking than on A.M., partly because of big changes in his life, the birth of his first child among them. It sets alt-country songs in the Uncle Tupelo mold against psychedelic detours, and it marked Jay Bennett's arrival in the band and Max Johnston's exit.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 894 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2009 | 801 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2020 | 1906 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2024 | 387 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
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