Anodyne (track)
by Uncle Tupelo
Anodyne appears on the following album(s) by Uncle Tupelo:
- Anodyne (track #7) (this album) (1993)
- Live At Lounge Ax / March 24, 1994 (track #7) (2020)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 08/07/2026 18:42 | phmusic | 73,568 | 100/100 |
| ! | 04/16/2026 20:04 | Fevernova | 34,540 | 82/100 |
| ! | 04/12/2026 08:24 | Exist-en-ciel | 171,004 | 71/100 |
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buzzdainer 08/20/2016 18:56 | #173149
I didn't know what "anodyne" meant until I heard this song, and this album. And I'm not sure it really means what it means in this song. I think it's supposed to mean something like "not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so, as in anodyne New Age music." But in this song I think Jay Farrar takes it to mean passive aggression, unspoken or barely spoken sentiments that are ultimately meant to cause harm. I think I witnessed some of this behavior when I saw these guys on tour in the spring of '94: a sense that they were barely tolerating each other, trying ostensibly not to cause offense, but doing so anyway through subtle acts of non-acknowledgement and exclusion.
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